Company: ETY
Filing Date: 2025-06-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001076598-25-000246
Chunk: 25

Company: Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Diversified Equity Income Fund
Filing Date: 2025-06-23
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 25
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 must receive the affirmative vote of a majority of a Fund’s shares outstanding and entitled to vote with respect to such nominee in order to be elected. The By-Laws define a “contested election” as any election of Trustees in which the number of persons validly nominated for election as Trustees with respect to a given class or classes of Fund shares exceeds the number of Trustees to be elected with respect to such class or classes. See Proposal 1 for the vote required to elect Trustees at the Annual Meeting.

Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports

Based solely upon a review of the copies of the forms received by the Funds, all of the Trustees and officers of each Fund, Eaton Vance and its affiliates, and any person who owns more than ten percent of a Fund’s outstanding securities have complied with the filings required under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act regarding ownership of shares of the Funds for each Fund’s most recent fiscal year end except that, with respect to Senior Floating-Rate Trust, a late Form 4 filing was filed on behalf of Bank of America Corporation, Bank of America, N.A., and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, owners of Senior Floating-Rate Trust's shares who reported owning ten percent or more of Senior Floating-Rate Trust's shares at the time of the Form 4 filing.

Each Fund will furnish without charge a copy of its most recent Annual and Semi-Annual Reports to any shareholder upon request. Shareholders desiring to obtain a copy of such reports should call 1-866-745-0272, send an email to corporateservices@equiniti.com or write to the Fund c/o EQ Fund Solutions, LLC, P.O. Box 500, Newark, NJ 07101. Please note that only one Annual or Semi-Annual Report or this proxy statement or Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials may be delivered to two or more shareholders of a Fund who share an address, unless the Fund has received instructions to the contrary. Shareholder reports are also available on the Eaton Vance website at https://funds.eatonvance.com/closed-end-fund-and-term-trust-documents.php.

<div align='center'>SHAREHOLDER PROPOSALS</div>

To be considered for presentation at a Fund’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, a shareholder proposal submitted pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act must be received at the Fund’s principal office c/o the Secretary of the Fund on or before February 23, 202