Company: BANC-PF
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001169770-25-000015
Chunk: 99

Company: BANC OF CALIFORNIA, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 99
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 is required to vote your shares in accordance with your instructions. If you do not give instructions to your broker, your broker will nevertheless be entitled to vote your shares with respect to any “discretionary” items but will not be permitted to vote your shares with respect to “non-discretionary” items. In the case of non-discretionary items, your shares will be treated as “broker non-votes”. Whether or not an item is discretionary is determined by the exchange rules governing your broker.

Proposals I, III, and IV, are expected to be non-discretionary items, and Proposal II is expected to be a discretionary item. See Information about the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders—How Shares are Treated when No Voting Instructions are Provided .

#### 85Banc of CaliforniaAnnual Proxy Statement2025
| Information About the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders |

Number of Shares Required to be Present to Hold the Annual Meeting. A quorum must be present at the Annual Meeting for any business to be conducted. The presence at the Annual Meeting, in person or by proxy, of the holders of at least one-third of the shares of voting common stock outstanding and entitled to be cast at the Annual Meeting on the Record Date, or 52,938,468 shares, will constitute a quorum. Proxies received but marked as abstentions and broker non-votes will be included in the calculation of the number of shares considered to be present at the Annual Meeting.

If a quorum is not present at the scheduled time of the Annual Meeting, the chair of the Annual Meeting or the holders of a majority of the shares of voting common stock entitled to vote who are present, in person or by proxy, may adjourn the Annual Meeting to another date, place or time. The time and place of the adjourned Meeting will be announced at the time the adjournment is taken. An adjournment will have no effect on the business that may be conducted at the Annual Meeting.

#### How to Vote Your Shares
1. You can vote your proxy by mail. If you properly complete, sign and return the proxy card, it will be voted in accordance with your instructions.

2. You can vote your proxy by telephone . If you are a registered stockholder, that is, if your shares are held in your own name, you can vote by telephone by following the instructions included on the proxy card. If you vote by telephone, you do not have to mail in your proxy card. If your