Company: ACEL
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-017502
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Company: Accel Entertainment, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: PRE 14A
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 documents are also available in print to any stockholder requesting a copy in writing from our Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at 140 Tower Drive, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527.

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#### Communications with our Board of Directors
Stockholders and other interested parties wishing to communicate with our Board or with an individual member of our Board may do so by writing to our Board or to the particular member of our Board, and mailing the correspondence to the attention of our Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at 140 Tower Drive, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527. All such communications will be forwarded to the appropriate member or members of our Board, or if none is specified, to the Chairman of our Board.

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PROPOSAL 1: ADOPTION OF AN AMENDMENT TO THE CURRENT AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION IN ORDER TO DECLASSIFY OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS</div>

Under our COI, our Board is divided into three classes, with members of each class holding office for staggered three-year terms. We are asking stockholders to adopt the amendment to our COI (the “ Declassification Amendment ”) in order to declassify our Board and provide for the annual election of directors, as well as to revise related provisions of the COI, as described below. Our Board has approved and adopted the proposed Declassification Amendment and declared it to be advisable and in the best interests of Accel and its stockholders, and recommends that the stockholders adopt the Declassification Amendment.

Article V of the COI currently provides that our Board shall be divided into three classes, designated Class 1, Class 2 and Class 3, each to consist as nearly as possible of one third of the total number of directors, with the term of office of one class expiring each year and directors in each class being elected to three-year terms. If the proposed Declassification Amendment is adopted by our stockholders, it would implement a gradual declassification of our Board and provide for the annual election of directors for one-year terms. If adopted by the stockholders, the Declassification Amendment would first apply to directors standing for election beginning with the Annual Meeting, and the declassification of our Board would then be phased in over a period of two years. The Declassification Amendment would not shorten the existing terms of the Class 1 and Class 2 directors. Accordingly, Class 1 and Class 2 directors who previously