Company: EPR-PE
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001045450-25-000068
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Company: EPR PROPERTIES
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
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 to the Board that the CD&A be included in the proxy statement, (3) to provide the Compensation Committee Report for inclusion in the Company’s proxy statement that complies with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, (4) to provide oversight and guidance with respect to the Company’s human capital management, including the attraction, motivation, development and retention of employees of the Company, and (5) to administer the Company’s equity incentive plans. The Compensation Committee may establish sub-committees consisting of one or more members to carry out duties that the Compensation Committee may assign. Ms. Sterneck serves as Chair of the Compensation Committee. The committee met six times in 2024.

#### Role of Compensation Consultants
To assist in carrying out its responsibilities, the Compensation Committee regularly consults with the committee’s outside compensation consultant. Under its charter, the Compensation Committee has authority to retain and terminate outside compensation consultants, including authority to approve the consultant’s fees and other retention terms. The Compensation Committee retained Ferguson Partners Consulting L.P. (“FPC”) to advise the committee with respect to its 2024 review of compensation levels for executive officers and trustees. In this role, our compensation consultant performed such duties as were requested by the committee. Those duties consisted primarily of providing market data and advice to the committee that were used to determine executive and trustee compensation, particularly analyses of the Company’s executive and trustee compensation in comparison to the benchmark companies. Representatives of our compensation consultant spoke with the Chair of the Compensation Committee, as well as with management, in preparing for committee meetings, attended committee meetings and met in executive session with the Compensation Committee without the presence of management.

Applicable SEC rules require companies to assess whether the work of any compensation consultant who has played any role in determining or recommending the amount or form of executive or director compensation raises any “conflicts of interest.” If so, the company must disclose in its proxy statement the nature of any such conflict of interest and how it is being addressed. The Compensation Committee reviewed the relationships among FPC and the Company’s trustees and executive officers in order to assess whether the work done by FPC raised any conflicts of interest. The Compensation Committee did not identify any such conflicts of interest in its inquiry of these parties as a part of this assessment. Under its charter, the Compensation Committee also has the authority to retain, approve fees for and terminate advisors, consultants and legal counsel as it deems necessary to assist in the fulfillment of its responsibilities. Prior to engaging any such advisor, consultant or legal counsel, the Compensation Committee