Company: ACCO
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-046374
Chunk: 36

Company: ACCO BRANDS Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 36
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 of the exercise price and all applicable tax and other required withholding). Subject to the Company’s insider-trading policy, an executive officer may reduce his or her share ownership so long as his or her ownership is maintained at or above the required ownership levels. The Compensation and Human Capital Committee has the discretion to remedy any deficiency if ownership goals are not met on a timely basis. Remedies may include providing a portion of annual incentive awards in Company stock or similar actions. The Compensation and Human Capital Committee may also consider other factors, including general equity market conditions and the Company’s then-current stock price when determining the need for any remedies. Prohibitions on Hedging, Pledging and Similar Transactions Hedging and similar monetization transactions by directors and employees, including executive officers, which may offset or protect against decreases in the market price of our Company stock, can lead to a misalignment between the objectives of these individuals and the objectives of our stockholders. Similarly, stock pledges by directors and executive officers could detrimentally impact our stockholders if they are used as part of a hedging strategy or in the event of a forced sale of our stock, such as to meet a margin call. Accordingly, under our insider trading policy: • directors and employees, including our executive officers, are prohibited from engaging in any hedging transactions with respect to the Company stock they may own, including through prepaid variable forward contracts, equity swaps, collars and exchange funds; • directors and executive officers are prohibited from trading in puts, calls, exchange-traded options or similar securities involving our stock; • directors and employees, including executive officers, are prohibited from engaging in short sales of our stock; and

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directors and executive officers are prohibited from holding our securities in margin accounts or otherwise pledging our securities as collateral for a loan, and all other employees must receive pre-clearance from the Company in order to do so.

Our insider trading policy does not provide for exceptions or waivers to these prohibitions.

Recoupment or Forfeiture of Incentive Payments Policy

The Company has a policy to “clawback” incentive-based compensation paid or payable to executive officers in the event of a financial restatement or under the circumstance of willful and intentional misconduct on the part of an executive in connection with the performance of his or her duties. The policy defines "incentive-based compensation" to include all forms of compensation that is granted, earned or vested (i) based wholly or in