Company: ADAMM
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001273685-25-000038
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Company: ADAMAS TRUST, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 addition, the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee will evaluate a candidate’s independence, diversity, skills and experience in the context of our Board of Directors’ needs.

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We do not have a formal policy with regard to the consideration of diversity in identifying director nominees, but our Board of Directors and the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee strive to nominate directors with a variety of complementary skills and experience so that, as a group, our Board of Directors will possess the appropriate talent, skills and expertise to oversee our business. Both our Board of Directors and the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee seek a broad range of perspectives and consider many factors, including the backgrounds, qualifications, skills, expertise, qualities and experience of directors and prospective nominees to our Board of Directors.

#### Communications with Our Board of Directors
We provide a process for stockholders to send communications to our Board of Directors. Stockholders can send communications to our Board of Directors and, if applicable, to any committee or to specified individual directors in writing to such committee or individual director, c/o New York Mortgage Trust, Inc., 90 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10016, Attention: Secretary. We do not screen mail, except when warranted for security purposes, and all such letters will be forwarded to our Board of Directors and any such specified committee or individual directors.

#### Stockholder Proposals for Our 2026 Annual Meeting
Our Board of Directors will provide for presentation of proposals by our stockholders at the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, provided that these proposals are submitted by eligible stockholders who have complied with the relevant regulations of the SEC regarding stockholder proposals.

Stockholders intending to submit proposals for presentation at our 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders must submit their proposals in writing, and we must receive these proposals at our executive offices on or before December 29, 2025 for inclusion in our proxy statement and the form of proxy relating to our 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. We will determine whether or not to include any proposal in our proxy statement and form of proxy on a case-by-case basis in accordance with our judgment and the regulations governing the solicitations of proxies and other relevant regulations of the SEC. We will not consider proposals received after December 29, 2025 for inclusion in our proxy materials for our 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

Stockholder proposals (other than proposals submitted for inclusion in our proxy statement as described in the preceding paragraph) and nominations may be included in the agenda for the