Company: CENX
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001552781-25-000153
Chunk: 61

Company: CENTURY ALUMINUM CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 61
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d) “ Award Agreement” means either: (i) a written agreement entered into by the Company and a Participant setting forth the terms and provisions applicable to an Award granted under this Plan, or (ii) a written or electronic statement issued by the Company to a Participant describing the terms and provisions of such Award, including in each case any amendment or modification thereof. The Committee may provide for the use of electronic, Internet, or other non-paper Award Agreements, and the use of electronic, Internet, or other non-paper means for the acceptance thereof and actions thereunder by a Participant. [1] The annual meeting of stockholders is scheduled to be held on June 16, 2025.

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(e) “ Beneficial Owner” or “ Beneficial Ownership” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Rule 13d-3 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Exchange Act. (f) “ Board” or “ Board of Directors” means the Board of Directors of the Company. (g) “ Cash-Based Award” means an Award, denominated in cash, granted to a Participant as described in Article 10. (h) “ Cause” shall have the meaning set forth in the applicable Award Agreement and, in the absence of such definition in the applicable Award Agreement, the determination of whether a Participant’s employment was terminated for Cause shall be made based upon the terms of an Other Agreement or Executive Severance Plan as applicable to the Participant which defines “Cause” (or words of similar meaning). (i) “ Change in Control” unless otherwise specified in an Award Agreement or an Other Agreement, a “Change in Control” of the Company shall be deemed to have occurred if, as the result of a single transaction or series of transactions, the event set forth in any one of the following paragraphs shall have occurred: (i) Any Person (other than a Permitted Person or Glencore) becomes a Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing 50% or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding voting securities, except that the term “Person” shall not include (i) the Company or any of its subsidiaries, (ii) a trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan sponsored or maintained by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, (iii) an underwriter temporarily holding securities pursuant to an offering of such securities or (iv) a corporation owned directly or indirectly, by