Company: BANC-PF
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001169770-25-000015
Chunk: 91

Company: BANC OF CALIFORNIA, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 91
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(1) For the audit of the Company’s consolidated annual financial statements and internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, and for the reviews of the Company’s consolidated interim financial statements through September 30, 2023 and since May 14, 2024.

(2) For corporate tax compliance and consultation services.

(3) For merger-related advisory services in 2023.

For the year ended December 31, 2023, fees paid to KPMG LLP, our Independent Registered Accounting Firm for such year, for services provided to the Company (following the PacWest Merger) and to PacWest (prior to the PacWest Merger) were as follows:

|                       |     | Year Ended   
 December 31, 
 2023         |           |
|:----------------------|:----|:-------------|----------:|
| Audit Fees(1)         |     | $            | 3,713,426 |
| Audit Related Fees(2) |     |              |   112,485 |
| Tax Fees(3)           |     |              |   961,980 |
| TOTAL                 |     | $            | 4,787,891 |

(1) For the audit of the Company’s consolidated annual financial statements and internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023, and for the reviews of the Company’s consolidated interim financial statements during 2023.

(2) For issuance of consents and comfort letters.

(3) For corporate tax compliance and consultation services.

#### 79Banc of CaliforniaAnnual Proxy Statement2025

#### Proposal III
Approval, on an Advisory and Non-Binding Basis, of the Compensation Paid to our NEOs

Pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act and the SEC’s implementing rules, we are including in this proxy statement and will present at the Annual Meeting an advisory (non-binding) proposal on executive compensation, commonly known as a “Say-on-Pay” proposal. This proposal gives stockholders the opportunity to endorse or not endorse the compensation paid to our NEOs during the year ended December 31, 2024, as disclosed in this proxy statement.

The Dodd-Frank Act and the SEC's implementing rules require that we include a Say-on-Pay vote in our annual meeting proxy statement at least once every three years, and that at least once every six years we hold a non-binding, advisory vote on the frequency of future Say