Company: GDV-PK
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001133228-25-002931
Chunk: 5

Company: GABELLI DIVIDEND & INCOME TRUST
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: DEF 14A
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 will vote those proxies which they are entitled to vote “FOR” any proposal in favor of such
adjournment and will vote those proxies required to be voted “AGAINST” any proposal against any such adjournment.
Absent the establishment of a subsequent record date and the giving of notice to the holders of record

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thereon, the adjourned
meeting must take place not more than 130 days after the record date. At such adjourned meeting, any business may be transacted which
might have been transacted at the original Meeting. The Fund may postpone or cancel a meeting of shareholders, and if it does the Fund
will make a public announcement of such postponement or cancellation prior to the meeting. The postponed meeting may not be held more
than 130 days after the initial record date.

The close of business on March 13,
2025, has been fixed as the record date for the determination of shareholdersentitled to
notice of and to vote at the Meeting and all adjournments or postponements thereof.

The Fund has two classes of shares
of beneficial interest outstanding: common shares, par value $0.001 per share (“Common Shares”), and preferred
shares consisting of (i) 5.375% Series H Cumulative Preferred Shares (“Series H Preferred”), (ii) Series J
Cumulative Term Preferred Shares (“Series J Preferred”), (iii) 4.250% Series K Cumulative Preferred Shares
(“Series K Preferred”), and (iv) 4.80% Series M Cumulative Preferred Shares (“Series M Preferred”),
each having a par value of $0.001 per share (together, “Preferred Shares” and together with the Common Shares,
the “Shares”). The holders of the Common Shares and Preferred Shares are each entitled to one vote on each
matter to properly come before the Meeting for each full share held. See “Additional Information—Delaware Statutory
Trust Act—Control Share Acquisitions” for a discussion of the ability of holders of Common Shares and Preferred Shares
that are “control shares” to vote such shares. On the record date, there were 89,033,528 Common Shares, 1,940,028
Series H Preferred, 5,804 Series J Preferred, 5,461,919 Series K Preferred, and 15,000,000 Series M Preferred outstanding.

Set forth below is information as to
those shareholders to the Fund’s knowledge that beneficially own 5% or