Company: ETY
Filing Date: 2025-06-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001076598-25-000246
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Company: Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Diversified Equity Income Fund
Filing Date: 2025-06-23
Form: DEF 14A
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ly less than 1% of the outstanding Common Shares and/or APS of each Fund.

Shareholders as of the close of business on the record date of May 27, 2025 are entitled to attend and vote at the Annual Meeting. All properly executed proxies received prior to the Annual Meeting will be voted at the Annual Meeting. Each proxy will be voted in accordance with its instructions; if no instruction is given, an executed proxy will authorize the persons named on the respective proxy card enclosed as proxies, or any of them, to vote FOR the election of each Trustee. An executed proxy delivered to a Fund is revocable by the person giving it, prior to its exercise, by a signed writing filed with the Fund’s Secretary, by executing and delivering a later dated proxy, or by attending the Annual Meeting and voting the shares at the Annual Meeting. Merely attending the Annual Meeting will not revoke a previously executed proxy. If you hold Fund shares through an intermediary (such as a broker, bank, adviser or custodian), please consult with the intermediary regarding your ability to revoke voting instructions after they have been provided.

If you are a record holder of Fund shares and plan to attend the Annual Meeting, you must show a valid photo identification (such as a driver’s license) to gain admission to the Annual Meeting. Please call 1-800-262-1122 for information on how to obtain directions to be able to attend and vote at the Annual Meeting.

If you hold Fund shares through an intermediary and plan to attend and vote at the Annual Meeting, you will be required to show a valid photo identification and your authority to vote your shares (referred to as a “legal proxy”) to gain admission to the Annual Meeting. As described above, you must contact your intermediary to obtain a legal proxy for your shares.

<div align='center'>PROPOSAL 1. ELECTION OF TRUSTEES</div>

Each Fund’s Agreement and Declaration of Trust provides that a majority of the Trustees shall fix the number of the entire Board and that such number shall be at least two and no greater than fifteen. Each Board has fixed the number of Trustees at ten. Under the terms of each Fund’s Agreement and Declaration of Trust, each Board is divided into three classes, each class having a term of three years to expire on the date of the third Annual Meeting following its election.

| Proxies                                                   
 will be voted for the election of the following nominees: |    |                                                                                                                                      |
|                                                           | a. | For Senior Floating