Company: ADP
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000607
Chunk: 104

Company: AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING INC
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 104
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 sets forth certain threshold and holding requirements, the permissible number and length of proposals, and other matters, including the circumstances in which the company is permitted to exclude proposals.

| Advance Notice |

Separate from the requirements of Rule 14a-8, relating to the inclusion of a stockholder proposal in the company’s proxy statement, the company’s amended and restated by-laws require advance notice for a stockholder to bring nominations of directors (other than a proxy access nomination, which is described below) or any other business to be considered at any annual meeting of stockholders. Specifically, our amended and restated by-laws require that stockholders wishing to nominate candidates for election as directors or propose any other business to be considered at our 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders must notify the company of their intent in a written notice delivered to the company in care of the company’s corporate secretary at our principal executive offices not less than 90 nor more than 120 days before the first anniversary of the date of the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, or November 12, 2026. As a result, in order for the notice given by a stockholder to comply with our amended and restated by-laws, it must be received no earlier than July 15, 2026, and no later than August 14, 2026, unless the date of our 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders occurs more than 30 days before or 60 days after the first anniversary of the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. In that case, our amended and restated by-laws provide that we must receive the notice no earlier than the 120th day prior to the date of the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and no later than the 90th day prior to the date of the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or the tenth day following the day on which we first make a public announcement of the date of the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, whichever is later. Additionally, stockholders who intend to solicit proxies in support of director nominees other than the company’s nominees must comply with applicable Exchange Act requirements, including providing notice that sets forth the information required by Rule 14a-19 under the Exchange Act no later than September 14, 2026.

| Proxy Access |

Our by-laws have proxy access provisions that permit a stockholder, or a group of up to twenty stockholders that owns 3% or more of our stock continuously for at least three