Company: TMCWW
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-032724
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Company: TMC the metals Co Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: PRE 14A
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 Voting by proxy will not affect your right to attend the Annual Meeting.

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If your shares are registered directly in your name through our stock transfer agent, Continental Stock Transfer and Trust Company, or you have stock certificates registered in your name, you may vote:

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#### By Internet.
Follow the instructions included in the Notice or, if you received printed materials, in the proxy card to vote over the Internet.

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#### By mail.
If you received a proxy card by mail, you can vote by mail by completing, signing, dating and returning the proxy card as instructed on the card. 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.

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#### 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:

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” the approval of setting the number of directors at eight

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” the election of the nominees for director;

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” the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for our fiscal year ending December 31, 2025; and

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” 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