Company: TMCWW
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-036264
Chunk: 29

Company: TMC the metals Co Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 29
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 committee responsibilities and assignments, board member access to management and independent advisors, director communications with third parties, director 18 TABLE OF CONTENTS compensation, director orientation and continuing education, evaluation of our chief executive officer management succession planning. A copy of our corporate governance guidelines is posted on our website at www.metals.co under Investors — Governance — Corporate Governance Overview — Governance Documents. Shareholder Communications to our Board of Directors Generally, shareholders who have questions or concerns should contact our Investor Relations department at investors@metals.co. However, any shareholders who wish to address questions regarding our business directly with our board of directors, or any individual director, should direct his or her questions in writing to the chairperson of our board of directors at 1111 West Hastings Street, 15 th Floor, Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 2J3. Communications will be distributed to our board of directors, or to any individual director or directors as appropriate, depending on the facts and circumstances outlined in the communications. Items that are unrelated to the duties and responsibilities of our board of directors may be excluded, such as: • junk mail and mass mailings; • resumes and other forms of job inquiries; • surveys; and • solicitations or advertisements. In addition, any material that is unduly hostile, threatening, or illegal in nature may be excluded, in which case it will be made available to any outside director upon request. Insider Trading Policy and Prohibition on Hedging We have an insider trading policythat, among other things, governs the buying and selling of our securities by all of our personnel, including directors, officers, employees and consultants and certain other covered persons. Our policy is designed to prevent violations of insider trading laws by our personnel and to avoid even the appearance of improper conduct in this regard by our personnel. The policy prohibits covered persons from purchasing, selling, or otherwise disposing of our securities while in possession of material non-public information (except in limited circumstances, such as pursuant to a previously established trading plan). The policy includes quarterly and other trading blackouts and sets forth the procedures covered persons must follow before transacting in our securities, including pre-clearance of all transactions by certain persons, as well as members of their households. Although we have not adopted an insider trading policy governing our purchase, sale, and/or other disposition of our securities, as part of the oversight of risk, our board of directors, or one or more of its committees, approves any transaction, plan or arrangement by or with us with respect to our securities on a case-by