(Adds Hwang verdict)

By Nupur Anand

NEW YORK, July 10 (Reuters) - Archegos Capital

Management founder Sung Kook "Bill" Hwang, whose private

investment firm Archegos Capital Management experienced a $36

billion collapse in 2021, was convicted on Wednesday at his

fraud trial in New York.

Here is a timeline of the events surrounding Hwang and

Archegos.

1996-2001: Hwang, who moved to the United States as a child

from South Korea, works at the late billionaire Julian

Robertson's pioneering hedge fund Tiger Management, where he

hones his stock-picking skills.

2001: Hwang launches his own hedge fund, Tiger Asia

Management. The firm was started with seed money from Robertson,

making him part of an elite group of the billionaire's protégés

dubbed the Tiger Cubs.

2012: Regulatory issues in Hong Kong and the United States

lead Tiger Asia Management to shut down. Hwang pleads guilty to

wire fraud relating to illegal trading of Chinese bank stocks

and separately pays $44 million to U.S. authorities to settle

insider trading charges.

2013: Hwang turns Tiger Asia into a family office, renaming

it Archegos Capital Management in early 2013.

March 2020: Operating from his Manhattan apartment as the

COVID pandemic sweeps New York, Hwang begins amassing huge

positions in a handful of securities, including media company

ViacomCBS, using derivatives he trades with Wall Street banks.

The trades allow Hwang to accumulate leveraged positions in the

stocks without owning them and without having to disclose his

stakes.

March 2021: ViacomCBS announces a stock sale that sends its

share price tanking, setting off alarm bells at Archegos' banks.

Banks call on Archegos for more collateral to cover the

increased exposure on the swaps.

Archegos does not have enough liquidity to meet the calls.

That leads to some banks dumping the stocks that back his swaps,

causing big losses for Archegos and its lenders, such as Credit

Suisse, now part of UBS, and Nomura Holdings ( NMR ).

As banks begin to report losses, regulators including the U.S.

Securities and Exchange Commission start investigating the

collapse of Archegos.

April 2022: Federal prosecutors charge Hwang with 11

criminal counts. They also charge the former Archegos chief

financial officer, Patrick Halligan, with three criminal counts.

Prosecutors accuse Hwang and Halligan of lying to banks in order

to increase Archegos' credit lines and of using the borrowed

money to unlawfully manipulate stock prices.

Hwang faces charges of racketeering, securities fraud,

securities fraud of counterparties and wire fraud along with

seven counts of market manipulation. Halligan is charged with

racketeering, wire fraud and securities fraud of counterparties.

Both plead not guilty to charges and are released on bail.

May 2024: The trial of Hwang and Halligan begins in

Manhattan federal court. In opening statements, Assistant U.S.

Attorney Alexandra Rothman tells the jury that Hwang sought to

become a Wall Street legend by pumping up the value of his

holdings through manipulative trading, turning Archegos into a

criminal enterprise.

July 2024: The jury convicted Hwang on 10 of 11 criminal

counts and Halligan on all three counts he faced. U.S. District

Judge Alvin Hellerstein set the sentencing for October.

(Compiled by Nupur Anand in New York; Editing by Michael Erman

and Will Dunham)