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activist regulatory filing proxy fight
2025-05-05 · 15 pages

Phillips 66 PSX

Elliott urges Phillips 66 holders to vote the GOLD card for four new directors and board declassification to unlock value via midstream spinoff and refining focus.

N 2 Narrative
V 4 Visual
C 4 Craft
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Thesis

This Exhibit 99.1 to a DFAN14A bundles Elliott's get-out-the-vote materials for the May 21, 2025 Phillips 66 annual meeting: a 'How to Vote' YouTube video transcript, Streamline 66 social posts, and screenshots of the streamline66.com campaign site. Elliott — a top-five PSX shareholder — argues the company is an underperforming energy conglomerate handcuffed by its structure, and that nominees Brian Coffman, Sigmund Cornelius, Michael Heim and Stacy Nieuwoudt bring refining, midstream and capital-allocation expertise needed to rebuild accountability. The materials channel holders to vote FOR all four Elliott nominees on the GOLD universal proxy card, FOR Proposal 2 (board declassification) and FOR Proposal 6 (annual director elections), with detailed online/mail/phone/QR instructions and an Okapi Partners helpline. A Heim quote frames the spinoff thesis: 'It's got great bones... [PSX] should be able to trade like a midstream company does.'

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Situation

Phillips 66 is holding its 2025 annual meeting on May 21 with a contested board election; Elliott, a top-five shareholder, has nominated four directors under its 'Streamline 66' campaign.

Complication

Phillips 66 is an underperforming energy conglomerate 'handcuffed' by its current structure, with weak governance and a classified board that insulates incumbents from accountability.

Resolution

Vote the GOLD universal proxy card FOR Coffman, Cornelius, Heim and Nieuwoudt, FOR Proposal 2 (declassify board) and FOR Proposal 6 (annual elections); use online, mail, phone or QR voting by May 21.

Reward

An upgraded board can pursue a midstream spinoff and refining focus so PSX trades like a midstream peer, unlocking 'substantial upside for the benefit of all shareholders.'

The three reasons

  1. 1

    Phillips 66 is an underperforming conglomerate trapped by its current structure

  2. 2

    A midstream spinoff would let PSX trade like a midstream company — unlocking value

  3. 3

    Refocusing on operational excellence requires new directors and board accountability

Primary demands

  • Vote FOR Elliott's four nominees: Brian Coffman, Sigmund Cornelius, Michael Heim, Stacy Nieuwoudt
  • Vote FOR Proposal 2 (declassification of the Board)
  • Vote FOR Proposal 6 (annual election of all directors)
  • Use the GOLD universal proxy card
  • Submit votes by the May 21, 2025 Annual Meeting deadline

Pattern membership

Where this document fits across the library's 12 rhetorical / structural patterns.

Precedents cited

  • Targa Resources (Michael Heim co-founder credential)

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Notes

SEC Exhibit 99.1 to a DFAN14A (definitive additional proxy materials) bundling Elliott's voter-mobilization assets for the Phillips 66 proxy fight: 'How to Vote' YouTube video + transcript, two Streamline 66 social media posts, and screenshots of the streamline66.com site (homepage, nominees, voting page, FAQ). Not a standalone thesis deck — it presupposes the broader Streamline 66 case made elsewhere — but it is primary Elliott material and a useful specimen of professional retail-shareholder mobilization craft (custom Streamline 66 brand system: red/black wordmark with offset '66', clean typography, dedicated microsite, pull-quotes, four ways-to-vote iconography, podcast). Page count includes section dividers ('MATERIALS RELATED TO...', 'SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS', 'WEBSITE MATERIALS').