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. 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)