Significant Shareholder Think Investments Issues Presentation Detailing Opposition to TaskUs Take-Private Transaction
Believes Proposed Acquisition Undervalues TaskUs and That Fair Value is
Highlights Flawed Sale Process, With a Fairness Opinion That Appears Designed to Justify an Artificially Low Purchase Price
Underscores Significant Upside for TaskUs Shareholders, Including Potential Value Creation Opportunities from Embracing AI
Think’s full presentation is available at: .
In the presentation, Think outlines the following:
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The Transaction price substantially undervalues TaskUs. Think’s analysis of relevant comparable transactions and the Company’s recent operating outperformance indicates that a fair valuation for TaskUs is
per share, more than$25.00 50% above the proposed buyout price. In just the few months following the Transaction’s announcement, TaskUs has significantly outperformed the financial expectations factoring into the figure � according to Think, this alone warrants a re-rating.$16.50
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The Transaction is the result of a skewed process that lacked rigor and relied on cherry-picked precedent transactions and public comparables. Think believes that the TaskUs Board of Directors� Special Committee failed to undertake a comprehensive process to determine a fair price for the Company. Additionally, the fairness opinion appears to deliberately and exclusively include precedent transactions and public comparables with low valuation multiples.
- The most relevant precedent transaction, which was omitted from the Company’s valuation materials, is the acquisition of WNS by Capgemini � this pending transaction implies fair value for TaskUs would be ~12x LTM EBITDA, in contrast to the fairness opinion’s 6.8x median precedent transaction multiple.
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TaskUs has significant value creation potential � and the Transaction would prevent minority shareholders from realizing this upside. In particular, TaskUs is well positioned to embrace AI. AI Services constitutes the fastest scaling portion of the business, with
65.5% YoY growth in H1�25. Coupled with strong momentum coming out of the first half of the year, Think believes the Transaction’s contemplated price fails to compensate minority shareholders for the Company’s intrinsic value.
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1 As of July 11, Think reported ownership of 3.7 million Class A shares of TaskUs, which at the time represented
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