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CEA Industries Agrees to Add Three YZi Labs-Backed Directors Amid 92% Stock Collapse
CEA Industries Inc. (BNC) and YZi Labs Management Ltd. signed a cooperation agreement on June 23, 2026, expanding the board to six directors and immediately seating three YZi Labs-backed nominees — ending YZi Labs’ active campaign against the company. The deal arrives with BNC…
Proxy Fights to Watch in 2026: Pacira, Medallion, Genco & Seer
Boardroom Alpha’s 2026 proxy-fight tracker: Pacira, Medallion, Genco and Seer head to contested votes in June and July — after CarMax, WEX and Lululemon settled with activists.
CEO Pay: The $25 Million Plus Pay Club (2026)
Boardroom Alpha’s 2026 ranking of every U.S. public-company CEO paid $25M+ in fiscal 2025 — 207 in all, led by Welltower Inc’s $821.1M package, which drew just 19% Say-on-Pay…
Why Lululemon Settled: The Signals That Pointed to a Deal, Not a Vote
Chip Wilson won’t get the clean victory he sought — or the defeat the board wanted to hand him. He gets a settlement. We read the dynamics that produced it.
2026 Proxy Season Scorecard: Six Say-on-Pay Failures, AI Lands on Mega-Cap Ballots, and the Anti-ESG Pile-Up
Through May 21, 2026, U.S. public-company shareholders rejected six annual-meeting Say-on-Pay packages outright, voted against 18 directors at 14 companies, and crushed dozens of…
From the desk this month
This Week’s Executive Moves — July 31, 2026
Leadership resets split between market darlings and governance problem children this week: 16 CEO changes, 18 CFO changes and Industrials leading with 7 CEO/CFO transitions.…
MBX, Upwork, Sterling Frame This Week’s Executive Churn — July 17, 2026
C-suite rotation split between high performers professionalizing the bench and laggards trying to stabilize finance. The week brought 11 CEO changes and 18 CFO changes, with…
FuboTV Dropping Gandler Highlights This Week’s Moves — July 10, 2026
Underperformers made the loudest succession calls. Fubo dropped David Gandler after a 77% one-year slide, Dow handed Karen Carter a chemical franchise that has lost half its value…
Fortune Brands Names Jesse G. Singh CEO and This Week’s C-Suite Recap — July 3, 2026
Fortune Brands finally gets its CEO, Copart reset the top seat after an 81% peak-to-trough collapse, and Rush Enterprises showed that not every C-suite reset comes from distress.
Weekly Recap: JPM Succession Plus PLNT, CNTA, NKE Moves — June 26, 2026
JP Morgan’s succession shift will dominate the dicussion, but we also saw consumer and healthcare names making moves as laggards swapped operators while biotech winners cleaned up…
Fiserv (FISV), Huntsman (HUN) and Innodate (INOD) Highlight This Week’s C-Suite Changes — June 19, 2026
Fiserv, Huntsman and Innodata reset leadership under very different conditions. FISV changed CEOs after a brutal drawdown, HUN carried merger-era governance baggage, and INOD…
The daily SPAC brief
SPAC Market Update September 15, 2026: DMAA Amends PAGC Deal at $2.85B, HUDA-Aiways Vote Clears
Drugs Made in America Acquisition Corp (DMAA) signed an amended and restated merger agreement with PAGC on September 15, 2026, setting a $2.85B closing valuation with APQC and a…
SPAC Market Update September 14, 2026: RIBB-DRC Vote Clears, CHPG-Futuremain Deal
Ribbon Acquisition Corp (RIBB) won approval for its DRC Medicine Ltd. merger on September 14, 2026 after 3,429,838 shares were redeemed and $36M was removed from trust.…
SPAC Market Update September 11, 2026: APUR to Merge with Atlantic HPC, ARCL-Firstborn Deal
Aperture Ac (APUR) announced a merger with Atlantic HPC Group Inc on September 11, 2026, adding a bitcoin-mining and AI-infrastructure target as September SPAC IPO issuance…
SPAC Market Update September 10, 2026: POLE $172M Extension Redemption, ALCYF Extension Approval
Andretti Acquisition Corp II (POLE) won approval to extend its deadline to September 9, 2027, on September 10, 2026, after investors redeemed 15,776,190 shares and pulled $172M…
SPAC Update Sept 9, 2026: NMP + Gibson Technical Services & Meshflow + HGP Intelligent Energy
Meshflow Acquisition Corp (MESH) announced a merger with HGP Intelligent Energy, LLC, a Dallas nuclear load-following technology developer, on September 8, 2026. Separately, Nmp…
SPAC Market Update September 8, 2026: CAPN Ends Mango Merger, Sets Sep 23 Extension Vote
Cayson Acquisition Corp (CAPN) terminated its Mango merger on September 8, 2026, with Mango set to reimburse expenses through a convertible promissory note. Separately, CAPN set a…
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