Company: DMAC
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-009696
Chunk: 65

Company: DiaMedica Therapeutics Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 65
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 heightened legal risk and/or the appearance of improper or inappropriate conduct if officers, directors and employees engage in certain types of transactions in DiaMedica’s securities that hedge or offset, or are designed to hedge or offset, any decrease in the market value of DiaMedica’s equity securities. Therefore, DiaMedica’s Insider Trading Policy provides that officers, directors and employees must comply with the following policies with respect to certain transactions in DiaMedica’s securities:

| ● | Short Sales. Short sales of DiaMedica’s securities evidence an expectation on the part of the seller that the securities will decline in value, and therefore signal to the market that the seller has no confidence in DiaMedica or its short-term prospects. In addition, short sales may reduce the seller’s incentive to improve DiaMedica’s performance. For these reasons, short sales of DiaMedica’s securities are prohibited. |

| ● | Publicly Traded Options. A transaction in options is, in effect, a bet on the short-term movement of DiaMedica’s common shares and therefore creates the appearance that an officer, director or employee is trading based on inside information. Transactions in options also may focus an officer’s, director’s or employee’s attention on short-term performance at the expense of DiaMedica’s long-term objectives. Accordingly, transactions in puts, calls or other derivative securities involving DiaMedica’s equity securities, on an exchange or in any other organized market, are prohibited. |

| ● | Hedging Transactions. Certain forms of hedging or monetization transactions, such as zero-cost collars and forward sale contracts, allow an officer, director or employee to lock in much of the value of his or her stock holdings, often in exchange for all or part of the potential for upside appreciation in the stock. These transactions allow the officer, director or employee to continue to own the covered securities, but without the full risks and rewards of ownership. When that occurs, the officer, director or employee may no longer have the same objectives as DiaMedica’s other shareholders. Therefore, such transactions involving DiaMedica’s equity securities are prohibited. |

| ● | Purchases of DiaMedica’s Securities on Margin; Pledging DiaMedica’s Securities to Secure Margin or Other Loans. Purchasing on margin means borrowing from a brokerage firm, bank or other entity in order to purchase DiaMedica’s securities (other than in connection with a cashless exercise of stock options through a broker under DiaMedica’s equity plans). Margin purchases of DiaMedica’s