Company: MITN
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001514281-25-000033
Chunk: 56

Company: AG Mortgage Investment Trust, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 56
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 in which such person is named as a nominee for director, without written objection to such nomination) shall be an Incumbent Director; provided, however, that no individual initially elected or nominated as a director of the Company as a result of an actual or threatened election contest, as such terms are used in Rule 14a-12 of Regulation 14A promulgated under the Exchange Act, with respect to directors or as a result of any other actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or consents by or on behalf of any person other than the Board shall be deemed to be an Incumbent Director;

iii. the sale, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the business or assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries to any Person that is not an Affiliate of the Company; or

iv. the consummation of a reorganization, recapitalization, merger, consolidation, or other similar transaction involving the Company (a "

#### Business Combination
"), unless immediately following such Business Combination 50% or more of the total voting power of the entity resulting from such Business Combination (or, if applicable, the ultimate parent entity that directly or indirectly has beneficial ownership of sufficient voting securities eligible to elect a majority of the board of directors (or the analogous governing body) of such resulting entity), is held by the holders of the Outstanding Company Voting Securities immediately prior to such Business Combination.

(h) "

#### Code
" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the U.S. Treasury regulations and administrative guidance promulgated thereunder.

(i) "

#### Committee
" means the Compensation Committee, or any successor committee, or, in the absence of such committee, the Board itself.

(j) "

#### Common Stock
" means the Common Stock of the Company.

(k) "

#### Company
" means AG Mortgage Investment Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation, and any successor thereto.

( l ) "

#### Disability
" means either: (i) a total and permanent disability as defined in Section 22(e)(3) of the Code (applicable only to Incentive Stock Options); or (ii) the Participant (x) is unable to

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engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than twelve (12) months; (y) is, by reason of any