BlackRock’s Fight With Bolt Financial Escalates Ahead of Hearing

Sept. 18, 2024, 3:58 PM UTC

Bolt Financial Inc. is trying to buy support for a financing round that would return founder Ryan Breslow as CEO and shield him from liability for earlier misconduct, according to BlackRock Inc. and Hedosophia Services Ltd.

The asset managers, which previously won a temporary restraining order halting the transaction, asked a Delaware judge late Tuesday to reject Bolt’s side deal with a preferred investor, Activant Capital Group LLC. Bolt’s agreement to scuttle a separate legal settlement with Activant, buy back its shares before they’re affected by the financing, and pay it another $5 million “smacks of improper vote buying,” ...

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