Urgent.ly (NASDAQ: ULY) CEO cashes out shares in $5.50-per-share takeover
Rhea-AI Filing Summary
Urgent.ly Inc. chief executive officer Matthew Booth reported disposing of his remaining common stock in connection with the company’s merger with Agero, Inc. and its subsidiary Medford Hawk, Inc. The filing shows 6,759 shares of common stock disposed of pursuant to a tender offer on April 25, 2026, followed by 68,124 shares returned to the issuer on April 28, 2026, leaving him with 0 shares owned directly after the transactions.
Footnotes explain that these shares were represented by restricted stock units, each tied to one share of common stock. Under the Merger Agreement, each share of Urgent.ly common stock was exchanged for $5.50 in cash, and all RSUs fully vested at the merger’s effective time and were cancelled in return for an equivalent cash payment based on that Offer Price.
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CEO’s equity is cashed out in a change-of-control merger, not an open-market sale.
Matthew Booth, Urgent.ly’s CEO, disposed of a total of 74,883 common shares (including RSU-based shares) in connection with a completed merger and tender offer, at an all-cash price of $5.50 per share set by the Merger Agreement.
These are issuer and tender-offer dispositions, not discretionary market sales, so they primarily reflect the transaction’s terms rather than a change in the CEO’s view of the stock. After the merger’s effective time on April 28, 2026, Booth held no Urgent.ly shares or RSUs according to this filing.
The footnotes also clarify that RSUs accelerated vesting and were cancelled for cash at the Offer Price, a common treatment in cash mergers that converts equity incentives into a fixed payout and aligns management with the deal’s closing rather than ongoing share performance.
Insider Trade Summary
| Type | Security | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disposition | Common Stock | 68,124 | $0.00 | -- |
| U | Common Stock | 6,759 | $0.00 | -- |
Footnotes (1)
- Excludes 546 shares of Issuer common stock that were inadvertently included in prior reports due to an administrative error. This Form 4 reports securities disposed of pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger entered into by and among the Issuer, Agero, Inc. ("Parent") and Medford Hawk, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent ("Purchaser"), dated as of March 13, 2026 (the "Merger Agreement"), pursuant to which the Purchaser completed a tender offer for the shares of Issuer common stock and thereafter merged with and into the Issuer effective as of April 28, 2026 (the "Effective Time"). Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, each share of Issuer common stock was tendered in exchange for $5.50 in cash, without interest and subject to any applicable withholding taxes (the "Offer Price"). The shares are represented by restricted stock units ("RSUs"). Each RSU represents a contingent right to receive one share of Issuer common stock. Pursuant to the Merger Agreement and at the Effective Time, each RSU accelerated vesting in full and was cancelled in exchange for the right to receive an amount in cash, without interest and subject to withholding for all required taxes, equal to the product obtained by multiplying (i) the Offer Price by (ii) the total number of shares of Issuer common stock subject to the RSUs.