Company: TMCWW
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-032724
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Company: TMC the metals Co Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: PRE 14A
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OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS THAT THE NUMBER OF DIRECTORS BE SET AT EIGHT, AND PROXIES SOLICITED BY OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS WILL BE VOTED IN FAVOR THEREOF UNLESS A SHAREHOLDER HAS INDICATED OTHERWISE ON THE PROXY.**

#### Election of Directors (Proposal No. 2)
Our board of directors nominated Gerard Barron, Andrew Hall, Andrew Greig, Sheila Khama, Andrei Karkar, Christian Madsbjerg, Brendan May, and Stephen Jurvetson for election at the Annual Meeting. If they are elected, they will serve on our board of directors until the 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders or until their respective successors have been elected or appointed, unless their offices are earlier vacated. Amelia Kinahoi Siamomua is not up for re-election as director at the Annual Meeting and her term as director will end at the Annual Meeting.

Unless authority to vote for any of these nominees is withheld, the shares represented by the enclosed proxy will be voted

#### FOR
**the election of Gerard Barron, Andrew Hall, Andrew Greig, Sheila Khama, Andrei Karkar, Christian Madsbjerg, Brendan May, and Stephen Jurvetson as directors. In the event that any nominee becomes unable or unwilling to serve, the shares represented by the enclosed proxy will be voted for the election of such other person as our board of directors may recommend in that nominee’s place. We have no reason to believe that any nominee will be unable or unwilling to serve as a director.

A plurality of the shares voted for each nominee at the Annual Meeting is required to elect each nominee as a director.

OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS THE ELECTION OF GERARD BARRON, ANDREW HALL, ANDREW GREIG, SHEILA KHAMA, ANDREI KARKAR, CHRISTIAN MADSBJERG, BRENDAN MAY, AND STEPHEN JURVETSON AS DIRECTORS, AND PROXIES SOLICITED BY OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS WILL BE VOTED IN FAVOR THEREOF UNLESS A SHAREHOLDER HAS INDICATED OTHERWISE ON THE PROXY.**

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PROPOSAL NO. 3
APPOINTMENT OF THE INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
(Notice Item 3) The audit committee recommends appointment of Ernst & Young LLP (“EY”), as our independent