Company: BWNB
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-034242
Chunk: 95

Company: Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 95
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 of Directors shall have designated one or more directorships whose term then expires as directorships of another class in order more nearly to achieve equality of number of directors among the classes. In the event of any change in the authorized number of directors, each director then continuing to serve as such will nevertheless continue as a director of the class of which he or she is a member until the expiration of his or her current term, or his or her prior death, resignation or removal. The Board of Directors will specify the class to which a newly created directorship will be allocated. Election of directors need not be by written ballot unless the Bylaws of the Corporation so provide. (c) Removal of Directors . No director of the Corporation may be removed from office as a director by vote or other action of the stockholders or otherwise, except for cause or a Board Determination (as defined below), and then only by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least eighty percent (80%) of the voting power of all then outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation generally entitled to vote in the election of directors, voting together as a single class. Except as applicable law otherwise provides and unless the Board of Directors has made a determination that removal is in the best interests of the Corporation (in which case a finding of cause is not required for removal), which determination shall require the affirmative vote of at least eighty percent (80%) of the directors then in office at any meeting of the Board of Directors called for that purpose (a “ Board Determination ”), “cause” for the removal of a director will be deemed to exist only if the director whose removal is proposed: (i) has been convicted, or has been granted immunity to testify in any proceeding in which another has been convicted, of a felony by a court of competent jurisdiction and that conviction is no longer subject to direct appeal; (ii) has been found to have been grossly negligent or guilty of misconduct in the performance of his duties to the Corporation in any matter of substantial importance to the Corporation by (A) the affirmative vote of at least eighty percent (80%) of the directors then in office at any meeting of the Board of Directors called for that purpose or (B) a court of competent jurisdiction; or (iii) has been adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction to be mentally incompetent, which mental incompetency directly affects his ability to serve as a director of the Corporation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, whenever holders of outstanding shares of one or more series of Preferred Stock are entitled to elect members of