Company: COHN
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-035625
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Company: Cohen & Co Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
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 meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof. We are furnishing proxy materials to you electronically, via the Internet, instead of mailing printed copies of those materials to each stockholder. We believe that this process expedites receipt of our proxy materials by stockholders, while lowering the costs and reducing the environmental impact of our annual meeting. We have provided the Notice to our stockholders of record on April 10, 2025. The Notice contains instructions on how to access the Proxy Statement and the Company’s 2024 Annual Report over the Internet and how to vote online. The Notice also includes instructions on how you can request and receive paper copies of the Proxy Statement and Company’s 2024 Annual Report for the annual meeting should you wish to do so. Our Board of Directors has fixed the close of business on April 10, 2025 as the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the annual meeting and any adjournments or postponements thereof. Only stockholders of record of our common stock, par value $0.01 per share, our Series E Voting Non-Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share, and/or our Series F Voting Non-Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share, at the close of business on the record date will be entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the annual meeting and any adjournments or postponements thereof. The Board has a contractual obligation to recommend to the Company’s stockholders the election of Daniel G. Cohen, the current Executive Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors, to our Board of TABLE OF CONTENTS Directors at the annual meeting, as further described in the section below entitled “ Rights of Certain Stockholders to Nominate Directors ” under Proposal One — Election of Directors. Your vote is very important. Accordingly, you are asked to vote, whether or not you plan to attend the annual meeting. You may vote: (1) by telephone, by calling the toll-free number as instructed in our proxy materials; (2) over the Internet prior to the meeting, as instructed in our proxy materials; (3) by mail if you received your proxy materials by mail, by marking, signing, dating and returning the attached proxy card in the postage-paid envelope that we have provided; or (4) by attending the annual meeting over the Internet. For specific instructions on voting, please refer to our proxy materials or the information regarding the annual meeting forwarded to your broker,