Company: WAL-PA
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-057334
Chunk: 17

Company: WESTERN ALLIANCE BANCORPORATION
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 17
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 the Company’s executive officers can be found on page52.

The Company understands that hedging and significant amounts of pledging of Company stock by directors and executive officers may skew the alignment of the interests between Company insiders and Company stockholders. Therefore, the Stock Ownership Guidelines specifically prohibit any hedging or pledging of Company stock held by directors and executive officers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, certain limited exceptions for pledging exist, including (a) shares of Company common stock held in a margin account or pledged as collateral for a loan prior to July 30, 2019, or (b) where the executive or director demonstrates the financial capacity to repay the loans without resorting to the pledged stock, such exception to be granted at the sole discretion of the Governance Committee. Any pledged shares are excluded from required ownership levels and are subject to both individual and collective maximums on Company shares that may be placed in a margin account or otherwise pledged.

Communication with the Boardof Directors and its Committees

Any stockholder or other interested person may communicate with the Board of Directors, a specified director (including the Chair), the independent directors as a group, or a committee of the Board of Directors by directing correspondence to their attention, in care of the Corporate Secretary, Western Alliance Bancorporation, One E. Washington Street, Suite 1400, Phoenix, Arizona 85004. Anyone who wishes to communicate with a specific director, the independent directors only or a specific committee should send instructions asking that the material be forwarded to the appropriate director, group of directors or committee chairman. The Corporate Secretary may sort or summarize any communications as appropriate. Communications that are personal in nature, contain commercial solicitations or complaints, or are otherwise incoherent or obscene, will not be communicated to our Board of Directors or any committee thereof.

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| CORPORATE GOVERNANCE |

Committees of t he Board of Directors The Company’s Board of Directors has five standing committees. Charters describing each committee (Audit, Compensation, Governance, Finance and Investment, and Risk) can be found in the Corporate Governance & Business Ethics section under Governance Documents of the Investor Relations page of the Company’s website at www.westernalliancebancorporation.com. The Board appoints the members and chair for each committee based on the recommendation of the Governance Committee. The Company may appoint additional, or modify existing, committees of the Board of Directors, including creating ad hoc committees to address items requiring special attention, such as regulatory matters or potential merger