Company: ACCO
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-046374
Chunk: 48

Company: ACCO BRANDS Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 48
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 Firm(Proposal 2) |
| ☑ The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR Proposal 2. |                                                                                          |

The Audit Committee has appointed KPMG LLP (“KPMG”) as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025. During 2024, KPMG served as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm and also provided certain other services to the Company. The Audit Committee and the Board of Directors recommend that you ratify this appointment. In line with this recommendation, the Board of Directors intends to introduce the following resolution at the Annual Meeting: “RESOLVED, that the appointment of KPMG LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm for the Company for the year 2025 is ratified." The Audit Committee is responsible for the selection, retention and oversight of the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm. If stockholders do not ratify the appointment of KPMG as the Company’s independent registered accounting firm for 2025, the Audit Committee will reconsider its selection but may, nevertheless, continue to retain KPMG. Even if the selection is ratified, the Audit Committee has the discretion to appoint a different registered public accounting firm at any time during the year if the Audit Committee determines that such change would be appropriate. A member of KPMG is expected to be in attendance during the Annual Meeting to make a statement if he or she desires and will respond to appropriate questions that may be asked by stockholders. Audit and Non-Audit Fees Our independent registered public accounting firm for the 2023 and 2024 fiscal years was KPMG. The following table summarizes the fees paid or payable by the Company to KPMG for services rendered during 2023 and 2024, respectively:

| Fees                  |       2023 |       2024 |
| Audit fees(1)         | $3,319,640 | $3,447,311 |
| Audit-related fees(2) |     $7,791 |     $8,218 |
| Tax fees(3)           |     $1,305 |     $1,525 |
| All other fees(4)     |          0 |    $11,017 |
| Total                 | $3,328,736 | $3,468,071 |

(1) Audit fees include fees for the audit of our annual financial statements, the audit of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting, the review of the financial information included in