Company: BANC-PF
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001169770-25-000015
Chunk: 5

Company: BANC OF CALIFORNIA, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 5
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 | Banc of California |     | Annual Proxy Statement |     | 2025 |

#### Proxy Statement Summary

#### Our Annual Meeting Agenda
The Board of Directors of Banc of California, Inc. (Banc of California, the Company, we, us, and our) is using this proxy statement to solicit proxies from the holders of the Company’s voting common stock, par value $0.01 per share, for use at the upcoming 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the Annual Meeting) and any adjournments or postponements of the Annual Meeting. Stockholders are being asked to vote on the following matters:

| No.  
 I.   
 II.  |     | Proposal                                                                                                        
 Election of thetwelvedirector nominees named in this proxy statement,                                           
 each for a term of one year.                                                                                    
 Ratification of the selection of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent                                 
 registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2025.                                        |     | Board Vote        
 Recommendation:   
 FOR each director 
 nominee           
 FOR               |     | Page 
    6 
   77 |
|:-----|:----|:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:----|:------------------|:----|-----:|
| III. |     | Approval, on an advisory and non-binding basis, of the compensation paid to our                                 
 named executive officers, as disclosed in this proxy statement (Say-on-Pay).                                    |     | FOR               |     |   80 |
| IV.  |     | Approval, on an advisory and non-binding basis, of the frequency of future Say-on-Pay votes (Say-on-Frequency). |     | ONE YEAR          |     |   81 |

These proposals are described in more detail elsewhere in this proxy statement. In addition to these proposals, stockholders will also consider any other matters that may properly come before the Annual Meeting or any adjournment or postponement of the Annual Meeting, although the Company’s Board of Directors (the Board) knows of no other business to be presented.

By submitting your proxy, you authorize the persons named in this proxy statement to represent you and vote your shares at the Annual Meeting in accordance with your instructions. Those persons also may vote your shares to adjourn the Annual Meeting from time to time and will be authorized to vote your shares at any adjournments or postponements of the Annual Meeting.

For more information about who can vote, voting mechanics and other general Annual Meeting matters, see Information About