Exhibit C: Notice of Deposition of Robinhood Markets, Inc. — Case 1:21-md-02989-CMA (Document 586-3)

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Exhibit C to Document 586 in In re: January 2021 Short Squeeze Trading Litigation, Case No. 21-2989-MDL-ALTONAGA/Damian (Case 1:21-md-02989-CMA, Document 586-3), entered on the FLSD docket August 7, 2023: a 23-page "Notice of Deposition of Robinhood Markets, Inc., Robinhood Financial, Inc., and Robinhood Securities, LLC" under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, dated May 5, 2023. Lead Plaintiff Blue Laine-Beveridge and the named Plaintiffs, through The Rosen Law Firm, P.A., notice the deposition of Robinhood's designated representatives for June 6, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. at the firm's New York offices and ask Robinhood to designate witnesses for all three defendant entities. Schedule A sets out definitions, including the nine Affected Stocks, the HFSC Report and a Relevant Period of January 12, 2021 through February 12, 2021, and deposition topics 1 through 59.

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Date: 2023-08-07

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EXHIBIT C
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA

CASE NO. 21-2989-MDL-ALTONAGA/Damian

CLASS ACTION
In re: JANUARY 2021 SHORT SQUEEZE
TRADING LITIGATION NOTICE OF DEPOSITION OF
ROBINHOOD MARKETS, INC.,
ROBINHOOD FINANCIAL, INC.,
AND ROBINHOOD SECURITIES,
LLC

TO: ALL PARTIES AND THEIR ATTORNEYS OF RECORD

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that, pursuant to Rules 30(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil

Procedure, Lead Plaintiff Blue Laine-Beveridge, named Plaintiffs Abraham Huacuja, Ava

Bernard, Brendan Clarke, Brian Harbison, Cecilia Rivas, Doi Nguyen, Joseph Gurney, Marcel

Poirier, Sandy Ng, Santiago Gil Bohórquez, and Thomas Cash (collectively “Plaintiffs”),

individually and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated, by Plaintiffs’ undersigned

attorneys, will take the deposition upon oral examination of the designated representative or

representatives of Robinhood Markets, Inc., Robinhood Financial, Inc., and Robinhood

Securities, LLC (collectively “Robinhood”). Such deposition will take place on June 6, 2023,

commencing at 9:00 a.m., at the offices of The Rosen Law Firm, P.A., 275 Madison Avenue,

40th Floor, New York, NY 10016, or at such other time and place as the parties mutually agree.

Such deposition will be recorded stenographically and videotaped by a qualified videographer,

and shall continue from day to day until completed.

Pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 30(b)(6), Robinhood is requested to

designate one or more officers, directors, managing agents, or other persons who consent to
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testify on behalf all three defendant corporate matters, as to the matters set forth in Schedule A.

If any of the defendants do not believe that one or more representatives can testify on behalf of

all three corporate entities in response to this deposition notice then please so state and we shall

have three separate deposition dates, one for each entity, for the topics in Schedule A.

DATED: May 5, 2023 THE ROSEN LAW FIRM, P.A.

/s/ Laurence M. Rosen
Laurence M. Rosen, FBN# 0182877
Phillip Kim
Robin Bronzaft Howald
Michael A. Cohen
Jon Stern
Brent J. LaPointe
275 Madison Avenue, 40th Floor
New York, New York 10016
Telephone: (212) 686-1060
Facsimile: (212) 202-3827
Email: lrosen@rosenlegal.com
pkim@rosenlegal.com
rhowald@rosenlegal.com
mcohen@rosenlegal.com
jstern@rosenlegal.com
blapointe@rosenlegal.com

Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs and the Class

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that on May 5, 2023, a true and correct copy of the foregoing
document was served to counsel for each Robinhood defendant by email.

/s/ Laurence M. Rosen

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SCHEDULE A

I. DEFINITIONS

1. The “Action” refers to all tranches of In re January 2021 Short Squeeze Trading

Litigation, Case No. 21-2989-MDL (Altonaga/Damian).

2. The “Affected Stocks” refers to common stock in AMC Entertainment Holdings,

Inc. (“AMC”), Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (“BBBY”), BlackBerry Ltd. (“BB”), Express Inc.

(“EXPR”), GameStop Corp. (“GME”), Koss Corp. (“KOSS”), Tootsie Roll Industries Inc.

(“TR”), or American Depositary Shares of foreign-issuers Nokia Corp. (“NOK”) and trivago

N.V. (“TRVG”), individually and collectively.

3. “Alleged Omissions and Half-Truths” means the statements that Robinhood

made omitting to disclose that it had a liquidity problem, that it would have allowed trading to

continue were it adequately capitalized, and that Robinhood knew the prices of the Affected

Stocks would decline as a result of its actions, as identified in Paragraphs 62 and 63, inclusive, of

the Complaint.

4. “Complaint” means the Amended Consolidated Class Action Complaint, filed

January 17, 2023 (Docket No. 527), in the above-captioned action.

5. “Communication” means the transmittal of information (in the form of facts,

ideas, inquiries, or otherwise).

6. “Concern” or “concerning” means relating to, referring to, describing, evidencing,

or constituting.

7. “Digital Communications” means Communications (whether by text, image,

audio, video, or otherwise) through or via any collaboration application or platform, social media

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platform or service, chat client, or electronic messaging medium, including but not limited Email

and Instant Messages as defined herein.

8. “Document” or “Documents” is defined to be synonymous in meaning and equal

in scope to the usage of the term “documents or electronically stored information” in Fed. R.

Civ. P. 34(a)(1)(A). A draft or non-identical copy is a separate Document within the meaning of

this term. The terms “Document” and “Documents” specifically include, but are not limited to,

Communications, Digital Communications, and Electronically-Stored Information (“ESI”), as

each is defined herein.

9. “DTCC” means the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, together with its

subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, agents, and anyone acting or purporting to act on its

behalf.

10. “Electronically Stored Information” (“ESI”) as used herein has the same meaning

as in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and other applicable law, including Rules 26 and 34(a)

of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Examples of ESI include:

a. Digital Communications (e.g., e-mail, voice mail, and Instant Messages, as

defined herein);

b. E-mail server stores (e.g., Microsoft Exchange .edb);

c. Word-processed documents (e.g., Word files and drafts thereof);

d. Spreadsheets and tables (e.g., Excel worksheets);

e. Accounting application data (e.g. Quickbooks);

f. Image and facsimile files (e.g., .PDF, .TIFF, .JPG, .GIF);

g. Sound recordings (e.g., .WAV and .MP3);

h. Video and animation files(e.g., .AVI and .MOV);

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i. Databases (e.g., Access, Oracle, SAP, SQL data);

j. Contact and relationship management data (e.g., Outlook contacts);

k. Calendar and diary application data (e.g., Outlook calendar entries, blog

entries);

l. Presentations (e.g., PowerPoint);

m. Network access and server activity logs;

n. Project management application data;

o. Computer aided design/drawing files; and

p. Cloud-based or other virtualized ESI, including applications, infrastructure,

and data.

11. “Email” means electronic messages sent or received via web/HTML interface or

through messaging applications or clients, whether on personal computing devices, smartphones,

tablets, or any other similar device, including but not limited to Google (Android) Mail, GMail,

Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, and/or Apple Mail.

12. “Employee” means, without limitation, current and former officers, directors,

executives, managers, supervisors, department heads, employees, secretaries, clerical staff,

messengers, agents, attorneys, representatives, or any Person acting or authorized to act on

behalf of an entity.

13. “Financial Statements” means, without limitation, any interim, final, actual,

projected, complete, or partial, annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly, or otherwise, audited or

unaudited, budgets, budget plans, balance sheets, schedules of direct costs, schedules of

miscellaneous income, schedules of general services, fiscal serviceman administrative services,

statements of earnings and earnings per share, income statements, cash flow statements,

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statements of revenues and statements of expenses, all notes or other commentary concerning

any of the foregoing, and all underlying work papers and all drafts used in connection with the

preparation of any of the foregoing.

14. “FINRA” means the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, together with its

subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, agents, and anyone acting or purporting to act on its

behalf.

15. “HFSC Report” refers to “Game Stopped: How the Meme Stock Market Event

Exposed Troubling Business Practices, Inadequate Risk Management, and the Need for

Regulatory and Legislative Reform,” a report issued by the Majority Staff of the U.S. House of

Representatives Financial Services Committee in June 2022.

16. “Identify” when used to refer to a Document, shall mean: (i) the date of each

Document; (ii) the type of each such Document (i.e. correspondence, memorandum, business

record, etc.); (iii) the identity of the author(s) or preparer(s) of each such Document; and (iv) the

present location of each such Document or copies thereof.

17. “Identify” when used to refer to a natural person, shall mean to set forth that

person’s: (i) full name and title, if any; (ii) present or last known address; (iii) present or last

known business and home telephone number(s); and (iv) present or last known employer.

18. “Instant Messages” means real-time communications, including but not limited to

ephemeral communications, sent text message (e.g. SMS/MMS), or via chat application,

platform, or client, or any similar standard, including but not limited to Bloomberg Chat, Slack,

Google Talk, Google Chat, Google Hangouts, Apple iMessage, WhatsApp, WeChat, QQ, Viber,

Facebook Messenger, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Zoom, Discord, Snapchat, Signal, Line,

Telegram, AOL Instant Messenger, Huawei Cloud, Blackberry Messenger, ICQ, Pidgin,

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Audium, Trillian, or any proprietary Instant Messaging system

19. “IPO” refers to the Company’s Initial Public Offering of approximately 52.4

million shares of Company common stock priced at $38 per share, which closed on or around

July 29, 2021, raising nearly $2 billion.

20. “Later-Restricted Stocks” means the fifty stocks set forth in the table in Paragraph

87 of the Complaint, indicating that the stock was subject to a restriction on January 29, 2021.

21. “Meme Stock Market Event” refers to the name used by the U.S. House of

Representatives Financial Services Committee to describe the facts and circumstances which

gave rise to, inter alia, the instant action.

22. “Meeting” means the contemporaneous presence, whether in person or through

any means of communication, of any natural persons, whether or not such presence was by

chance or prearranged and whether or not the meeting was formal, informal or occurred in

connection with some other activity.

23. “NSCC” means the National Securities Clearing Corporation, together with its

subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, agents, and anyone acting or purporting to act on its

behalf.

24. “Person” means any natural person, proprietorship, corporation, partnership, trust,

joint venture, group, association, organization, and governmental agency and other agency. With

respect to a business entity, the term “Person” includes any natural Person acting formally or

informally as a director, trustee, officer, agent, attorney, or other representative of the business

entity.

25. “OCC” means the Options Clearing Corporation, together with its subsidiaries,

affiliates, officers, employees, agents, and anyone acting or purporting to act on its behalf.

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26. “Prospectus” refers to the Prospectus for the IPO, originally filed with the SEC on

Form S-1 on or about July 1, 2021, as amended, with the second and final amendment on SEC

Form S-1/A filed on or about July 27, 2021.

27. “Regard,” “regarding,” “refer,” “referring,” “relate,” relating,” “pertain,” or

“pertaining” means all Documents that comprise, explicitly or implicitly refer to, were reviewed

in conjunction with or were created, generated or maintained as a result of the subject matter of

the Request, including, without limitation, all Documents that reflect, record, memorialize,

embody, discuss, evaluate, consider, review or report on the subject matter of the Request.

28. “Registration Statement” refers to the SEC Form DRS originally filed by

Robinhood on or about March 1, 2020, as amended, with the third and final amendment on SEC

Form DRS/A dated June 15, 2021, which was declared effective by the SEC on or about July 29,

2021. The Prospectus (as defined herein) also forms part of the Registration Statement.

29. “Restrictions” include all measures Robinhood implemented during the

“Restriction Period” changing the margin requirements for the Affected Stocks and/or the Later

Restricted Stocks, restricting the purchase of the Affected Stocks and/or Later Restricted Stocks,

or forcing the sale of the Affected Stocks and/or Later Restricted Stocks and/or put or call

options in the Affected Stocks and/or Later Restricted Stocks.

30. “Restriction Period” means the period between the first imposition of any form of

restriction, to wit, closing call option positions prior to their expiry, position closing only,

purchase limits (including of fractional shares), and total holdings limits, and the lifting of all

such limits during the Relevant Period.

31. “Relevant Period” is defined as January 12, 2021 through February 12, 2021,

unless otherwise stated.

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32. “Underwriters” refers to Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities

LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Wells Fargo Securities, LLC,

Mizuho Securities USA LLC, JMP Securities LLC, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc., Piper

Sandler & Co., Rosenblatt Securities, Inc., BMO Capital Markets Corp., BTIG, LLC, Santander

Investment Securities, Inc., Academy Securities, Inc., Loop Capital Markets, LLC., Samuel A

Ramirez & Company, Inc., and Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC, individually and

collectively.

33. “Robinhood” and the “Company” means Robinhood Markets, Inc. Robinhood

Financial, LLC and Robinhood Securities, LLC, individually and collectively, together with all

of their respective present and former officers, directors, committees, employees, partners,

corporate parents, predecessors, successors, direct and indirect subsidiaries, affiliates, divisions,

branch offices, agents, representatives, and all other Persons acting, or purporting to act, on

behalf of any of the foregoing.

34. “You” or “Your” means Robinhood.

TOPICS FOR ROBINHOOD 30(b)(6) DEPOSITION

1. The communications media, devices, platforms, and applications used by Robinhood’s

employees for work-related communications.

2. The hardware devices used by Robinhood’s employees to perform their work-related

functions.

3. Robinhood’s policies and procedures related to the use of personal communications

devices, personal email, personal computing devices or any non-Robinhood maintained

device work related communications or any work-related functions, including but not

limited to the location and identification of all Documents related to this topic.

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4. Robinhood’s record retention policies and practices, including but not limited to:

a. The location, format, accessibility, architecture, and quantity of Robinhood’s

electronically stored information, including all personal computing devices

(including phones and tablets), network servers, cloud servers, instant messaging,

enterprise servers, and email servers;

b. Robinhood’s litigation hold, if any, concerning Documents relevant to this

litigation; specifically, when such a hold was instituted, to whom, and how such a

hold is being monitored for compliance.

5. Document production: Robinhood’s production of Documents in this litigation, including

but not limited to the manner in which Documents responsive to Plaintiffs’ Requests For

Production of Documents, were searched for, identified, and retrieved, and the databases,

hardware, and devices searched.

6. Custodians whose files were searched in connection with Robinhood’s production of

Documents in this litigation, including but not limited to, the location and identification

of all documents related to this topic.

7. Robinhood’s public statements concerning the Meme Stock Market Event, including but

not limited to, the location and identification of all Documents related to this topic.

8. Robinhood’s public statements about the Restrictions it imposed on trading in the

Affected Stocks, including but not limited to, the location and identification of all

Documents related to this topic.

9. Robinhood’s statements to its customers about the Restrictions it imposed on trading or

lifted on the Affected Stocks, including but not limited to, the location and identification

of all Documents related to this topic.

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10. The trading Restrictions Robinhood imposed during the Meme Stock Market Event. In

particular:

(a) The nature and extent of each of the Restrictions.

(b) The precise time each Restriction was announced, imposed and lifted.

of the Restrictions was discussed, evaluated, approved, implemented, and publicized,

including the identities, by job title and specific roles and responsibilities, of any

persons involved in such decisions.

(d) The reasons Robinhood imposed and lifted each of the trading Restrictions at the

various times during the Restrictions Period.

(e) The basis for how Robinhood selected the stocks on which to impose and lift

Restrictions during the two weeks prior to, and during, the Restrictions Period,

including but not limited to each factor Robinhood considered in determining whether

or not to impose or lift Restrictions and the sources of information from which those

factors were evaluated and determined.

(f) Robinhood’s consideration of its customers’ reactions to the imposition and lifting of

the Restrictions.

(g) Robinhood’s consideration of the possibility that purchasing demand for the Affected

Stocks or Later Affected Stocks might decline when Robinhood imposed the

Restrictions

(h) Robinhood’s consideration of the possibility that selling pressure for the Affected

Stocks or Later Affected Stocks might increase when Robinhood imposed the

Restrictions;

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(i) Robinhood’s consideration of the possibility that the prices of the Affected Stocks or

Later Affected Stocks might decline when Robinhood imposed the Restrictions

(j) Robinhood’s consideration and discussion of the impact a decline in the prices of the

Affected Stocks or Later Affected Stocks would have on its customers, the market as

a whole, market participants with positions in the Later Affected Stocks, Robinhood

itself and its business relationships, including the Identity of any participants in any

such discussions.

(k) The names, titles, functions, and roles of all persons responsible for and/or

participating in the decisions to implement or lift any such Restrictions.

(l) The location and identification of all Documents related to this topic.

11. Why Robinhood maintained position limits on several of the Affected Stocks as late as

the market close on February 4, 2021, given that “Robinhood’s collateral deposit

requirements were within manageable levels by January 29, 2021, and the company had

raised the capital that its models suggested was sufficient to handle shock scenarios by

the end of the day on February 2, 2021,” as referenced in the HFSC Report at 75,

including but not limited to, the location and identification of all Documents related to

this topic.

12. All bases for the comment (see RHMDL00077158) that Robinhood’s customers

represented more than 10% of the market for the Affected Stocks just prior to and/or

during the Restrictions Period including but not limited to, the location and identification

of all Documents related to this topic.

13. The existence and nature of any testimony or interviews with Robinhood employees

regarding the Meme Stock Market Event, including but not limited to, the location and

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identification of all Documents related to this topic.

14. The daily amount of PFOF earned by Robinhood from each of its six market makers on

each of the Later Restricted Stocks during the Relevant Period, including any

communications about this subject that occurred during the Relevant Period, including

but not limited to the location and identification of all Documents related to this topic.

15. How Robinhood’s PFOF from Citadel and other market makers was calculated during the

Relevant Period, any changes, adjustments to the fees paid by Citadel or other brokers for

PFOF, how and why the formulas for PFOF changed over that time period, and any

contracts pursuant to which they were paid, including but not limited to, the location and

identification of all Documents related to this topic.

16. The project or proposal that Robinhood discussed with Citadel beginning on or around

January 20, 2021, as referenced in ¶¶ 226-32 of the Antitrust Complaint (Dkt. No 451),

including but not limited to, the location and identification of all Documents related to

this topic.

17. All Robinhood’s communications with Citadel on January 27, 2021, including but not

limited to those referenced in the HFSC Report at 47-51, e.g., the 8 p.m. call between

Robinhood and Citadel referenced in the HFSC Report at 50-51, and including but not

limited to, the location and identification of all Documents related to this topic.

18. The importance to Robinhood’s financial performance, liquidity and financial condition

of PFOF during the Relevant Period, including the percentage of its revenues that PFOF

and in particular PFOF from Citadel had to its financial performance, liquidity and

financial condition.

19. Robinhood’s liquidity position and financial condition during the Relevant Period, as it

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related to its ability to meet its collateral and deposit requirements with all of its

regulators during that time period, including but not limited to, the location and

identification of all Documents related to this topic.

20. Robinhood’s communications with the NSCC and DTCC during the Meme Stock Market

Event, including but not limited to, the location and identification of all such

communications and all Documents memorializing both any part of the interactions with

the NSCC and DTCC, as well as Robinhood’s strategy in its dealings with the NSCC and

DTCC, and Documents gathered in response to requests by the NSCC and DTCC.

21. Robinhood’s ability or inability to meet the collateral and deposit requirements of the

NSCC/DTCC during the Meme Stock Market Event, including the necessity of a capital

infusion to meet such requirements, and including but not limited to, the location and

identification of all Documents related to this topic, e.g., cash or liquidity projections,

bank records, financial statements, fundraising efforts, and responses to requests made by

the NSCC and DTCC.

22. The bases for CEO Vlad Tenev’s statement that Robinhood would have continued to

allow unrestricted trading in the Later Affected Stocks during the Restrictions Period had

Robinhood been more adequately capitalized as stated by CEO Tenev to Mark Portnoy

and others.

23. The reasons why Robinhood did not disclose to the market during the Restrictions period

the complete detailed set of reasons for imposing, lifting and reimposing Restrictions,

including that it did not have adequate capitalization or liquidity to meet the collateral

and deposit requirements of the NSCC/DTCC on January 28, 2021, and that had it not

maintained the Restrictions during the Restrictions Period it might not have had adequate

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capitalization or liquidity to meet the collateral and deposit requirements of the

NSCC/DTCC during the entirety of the Restrictions Period.

24. The reasons why Robinhood did not announce publicly (i) the date when Robinhood

intended to fully remove the Restrictions, and (ii) the contingencies affecting when it

would fully remove the Restrictions.

25. Robinhood’s belief as to whether the Alleged Omissions and Half-Truths were in fact

disclosed and if so the basis for any such belief.

26. Robinhood’s belief as to whether the Alleged Omissions and Half-Truths during the

Restrictions Period: (1) caused or contributed to decreased demand for the purchase of

the Affected Stocks, (3) caused or contributed to decreased demand for the Affected

Stocks, which in turn caused a decrease in the share prices of the Affected Stock, (4)

caused or contributed to a sell-off for the Affected Stocks that detrimentally affected the

prices of the Affected Stocks or (3) caused or contributed to damages to Robinhood

customers and other investors with positions in the Affected Stocks who sold shares of

the Affected Stocks during the Class Period, and (4) the bases for any such beliefs.

27. Robinhood’s beliefs or positions as to whether during the Restrictions Period the Alleged

Omissions and Half-Truths had an effect on: (i) Robinhood customers, (ii) investors with

positions in the Affected Stocks, or (iii) the prices of the Affected Stocks, and the bases

for any of Robinhood’s beliefs or positions related to this topic.

28. Robinhood’s awareness of, and methods for, its internal calculations of its deposit and

collateral requirements owed to the NSCC and DTCC during the Relevant Period,

including but not limited to VaR and ECP charges, and including the location and

identification of all Documents related to this topic.

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29. The specific amounts for Robinhood’s collateral deposit and capital charges associated

with each of the restricted stocks during each day of the Relevant Period and how those

compared to other stocks that were heavily bought on Robinhood at the same time and

the reasons and calculations therefore including but not limited to, the location and

identification of all Documents related to this topic.

30. The day and time Robinhood first discovered the potential for a liquidity problem during

the Relevant Period, and how it discovered it, including but not limited to, the location

and identification of all Documents related to this topic.

31. The liquidity problem that Robinhood experienced during the Restriction Period, such as

that referenced in the HFSC Report at 24, 30, 31, 54, 55, 61, 66, 68 and 69, including but

not limited to, the location and identification of all Documents related to this topic.

32. Robinhood’s belief that it would not be shut down or forced to liquidate its customers’

positions by the NSCC/DTCC because it was “to[o] big to fail,” as referenced in the

HFSC Report at 65 (citing RH_HFSC_00007111), including but not limited to the

location and identification of all documents related to this topic.

33. .Robinhood’s predictions for its customers’ daily demand (i.e. likely purchase and sale

quantities) for the Affected Stocks in the two weeks prior to, and during, the Restrictions

Period, including but not limited to, the location and identification of all Documents

related to this topic.

34. Robinhood’s view that Robinhood’s systems were having trouble handling the volume of

trades on its platform, e.g., “handling scale,” such as those referenced in the HFSC

Report at pp. 23-25, 31, 36 and 57, and reasons why, including but not limited to the

location and identification of all documents related to this topic.

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35. Robinhood’s awareness that imposing Restrictions on the Affected Stocks could cause a

decline in the market price of the Affected Stocks, including but not limited to that

referenced in the HFSC Report at 31 (citing RH_HFSC_00029118) (“us PCO will trigger

a crash, I am certain”), including but not limited to the location and identification of all

Documents related to this topic.

36. Robinhood’s consideration of, and its decision to, limit in any way the number or pace of

new account sign-ups during the Relevant Period, and the reasons therefor such as those

referenced in the HFSC Report at 31, 56, and 58, including but not limited to the location

and identification of all documents related to this topic.

37. The number of total Robinhood accounts, daily new Robinhood account sign-ups, and the

total dollar amount held in Robinhood accounts on a daily basis during the Relevant

Period, including but not limited to the location and identification of all Documents

related to this topic.

38. The volume and type of trading (buys, sells, options, stocks) in the Affected Stocks by

new accounts in the period, including but not limited to the location and identification of

all Documents related to this topic.

39. The amount and the changes in total daily volume of trading in Robinhood accounts in

the stock and options of the Affected Stocks during the Relevant Period, including but

not limited to, the location and identification of Documents related to this topic.

40. Robinhood’s efforts to raise capital from investors or any other source of funding during

the Relevant Period, including but not limited to the reasons for Robinhood raising

capital, the search for and identification of investors, negotiations, and Robinhood’s

representations of the reasons for the capital infusion, and the terms and nature of the

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transactions by which Robinhood raised additional capital during the Relevant Period,

including but not limited to the location and identification of all Documents related to this

topic.

41. The impact of the Meme Stock Market Event on Robinhood’s efforts to pursue and

complete an initial public offering, including but not limited to the location and

identification of all documents related to this topic.

42. Robinhood’s insurance policies covering (i) securities fraud claims, and (ii) errors and

omissions, including but not limited to the location and identification of all Documents

related to this topic.

43. Robinhood’s policies governing its employees’ trading of stocks and options during the

Relevant Period, including but not limited to the location and identification of all

Documents related to this topic.

44. How Robinhood uses Workday, its human resources management system, including its

capabilities, the information available on it, and what types of information related to

individual custodians and key employees are available on it.

45. Robinhood’s data analytics platform, Looker, including but not limited to:

(a) a description Looker’s capabilities;

(b) a description of Looker’s functions;

(d) how Robinhood uses Looker in its business;

(e) The type of data does Robinhood use Looker to analyze;

(f) The type of data analyses Looker performs for Robinhood; and

(g) The final product or output Looker produces.

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(h) Whether and how Looker allows Robinhood to access its data lake.

(i) Whether and how Looker can be used to create, identify or obtain any of the

documents Plaintiffs have requested from Robinhood in their various Document

requests.

46. The nature, purpose, participants, dates, times, and outcome(s) of the scaling meeting(s)

described in RHMDL0049839, including but not limited to the location and

identification of all other Documents related to this topic.

47. The existence, nature and use of any algorithm or optimization program (“Algorithm”)

Robinhood used to identify the stocks that are driving the greatest fees as referenced in

RHMDL 0072580, including but not limited to: (i) when it was developed; (ii) when

Robinhood first started using it; (iii) whether Robinhood used it during the Relevant

Period; (iv) the reasons it was developed; (v) the uses it was put to; (vi) the identify of all

persons at Robinhood that analyzed the output of the Algorithm; (vii) the decisions the

Algorithm supported; (viii) the decisions the Algorithm affected; (ix) the Identity of all

persons at Robinhood that used any aspect of the Algorithm to make decisions during the

Relevant Period; (x) the identity and location of all documents that relate to this topic.

48. The process Robinhood undertook to monitor Reddit, WallStreetBets, StockTwits or

other social media channels for potential increases in demand for specific stocks, which

stocks it monitored and identified, and in what channels during the Relevant Period,

including but not limited to which stocks it monitored, the reasons therefore, how it

selected such stocks to monitor, and how Robinhood used the information found on these

social media channels to determine in which stocks to consider restricting. The location

and identification of all Documents related to this topic.

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49. The nature, extent and methods by which Robinhood engaged in advertising or postings

of any kind on social media linked to WallStreetBets or other social media channels to

induce traders to open accounts on Robinhood during or prior to the Class Period. The

location and identification of all Documents related to this topic.

50. When, why and the methods by which Robinhood removed their advertising or other

postings at any time during or prior to the class period. The location and identification of

all Documents related to this topic.

51. Whether Robinhood possessed any internal company estimates of the impact of changes

in Robinhood customer demand for certain stocks on those stocks’ prices and what these

estimates were for the nine Affected Stocks during the Relevant Period. If so, the amount

and other specifics of these estimates each day and what were the bases for the

estimates. The location and identification of all Documents related to this topic.

52. Robinhood’s beliefs, including any discussions, as to whether a decrease in demand to

purchase any of the nine Affected Stocks or an increase in selling pressure for the nine

Affected Stocks would lead to lower share prices for such stocks during the Relevant

Period.

53. The number of in the money options that Robinhood closed out early from January 27 to

February 4, 2021, including but not limited to the location and identity of relevant

documents and including a thorough explanation of the meaning, source and

completeness of RHMDL00004341 and RHMDL00004343.

54. Robinhood’s policies for selling out or liquidating positions based on margin calls during

the Relevant Period, including any changes in such policies and the reasons for such

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changes including but not limited to the location and identification of all other documents

related to this topic.

55. The identity of customers who were and were not given notice of margin calls from

January 27, 2021 to February 5, 2021 for the nine Affected Stocks and whether they were

afforded an opportunity to meet such margin calls and the notice and time provided and

whether the notice and time provided for the nine Affected Stocks differed from margin

calls for other stocks, including but not limited to the location and identification of all

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