Close the acquisition of Taubman Centers, Inc
Delivered after the deadline (182 days after the deadline)
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- Announced
- 10 Feb 2020
- Due
- 30 Jun 2020
- Delivered
- 29 Dec 2020
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“The transaction is also subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in mid-2020.”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The company initially attempted to terminate the merger agreement in June 2020, but subsequently settled litigation and completed the acquisition on December 29, 2020, which is after the mid-2020 deadline.
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A Simon Property Group 10-Q filed 2020-08-10
“On June 10, 2020, we exercised our contractual right to terminate the February 10, 2020, Agreement and Plan of Merger, or the Merger Agreement, with Taubman Centers, Inc.” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A Simon Property Group 10-K filed 2021-02-25
“On December 29, 2020, we completed the acquisition of an 80% ownership interest in TRG” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +8.2% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (7 Aug 2020 to 12 Aug 2020). What this measures
Checked 19 Oct 2026.
Commitment lineage
Every time the company restated this commitment. The original is never changed, and the outcome is always measured against version 1.
- Deadline drift +274 days
- 2 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 10 Feb 2020
Deadline 30 Jun 2020 (“mid-2020”) · wording expected
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Version 2 · stated 16 Nov 2020
Deadline 31 Mar 2021 (“late 2020 or early 2021”) · wording expected
“The merger is expected to close in late 2020 or early 2021, subject to Taubman shareholder approval and customary closing conditions.”
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Acquisition close
- Indicative materiality
- High rules
- Action
- Close
- Deliverable
- Acquisition of Taubman Centers, Inc.
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- Conditional
- Yes: customary closing conditions; two-thirds of the outstanding Taubman voting stock; majority of the outstanding Taubman voting stock not held by the Taubman family
- Depends on
- Regulatory, Shareholder, Counterparty
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: disagreesClaude (Anthropic) re-read the evidence blind and read it as “Withdrawn”.
- Tie-breakA stronger model read the evidence and both earlier answers, without knowing which was recorded, and agrees with the recorded outcome.
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