Company: ACTG
Filing Date: 2025-04-09
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000934549-25-000014
Chunk: 33

Company: ACACIA RESEARCH CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-09
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 33
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 complement the Company’s Insider Trading Policy related to Company securities already in place. These Insider Trading Policies may be viewed on our website at https://acaciaresearch.com/corporate-governance. The Insider Trading Policies

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apply to all of our officers, directors and employees, including our principal executive officer, principal financial and accounting officer and controller, or persons performing similar functions and are reasonably designed to promote compliance with insider trading laws, rules and regulations, and listing standards.

Insider Trading Policy Relating to Company Securities

Our Insider Trading Policy relating to Company securities applies to all transactions in the Company’s equity securities, including common stock and any other type of securities that the Company may issue, such as preferred stock, notes, bonds, convertible debentures and warrants, and exchange- traded options (including puts and calls) and other derivative securities. The policy outlines, among other things, prohibited behavior relating to Company securities by directors, officers and employees, including named executive officers, consultants, contractors, agents and certain family members of those persons (collectively, “Covered Persons”) including the prohibition on trading in Company securities while in possession of MNPI concerning the Company or its securities, engaging in hedging transactions related to Company securities, such as put or call options, short sales, prepaid variable forward contracts, equity swaps, collars and exchange funds. In addition, our Insider Trading Policy prohibits Covered Persons from holding Acacia securities in a margin account or otherwise pledging Acacia securities as collateral for a loan without prior approval by the Company. A copy of the Insider Trading Policy for Company Securities was filed as Exhibit 19 to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024.

Prevention of Insider Trading Policy

Consistent with the Company’s duty to prevent insider trading and to fulfill its obligation to establish, maintain and enforce written policies and procedures to prevent insider trading, Acacia has adopted procedures to prevent and detect the misuse of MNPI. Consistent with the policy, no person to whom the policy applies, which includes officers, directors, employees, and any person serving in a similar capacity (“Covered Persons”), may trade, either personally or on behalf of Acacia or any others (such as family members or others that live in the household of a Covered Person) while in possession of MNPI, nor may any Covered Person communicate MNPI to others in violation of the law. The policy also contains policies covering, among other things, personal trading