BISYS Group Settles Securities Class Actions

The BISYS Group, Inc. (NYSE: BSG) today announced that it had reached an agreement in principle to settle a pair of securities class action lawsuits pending against the company and certain of its former officers and directors for $66.5 million in cash.

The litigation is pending before Judge Lewis A. Kaplan in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

The settlement resolves both a class action on behalf a class of purchasers of publicly traded shares of BISYS' securities (the "Open-Market Litigation") and a class action in behalf of a class of those that acquired non-publicly traded BISYS securities as part of private equity transactions (the "Private Transaction Litigation").

The Public Employees Retirement Association of New Mexico, the New Mexico Educational Retirement Board, and the New Mexico State Investment Council are co-lead plaintiffs for the Open-Market Litigation. Cauley Bowman Carney & Williams, PLLC, and Kirby McInerney & Squire, LLP are co-lead counsel for the Open-Market Litigation.

A copy of the consolidated amended complaint in the Open-Market Litigation is available here.

An individual, Robert Grant, is lead plaintiff and Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP is
lead counsel for the Private Transaction Litigation.

A copy of the amended complaint in the Private Transaction Litigation is available here.

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Update: The 10b-5 Daily also has a post on the settlement, here.