Company: PTY
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-052894
Chunk: 21

Company: PIMCO CORPORATE & INCOME OPPORTUNITY FUND
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 21
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 firm. Each member of each Fund’s Audit Oversight Committee is “independent,” as independence for audit committee members is defined in the currently applicable listing standards of the NYSE, on which the Common Shares of each Fund are listed. The Board of each Fund has adopted a written charter for its Audit Oversight Committee. A copy of the written charter for each Fund, as amended through December 19, 2024, is attached to this Proxy Statement as Exhibit A. A report of the Audit Oversight Committee of each Fund, dated February 20, 2025, is attached to this Proxy Statement as Exhibit C. Governance and Nominating Committee.The Board of each Fund has established a Governance and Nominating Committee composed solely of 31 Independent Trustees, currently consisting of Mr. Rappaport and Mses. Cogan, DeCotis, McCartney and Vandecruze. Ms. DeCotis serves as the current Chair of each Fund’s Governance and Nominating Committee. The primary purposes and responsibilities of each Fund’s Governance and Nominating Committee are: (i) advising and making recommendations to the Board on matters concerning Board governance and related Trustee practices, and (ii) the screening and nomination of candidates for election to the Board as Independent Trustees. The responsibilities of each Fund’s Governance and Nominating Committee include considering and making recommendations to the Fund’s Board regarding: (1) governance, retirement and other policies, procedures and practices relating to the Board and the Trustees; (2) in consultation with the Chair of the Board, matters concerning the functions and duties of the Trustees and committees of the Board; (3) the size of the Board and, in consultation with the Chair of the Board, the Board’s committees and their composition; and (4) Board and committee meeting procedures. Each Fund’s Governance and Nominating Committee will also periodically review and recommend for approval by the Board the structure and levels of compensation and any related benefits to be paid or provided by a Fund to the Independent Trustees for their services on the Board and any committees on the Board. The Governance and Nominating Committee is responsible for reviewing and recommending qualified candidates to the Board in the event that a position is vacated or created or when Trustees are to be re-elected.The Governance and Nominating Committee of each Fund has adopted a charter, which is attached to this Proxy Statement as Exhibit B. Each member of each Fund’s Governance and Nominating Committee is “independent,” as independence for nominating committee members is defined in