Company: GDSTR
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001213900-25-071731
Chunk: 572

Company: Goldenstone Acquisition Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 572
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 intended to comply with the applicable requirements of the Nasdaq Stock Market or any other national securities exchange on which the Company’s securities are listed and applicable securities laws governing public companies. The Plan shall expire ten (10) years from the date of the closing of the Business Combination Agreement unless terminated earlier by the Board. For purposes of the Plan, unless otherwise provided by the Board with respect to a particular Award, the following initially capitalized words and phrases will be defined as set forth below, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning: (a)“Affiliate” means, with respect to a Person, a Person that directly or indirectly Controls, or is controlled by, or is under common Control with such Person. (b)“Award” means a grant of Options, Restricted Stock, or Restricted Stock Units pursuant to the provisions of the Plan. (c)“Award Agreement” means, with respect to any particular Award, the written document that sets forth the terms of that particular Award. (d)“Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company, as constituted from time to time; provided, however, that the Board shall appoint a Compensation Committee, comprised solely of independent directors (as defined by Nasdaq Listing Rule 5605(a)(2)), to perform some or all of the Board’s administrative functions hereunder pursuant to Section 2, references in the Plan to the “Board” will be deemed to also refer to the Compensation Committee in connection with administrative matters to be performed by that Compensation Committee. (e)“Business Combination Agreement” means that certain dated June 26, 2024, as amended, by and among (i) the Company, Yan (Chris) Feng, solely in his capacity as representative, agent and attorney -in-factof the Company Securityholders, Goldenstone Acquisition Limited (“Goldenstone), and Pacifica Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation and wholly -ownedsubsidiary of Goldenstone. (f) “Cause” means (i) conviction of, or the entry of a plea of guilty or no contest to, a felony or any other crime that causes the Company or its Affiliates public disgrace or disrepute, or materially and adversely affects the Company’s or its Affiliates’ operations or financial performance or the relationship the Company has with its customers, (ii) gross negligence or willful misconduct with respect to the Company or any of its Affiliates, including, without limitation fraud, embezzlement, theft or proven dishonesty in the course of employment; (iii