Company: MTCH
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: PREC14A
Source: 0000891103-25-000047
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Company: Match Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: PREC14A
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. Kim. Following this meeting, the Company coordinated a meeting between Mr. Gupta and Mr. McInerney.

On February 27, 2024, Mr. McInerney and Ms. Shelburne spoke with Mr. Gupta. During this call, Mr. Gupta conveyed to Mr. McInerney and Ms. Shelburne the reasons supporting his investment decision in the Company. Mr. Gupta additionally spoke about investor communications, as well as the operational and governance changes he had conveyed in his previous meeting with Mr. Kim.

On March 1, 2024, Mr. Gupta emailed a letter to the Company’s Corporate Secretary urging the Company to take certain operational actions, including holding an investor day, refining its portfolio-based approach, focusing on returning capital to investors and considering a divestiture of Pairs TM (the Company’s dating app in Japan). Mr. Gupta also encouraged the declassification of the Board, the adoption of a shareholder right to call special meetings and the addition of new perspectives on the Board. Mr. Gupta’s email requested that the letter be shared with the Board. The letter also reiterated Mr. Gupta’s desire for a follow-up meeting with the Board to gather feedback on the proposed recommendations.

On March 5, 2024, the Company’s Chief Business Affairs and Legal Officer emailed Mr. Gupta to let him know his email and accompanying letter had been distributed to the Board and also passed along a note from Mr. McInerney indicating that Mr. Gupta’s views had been shared with the full Board and would continue to be discussed in its deliberations. Mr. Gupta replied to this email that same day requesting again to meet with the Board.

On March 8, 2024, the Company’s Chief Business Affairs and Legal Officer emailed Mr. Gupta noting that Mr. McInerney suggested Mr. Gupta speak with Glenn Schiffman, one of the Company’s directors. Over the following days, Ms. Shelburne and Mr. Gupta coordinated on the logistics of the meeting, with Ms. Shelburne indicating to Mr. Gupta that Mr. Schiffman would be available to meet with him on March 18, 2024. Mr. Gupta accepted the meeting. On March 11, 2024, representatives of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP (“Schulte”), as counsel to Anson, emailed the Company’s Chief Business Affairs and Legal Officer requesting the Company’s form of director nominee questionnaire and policies and guidelines applicable to directors, which materials were delivered