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Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited Disclaimers
Modern Slavery Act 2015 Statement
Statement pursuant to section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, for presentation at meeting of the board of directors of Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited, 19 November 2020.
This statement is made pursuant to section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. EAUK does not tolerate any slavery or human trafficking practices within its business or within its supply chains.
Whilst it is acknowledged that risk factors are present in all global supply chains and across all sectors, EAUK considers that there is a relatively low risk of slavery, human trafficking and forced labour occurring within its business as a regulated, sub-investment advisor or within its supply chain.
EAUK has detailed below the following areas where it sees potential risks that continue to be assessed and managed:
Direct Risk: EAUK complies with all applicable employment and human rights laws. EAUK’s employees are highly skilled professionals and EAUK has implemented robust procedures to ensure that the risk of employing a trafficked or exploited person within the business either directly, or through a subcontractor, recruitment agency or as a consultant is low.
Indirect Risk: EAUK’s supply chain primarily consists of regulated financial services providers, professional advisors (lawyers, accountants etc) and IT infrastructure and office services. EAUK regards each of these supplier categories to be at low risk of contravening the Act.
Additionally, when providing advice in respect of the acquisition of a controlling interest in a company, EAUK will continue to seek to ensure that its risk assessment and due diligence process will include inquiries regarding the steps that any target company takes to combat modern slavery.
Actions: EAUK will continue to seek to require that new and, on renewal of a relevant contract, existing suppliers provide confirmation of their compliance with the Modern Slavery Act.
EAUK will continue to work to refine its risk assessment and due diligence process as they relate to advising entities on the acquisition of controlling interests in companies to include inquiries relating to how those companies go about combating modern slavery.
This Statement was approved by EAUK’s Board of Directors on 19 November 2020.
Commitment to the UK Stewardship Code
Under Rule 2.2.3R of the FCA's Conduct of Business Sourcebook, Elliott Advisors (UK) Ltd. and Elliott Advisors (London) LLC (the “Firm") are required to include on this website a disclosure about the nature of their commitment to the UK Financial Reporting Council's Stewardship Code (the “Code") or, where they do not commit to the Code, their alternative investment strategy. The Code is a voluntary code and sets out a number of principles relating to engagement by investors with UK equity issuers. Investors that commit to the Code can either comply with it in full or choose not to comply with certain aspects of the Code, in which case they are required to explain their non-compliance.
The Firm pursues a multi-strategy investment approach, including strategies that involve investing in global equities, including UK equities. The Code is therefore only relevant to some aspects of the Firm's trading. While the Firm generally supports the objectives that underlie the Code, the Firm has chosen not to commit to the Code. The Firm invests in a variety of asset classes and in a variety of jurisdictions. The approach/policies of the Firm in relation to engagement with issuers and their management are therefore determined globally, on a group wide basis. The Firm takes a consistent global approach to engagement with issuers and their management in all of the jurisdictions in which it invests and, consequently, does not consider it appropriate to commit to any particular voluntary code of practice relating to any individual jurisdiction.
Information for Disclosing Market Participants
On occasion Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited (“EAUK") / EALL, LLP (“EALL") will be the recipient of a market sounding. A market sounding is an interaction between an issuer or a seller of financial instruments (or in certain circumstances, someone acting on their behalf) (together, the “Disclosing Market Participant" or “DMP") and one or more potential investors (the “Market Sounding Recipient" or “MSR"), prior to the announcement of a transaction in order to gauge the interest of MSRs in the possible transaction. The disclosure of inside information by a bidder prior to a takeover is also a market sounding.
In accordance with the rules and guidance prescribed by the UK and EU Market Abuse Regulations, EAUK and EALL (as potential MSRs) have designated a number of Compliance persons as contact points to receive market soundings. These parties can be reached on 020 3009 1818.
ANY COMMUNICATION BY A DMP WHICH CONCERNS A MARKET SOUNDING MUST BE ADDRESSED TO THE PERSONS ABOVE ONLY, EXCLUDING ANY OTHER ELLIOTT PERSONNEL
Shareholder Rights Directive II – Shareholder Engagement Policy
Each of Elliott Advisors (UK) Ltd. and Elliott Advisors (London) LLC (together, the “Firm”) provides services with respect to a multi-strategy investment programme, which includes investments in shares of issuers admitted to trading or traded on a regulated market. The Firm actively monitors the financial performance of its investee companies by reviewing financial and other information provided by such companies, available from public sources and produced by third parties, regarding the companies’ operational and business structures and strategies; their short, medium and long term growth strategies and forecasts, the key areas of business risk and other heads of risk the company is susceptible to and what measures the company has in place to address and mitigate such risks, the outlook of the companies and the relevant industry, sector and/or geography.
The Firm assesses non-financial performance factors where it considers that those factors have or may have an impact on or inform the current and future financial performance of an investee company.
The Firm assesses the capital structure of investee companies before investment. Further, the Firm will evaluate proposed changes to an investee company’s capital structure in light of the investment objective with respect to that specific investment. The Firm reviews information available to the shareholders regarding the management of its investee companies, including proposals for shareholder approval, decisions made by the board of directors, executive compensation, board composition and other senior level recruitment. The Firm has an active interest in ensuring its investee companies exhibit high standards of corporate governance, and will engage with the board of directors of investee companies to express concern where it considers it appropriate to do so.
The Firm does not have in place specific processes or mechanics to assess the social and environmental impact of its investee companies’ business and operations. However, such factors will often form a part of the Firm’s overall analysis and assessment of a potential or actual investee company.
Shareholder activism is a key investment strategy of the Firm, employed with respect to companies whose performance or share value could, in the Firm’s opinion, be improved by making decisions, adopting practices or implementing certain changes identified by the Firm. The Firm seeks situations where value can be created by a direct and activist approach to companies that may sometimes involve or result in control positions in companies. On the basis of its pre-investment and continuing analysis, the Firm will decide whether its future activities as a shareholder could improve the investee company with respect to any of the assessment metrics over the expected lifetime of the Firm’s investment.
When the Firm engages in an activist strategy, it seeks to enter into an active and constructive dialogue with the board of directors and key executives of the relevant investee company, as well as with other shareholders to share information and facilitate positive change. The Firm actively seeks and is receptive to shareholder cooperation to advocate for and bring about the changes it believes to be necessary and appropriate in light of its investment objectives. The Firm is clear in its communications regarding an investee company as to its, its client’s, its affiliates’ or their clients’ interests in the relevant company.
Where the Firm does not engage in an activist strategy, the Firm does not generally liaise with other shareholders or stakeholders of the relevant investee companies. Nevertheless, the Firm supports the principle of collaborative engagement. Therefore, even where the Firm does not engage in an activist strategy, the Firm may liaise with other shareholders and/or stakeholders of the relevant investee companies whether at the request of those shareholders and/or stakeholders or otherwise where the Firm determines that it is appropriate to do so in the circumstance, which shall be assessed on a case by case basis.
The Firm will consider any actual or potential conflicts of interest which may arise as a result of its shareholder engagement activities, and the Firm will manage any such conflicts of interest appropriately. Communications made by the Firm in the course of its activist strategies may include public communications, which are accessible to all, including any stakeholders in the investee company, and the Firm’s views and objectives expressed in such public communications are clearly articulated and transparent.
The Firm will consider any actual or potential conflicts of interest which may arise as a result of its shareholder engagement activities, and the Firm will manage any such conflicts of interest appropriately. Communications made by the Firm in the course of its activist strategies may include public communications, which are accessible to all, including any stakeholders in the investee company, and the Firm’s views and objectives expressed in such public communications are clearly articulated and transparent.
The Firm will exercise its voting rights and other rights attached to the shares in its investee companies in accordance with its investment objectives, and may seek to influence the shareholder agenda and the outcome of resolutions put to the shareholders, and will generally actively exercise the voting rights attached to the shares, in connection with its activist strategies. However, public disclosure of the Firm’s exercise of votes in the general meetings of companies in which its clients hold shares is not in the interests of its clients as doing so may: (i) cause the relevant company or its management to have a false perception that any precedent or pattern in voting may give an indication as to the Firm’s future voting intentions; (ii) cause the Firm to be in breach of confidentiality undertakings provided to the relevant company; and, as a result of the foregoing, (iii) restrain the Firm’s ability to have constructive, private and confidential discussions with the management of relevant companies. The Firm will therefore not comply with the disclosure requirements set out in COBS 2.2B.5R(1)(b).