Company: HCKT
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-043233
Chunk: 82

Company: HACKETT GROUP, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 82
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 to constitute a majority thereof;

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(C) notwithstanding clauses (A) or (E) of this paragraph, the Company consummates a merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another corporation, the result of which is that the Persons who were stockholders of the Company at the time of the execution of the agreement to merge or consolidate own less than 80% of the total equity of the corporation surviving or resulting from the merger or consolidation or of a corporation owning, directly or indirectly, 100% of the total equity of such surviving or resulting corporation; (D) the sale in one or a series of transactions of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company; or (E) the consummation of a tender or exchange offer whereby any Person acquires Beneficial Ownership of 40% or more of the total number of voting shares of the Company, unless the Board has made a determination that such action does not constitute and will not constitute a material change in the Persons having control of the Company.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to an award that is subject to Section 409A of the Code where the payment or settlement of the award will accelerate upon a Change of Control, no event set forth herein will constitute a Change of Control for purposes of the Plan or any Grant unless such event also constitutes a “change in ownership,” “change in effective control,” or “change in the ownership of a substantial portion of the Company’s assets” as defined under Section 409A of the Code.

2.8 “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as now in effect or as hereafter amended and the regulations and guidelines promulgated thereunder.

2.9 “Committee” means a committee of, and designated from time to time by resolution of, the Board, which shall consist of no fewer than two members of the Board, none of whom shall be an officer or other salaried employee of the Company or any affiliate of the Company, which committee shall meet the requirements of Section 162(m) of the Code, Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act, the applicable rules of the NASDAQ National Market and all other applicable rules and regulations (in each case as amended or superseded from time to time);provided,however, that, if any Committee member is found not to have met the qualification requirements of Section 162(m) of the Code or Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act, any actions taken or Grants made