Cooley M&A

JANUARY 30, 2024

As we look ahead to the 2024 proxy season (and beyond), let’s review the key 2023 trends and developments from activism playbooks, with a sharp focus on the ever-changing landscape in the technology and healthcare sectors. 4] Activists won 134 board seats globally in 2023, a 30% increase from 2022. Momentum building for 2024?

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

On November 21, 2023, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) Division of Corporation Finance issued eight new Compliance & Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs), and revised two previously issued C&DIs, relating to the final pay-versus-performance (PVP) disclosure rules adopted last year. Answer: No.

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Benzinga

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Full Year 2023 Highlights 1 Revenues of $763.8 million acquisition of Infinite ID Fourth Quarter 2023 Highlights 1 Revenues of $202.6 Full Year 2023 Highlights 1 Revenues of $763.8 million acquisition of Infinite ID Fourth Quarter 2023 Highlights 1 Revenues of $202.6 million Net Income of $37.3 million, after the $217.7

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M&A Leadership Council

AUGUST 1, 2023

Large public companies are generally expected to link their CEO pay to total shareholder return over one to three years, whereas a new start-up will tend to focus more on sales growth. Bonus pay may be hard to align following a merger between one firm with huge bonuses and another one with none.

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Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The NYSE and Nasdaq adopted listing standards last year to implement the SEC’s clawback rule – these standards became effective on October 2, 2023, and listed companies had until December 1, 2023 to adopt a compliant clawback policy. A failure to timely cure noncompliance will also result in delisting.

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Reynolds Holding

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Part of the board’s responsibility is to ensure capital allocation decisions are made with a rationale founded in creating good long-term total shareholder returns. The board needs to manage the conflicts between the agents, the principals and indeed between the longer and shorter-term shareholders within the principals.

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Benzinga

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

billion for the year ended December 31, 2023, the transaction is expected to deliver at least $50 million in run-rate synergies, implying immediate double-digit EPS accretion on a run-rate synergy basis. Josh has been an outstanding leader and partner, growing the business, and successfully bringing the company to the public markets.

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 1, 2023

On February 22, 2023, the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market released their respective versions of a proposed rule that implements the SEC’s clawback rule mandated by Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Act. If the Effective Date is November 28, 2023, then the deadline to comply will be January 27, 2024.

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 6, 2024

Conceptually, it posits that a corporation increasing shareholder wealth produces jobs and innovative goods and services for consumers, lowers prices consumers will pay, and brings prosperity to communities in which the shareholders and workers live, with all kinds of derivative benefits such as increased tax revenue. headquarters).

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

footnote disclosure to the table for any amounts deducted and added to total compensation of the NEOs to determine the amount of compensation “actually paid” (as described below) and certain related assumptions, as well as the name of each CEO and other NEO included in table for each year and the fiscal year for which they were included.

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 5, 2023

Moreover, if PVP disclosure was required in a Form 10 (and its accompanying “information statement”), it would not be possible to complete column (f) of the PVP table with respect to the company’s total shareholder return (TSR), since the spin-off company would not have been publicly traded for any of the years covered by the PVP table.

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Reynolds Holding

AUGUST 30, 2023

Although poor economic or stock price performance can increase vulnerability, even companies that are respected industry leaders and have outperformed the market and their peers have been and are being attacked. This post comes to us from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 30, 2025

Setting the stage: 2024 by the numbers [1] Technology remains the top target Similar to levels in 2023, the top sectors targeted by activists in 2024 were technology (24%), healthcare (13%), industrials (18%), and communication and media (13%). With the 2025 proxy season in full swing, lets take a fresh look at the landscape.

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Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

Market participants entered the year hoping for a robust revival in M&A, IPO, and debt financing activities. The market was, in many ways, still grappling with the hangover from the previous years stagnation. That said, market dynamics dont necessarily spell doom and gloom across all regions and sectors.

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