Company: AAOI
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-022149
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Company: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 24
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 due in respect of the award or payment and to take such other action as may be necessary to satisfy all obligations for the payment of applicable withholding taxes. We are not required to issue any shares or otherwise settle an award under the Amended and Restated 2021 Plan until all tax withholding obligations are satisfied. Vote Required and Board of Directors Recommendation The affirmative vote of a majority of the votes properly cast on the proposal at the Special Meeting, where a quorum is present, is required to approve this Proposal No. 1. If stockholders do not approve this proposal, the Amended and Restated 2021 Plan will not take effect and the 2021 Plan will continue to be administered in its current form until its expiration (or until such time as the shares available for issuance thereunder have been depleted, whichever occurs first). THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS THAT YOU VOTE “FOR” THE APPROVAL OF THE AMENDED AND RESTATED 2021 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PROXY STATEMENT. 13 TABLE OF CONTENTS PROPOSAL NO. 2
APPROVAL OF THE ADJOURNMENT OF THE SPECIAL MEETING The Board is asking our stockholders to approve adjournment of the Special Meeting if the number of shares of common stock present in person or represented by proxy at the Special Meeting and voting “FOR” Proposal No. 1 are insufficient to approve Proposal No. 1. In such an event, adjournment of the Special Meeting will enable us to solicit additional proxies in favor of Proposal No. 1. A stockholder vote may be taken on Proposal No. 1 prior to any such adjournment if there are sufficient votes to approve Proposal No. 1. The Board believes that, if the number of shares of common stock voted in favor of Proposal No. 1 at the Special Meeting is insufficient to approve such proposal, it is in the best interests of our stockholders to enable the Board, for a limited period of time, to continue to seek to obtain a sufficient number of additional votes in favor of the proposal. If the Special Meeting is adjourned or postponed, stockholders who have already sent in their proxies may revoke them at any time prior to their use at the Special Meeting as so adjourned or postponed. If the adjournment is for more than thirty days, a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to