Chairman and CEO Lutnick Howard W covered exercise/tax liability with 721,590 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 11% to 5,616,612 units (SEC Form 4)
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| FORM 4 |
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 |
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| Check this box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b). | |||||||||||||||||
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
(Street)
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2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
BGC Group, Inc. [ BGC ] |
5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
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3. Date of Earliest Transaction
(Month/Day/Year) 02/05/2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed
(Month/Day/Year) |
6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
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| Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned | ||||||||||
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| 1. Title of Security (Instr. 3) | 2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) | 2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) | 3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) | 4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) | 5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4) | 6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) | 7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4) | |||
| Code | V | Amount | (A) or (D) | Price | ||||||
| Class A Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share | 02/05/2025 | F(1) | 721,590 | D | $9.38(1) | 5,616,612(1) | D | |||
| Class A common stock, par value $0.01 per share | 13,387,109(2)(3)(4)(5) | I | See footnotes(2)(3)(4)(5) | |||||||
| Class B Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share | 8,973,721(6)(7) | D | ||||||||
| Class B Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share | 100,285,202(5)(7)(8) | I | See footnotes(5)(7)(8) | |||||||
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Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities) | |||||||||||||||
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| 1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3) | 2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security | 3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) | 3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) | 4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) | 5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) | 6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) | 7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4) | 8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5) | 9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4) | 10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) | 11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4) | ||||
| Code | V | (A) | (D) | Date Exercisable | Expiration Date | Title | Amount or Number of Shares | ||||||||
| Explanation of Responses: |
| 1. On February 5, 2025, BGC Group, Inc. (the "Company") accelerated the vesting of 1,304,864 restricted stock units ("RSUs"), which each represented a contingent right to receive one share of the Company's Class A common stock, par value $0.01 per share ("Class A Common Stock"), granted under the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan, previously held by the reporting person into an equal number of shares of the Company's Class A Common Stock. The reported transaction involved the withholding by the Company of 721,590 shares of Class A Common Stock for taxes. The remaining 583,274 shares of Class A Common Stock were issued to the reporting person. The acceleration of the vesting of the RSUs was approved by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company, as was the withholding of shares upon such vesting, which is exempt pursuant to Rule 16b-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"). |
| 2. The reporting person's indirect pecuniary interest in 13,387,109 shares of Class A Common Stock consists of (i) 12,170,468 shares of Class A Common Stock held in various trust, retirement and custodial accounts consisting of (A) 9,096,761 shares of Class A Common Stock held in the reporting person's personal asset trust, of which he is the sole trustee, (B) 1,392,821 shares of Class A Common Stock held in the reporting person's GRAT IV account, of which he is the sole trustee, (C) 792,598 shares of Class A Common Stock held by a trust for the benefit of descendants of the reporting person and his immediate family (the "Trust"), of which the reporting person's wife is one of two trustees and the reporting person has limited powers to remove and replace such trustees, (D) 292,418 shares of Class A Common Stock held |
| 3. (Continued from footnote 2) in a Keogh retirement account for the reporting person, (E) 539,428 shares of Class A Common Stock held by trust accounts for the benefit of the reporting person and members of his immediate family, (F) 34,846 shares of Class A Common Stock held in an IRA retirement account, (G) 20,557 shares of Class A Common Stock held in custodial accounts for the benefit of certain members of the reporting person's family under the Uniform Gifts to Minors Act, and (H) 1,039 shares of Class A Common Stock held in other retirement accounts for the benefit of the reporting person's spouse, |
| 4. (Continued from footnote 3) (ii) 5,548 shares of Class A Common Stock representing the proportional interest of the reporting person's spouse in shares owned by LFA LLC ("LFA"), (iii) 600,938 shares of Class A Common Stock held by KBCR Management Partners, LLC ("KBCR"), and (iv) 610,155 shares of Class A Common Stock held in the reporting person's 401(k) account as of January 14, 2025. |
| 5. CF Group Management, Inc. ("CFGM") is the Managing General Partner of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. ("CFLP"), and the reporting person is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CFGM and also the trustee of an entity that is the sole stockholder of CFGM. KBCR is a non-managing General Partner of CFLP, and the reporting person is the managing member of KBCR. The reporting person is the managing member of LFA. The reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership of all shares held by CFLP, CFGM, KBCR and LFA in excess of his pecuniary interest, if any, and this report shall not be deemed an admission that he is the beneficial owner of, or has pecuniary interest in, any such excess shares for the purposes of Section 16 of the Exchange Act or for any other purpose. |
| 6. Consists of 8,973,721 shares of the Company's Class B common stock, par value $0.01 ("Class B Common Stock"), held directly by the reporting person. |
| 7. The shares of Class B Common Stock are convertible at any time on a one-for-one basis (subject to adjustment) into shares of Class A Common Stock. |
| 8. Consists of (i) 93,340,477 shares of Class B Common Stock held by CFLP, (ii) 2,972,524 shares of Class B Common Stock held by CFGM, (iii) 1,610,182 shares of Class B Common Stock held by the Trust, (iv) 26,052 shares of Class B Common Stock representing the proportional interest of the reporting person's spouse in shares owned by LFA, and (v) 2,335,967 shares of Class B Common Stock held by KBCR. |
| /s/ Howard W. Lutnick, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | 02/06/2025 | |
| ** Signature of Reporting Person | Date | |
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