Company: ADAMM
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001273685-25-000038
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Company: ADAMAS TRUST, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 utilized the 2024 Long-Term Equity Incentive Program in our overall executive compensation structure. The 2024 Long-Term Equity Incentive Program promotes recruitment and retention of key employees and rewards employees for outperformance relative to our peers over the longer-term. Our 2024 Long-Term Equity Incentive Program provides for long-term equity awards that provide for a combination of performance share awards that can be earned based on the achievement of certain relative total stockholder return hurdles over a three-year performance period and restricted stock unit awards subject to time-based vesting conditions that vest ratably over a three-year period.

See the information set forth under “Executive Compensation—Compensation Discussion and Analysis” and “Executive Compensation—Executive Compensation Information” for more information on these elements of our named executive officer compensation program.

For these reasons, the Board of Directors strongly endorses our named executive officers compensation program and recommends that stockholders vote in favor of the following resolution:

“RESOLVED, that the Company’s stockholders approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers, as disclosed under the compensation disclosure rules of the SEC, including the “Executive Compensation—Compensation Discussion and Analysis,” compensation tables and narrative discussion contained in the proxy statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.”

Our Board of Directors recommends that stockholders vote “FOR” the approval, on an advisory basis, of our named executive officer compensation.

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<div align='center'>PROPOSAL NO. 3: ADVISORY VOTE ON THE FREQUENCY OF FUTURE ADVISORY VOTES ON NAMED EXECUTIVE OFFICER COMPENSATION</div>

In Proposal No. 2 above, we ask our stockholders to vote, on an advisory basis, to approve the compensation of our named executive officers. Section 14A of the Exchange Act also provides our stockholders with the opportunity to recommend, on an advisory basis, how frequently we should provide future advisory votes on named executive officer compensation. By voting on this Proposal No. 3, stockholders may tell us whether they would prefer to have an advisory vote on named executive officer compensation every year, every two years or every three years.

After careful consideration, our Board of Directors has determined that having an annual advisory vote on named executive officer compensation is the most appropriate policy for our Company at this time and, therefore, recommends that you vote to have future advisory votes on named executive officer compensation every year. While the Compensation Committee has attempted to