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fraudulent scheme by repeatedly issuing throughout the Class Period false and misleading statements<br />

in its analyst research reports.<br />

(d) Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas – a wholly owned subsidiary <strong>of</strong><br />

Deutsche Bank AG through multiple subsidiaries – is the successor <strong>of</strong> Bankers Trust Company,<br />

which was acquired by Deutsche Bank AG on 6/4/99 in the Deutsche Bank acquisition <strong>of</strong> BT Alex.<br />

Brown. Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (collectively referred to herein<br />

as "Bankers Trust") – acted (as is detailed further in the section <strong>of</strong> this Complaint entitled<br />

"Involvement <strong>of</strong> Deutsche Bank") to further the defendants' fraudulent scheme by creating and<br />

implementing fraudulent tax schemes designed to artificially inflate <strong>Enron</strong>'s reported financial<br />

results. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, through BT Alex. Brown, Inc., also underwrote<br />

<strong>Enron</strong>'s 2/11/99 common stock <strong>of</strong>fering. At all times after its acquisition, Bankers Trust was<br />

controlled by Deutsche Bank AG.<br />

108. (a) Defendant Lehman Brothers Holding, Inc. is a large integrated financial<br />

services institution that through known and unknown subsidiaries, divisions, and/or affiliates acting<br />

as the agent <strong>of</strong> and under the control <strong>of</strong> Lehman Brothers, Inc., such as Lehman Brothers, Inc. and<br />

LBI Group Inc. (collectively, "Lehman Brothers"), provides commercial and investment banking<br />

services, commercial loans to corporate entities, and advisory services regarding the structuring <strong>of</strong><br />

financial transactions, including engaging in or helping to structure derivatives and hedging financial<br />

transactions, acting as underwriter in the sale <strong>of</strong> corporate securities to the public and providing<br />

investment analysis and opinions on public companies, including its clients, via reports issued by<br />

securities analysts. Lehman Brothers engaged and participated in the scheme to defraud purchasers<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>Enron</strong> securities and <strong>Enron</strong>'s course <strong>of</strong> business which operated as a fraud and deceit on<br />

purchasers <strong>of</strong> <strong>Enron</strong>'s securities by rendering all <strong>of</strong> the above services to <strong>Enron</strong> as described in<br />

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