Company: FFWM
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-036041
Chunk: 17

Company: First Foundation Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 17
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 by a stockholder or by management and the Board and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee apply the same process and criteria in evaluating a candidate recommended by a stockholder as it would for a candidate recommended by management. Stockholder Nominations . Our Bylaws provide that any record stockholder may nominate, at any annual meeting of stockholders, one or more candidates for election to the Board, by giving the Company written notice (addressed to the Corporate Secretary of the Company at the Company’s principal offices) of such stockholder’s intention to do so not less than 90 days nor more than 120 days prior to the first anniversary of the date on which the Company’s proxy statement for the prior year’s annual meeting was first released to stockholders, provided however, that in the event that no annual meeting was held in that prior year or the date of the annual meeting has been changed by more than 30 days from the date contemplated at the time of the prior year’s proxy statement, to be timely, the stockholder notice must be received by the close of business on the later of (i) the 90th day prior to such annual meeting, or (ii) the 10th day following the date on which a public announcement of the date of such annual meeting is first mailed or is first publicly announces. Such notice must be accompanied by statements and other information described in our Bylaws, including the following items: 9 TABLE OF CONTENTS • The nominating stockholder’s name, address, and beneficial ownership of shares of the Company (and the same information with respect to any beneficial owner for which the nominating stockholder is acting on behalf of); • The name, age, business address, residential address, and principal occupation or employment of the person to be nominated; • The nominee’s signed consent to serve as a director of the Company, if elected; • The number of shares of the Company’s stock beneficially owned by the nominee; • A description of all arrangements and understandings between the stockholder and the nominee pursuant to which the nomination is to be made; and • Such other information concerning the director nominee as would be required in a proxy statement soliciting proxies for the election of the director nominee under the rules of the SEC. Stockholders intending to nominate candidates for election to the Board for inclusion on a universal proxy card pursuant to Rule 14a-19 under the Exchange Act must also provide in the notice certain additional items set forth in the Bylaws, and also provide the Company with a written certification