[Form 4] 180 DEGREE CAPITAL CORP. /NY/ Insider Trading Activity
A reporting person, Alicia M. Gift, disposed of her direct holdings of 45,465 shares of 180 Degree Capital Corp. (TURN) on 09/12/2025 as part of an all-stock merger with Mount Logan Capital Inc. Under the merger, each TURN share was exchanged at a ratio of 0.56666201 TURN shares for one share of the surviving company, New Mount Logan. The Form 4 clarifies no open-market sales of TURN shares occurred in connection with the merger. Following the merger, the reporting person no longer owned shares of the issuer and ceased to be an officer of 180 Degree Capital.
- Disposition occurred via merger exchange rather than an open-market sale, indicating a corporate-transaction transfer of ownership
- Filing explicitly states no sales of TURN shares occurred in connection with the merger, clarifying the nature of the transfer
- Reporting person ceased to be an officer of 180 Degree Capital upon consummation of the merger
- Reported beneficial ownership of TURN after the transaction is 0 shares, reflecting elimination of prior direct holdings in the issuer
Insights
TL;DR: Insider share disposition resulted from a statutory all-stock merger exchange, not an open-market sale.
The Form 4 documents a transfer of 45,465 TURN shares through the merger with Mount Logan Capital Inc., using a stated exchange ratio of 0.56666201 TURN per New Mount Logan share. This is a routine corporate-action-driven change in beneficial ownership rather than a liquidity-driven sale. For investors, the key point is that the position in the pre-merger issuer was converted under the merger terms and no cash disposition of TURN shares was reported.
TL;DR: Reporting person ceased officer status upon merger; transaction reflects corporate restructuring, not insider trading.
The filing notes that upon consummation of the merger the reporting person ceased to be an officer of 180 Degree Capital. That change in role is material to governance disclosures because it ends Section 16 officer reporting obligations for the issuer. The Form 4 shows the ownership of TURN following the transaction as zero, consistent with a full exchange of issuer shares into the surviving company.