Company: ADAMM
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001273685-25-000038
Chunk: 33

Company: ADAMAS TRUST, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 33
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itors, internal audit firms, consultants and other subject matter experts on areas of material risk, including operational, information technology, cybersecurity, environmental, social and governance, financial, legal, regulatory and strategic, in order to review and understand risk identification, risk management and risk mitigation strategies. For example, the Audit Committee assists our Board of Directors in fulfilling its oversight responsibilities relating to our financial and accounting risk management policies and procedures. As part of this process, the Audit Committee meets periodically with management to review, discuss and provide oversight with respect to our processes and controls to assess, monitor, manage and mitigate potential significant risk exposures. Our Board of Directors also exercises oversight of information security risk primarily through the Audit Committee. In providing such oversight, the Audit Committee also discusses our processes and controls with our internal and independent auditors. The Compensation Committee likewise assists our Board of Directors in fulfilling its risk oversight responsibilities with respect to the management of risks associated with compensation program design by reviewing whether there are risks arising from our compensation programs and practices that are reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on us. The Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee assists our Board of Directors with oversight of risk management relating to corporate governance, Board organization and Board membership.

Our Board of Directors and management also have responsibility for oversight of risk management pertaining to environmental, social and governance issues, including human capital issues. Our management team has responsibility for developing, implementing and monitoring our corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability initiatives and identifying, monitoring and reporting material ESG and human capital risks to our Board of Directors. Our Board of Directors, both directly and indirectly through its committees, has oversight responsibility of our identification, monitoring and management of material ESG and human capital risks.

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#### Insider Trading Policy
We have adopted an insider trading policy governing the purchase, sale, and/or other dispositions of our securities by our directors, officers and employees and by us. We believe that the policies and procedures set forth in our insider trading policy are reasonably designed to promote compliance with insider trading laws, rules and regulations, and Nasdaq listing standards.

#### Hedging, Pledging and Certain Other Transactions
We believe it is improper and inappropriate for any of our or our subsidiaries' directors, officers or employees to engage in (i) transactions that hedge or offset, or are designed to hedge or offset, any decrease in market value of our equity securities, (ii) short-term speculative transactions involving our equity securities or (iii) pledging our equity securities as collateral.

Our robust anti-hedging and anti