Company: SNPS
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000883241-25-000008
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Company: SYNOPSYS INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: DEF 14A
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G LLP as Synopsys’ independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal 2025. As a matter of good corporate governance, we are asking stockholders to ratify the Audit Committee’s selection of KPMG LLP.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |     |                |     | “FOR”                      |     | Page100     |
| 6.        |     | STOCKHOLDER PROPOSAL                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
 If properly presented at the meeting, stockholders will be asked to vote on a proposal to amend Synopsys' governing documents as needed to require shareholder ratification of golden parachutes. The Board of Directors recommends that stockholders voteAGAINSTthis proposal because the Board believes it is not in the best interests of Synopsys and our stockholders.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |     |                |     | “AGAINST”                  |     | Page103     |

#### A Note about Our Fiscal Year
Historically, our fiscal year has ended on the Saturday nearest to October 31. Fiscal 2024, 2023 and 2022 ended on November 2, 2024 , October 28, 2023 and October 29, 2022 , respectively. Effective with our fiscal 2025, we have changed our fiscal year end to October 31 each year .

#### 2025 Proxy Statement5
| Proxy Statement Summary |

Our Board currently consists of eleven directors. We do not have a classified or staggered Board of Directors. Each of our directors stands for election on an annual basis and serves for a one-year term or until their successors are elected and qualified or until his or her death, resignation or removal. Of the eleven current directors whose terms expire in 2025, nine are standing for re-election. The table below describes the nine director nominees, including the Lead Independent Director and the Board's committee composition as of the conclusion of the Annual Meeting.

Director Nominees

|                                                                                                                                             |     |                |     | Committee Membership(1) |     |    |     |    |
| Name, Age and Primary Occupation                                                                                                            |     | Director Since |     | AC                      |     | CC |     | GC |
| Dr. Aart J. de Geus, 70                                                                                                                     
 Executive Chair of the Board of Directors, Synopsys                                                                                         |     |           1986 |     |                         |     |    |     |    |
| John G. Schwarz, 74Lead Independent Director, Synopsys(2)