Company: ADAMM
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001273685-25-000038
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Company: ADAMAS TRUST, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders if properly submitted in accordance with our bylaws. Our current bylaws provide that in order for a stockholder to nominate a candidate for election as a director at an annual meeting of stockholders or propose business for consideration at such meeting, notice must be given in writing to our Secretary not later than 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on the 120th day prior to the first anniversary of the date of the proxy statement for the preceding year’s annual meeting nor earlier than the 150th day prior to the first anniversary of the proxy statement for the preceding year’s annual meeting; provided, however, that in the event that the annual meeting with respect to which such notice is to be tendered is not held within 30 days before or after the anniversary of the date of the preceding year’s annual meeting of stockholders, to be timely, notice by the stockholder must be received no earlier than the 150 th day prior to such annual meeting and not later than 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on the later of the 120 th day prior to such annual meeting, as originally convened, or the tenth day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such annual meeting is first made. As a result, any notice given by or on behalf of a stockholder pursuant to the provisions of our bylaws must be delivered in writing via personal delivery or United States certified mail, postage prepaid to our Secretary c/o New York Mortgage Trust, Inc., 90 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10016, not earlier than November 29, 2025, and not later than December 29, 2025. Any such nomination or proposal must include the information and other materials required by our bylaws. Additionally, to comply with the universal proxy rules, stockholders who intend to solicit proxies in support of director nominees other than Company nominees must provide notice that sets forth the information required by Rule 14a-19 under the Exchange Act no later than April 13, 2026.

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Directors Attendance at Meetings of our Board of Directors and Annual Meeting

Our Board of Directors held 11 meetings, including quarterly meetings, during 2024. All directors who were members of our Board of Directors for the year ended December 31, 2024 attended 75% or more of the aggregate number of meetings of the Board of Directors and its committees on which they served during 2024.

We have a policy that directors attend