Company: MITN
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001514281-25-000033
Chunk: 78

Company: AG Mortgage Investment Trust, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 78
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 relationship, free from any liability or any claim under this Plan, unless otherwise expressly provided in this Plan or any Award Agreement. By accepting an Award under this Plan, a Participant shall thereby be deemed to have waived any claim to continued exercise or vesting of an Award or to damages or severance entitlement related to non-continuation of the Award beyond the period provided under this Plan or any Award Agreement, except to the extent of any provision to the contrary in

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any written employment contract or other agreement between the Company and its Affiliates and the Participant, whether any such agreement is executed before, on or after the date the Award is granted.

(d) International Participants . With respect to Participants who reside or work outside of the United States of America, the Committee may, in its sole discretion, amend the terms of this Plan and create or amend outstanding Awards with respect to such Participants in order to conform such terms with the requirements of local law or to obtain more favorable tax or other treatment for a Participant the Company or its Affiliates.

(e) Designation and Change of Beneficiary . Each Participant may file with the Committee a written designation of one or more Persons as the beneficiary(ies) who shall be entitled to receive the amounts payable with respect to an Award, if any, due under this Plan upon the Participant’s death. A Participant may, from time to time, revoke or change the Participant’s beneficiary designation without the consent of any prior beneficiary by filing a new designation with the Committee. The last such designation received by the Committee shall be controlling; provided, however , that no designation, or change or revocation thereof, shall be effective unless received by the Committee prior to the Participant’s death, and in no event shall it be effective as of a date prior to such receipt. If no beneficiary designation is filed by a Participant, the beneficiary shall be deemed to be the Participant’s spouse or, if the Participant is unmarried at the time of death, the Participant’s estate.

(f) Manager Termination Event . In the event of a Qualifying Manager Termination, and notwithstanding any provision of this Plan to the contrary, all outstanding unvested Awards held by Manager Employees shall vest in full as of such Qualifying Manager Termination. In the event of a Manager Termination Event (other than a Qualifying Manager Termination), including by action of the Manager (other than as a result of the breach by the Company of the Management Agreement) or by action of the Company as a result