Company: SNPS
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000883241-25-000008
Chunk: 86

Company: SYNOPSYS INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 86
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 and hedging. Our Insider Trading Policy also prohibits persons covered by the policy from holding our securities in a margin account or otherwise pledging our securities as collateral for a loan. The full text of our Insider Trading Policy was filed as Exhibit 19.1 to our 2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

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| PROPOSAL 4 — Advisory Vote to Approve Executive Compensation |

Other Important Compensation Practices

| POLICY                       |     | CONSIDERATIONS                                                                                                                       |     | MATERIAL FEATURES                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Anti-Hedging Policy          |     | •Hedging insulates executives from stock price movement and reduces alignment with stockholders.                                     |     | •Pursuant to our Insider Trading Policy, all employees, including our NEOs, and our directors are prohibited from engaging in the following types of hedging transactions involving our common stock: (1) selling short any Synopsys stock or other Synopsys securities and (2) buying or selling puts or calls or other derivatives of Synopsys securities, or otherwise entering into any hedging arrangements involving Synopsys securities.                                                                                                                           |
| Anti-Pledging Policy         |     | •Pledging raises potential risks to stockholder value, particularly if the pledge is significant.                                    |     | •Our Insider Trading Policy prohibits our employees, including our NEOs, and our directors from holding our common stock in a margin account or pledging it as collateral for a loan.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Equity Grant Timing Policy   |     | •Equity award grants should not be timed to take advantage of the release of material nonpublic information.                         |     | •Annual grants of equity awards to members of Synopsys’ Corporate Staff and Section 16 officers, and direct reports of the CEO with a designation at or above Vice President (or equivalent level), are approved by the Compensation Committee at a pre-scheduled meeting in the first quarter of the fiscal year, and the effective grant date of such awards will be the meeting date unless the meeting date falls within a closed trading window, in which case the Compensation Committee will approve an effective grant date outside of the closed trading window. 
 •Grants made by the CEO to employees other than such persons are made during certain open trading windows                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 •See “Company Policies and Practices Related to the Grant of Certain Equity Awards Close in Time to the Release of Material Nonpublic Information” for more information.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Equity Burn Rate