Knowing that this vote would be a challenge, 新月直播app brought three internal teams to the solicitation: Shareholder Meeting Advisory, Institutional Investor Intelligence and Retail Outreach.

At the onset, our Institutional Investor team began identifying all of the financial institutions, custodial relationships, and beneficial shareholders present on the Non-Objecting Beneficial Owners (NOBO) list. Using our proprietary data, 新月直播app was able to precisely identify the underlying investors behind each custodian.

Once the institutional investors were identified, our shareholder engagement team began the outreach process to obtain voting instructions. Simultaneously, our Retail Outreach team began soliciting retail shareholders to facilitate telephone, text and email voting.

Both groups use a combination of our proprietary text-to-vote, email-to-vote and live telephone voting platforms. These technologies are designed to allow us to gather votes from both the institutional and retail shares, down to the smallest shareholder.

• 新月直播app provided commentary and guidance on the proxy statement, with a particular focus on disclosure regarding the response to the failed Say on Pay vote in 2022.
• We prepared vote projections under various scenarios including voting on directors on the Compensation & Management Development Committee and on the Say on Pay proposal.
• Our Corporate Governance team provided background information and outreach efforts on the top 50 institutions. This included setting up calls with the appropriate contacts at each institution.
• We provided advice and guidance after ISS recommended voting against Compensation & Management Development Committee members and voting against the Say on Pay proposal. We worked with our client to draft a response to the ISS recommendations and submitted the response to ISS on our client鈥檚 behalf.

After filing the company鈥檚 response. ISS reversed its against recommendations and recommended that shareholders support all directors and Say on Pay.

In addition, all directors were elected with over 95% of the shares voted, and over 75% of the shares voted in favor of the Say on Pay proposal.

新月直播app is now working with the client in preparation for the 2024 annual meeting including arranging off-season institutional outreach and assisting in drafting of ESG disclosure.

The company hired 新月直播app two weeks prior to Proxy Report Release to devise a Shareholder Engagement solicitation. 新月直播app started with Register analysis to determine our strongest points of influence. We then created a narrative supporting the merger with strategic rationale and valuation being the cornerstones of our case.

Our shareholder engagement strategy included proxy report rebuttal and live meetings with key stakeholders. Virtually all these firms and institutional shareholders responded positively to our requests for engagement.

Our Engagement results were successful. 新月直播app flipped dissenting votes to the extent that the final FOR percentage was 94.77%

新月直播app designed a shareholder engagement program focused on key institutional investors and proxy advisors. Our program focused on the positive steps the company had taken to bring the company’s policies in line with LSE guidelines. 新月直播app was able to position the company in front of proxy advisors and institutional investors before they issued their vote recommendations thus heading off negative vote recommendations.

All matters put before shareholders passed even though not all investors supported management. As part of the strategy, 新月直播app conducted a broad solicitation to overcome the negative voting which resulted in higher voter participation than in previous years.

新月直播app mobilized a shareholder engagement strategy that was designed to maximize the 鈥渇riendly鈥� votes or South Korean based shareholders to side with management. In addition, proxy advisors and foreign based shareholders were part of the shareholder engagement process.

All of managements proposals were approved by shareholders and all the activist proposals were defeated.

The company hired 新月直播app to take over the proxy solicitation from the original proxy solicitor at the onset of the 2nd adjournment period. 新月直播app analyzed the shareholder base and found a heavy concentration of retail shareholders, including non-US based shareholders.

新月直播app designed and Retail Outreach Program that consisted of the following, but not limited to:

• Priority mailings to the largest shareholders urging them to contact us to vote their shares.
• Targeted calls to unvoted Non Objecting Beneficial (NOBO) shareholders urging them to vote over the phone with our operators.
• Email messages to shareholders providing them with instructions on how to vote by email.
• Text messages to facilitate vote by cell phone.
• 鈥淭elegram鈥� styled messages for international shareholders encouraging them to vote electronically.
• Pre-recorded messages from the CEO explaining the benefits of voting FOR management’s proposals.

新月直播app delivered a majority of the outstanding vote by the final adjournment period. By 新月直播app delivering the vote on time the company did not have to undertake a costly process of a completely new shareholder meeting.

Using our proprietary database and comprehensive knowledge of investor voting trends and policies, 新月直播app developed a very detailed analysis of the shareholder base. The data on the underlying shareholders and their voting policies served as the foundation of our vote projections.

新月直播app correctly predicted positive outcomes for our client on the four proposals below several weeks before the actual meeting date. Our projections were so accurate that three of the final voting results were within less than a 1% margin of the expected voting results.

• Say On Pay – 0.15%
• Shareholder Proposal 0.83%
• Shareholder Proposal 1.34%
• Shareholder Proposal 0.87%

新月直播app developed an outbound campaign strategy to the underlying retail investors to overcome voter apathy and secure voting support for the proposal.

Alliance Advisor鈥檚 campaign strategy consisted of outbound phone calls, reminder mailings, text messages, and e-mail distributions to unvoted shareholders. Since there was a large number of shareholders in the lower share ranges, we utilized our technology and focused on a web and text- to-vote initiative for this tier of shareholders.

新月直播app was able to maximize the voting returns in the lower share ranges in a cost-effective and efficient manner.

Shareholder approval was delivered allowing Nikola to increase the number of authorized shares from 600 million to 800 million shares.