Company: ECC-PD
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-032737
Chunk: 16

Company: Eagle Point Credit Co Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 16
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 may retain a consultant to assist it in a search for a qualified candidate. The Nominating Committee has not adopted a formal policy with regard to the consideration of diversity in identifying individuals for election as Independent Directors, but the Nominating Committee will consider such factors as it may deem are in the best interests of the Company and the Stockholders. Such factors may include the individual’s professional experience, education, skills and other individual qualities or attributes, including gender, race or national origin. Consideration of Candidates Recommended by Stockholders. The Nominating Committee will review and consider nominees recommended by Stockholders to serve as Independent Directors, provided that the recommending Stockholder follows the procedures for Stockholders to submit nominee candidates as set forth in the Company’s bylaws and Nominating Committee’s charter, and summarized here. For any Stockholder recommendation for Independent Director to be included in the Company’s proxy statement, it must be submitted in compliance with all of the pertinent provisions of Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act to be considered by the Nominating Committee. In evaluating a nominee recommended by a Stockholder, the Nominating Committee, in addition to the criteria discussed above, may consider the objectives of the Stockholder in submitting that nomination and whether such objectives are consistent with the interests of all Stockholders. If the Board determines to include a Stockholder’s candidate among the slate of nominees, the candidate’s name will be placed on the Company’s proxy card. If the Nominating Committee or the Board determines not to include such candidate among the Board’s designated nominees and the Stockholder has satisfied the requirements of Rule 14a-8, the Stockholder’s candidate will be treated as a nominee of the Stockholder who originally nominated the candidate. In that case, the candidate will not be named on the proxy card distributed with the Company’s proxy statement. A Stockholder who is entitled to vote at the applicable annual meeting and who intends to nominate a director must comply with the advance notice procedures of the Company’s bylaws. To be timely, the Stockholder’s notice must be delivered by a nationally recognized courier service or mailed by first class United States mail, postage or delivery charges prepaid, and received at the principal executive offices of the Company addressed to the attention of the Secretary not less than ninety (90) days nor more than one hundred twenty (120) days in advance of the anniversary of the date the Company’s proxy statement was released to the Stockholders in connection with the previous year’s annual meeting of Stockholders; provided, however