Company: ACTG
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000934549-25-000004
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Company: ACACIA RESEARCH CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
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 McNulty Jr.Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer and Duly Authorized Signatory)

POWER OF ATTORNEY

We, the undersigned directors and officers of Acacia Research Corporation, do hereby constitute and appoint Martin D. McNulty Jr. and Kirsten Hoover, and each of them, as our true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with power of substitution, to do any and all acts and things in our name and behalf in our capacities as directors and officers and to execute any and all instruments for us and in our names in the capacities indicated below, which said attorney-in-fact and agent may deem necessary or advisable to enable said corporation to comply with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and any rules, regulations and requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in connection with this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including specifically but without limitation, power and authority to sign for us or any of us in our names in the capacities indicated below, any and all amendments hereto; and we do hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and the capacities and on the dates indicated.

SignatureTitleDate/s/ Martin D. McNulty Jr.Chief Executive Officer and DirectorMarch 17, 2025Martin D. McNulty Jr.(Principal Executive Officer)/s/ Kirsten HooverInterim Chief Financial OfficerMarch 17, 2025Kirsten Hoover(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)/s/ Gavin MolinelliDirectorMarch 17, 2025Gavin Molinelli/s/ Isaac KohlbergDirectorMarch 17, 2025Isaac Kohlberg/s/ Maureen O’ConnellDirectorMarch 17, 2025Maureen O’Connell/s/ Geoffrey RibarDirectorMarch 17, 2025Geoffrey Ribar/s/ Ajay SundarDirectorMarch 17, 2025Ajay Sundar/s/ Michelle FelmanDirectorMarch 17, 2025Michelle Felman

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

Board of Directors and Stockholders

Acacia Research Corporation

Opinion on the financial statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Acacia Research Corporation (a Delaware corporation) and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as