Company: SUPN
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-042531
Chunk: 18

Company: SUPERNUS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 18
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 qualifications, expertise, performance and willingness to serve of our existing directors. Such assessments may occur more frequently as circumstances warrant and often involve the entire Board of Directors rather than only the members of the Governance and Nominating Committee. If at any time during the year, the Governance and Nominating Committee, or the full Board of Directors, determines a need to add a new director with specific qualifications or to fill a vacancy on the Board of Directors, the Governance and Nominating Committee will then initiate the search, work with staff support and seek input from directors and senior management, consider nominees previously submitted by stockholders, and, if deemed necessary or appropriate, hire a search firm. An initial slate of candidates satisfying the specific qualifications, if any, and otherwise qualifying for membership on the Board of Directors, will then be identified, preliminarily assessed by the Governance and Nominating Committee and remaining candidates will be presented to the Board of Directors which will then prioritize the candidates. If any of the members of the Board of Directors or senior management have relationships with the preferred candidates, they may initiate contact with a candidate. Alternatively, contact may be initiated by a search firm. The Governance and Nominating Committee will interview remaining candidate(s). Evaluations and recommendations of the interviewers will be submitted to the Board of Directors for final evaluation. The Board of Directors will meet to consider 10 such recommendations and to approve the final candidate, and will evaluate all nominees for director, including nominees recommended by a stockholder, on the same basis. The Board of Directors will consider director candidates recommended by our stockholders in accordance with the following procedures. Stockholders may make recommendations with regard to nominees for election to the Board of Directors at future Annual Meetings of stockholders by submitting in writing a notice, received by the Secretary of Supernus, no earlier than 120 days and no later than 90 days prior to the anniversary date of the prior year’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders, or, if we did not have an Annual Meeting of Stockholders in the prior year or if the date of the current year’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders is more than 30 days before or after the anniversary date of the prior year’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders, on or before 15 days after the day on which the date of the current year’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders is first disclosed in a public announcement. Such recommendations or notices of nomination must set forth all information relating to each nominee that is required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors in an