In this report, ISS SCAS reviews the securities-related settlements of 2024 and ranks the Top 50 plaintiffs’ securities firms by aggregate settlement amount achieved for shareholders. In a separate ranking, ISS SCAS also lists the top plaintiffs’ antitrust firms by aggregate settlement amount approved during the 2024 calendar year.

As ISS Securities Class Action Services (ISS SCAS) noted in its Top 100 Report, 2024 was down from 2023, but was still a robust year for securities-related class actions.

Collectively, 2024 delivered approximately $4.75 billion in securities-related settlement funds in the United States and approximately $32.6 million in Canada.

In total, this was about an 18% decrease from the prior year. For the calendar year, ISS SCAS recorded 142 approved monetary securities-related class action settlements in the United States (136 settlements) and Canada (6 settlements) in 2024.

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