Company: GPI
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001031203-25-000018
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Company: GROUP 1 AUTOMOTIVE INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 52
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 lifetime maximum contribution amount of $3.5 million.

Deferred amounts will be deemed to be notionally invested in either the Group 1 Guaranteed Crediting Rate investment option or a money market fund. The Group 1 Guaranteed Crediting Rate investment option is a declared interest rate, set by the CHR Committee annually, and the rate is 8.5% for 2024.

#### GROUP 1 AUTOMOTIVE2025 PROXY STATEMENT55
Potential Payments upon Termination or Change in Control

We believe providing certain senior corporate officers with severance payments and accelerated vesting of equity awards in certain circumstances are important retention tools. In addition, we believe that providing for “double-trigger” (defined below) payments and equity award vesting to certain key executives in connection with a “Corporate Change” helps maximize shareholder value by encouraging our executives to objectively review any proposed transaction, whether or not that executive will continue to be employed. A “double-trigger” payment or benefit becomes due in the event of a qualifying event, such as an involuntary termination of employment without cause or a termination of employment by the executive for good reason, in each case, in connection with a corporate change. Executive officers at other companies in the general market against which we compete for executive talent commonly have equity compensation plans that provide for accelerated vesting upon a corporate change and post-termination payments, and we have consistently provided this benefit to certain senior corporate officers to remain competitive in attracting and retaining skilled professionals.

Disclosed below is the amount of compensation and/or other benefits that would be payable to each of our NEOs in the event of termination of their employment under the following scenarios: death, disability, with and without cause, for certain constructive termination events, in each case, following a corporate change. These potential payments are governed by the LTIP pursuant to which various equity incentive awards were issued, and, with respect to Messrs. Kenningham and McHenry, the terms of employment agreements or other individual written arrangements. None of our NEOs is entitled to an excise tax gross-up payment. For additional information regarding the employment agreements, see “Compensation Discussion and Analysis — Employment and Severance Agreements.”

#### Employment and Severance Agreements

#### KENNINGHAM INCENTIVE AGREEMENT
The Kenningham Incentive Agreement provides for certain potential severance payments and includes customary restrictive covenants. In the event that Mr. Kenningham is terminated by the Company without Cause or incurs an Involuntary Termination (generally