Company: PED
Filing Date: 2025-07-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001654954-25-007979
Chunk: 29

Company: PEDEVCO CORP
Filing Date: 2025-07-11
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 29
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 the New York Stock Exchange Listed Company Manual (the “NYSE Rules” and, together with Rule 10D-1, the “Final Clawback Rules”). The Clawback Policy provides for the mandatory recovery of erroneously awarded incentive compensation from current and former officers of the Company as defined in Rule 10D-1 (“Covered Officers”) in the event the Company is required to prepare an accounting restatement as specified in the Clawback Policy. Under the Clawback Policy, the board of directors may recoup from the Covered Officers erroneously awarded incentive compensation received within a lookback period of the three completed fiscal years preceding the date on which the Company is required to prepare an accounting restatement. The Clawback Policy was effective as of October 2, 2023.

As previously disclosed in the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 25, 2025, in connection with the preparation of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, the Company concluded that in prior years it had not appropriately accounted for the depletion expense related to its oil and gas properties. These errors led to an overstatement of depletion expense during the impacted periods.

On March 28, 2025, the Audit Committee of the Company’s board of directors, after discussion with senior management and the Company’s independent registered public accountants, concluded that the errors were material to the (i) audited consolidated financial statements as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, originally included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 (the “2023 10-K”), and (ii) audited consolidated financial statements as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, originally included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 (the “2022 10-K”)(collectively, the “Form 10-Ks” and the “Prior Financial Statements”) and that the Prior Financial Statements as of and for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, should no longer be relied upon due to the impact of the unintentional error noted above.

The 2024 annual report includes restated