Company: ACTG
Filing Date: 2025-04-09
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000934549-25-000014
Chunk: 54

Company: ACACIA RESEARCH CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-09
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 54
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 indicator of the Company’s long-term performance.

Provided below is detail on the grants of time-vested RSUs and PSUs to each of Mr. McNulty, Ms. Hoover, Mr. Rasamny and Mr. Soncini intended to cover annual grants in respect of fiscal years 2023 and 2024 as approved by the Compensation Committee on June 7, 2023.

#### 2023 LTI Grants
| Name                   |     | Annual LTI Value ($) |     | 2 Year LTI Value ($) |     | Restricted Stock Units(1) |     | PSUs at Target(2) |
| Martin D. McNulty, Jr. |     |            1,343,474 |     |            2,686,948 |     |                    87,428 |     |           495,424 |
| Kirsten Hoover         |     |              249,821 |     |              499,641 |     |                    54,191 |     |            54,191 |
| Robert Rasamny         |     |              255,371 |     |              510,742 |     |                    55,395 |     |            55,395 |
| Jason W. Soncini       |     |              394,160 |     |              788,319 |     |                    85,501 |     |            85,501 |

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| (1) |     | The RSUs vest in equal installments on each of the first three anniversaries of the grant date, subject to the executive’s continued employment through the applicable vesting date.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| (2) |     | The number of PSUs earned can range from 0% to 200% of the target number of PSUs granted (up to a maximum of 750,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, after taking into account the number of shares of the Company’s common stock subject to all other awards granted in 2023 to the applicable executive, as set forth in the Company’s 2016 Acacia Research Corporation Stock Incentive Plan (the “2016 Stock Incentive Plan”)) and will be based upon the level of achievement of the Company’s compound annual growth rate of its adjusted book value per share, measured over a three-year performance period beginning on January 1, 2023 and ending on December 31, 2025.