In Re: Alpharma Inc. Securities Litigation Maverick Capital, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that eoncluso-ry allegations of scienter do not satisfy heightened pleading requirements for securities fraud complaints
• stating that general allegation of desire to increase officer compensation insufficient to establish scienter (citations omitted)
• finding the allegation that the defendants were \privy to confidential proprietary information concerning the [c]ompany\ does not alone give rise to strong inference of scienter under the PSLRA
• finding the allegation that the defendants were \privy to confidential proprietary information concerning the [c]ompany\ does not alone give rise to strong inference of scienter under the PSLRA
• reviewing complaint for allegations that stock sales were “unusual in scope (e.g., compared to their total level of compensation or the size of previous sales) or timing (e.g., compared to the timing of past trades)”
• “[All-legations that Williams, [a] subordinate [of an individual defendant], knew of the irregularities occurring in Brazil provide an insufficient basis upon which to impute knowledge to [that individual defendant].”

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