NUSCALE POWER Corp
For the period ended Jun 30, 2025. Filed Aug 7, 2025.
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Jun 30, 2025 · Filed Aug 7, 2025
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Item 1. Legal Proceedings
In the regular course of business, the Company is involved in various legal proceedings and claims incidental to the normal course of business. Other than as disclosed immediately below, the Company does not believe that any legal claims are material to the Company. Management does not believe that resolution of any of these matters will materially affect the Company’s financial position or results of operations.
Multiple shareholder class action lawsuits were filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon against the Company and certain of its current or former officers, namely John Hopkins, Chris Colbert, Robert Hamady and Clayton Scott: (1)Sigman v. NuScale Power Corp., et al. (Case No. 23-1689, filed November 15, 2023), and (2)Ryckewaert v. NuScale Power Corp., et al. (Case No. 23-1956, filed December 26, 2023). These lawsuits asserted virtually identical allegations and claims and were consolidated before the same judge on February 2, 2024. The lawsuits assert claims under the federal securities laws and allege that the Company and members of management made materially false and/or misleading statements and failed to disclose material adverse facts about the Company’s business, operations and prospects, and specifically about certain of the Company’s agreements with customers. On July 1, 2025, after granting the Company’s motion to dismiss, the court entered a judgment dismissing the consolidated case with prejudice.
On December 10, 2024, a purported class action lawsuit titled Tucker v. NuScale Power Corporation, et al., Case No. 2024-1272-NAC (Del. Ch. Ct.) was filed in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware. The lawsuit names the Company, eight current board members and one former board member as defendants. The lawsuit broadly alleges that the Company’s corporate opportunity waiver provision contained in the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation is overbroad and impermissibly waives certain fiduciary duties in contradiction to state statutory law. The named plaintiff seeks injunctive and declaratory relief, certification as class representative, and costs and fees for a to-be certified class of plaintiffs. The Board determined that it was in the Company’s best interest to seek an early negotiated resolution of the lawsuit without admitting liability, and before incurring significant litigation costs.
The Company therefore submitted revised corporate opportunity waiver language to the stockholders in advance of the Company’s 2025 annual meeting with the recommendation that the stockholders adopt the proposal, explaining that while the Company believed that the existing waiver provision as currently drafted, comports with Delaware law, the proposed amendment would clarify that it is not, and was never, the Company’s intent to waive a fiduciary’s duty of loyalty, and that such waiver applies to a defined set of business opportunities. The proposed amendment would more closely align with the text of applicable Delaware statutory law, as well as the intent expressed by the state legislature in passing such laws.
Plaintiff, having been informed of the Company’s actions taken, then voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit. The stockholders thereafter voted to adopt the proposal and the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation was amended in connection therewith.
The parties have agreed that the Company shall pay plaintiff’s counsel $85,000.00 (the “Mootness Fee”) to resolve the anticipated application by plaintiff’s counsel for an award of attorney’s fees and reimbursement of expenses. In connection with the August 6, 2025 stipulated order closing the case, the Court ordered that the Company provide this notice. The Court has not and will not pass judgment on the amount of the Mootness Fee.
Doug Hoelscher et. al. v. John L. Hopkins, et. al. On May 14, 2025, three purported shareholders of NuScale Corp, Doug Hoelscher, Kimberly Hoelscher, and Cyril Hoelscher, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon against certain of NuScale Corp’s current and former officers and directors, namely John L. Hopkins, Chris Colbert, Robert R. Hamady, Clayton Scott, James T. Hackett, Alan L. Boeckmann, Alvin C. Collins, Kent Kresa, Christopher Sorrells, Kimberly O. Warnica, Bum-Jin Chung, Shinji Fujino, and Jim Breuer. Plaintiffs alleged that certain members of NuScale Corp’s management made materially false and/or misleading statements and failed to disclose materially adverse facts about NuScale Corp’s business, operations and prospects, and specifically about NuScale Corp’s agreements with customers. Plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed the action on August 6, 2025.
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