Company: WTFCN
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-031671
Chunk: 28

Company: WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 28
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 6,109,556 shares and shared dispositive power with respect to 99,029 of these shares. (6) Based solely on information obtained from a Schedule 13G/A filed by BlackRock, Inc. (“BlackRock”) with the SEC on January 24, 2024 reporting beneficial ownership as of December 31, 2023. According to this report, BlackRock’s business address is 50 Hudson Yards, New York, New York 10001. BlackRock has indicated that it holds shares of our Common Stock together with certain of its subsidiaries. BlackRock has sole voting power with respect to 5,556,508 of these shares and sole dispositive power with respect to 5,803,360 of these shares. (7) Based solely on information obtained from a Schedule 13G/A filed by FMR LLC (“FMR”) and Abigail P. Johnson with the SEC on February 9, 2024 reporting beneficial ownership as of December 29, 2023. Ms. Johnson is a Director, the Chairman and the Chief Executive Officer of FMR. According to this report, FMR’s business address is 245 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210. FMR has indicated that it holds shares of our Common Stock together with certain of its subsidiaries. FMR has sole voting power with respect to 4,293,295 of these shares and sole dispositive power with respect to 4,298,290 of these shares. Ms. Johnson has indicated that she also has sole dispositive power with respect to these 4,298,290 shares. DELINQUENT SECTION 16(A) REPORTS Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires the Company’s Directors and executive officers and any person who beneficially owns greater than 10% of the Common Stock to file reports of holdings and transactions in the Common Stock with the SEC. Based solely on a review of the Section 16(a) reports furnished to us with respect to 2024 and written representations from our Directors and executive officers, we believe that all Section 16(a) filing requirements applicable to each covered person were satisfied during 2024 and during the subsequent period through the date of this Proxy Statement, except that the Company determined that 49 shares of Common Stock acquired by Ms. Teglia were inadvertently not reported, which was subsequently corrected on a Form 4 filed with the SEC on March 5, 2025. 21 TABLE OF CONTENTS RELATED PERSON TRANSACTIONS