FNZ Group Ltd. 的董事将在新西兰公开法庭面对员工股东，因其持股被指不公平稀释而受到质疑。FNZ Group Ltd. 是一家获全球一些最大机构投资者支持的数字财富管理平台。
Directors of FNZ Group Ltd., a digital wealth management platform that’s backed by some of the world’s largest institutional investors, will face staff shareholders in open court in New Zealand over claims their stakes were unfairly diluted.
根据员工股东群体周二发布的声明，新西兰高等法院裁定，涉及董事及其职责履行的12项诉讼原因不得通过仲裁解决，而应由法院裁决。另有四项指控 FNZ 不公平损害员工股东利益的诉讼被暂停，以便转入仲裁程序。
The High Court of New Zealand ruled that 12 causes of action concerning the directors and the performance of their duties can’t be arbitrated and should instead be determined by the court, according to a statement Tuesday from the employee shareholder group. A further four claims alleging unfair prejudice by FNZ were stayed in favor of arbitration.
去年7月，该员工股东群体提起集体诉讼，指控总部位于新西兰的 FNZ 在2024年和2025年的融资轮次中违反当地法律。直至上个月，FNZ 一直由华尔街资深人士布莱斯·马斯特斯（Blythe Masters）领导。马斯特斯及另外16名现任和前任董事被列为被告。
In July last year, the group filed a class action suit alleging New Zealand-domiciled FNZ, which until last month was run by Wall Street veteran Blythe Masters, contravened local law during capital-raising rounds in 2024 and 2025. Masters and 16 other current and former directors are named as defendants.
其他董事被告还包括 FNZ 机构股东的任命代表，其中包括加拿大养老基金 La Caisse 和 CPP Investments、新加坡国有投资者淡马锡控股私人有限公司（Temasek Holdings Pte）、前美国副总统阿尔·戈尔（Al Gore）的 Generation Investment Management 以及私募股权公司 Motive Partners LLC。
Other director defendants include appointees of FNZ’s institutional shareholders, including the Canadian pension funds La Caisse and CPP Investments, the Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings Pte, Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management and private equity firm Motive Partners LLC.
FNZ、La Caisse、CPP、淡马锡、Generation 和 Motive 的代表均未回应置评请求。
Representatives for FNZ, La Caisse, CPP, Temasek, Generation and Motive didn’t reply to requests for comment.
根据该员工股东群体的说法，FNZ 向机构投资者发行了优先股——其权利高于普通股——以及认股权证，导致员工股东的持股被稀释。该群体称，这些交易排除了公司的联合创始人和核心员工股东，使他们无法实现其占公司普通股权30%所有权的价值。
FNZ issued preference shares — which rank higher than ordinary shares — and warrants to institutional investors diluting the stakes of employee shareholders, according to the group. It said the transactions shut out the company’s co-founders and core shareholder employees from realizing the value for their 30% ownership of the company’s ordinary equity.
“FNZ的董事们在两年内以实际将多数股东权益，甚至可能全部员工股东权益转让给任命他们的机构投资者的条款筹集了资金，从而排除了那些在过去20年里建立FNZ的员工股东，”FNZ的联合创始人员工股东迈克·斯蒂文斯在声明中表示。
“FNZ’s directors have raised capital over two years on terms that effectively handed the majority, and likely all, of employee shareholder equity to the institutional investors who appointed them, shutting out the employee shareholders who built FNZ over 20 years,” Mike Stevens, a co-founding employee shareholder of FNZ, said in the statement.
FNZ成立于2003年的新西兰，总部位于伦敦，员工约7,000人。该公司为拥有合计超过2.5万亿美元资产的客户提供自动化和交易服务。
FNZ, which was founded in New Zealand in 2003, has its headquarters in London and employs roughly 7,000 staff. It provides automation and transaction services for clients with more than $2.5 trillion of assets combined.