Company: MTCH
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: PREC14A
Source: 0000891103-25-000047
Chunk: 42

Company: Match Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: PREC14A
Chunk 42
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 its subsidiaries may engage in transactions in publicly traded options, such as puts, calls, prepaid variable forward contracts, equity swaps or other derivatives that are designed to hedge or speculate on any change in the market value of or relating to Match Group securities, or engage in short sales with respect to Match Group securities. This prohibition extends to any and all forms of hedging or monetization transactions, such as zero-cost collars and forward sale contracts (among others). The Trading Policy also provides that no director, officer or employee of Match Group and its businesses may initiate any transactions that involve pledging Match Group securities in any manner, including by purchasing Match Group securities on margin, holding Match Group securities in an account utilizing margin or otherwise pledging Match Group securities as collateral for a loan.

Director Independence. Under the Marketplace Rules of The Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC (the “Marketplace Rules”), the Board has a responsibility to make an affirmative determination that those members of the Board who serve as independent directors do not have any relationships that would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director. In connection with the independence determinations described below, the Board reviewed information regarding transactions, relationships and arrangements relevant to independence, including those required by the Marketplace Rules. This information is obtained from director responses to questionnaires circulated by management, as well as from Company records and publicly available information. Following these determinations, Match Group management monitors those transactions, relationships and arrangements that were relevant to such determinations, as well as periodically solicits updated information potentially relevant to independence from internal personnel and directors, to determine whether there have been any developments that could potentially have an adverse impact on the Board’s prior independence determinations.

In 2025, the Board determined that each of Mses. Brenner, Jones, McDaniel and Seymon and Messrs. Bailey, McInerney, Schiffman and Spoon is independent. In addition, the Board determined that (i) Wendi Murdoch, whose term ended in June 2024, was independent during the time she served on the Board and (ii) Mr. Rascoff was independent during the time he served on the Board in 2024. In connection with these determinations, the Board considered that in some cases in the ordinary course of business, Match Group and its businesses purchase products and services from companies at which certain directors are employed or serve as directors, or over which certain directors otherwise exert control. Furthermore, the Board considered whether there were any payments made to (or received from) such