Company: IIPR
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-041241
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Company: INNOVATIVE INDUSTRIAL PROPERTIES INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 45
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 officers, which are similar to those provided at comparable companies. We believe that our employee benefit plans are an appropriate element of compensation and are necessary to attract and retain employees. In 2020, we adopted the NQDC Plan, which permits our key employees, including our named executive officers, to choose to defer up to specified maximum amounts of compensation by contributing those amounts to the NQDC Plan. The NQDC Plan is described below under the heading “Nonqualified Deferred Compensation for 2024.” Clawback Policy Our Board has adopted a formal clawback policy in compliance with the amended clawback listing standards of the New York Stock Exchange to implement the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s previously adopted recoupment rules in accordance with Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Act. Pursuant to the clawback policy, certain incentive-based compensation received by our executive officers on the basis of financial results that are later restated may be subject to recovery. Our clawback policy is filed as an exhibit to our annual report on Form 10-K. Anti-Hedging and Anti-Pledging Policies To ensure proper alignment with our stockholders, we have established policies that prohibit our directors, officers, other employees, and their family members from engaging in any transaction that might allow them to realize gains from declines in our securities. Specifically, we prohibit our directors, officers, employees, and their family members from engaging in transactions using derivative securities, short selling our securities, trading in any puts, calls or covered calls, writing purchase or call options and short sales, or otherwise participating in hedging, “stop loss,” or other speculative transactions involving our securities. In addition, margin purchases of our securities and pledging any of our securities as collateral to secure loans is prohibited. This prohibition means that our directors, officers, employees, and their family members are not permitted to hold our securities in a “margin account” nor are they permitted to pledge any of our securities for any loans. Agreements with Our Named Executive Officers As described in greater detail below under “Severance and Change of Control Agreements,” each of our named executive officers has a severance and change of control agreement. These agreements provide for certain benefits if the named executive officer’s employment is terminated by the Company without “cause” or by the named executive officer for “good reason” (each as defined in the applicable severance and change of control agreement) (a “Qualifying Termination”), and the benefits vary depending on whether the Qualifying Termination occurs within two years after