Company: TMCWW
Filing Date: 2025-07-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-068870
Chunk: 8

Company: TMC the metals Co Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-18
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 8
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 specify whether your shares should be voted FOR, AGAINST or ABSTAIN with respect to Proposal No. 1. If you properly submit a proxy without giving specific voting instructions, your shares will be voted in accordance with our board of directors’ recommendations as noted below. Voting by proxy will not affect your right to attend the Special Meeting. 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS If your shares are registered directly in your name through our stock transfer agent, Continental Stock Transfer and Trust Company, or you have stock certificates registered in your name, you may vote: • By Internet. Follow the instructions included in the Notice or, if you received printed materials, in the proxy card to vote over the Internet. • By mail. If you received a proxy card by mail, you can vote by mail by completing, signing, dating and returning the proxy card as instructed on the card. If you sign the proxy card but do not specify how you want your shares voted, they will be voted in accordance with our board of directors’ recommendations as noted below. • At the meeting. If you attend the virtual Special Meeting, you may vote by completing a ballot, which will be available at the meeting. Internet voting facilities for shareholders of record will be available 24 hours a day and will close at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on August 27, 2025. If your shares are held in “street name” (held in the name of a bank, broker or other holder of record), you will receive instructions from the holder of record. You must follow the instructions of the holder of record in order for your shares to be voted. Internet voting also will be offered to shareholders owning shares through certain banks and brokers. If your shares are not registered in your own name and you plan to vote your shares in virtually at the Special Meeting, you should contact your broker or agent to obtain a legal proxy or broker’s proxy card and bring it to the Special Meeting in order to vote. How does our board of directors recommend that I vote on the proposal? Our board of directors recommends that you vote “FOR” the approval of a resolution approving an amendment to our 2021 Incentive Equity Plan to increase the share pool for equity incentive grants under the plan. If any other matter is presented at the Special Meeting, your proxy provides that your shares will be voted by the proxy holder listed in the proxy in accordance with the proxy holder’s judgment. At the time this proxy statement was first made available, we knew of no matters that needed to