Company: TMCWW
Filing Date: 2025-07-08
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-066460
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Company: TMC the metals Co Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-08
Form: PRE 14A
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 chosen proxyholder and deposit such proxy at the registered and records office of the Company at 1111 West Hastings Street, 15 th Floor, Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 2J3.

**What if I receive more than one Notice or proxy card?**

You may receive more than one Notice or proxy card if you hold our common shares in more than one account, which may be in registered form or held in street name. Please vote in the manner described above under “ How do I vote? ” for each account to ensure that all of your shares are voted.

#### Will my shares be voted if I do not vote?
If your shares are registered in your name or if you have stock certificates, they will not be counted if you do not vote as described above under “ How do I vote? ” If your shares are held in street name and you do not provide voting instructions to the bank, broker or other nominee that holds your shares as described above, the bank, broker or other nominee that holds your shares does not have the authority to vote your unvoted shares to approve an amendment to our 2021 Incentive Equity Plan to increase the share pool for equity incentive grants under the plan (Proposal No. 1 of this proxy statement) without receiving instructions from you. Therefore, we encourage you to provide voting instructions to your bank, broker or other nominee. This ensures your shares will be voted at the Special Meeting and in the manner you desire. A “broker non-vote” will occur if your broker cannot vote your shares on a particular matter because it has not received instructions from you and does not have discretionary voting authority on that matter or because your broker chooses not to vote on a matter for which it does have discretionary voting authority.

**What vote is required to approve the proposal and how are votes counted?**

The affirmative vote of a majority of the shares cast for Proposal No. 1 is required to approve an ordinary resolution approving an amendment to our 2021 Incentive Equity Plan to increase the share pool for equity incentive grants under the plan as more particularly set out below. You may either vote FOR, AGAINST or ABSTAIN on this proposal. Abstentions, if any, will have no effect on the results of this vote. Brokerage firms do not have authority to vote customers’ unvoted shares held by the firms in street name on this proposal. As a result, any shares not voted by a customer will be treated as a broker non-vote. Such broker non-v