Company: VRE
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000924901-25-000035
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Company: Veris Residential, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
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 Boston MA 02114. Share information is furnished in reliance on the Schedule 13G dated January 31, 2025 of State Street Corporation (“State Street”) filed with the SEC, which represents holdings as of December 31, 2024. Based upon information included in the Schedule 13G/A and other Forms 13F filed by State Street and its affiliates, the Company believes that such shares are held for investment advisory clients of State Street. This number represents 4,724,515 shares beneficially owned by State Street, which includes (i) 3,964,578 shares for which State Street has shared voting power and (ii) 4,724,515 shares for which State Street has shared dispositive power.

#### PROPOSAL NO. 1 ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
BOARD OF DIRECTORS NOMINEES

As of the date of this Proxy Statement, the Board of Directors consists of the following nine members: Frederic Cumenal, Ronald M. Dickerman, Tammy K. Jones, A. Akiva Katz, Nori Gerardo Lietz, Victor B. MacFarlane, Mahbod Nia, Howard S. Stern and Stephanie L. Williams. At the Annual Meeting, the terms of each of the then-current members of the Board of Directors will expire.

All the foregoing director nominees, other than Mr. Nia, have been determined, by the Board of Directors, to be independent directors within the meaning of NYSE independence standards in terms of independence from management.

The Board of Directors’ nine nominees for election to the Board of Directors at the Annual Meeting are as follows: Frederic Cumenal, Ronald M. Dickerman, Tammy K. Jones, A. Akiva Katz, Nori Gerardo Lietz, Victor B. MacFarlane, Mahbod Nia, Howard S. Stern and Stephanie L. Williams.

The directors who are elected at the Annual Meeting will serve until the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2026 and until such directors’ respective successors are duly elected and qualify or until any such director’s earlier death, resignation or removal. Unless otherwise instructed, the proxy holders will vote the proxies received by them for the nine nominees named below. In the event any of these nominees is unable or unwilling to serve as a director at the time of the Annual Meeting, the proxies will be voted for the remaining nominees named in this Proxy Statement and for any substitute nominee designated by the Board of Directors to fill such