Company: RNST
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000715072-25-000085
Chunk: 94

Company: RENASANT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 94
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 the annual meeting are considered routine.

Abstention. Under Mississippi law, an abstention by a shareholder either present in person at the annual meeting or represented by proxy is not a vote “cast” and is not counted “for” or “against” the matter subject to the abstention.

#### Required Vote for Each Proposal
The required vote on each proposal to be voted on at the 2025 Annual Meeting is as follows:

• Directors are elected by plurality vote. Candidates up for election who receive the highest number of votes cast, up to the number of directors to be elected, are elected.

The board has adopted a “majority voting” policy that applies in an uncontested election of directors. Under this policy, any nominee for director who receives a greater number of “withhold” votes from his or her election than votes “for” election, although still elected as a director, must promptly tender his or her resignation. The board will then determine whether to accept the resignation, and the board’s decision will be publicly disclosed. This policy does not apply in contested elections. More information about our majority voting policy is set forth above in the Corporate Governance and the Board of Directors section under the heading “Governing Documents and Practices.”

• The affirmative vote of a majority of votes cast is required for the approval or ratification, as applicable, of (1) the Authorized Shares Increase Amendment, (2) the Director Exculpation Amendment, (3) on a non-binding advisory basis, our 2024 executive compensation program, and (4) our appointment of HORNE LLP as our independent registered public accountants for 2025. If you fail to vote or respond with an “abstain” vote, your proxy will not count “for” or “against” the relevant proposal.

#### Shares Held by the Renasant 401(k) Plan
On the record date, the Renasant 401(k) plan held an aggregate of 603,136 shares, or 0.95%, of our common stock. If an account in the Renasant 401(k) plan is invested in our common stock, the owner of the account votes these shares by providing instructions to the plan’s trustee, Renasant Bank, which acts as the proxy and votes the shares. If voting instructions are not timely furnished, the Bank votes in a manner that “mirrors” how shares for which it has received instructions are voted.

#### Solicitation and Revocation of Proxies
Solicitation. Our board of directors is solic