Company: TMCWW
Filing Date: 2025-07-08
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-066460
Chunk: 51

Company: TMC the metals Co Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-08
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 51
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| All current executive officers as a group                                                | ​ | ​ | ​       | ​ |         — | ​ | ​ | ​ | ​    | ​ | 33,641,823 | ​ | ​ |
| All current directors who are not executive officers as a group                          | ​ | ​ | ​       | ​ | 3,440,000 | ​ | ​ | ​ | ​    | ​ |  1,904,226 | ​ | ​ |
| All employees, including all current officers who are not executive officers, as a group | ​ | ​ | ​       | ​ |   750,000 | ​ | ​ | ​ | ​    | ​ | 18,685,098 | ​ | ​ |

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(1) Gerard Barron has received more than 5% of the awards under the 2021 Incentive Equity Plan. New Plan Benefits Except as described below, the amounts of future awards under the 2021 Incentive Equity Plan are not determinable and will be granted at the sole discretion of the board of directors or authorized committee, including grants to our NEOs, our current executive officers, our current directors who are not executive officers, employees who are not executive officers and consultants. We anticipate that most of our grants will be in the form of restricted stock units or options to purchase common shares and we will use most of the additional 40,000,000 common shares proposed to be authorized to cover the options and restricted stock units set forth in the table below and to make additional grants to our employees under our compensation programs, to directors under our non-employee director compensation policy and to consultants in 2025 and beyond. Please refer to the description of equity awards made pursuant to the 2021 Incentive Equity Plan in the last fiscal year to our NEOs under “ Executive Officer and Director Compensation-Executive Compensation ” and to our none-employee directors under “ Executive Officer and Director Compensation-Executive Compensation ”. The options that have been awarded and the restricted stock units that we have committed to granting that are subject shareholder approval of the amendment to the 2021 Incentive Equity Plan set forth in this Proposal No. 1 as of the date of this proxy statement are set forth in the table below.

| Name and Position or Group                                                              | ​ | ​ | Options(1) |   |           |   | ​ | ​ | RSUs(1) |   |           |