Company: AVNT
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001122976-25-000019
Chunk: 25

Company: AVIENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 25
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 2025
<div align='center'>PROXY STATEMENT 2025 | Annual Meeting of Shareholders 27</div>

#### CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Corporate Governance

Director Independence

Our Corporate Governance Guidelines provide that a substantial majority of the members of our Board should be “independent.” To be considered independent, the Board, with input and a recommendation from the Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee, must affirmatively determine that a given Director has no material relationship with the Company (either directly or as a partner, shareholder or officer of an organization that has a relationship with the Company) and is free from any business, family or other relationship that would reasonably be expected to interfere with the exercise of independent judgment as a Director. The Board considers even immaterial relationships, including transactions, relationships and arrangements with the Company, in its decision-making process to ensure a complete view of each Director’s independence. Under categorical independence standards adopted by our Board, the Board must determine that a Director is not independent if he or she fails to meet the independence standards under the listing standards of the NYSE.

In addition, our categorical independence standards provide that the following categories of relationships between an outside Director and the Company will be treated as immaterial for purposes of determining a Director’s independence.

• If the Director is, or has an immediate family member who is, a partner (general or limited) in, or a controlling stockholder, equity holder, executive officer, other employee or director of any organization to which the Company made, or from which the Company received, payments for property or services in the current or any of the past three fiscal years where the amount involved in such transaction in any such fiscal year was less than the greater of $1 million or 2% of the organization’s consolidated gross revenues for that year;

• If the Director is, or has an immediate family member who is, a director or trustee of any organization to which the Company has made, or from which the Company has received payments for property or services, and the Director (or his or her immediate family member) was not involved in the negotiations of the terms of the transaction, did not, to the extent applicable, provide any services directly to the Company, and did not receive any special benefits as a result of the transaction; or

• If the Director, or an immediate family member of the Director, serves as an officer, director or trustee of a foundation, university, charitable or other not-for-profit organization, and the Company’s discretionary charitable contributions to the organization, in the aggregate