Good day, and welcome to the special meeting of stockholders of Atkore Inc. I would now like to turn the conference over to Michael V. Schrock, Chairman of the Board of Directors. Good morning. Welcome to the special meeting of stockholders of Atkore Incorporated. We are holding this special meeting solely by means of virtual communications. As Chair of the Board, I will be presiding over this meeting, and Daniel Kelly, Vice President and General Counsel, will act as Secretary. Bill Waltz, President and CEO, and members of the Atkore Board of Directors and company executives are also in attendance today. Katherine Smith, a representative of Broadridge Financial Solutions, has been appointed to act as Inspector of Elections. The Inspector is in attendance virtually and has taken her oath of office, which will be filed with the minutes of this meeting. We are very pleased to have each of you joining us this meeting this morning, and Dan will now review some preliminary matters for this meeting. Thank you, Mike. The meeting agenda and the rules of conduct for today's meeting are available on our Virtual Shareholder Meeting, or VSM platform. We encourage you to review these materials as they are now in effect. At our meeting this morning, we will first address the matters described in the company's Notice of Meeting and Proxy Statement dated September 9, 2026. We will then open the polls for voting, announce the results of the voting, and adjourn the formal portion of this meeting. If we encounter any technical difficulties that prevent us from continuing the meeting, we ask our stockholders to stand by for 15 minutes for resolution. If we are unable to resolve the technical difficulties after 15 minutes, please refer to the investor relations section of our website for an update relating to the meeting. In order to attend this meeting, you must have been a stockholder of record as of 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time on September 4, 2026. A certified list of registered stockholders entitled to vote at this meeting is available and may be inspected by any stockholder during this meeting by logging into the VSM using the control number found on your proxy card and clicking on the Registered Shareholders List link at the bottom of the screen. This brings us to the second item of the agenda. Dan, will you please present the Affidavit of Mailing and report of the Secretary? The Board of Directors fixed 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time on September 4, 2026, as the record date for determining stockholders entitled to vote at this meeting. An affidavit has been delivered attesting to the Notice of Meeting and Proxy Statement being mailed on or about September 9, 2026, to all stockholders as of the record date. The stockholders' list shows that holders of 33,773,062 shares of common stock are entitled to vote at this meeting. Our Inspector of Elections has informed us that 27,641,773 shares of common stock, or approximately 81.84% of all the shares entitled to vote, have submitted a proxy to the company and are represented by proxy at this meeting. Thank you, Dan. Please include copies of the affidavit, stockholder list, and vote report with the minutes of this meeting. Because holders of a majority of the shares entitled to vote are represented by proxy at this meeting, I declare there to be a quorum and this meeting to be duly convened for purposes of transacting the business that may properly come before it. The next order of business is a description of three matters to be voted on at today's meeting, each of which was described in the company's proxy statement. We will consider and vote on each of the merger proposal, the compensation proposal, and the adjournment proposal. No additional proposals will be considered at today's meeting. We will consider each item in turn in the same order in which it appears in the notice of meeting. The polls for each matter upon which stockholders will vote at this meeting will open when such matter is called to a vote and will remain open until I announce that the polls are closed. Dan will now review the voting rules for this meeting and present each proposal for a vote. No ballots or proxies, revocations of, or changes to ballots or proxies will be accepted after the polls are closed. Near the end of the meeting, after the tabulation of voting, I will announce the preliminary voting results on each proposal. If you have already returned a proxy, either by mail, telephone, or via the internet, your vote will be counted automatically without any further action on your part. If you have not previously voted and wish to do so, or if you wish to change your earlier vote, you may do so by clicking the Vote button on the VSM platform. The first proposal to be voted on by stockholders is the merger proposal. This proposal is to adopt the agreement and plan of merger dated as of August 2, 2026, by and among Atkore, Prysmian S.p.A., Trinity Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Prysmian and solely as provided in certain sections of the merger agreement, Prysmian Cables & Systems USA LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, pursuant to which the merger subsidiary will merge with and into Atkore, with Atkore surviving the merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Prysmian. The board of directors unanimously recommends that shareholders vote for the merger proposal. We will now proceed to vote. The second proposal to be considered by the stockholders is an advisory, non-binding vote on the compensation proposal. This proposal is to approve on an advisory, non-binding basis the compensation that will or may be paid or become payable to Atkore's named executive officers in connection with the completion of the merger. The board of directors unanimously recommends that stockholders vote for the compensation proposal. We will now proceed to vote. The third and final proposal to be voted on by the stockholders is the adjournment proposal. This proposal is to approve the adjournment of the special meeting to a later date or dates, if necessary or appropriate, to solicit additional proxies if a quorum is not present, or in the event there are not sufficient votes at the time of the special meeting to approve the merger proposal. The board of directors unanimously recommends that stockholders vote for the adjournment proposal. We will now proceed to vote. These are the only matters of business which will be conducted at this meeting. I now declare the polls for the special meeting closed. Dan, would you please provide the preliminary results? We've been informed by the Inspector of Elections that the preliminary vote report indicates that the merger proposal, compensation proposal, and adjournment proposal have all received sufficient votes and have passed. Because the preliminary vote report indicates that the merger proposal has passed, we do not plan to adjourn this meeting to solicit additional proxies. These results are preliminary until we receive a final report from the Inspector of Elections. We will report the final vote results in the Form 8-K to be filed with the SEC within four business days. Thank you, Dan. This concludes the formal business scheduled for this special meeting of stockholders. I would like to thank each of you for attending today's meeting and for your support of Atkore. It has been an honor to serve as CEO for this company, and I'm excited for the next chapter of Atkore's story. Thank you, Bill. There being no further business to come before the meeting, the special meeting of stockholders of Atkore Incorporated is now adjourned. The meeting has now concluded. Thank you for attending. You may now disconnect.
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