Company: RSI
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001793659-25-000047
Chunk: 177

Company: Rush Street Interactive, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 177
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 could drive individuals to our offerings, adding or switching to them may disrupt our business and increase our costs. If any of our existing or future relationships fail to provide services to us in accordance with the terms of our applicable arrangement, or at all, and we are unable to find suitable alternatives, this could impact our ability to cost-effectively attract customers and harm our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

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Risks Related to Our Arrangements with Affiliates

We are a “controlled” company within the meaning of the NYSE rules and, as a result, we qualify for, and intend to rely on, exemptions from certain corporate governance requirements. You will not have the same protections as those afforded to stockholders of companies that are subject to such governance requirements.

Neil G. Bluhm and Richard Schwartz and their respective trusts and entities controlled by them (collectively, the “Controlling Holders”) together as a group control a majority of the voting power of our outstanding common stock. As a result, we are a “controlled company” under the NYSE’s corporate governance standards. Under these rules, a company of which more than 50% of the voting power for the election of directors is held by an individual, group or another company is a “controlled company” and may elect not to comply with certain corporate governance requirements, including:

•having a majority of our Board consist of independent directors;

•having a nominating and corporate governance committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee’s purpose and responsibilities;

•having a compensation committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee’s purpose and responsibilities; and

•conducting an annual performance evaluation of the nominating and corporate governance and compensation committees.

We currently, and intend to continue to, use these exemptions. As a result, we may not have a majority of independent directors on our Board, our compensation and our nominating and corporate governance committees may not consist entirely of independent directors and our compensation and nominating and corporate governance committees may not be subject to annual performance evaluations. Accordingly, you will not have the same protections afforded to stockholders of companies that are subject to all the NYSE corporate governance requirements. Furthermore, the Controlling Holders have entered into a voting agreement where they agree to vote together on certain matters presented to the Company’s stockholders as long as the voting agreement is in effect, which may have the effect of extending the period in which we are a “controlled company” and