Company: SBH
Filing Date: 2025-12-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-313464
Chunk: 39

Company: Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 39
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ness) in which (1) the aggregate amount involved will or may be reasonably expected to exceed $120,000 in any calendar year, (2) the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a participant, and (3) any related party has or will have a direct or indirect interest (other than solely as a result of being a director or a less than ten percent beneficial owner of another entity). Any charitable contribution, grant or endowment by the Company to a charitable organization, foundation or university at which a related party’s only relationship is as an employee, an officer or a director also constitutes an interested transaction. A “related party” is defined as any person who is or was (since the beginning of the last fiscal year for which the Company has filed an Annual Report on Form 10-K and proxy statement, even if such person does not presently serve in that role) (1) an officer (including at the Vice President level or above), director or nominee for election as a director of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, (2) a greater than five percent beneficial owner of any class of the Company’s Common Stock or other equity securities, or (3) an immediate family member of any of the foregoing individuals.

Subject to several exceptions (as described below), all interested transactions must be approved or ratified by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, taking into account, among other factors it deems appropriate, whether the interested transaction is on terms no less favorable than terms generally available to an unaffiliated third-party under the same or similar circumstances, as well as the extent of the related party’s interest in the

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transaction. An interested transaction may be approved or ratified if it is determined in good faith that, under all of the circumstances, the transaction is fair to the Company. The Audit Committee may impose such conditions as it deems appropriate on the Company or the related party in connection with the approval of the transaction.

No director participates in any discussion or approval of an interested transaction for which he or she is a related party, except to the extent the director provides material information concerning the transaction to the Audit Committee. If an interested transaction remains ongoing, the Audit Committee must review and assess, on at least an annual basis, ongoing relationships with the related party to ensure that the interested transaction remains appropriate. In addition, if an interested transaction involving a member of the Board may constitute an actual or potential director conflict of interest, the