Company: WTFCN
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-031671
Chunk: 99

Company: WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 99
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 under the 2022 Plan as of the effective date of the 2025 Plan. No more than 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock in the aggregate may be issued under the 2025 Plan in connection with incentive stock options, subject to adjustment in accordance with the capitalization adjustment provisions included in the 2025 Plan. The number of available shares will be reduced by the sum of the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock which become subject to outstanding awards. Shares covered by an award granted under the 2025 Plan will not be counted as used under the 2025 Plan unless and until they are actually issued and delivered to a participant. Consequently, to the extent that shares of Common Stock subject to an outstanding award granted under either the 2025 Plan or the 2022 Plan, the 2015 Plan, the 2007 Plan or any other plan previously maintained by the Company under which equity awards remain outstanding (collectively, the “Predecessor Plans”), are not issued or delivered by reason of (i) the cancellation, termination, forfeiture or lapse of such award (excluding shares of Common Stock subject to a stock option cancelled upon settlement of a related tandem SAR or subject to a tandem SAR cancelled upon exercise of a related stock option) or (ii) the payout of any award (or portion thereof) in the form of cash, then such shares of Common Stock will again be available under the 2025 Plan. In addition, shares of Common Stock subject to an award granted under the 2025 Plan or a Predecessor Plan, other than 68 TABLE OF CONTENTS a stock option or SAR, will again become available for issuance under the 2025 Plan if the shares are delivered to or withheld by the Company to pay the withholding taxes payable with respect to such award. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, shares of Common Stock subject to an award under the 2025 Plan will not again be available for issuance under the 2025 Plan if such shares are (i) shares that were subject to a stock option or SAR and were not issued or delivered upon the net settlement of such stock option or SAR, (ii) shares delivered to or withheld by the Company to satisfy the tax withholding obligations relating to an outstanding stock option or SAR or (iii) shares repurchased by the Company with the proceeds received from payment of the exercise price of a stock option. The number of shares of Common Stock available for awards under the 2025 Plan will not be reduced by (i) the number of