According to the Complaint, Avon is a global manufacturer and marketer of beauty and related products. Avon's reportable segments are based on geographic operations in four regions: Europe, Middle East & Africa; South Latin America; North Latin America; and Asia Pacific. During 2016, Avon had sales operations in 57 countries and territories. Brazil is Avon's largest market, measured by revenue and number of sales representatives. In 2016, Brazil revenue was $1.2 billion, approximately 21% of Avon's total revenues. No other country accounts for more than 10% of Avon's total revenues.

According to the Complaint, Bristow is an industrial aviation services provider with major transportation operations in the North Sea, Nigeria and the Gulf of Mexico, and in most other major offshore energy producing regions of the world.

According to the Complaint, Uxin is a used car e-commerce platform in China. The Company has two segments: Uxin Auction (or 2B business) sells used cars to dealers, and Uxin Used Car (or 2C business) sells used cars to consumers.

According to the Complaint, Wirecard, a technology company, purports to provide outsourcing and white label solutions for electronic payment transactions worldwide.

Plaintiff's law firm issued a press release on February 1, 2019, announcing the filing of the lawsuit. According to the press release, Astec designs, engineers, manufactures, markets, and finances equipment and components, including aggregate crushers, pavers, asphalt plants, wood pellet plants, and related components. The Company comprises three segments: the Infrastructure Group; the Aggregate and Mining Group; and the Energy Group.

According to the Complaint, Revolution Lighting purports to design and manufacture light-emitting diode ("LED") lighting solutions for industrial, commercial, and government markets.

According to the Complaint, Silver Run II was formed in 2016 as a blank check company organized under the laws of Delaware. In August 2017, Silver Run II announced that it had entered into an agreement, subject to shareholder approval, to merge with two privately held companies, Alta Mesa and Kingfisher, in a deal initially valued at $3.8 billion. Alta Mesa was an oil and gas exploration and production company operating in the STACK play in the Anadarko Basin area of Oklahoma. Kingfisher specialized in the gathering, processing, and marketing of hydrocarbons from oil and gas producers. The two companies were closely related and shared overlapping and affiliated owners.

According to the Complaint, Arlo provides smart connected devices that can purportedly monitor environments in real-time using its cloudbased platform. This is accomplished by using a Wi-Fi or cellular network Internet connection in the Americas, Europe, the Middle-East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific regions. By using Arlo's cloud-based platform, consumers may engage in real-time with their families and businesses from any location with an internet connection. Arlo also offers Wi-Fi- and LTE-enabled cameras, advanced baby monitors, and smart security lights.

According to the Complaint, 22nd Century Group, Inc. ("22nd Century" or the "Company") provides technology that increases or decreases the nicotine levels and other nicotinic alkaloids in tobacco plants, and cannabinoids in
hemp/cannabis plants through genetic engineering and plant breeding.

According to the Complaint, Maxar is a leading global provider of advanced space technology solutions for commercial and government markets including satellites, Earth imagery, geospatial data and analytics, is at the nexus of the new space economy, developing and sustaining its infrastructure and delivering the products, services, systems and solutions that make it possible.

According to the Complaint, as of September 2017, Sogou was China's fourth largest Internet company based on MAU. By mobile queries, the Company's Sogou Search engine is the second largest search engine in China.

Plaintiff's law firm issued a press release on January 7, 2019, announcing the filing of the lawsuit. According to the press release, Liberty Health Sciences Inc. ("Liberty" or the "Company") was incorporated under the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) on November 9, 2011, as SecureCom Mobile Inc. The Company's principal business activity is the production and distribution of medical cannabis through its wholly-owned subsidiary DFMMJ LLC (d/b/a Liberty Health Sciences Florida Ltd.). Aphria Inc., which also produces and distributes cannabis, has had long-standing ties with Liberty, starting from the very beginning of both companies.

Plaintiff's law firm issued a press release on January 3, 2019 announcing the filing of the Complaint. According to the press release, the Complaint alleges that on December 21, 2018, Perrigo issued a Form 8-K disclosing that the Company had received an audit finding letter from the Irish tax authorities on October 30, 2018 asserting "that IP sales transactions… including the sale of Tysabri®, were not part of the trade of Elan Pharma and therefore should have been treated as chargeable gains subject to an effective 33% tax rate, rather than the 12.5% tax rate applicable to trading income."

According to the Complaint, YRC Worldwide Inc. provides various transportation services primarily in North America. It operates as a holding company with two reporting segments: YRC Freight (longer haul trucking) and Regional Transportation (regional and next-day delivery markets).

According to the Complaint, Nova Lifestyle purports to design, manufacture, and sell residential and commercial furniture to middle and upper middle-income consumers worldwide.

According to the Complaint, Immunomedics purports to be a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing monoclonal antibody-based products for the targeted treatment of cancer.

Plaintiff's law firm issued a press release on December 21, 2018, announcing the filing of the lawsuit. According to the press release, on July 16, 2018, JA Solar, purported to be one of the world's largest manufacturers of high-performance solar power products, completed its merger (the "Merger") with JASO Top Holdings Limited ("JASO Top"), JASO Holdings Limited ("Holdco"), JASO Parent Limited ("Parent"), and JASO Acquisition Limited ("Merger Sub") pursuant to the agreement and plan of merger dated November 17, 2017 by and among the parties. As a result of the Merger, the Company ceased to be a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

According to the Complaint, Tenaris produces and sells seamless and welded steel tubular products and related services for the oil and gas industry, and other industrial applications.

On December 10, 2018, Plaintiff’s law firm issued a press release announcing the lawsuit. According to the press release, the Complaint alleges that during the Class Period, Defendants made false and misleading statements and/or failed to disclose adverse information regarding Nissan’s business and financial condition. Specifically, according to the Complaint, Nissan has been materially understating its expenses and overstating profits by concealing half of the annual executive compensation it was obligated to pay its former Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and Chairman of its Board of Directors (“Board”), in order to avoid shareholder scrutiny of the CEO’s inordinately high executive compensation. The Company also concealed from investors the significant defects in its corporate governance and internal controls and affirmatively failed to heed the express direction of its outside auditors dating back to at least 2013 to accurately report its executive compensation. Not only did the underreporting deceive Nissan’s investors, it violated the pay cap Nissan shareholders approved.

According to the Complaint, CURO Group Holdings Corp. ("CURO" or the Company) provides short-term credit to underbanked consumers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. In the United States, it operates under two principal brands, "Speedy Cash" and "Rapid Cash." In the United Kingdom, CURO operates online as "Wage Day Advance" and "Juo Loans." In Canada, the Company's stores are branded "Cash Money" and it offers "LendDirect" installment loans online and at certain stores.