Company: RITM-PC
Filing Date: 2025-04-09
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-033195
Chunk: 30

Company: Rithm Capital Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-04-09
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 30
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10-Q, required audits of certain subsidiaries and required reviews of SEC filings, including with respect to equity offerings. Audit-Related Fees. Audit-related fees include fees for a service organization control report for a subsidiary, an employee benefit plan audit, and the performance of agreed upon procedures on certain information included within private placement memoranda corresponding to the issuance of collateralized debt. Tax Fees. Tax fees are related to tax planning, compliance and tax return preparation for the Company and certain subsidiaries. Ernst & Young LLP also provides audit, audit-related, tax consulting and compliance services to entities that we do not consolidate, including services provided to funds managed by Sculptor, which we acquired on November 17, 2023. During 2024, fees for these services were approximately $9,301,730 for audit

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TABLE OF CONTENTS fees, $799,997 for audit-related fees and $1,601,215 for tax fees. These services are provided to, and paid by, the funds managed by Sculptor or other entities we do not consolidate and therefore are not included in the above table. The Audit Committee has considered all services provided by the independent registered public accounting firm to us and has concluded this involvement is compatible with maintaining the auditors’ independence. The Audit Committee is responsible for appointing the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm and approving the terms of the independent registered public accounting firm’s services. All engagements for services in the most recent fiscal year were pre-approved by the Audit Committee. The Audit Committee has a policy requiring the pre-approval of all audit and permissible non-audit services to be provided by the independent registered public accounting firm. 19 TABLE OF CONTENTS PROPOSAL NO. 3 NON-BINDING ADVISORY VOTE ON EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION The following proposal, also known as a “say-on-pay” vote, gives our stockholders the opportunity to vote to approve or not approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed below in the section entitled “Executive Compensation” of this Proxy Statement. This vote is not intended to address any specific item of compensation, but rather the overall compensation of our named executive officers and our compensation philosophy, policies and practices with respect to our named executive officers. We are providing this vote as required by Section 14A of the Exchange Act, which was added to the Exchange Act by Section 951 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Our Board of Directors and Compensation Committee believe that the overall