Complete the acquisition of DS Smith Plc
Delivered after the deadline (31 days after the deadline)
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- Announced
- 25 Jun 2024
- Due
- 31 Dec 2024
- Delivered
- 31 Jan 2025
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“International Paper and DS Smith still expect the Scheme to become effective in the fourth quarter of 2024.”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
International Paper completed the acquisition of DS Smith on January 31, 2025, which occurred after the stated deadline of the fourth quarter of 2024.
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A International Paper 10-K filed 2025-02-21
“On January 31, 2025, the Company, through its indirect wholly owned subsidiary, International Paper UK Holdings Limited, completed the closing (the “Closing”) of its previously announced business combination of the entire issued and to be issued ordinary shares of DS Smith plc” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +2.1% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (20 Feb 2025 to 25 Feb 2025). What this measures
Checked 18 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 +31 days
- 2 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 25 Jun 2024
Deadline 31 Dec 2024 (“in the fourth quarter of 2024”) · wording expected
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Version 2 · stated 24 Jan 2025
Deadline 31 Jan 2025 (“31 January 2025”) · wording expected
“the Scheme is expected to become effective on 31 January 2025.”
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
- Complete
- Deliverable
- Acquisition of DS Smith Plc
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- Conditional
- Yes: regulatory clearance being received from the European Commission; sanctioning of the Scheme by the Court
- Depends on
- Regulatory, Court
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: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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