Company: UHS
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-049925
Chunk: 87

Company: UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 87
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 Committee, is Of Counsel in Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, the law firm we use as outside corporate counsel. In 2024, we paid approximately $1.05 million in legal fees to this law firm for services to the Company. This law firm also provides personal legal services to Alan B. Miller, our Executive Chairman. Mr. Nimetz is the trustee of certain trusts for the benefit of Alan B. Miller and his family.

Pursuant to our Code of Business Conduct and Corporate Standards, all employees, officers and directors of the Company and its subsidiaries are prohibited from engaging in any relationship or financial interest which is a conflict of interest with, or which interferes or has the potential to interfere with, the interests of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or facilities. In addition, all employees, officers and directors of the Company and its subsidiaries are required to disclose to our chief compliance officer any financial interest or ownership interest or any other relationship that he or she (or a member of his or her immediate family) has with customers, vendors, or competitors of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or facilities.

All employees, officers and directors of the Company and its subsidiaries are prohibited from entering into a related party transaction with the Company without the prior approval of our Chief Compliance Officer. Any request for the Company to enter into a transaction with an employee, officer or director or any of such persons’ immediate family members must first be presented to our Chief Compliance Officer for review, consideration and approval. In approving or rejecting the proposed agreement, our Chief Compliance Officer will consider the relevant facts and circumstances available and deemed relevant, including but not limited to, the risks, costs, and benefits to the Company, the terms of the transactions, the availability of other sources for comparable services or products, and, if applicable, the impact on director independence. Our Chief Compliance Officer shall only approve those agreements that, in light of known circumstances, are in or are not inconsistent with, the Company’s best interests, as determined in good faith by our Chief Compliance Officer.

Except as otherwise disclosed in this Proxy Statement, since the beginning of the Company’s last fiscal year, we have not been a party to, and we have no plans to be a party to, any transaction or series of similar transactions in which the amount involved exceeded or will exceed $120,000 and in which any employee, executive officer or director, holder of more than 5% of our voting securities, or any member of the immediate family of any of the foregoing, had or will have a