Company: CSLMF
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-155514
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Company: CSLM ACQUISITION CORP.
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: DEFM14A
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 recommend them for reelection and selecting, or recommending that the Pubco Board select, the director nominees for the next annual meeting of stockholders,
(3) identifying Pubco Board members qualified to fill vacancies on any Pubco Board committee and recommending that the Pubco Board appoint the identified member or members to the applicable committee, (4) reviewing and recommending to the
Pubco Board corporate governance principles applicable to Pubco, (5) overseeing the evaluation of the Pubco Board and management and (6) handling such other matters that are specifically delegated to the committee by the Pubco Board from
time to time.

The Pubco Board will adopt a written charter for the nominating and corporate governance committee which will be available
on Pubco’s website upon completion of the Business Combination.

Code of Business Conduct

Pubco will adopt a new code of business conduct that applies to all of its directors, officers and employees, including its principal executive
officer, principal financial officer and principal accounting officer, which will be available on Pubco’s website upon the completion of the Business Combination. Pubco’s code of business conduct is a “code of ethics,” as defined
in Item 406(b) of Regulation S-K. Please note that Pubco’s Internet website address is provided as an inactive textual reference only. Pubco will make any legally required disclosures
regarding amendments to, or waivers of, provisions of its code of ethics on its Internet website.

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Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

Upon the Closing, none of the members of PubCo’s compensation committee was at any time one of the PubCo’s officers or employees.
Upon the Closing, none of Pubco’s executive officers would serve, or has served during the last completed fiscal year, on the compensation committee or board of directors of any other entity, one of whose executive officers served as a member
of PubCo’s board of directors or compensation committee.

Independence of the Board of Directors

Nasdaq rules generally require that independent directors must comprise a majority of a listed company’s board of directors. Based upon
information requested from and provided by each proposed director concerning his or her background, employment and affiliations, including family relationships, Fusemachines has determined that Bharat Krish, Tim Gocher, Sanjay Shrestha, and Salman
Alam, representing three (at any given time) of Pubco’s five proposed directors, will be “independent” as that term is defined under the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC and the listing