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Confidential investigation: officers & directors’ potential breach of fiduciary duties to investors.
Investigation
02/24/2022
Initial Lawsuit
04/04/2022
Lawsuit Progression
06/03/2022
Investors investigation into Everbridge, Inc.’s acquisition integration problems and revenue growth projections, following the company’s decision to “pause material new M&A.“
02/24/2022
Everbridge discloses Q4 and full year 2021 financial results along with its guidance for 2022. The company forecasts 15 to 17% revenue growth for the full year 2022, below its historic revenue growth projections.
During a conference call to further explain the results, Irvin explained that “the number of acquisitions completed in 2020 and 2021,” along with their products and businesses “have created incremental product line complexity that produce integration challenges and have complicated our go-to-market efforts.” Irvin added that after conducting a review and identifying core issues, the company is “taking immediate actions to pause material M&A, streamline, integrate, and reduce complexity.”
Stock Impact
Close | Previous close | Price variation | Percentage variation |
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$46.29 | $42.41 | $3.88 | 9.15% |
This is a securities class action on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased or otherwise acquired Everbridge common stock between November 4, 2019 and February 24, 2022, inclusive.
According to the complaint, defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements, as well as failed to disclose material adverse facts about the company’s business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, defendants allegedly failed to disclose to investors that:
(i) Defendants failed to disclose that Everbridge struggled to integrate the new businesses it acquired as, upon information and belief, the products of the acquired companies required multiple, different systems to operate, running on different internal databases, with dedicated sales staff who operated with different procedures and different sales software, some located in different time zones;
(ii) The inability to integrate the sales staff of the acquired companies led to most of them leaving the company, taking with them crucial knowledge relating to the acquired products and prior successful efforts to sell them;
(iii) With each new company that was acquired, these problems multiplied, and Everbridge’s focus was taken off particular difficult integration issues pertinent to prior acquisitions; and
(iv) These problems, and the increasing complexity of Everbridge’s product line, created increasing difficulty in the company’s ability to pitch a single, coherent system and sell its products to new and existing customers.
The lead plaintiff deadline has passed, we will update this page as the lawsuit progresses.
Last event retrieved on 10/05/2022.
Confidential investigation: officers & directors’ potential breach of fiduciary duties to investors.