Company: ACCO
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-046374
Chunk: 77

Company: ACCO BRANDS Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 77
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).Please note that if you hold your shares in “street name,” your bank, broker or other nominee will not be permitted to vote your shares on Proxy Item 1 (election of directors) absent specific instructions from you. Therefore, it is important that you follow the voting instructions on the form that you receive from your bank, broker or other nominee.

You may vote for or against each of the nominees for the Board of Directors, or you may abstain. If you abstain, your shares will be counted for purposes of establishing a quorum for the meeting but will have no effect on the election of the nominees. In accordance with the Company’s Corporate Governance Principles, each director nominee has submitted a contingent, irrevocable resignation that the Board of Directors may accept in the event that the votes cast for the director nominee's election do not exceed the votes cast against the director nominee's election (with abstentions and broker non-votes not counted as a vote cast either for or against the director nominee's election). In that situation, the Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee (or a special committee consisting solely of independent directors not subject to a failed vote) would make a recommendation to the Board of Directors about whether to accept or reject the resignation, or whether to take other action. For additional information, see “Board of Directors--Election of Directors.”

#### 92ACCO BRANDS| 2025 PROXY STATEMENT
How many votes are needed to approve the other matters to be voted upon at the Annual Meeting and how will votes be counted?

With respect to each of Proxy Items 2, 3 and 4, the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority in voting power of the votes cast on the matter is necessary for the approval of such matter. Proxies marked as abstentions on Proxy Items 2, 3 and 4, and broker non-votes will have no effect on the vote for the proposal.

With respect to any other matter to be voted upon that may properly come before the meeting, you may vote for, against or abstain, with abstentions having no effect on the vote for the proposal.

Please note that if you hold your shares in “street name,” your bank, broker or other nominee will not be permitted to vote your shares on the advisory vote on the compensation of our named executive officers (Proxy Item 3), approval of an amendment to the 2022 ACCO Brands Corporation Incentive Plan to increase the number of shares reserved for issuance (Proxy Item 4