Company: ATLN
Filing Date: 2025-05-30
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001605888-25-000022
Chunk: 67

Company: ATLANTIC INTERNATIONAL CORP.
Filing Date: 2025-05-30
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 67
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) the Participant’s material violation of any written policies or codes of conduct of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates, including written policies related to discrimination, harassment, performance of illegal or unethical activities, and ethical misconduct; or (vii) the Participant’s conduct that brings or is reasonably likely to bring the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates negative publicity or into public disgrace, embarrassment, or disrepute.

11.8 “ Change in Control ” means and includes each of the following:

(a) A transaction or series of transactions (other than an offering of Common Stock to the general public through a registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission or a transaction or series of transactions that meets the requirements of clauses (i) and (ii) of subsection (c) below) whereby any “person” or related “group” of “persons” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act) (other than the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, an employee benefit plan maintained by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or a “person” that, prior to such transaction, directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, the Company) directly or indirectly acquires beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3) of securities of the Company possessing more than fifty percent (50%) of the total combined voting power of the Company’s securities outstanding immediately after such acquisition; or

(b) During any twelve (12) month period, individuals who, at the beginning of such period, constitute the Board together with any new Director(s) (other than a Director designated by a person who shall have entered into an agreement with the Company to effect a transaction described in subsections (a) or

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(c)) whose election to the Board or nomination for election by the Company’s stockholders was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds of the Directors then still in office who either were Directors at the beginning of the twelve (12) month period or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved, cease for any reason to constitute a majority thereof; or

(c) The consummation by the Company (whether directly involving the Company or indirectly involving the Company through one or more intermediaries) of (i) a merger, consolidation, reorganization, or business combination; (ii