Company: CSLMF
Filing Date: 2025-05-22
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-125124
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Company: CSLM ACQUISITION CORP.
Filing Date: 2025-05-22
Form: PRE 14A
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 the abstention will have no effect on the outcome of such proposal.

| Q. | If my shares are held in “street name” by my bank, brokerage firm or nominee, will they 
 automatically vote my shares for me?                                                    |

| A. | No. If you are a beneficial owner and you do not provide voting instructions to your broker, bank or other                                                                                                                                           
 holder of record holding shares for you, your shares will not be voted with respect to any proposal for which your broker does not have discretionary authority to vote. If a proposal is determined to be discretionary, your broker, bank or other 
 holder of record is permitted to vote on the proposal without receiving voting instructions from you. If a proposal is determined to be non-discretionary, your broker, bank or other holder of record is not                                        
 permitted to vote on the proposal without receiving voting instructions from you. The Company believes that the Extension Proposal, Trust Amendment Proposal, and the Adjournment Proposal will be considered                                        
 non-discretionary and therefore your broker, bank or other holder of record holding your shares for you cannot vote your shares without your instruction on any of the proposals presented. A “broker                                                
 non-vote” occurs when a bank, broker or other holder of record holding shares for a beneficial owner does not vote on a non-discretionary Proposal because the                                                                                       
 holder of record has not received voting instructions from the beneficial owner.                                                                                                                                                                     |

Abstentions and broker non-votes,while considered present for the purposes of establishing a quorum, are not treated as votes cast and will have no effect on the Proposals. As a result, if you abstain from voting on any of the Proposals, your shares will be counted as present for purposes of establishing a quorum (if so present in accordance with the terms of the Existing Charter), but the abstention will have no effect on the outcome of such proposal.

| Q. | What will happen if I abstain from voting or fail to vote at the General Meeting? |

| A. | At the General Meeting, CSLM will count a properly executed proxy marked “ABSTAIN” with respect to a                                                                        
 particular proposal as present for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present. Abstentions will have no effect on the outcome of the vote on any of the proposals. |

If a shareholder who holds share in “street name” does not give the broker voting instructions, the broker is not permitted under applicable self-regulatory organization rules to vote the shares on “non