Norfolk County Retirement System v. Solazyme, Inc. et al

Filing 70

ORDER by Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. Granting 69 Stipulation re Scheduling (ndrS, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 11/9/2015)

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1 ROBBINS GELLER RUDMAN & DOWD LLP 2 WILLOW E. RADCLIFFE (200087) MATTHEW S. MELAMED (260272) 3 Post Montgomery Center 4 One Montgomery Street, Suite 1800 San Francisco, CA 94104 5 Telephone: 415/288-4545 415/288-4534 (fax) 6 willowr@rgrdlaw.com mmelamed@rgrdlaw.com 7 8 Liaison Counsel 9 LABATON SUCHAROW LLP JOEL H. BERNSTEIN 10 MARK S. ARISOHN CORBAN S. RHODES 11 140 Broadway 12 New York, NY 10005 Telephone: 212/907-0700 13 212/818-0477 (fax) jberstein@labaton.com 14 marisohn@labaton.com crhodes@labaton.com 15 GLANCY PRONGAY & MURRAY LLP LIONEL Z. GLANCY (134180) EX KANO S. SAMS II (192936) ROBERT V. PRONGAY(270796) 1925 Century Park East, Suite 2100 Los Angeles, CA 90067 Telephone: 310/201-9150 310/432-1495 (fax) lglancy@glancylaw.com esams@glancylaw.com rprongay@glancylaw.com 16 Co-Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs 17 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 18 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 19 NORFOLK COUNTY RETIREMENT 20 SYSTEM, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, 21 Plaintiff, 22 vs. 23 SOLAZYME, INC., et al., 24 Defendants. 25 26 27 28 1086825_1 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Case No. 3:15-cv-02938-HSG CLASS ACTION STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] SCHEDULING ORDER 1 Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 7-12, the parties, Norfolk County Retirement System 2 (“Norfolk”), John Medlin, John Hussain, Nancy Ackels and Leonardo Fernandez (collectively, 3 “Solazyme Investors” or “Lead Plaintiffs”) and Solazyme, Inc. (“Solazyme”), Jonathan S. Wolfson, 4 Tyler W. Painter, David C. Cole, Jerry Fiddler, Michael V. Arbige, Ian T. Clark, Peter Kovacs, 5 James R. Craigie, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Morgan Stanley & Co, LLC (collectively, 6 “Defendants”), by and through their undersigned counsel of record, submit the following stipulation 7 and proposed order: 8 WHEREAS, on September 4, 2015, the Court granted plaintiff Norfolk and Defendants’ 9 Stipulation Extending Defendants’ Response Deadline Pending Appointment of Lead Plaintiff and 10 Lead Counsel and Vacating Initial Case Management Conference. Dkt. No. 44; 11 WHEREAS, on October 8, 2015, the Court held a hearing on motions to appoint lead 12 plaintiff and lead counsel and took such motion under submission. Dkt. No. 65; 13 WHEREAS, on October 8, 2015, the Court issued a written order granting the Solazyme 14 Investors’ motion for appointment as Lead Plaintiff and approved its selection of Glancy Prongay & 15 Murray LLP and Labaton Sucharow LLP to serve as co-Lead Counsel, as well as Robbins Geller 16 Rudman & Dowd LLP to serve as Liaison Counsel. Dkt. No. 64; and 17 WHEREAS, the parties have met and conferred and Lead Plaintiffs have indicated that they 18 intend to file an amended complaint. 19 The parties have further agreed on a schedule for the filing of such complaint, a date by 20 which Defendants shall file a motion to dismiss or otherwise respond to the complaint, and in the 21 event Defendants file a motion to dismiss, the parties have conferred and agreed on a briefing 22 schedule which accommodates the complexity of this securities action and the parties’ and their 23 counsel’s respective schedule. 24 NOW THEREFORE, the parties hereby agree and stipulate to the following deadlines and 25 briefing schedule: 26 1. Lead Plaintiffs shall file an amended complaint no later than December 15, 2015; 27 2. Defendants’ response to the amended complaint shall be filed on or before February 28 12, 2016; 1086825_1 STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] SCHEDULING ORDER - 3:15-cv-02938-HSG -1- 1 3. Lead Plaintiffs’ opposition to Defendants’ response shall be filed on or before March 2 25, 2016; 3 4. Defendants’ reply shall be filed on or before April 22, 2016; and 4 5. The hearing on Defendants’ anticipated motion to dismiss shall be set for May 12, 5 2016 at 2:00 p.m., or a date thereafter that is convenient for the Court. 6 7 DATED: November 5, 2015 8 ROBBINS GELLER RUDMAN & DOWD LLP WILLOW E. RADCLIFFE MATTHEW S. MELAMED 9 10 s/ WILLOW E. RADCLIFFE WILLOW E. RADCLIFFE 11 12 13 Post Montgomery Center One Montgomery Street, Suite 1800 San Francisco, CA 94104 Telephone: 415/288-4545 415/288-4534 (fax) 14 Liaison Counsel 15 16 17 18 19 LABATON SUCHAROW LLP JOEL H. BERNSTEIN MARK S. ARISOHN CORBAN S. RHODES 140 Broadway New York, NY 10005 Telephone: 212/907-0700 212/818-0477 (fax) 20 21 22 23 24 25 GLANCY PRONGAY & MURRAY LLP LIONEL Z. GLANCY EX KANO S. SAMS II ROBERT V. PRONGAY 1925 Century Park East, Suite 2100 Los Angeles, CA 90067 Telephone: 310/201-9150 310/432-1495 (fax) Co-Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs 26 27 28 1086825_1 STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] SCHEDULING ORDER - 3:15-cv-02938-HSG -2- 1 DATED: November 5, 2015 2 MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP JORDAN ETH (CA SBN 121617) MARK R.S. FOSTER (CA SBN 223682) 3 s/ MARK R.S. FOSTER MARK R.S. FOSTER 4 5 425 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Telephone: 415/268-6335 415/268-7522 (fax) jeth@mofo.com mfoster@mofo.com 6 7 8 9 Attorneys for Defendants Solazyme, Inc., Jonathan S. Wolfson, Tyler W. Painter, David C. Cole, Jerry Fiddler, Michael V. Arbige, Ian T. Clark, Peter Kovacs and James R. Craigie 10 11 12 DATED: November 5, 2015 13 SIMPSON THACHER & BARTLETT LLP JAMES G. KREISSMAN (Bar. No. 206740) SIMONA G. STRAUSS (Bar No. 203062) 14 15 s/ JAMES G. KREISSMAN JAMES G. KREISSMAN 16 17 18 19 20 21 2475 Hanover Street Palo Alto, CA 94304 Telephone: 650/251-5000 650/251-5002 (fax) jkreissman@stblaw.com sstrauss@stblaw.com Attorneys for Defendants Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Morgan Stanley & Co., LLC 22 23 24 25 26 I, Willow E. Radcliffe, am the ECF User whose ID and password are being used to file this Stipulation and [Proposed] Scheduling Order. In compliance with Civil Local Rule 5-1(i)(3), I hereby attest that Mark R. S. Foster and James G. Kreissman have concurred in this filing. s/ WILLOW E. RADCLIFFE WILLOW E. RADCLIFFE 27 28 1086825_1 STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] SCHEDULING ORDER - 3:15-cv-02938-HSG -3- 1 * 2 3 * * ORDER PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 4 5 6 11/9/2015 DATED: ________________________ ____________________________________ THE HON. HAYWOOD S. GILLIAM, JR. UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1086825_1 STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] SCHEDULING ORDER - 3:15-cv-02938-HSG -4- 1 2 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on November 5, 2015, I authorized the electronic filing of the foregoing 3 with the Clerk of the Court using the CM/ECF system which will send notification of such filing to 4 the e-mail addresses denoted on the attached Electronic Mail Notice List, and I hereby certify that I 5 caused to be mailed the foregoing document or paper via the United States Postal Service to the non6 CM/ECF participants indicated on the attached Manual Notice List. 7 I certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the 8 foregoing is true and correct. Executed on November 5, 2015. 9 s/ WILLOW E. RADCLIFFE WILLOW E. RADCLIFFE 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1086825_1 ROBBINS GELLER RUDMAN & DOWD LLP Post Montgomery Center One Montgomery Street, Suite 1800 San Francisco, CA 94104 Telephone: 415/288-4545 415/288-4534 (fax) E-mail:willowr@rgrdlaw.com

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