TCIM Provides Update on Voya’s Effort to Prevent the Voices of Shareholders from Being Heard
As a Fellow Firm in the Financial Services Industry, TCIM Is Highly Disappointed by Voya’s Dismissive Approach to Shareholder Rights and Believes the Company’s Board and Management Should Hold Themselves to Higher Standard
Through 220 Demand Process, TCIM Has Uncovered Evidence that Voya Lobbied SEC to Stop No Confidence Referendum – An Effort that Ultimately Failed
TCIM to Submit FOIA Request to Obtain Voya’s Correspondence with the SEC
Urges Shareholders to Seize Opportunity to Make Their Voices Heard By Voting “FOR” the No Confidence Referendum
Shareholders With Questions About How to Vote Should Contact Okapi Partners at [email protected]
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
TOMS Capital Investment Management (“TCIM”), which manages funds that together have an investment representing an approximately 4.65% economic interest in Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA) (“Voya” or the “Company”), has filed definitive proxy materials to provide shareholders the opportunity to consider and vote on a non-binding resolution. This non-binding resolution allows shareholders to convey unequivocally that they “no longer continue to have confidence in the board of directors (the “Board”) and management of Voya Financial, Inc.”
Today, TCIM issued the following statement to update shareholders on the Company’s egregious efforts to silence dissent:
“As a result of our formal demand to Voya for the inspection of books and records pursuant to Section 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, we have obtained an acknowledgement from the Company that it lobbied the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to stop our no confidence referendum and prevent shareholders’ voices from being heard. Thankfully, Voya failed in this effort.
As a fellow asset manager, we are extremely disappointed that Voya has decided to use its corporate and financial resources to attempt to trample upon investors’ rights, including the ability for shareholders to meet with each other and communicate their opinions to management and the Board. We believe that Voya’s use of such resources to undermine the shareholder franchise constitutes corporate waste and is inconsistent with the Board’s fiduciary duties. Voya was unsuccessful in all its efforts and shareholders’ voices will be heard.
The fact that Voya administers the retirement savings for millions of Americans nationwide makes its abandonment of shareholders’ interests in the face of a challenge all the more egregious.
Voya is presently refusing to provide its correspondence with the SEC to us, other than under conditions that are unacceptable – including that we do not seek any further books and records. Voya is also refusing to produce Board minutes pertaining to the Company’s actions aimed at preventing our shareholder referendum from occurring. All of this raises a simple question: what does Voya’s Board and management have to hide?
As a result, we will be submitting a request to the SEC under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) to obtain the correspondence wherein Voya sought to interfere with its own shareholders’ efforts to communicate with each other.
We look forward to continuing to engage with shareholders ahead of our no confidence referendum. Shareholders are also advised that we will be releasing a presentation this week detailing the case for supporting our referendum.”
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TCIM recommends that you vote “FOR” the no confidence referendum. Additional information about TCIM’s campaign, including how shareholders can make their voices heard, is available at www.unlockvoya.com
Shareholders with questions about how to vote should contact Okapi Partners at [email protected] or call toll-free at (844) 343-2621
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Participants in the Solicitation
The Participants have filed a definitive proxy statement (as may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Definitive Proxy Statement”) and accompanying proxy card with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) to be used to solicit the views of the stockholders of Voya Financial, Inc. (“Voya”) on the no confidence referendum. The Participants have furnished the Definitive Proxy Statement and accompanying proxy card to some or all of the stockholders of Voya entitled to vote at the referendum meeting. The Definitive Proxy Statement contains important information about the no confidence referendum.
TOMS Capital Investment Management LP, TCIM Master Fund Ltd., TCIM Management GP LLC, Benjamin Pass, and Akash Bagaria (collectively, the “Participants”) are participants in the solicitation of proxies from the stockholders of Voya in connection with the no confidence referendum. As of October 25, 2026, TCIM Master Fund Ltd. has beneficial ownership of or owns derivative securities with economic exposure to 1,708,081 shares of common stock of Voya, par value $0.01 per share. As of October 25, 2026, TOMS Capital Investment Management LP, as investment advisor, may be deemed to beneficially own shares or derivative securities with economic exposure to 4,228,000 shares of common stock of Voya, par value $0.01 per share, owned by the persons it advises. As of October 25, 2026, TCIM Management GP LLC, as the general partner of TOMS Capital Investment Management LP, may be deemed to beneficially own or have economic exposure to 4,228,000 shares of common stock of Voya, par value $0.01 per share, owned by directly or underlying derivative securities owned by the persons TOMS Capital Investment Management LP advises.
Disclaimer
Any information concerning Voya contained in this communication has been taken from, or based upon, publicly available information. Although the Participants do not have any information that would indicate that any information contained in this communication that has been taken from such documents is inaccurate or incomplete, the Participants do not take any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of such information.
Important Information and Where to Find It
STOCKHOLDERS OF VOYA ARE URGED TO READ THE DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT AND OTHER RELEVANT MATERIALS CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE NO CONFIDENCE REFERENDUM. STOCKHOLDERS MAY OBTAIN A FREE COPY OF THESE MATERIALS (WHEN THEY ARE AVAILABLE) AND OTHER DOCUMENTS FILED BY THE PARTICIPANTS WITH THE SEC AT THE SEC’S WEBSITE AT WWW.SEC.GOV OR AT TOMS CAPITAL INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LP’S WEBSITE FOR THE NO CONFIDENCE REFERENDUM AT WWW.UNLOCKVOYA.COM. FURTHER, STOCKHOLDERS MAY OBTAIN A FREE COPY OF THESE MATERIALS (WHEN THEY ARE AVAILABLE) BY DIRECTING A REQUEST TO THE PARTICIPANTS’ PROXY SOLICITOR, OKAPI PARTNERS LLC, 1212 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, 17TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10036 (SHAREHOLDERS CAN CALL TOLL-FREE: (844) 343-2621.
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