Company: MTCH
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: PREC14A
Source: 0000891103-25-000047
Chunk: 23

Company: Match Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: PREC14A
Chunk 23
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 the Board. Mr. McInerney raised with Mr. Gupta the possibility of making other changes to the Company’s Board and governance, including that the Board was actively considering making a proposal to its stockholders to declassify the Board and would make a final determination in its upcoming proxy statement. At the end of the call, Mr. McInerney and Mr. Gupta agreed it had been a very productive call. A few hours later, Mr. Gupta asked to again to speak with Mr. McInerney. Mr. Gupta requested on that call that the Company re-consider himself and Ms. Chima as director candidates and indicated that if the Company reached a different conclusion and determined to nominate those candidates, and that if one current director stepped off the Board, Anson would consider withdrawing its nominations.

On April 1, 2025, a representative of Schulte sent representatives of Wachtell Lipton an email containing a demand from Anson to inspect certain of the Company’s books and records pursuant to Section 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law and an accompanying proposed form of confidentiality agreement.

On the afternoon of April 2, 2025, Mr. Gupta emailed Mr. McInerney and the Company’s Chief Legal Officer to ask for an update regarding his request of March 28.

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On the morning of April 4, 2025, Anson published via press release a letter to stockholders of the Company and announced its intention to solicit proxies in favor of Ms. Chima, Ms. Morrell and Ms. Lee at the Annual Meeting.

On April 6, 2025, the Board and the Nominating Committee convened a joint meeting via videoconference to discuss the Company’s engagement with Anson and to hear the Nominating Committee’s recommendation on Darrell Cavens, a potential director candidate, who was identified as a director candidate by the Company in early February and interviewed for that position over the course of the month. The Board continued its ongoing conversation regarding the decision to declassify the Board. After discussion among the directors, the Board resolved to appoint Mr. Cavens to the Board in connection with the Annual Meeting and to present for a vote of stockholders a charter amendment declassifying the Board beginning at the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders.

On April 7, 2025, the Company issued a press release announcing the appointment of Mr. Cavens to the Board in connection with the Annual Meeting and the