Company: MTCH
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000891103-25-000067
Chunk: 42

Company: Match Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 42
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the “2026 Annual Meeting”) if this Proposal 5 is approved by the requisite vote of our stockholders at the Annual Meeting. Directors elected at this Annual Meeting will be elected to three-year terms expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders held in 2028 (the “2028 Annual Meeting”). If the proposed amendments are approved at this Annual Meeting, then, beginning with the class of directors standing for election at the 2026 Annual Meeting, directors will be elected to one-year terms of office. Directors currently serving terms that expire at the annual meetings of stockholders to be held in 2026 and 2027 will (subject to their earlier resignation or removal) serve the remainder of their respective terms, and thereafter their successors will be elected to one-year terms. At the 2028 Annual Meeting and annual meetings thereafter, all directors will stand for election annually, and the Board will no longer be classified. Any director appointed to fill a vacancy, or to fill newly created director positions resulting from an increase in the number of directors, before the 2028 Annual Meeting will be appointed for a term expiring upon the expiration of the term of the director whose place is filled, or if appointed to fill a newly created director position, for a term expiring upon the next election of the class to which such director was appointed. Our Board also will approve certain conforming changes to our By-laws, contingent on the effectiveness of these proposed amendments to our Certificate of Incorporation.

Delaware law provides, unless otherwise addressed in the certificate of incorporation, that members of a board that is classified may be removed only for cause. Our Certificate of Incorporation provides that a director may be removed only for cause and upon the approval of holders of not less than a majority of the total voting power of the then outstanding shares of stock entitled to vote in the election of directors, voting together as a single class. The proposed amendments to our Certificate of Incorporation provide that, from and after the 2026 Annual Meeting, any director elected to a one-year term may be removed either with or without cause with the affirmative vote of the holders of not less than a majority of the total voting power of shares of stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote in an election of directors, voting together as a single class. All other directors may be removed only for cause.

With respect to Proposal 5, the proposed amendments to our Certificate of Incorporation are included with this proxy statement as Appendix B-1. This description of the proposed amendments to our Certificate of