Company: NEWTP
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001587987-25-000073
Chunk: 66

Company: NewtekOne, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
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 and other requirements set forth in our bylaws. These requirements are separate from

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the requirements discussed above to have the shareholder nomination or other proposal included in our proxy statement and form of proxy/voting instruction card pursuant to the SEC’s rules. The item to be brought before the meeting must be a proper subject for shareholder action. Our bylaws require that to be timely, a shareholder’s notice shall set forth all information required and shall be delivered to the secretary at the principal executive office of the Company at the above address not earlier than the 150 th day prior to the first anniversary of the date of this proxy statement nor later than 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on the 120 th day prior to the first anniversary of the date of this proxy statement. As a result, for the Company’s 2026 annual meeting of shareholders, a shareholder’s notice pursuant to these provisions of our bylaws must be received no earlier than November 25, 2025 and no later than 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on December 25, 2025; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the 2026 annual meeting of shareholders is advanced or delayed by more than 30 days from the first anniversary of this Annual Meeting, notice by the shareholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the 150 th day prior to the date of the 2026 annual meeting of shareholders and not later than 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on the later of the 120 th day prior to the date of the 2026 annual meeting of shareholders, as originally convened, or the tenth day following the day on which public announcement of the date of the 2026 annual meeting of shareholders is first made. The public announcement of a postponement or adjournment of an annual meeting shall not commence a new time period for the giving of a shareholder’s notice.

In addition to satisfying the foregoing requirements under the Company’s Bylaws, to comply with the universal proxy rules, shareholders who intend to solicit proxies in support of director nominees other than the Company’s nominees for the 2026 annual meeting of shareholders must provide notice that sets forth the information required by Rule 14a-19 under the Exchange Act no later than April 15, 2026.

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| By order of the Board of Directors,      |
| /s/ Michael A. Schwartz                  |
| Michael A. Schwartz