Company: WSBC
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-039418
Chunk: 103

Company: WESBANCO INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 103
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 for acquisitions.

Audit-Related Fees

Ernst & Young LLP provides other audit-related services to the Corporation from time to time. The aggregate fees for these services billed for each of the last two fiscal years were $147,500 for 2024 and $132,260 for 2023. Audit-related fees in both years were for services rendered in conjunction with various retirement plan audits and an internal control report for the Trust and Investment Services Division.

Tax Fees

Ernst & Young LLP also provides certain tax related services, and the aggregate fees billed for each of the last two fiscal years for such services were $478,445 for 2024 and $509,064 for 2023, respectively. These services for both years included preparation of the Corporation’s tax filings, tax compliance and consultation services and certain acquisition tax planning advisory services and tax compliance work for the Trust and Investment Services Division for client fiduciary tax returns, which for 2024 totaled $350,210 of the above-noted total and for 2023 totaled $361,283.

All Other Fees

“All Other Fees” for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 were $0 for both years.

<div align='center'>Proxy Solicitor</div>

The Corporation has retained Georgeson Shareholder Communications, Inc. to assist in the solicitation of proxies for a fee of $9,500, plus expenses. Proxies may also be solicited by employees of the Corporation. Proxies may be solicited by mail and by telephone call.

<div align='center'>Item 2

Approval of an Advisory (Non-Binding) Vote on the Corporation’s
Executive Compensation Paid to the Named Executive Officers</div>

Section 951 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act amended the Exchange Act by adding Section 14A. Section 14A(a)(1) requires that not “less frequently than once every 3 years, a proxy or consent or authorization for an annual or other meeting of the stockholders for which the proxy solicitation rules of the Commission require compensation disclosure shall include a separate resolution subject to stockholder vote to approve the compensation of executives,” as disclosed pursuant to Item 402 of Regulation S-K (a “say-on-pay vote”). The say-on-pay vote is not binding on the Corporation or the Board of Directors. Considering the advisory (non-binding) recommendation of the Corporation’s stockholders at the April 17, 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders regarding the frequency of the say-on