Company: CZR
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-093716
Chunk: 99

Company: Caesars Entertainment, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 99
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, officers and employees, without additional compensation. Forms of proxies and proxy materials may also be distributed through brokers, custodians and other like parties to the beneficial owners of shares of our common stock, in which case we will reimburse these parties for their reasonable out-of-pocket expenses. |

| HOW MANY SHARES MUST BE PRESENT TO CONDUCT THE ANNUAL MEETING? |

| A majority of the shares of our common stock entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting, represented in person or by proxy, will constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at the Annual Meeting. Shares of our common stock represented in person or by proxy (including shares which abstain, broker non-votes and shares that are not voted with respect to one or more of the matters presented for shareholder approval) will be counted for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present at the Annual Meeting. |

| WHAT IS THE VOTE REQUIRED TO ELECT DIRECTORS? |

| Directors are elected by a majority of the votes cast by shareholders present in person or by proxy at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote on the election of directors. Shareholders may vote FOR all or some of the nominees or shareholders may vote AGAINST with respect to one or more of the nominees. The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the votes cast by shareholders present in person or by proxy at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote thereon is required to elect a director. Abstentions and broker non-votes will not affect the outcome of the election of directors, because they are not considered votes cast. |

| WHAT IS THE VOTE REQUIRED TO APPROVE THE OTHER PROPOSALS? |

| The vote required to approve Proposals 2, 3, and 4 is as follows: |

| The affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by shareholders present in person or by proxy at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting is required to (i) approve, on an advisory, non-binding basis, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers (Proposal 2), (ii) ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2025 (Proposal 3), and (iii) approve the shareholder proposal requesting the Board of Directors commission and disclose a report on the potential cost savings through the adoption of a smokefree policy for Caesars Entertainment properties (Proposal 4). Abstentions and broker non-votes are not considered votes cast although they are counted toward determining whether or