Company: AVNT
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001122976-25-000019
Chunk: 1

Company: AVIENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 1
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| 2024 Summary Compensation Table                                     |     | 59 |
| 2024 Grants of Plan-Based Awards                                    |     | 62 |
| Outstanding Equity Awards at 2024 Fiscal Year-End                   |     | 64 |
| 2024 Option Exercises and Stock Vested                              |     | 65 |
| 2024 Non Qualified Deferred Compensation                            |     | 65 |
| Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change of Control            |     | 66 |
| CEO Pay Ratio Disclosure                                            |     | 71 |

| Pay Versus Performance Disclosure                           |     | 72 |
| Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation |     | 76 |
| Risk Assessment of the Compensation Programs                |     | 76 |
| Compensation Committee Report                               |     | 76 |
| Miscellaneous Provisions                                    |     | 77 |
| Appendix A                                                  |     | 80 |

In this proxy statement, statements that are not reported financial results or other historical information are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements give current expectations or forecasts of future events and are not guarantees of future performance. They are based on management’s expectations that involve a number of business risks and uncertainties, any of which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward-looking statements. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historic or current facts. They use words such as "will," “anticipate,” “estimate,” “expect,” “project,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe” and other words and terms of similar meaning in connection with any discussion of future operating or financial condition, performance and/or sales. In particular, these include statements relating to future actions; prospective changes in raw material costs, product pricing or product demand; future performance; estimated capital expenditures; results of current and anticipated market conditions and market strategies; sales efforts; expenses; the outcome of contingencies such as legal proceedings and environmental liabilities; and financial results. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those implied by these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to:

• disruptions, uncertainty or volatility in the credit markets that could adversely impact the availability of credit already arranged and the availability and cost of credit in the future;

• the effect on foreign operations of currency fluctuations, tariffs and other political, economic and regulatory risks;

• disruptions or inefficiencies in our supply