SoftBank Board Finds No Merit to Investor Criticism of Company President

SoftBank Group Corp.’s board of directors completed a review of shareholder allegations about President Nikesh Arora and concluded the claims are without merit. The board’s special committee investigated the allegations raised in a number of letters with the assistance of counsel at Shearman & Sterling LLP and Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, the company said Monday in a statement. SoftBank said the letters came from a law firm “which claimed to represent the interests of certain unidentified SBG and Sprint Corp. shareholders.” The investor group had called on the board to investigate and possibly dismiss Arora in a sharply critical, 11-page letter that questioned his track record and qualifications. The critique asked whether Arora has conflicts of interest at SoftBank because of his role as a senior adviser to the private equity firm Silver Lake. A separate letter to the board of Sprint, which SoftBank controls, asked for his removal as a director there for similar reasons. “The Special Committee has concluded that the claims concerning the conduct of Mr. Arora during his tenure at SBG are without merit,” the company said in the statement.

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