Company: ACTG
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000934549-25-000010
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Company: ACACIA RESEARCH CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: PRE 14A
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 reflected in this table represents her annualized salary for 2024 which includes an increased base annual salary as Principal Accounting Officer plus an additional $11,667 per month in compensation during her tenure as interim Chief Financial Officer, leaving her total base annual salary flat from 2023. |
| (3) |     | No other salaries were increased during fiscal year 2024.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |

#### Annual Incentive Compensation
Our CEO’s annual cash bonus is pursuant to our cash incentive compensation program. Specifically, for fiscal year 2024, our Compensation Committee assessed Mr. McNulty’s performance against his pre-established performance goals, which included cost management and capital allocation goals; ensuring a pipeline of investment and acquisition opportunities; the management of existing business lines and the establishment of a framework for short- and long-term incentive compensation programs. Based on Mr. McNulty’s performance against his goals, the Board approved the following annual cash bonus for fiscal year 2024:

| Named Executive Officer |     | Potential Annual Bonus Range (as percentage of base salary) (%) |     |             | 2024 Bonus Earned ($) |         |     | 2024 Annual Bonus Earned (as percentage of base salary) (%) |     |   |
| Martin D. McNulty, Jr.  |     |                                                                 |     | 100% - 150% |                       | 750,000 |     |                                                             | 150 | % |

With respect to each other named executive officer, the Compensation Committee determined fiscal 2024 bonuses based on a subjective assessment of their respective performance that contributed to the achievement of the Company’s strategic objectives during 2024, the stock price performance of the Company and the total compensation and compensation mix of each executive officer. In determining bonus payouts for the named executive officers other than our CEO, each executive’s potential annual bonus range is considered as a starting point, recognizing that the combination of factors previously noted may result in a bonus payout outside of the potential range. The Compensation Committee awarded the following cash awards to our named executive officers in fiscal year 2024:

| Named Executive Officer |     | Potential Annual Bonus Range (as percentage of base salary) (%) |     |            | 2024 Bonus Earned ($) |         |     | 2024 Annual Bonus Earned (as percentage of base salary) (%) |     |   |
| Kirsten Hoover(1)       |     |                                                                 |     | 30% - 50%  |                       | 225,000 |     |