Company: ACCO
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-046374
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Company: ACCO BRANDS Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
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) or other actions to maintain or enhance stockholder value, where more in-depth consideration may be warranted than is practical for the whole Board to undertake; • reviews and makes recommendations to management regarding the annual business plan, the Company's dividend policy, and proposals regarding equity or debt transactions or proposed strategic or other extraordinary actions under consideration; and • annually reviews the funding and investment performance of the Company's defined benefit, retirement and supplemental retirement plans, including the Company's 401(k) plan. Each member meets the independence standards of our Corporate Governance Principles and the NYSE.

| Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee | Current Members:Graciela Monteagudo (Chair)Pradeep JotwaniElizabeth Simermeyer |
| 4 meetings held in 2024                             |                                                                                |

Primary Functions Develops and oversees the Company's corporate governance policies and provides advice with respect to corporate governance, the rights and interests of stockholders and other stakeholders; oversees the Company's corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability programs; and identifies, reviews and recommends qualified candidates for election to the Board of Directors and its committees. As part of its responsibility, the Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee, among other things: • annually reviews and, if desirable, recommends changes to the Company's Corporate Governance Principles; • reviews and provides recommendations with respect to the composition and structure of the Board of Directors and the duties, powers, composition and structure of the Board's committees; • establishes and reviews criteria relating to the qualifications, candidacy, service, refreshment, and tenure of directors, and the procedures for the consideration of director candidates recommended by the Company's stockholders; • identifies and evaluates potential director candidates and recommends nominees for election or re-election as members of the Board of Directors;

#### 26ACCO BRANDS| 2025 PROXY STATEMENT
establishes and reviews criteria and qualifications for membership on the Board's committees and recommends directors for membership on such committees;

together with our Presiding Independent Director or Independent Chairman, as applicable, manages the annual evaluation and performance review process of the Board of Directors, the committees, and the individual directors;

reviews and makes recommendations concerning the size, composition and structure of the Board, and the charters, duties, powers, oversight, composition and structure of Board committees (in consultation with the applicable committee Chairpersons), according to existing and planned Company objectives and governance principles;

annually reviews and makes recommendations regarding compensation arrangements for non-employee directors, and administers the Company's non-employee director deferred