Nano Dimension Shareholders Overwhelmingly Support Murchinson’s Nominees at 2024 Annual General Meeting
06 Diciembre 2024 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Shareholders Send a Strong Message by Electing
Ofir Baharav and Robert (Bob) Pons Over CEO Yoav Stern and
Incumbent Director Gen. Michael Garrett
Shareholders Reject Mr. Stern’s Outrageous
Compensation Package Proposed by the Current Board by a Majority of
Approximately 75% of Eligible Votes
Together with Israeli District Court’s
Validation of the March 2023 Special Meeting, Results of 2024 AGM
Finally Give Shareholders Meaningful Representation and Independent
Voices in the Boardroom
Murchinson Calls Upon Nano’s Reconstituted
Board to Engage in a Constructive Dialogue with its
Shareholders
Murchinson Ltd. (collectively with its affiliates and funds it
advises and/or sub-advises, “Murchinson” or “we”), a significant
shareholder with approximately 7.1% of the outstanding shares of
Nano Dimension Ltd. (NASDAQ: NNDM) (“Nano” or the “Company”), today
announced that according to preliminary voting results,
shareholders have supported the following meaningful changes at the
Company’s 2024 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (the
“AGM”):
- Murchinson’s director nominees, Ofir Baharav and Robert
(Bob) Pons, have won the support of shareholders by a
significant majority and are elected to the Company’s Board of
Directors (the “Board”).
- Incumbent director Gen. Michael Garrett will no longer
serve on Nano’s Board. Similarly, CEO Yoav Stern has been
rejected by shareholders.
- As a reminder, the recent decision by the District Court for
the Central District in Israel (the “Court”) found that Mr. Stern
was indeed removed from the Board at the special meeting in March
2023 (“2023 EGM”).
- Notably, this is the third general meeting at which a majority
of voting shareholders removed Mr. Stern from the Board. Murchinson
hopes that Mr. Stern will finally adhere to the will of the
shareholders and urges him to cease seeking ways to circumvent or
delay their decision.
- A substantial percentage of shareholders, approximately 67%,
voted in favor of Murchinson’s proposal to de-classify the Board.
While the preliminary results indicate that the proposal did not
achieve the required majority of 70%, Murchinson believes that
this clear message from shareholders (for the second annual
meeting in a row) should prompt the Board to proactively
seek its de-classification at the next general meeting,
consistent with best-in-class governance practices. The classified
board is a widely regarded anti-shareholder measure, associated
with lower return to shareholders and leads to poor corporate
governance due to diminished accountability.
Following receipt of the AGM results and further consultation
with Murchinson’s advisors, Murchinson has concluded that the
Court’s ruling regarding the March 2023 EGM recognized that Nano’s
Articles of Association have been amended at that meeting. As one
of these amendments include a stipulation that the term of a
director who has been appointed by the Board shall expire at the
annual meeting following their appointment, Murchinson believes it
is evidently clear that the terms of service of incumbent directors
Eitan Ben-Eliahu and Georgette Mosbacher, who were
appointed by the Board in April 2024 and June 2024, respectively,
have expired at the AGM.
Another Article amendment that was confirmed by the Court’s
decision was for the removal of directors from the Board at a
simple majority (and at any general meeting). At the 2023 annual
general meeting (the “2023 AGM”), which took place approximately
six months after the 2023 EGM,
proposals to remove incumbent directors Ron Kleinfeld and
Christopher Moran from the Board have won, according to Nano’s own
tabulation, the support of approximately 52.1% and 52.3% of the
votes, respectively. Accordingly, Murchinson believes it is
evidently clear that Ron Kleinfeld and Christopher Moran are no
longer members of the Board.
We urge the Board to accept the will of shareholders and
promptly implement these decisions as per their instructions.
It is important to note that Murchinson’s position is that (1) the
Company cannot and shall not indemnify any removed director against
damages caused by such director’s actions or omissions and (2) the
Company’s Directors and Officers insurance (“D&O Insurance”) no
longer covers those four individuals and that by acting in any
capacity as Board members, those individuals expose themselves to
personal financial liability. We are confident that in case a claim
is ever submitted, the Company’s D&O insurance provider will
see the situation in a similar manner.
Unfortunately, under the leadership of CEO and former
director Mr. Stern, this Board has engaged in a plethora of
obstructionist, costly legal maneuvers and novel interpretation of
the law and of the Company’s own Articles of Association. We call
on the Board to refrain from any further such actions and instead
engage in a constructive dialogue with its shareholders. We stand
ready to continue to defend shareholders’ rights and agency in
court.
This turning point in Nano’s history poses a valuable
opportunity for the reconstituted Board to carefully and critically
examine the Company’s strategy, the merits and success of past and
present acquisitions, governance practices and communication
policies. We have great faith in the skills and integrity of
directors Ken Traub, Dr. Josh Rosensweig, and Messrs. Pons and
Baharav to turn Nano around and fix the Company’s persistently
negative enterprise value, for the benefit of all
shareholders.
About Murchinson Founded in 2012 and based in Toronto,
Canada, Murchinson is an alternative asset management firm that
serves institutional investors, family offices and qualified
clients. The firm has extensive experience capturing the best
returning opportunities across global markets. Murchinson’s
multi-strategy approach allows it to execute investments at all
points in the market cycle with fluid allocation between
strategies. Our team targets corporate action, distressed
investing, private equity and structured finance situations,
leveraging its broad market experience with a variety of
specialized products and sophisticated hedging techniques to
deliver alpha within a risk-averse mandate. Learn more at
www.murchinsonltd.com.
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