Company: ANY
Filing Date: 2025-11-18
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001591956-25-000018
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Company: Sphere 3D Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-11-18
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 8
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 on the records of the Company. Such common shares will generally be registered under the name of the nominee of a clearing agency in which such Intermediary participates or, more rarely, in the name of the Intermediary. In Canada, the vast majority of such shares are registered under the name of CDS & Co. (the nominee of CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc.) and in the United States registered under the name of CEDE & Co. (the nominee of The Depository Trust Company). Common shares of Non-Registered Shareholders can only be voted (for or against resolutions) or withheld from voting upon the instructions of the Non-Registered Shareholder. If you hold your shares through a New York Stock Exchange member brokerage firm, such member brokerage firm has the discretion to vote shares held on your behalf with respect to the proposal to the Name Change Proposal and the Adjournment Proposal, but not the Warrant Inducement Proposal, as more fully described under “Broker Non-Votes.” Therefore, Non-Registered Shareholders should carefully follow the instructions of their Intermediaries and indicated on the materials provided to them and ensure that instructions respecting the Meeting and the voting of their common shares are communicated to the appropriate person.

Applicable securities legislation requires Intermediaries to seek voting instructions from Non-Registered Shareholders in advance of shareholders’ meetings. Every Intermediary has its own mailing procedures and provides its own return instructions to clients, which should be carefully followed by Non-Registered Shareholders in order to ensure that their common shares are voted at the Meeting.

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Although a Non-Registered Shareholder may not be recognized directly at the Meeting for the purposes of voting common shares not registered in its name, a Non-Registered Shareholder may attend at the Meeting as proxyholder for the registered holder of its common shares and vote such common shares in that capacity. Non-Registered Shareholders who wish to attend the Meeting and vote their common shares as proxyholder for the registered holder of their common shares should carefully follow the instructions of their Intermediaries and indicated on the materials provided to them. However, even if a Non-Registered Shareholder plans to attend the Meeting, it is recommended to vote your shares in advance so that your vote will be counted if you later decide not to attend the Meeting.

Proxy-related materials in connection with the Meeting are being sent and made available to both registered and Non-Registered Shareholders. If you are a Non-Registered Shareholder, and the issuer or