SDST Stardust Power Inc

SEC Form 4

FORM 4		UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940	OMB APPROVAL OMB Number: 3235-0287 Estimated average burden hours per response: 0.5
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* CORTEGOSO PABLO (Last) (First) (Middle) 6608 N. WESTERN AVE, SUITE 466 (Street) NICHOLS HILLS OK 73116 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol Stardust Power Inc. [ SDST ]	5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) Director 10% Owner X Officer (give title below) Other (specify below) Chief Technical Officer
	3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year) 09/18/2024
	4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)	6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3)	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)			5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4)	6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
			Code	V	Amount	(A) or (D)	Price
Common Stock(1)	09/18/2024(1)		A		82,469	A	$0	4,684,708	D

Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3)	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)		6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4)		8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5)	9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4)	10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
				Code	V	(A)	(D)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares
Performance Stock Unit	(2)	09/18/2024		A		82,469		(2)	(2)	Common Stock	82,469	$0	82,469	D

Explanation of Responses:

1. The reported securities represent restricted stock units ("RSUs") approved and granted by the Issuer's Board on 9/16/24, subject to the effectiveness of the Issuer's registration statement on Form S-8 that was filed with the SEC on 9/18/24. The reported RSUs vest quarterly over three years following the date of grant, subject to the reporting person's continued employment.

2. Each performance stock unit ("PSU") represents a contingent right to receive one share of Common Stock upon the reporting person's continued employment until the third anniversary of the date of grant, subject to the SDST Common Stock achieving a $12.00 volume weighted average price for a period of 20 trading days during any 30 trading day period during the three year vesting period.

Remarks:

Exhibit List - Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney

	/s/ Udaychandra Devasper, as attorney in fact for Pablo Cortegoso	09/20/2024
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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Exhibit 24

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

FOR SECTION 13 AND 16 REPORTING OBLIGATIONS

 

September 11, 2024

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby makes, constitutes and appoints Roshen Pujari and Udaychandra Devasper, signing singly, as the undersigned’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power and authority as hereinafter described on behalf of and in the name, place and stead of the undersigned to:

 

(i)

execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as a director, officer or beneficial owner of shares of common stock of Stardust Power, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), any Schedule 13D or Schedule 13G, and any amendments, supplements or exhibits thereto (including any joint filing agreements) required to be filed by the undersigned under Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and any Forms 3, 4 and 5 and any amendments, supplements or exhibits thereto required to be filed by the undersigned under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act;

 

(ii)

do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Schedule 13D, Schedule 13G, Form 3, 4, or 5 and timely file such forms with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange on which the common stock of the Company is then listed; and

 

(iii)

take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorneys-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorneys-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorneys-in-fact may approve in such attorneys-in-fact’s discretion.

 

The undersigned hereby grants to such attorneys-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorneys-in-fact’s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section 13 and Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

 

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file reports or schedules under Section 13 or Section 16 of the Exchange Act with respect to the undersigned’s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of the date first written above.

 

	STARDUST POWER, INC.
	By:	/s/ Pablo Cortegoso
	Name:	Pablo Cortegoso
	Title:	Chief Technical Officer

 

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Exhibit 24

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

FOR SECTION 13 AND 16 REPORTING OBLIGATIONS

 

September 11, 2024

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby makes, constitutes and appoints Roshen Pujari and Udaychandra Devasper, signing singly, as the undersigned’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power and authority as hereinafter described on behalf of and in the name, place and stead of the undersigned to:

 

(i)

execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as a director, officer or beneficial owner of shares of common stock of Stardust Power, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), any Schedule 13D or Schedule 13G, and any amendments, supplements or exhibits thereto (including any joint filing agreements) required to be filed by the undersigned under Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and any Forms 3, 4 and 5 and any amendments, supplements or exhibits thereto required to be filed by the undersigned under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act;

 

(ii)

do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Schedule 13D, Schedule 13G, Form 3, 4, or 5 and timely file such forms with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange on which the common stock of the Company is then listed; and

 

(iii)

take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorneys-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorneys-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorneys-in-fact may approve in such attorneys-in-fact’s discretion.

 

The undersigned hereby grants to such attorneys-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorneys-in-fact’s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section 13 and Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

 

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file reports or schedules under Section 13 or Section 16 of the Exchange Act with respect to the undersigned’s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of the date first written above.

 

	STARDUST POWER, INC.
	By:	/s/ Pablo Cortegoso
	Name:	Pablo Cortegoso
	Title:	Chief Technical Officer

 

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