Company: COHN
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-035625
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Company: Cohen & Co Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
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 would be entitled to vote. If you are a holder of record of shares of our common stock, Series E Preferred Stock and/or Series F Preferred Stock and you return a properly executed proxy, but do not provide instructions as to one or more matters, the persons named as proxies intend to cast all of the votes you are entitled to cast: (i) FOR the election to the Board of Daniel G. Cohen, G. Steven Dawson, Jack J. DiMaio, Jr., Jack Haraburda and Diana Louise Liberto, the Company’s nominees for directorship positions at the meeting; (ii) FOR the approval of Amendment No. 3 to the Cohen & Company Inc. 2020 Long-Term Incentive Plan, as amended (the “2020 Long-Term Incentive Plan”), to increase the number of shares of the Company’s common stock authorized for issuance thereunder from 1,900,000 shares to 2,500,000 shares; (iii) FOR the approval of the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers; (iv) FOR the approval of holding an advisory vote on executive compensation once every three years; and (v) FOR the ratification of the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2025. Other than the matters set forth in this proxy statement and any procedural matters relating to the matters set forth herein, we are not aware of any other nominees for election as directors or other business that may properly be brought before the meeting. Quorum The presence, in person or represented by proxy, of stockholders entitled to cast a majority of the votes entitled to be cast at the meeting is necessary to constitute a quorum at the meeting. As of the record date, there were 2,054,674 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the meeting, 4,983,557 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS shares of Series E Preferred Stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the meeting, and 22,429,541 shares of Series F Preferred Stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the meeting. The common stock, the Series E Preferred Stock and Series F Preferred Stock vote together on all matters. Pursuant to the Second Articles of Amendment and Restatement of the Company, each stockholder of record as of the close of business on the record date is entitled to one vote on each matter properly brought before the meeting for (i) each share of common stock held by such stockholder as