Company: ATLN
Filing Date: 2025-05-30
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001605888-25-000022
Chunk: 41

Company: ATLANTIC INTERNATIONAL CORP.
Filing Date: 2025-05-30
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 41
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### AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
Pursuant to the DGCL, our Board of Directors approved, and is proposing that the stockholders approve and adopt an amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation to provide for written consent in lieu of a meeting to be taken by written consent Article VII.B. of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation which currently reads as follows:

No Stockholder Action by Written Consent . Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock, any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the Corporation must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation and may not be effected by any consent in writing by such stockholders.

The Company needs to be able to effect certain transactions in a timely manner without having to solicit proxies and hold a stockholders meeting. The Company’s predecessor company was engaged in research and development and did not contemplate that various corporate actions would require the Company to operate without holding a stockholders meeting. The Board of Directors unanimously recommends that Article VII. B. be revised to read as follows:

Stockholder Action by Written Consent. Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock, any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the Corporation may be effected by consent in writing by such stockholders.

### APPROVAL REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDATION
The affirmative vote of a majority of the Company’s common stock entitled to vote on this Proposal 8 required for approval of this Proposal.

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNANANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS A VOTE “FOR” THE ADOPTION OF ACTION TO BE TAKEN BY WRITTEN CONSENT IN THE COMPANY’S AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION.

#### PROPOSAL 9

### APPROVAL OF RECLASSIFICATION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO

### AN UNCLASSIFIED BOARD IN THE AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
Pursuant to the DGCL, our Board of Directors approved, and is proposing that the stockholders approve and adopt an amendment in the Certificate of Incorporation to reclassify the Board of Directors from a classified Board to an unclassified Board. The Board of Directors viewed the Classified Board as an anti-takeover provision of the predecessor company, which is no longer needed in view of the Company having a relatively small number of members of the Board of Directors. Article VI.C. currently reads as