Company: TMCWW
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-036264
Chunk: 8

Company: TMC the metals Co Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 8
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. If you sign the proxy card but do not specify how you want your shares voted, they will be voted in accordance with our board of directors’ recommendations as noted below. • At the meeting. If you attend the virtual Annual Meeting, you may vote by completing a ballot, which will be available at the meeting. Internet voting facilities for shareholders of record will be available 24 hours a day and will close at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on May 28, 2025. If your shares are held in “street name” (held in the name of a bank, broker or other holder of record), you will receive instructions from the holder of record. You must follow the instructions of the holder of record in order for your shares to be voted. Internet voting also will be offered to shareholders owning shares through certain banks and brokers. If your shares are not registered in your own name and you plan to vote your shares in virtually at the Annual Meeting, you should contact your broker or agent to obtain a legal proxy or broker’s proxy card and bring it to the Annual Meeting in order to vote. How does our board of directors recommend that I vote on the proposals? Our board of directors recommends that you vote as follows: • “ FOR ” the approval of setting the number of directors at eight ; • “ FOR ” the election of the nominees for director; • “ FOR ” the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for our fiscal year ending December 31, 2025; and • “ FOR ” the adoption of an amendment to the Company’s Articles (“Articles”) to update the advance notice provisions with respect to the address of the Company’s registered and records office (the “Amendment”). If any other matter is presented at the Annual Meeting, your proxy provides that your shares will be voted by the proxy holder listed in the proxy in accordance with the proxy holder’s judgment. At the time this proxy statement was first made available, we knew of no matters that needed to be acted on at the Annual Meeting, other than those discussed in this proxy statement. May I change or revoke my proxy? If you give us your proxy, you may change or revoke it at any time before the Annual Meeting. In addition to any method permitted under applicable law, you may change or revoke your proxy in any one of the following ways: • if you received a proxy card, by signing a new proxy card with a date later than your previously delivered proxy and submitting it as instructed above; • by