Company: AAOI
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-022149
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Company: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 77
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 Stock that, as of the Effective Date, are available to be made subject to new grants under the Prior Plan, which shares will cease to be available for issuance under the Prior Plan as of the Effective Date and instead become available under this Plan, plus (iii) up to 1,613,762 shares of Common Stock subject to awards granted under the Prior Plan that, on or after the Effective Date, would otherwise return to the share reserve of the Prior Plan under the terms of the Prior Plan (excluding shares tendered or withheld to pay the exercise or purchase price of or withholding taxes due on an award granted under the Prior Plan, but including shares subject to Lapsed Awards (as defined in the Prior Plan)), which shares will cease to be available under the Prior Plan and will become available under this Plan effective on the date the shares would otherwise return to the Prior Plan. The maximum aggregate Share Reserve (the sum of (i), (ii) and (iii)) will not exceed 10,147,762 shares of Common Stock. Shares issued under the Plan will be drawn from authorized and unissued shares or treasury shares. (b) Share Use . (i) If any Award lapses, expires, terminates or is forfeited or canceled due to failure to earn or exercise the Award prior to the issuance of shares thereunder, if shares are issued to a Participant but are forfeited to or repurchased by the Company at their original exercise or purchase price pursuant to the Company’s reacquisition or repurchase rights under the Plan, including any forfeiture or repurchase caused by the failure to meet a contingency or condition required for the vesting of such shares, or if an Award is settled in cash or other property, then those shares will revert to and be available for issuance under the Plan. (ii) Shares tendered to or withheld by the Company to pay the exercise or purchase price of an Award or to satisfy any tax withholding obligation in connection with the exercise or settlement of an Award will be deemed issued and not be added back to the Share Reserve. Vested shares that have been issued under an Award and subsequently forfeited or reacquired by the Company will not be added back to the Share Reserve. If any shares of Common Stock are repurchased by the Company on the open market with the proceeds of the exercise or purchase price of an Award, then the number of shares so repurchased shall not remain available for subsequent issuance under the Plan. A-2 TABLE OF CONTENTS (iii) If a Participant receives dividends or Dividend