Company: HPP
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-038079
Chunk: 29

Company: Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 29
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 vote “FOR” the approval of the adoption of theAmended and Restated 2010 Incentive Award Plan. | ​ | ​ |

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| ​ | HUDSON PACIFIC PROPERTIES, INC. 
 Proxy Statement  |  2025        | ​ | ​ |     | ​ |

PROPOSAL NO. 3—RATIFICATION OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM The Audit Committee appointed Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm to audit our consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025. During 2024, Ernst & Young LLP served as our independent registered public accounting firm and reported on our consolidated financial statements for that year. We expect that representatives of Ernst & Young LLP will attend the Annual Meeting and will have the opportunity to make a statement if they so desire and to respond to appropriate questions. Although stockholder ratification is not required, the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP is being submitted for ratification at the Annual Meeting with a view towards soliciting stockholders’ opinions, which the Audit Committee will take into consideration in future deliberations. If Ernst & Young LLP’s selection is not ratified at the Annual Meeting, the Audit Committee will consider the engagement of another independent registered accounting firm. The Audit Committee may terminate Ernst & Young LLP’s engagement as our independent registered public accounting firm without the approval of our stockholders whenever the Audit Committee deems termination appropriate.

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| ​ | HUDSON PACIFIC PROPERTIES, INC. 
 Proxy Statement  |  2025        | ​ | ​ |     | ​ |

PROPOSAL NO. 4—ADVISORY APPROVAL OF EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION (“SAY-ON-PAY VOTE”) BACKGROUND As required by Section 14A(a)(1) of the Exchange Act, the below resolution enables our stockholders to vote to approve, on an advisory, non-binding basis, the compensation of our NEOs as disclosed in this Proxy Statement. Our Board has decided that we will hold an annual advisory vote to approve the compensation of our NEOs, or Say-on-Pay Proposal, in light of the fact that a substantial majority of the votes cast at our annual stockholders’ meeting held in May 2023 were voted in favor of holding an annual advisory vote. We have always believed that our executive compensation program emphasizes pay-for-performance and aligns our executives’ interests