Company: RNST
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000715072-25-000085
Chunk: 4

Company: RENASANT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 4
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2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Renasant Corporation to be held at 1:30 p.m., Central time, on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, including any adjournments or postponements of the meeting.

As permitted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, rules, we are making this proxy statement, our proxy card and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, which serves as our Annual Report to Shareholders, available to our shareholders electronically. On March 12, 2025, we posted these materials on our internet website, www.proxyvote.com, and we mailed our shareholders a notice (the “Notice”) containing instructions on how to access our proxy materials and vote online (except for shareholders who affirmatively elected to receive paper copies of our proxy materials, to whom we mailed this proxy statement, our proxy card and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, on March 12, 2025).

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| PROXY SUMMARY |

This section of our proxy statement briefly describes the proposals to be voted on at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and our voting procedures. This section also provides 2024 financial highlights and compensation information and a discussion of certain of the corporate social responsibility initiatives we undertook in 2024. More information about the annual meeting and our 2024 executive compensation program is contained in the remainder of this proxy statement, and a detailed discussion of our financial results for 2024 can be found in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 (which serves as our Annual Report to Shareholders). We encourage you to review the entire proxy statement and annual report before you vote.

#### Voting
Proposals to be Voted On. Five proposals will be voted on at the annual meeting:

|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |     | More Information |     | Board Recommendation |
| Proposal 1                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
 Election of Directors (14 nominees, or ten nominees, if we have not completed our merger with The First Bancshares, Inc. by the time of the annual meeting)                                                                                   |     | Page 67          |     | FOR each nominee     |
| Proposal 2                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
 Approval of an amendment to Renasant Corporation’s Articles of Incorporation to increase the number of shares of Renasant common stock authorized for issuance from 150 million shares to 250 million