Company: FFWM
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-036041
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Company: First Foundation Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 5
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 authenticate each stockholder by using an individual control number that is located on your proxy card. If you vote on the Internet or by telephone, you do not need to return your proxy card. Voting by Mail . Stockholders may vote by mail, by completing, dating and signing and then returning the enclosed proxy card. Voting In Person at the Annual Meeting . As always, you may vote in person if you attend the Annual Meeting. Even if you vote over the Internet, by telephone, or by mail, you may later change your vote by taking, prior to the Annual Meeting, one of the actions described in the subsection below entitled “ How Can I Revoke My Proxy and Change My Vote? ” or by attending the Annual Meeting and voting in person. All shares that are properly voted by a stockholder, whether over the Internet, by telephone, or by mail, and not properly revoked, will be voted at the Annual Meeting in accordance with the stockholder’s voting instructions or, if a stockholder does not provide voting instructions, then in accordance with the recommendations of the Board. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Voting on Other Matters . If other matters are properly presented for a vote of the stockholders at the Annual Meeting, the Board will have discretion to determine how shares for which proxies have been received will be voted on such matters. As of the date of this Proxy Statement, we did not know of any other matters to be presented for a vote of the stockholders at the Annual Meeting. However, if your shares are held in a brokerage or bank account or by a nominee holder, please read the information below under the subsection entitled “Voting Shares Held by Brokers, Banks and Other Nominee Holders” regarding how your shares may be voted in accordance with your wishes . Voting Shares Held by Brokers, Banks and Other Nominee Holders If, on the Record Date, your shares are held in a brokerage account, by a bank or by a nominee holder, you are deemed to be the “beneficial owner” of those shares, holding them in “street name.” The organization holding your account is considered the stockholder of record for purposes of voting at the Annual Meeting. As a beneficial owner, you have the right to direct your broker, bank, or other nominee on how to vote the shares in your account. You are also invited to attend the Annual Meeting. However, because you are not the stockholder of record, you may not vote your shares at the Annual Meeting unless you request and obtain a valid legal proxy from your