Company: ACTG
Filing Date: 2025-04-09
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000934549-25-000014
Chunk: 27

Company: ACACIA RESEARCH CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-09
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 27
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holder wishing to nominate a candidate for election to the Board at the next annual meeting is required to give written notice addressed to the Corporate Secretary in the manner described under “ Stockholder Proposals for the 2026 Annual Meeting ” and in accordance with our Bylaws, in order to be considered for nomination at the next annual meeting.

• The notice of nomination must include information regarding the recommended candidate relevant to a determination of whether the recommended candidate would be barred from being considered independent under the Nasdaq Stock Market’s Listing Qualifications or, alternatively, a statement that the recommended candidate would not be so barred. A nomination which does not comply with the above requirements will not be considered.

Further, the following information must be provided to the Company with the written nomination:

• as to each person whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election as a director, (1) the name, age and business address, (2) the principal occupation or employment of such person (present and for the past five years), (3) the class and number of shares of capital stock of the Company which are owned beneficially and of record by each such nominee, (4) all information relating to such person that is

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required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors in an election contest, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act and Rule 14a-11 thereunder (and such person’s written consent to being named in any proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected) and (5) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary arrangements, agreements or understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationship, if any, between the stockholder and its respective affiliates or associates, or others with whom they are acting in concert, on the one hand, and the proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates or associates, on the other hand; and

• as to the stockholder giving the notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made (1) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Company’s books, and of such beneficial owner, (2) the class and number of shares of capital stock of the Company which are owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, (3) a representation that the stockholder is a holder of record of stock of the Company entitled to vote at