Company: VRE
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000924901-25-000035
Chunk: 5

Company: Veris Residential, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
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 SUBMISSION OF STOCKHOLDER PROPOSALS                                                       |     | 59 |
| ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K                                                                |     | 59 |
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<div align='center'>VERIS RESIDENTIAL, INC.
HARBORSIDE 3, 210 HUDSON STREET, STE. 400
JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY 07311

Proxy Statement for Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on Wednesday, June 11, 2025

INFORMATION ABOUT THE ANNUAL MEETING</div>

#### GENERAL INFORMATION
This Proxy Statement is furnished to stockholders of Veris Residential, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the solicitation by the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board of Directors”) of proxies in the accompanying form for use in voting at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the Company to be held solely by remote communication, in a virtual-only format on Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time (the “Annual Meeting”), and any postponement or adjournment thereof.

Our Proxy Statement and 2024 Annual Report are available on our website at https://investors.verisresidential.com/sec-filings or www.proxyvote.com.

#### PURPOSES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING
The purposes of the Annual Meeting are:

1. To elect nine persons to the Board of Directors, each to serve until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualify or until any such director’s earlier death, resignation or removal.

2. To consider and vote, on an advisory basis, for the adoption of a resolution approving the compensation of our named executive officers, as such compensation is described under the “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” and “Executive Compensation” sections of this Proxy Statement.

3. To consider and vote upon a proposal to ratify the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.

4. To consider and vote upon such other matters as may properly come before the Annual Meeting or any postponement or adjournment thereof.

YOUR VOTE IS VERY IMPORTANT. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS: A VOTE “FOR” THE ELECTION OF EACH OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS’