Luxor Capital Group, LP (“Luxor”), as the manager of funds owning
4.7 million shares of Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated (NYSE:
RBA) (TSX: RBA) (“RBA” or the “Company”), representing
approximately 4.2% of the Company’s outstanding shares, today
announced they have filed their definitive proxy statement with the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and sent a letter to the
Company's shareholders highlighting significant concerns with the
proposed merger with IAA, Inc. (NYSE: IAA) (the “IAA Merger”). The
definitive proxy statement is available here:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046102/000110465923019026/tm233463-1_defc14a.htm
or under Ritchie Bros. profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com
Douglas Snyder, President of Luxor, commented:
“As the RBA management team continues its attempts to push
through this self-serving, ill-advised merger with IAA despite the
negative market and shareholder reaction, we cannot sit idly by
watching shareholder value destroyed. This deal demonstrates the
Company's reckless disregard for shareholders and causes us to
further question whose interests are being protected.
Luxor has now been joined by many other top shareholders and
sell-side analysts voicing their dismay with this merger, both
publicly and in private conversations, noting its lack of merit and
inherent value destroying components. This sustained cadence would
serve as motivation to any rational board to reassess a proposed
merger.
Hearing these many voices against this deal, we expect that our
fellow shareholders will join us in defeating this poorly conceived
transaction and returning Ritchie Bros. to its value creation
path.”
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The full text of the letter Luxor is sending to
RBA shareholders can be viewed at the following link:
https://www.luxorcap.com/Lux02132023.pdf
Luxor’s definitive proxy materials can be viewed
at the following link:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046102/000110465923019026/tm233463-1_defc14a.htm
We urge stockholders to read today’s letter and
obtain important information about how to vote on the
GREEN Proxy Card to vote
AGAINST the IAA Merger.
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RBA has announced a scheduled record date of January 25,
2023 as the record date for stockholders to be eligible to vote at
the Special Meeting. We remind shareholders
that, as currently scheduled, only shares of RBA common stock
held as of such date may be voted at the Special Meeting.
Shareholders should therefore, to the extent pledged or loaned,
recall any shares they owned as of January 25, 2023. Any shares not
acquired or recalled as of the record date will be unable to
be voted at the Special Meeting.
If you require assistance in voting your GREEN
proxy or would like to receive updates, please call Okapi Partners
toll-free at + 1 (877) 629-6356 or Shorecrest Group at + 1 (888)
637-5789.After reading the information provided, if you agree that
the IAA Merger is not in the best interest of RBA or its
shareholders, we urge you to take the time to vote AGAINST using
your GREEN proxy card. If you have already voted using the
Company’s white proxy card, you have every right to change your
vote by using the GREEN proxy card that is being mailed to
shareholders of record. Only the latest-dated validly executed
proxy that you submit will be counted. Please follow the
instructions on the GREEN proxy card to vote using one of the
available methods provided. To ensure your vote is counted, we
recommend that you vote on the internet where possible, so your
vote is received before March 9, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. (Pacific
Time).YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT IN DETERMINING THE FUTURE OF RITCHIE
BROS. |
About Luxor Capital Group, LP:
Luxor Capital Group, LP is a multi-billion-dollar investment
manager, which was founded in 2002 and is based in New York. It
makes investments through its fundamental, long-term oriented
investment process. The firm has an extensive history of investing
in global marketplaces businesses.
Luxor Capital Group, LP has filed a definitive proxy statement
and accompanying GREEN proxy card with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (“SEC”), together with the other Participants named in
the proxy statement, to be used to solicit proxies in connection
with a special meeting of the shareholders of Ritchie Bros.
Auctioneers Incorporated, a company organized under the federal
laws of Canada (the “Company”). All shareholders of the Company are
advised to read the definitive proxy statement and other documents
related to the solicitation of proxies by the Participants, as they
contain important information, including additional information
related to the Participants. The definitive proxy statement and an
accompanying GREEN proxy card will be furnished to some or all of
the Company’s shareholders and will be, along with other relevant
documents, available at no charge from the Participants’ proxy
solicitors, Okapi Partners LLC by phone at (877) 629-6356 (Toll
Free) or by email to info@okapipartners.com, or to Shorecrest Group
by phone at (888) 637-5789 (Toll Free) or by email at
contact@shorecrestgroup.com. Information about the Participants and
a description of their direct or indirect interests by security
holdings is contained in the definitive proxy statement filed by
the Participants with the SEC on February 10, 2023. This document
is available free of charge on the SEC website.
Information in Support of Public Broadcast
Solicitation
Luxor is relying on the exemption under section 9.2(4) of
National Instrument 51‐102 ‐ Continuous Disclosure Obligations (“NI
51-102”) to make this public broadcast solicitation. The following
information is provided in accordance with corporate and securities
laws applicable to public broadcast solicitations and contains the
information required by section 9.2(4)(c) of NI 51-102.
This solicitation is being made by Luxor, as well as LCG
Holdings, LLC, Lugard Road Capital GP, LLC, Luxor Capital Partners
Offshore Master Fund, LP, Luxor Capital Partners Long Offshore
Master Fund, LP, Luxor Capital Partners, LP, Lugard Road Capital
Master Fund, LP, Luxor Management, LLC, and Christian Leone, and
Jonathan Green (collectively, the “Participants”), and not by or on
behalf of the management of the Company. The address of RBA is 9500
Glenlyon Parkway Burnaby, British Columbia V5J 0C6.
Luxor may solicit proxies in reliance upon the “quiet
solicitation” and public broadcast exemptions to the solicitation
requirements under applicable Canadian laws, with the latter
conveyed by way of public broadcast, including press release,
speech or publication, and otherwise by any other manner permitted
under applicable Canadian laws. Upon mailing of Luxor’s proxy
statement to Company shareholders, proxies may be solicited by
mail, facsimile, telephone, telegraph, internet, in person and by
advertisements.
Luxor has engaged Okapi Partners and Shorecrest Group for
solicitation and advisory services in connection with this
solicitation, for which Okapi Partners and Shorecrest Group will
receive a fee not to exceed $180,000 in the aggregate, together
with reimbursement for each of their reasonable out-of-pocket
expenses, and will be indemnified against certain liabilities and
expenses, including certain liabilities under the federal
securities laws. Okapi Partners and Shorecrest Group will solicit
proxies from individuals, brokers, banks, bank nominees and other
institutional holders. Luxor has requested banks, brokerage houses
and other custodians, nominees and fiduciaries to forward all
solicitation materials to the beneficial owners of the RBA common
shares they hold of record. Luxor will reimburse these record
holders for their reasonable out-of-pocket expenses in so
doing.
The entire expense of soliciting proxies is being borne by
Luxor. If successful, Luxor may seek reimbursement from the Company
of all expenses it incurs in connection with this solicitation.
Luxor does not intend to submit the question of such reimbursement
to a vote of security holders of the Company.
Shareholders of the Company may revoke their proxies at any time
before their shares are voted at the Special Meeting by (i) sending
a written notice of revocation, (ii) properly submitting a new,
later-dated proxy card (in which case only the later-dated proxy is
counted and the earlier proxy is revoked), (iii) submitting a proxy
via the internet, telephone or mail at a later date using the
instructions on the enclosed GREEN proxy card (in which case only
the later-dated proxy is counted and the earlier proxy is revoked),
or (iv) attending the Special Meeting and voting virtually
(although attendance at the Special Meeting will not in and of
itself constitute a vote or revocation of a prior proxy).
Beneficial owners of RBA common shares may change their voting
instructions only by submitting new voting instructions to the
brokers, banks or other nominees that hold their RBA common shares
of record.
The delivery of a subsequently dated proxy, as set out above,
which is properly completed will constitute a revocation of any
earlier delivered proxy. The revocation may be delivered either to
Luxor in care of Okapi Partners or Shorecrest Group at the
addresses set forth on the back cover of Luxor’s
proxy statement or to the Company at Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers
Incorporated, 9500 Glenlyon Parkway, Burnaby, BC V5J 0C6 or any
other address provided by the Company. Although a revocation is
effective if delivered to the Company, Luxor requests that either
the original or photostatic copies of all revocations be mailed to
Luxor in care of Okapi Partners or Shorecrest Group at the
addresses set forth on the back cover of Luxor’s proxy statement so
that Luxor will be aware of all revocations and can more accurately
determine if and when proxies have been received from the requisite
RBA shareholders on the record date for the Special Meeting.
To the knowledge of Luxor, except as disclosed in the proxy
statement, none of Luxor or the other Participants or any of their
respective associates or affiliates has any material interest,
direct or indirect, in any matter proposed to be acted on at the
Special Meeting.
Contacts:
Investor Contacts
Douglas FriedmanLuxor Capital Group, LPRBA@luxorcap.com
Mark Harnett & Bruce GoldfarbOkapi Partners LLC(212)
297-0720Info@okapipartners.com
Media
Dan Gagnier & Riyaz LalaniGagnier Communications(646)
342-8087luxor@gagnierfc.com
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