Company: ATRA
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-059322
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Company: Atara Biotherapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 23
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 invited by the Human Capital Committee to make presentations, to provide financial or other background information or advice or to otherwise participate in Human Capital Committee meetings. The Chief Executive Officer does not and will not participate in, or be present during, any deliberations or determinations of the Human Capital Committee regarding their compensation. The charter of the Human Capital Committee grants the Human Capital Committee full access to all of our books, records, facilities and personnel. In addition, under the charter, the Human Capital Committee has authority to engage legal counsel or other experts or consultants, as it deems appropriate to carry out its responsibilities. The Human Capital Committee has the authority to retain compensation consultants to assist in its evaluation of executive and director compensation, including the authority to approve the consultant’s reasonable fees and other retention terms. Under the charter, the Human Capital Committee may select, or receive advice from, a compensation consultant, legal counsel or other advisor to the Human Capital Committee (other than in-house legal counsel and certain other types of advisors), only after assessing their independence in accordance with, and to the extent required by, applicable law and the listing requirements of Nasdaq; however, there is no requirement that any advisor be independent.

During 2024, the Human Capital Committee engaged Pearl Meyer & Partners, LLC (“Pearl Meyer”) as its independent compensation consultant. After considering all of the factors required by applicable Nasdaq rules, the Human Capital Committee was satisfied with Pearl Meyer’s independence and requested that its independent compensation consultants evaluate and help us refine our employee and non-employee director compensation strategies and practices. As part of its engagement, Pearl Meyer was requested by the Human Capital Committee to develop a comparative group of companies and to perform analyses of competitive performance and compensation levels for that group. With respect to the compensation of the Chief Executive Officer, Pearl Meyer developed recommendations that were presented to the Human Capital Committee for its consideration. Following a dialogue with Pearl Meyer, the Human Capital Committee considered the recommendations in addition to corporate performance and approved the recommendations subject to certain modifications deemed appropriate by the Human Capital Committee. With respect to the executive officers, the Chief Executive Officer in consultation with Pearl Meyer developed recommendations that were presented to the Human Capital Committee for its consideration. Following discussion with the Chief Executive Officer and with Pearl Meyer, the Human Capital Committee considered the recommendations in addition to corporate and individual performance and approved the recommendations subject to certain modifications deemed appropriate by the Human Capital Committee.

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Historically, the Human Capital Committee has made most of the significant adjustments to annual compensation and