Endeavor Group Holdings Inc. Class A Common Stock (NYSE: EDR)
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This Action arises in connection with take-private merger (the “Merger”) in which the unaffiliated public shareholders of Endeavor Class A common stock were told by Defendants that the Merger and the $27.50 per share in merger consideration (the “Merger Consideration”) was “fair to and in the best interests” of public shareholders. The case concerns a unified scheme that was orchestrated by Silver Lake and Endeavor insiders to depress minority bargaining power and the value realizable by the unaffiliated public shareholders, while insiders captured future upside through rollovers and separate benefits. Defendants orchestrated this scheme by, among other things: (i) rejecting a “majority of the minority” vote on the Merger and closing by controller written consent; (ii) locking-in a $27.50 cashout Merger Consideration without any collar or contingent value right and offering only a de minimis dividend to shareholders that they shared with themselves; and (iii) disseminating a misleading Information Statement on January 15, 2025 that spoke in present tense about “fairness” and “best interests” to unaffiliated shareholders while relying on Centerview Partners, LLC’s (“Centerview”) fairness opinion (“Fairness Opinion”) with analysis frozen “as of” March 2024 and omitting material contemporaneous information needed to render those assertions not misleading.