Company: LIN
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-060925
Chunk: 95

Company: LINDE PLC
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 95
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     |       |     | 1,486,030 |     |            |     | 1,734,886 |
| Directors, Nominees and Executive Officers as a group |     | 18 persons                                               |     |          |                                     | 1,015,255 |     |          |     | 509,600 |     |       |     | 1,524,855 |     |            |     | 1,778,049 |

| (1) | Includes: (a) Deferred Stock Units, (b) Restricted Stock Units, and/or (c) vested Performance Share Units whose payout was deferred. Deferred Stock Units are stock price-based units into which deferred compensation has been invested pursuant to the deferred compensation plans for management and for non-employee directors. Restricted Stock Units and Deferred Performance Share Units are stock price-based units granted as long term incentive awards to management, and Restricted Stock Units granted as equity compensation to non-employee directors. Holders have no voting rights with respect to Deferred Stock Units, Restricted Stock Units or Deferred Performance Share Units. The value of Deferred Stock Units, Restricted Stock Units or Deferred Performance Share Units varies with the price of Linde’s ordinary shares and, at the end of the deferral period or the restriction period, the units are payable in Linde ordinary shares on a one-for-one basis. |
| (2) | Represents shares that may be acquired upon exercise of options exercisable within 60 days of April 1, 2025.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| (3) | Ms. Reynolds was elected to the Board effective February 27, 2024                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |

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Information About the Annual General Meeting and Voting

Information About the Annual General Meeting and Voting

This Proxy Statement is furnished to shareholders of Linde plc in connection with the solicitation of proxies for the Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) of Shareholders to be held on July 29, 2025 at The Corinthia Hotel, Whitehall Place, Westminster, London, SW1A 2BD, United Kingdom at 1:00 PM local time (8:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time in the U.S.) or any adjournment or postponement thereof. Shareholders may, by technological means, participate in the 2025 Annual

General Meeting in Ireland in accordance with section 176 of the Irish Companies Act 2014 by attending the offices of Arthur Cox LLP, Ten Ear