Business Description

Corporation Law (the “DGCL”)) will convert into the right to receive an amount in cash equal to $24.55 per share, without interest, upon completion of the proposed transaction (the “Merger Consideration”). In connection with the Merger, the Company will exercise its right to require each holder of LLC Interests in CWAN Holdings to exchange all of such holder’s LLC Interests and our Class B common stock for shares of our Class A common stock immediately prior to, and conditioned on the occurrence of, the effective time of the Merger (the “Effective Time”) and in accordance with the LLC Agreement and our certificate of incorporation (the “LLC Interests Exchange”). Each share of our Class B common stock will automatically be canceled immediately upon the consummation of the LLC Interests Exchange, such that no shares of our Class B common stock will remain outstanding as of immediately prior to the Effective Time. Each share of our Class A common stock issued in the LLC Interests Exchange will be entitled to receive the Merger Consideration. The Merger is expected to close in the second quarter of 2026 and is subject to certain closing conditions, including the approval of the Company’s stockholders, expiration or termination of the applicable waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the “HSR Act”), the receipt of certain other specified regulatory approvals or consents, the absence of legal restraints prohibiting consummation of the Merger, and other customary conditions specified in the Merger Agreement. Early termination of the waiting period under the HSR Act in connection with the Merger was granted effective February 13, 2026. For more information on the Merger, see Note 19 “Subsequent Events” to the consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Overview CWAN brings transparency to the opaque world of investment management with what we believe is the industry’s most comprehensive single instance, multi-tenant technology platform. Our cloud-native AI-powered software allows clients to radically simplify their investment management operations, enabling them to focus on higher-value business functions such as asset allocation strategy and investment selection. Our front-to-back platform provides a single source of truth for global investment assets, made available daily or on-demand, instead of weekly or monthly. We give our clients confidence that they are making the most informed decisions about investment performance, regulatory compliance and risk. Our offerings integrate portfolio management, OEMS, investment accounting, reconciliation, regulatory reporting, performance, compliance, and risk analytics. Serving leading insurers, asset managers, hedge funds, banks, corporations and government entities, CWAN’s powerful platform aggregates and normalizes data on over $10 trillion of global invested assets for over 2,500 clients as of December 31, 2025. We bring modern software to an industry that has long been dominated by difficult-to-use, high cost legacy technologies and processes, which often lack data integrity and traceability, and often require significant manual intervention. The strength of our platform is demonstrated by our industry leading NPS scores and gross revenue retention rate of at least 98% in 27 of the past 28 quarters. The markets we serve are highly complex and changing rapidly. All asset owners and asset managers need timely, accurate and comprehensive control over their investment portfolios in order to effectively make capital allocation decisions, manage risk, measure performance, comply with regulations and communicate to various stakeholders internally and externally. This requires organizations to have a comprehensive, global view of their investment portfolio. A partial view of one asset class or one reporting regime is ineffective: delivering analysis on 95% of the portfolio is inadequate because, more often than not, the opaque final 5% of the portfolio creates disproportionate risk. A single client can invest in different asset classes, hold assets in over 50 different currencies, be governed by more than 45 accounting bases and hold positions representing thousands of individual tax lots.…