Company: ACCO
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-046374
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Company: ACCO BRANDS Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 employees from engaging in hedging transactions or pledging their shares. Further information on this policy is provided under the heading “Compensation Discussion and Analysis--Discussion and Analysis--Prohibitions on Hedging, Pledging and Similar Transactions.”

Post vesting/exercise holding requirements . Our executive officers are required to hold a specified number of shares or dollar value of equity granted to them under the Plan. Prior to attaining the required threshold level, they may liquidate no more than 50 percent of the net shares remaining after the exercise of a stock award or the vesting of shares granted under

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the Plan; after attaining the required threshold, they may sell shares, subject to our insider trading policy , so long as they maintain the required threshold number of shares or dollar value. Further information on this policy, is provided under the heading “Compensation Discussion and Analysis—Discussion and Analysis—Executive Stock Ownership Guidelines.” Information on Equity Compensation Plans as of March 24, 2025 The following table provides information regarding outstanding equity-based awards and shares available under the Plan as of March 24, 2025:

| Total number of stock options outstanding(1)                              |  5,083,594 |
| Weighted-average exercise price of stock options outstanding              |      $8.48 |
| Weighted-average remaining duration of stock options outstanding          | 4.90 years |
| Total number of full value awards outstanding (includes RSUs and PSUs)(2) | 10,314,334 |
| Shares available for grant under the Plan(3)                              |  1,334,807 |
| Total shares of common stock outstanding                                  | 90,099,055 |

(1) No stock appreciation rights were outstanding. (2) The number of shares of outstanding PSUs assumes performance at the target performance level. (3) The number of shares remaining available for future grant under the Plan reflects the fungible share ratio of 2.00 for each PSU and RSU awarded. PSUs are represented at target payout. As we do not intend to issue stock option awards going forward, shares available for grant would only allow for the award of 667,404 full-value shares under the Plan. Description of the Plan The following description of the Plan summarizes the material terms of the Plan, including as amended by the proposed amendment to the Plan; however, it does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to