Company: FFWM
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-036041
Chunk: 11

Company: First Foundation Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 11
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 to the Company’s stockholders. Our Board has adopted the following governance guidelines, which include a number of policies and practices under which our Board has operated for some time, together with concepts suggested by various authorities in corporate governance and the requirements under applicable rules of the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”). Our Board members believe these policies and practices are essential to the performance of the Board’s oversight responsibilities and to the maintenance of the Company’s integrity in the marketplace. The Company’s Corporate Governance Guidelines are available in the Investor Relations section of our website at www.ff-inc.com . Corporate Governance Principles Some of the principal subjects covered by those guidelines include: Codes of Business Conduct and Ethics . We have adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics for our directors, officers and employees, including our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer and other key accounting and financial personnel (the “Code of Conduct”). The Code of Conduct constitutes our “code of ethics” within the meaning of Section 406 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and is our “code of business conduct and ethics” within the meaning of the listing standards of the NYSE. The Code of Conduct is available in the Investor Relations section of our website at www.ff-inc.com . To the extent required by applicable rules of the SEC and the NYSE, we will disclose on our website, any amendments to the Code of Conduct and any waivers of the requirements of the Code of Conduct that may be granted to our executive officers, including our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or persons performing similar functions. Incentive Compensation Clawback Policy . In 2023, our Board adopted an Incentive Compensation Clawback Policy (the “Clawback Policy”) intended to comply with Section 10D and Rule 10D-1 of the Exchange Act and the NYSE rules and regulations. It is administered by the Compensation Committee and provides for the recovery of erroneously awarded incentive compensation awarded to any covered executive (as determined by the Compensation Committee in accordance with applicable listing standards). Incentive compensation is subject to recoupment if received within any of the three completed fiscal years (together with any interim stub fiscal year period(s) of less than nine months resulting from our transition to different fiscal year measuring dates) immediately prior to the determination that a material error in our financial statements has occurred requiring an accounting restatement. The amount of incentive compensation subject to recovery is equal to the excess of the incentive compensation received by a covered executive over the amount of compensation which