Company: OCEA
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001493152-25-008279
Chunk: 61

Company: Ocean Biomedical, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 61
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 Sections of the Plan shall be conclusive on all parties.

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In the event that for any reason the Committee is unable to act or if the Committee at the time of any grant, award or other acquisition under the Plan does not consist of two or more Non-Employee Directors, or if there shall be no such Committee, or if the Board otherwise determines to administer the Plan, then the Plan shall be administered by the Board, and references herein to the Committee (except in the proviso to this sentence) shall be deemed to be references to the Board, and any such grant, award or other acquisition may be approved or ratified in any other manner contemplated by subparagraph (d) of Rule 16b-3; provided, however, that grants to the Company’s Chief Executive Officer or to any of the Company’s other four most highly compensated officers that are intended to qualify as performance-based compensation under Section 162(m) of the Code may only be granted by the Committee.

3. Designation of Optionees and Grantees. The persons eligible for participation in the Plan as recipients of Options (the “ Optionees”), Restricted Stock, Preferred Stock, RSUs or Warrants (the “ Grantees” and together with Optionees, the “ Participants”) shall include directors, officers and employees of, and consultants and advisors to, the Company or any Subsidiary; provided that Incentive Options may only be granted to employees of the Company and any Subsidiary. In selecting Participants, and in determining the number of shares to be covered by each Option or Warrant or award of Restricted Stock, Preferred Stock or RSU granted to Participants, the Committee may consider any factors it deems relevant, including, without limitation, the office or position held by the Participant or the Participant’s relationship to the Company, the Participant’s degree of responsibility for and contribution to the growth and success of the Company or any Subsidiary, the Participant’s length of service, promotions and potential. A Participant who has been granted an Option, Restricted Stock, Preferred Stock, RSU or Warrant, hereunder, may be granted additional Options, Restricted Stock, Preferred Stock, RSUs or Warrants, if the Committee shall so determine.

4. Stock Reserved for the Plan. Subject to adjustment as provided in Section 8 hereof, a total of 30,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “ Common Stock”), shall be subject to the Plan