Buxton Helmsley is a New York City-based forensic activist investment firm. It identifies accounting irregularities, disclosure deficiencies, securities law violations, and governance failures at public companies, resolving them through private engagement where possible and public intervention where necessary.

Since 2020, the firm's work has identified more than $20 billion in financial misstatements and securities law violations at public companies, many of which were later reflected in SEC enforcement actions, bankruptcy proceedings, or corrective SEC filings. When the firm raised its findings publicly at Mallinckrodt, the SEC brought an enforcement action over the same alleged accounting standard violations. At Fossil Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: FOSL), the firm secured board representation, and total shareholder return exceeded 500% over the roughly two years that followed. The company's Chairman and CEO—the founder's brother—resigned after twenty years, and its CFO departed. Bloomberg ranks the firm in the top 15% of global activist investors by engagement volume.

The firm's work has been covered in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, MarketWatch, Axios, The Irish Times, and published in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.

The board includes a former Managing Director at Citadel and Director of Business Development at BlackRock; the former President of the New York State Society of CPAs and a current AICPA board member; and a former senior compliance and legal executive at Guggenheim, Brown Brothers Harriman, and AXA.

Institutional allocators, family offices, and accredited investors: ir@buxtonhelmsley.com

Speaking requests and press inquiries: press@buxtonhelmsley.com

Informational purposes only; not an offer of securities. Issuer figures are not fund performance, and past results do not guarantee future performance. Full disclosures: buxtonhelmsley.com/legal/terms-of-use.

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