Nano Dimension Ltd. (Nasdaq: NNDM) (“Nano” or the “Company”), a
leading supplier of
Additively
Manufactured
Electronics (“AME”)
and multi-dimensional polymer, metal & ceramic
Additive
Manufacturing (“AM”) 3D
printing solutions, today sent a letter to its shareholders in
connection with the Company’s upcoming 2024 Annual General Meeting
of Shareholders (“the Annual Meeting”). The letter reiterates the
disciplined and focused steps the Company is taking to drive value
for all shareholders.
Nano’s Board of Directors urges shareholders to
protect their investment and the Company's future by voting today
“FOR” ALL of Nano’s proposals. Votes must be received by 11:59 p.m.
ET on Sunday, December 1st, 2024. Shareholders of record as of
the close of business on October 22nd, 2024, are entitled to
vote at the Meeting. The Annual Meeting will be held on Friday,
December 6th, 2024, at 7:00 a.m. ET.
The Company’s definitive proxy statement and
other important information and resources related to the Annual
Meeting can be found at www.ProtectingNanoValue.com or the investor
relations page of the Company’s website.
The full text of the letter can be found
below.
Your Investment is at Risk.
Vote FOR All of Nano’s Proposals!
Dear Fellow Shareholder,
You have an important decision to make at the upcoming Annual
General Meeting of Shareholders (“AGM”) of Nano Dimension Ltd.
(“Nano” or the “Company”) on December 6, 2024.
While your Board of Directors (“Board”) and management team have
been delivering on the promises we made to you to
grow our company and the value of your investment, Murchinson Ltd.
(“Murchinson”) has been continuing its years-long attempt to
derail our progress, gain control of Nano’s cash, and
profit at the expense of other shareholders.
Make no mistake: Murchinson does not intend to grow this
company. After nearly two years of attacking Nano, it has never
taken the time to put together even the most basic of strategic
plans to do so.
Your investment is at stake and the answer is
clear:
- Vote FOR ALL of
Nano’s proposals, allowing our Board to continue executing on our
strategic plan to build significant long-term value for all Nano
Shareholders;
– AND –
- Vote AGAINST
Murchinson’s efforts to derail our progress. All of their proposals
will destroy value.
Under the oversight of Nano’s Board and senior management, the
Company has made significant progress in the past 12 months. Nano
is executing on its plan to become the market leader in digital
manufacturing and has delivered on key milestones on its path to
profitability and value creation. Highlights include:
- Transformational
M&A. Agreements to acquire Desktop Metal, Inc.
(“Desktop Metal”) and Markforged Holding Corporation (“Markforged”)
are a realization of Nano’s ambitious and prudent M&A strategy
to create the market leader in additive manufacturing (“AM”). The
addition of both companies at compelling valuations is expected to
accelerate Nano’s path to becoming a leading force in Industry 4.0
and digital manufacturing and provide Nano with a clear path to
profitability. With these acquisitions, Nano is poised to build the
most comprehensive portfolio of solutions believed to be the next
growth engine of the industry, particularly in the fastest
developing segment of the market in Metal-AM.
- Improvements in financial
and operational performance. Nano’s focus on operational
excellence has delivered strong organic growth and meaningful
efficiencies. Significant customer wins and new product development
has led to 29% organic revenue growth in 2023 compared to the year
prior. In addition, Nano reported a 69% reduction in cash burn in
the first half of 2024 from the first half of 2023 and is
laser-focused on driving towards profitability.
- Significant governance
enhancements. Nano has acted on feedback from shareholders
and governance experts over the past year, enacting important
enhancements to its corporate governance. These changes include
reducing the size of the Board, separating the Company’s Chairman
and CEO roles and continuing Board refreshment initiatives, which
added three new directors in the past year alone. This builds on
Nano’s commitment to ongoing Board refreshment, which has resulted
in seven of the Board’s eight directors added in the past five
years.
- Returning capital to
shareholders. Nano is executing a balanced capital
allocation approach that enables shareholder returns, investment in
R&D, and further growth through M&A. The Company has
completed over $160 million in share repurchases since its first
repurchase program was approved in August 2022.
In Contrast, Murchinson is Attempting to
Deceive Shareholders to Advance its own Agenda
Murchinson is a bad actor that follows a simple playbook:
- Find promising companies such as Nano;
- Furtively acquire a large position; and then
- Seek to dismantle the company and distribute its cash
for Murchinson’s own benefit.
That is their goal with Nano.
Despite shareholders’ clear rebuke last year, Murchinson is once
again attempting to take control of Nano through a series
of proposals that would paralyze Nano’s strategy, while
facilitating Murchinson’s path to gain control of the Board and
prevent us from maximizing long-term value for all
shareholders.
Despite multiple years of pursuing its self-interested agenda,
the fund STILL brings NO insight
into the business, NO plan for value creation and
NO executable ideas.
Don’t be fooled by their appeals to you. Murchinson does not
have shareholders’ best interests in mind. The fund is
attempting to advance only its own agenda.
Murchinson Claim |
The Reality |
Murchinson wants to create long-term shareholder value |
Murchinson is a BAD ACTOR who continues to pursue control
of the Company and is solely motivated by the
pursuit of near-term profit at the expense of other
shareholders
- Current campaign is a continuation
of past bad behavior with the ultimate goal of liquidating
Nano
- Murchinson agenda items are a
blatant attempt to freeze Nano in place as Murchinson seeks to gain
control
- Murchinson continues to pursue
litigation against Nano on its past attempts to gain Board
representation – these actions belie the fund’s claims that it’s
not trying to gain control and dismantle the company
|
Murchinson’s nominees are independent with the right skills and
experiences to implement solutions to create value |
Murchinson’s nominees have dubious track records
and NO additive skills, NO
strategic plan and NO independence from Murchinson
- Murchinson nominee Ofir Baharav is
Nano’s former Chairman – his oversight of Nano’s strategy led the
Company to one of its most dire periods
- Robert Pons has NO
relevant form of industry, managerial or technical experience and a
track record of poor performance at companies where he has served
on the board – his 1-year tenure as Chairman of SeaChange saw the
stock decrease by 53%
- Mr. Pons has demonstrated
questionable ethics as a board member having overseen related party
transactions that have benefited his activist sponsor at the
expense of other shareholders – including a 1-for-3000 reverse
stock split at CCUR Holdings that squeezed out smaller
shareholders
|
De-staggering Nano’s Board would be good for governance |
De-staggering the Board is simply a measure to facilitate
Murchinson gaining control of Nano
- Blatant attempt to make it easier to
dismantle and liquidate the Company
- Classified Board ensures stability
and continuity and reduces the risk of attempts to undervalue the
Company in a takeover
|
Nano’s acquisitions of Desktop Metal and Markforged are overpriced
and misguided |
Both acquisitions represent compelling valuations
and will accelerate Nano’s path to becoming a leader in
digital manufacturing
- Synergistic acquisitions of Desktop
Metal and Markforged at discounted multiples relative to precedent
transactions
- Desktop Metal and Markforged
purchase prices at 0.9x and 1.3x LTM revenue, respectively
- Strengthens value proposition and
provides Nano with clear path to profitability
- The addition of both companies
expected to enhance Nano’s financial strength and support further
investment in strategic initiatives with the combined companies
expected to have approximately $340 million in revenue based on
fiscal year 2023 and approximately $475 million in cash, cash
equivalents, and marketable securities at the time of expected
closing of both transactions
|
Nano’s Board lacks independence and needs refreshment |
Nano has an independent, highly qualified Board that has
overseen the Company’s transformation into a broad, digital
manufacturing leader with expanded capabilities
- Board includes 8 highly qualified
Directors, 7 of whom are independent, with diverse skills that help
support Nano’s growth strategy
- Directors being targeted by
Murchinson, CEO Yoav Stern and General (Ret.) Michael X Garrett are
critical to the Board’s oversight
- Nano has been committed to ongoing
Board refreshment – 7 of the 8 directors were added in the past 5
years
|
PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT – VOTE
FOR NANO’S PROPOSALS AND AGAINST
MURCHINSON’S SELF-INTERESTED AGENDA ITEMS.
Your vote is important. For most shareholders, the expected
deadline to vote electronically will be 11:59 pm ET on
December 1, 2024. Please vote as early as possible and
follow the instructions on your voting instruction form as your
broker may impose earlier voting cut-offs. Throw away any proxy
materials you may receive from Murchinson.
If you have questions about how to vote your
shares, please contact:
About Nano Dimension Ltd.
Nano’s (Nasdaq: NNDM) vision is to transform existing
electronics and mechanical manufacturing into Industry 4.0
environmentally friendly & economically efficient precision
additive electronics and manufacturing – by delivering solutions
that convert digital designs to electronic or mechanical devices –
on demand, anytime, anywhere.
Nano’s strategy is driven by the application of deep
learning-based AI to drive improvements in manufacturing
capabilities by using self-learning & self-improving systems,
along with the management of a distributed manufacturing network
via the cloud.
Nano has served over 2,000 customers across vertical target
markets such as aerospace and defense, advanced automotive,
high-tech industrial, specialty medical technology, R&D, and
academia. The Company designs and makes Additive Electronics and AM
3D printing machines and consumable materials. Additive Electronics
are manufacturing machines that enable the design and development
of High-Performance-Electronic-Devices (Hi-PED®s). AM includes
manufacturing solutions for production of metal, ceramic, and
specialty polymers-based applications - from millimeters to several
centimeters in size with micron precision.
Through the integration of its portfolio of products, Nano is
offering the advantages of rapid prototyping, high-mix-low-volume
production, IP security, minimal environmental footprint, and
design-for-manufacturing capabilities, which is all unleashed with
the limitless possibilities of AM.
For more information, please visit www.nano-di.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This document contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995.
Such forward-looking statements include statements regarding
benefits and advantages of the proposed transactions with
Markforged and Desktop Metal, and the combined company, Nano’s
leadership in AM, the combined company’s revenues and cash, other
aspects of the expected transactions with Markforged and Desktop
Metal, including the timing of closing of the acquisitions thereof,
the potential benefits of a staggered board, Nano’s strategy,
potential share buy backs, Nano’s path to profitability, future
growth and value to shareholders, and all other statements other
than statements of historical fact that address activities, events
or developments that Nano intends, expects, projects, believes or
anticipates will or may occur in the future. Such statements are
based on management’s beliefs and assumptions made based on
information currently available to management. When used in this
communication, the words “outlook,” “guidance,” “expects,”
“believes,” “anticipates,” “should,” “estimates,” “may,” “will,”
“intends,” “projects,” “could,” “would,” “estimate,” “potential,”
“continue,” “plan,” “target,” or the negative of these words or
similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking
statements, though not all forward-looking statements contain these
identifying words. These forward-looking statements involve known
and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause the Company’s
actual results and performance to be materially different from
those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements.
Accordingly, we caution you that any such forward-looking
statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject
to risks, assumptions, estimates and uncertainties that are
difficult to predict. Because such statements deal with future
events and are based on the current expectations of Nano, Desktop
Metal and Markforged, they are subject to various risks and
uncertainties. The acquisitions of Markforged and Desktop Metal are
subject to closing conditions, some of which are beyond the control
of Nano, Desktop Metal or Markforged. Further, actual results,
performance, or achievements of Nano, Desktop Metal or Markforged
could differ materially from those described in or implied by the
statements in this communication. The forward-looking statements
contained or implied in this communication are subject to other
risks and uncertainties, including those discussed (i) under the
heading “Risk Factors” in Nano’s annual report on Form 20-F filed
with the SEC on March 21, 2024, and in any subsequent filings with
the SEC, (ii) under the heading “Risk Factors” in Desktop Metal’s
annual report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 15, 2024,
and in any subsequent filings with the SEC, and (iii) under the
heading “Risk Factors” in Markforged’s annual report on Form 10-K
filed with the SEC on March 15, 2024, and in any subsequent filings
with the SEC. The combined company financial information included
in this communication has not been audited or reviewed by Nano’s
auditors and such information is provided for illustrative purposes
only. You should note that such combined company information has
not been prepared in accordance with and does not purport to comply
with Article 11 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended. Except as otherwise required by law, Nano undertakes no
obligation to publicly release any revisions to these
forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after
the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated
events. References and links to websites have been provided as a
convenience, and the information contained on such websites is not
incorporated by reference into this communication. Nano is not
responsible for the contents of third-party websites.
No Offer or Solicitation
This communication is not intended to and shall not constitute
an offer to buy or sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy or
sell any securities, or a solicitation of any vote or approval, nor
shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which
such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to
registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such
jurisdiction. No offering of securities shall be made, except by
means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Additional Information about the Transaction and Where to Find
It
In connection with the proposed transaction, Markforged intends
to file a proxy statement with the SEC. Markforged may also file
other relevant documents with the SEC regarding the proposed
transaction. This document is not a substitute for the proxy
statement or any other document that Markforged may file with the
SEC. The definitive proxy statement (if and when available) will be
mailed to shareholders of Markforged. INVESTORS AND SECURITY
HOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT AND ANY OTHER
RELEVANT DOCUMENTS THAT MAY BE FILED WITH THE SEC, AS WELL AS ANY
AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS TO THESE DOCUMENTS, CAREFULLY AND IN
THEIR ENTIRETY IF AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY
CONTAIN OR WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED
TRANSACTION. Investors and security holders will be able to obtain
free copies of the proxy statement (if and when available) and
other documents containing important information about Markforged
and the proposed transaction, once such documents are filed with
the SEC through the website maintained by the SEC
at http://www.sec.gov. Copies of the documents filed with the
SEC by the Company will be available free of charge on Markforged’s
website at https://investors.markforged.com/sec-filings.
Participants in the Solicitation
Nano, Markforged and certain of their respective directors and
executive officers may be deemed to be participants in the
solicitation of proxies from Markforged shareholders in respect of
the proposed transaction. Information about the directors and
executive officers of Nano, including a description of their direct
or indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, is set
forth in Nano’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year
ended December 31, 2023, which was filed with the SEC on March 21,
2024. Information about the directors and executive officers of
Markforged, including a description of their direct or indirect
interests, by security holdings or otherwise, is set forth in
Markforged’s proxy statement for its 2024 Annual Meeting of
Stockholders, which was filed with the SEC on April 26, 2024 and
Markforged’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
December 31, 2023, which was filed with the SEC on March 15, 2024.
Other information regarding the participants in the proxy
solicitation and a description of their direct and indirect
interests, by security holdings or otherwise, will be contained in
the proxy statement and other relevant materials to be filed with
the SEC regarding the proposed transaction when such materials
become available. Investors should read the proxy statement
carefully when it becomes available before making any voting or
investment decisions. You may obtain free copies of these documents
from Nano or Markforged using the sources indicated above.
Nano Dimension Contacts
Investor:Julien Lederman, VP Corporate
Developmentir@nano-di.com
Media:Kal Goldberg / Bryan Locke / Kelsey Markovich |
NanoDimension@fgsglobal.com
To learn more, visit ProtectingNanoValue.com
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