Company: DHR
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000313616-25-000081
Chunk: 88

Company: DANAHER CORP /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 88
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 W. Ellis and James F. O’Reilly, or any of them, to act as proxies with full power of substitution. All votes will be counted by the inspector of election appointed for the meeting.

| 2025 Notice of Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement |     | 73 |

In addition, if you have returned a signed proxy card or submitted voting instructions by telephone or online, the proxy holders will have, and intend to exercise, discretion to vote your shares (other than shares held in the Savings Plan) in accordance with their best judgment on any matters not identified in this Proxy Statement that are properly brought to a vote at the Annual Meeting. As of the date of this Proxy Statement, we do not know of any such additional matters.

If your shares are registered in your name and you sign and return a proxy card or vote by telephone or online but do not give voting instructions on a particular matter, the proxy holders will be authorized to vote your shares on that matter in accordance with the Board’s recommendation. If you hold your shares through an account with a bank, broker, trustee or other intermediary and do not give voting instructions on a matter, we expect that under the rules of the NYSE the bank, broker, trustee or other intermediary will be permitted to vote in its discretion only on Proposal 2 and will not be permitted to vote on any of the other Proposals, resulting in a so-called “broker non-vote.” The impact of abstentions and broker non-votes on the overall vote is shown in the following table. Broker non-votes will not affect the attainment of a quorum since the bank, broker, trustee or other intermediary has discretion to vote on Proposal 2 and these votes will be counted toward establishing a quorum.

Votes Required and Effect of Abstentions and Broker Non-Votes

| Matter                                                                                                    |     | Required Vote                                                                                                                    |     | Impact of Abstentions                                                                                                                |     | Impact of Broker Non-Votes                                                                                                                  |
| PROPOSAL 1 –Election of directors (page12)                                                                |     | Votes cast FOR a nominee must exceed number of votes cast AGAINST that nominee.                                                  |     | Not counted as votes cast; no impact on outcome.                                                                                     |     | Not counted as votes cast; no impact on outcome.                                                                                            |
| PROPOSAL 2 –Ratification of the appointment of the independent registered public accounting firm (page36) |     | Approval by a majority of shares of Danaher Common Stock represented in person