Israeli District Court Rules in Favor of Murchinson and Validates Shareholder Vote from the Nano Dimension March 2023 Special Meeting
November 21 2024 - 12:35PM
Business Wire
Court’s Decision Rejects Nano’s Shameless and
Desperate Attempt to Disenfranchise Shareholders By Claiming ADS
Holders Have No Rights
Murchinson is Pleased with the Court’s Ruling
and Will Continue its Efforts to Improve Nano’s Broken Corporate
Governance, Halt the Pattern of Hypocritical Actions and Protect
All Shareholders’ Interests Through Current Proxy Contest
Murchinson Urges Nano’s Board to Comply with
the Court’s Decision Immediately and Avoid Costly Legal Maneuvers
or Other Attempts to Evade Implementing What
Shareholders Voted For
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, on November 21, 2024, the District Court for the
Central District in Israel (the “Court”) delivered its long-awaited
decision regarding the results of the Nano special meeting held in
March 2023 (the “March 2023 EGM”). The Court
has fully validated the results of the March 2023 EGM.
At the March 2023 EGM, shareholders overwhelmingly supported all
of Murchinson’s proposals to:
- Amend the Articles of Association of Nano to allow shareholders
to fill vacancies on the Board of Directors (the “Board”). This
right was previously available only to the Board.
- Amend the Articles of Association of Nano to allow shareholders
to remove directors from the Board at any general meeting and via a
simple majority. Previously, shareholders had no such right to hold
directors accountable between annual meetings and could only do so
with a special majority.
- Remove four then-serving directors: Yoav
Stern, Yoav Nissan-Cohen, Oded Gera and Igal Rotem. Notably,
Mr. Rotem has since resigned from the Board, but Messrs. Stern,
Nissan-Cohen and Gera continued to serve on the Board.
- Install two independent and highly-qualified professionals on
the Board: Kenneth Traub and Dr. Joshua
Rosensweig.
The Court’s decision confirms that Mr. Traub and Dr. Rosensweig
are full members of the Board, and that Messrs. Stern, Nissan-Cohen
and Gera were lawfully removed from the Board at the March 2023
EGM.
Murchinson commented:
“We are pleased that the Court has validated the results of the
shareholder vote that took place at the March 2023 EGM. Fellow
shareholders should be reminded that Nano, at Mr. Stern’s
direction, spent millions of dollars on this litigation to fight
its shareholders, taking the position that holders of American
Depository Shares (ADS) – which are the securities that we all own
and are the only listed securities of the Company – do not have any
rights. In fact, Nano went as far as claiming that the Company
had only one shareholder, the ADS depository (the Bank of New York
Mellon), and that the bank was the only one that had all the
rights afforded to shareholders under the law. This fundamentally
flawed argument and the massive legal effort and cost Murchinson
was forced to take on in order to dispel it, further demonstrates
what by now should be clear: Nano is run by a
CEO and Board that have no regard for the rights and interests of
shareholders.
We urge Nano’s Board to break its pattern of worst-in-class
governance by immediately complying with the Court’s ruling and
engaging in good faith to implement the decision and conduct an
orderly transition of the Board seats to Mr. Traub and Dr.
Rosensweig. Resorting to further costly legal maneuvers or other
attempts to evade the Court decision and the clear will of
shareholders would be a dereliction of the Board’s fiduciary duties
to shareholders.
Unfortunately, given Nano’s track record, there remains an
urgent need for independent voices in the Nano boardroom now. We
call on our fellow shareholders to bring this sorely needed change
to fruition by supporting our proposals and highly-qualified
nominees at the upcoming annual general meeting scheduled for
December 6, 2024. Together, we can save Nano Dimension.”
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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