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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
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…
Weekly C-Suite Recap: KALV, MU, MRVL Rewire Boardrooms — June 12, 2026
Volatility, not raw move count, set the tone: 13 CEO changes and 20 CFO changes landed as Healthcare led C-suite turnover with seven CEO/CFO transitions. KalVista reset its…
The daily SPAC brief
SPAC Market Update July 17, 2026: PLMK Extension Clears After $145M Redemptions, AMAC Prices IPO
Plum Acquisition Corp IV (PLMK) won approval to extend its deadline to July 16, 2027 on July 17, 2026 after $145M in redemptions. Separately, AMR Resources Acquisition Corp.…
SPAC Market Update July 16, 2026: PCSC-Freenome Deal Approved, RIBB and PPHP Extend Deadlines
Perceptive Capital Solutions Corp (PCSC) won shareholder approval for its merger with Freenome Holdings, Inc. on July 16, 2026. Separately, Ribbon Acquisition Corp (RIBB) extended…
SPAC Market Update July 15, 2026: Churchill Capital IX to Liquidate, PCSC-Freenome Vote
Churchill Capital IX to Liquidate. Archimedes Tech SPAC Partners II Co (ATII) adds $23M to PIPE financing. Separately, Perceptive Capital Solutions Corp (PCSC) holds its merger…
SPAC Market Update July 14, 2026: TAVI Extension Vote Clears After $230M Redemptions, JONE $200M IPO
Tavia Acquisition Corp (TAVI) won shareholder approval for an extension on July 14, 2026 after $230M in redemptions, moving its deadline to January 15, 2027. Separately, Jones…
SPAC Market Update July 13, 2026: PLMK Cuts Merger Value, RACD Prices $75M IPO
Plum Acquisition Corp IV (PLMK) amended its merger agreement on July 13, 2026, lowering earnouts and merger value and extending key deadlines. Separately, Research Alliance Corp…
SPAC Market Update July 10, 2026: RF Acquisition III + HCC Healthcare
Churchill Capital Corp XI (CCXI) released a media transcript on July 10, 2026 in which Peggy Johnson discussed its Agility merger, citing a roughly $2.5B valuation and strong…
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