Company: CPS
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001320461-25-000073
Chunk: 5

Company: Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 5
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 Notes due 2026 (described in Note 10 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024), which he acquired through three open market purchases in the principal amount of $1,000,000 each on August 10, 2020, September 30, 2020, and March 2, 2022.  The Company paid cash interest to Mr. Van Oss in the amount of $168,750 in each of the years ended December 31, 2022, December 31, 2023, and December 31, 2024, with respect to these securities.                                                                                                                                                                                                      |

| 33 |     | 2025 Proxy Statement |

| Corporate Governance |

| Communications with the Board of Directors                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
 The Board has established procedures for the stockholders and other interested parties to communicate with the Board. A stockholder or other interested party may contact the Board by writing to the lead director or the non-employee or independent members of the Board at the Company’s principal executive offices at 40300 Traditions Drive, Northville, Michigan, 48168. Any stockholder must include the number of shares of the Company’s common stock he or she holds and any interested party must detail his or her relationship with the Company in any communication to the Board. Communications received in writing are distributed to the lead director or independent members of the Board as a group, as appropriate, unless such communications are considered, in the reasonable judgment of the Company’s secretary, improper for submission to the intended recipient(s). Examples of communications that would be considered improper for submission include, without limitation, customer complaints, solicitations, communications that do not relate directly or indirectly to the Company or the Company’s business, or communications that relate to improper or irrelevant topics. |

| 2025 Proxy Statement |     | 34 |

| PROPOSAL 2                                            
 Advisory Vote on Named Executive Officer Compensation |

| Pursuant to Section 14A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), we are asking the stockholders to vote, on an advisory or non-binding basis, to approve the compensation of our named executive officers (“NEOs”) as disclosed in this proxy statement.  A detailed description of our compensation program is available in the Compensation Discussion and Analysis section.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 The advisory vote, commonly known as a say-on-pay vote