Company: LIDRW
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: PREC14A
Source: 0001140361-25-010248
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Company: AEye, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: PREC14A
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. The WHITE universal proxy card accompanying this Proxy Statement will provide information regarding Internet voting.

Only holders of the Company’s common stock (“common stock”) as recorded in our stock register at the close of business on [•], 2025, may vote at our Annual Meeting. On [•], 2025, there were [•] shares of common stock

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issued and outstanding. As of the date of this proxy statement, the Company has not issued any shares of its preferred stock. Each share of common stock is entitled to one vote per share on any matter submitted to a vote of our stockholders. ITEMS OF BUSINESS There are three matters scheduled for a vote:

| • | Proposal 1:To elect two (2) Class I directors, Timothy J. Dunn and Sue E. Zeifman, each to hold office until our Annual Meeting of Stockholders in 2028 and until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified, or until his or her earlier death, resignation, or removal; |

| • | Proposal 3:To approve an increase in the number of shares of common stock issuable under our 2021 Equity Incentive Plan. |

Certain stockholders (the “Dissident Group”) have notified the Company of their intent to propose a resolution at the Annual Meeting, recommending and requesting that the Board of Directors take the steps necessary to amend the Certificate of Incorporation to reduce the number of authorized shares of common stock to 125% of the then fully diluted shares of common stock outstanding (the “Proposed Floor Proposal”). As of the date of this notice, we have yet to receive any further indication of the stockholders’ intentions with respect to presentation of any such Proposed Floor Proposal at the Annual Meeting or a solicitation in opposition of the Board of Directors’ proposals. The Proposed Floor Proposal was not submitted under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and accordingly, the Proposed Floor Proposal may be presented at the meeting but is not included in this Proxy Statement. If the Proposed Floor Proposal is properly brought before our Annual Meeting, the proxy holders will have, and intend to exercise, discretionary voting authority under Rule 14a-4(c) under the Exchange Act with respect to shares represented by all proxies received by the Board AGAINST the Proposed Floor Proposal. Aside from (i) the election of directors, (ii) the ratification of the appointment of