NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC notifies investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed against YayYo, Inc. ("YayYo” or "the Company") (OTC: YAYO) and certain of its officers, on behalf of shareholders who purchased or otherwise acquired YayYo securities pursuant and/or traceable to the Company’s initial public offering conducted in November 2019 (the “IPO” or “Offering”). Such investors are encouraged to join this case by visiting the firm’s site: www.bgandg.com/yayo.
This class action seeks to recover damages against Defendants for alleged violations of the federal securities laws under the Securities Exchange Act of 1933.
The Complaint alleges that the IPO Registration Statement featured false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Founder and former CEO El-Batrawi continued, directly and/or indirectly, to exercise supervision, authority, and control over YayYo, and was intimately involved, on a day-to-day basis, with the business, operations, and finances of the Company, including assisting the underwriters in marketing YayYo’s IPO from Westpark’s offices in Los Angeles; (2) El-Batrawi never sold his 12,525,000 “Private Shares” and continued to own a controlling interest in YayYo despite the NASDAQ’s insistence that he retain less than a 10% equity ownership interest in connection with the listing agreement; (3) certain creditors of YayYo were promised that in exchange with their agreeing to purchase shares in the IPO (in order to permit the underwriters to close the IPO), YayYo would repurchase those shares from them after the IPO using proceeds from the IPO; (4) the defendants intended to repurchase shares purchased by creditors of YayYo in the IPO using IPO proceeds; (5) YayYo owed its former President, CEO, and Director a half of million dollars at the time of the IPO; and (6) YayYo owed Social Reality, Inc. $426,286 in unpaid social media costs, most of which were more than a year overdue and payment had been delayed while YayYo attempted to complete the IPO.
A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to review a copy of the Complaint you can visit the firm’s site: www.bgandg.com/yayo or you may contact Peretz Bronstein, Esq. or his Investor Relations Analyst, Yael Hurwitz of Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC at 212-697-6484. If you suffered a loss in YayYo you have until October 5, 2020 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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