Company: EPR-PE
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001045450-25-000068
Chunk: 21

Company: EPR PROPERTIES
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 21
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• The trustee has received, or has an immediate family member who has received, during any 12-month period within the last three years, more than $100,000 in direct compensation from the Company, other than trustee and committee fees and pensions or other forms of deferred compensation (provided such compensation is not contingent on future service),

• (A) The trustee or an immediate family member is a current partner of the firm that is our internal or external auditor, (B) the trustee is a current employee of such firm, (C) the trustee has an immediate family member who is a current employee of such firm and who participates in the firm’s audit, assurance or tax compliance (but not tax planning) practice, or (D) the trustee or an immediate family member was within the last three years (but is no longer) a partner or employee of such firm and personally worked on the Company’s audit within that time,

• The trustee or an immediate family member is, or has been within the last three years, employed as an executive officer of another company where any of the Company’s present executive officers at the same time serves on that company’s compensation committee, or

• The trustee is a current employee, or an immediate family member is a current executive officer, of a company that has made payments to, or received payments from, the Company for property or services in an amount which, in any of the last three years, exceeds the greater of $1 million or 2% of such other company’s consolidated gross revenues.

• A person who is an executive officer or affiliate of an entity that provides non-advisory financial services such as lending, check clearing, maintaining customer accounts, stock brokerage services or custodial and cash management services to the Company or its affiliates may be determined by the Board of Trustees to be independent if the following conditions are satisfied:

• The entity does not provide financial advisory services to the Company,

• The annual interest and/or fees payable to the entity by the Company do not exceed the numerical limitation described above,

• Any loan provided by the entity is made in the ordinary course of business of the Company and the lender and does not represent the Company’s principal source of credit or liquidity,

• The trustee has no involvement in presenting, negotiating, underwriting, documenting or closing any such non-advisory financial services and is not compensated by the Company, the entity or any of its affiliates in connection with those services,

• The Board affirmatively determines that the terms of the non-advisory financial services are fair and reasonable