Company: OCEA
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001493152-25-008279
Chunk: 6

Company: Ocean Biomedical, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 6
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 it means you hold shares that are registered in more than one account. To ensure that all of your shares are voted, sign and return each proxy card or, if you submit a proxy by telephone or the Internet, submit one proxy for each proxy card you receive.

How Your Shares Will Be Voted

Shares represented by proxies that are properly executed and returned, and not revoked, will be voted as specified. YOUR VOTE IS VERY IMPORTANT.

If You Do Not Specify How You Want Your Shares Voted

If you are the record holder of your shares and submit your proxy without specifying how your shares are to be voted, your shares will be voted FOR all proposals.

In addition, the proxy holders named in the proxy are authorized to vote in their discretion on any other matters that may properly come before the Annual Meeting and at any postponement or adjournment thereof. The Board knows of no other items of business that will be presented for consideration at the Annual Meeting other than those described in this proxy statement.

Broker Non-Votes

A “broker non-vote” occurs when a nominee holding shares for a beneficial owner has not received voting instructions from the beneficial owner and does not have discretionary authority to vote the shares. If you hold your shares in street name and do not provide voting instructions to your broker or other nominee, your shares will be considered to be broker non-votes and will not be voted on any proposal on which your broker or other nominee does not have discretionary authority to vote. Shares that constitute broker non-votes will be counted as present at the Annual Meeting for the purpose of determining a quorum, but will not be considered entitled to vote on the proposal in question. Brokers do not have discretionary authority to vote on the Nasdaq Proposal and the Adjournment Proposal.

Votes Required

The following table summarizes the voting requirements and the effects of broker non-votes and “withhold” votes or abstentions on each of the proposals to be voted on at the Annual Meeting:

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| Proposals |     |                |     | Required                                                                                                                    
 Vote                                                                                                                        |     | Effect                                                                                                                        
 of Broker Non-Votes                                                                                                           |     | Effect                                                                                                                   
 of “Withhold”                                                                                                            
 Votes                                                                                                                    
 or Abstentions                                                                                                           |
| 1.        |     | Election       
 of Directors   |     | Each                                                                                                                        
 director nominee will be elected by a plurality of the votes of the shares present in person                                
 or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote on the