NEW YORK, NY - January 14, 2026 (NEWMEDIAWIRE) - Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP is investigating potential securities violations against Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (“Jefferies”) (NYSE: JEF).
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On October 8, 2025, The Financial Times (“FT”) published an article titled “Jefferies reveals $715mn fund exposure to First Brands invoices.” The article reported that “Jefferies is under intense scrutiny for its long-standing relationship with First Brands” and that Jefferies “provided opaque invoice financing to [First Brands], while advising the company and placing billions of dollars of loans with other investors.”
Following this news, the price of Jefferies stock fell $4.66 per share, or 7.88%, to close at $54.44 per share on October 8, 2025.
On November 27, 2025, FT reported that “the US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating investment bank Jefferies over its relationship with collapsed car parts company First Brands Group,” including “whether Jefferies gave investors in its Point Bonita fund enough information about their exposure to the auto business. . . .”
On January 7, 2026, after market, FT reported that Jefferies “took a $30mn loss tied to the collapse of car parts supplier First Brands Group, with chief executive Rich Handler saying the firm deeply regretted its involvement in the debacle.” Additionally, FT reported “[t]he loss was tied to Jefferies’ stake in an investment fund owned by the bank known as Point Bonita, which provided hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of off-balance-sheet financing to First Brands.”
On January 8, 2026, the price of Jefferies stock fell $3.62 per share, or 5.6%, to close at $61.05 per share.
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