Company: SNPS
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000883241-25-000008
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Company: SYNOPSYS INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: DEF 14A
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 fees for professional services for tax compliance, tax advice and tax planning. This category includes fees primarily related to assistance with international tax compliance services pertaining to certain foreign subsidiaries.

(4) All other fees consist of permitted services other than audit or tax services, and includes fees related to a subscription to KPMG LLP’s research tools and other general advisory services.

We received a stockholder proposal that asks our Board of Directors to amend our governing documents as needed to require shareholder ratification of golden parachutes. For the reasons set forth following the proponent’s proposal, our Board of Directors opposes adoption of the proposal and recommends that you vote AGAINST the proposal.

#### 2025 Proxy Statement11

### CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
We are asking our stockholders to vote “For” the election of nine directors at the Annual Meeting. We do not have a classified or staggered Board of Directors. Each of our directors stands for election on an annual basis and serves for a one-year term or until their successors are elected and qualified or until his or her death, resignation or removal. Of the eleven current directors whose terms expire in 2025, nine are standing for re-election. Our Governance Committee and the Board of Directors did not renominate Roy Vallee and Marc N. Casper for election to the Board of Directors and their terms will expire at the conclusion of the Annual Meeting. Accordingly, only nine directors are nominated and eligible for election at the Annual Meeting and our Board of Directors will reduce the size of the Board to nine members immediately following the conclusion of the Annual Meeting. The Board of Directors thanks each of Mr. Vallee and Mr. Casper for their leadership and years of service to Synopsys. Effective upon the conclusion of the Annual Meeting, Mr. Schwarz will replace Mr. Vallee as the Lead Independent Director of the Board and will no longer serve as the Compensation Committee chair, although Mr. Schwarz will remain a member of the Compensation Committee. Effective upon the conclusion of the Annual Meeting, Mr. Painter will replace Mr. Schwarz as the Compensation Committee chair.

At the recommendation of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee of our Board of Directors (the Governance Committee), the Board has nominated the following directors for election at the Annual Meeting.

| Our Board of Directors has nominated the following directors for election at the Annual Meeting: |     |                     |     |                   |     |                     |
|                                                                                                  |     | Dr. Aart J. de Geus |     | John G. Schwarz   |     | Sass