InMode LtdCEO-led buyout offer at $16.20 is opposed by major shareholder as value-destructive, threatening deal failure or lower price.

Steel Partners has voiced serious concerns over a $16.20 CEO-led buyout offer for InMode, calling it value-destructive and urging the board to ensure a fair sales process. Executive Chairman Warren G. Lichtenstein wrote to InMode's board on Tuesday, criticizing governance failures that could allow CEO Moshe Mizrahy to acquire the company at a price below a previously rejected $18 per share offer from Steel Partners itself. The investor is demanding a truly independent investment bank, a genuinely independent special committee, and that Mizrahy step down as CEO during the process. Fellow shareholder DOMA Perpetual Capital Management also said last Friday it would vote against the proposal.
InMode LtdCEO-led buyout offer at $16.20 is opposed by major shareholder as value-destructive, threatening deal failure or lower price.
Steel Partners is the activist investor opposing the buyout, but the news is about InMode, not Steel Partners' own business.