Company: OSBC
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001558370-25-005000
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Company: OLD SECOND BANCORP INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: DEF 14A
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 or represented by proxy at the meeting.

**Stockholder Communications with Our Directors**

Our stockholders may contact any member of the board of directors (including our Chairman or Lead Independent Director), or the board as a whole, through our Corporate Secretary, by mail at 37 South River Street, Aurora, Illinois 60507, or by e-mail at corporatesecretary@oldsecond.com. Any such communication should indicate whether the sender is an Old Second stockholder. Any communication will be forwarded promptly to the board as a group or to the attention of the specified director per your request. Communications that are personal grievances, commercial solicitations, customer complaints, incoherent, or obscene will not be communicated to our board or any director or committee of our board.

Stockholder Proposals and Director Nominations

Stockholder Nominations of Directors.Under our certificate of incorporation, a stockholder may nominate a candidate for election at a stockholder meeting by giving written notice, delivered to or mailed, to our Corporate Secretary, at 37 South River Street, Aurora, Illinois 60507, not fewer than 14 days nor more than 60 days before any meeting of the stockholders called for the election of directors. If notice of the meeting is given to stockholders less than 21 days before the date of the meeting, such written nomination must be delivered or mailed, as prescribed, to our Corporate Secretary, not later than the close of business on the seventh day following the day on which notice of the meeting was mailed to stockholders. Each written nomination must set forth (a) the name, age, business address and, if known, residence address of each nominee proposed in such written nomination; (b) the principal occupation or employment of each such nominee for the past five years; and (c) the number of shares of our stock beneficially owned by each such nominee and by the nominating stockholder.

Stockholder Proposal at the Meeting. A stockholder seeking to present any business at an annual meeting must submit a notice in writing to our Corporate Secretary, at 37 South River Street, Aurora, Illinois 60507, not earlier than 120 days and not later than 90 days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting; provided that, if the date of the annual meeting is moved to more than 30 days before or more than 60 days after the anniversary date of the previous year’s meeting, for notice by the stockholder to be timely it must be delivered to us not earlier than