Company: CFG-PE
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000759944-25-000044
Chunk: 109

Company: CITIZENS FINANCIAL GROUP INC/RI
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 109
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 the event that the date of the annual meeting of shareholders to be held in 2026 is advanced by more than 30 days or delayed by more than 70 days from the anniversary date of this year’s annual meeting of shareholders, such notice by the shareholder must be so received no earlier than 120 days prior to the annual meeting of shareholders to be held in 2026 and not later than 70 days prior to such annual meeting of shareholders to be held in 2026 or 10 days following the day on which public announcement of the date of such annual meeting is first made. In addition to satisfying the deadlines in the advance notice provisions of our Bylaws, shareholders who intend to solicit proxies in support of director nominees other than the Company’s nominees must also comply with the additional requirements of Rule 14a-19 of the Exchange Act.

Director nominations submitted for inclusion in our proxy materials under the proxy access provisions of our Bylaws must comply with the notice, ownership and other requirements of Article 2, Section 2.10(c) thereof. For director nominations and proposals of other business, pursuant to Article 2, Section 2.10(a) of our Bylaws, a shareholder’s notice to the Corporate Secretary shall set forth as to each person whom the shareholder proposes to nominate for election or re-election as a director, the information required pursuant to Article 2, Section 2.10(a)(iii)(A) thereof.

Any shareholder notice shall also set forth the information required, pursuant to Article 2, Section 2.10(a)(iii)(C) of our Bylaws, as to the shareholder giving the notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made. As to any other business that the shareholder proposes to bring before the meeting (other than a nomination of persons for election to our Board of Directors), the shareholder’s notice shall set also forth a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws, the text of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business and any material interest in such business of such shareholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made.

#### Annual Report for 2024
The fiscal 2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K is being mailed with this proxy statement to those shareholders receiving a copy of the proxy materials in the