Babcock & Wilcox announced that the company continues to work toward refinancing its current senior debt and extending its maturity and, as a result, has entered into an Amendment to further extend the deadline for completing certain required corporate actions in connection with the refinancing of its existing Credit Agreement. The deadline to complete these actions has been extended from January 20 to January 31. As previously disclosed, the company is required to refinance by March 15. "We are continuing to work closely with our existing lenders to reach an agreement that will provide long-term restructuring of our debt," said Kenneth Young, B&W CEO. "We expect to make a further announcement regarding the agreement on or before January 31, 2020."

Consolidated-Tomoka announced the purchase of Crossroads Towne Center, an approximately 25K square foot retail center in Chandler, Arizona, for $61.8M, representing a going-in cap rate of approximately 7.85%. The weighted average lease term for the leases of all 32 tenants at Crossroads is approximately 5 years.

Four Corners Property Trust (FCPT) announced the acquisition of a recreational equipment property for $5.2M as part of a previously announced outparcel transaction with Pennsylvania REIT (PEI). The property is located in Michigan and is occupied under a net lease with nine years of term remaining. The property is newly constructed and is leased to the corporate operator. This transaction is the second closing of the previously announced PREIT portfolio transaction in November, priced at a 6.5% going-in cash cap rate, on a portfolio basis, exclusive of transaction costs.

Ashland announced Dr. Xiaolan Wang will be joining the company to lead the Personal Care business unit, effective February 1. Wang will report directly to CEO Guillermo Novo. Most recently Wang had global P&L responsibility for a diverse specialty additive business at Evonik. Previously, she held leadership roles at Dow, Rohm & Haas, and ICI.

In a regulatory filing, eHealth disclosed that its CEO Scott Flanders sold 121K shares of common stock on January 22nd-24th. The total transaction size was about $13.3M.

F5 Networks announced that it has completed the acquisition of Shape Security, a leader in online fraud and abuse prevention, adding protection from automated attacks, botnets, and targeted fraud to F5's world-class portfolio of application services. On December 19, 2019, F5 announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Shape. F5 said "this acquisition delivers superior value to customers by combining F5 and NGINX's expertise in powering over half of the world's applications across all types of environments, with Shape's insight from mitigating 1B application attacks per day through sophisticated AI, cloud-based analytics, and anti-fraud technologies."

BlueCrest Capital disclosed a 5.1% stake in Yatra, which represents over 2.04M shares. The filing does not allow for activism.

Wi-LAN, a Quarterhill (QTRH) company, provided an update on ongoing litigation. In a damages-only re-trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California commenced on January 21, the jury rendered its verdict awarding WiLAN $85.23M in damages owed to WiLAN by Apple (AAPL) for the infringement of WiLAN's US patent Nos 8,457,145 and 8,537,757. In a previous related trial verdict rendered on August 1, 2018 in the same court, the jury in that case found that Apple infringed the patents and awarded WiLAN $145.1M in damages. In a subsequent hearing after that 2018 verdict, the court affirmed the jury's finding of infringement but ordered another trial solely on damages which resulted in today's new verdict.

Live Ventures previously announced that it was delaying the filing of its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2019 to allow the company additional time to finalize its financial statements to be filed as part of the Form 10-K. In connection with the delayed Form 10-K, on January 17, 2020, Live Ventures received a standard notice from NASDAQ stating that the company is not in compliance with NASDAQ Listing Rule 5250(c)(1), which requires timely filing of periodic financial reports with the SEC. The Nasdaq notice has no immediate effect on the listing or trading of Live Ventures' common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market. Under Nasdaq's listing rules, Live Ventures has 60 calendar days from the date of the letter to submit a plan to regain compliance. If the plan is accepted, Live Ventures can be granted an exception of up to 180 calendar days from the Form 10-K's original due date, or until July 13, 2020, to regain compliance. Live Ventures expects to submit a plan to regain compliance or file its Form 10-K within the timeline prescribed by Nasdaq.