Company: USCB
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000927089-25-000082
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Company: USCB FINANCIAL HOLDINGS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form: DEF 14A
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 by telephone or by other forms of electronic communication, without additional compensation. We will reimburse brokers, banks and other nominees who hold shares of common stock in their names for the expenses of furnishing proxy materials to beneficial owners of the shares. See “Method of Proxy Solicitation” for additional information.

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Who can vote?

Only shareholders of record at the close of business on the Voting Record Date are entitled to notice of and to attend the Annual Meeting. Only holders of USCB Financial Holdings Class A Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share, are entitled to vote on the election of directors and the ratification of the appointment of our independent registered public accounting firm at the Annual Meeting. As of the Voting Record Date, there were20,048,385 shares outstanding of Class A Common Stock.

What shareholder vote is required?

Directors are elected by a plurality of the votes cast with a quorum, a majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote represented in person or by proxy, present. The nine persons who receive the greatest number of votes of the holders of common stock represented in person or by proxy at the Annual Meeting will be elected directors. The affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by shareholders entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting is required for the approval of the proposal to ratify the appointment of our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2025.

What will be the effect of broker non-votes and abstentions?

Broker Non-Votes. If your shares are held by a bank, broker or other nominee and you do not provide the bank, broker or other nominee with specific voting instructions, the organization that holds your shares may generally vote on “routine” matters but cannot vote on non-routine matters. If the bank, broker or other nominee that holds your shares does not receive instructions from you on how to vote your shares on a non-routine matter, the organization will inform our inspector of elections that it does not have the authority to vote on this matter with respect to your shares. This is generally referred to as a “broker non-vote.” The election of directors is considered “non-routine,” and banks, brokers and certain other nominees that hold your shares in street name will not be able to cast votes on Proposal One if you do not provide them with voting instructions. Please provide voting instructions to the bank, broker or other nominee that holds your shares by carefully following their instructions.

Your broker may vote in his or her discretion on the