0000902664-15-001951.txt : 20150326 0000902664-15-001951.hdr.sgml : 20150326 20150326161814 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000902664-15-001951 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: DFAN14A PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20150326 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20150326 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20150326 SUBJECT COMPANY: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: IMATION CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001014111 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: MAGNETIC & OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIA [3695] IRS NUMBER: 411838504 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: DFAN14A SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-14310 FILM NUMBER: 15727900 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1 IMATION PL CITY: OAKDALE STATE: MN ZIP: 55128 BUSINESS PHONE: 6517044000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1 IMATION PLACE CITY: OAKDALE STATE: MN ZIP: 55128 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: 3M INFORMATION PROCESSING INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19960619 FILED BY: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CLINTON GROUP INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001134119 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: DFAN14A BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 601 LEXINGTON AVE. STREET 2: 51ST FLOOR CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10022 BUSINESS PHONE: 2128250400 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 601 LEXINGTON AVE. STREET 2: 51ST FLOOR CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10022 DFAN14A 1 p15-1000dfan14a.htm CLINTON GROUP, INC.

SCHEDULE 14A

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Imation Corp.

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Clinton Group, Inc.

Clinton Relational Opportunity, LLC

Clinton Relational Opportunity Master Fund, L.P.

GEH Capital, Inc.

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CLINTON GROUP FILES PRELIMINARY PROXY FOR IMATION

NEW YORK, March 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Clinton Group, Inc. (“Clinton Group”), a stockholder of Imation Corp. ("Imation” or the "Company") (NYSE: IMN), announced today that it had filed its preliminary proxy for the upcoming annual meeting of Imation Corp. Clinton Group is seeking shareholder support to elect its nominees for the Company’s Class I slate of Directors.

“We encourage our fellow shareholders to read our preliminary proxy materials today and the perspectives in our upcoming white paper to better understand how the Company’s leadership has let them down over the past several years and ascertain our views on strategy, tactics, governance and compensation,” said Joseph A. De Perio, Senior Portfolio Manager at Clinton Group. “We are hopeful that with a mandate from shareholders for significant change, our nominees are able to reverse the years of shareholder value destruction without being disruptive to the near-term execution of the business.”

On the topic of the Company’s ongoing strategic alternatives process, Mr. De Perio remarked, “We would support a change of control transaction at Imation at a premium stock price acceptable to all shareholders recognizing the years of fatigue and losses. However, we are curious if now is the right time to maximize value in a sale given the ongoing proxy contest, poor recent financial performance, the lack of profitability, the year over year declines in Nexsan revenue under Imation’s ownership, and the lack of scale of the Nexsan Assureon and IronKey Workspace product lines. A sale today also foregoes any value from the employment of Imation’s $732 million in federal and state net operating losses.”

About Clinton Group, Inc.

Clinton Group, Inc. is a diversified asset management firm that is a Registered Investment Advisor. The firm has been investing in global markets since its inception in 1991 with expertise that spans a wide range of investment styles and asset classes.

CLINTON RELATIONAL OPPORTUNITY MASTER FUND, L.P., CLINTON RELATIONAL OPPORTUNITY, LLC, CLINTON GROUP, INC., GEH CAPITAL, INC. AND GEORGE E. HALL (COLLECTIVELY, "CLINTON") AND JOSEPH A. DE PERIO, ROBERT B. FERNANDER AND BARRY L. KASOFF (TOGETHER WITH CLINTON, THE "PARTICIPANTS") INTEND TO FILE WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (THE "SEC") A DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT AND ACCOMPANYING FORM OF PROXY CARD TO BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH THE PARTICIPANTS' SOLICITATION OF PROXIES FROM THE STOCKHOLDERS OF IMATION CORP. (THE "COMPANY") FOR USE AT THE COMPANY'S 2015 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS (THE "PROXY SOLICITATION"). ALL STOCKHOLDERS OF THE COMPANY ARE ADVISED TO READ THE DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT AND OTHER DOCUMENTS RELATED TO THE PROXY SOLICITATION, WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE, BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION, INCLUDING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RELATED TO THE PARTICIPANTS. WHEN COMPLETED, THE DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT AND AN ACCOMPANYING PROXY CARD WILL BE FURNISHED TO SOME OR ALL OF THE COMPANY'S STOCKHOLDERS AND WILL BE, ALONG WITH OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS, AVAILABLE AT NO CHARGE ON THE SEC'S WEBSITE AT HTTP://WWW.SEC.GOV/.

INFORMATION ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS AND A DESCRIPTION OF THEIR DIRECT OR INDIRECT INTERESTS BY SECURITY HOLDINGS IS CONTAINED IN THE PRELIMINARY PROXY STATEMENT ON SCHEDULE 14A FILED BY CLINTON WITH THE SEC ON MARCH 26, 2015. THIS DOCUMENT CAN BE OBTAINED FREE OF CHARGE FROM THE SOURCES INDICATED ABOVE.

CONTACT: Clinton Group, Inc., +1-212-825-0400, imagineabetterimation@clinton.com