Company: SFNC
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEFR14A
Source: 0001174947-25-000480
Chunk: 3

Company: SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEFR14A
Chunk 3
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 director’s offer of resignation and will publicly disclose its decision. To be elected in a “contested election,” which is an election in which the number of nominees for director is greater than the number of directors to be elected, a nominee for director must receive a plurality of the votes cast by the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote thereon. 1 All proxies submitted will be tabulated by Computershare, the transfer agent for the Common Stock. The enclosed proxy card also provides a method for shareholders to abstain from voting on each matter presented. By abstaining with respect to any of Proposals 1 through4, shares will not be voted either “for” or “against” the subject proposal but will be counted for quorum purposes. Abstentions, therefore, will not affect the outcome of the vote on any of Proposals 1 through 4. While there may be instances in which a shareholder may wish to abstain from voting on any particular matter, the Board encourages all shareholders to vote their shares in their best judgment and to participate in the voting process to the fullest extent possible. If your shares are held in a brokerage account or by another nominee, you are considered the “beneficial owner” of shares held in “street name,” and these proxy materials have been forwarded to you by your broker or other nominee (the “record holder”) along with a voting instruction form. As the beneficial owner, you have the right to direct your record holder how to vote your shares, and the record holder is required to vote your shares in accordance with your instructions. A “broker non -vote” occurs when a nominee holding shares for a beneficial owner does not vote on a particular proposal because the nominee has not received a voting instruction from the beneficial owner and does not have discretionary voting power with respect to that item. Due to various regulatory requirements, brokers or other nominees may not exercise discretionary voting power on the election of directors, executive compensation or other non -routinematters. While brokers or other nominees might still be permitted to exercise discretionary voting power for Proposal 4 (the ratification of FORVIS MAZARS, LLP as our independent auditor), brokers and other nominees may not exercise discretionary voting power for Proposals 1 through 3 (number of directors, election of directors, and approval of executive compensation). As a result, if you do not provide specific voting instructions to your record holder, the record holder may not vote your shares on Proposals 1 through 3. Accordingly