Company: ETY
Filing Date: 2025-06-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001076598-25-000246
Chunk: 16

Company: Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Diversified Equity Income Fund
Filing Date: 2025-06-23
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 16
---
 met five times, the Governance Committee met four times, the Portfolio Management Committee met seven times, and the Compliance Reports and Regulatory Matters Committee met eight times. The Closed-End Fund Committee was established before the fiscal year ended October 31, 2024 and met one time during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2024. However, during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2024, the predecessor to the Closed-End Fund Committee, the Ad Hoc Committee for Closed-End Fund Matters, met ten times. Each Trustee attended at least 75% of such Board and Committee meetings on which he or she serves. None of the Trustees attended the Funds’ 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

Each Committee of the Board of Trustees of each Fund is comprised of only noninterested Trustees. The respective duties and responsibilities of these Committees remain under the continuing review of the Governance Committee and the Board.

Messrs. Wennerholm (Chairperson), Gorman and Quinton and Ms. Stefani are members of the Audit Committee. The Board has designated Messrs. Gorman and Wennerholm, each a noninterested Trustee, as “audit committee financial experts” as that term is defined in the applicable SEC rules. Each Audit Committee member is independent under applicable listing standards of the New York Stock Exchange. The purposes of the Audit Committee are to (i) oversee each Fund’s accounting and financial reporting processes, its internal control over financial reporting, and, as appropriate, the internal control over financial reporting of certain service providers; (ii) oversee or, as appropriate, assist Board oversight of the quality and integrity of each Fund’s financial statements and the independent audit thereof; (iii) oversee, or, as appropriate, assist Board oversight of, each Fund’s compliance with legal and regulatory requirements that relate to the Fund’s accounting and financial reporting, internal control over financial reporting and independent audits; (iv) approve, prior to appointment, the engagement and, when appropriate, replacement of the independent auditors, and, if applicable, nominate independent auditors to be proposed for shareholder ratification in any proxy statement of each Fund; (v) evaluate the qualifications, independence and performance of the independent registered public accounting firm

and the audit partner in charge of leading the audit; and (vi) prepare, as necessary, audit committee reports consistent with the requirements of applicable SEC and stock exchange rules for inclusion in the proxy statement for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of the Fund. Each Fund’s Board of Trustees has adopted a