Rezolve Ai Responds to Commerce.com Shareholder Rights Plan
Rezolve Ai (RZLV) responded to the Commerce.com (CMRC) Board of Directors' adoption of a stockholder rights plan. The company said, "Rezolve Ai views this as a transparent attempt by a failing Board to entrench itself and prevent Commerce.com shareholders from acting on an offer that presents material upside. Commerce.com's claim of a 47% discount is based on a single day's closing price. It ignores Rezolve Ai's Wall Street analyst consensus target of $11.00, the company's contracted 2026 revenue of $232M, full-year guidance of $360M representing 7.5 times year-on-year growth, and the materially higher trading multiple a combined platform of this scale and trajectory would command. Valuing a transformational combination by a historic spot price is misleading and obscures the opportunity from the very shareholders Commerce.com's Board claims to be protecting. The Commerce.com Board has presided over a 96% decline in the company's stock price from its post-IPO peak. Their shareholders are now stuck in an illiquid position, with limited ability to exit at the current $2.50 share price. The Board is now seeking to prevent shareholders from considering a value-maximizing exchange offer by threatening to impose massive dilution on any potential acquiror. Through the adoption of the Poison Pill, the Commerce.com Board is effectively forcing shareholders to remain under the stewardship of the directors responsible for the tremendous erosion in shareholder value. With the election of directors scheduled to occur on May 14, 2026 at Commerce.com's 2026 annual meeting, Rezolve Ai believes shareholders will soon have an opportunity to express their views on the Board's failure of leadership and vision and the need for transformational change...Commerce.com's more than 60,000 merchants are equally affected. They are operating on a platform falling further behind every quarter with no credible path to AI-native infrastructure under current management. They too deserve a clear path to commercially viable enterprise AI. Together, Rezolve Ai and Commerce.com would form an integrated, full-stack smart commerce platform, combining Rezolve's AI-native infrastructure with Commerce.com's network of thousands of mid-market and enterprise merchants to create a single, end-to-end engine for the agentic commerce era...Rezolve Ai is assessing whether the Rights Plan complies with applicable law and whether the Board's adoption of the Rights Plan is consistent with its fiduciary duties to shareholders. A Rights Plan implemented within one week of shareholders being apprised of a forthcoming proposal implying more than double the current market price, by a board that has overseen near-total destruction of shareholder value, raises serious questions. Rezolve Ai will provide a further update in due course once it has had an opportunity to review Commerce.com's Form 8-K filing with the details of the Rights Plan."