Which investors can claim damages against EY?

All in­vestors af­fected by the Wir­e­card scan­dal who have in­ves­ted in shares of Wir­e­card AG to­gether with their de­riv­at­ives (e.g. war­rants w/​o knock-​out threshold, cer­ti­fic­ates, con­tracts for dif­fer­ence) and/​or bonds is­sued by Wir­e­card AG.

Please note that you must have pur­chased Wir­e­card shares between Janu­ary 1, 2010 and mid­night on June 17, 2020. The de­cis­ive factor here is the time of the placed or­der, even if the book­ing in the se­cur­it­ies ac­count was made later.

If you only ac­quired your shares after Wir­e­card AG is­sued the press re­lease at around 11 a.m. on June 18 to the ef­fect that EY would re­fuse to is­sue the audit cer­ti­fic­ate, the ques­tion whether you can suc­cess­fully par­ti­cip­ate in a law­suit against EY de­pends on your per­sonal and cred­ible level of knowledge.