Company: TIPT
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001140361-25-039949
Chunk: 138

Company: TIPTREE INC.
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 138
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 month immediately following the month in which the Condition Satisfaction occurs, or (b) such other date or at such other time or place as the parties to the Merger Agreement may mutually agree.

#### Effective Time
Upon the terms and subject to the conditions of the Merger Agreement, the parties to the Merger Agreement will deliver at the closing to the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware the Certificate of Merger and will make all other filings or recordings as may be required under the DGCL and any other applicable law in order to effect the Merger. The Merger will become effective at the time of filing the Certificate of Merger with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware in accordance with the DGCL.

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Governing Documents; Directors Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws The certificate of incorporation and the bylaws of Fortegra, as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time will, at the Effective Time, be amended and restated in their entirety in the form of the certificate of incorporation and the bylaws attached to the Merger Agreement, respectively, and as so amended will be the certificate of incorporation and the bylaws of the surviving corporation, until amended in accordance with applicable law. Directors of the Surviving Corporation Each of the directors of Merger Sub immediately prior to the Effective Time will be a director of the surviving corporation, in each case until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified, or until his or her earlier death, resignation or removal in accordance with the surviving corporation’s certificate of incorporation and bylaws. Effect on Shares and Equity Awards Effect on Merger Sub Shares At the Effective Time, all shares of common stock of Merger Sub issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time will, by virtue of the Merger and without any action on the part of Purchaser, be converted into and thereafter evidence in the aggregate 1,000 shares of common stock, $0.0001 par value per share, of the surviving corporation. Effect on Tiptree Shares Following the Merger, shares of Tiptree common stock will remain issued and outstanding and will continue to be listed on the Nasdaq under the symbol “TIPT.” Effect on Fortegra Shares At the Effective Time, by virtue of the Merger and without any action on the part of the holders thereof:

| • | each share of Fortegra common stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (other than Appraisal Shares and shares of Fortegra common stock held