Company: MBINL
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-032188
Chunk: 12

Company: Merchants Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 12
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e) such other information regarding each nominee proposed by such nominating shareholder as is required to be included in a proxy statement filed pursuant to the proxy rules of the SEC, as in effect; and (f) the consent of each nominee to serve as a director of the Company if so elected. Other Shareholder Proposals.In accordance with our By-Laws, for proposals to be otherwise brought by a shareholder and voted upon at an annual meeting of shareholders, the shareholder must give written notice of the proposal to our Secretary, at the above address, which must be received not less than 90 days nor more than 120 days prior to the annual meeting. However, if less than 100 days’ notice or prior public disclosure of the date of the annual meeting is given or made to shareholders, such written notice, to be timely, must be delivered or mailed to the Secretary and received at our principal office not later than the close of business on the 10 thday following the day on which notice of the date of the meeting was mailed to shareholders or such prior public disclosure was made. On April 5, 2024, we filed our proxy statement for our 2024 annual meeting of shareholders and within announced the date of the Annual Meeting, which means any shareholder proposal must have been received by our Secretary no later than February 15, 2025 for the Annual Meeting. We did not receive any shareholder proposals. 8 The shareholder’s notice to the Secretary must include: (a) a brief description of the proposal desired to be brought before the meeting and the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting; (b) the name and address of record of the shareholder proposing such business; (c) the number of shares of our common stock beneficially owned by such shareholder on the date of such shareholder’s notice; and (d) any financial or other interest of such shareholder in the proposal. Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation No member of our Compensation Committee (a) is or has ever been an employee of ours; (b) was, during 2024, a participant in any related party transaction requiring disclosure under Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions, except with respect to loans made to such committee members in the ordinary course of business on substantially the same terms as those prevailing at the time for comparable transactions with unrelated parties; or (c) had, during the last completed fiscal year, any other interlocking relationship requiring disclosure under applicable SEC rules. Code of Conduct We have a Code of Conduct that applies to all of our directors,