Company: XOMAP
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-081538
Chunk: 26

Company: XOMA Royalty Corp
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 26
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 in responding to such demands, in addition to the time and distraction for our management team in gathering records and providing information to our lawyers. Although, Section 220 of the DGCL was amended on March 25, 2025 (the “2025 DGCL Amendments”) to narrow the scope of such demands and increase the burden on stockholders for obtaining such records, we still expect fewer frivolous books and records demands under Nevada law as inspection rights are more restricted for stockholders of a public company like XOMA. Specifically, under the Nevada Revised Statutes (the “NRS”), the right of a stockholder of record to inspect books of account and financial statements does not apply to a corporation that furnishes stockholders a detailed, annual financial statement or that has filed certain reports required pursuant to the Exchange Act during the preceding 12 months.

Attracting Qualified Directors and Officers.Although both Delaware and Nevada law afford some protections to directors and officers in the form of exculpation from potential liability for money damages for certain acts in their capacities as directors and officers, Nevada law affords potentially greater protections. Specifically, Delaware law permits a corporation to adopt provisions limiting or eliminating the liability of a director to a company and its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of the duty of care, but not for breach of the duty of loyalty, acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct, or a knowing violation of law. Moreover, pursuant to a recent amendment to the DGCL, similar protections can be extended to senior officers of Delaware corporations in certain circumstances, but officers cannot be protected to the same degree as directors. For example, the DGCL does not permit a corporation to exculpate officers for breaches of the duty of care in claims asserted derivatively. By contrast, and notwithstanding the 2025 DGCL Amendments, which provide greater protection of directors and officers from liability for conflict of interest transactions in certain cases, Nevada law provides a broader exclusion of individual liability of both officers and directors to a company and its stockholders. Specifically, under Nevada law, unless the articles of incorporation provide for greater individual liability, a director or officer is not individually liable to the corporation or its stockholders or creditors for any damages as a result of any act or failure to act in their capacity as a director or officer unless (a) the presumption that the director or officer acted in good faith, on an informed basis and with a view to the interests of the company, has been rebutted, and (b) it is