Company: ACCO
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-046374
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Company: ACCO BRANDS Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
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. There are no separate meeting fees paid. In addition to the annual cash retainer, committee chairpersons receive additional annual cash retainers totaling $25,000 for the Audit Committee, $20,000 for the Compensation and Human Capital Committee, and $15,000 for the Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee and Finance and Planning Committee. Our Independent Chairman is paid an additional annual cash retainer of $100,000. Cash retainers are paid quarterly and pro-rated as appropriate. A non-employee director may elect to defer the cash portion of his or her compensation under our Deferred Compensation Plan for Directors (the “Deferred Plan”). If this option is chosen, the director can have his or her deferral account credited in either or both a phantom fixed income or a phantom

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stock unit account. The phantom stock unit account would correspond to the value of, and the dividend rights associated with, an equivalent number of shares of the Company's common stock. Upon the conclusion of service as a director, the balance in a phantom stock unit or phantom fixed income account would be paid to the director in a lump-sum cash distribution. Our obligation to redeem a phantom account is unsecured and is subject to the claims of our general creditors. For the year 2024, none of the directors elected to defer cash compensation and none had any balances in a phantom fixed income or phantom stock unit account.

Equity-Based Compensation for Non-Employee Directors

Each non-employee director is entitled to receive an annual equity grant either in the form of RSUs deferred under the Deferred Plan or common stock under the 2022 ACCO Brands Corporation Incentive Plan, as amended (including its predecessor or successor plans, the “Incentive Plan”) with a fair market value (as defined in the Incentive Plan) of $125,000. Annual equity grants are typically made at the time of our annual stockholders' meeting each year and non-employee directors elected to the Board of Directors other than at an annual meeting receive a pro-rata portion of such amount based on the time between their date of appointment and the date of the next annual stockholders' meeting.

Non-employee directors are required to receive their equity grants in the form of deferred RSUs if they have not yet attained the minimum stock ownership required under the Non-Employee Director Stock Ownership Guidelines. After achieving the minimum stock ownership threshold, directors may elect each year whether to receive an unrestricted stock grant or deferred