Notice to All Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies and High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage Fund Investors

NEW YORK, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The Securities Law Firm of Klayman &Toskes, P.A. ("K&T")(http://www.nasd-law.com) announced today that it isstill accepting claims against Bear Stearns (NYSE: BSC) on behalf ofinvestors around the world, who sustained losses in the High-GradeStructured Credit Strategies and High-Grade Structured Credit StrategiesEnhanced Leverage Funds ("the Bear Funds"). Combined, the Bear Funds hadinvestor capital of about $1.56 billion. With this capital, and additionalleverage taken out on the capital, Bear Stearns bet heavily on the marketfor subprime mortgages and invested in thinly traded collateralized debtobligations ("CDO"). Its gamble turned out to be wrong. As a result of theslumping U.S. housing market in 2007, the Bear Funds collapsed within avery short period of time, and investors lost about $1.9 billion. Presently, K&T is processing claims against numerous brokerage firmsdue to the collapse of the CDO and credit markets. The claims primarilydeal with the Auction Rate Securities crisis, CDO losses in hedge funds andother institutions, and losses in bond funds which were over-concentratedin the subprime and CDO markets. Klayman & Toskes, P.A., an experienced and nationally recognizedsecurities litigation law firm, continues its representation of investorsthroughout the world in securities arbitration and litigation mattersagainst major Wall Street brokerage firms. If you wish to discuss thisannouncement or have information relevant to our claims, please contactSteven D. Toskes, Esquire of Klayman & Toskes, P.A., at 888-997-9956, orvisit us on the web at http://www.nasd-law.com.

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