Amendment to Mullen Automotive Inc. 2022 Equity Incentive Plan (May 21, 2025)
Mullen Automotive Inc. has amended its 2022 Equity Incentive Plan to increase the total number of shares available for grant to 105,000,000. This amendment, effective May 21, 2025, replaces the previous share limit and clarifies that the number of shares is not subject to adjustment for stock splits or similar corporate actions. All other terms of the original plan remain unchanged. The amendment was approved by the company's Board of Directors and signed by CEO David Michery.
Exhibit 10.1
MULLEN AUTOMOTIVE INC.
AMENDMENT TO THE MULLEN AUTOMOTIVE INC.
2022 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
THIS AMENDMENT to the Mullen Automotive Inc. 2022 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (this “Amendment”), is entered into as of May 21, 2025, by Mullen Automotive Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”).
RECITALS
A. The Company adopted the Mullen Automotive Inc. 2022 Equity Incentive Plan effective as of July 26, 2022 (the “Plan”), which reserved 7,000,000 shares (adjusted to reflect the 1:25 reverse stock split effective May 4, 2023) available for grant under the Plan.
B. On June 8, 2023, the Board of Directors of the Company approved an amendment to the Plan increasing the maximum number of shares of the Company’s common stock issuable under the Plan by an additional 52,000,000 shares and provided that the shares available for issuance under the Plan are not subject to adjustment.
C. On August 9, 2024, the Board of Directors of the Company approved an additional amendment to the Plan increasing the maximum number of shares of the Company’s common stock issuable under the Plan by an additional 11,000,000 shares.
D. On December 27, 2024, the Board of Directors of the Company approved additional amendments to the Plan (i) increasing the maximum number of shares of the Company’s common stock issuable under the Plan by an additional 20,000,000 shares, and (ii) providing for an automatic annual increase of shares issuable under the Plan.
E. On April 29, 2025, the Board of Directors of the Company approved an additional amendment to the Plan increasing the maximum number of shares of the Company’s common stock issuable under the Plan by an additional 15,000,000 shares.
F. Pursuant to the authority contained in Section 10 of the Plan, the Company now desires to amend the Plan as set forth herein.
AGREEMENT
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual covenants set forth in the Plan, the Company agrees as follows:
1. Section 4.1 of the Plan is deleted in its entirety and the following is substituted in lieu thereof:
“(a) As provided in Section 4.3, the total number of Shares available for grant under the Plan shall be One Hundred and Five Million (105,000,000) Shares, not subject to adjustment for any decrease or increase in the number of Shares resulting from a stock split, reverse stock split, recapitalization, combination, reclassification, the payment of a stock dividend on the common stock or any other decrease in the number of such Shares effected without receipt of consideration by the Company. Shares granted under the Plan may be authorized but unissued Shares or reacquired Shares bought on the market or otherwise.”
2. Except to the extent expressly amended or modified in this Amendment, the Plan shall remain in full force and effect as originally executed.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Amendment as of the day and year first above written.
MULLEN AUTOMOTIVE INC. | ||
By: | /s/ David Michery | |
David Michery | ||
CEO |