Company: BANC-PF
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001169770-25-000015
Chunk: 103

Company: BANC OF CALIFORNIA, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 103
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 re-appointed by the Board, the director will continue to serve until his or her successor is duly elected or his or her earlier resignation or removal. If a director’s resignation is accepted by the Board of Directors, or if a nominee for director is not elected and the nominee is not an incumbent director, then the Board of Directors, in its sole discretion, may fill any resulting vacancy or eliminate the vacancy by reducing the size of the Board.

#### Inspector of Election
The Board of Directors has appointed Broadridge Financial Solutions to act as Inspector of Election at the Annual Meeting to tabulate the votes cast.

#### Proxy Solicitation Costs
We will pay the costs of soliciting proxies, and we will reimburse brokerage firms and other custodians, nominees, and fiduciaries for reasonable expenses incurred by them in sending proxy materials to the beneficial owners of the Company’s voting common stock. We have retained Okapi Partners LLC to assist us in soliciting proxies and have agreed to pay Okapi Partners LLC a fee of $15,000, plus the reimbursement of certain costs and expenses incurred in connection with the solicitation. In addition, our directors, officers or employees may solicit proxies for us in person or by telephone, facsimile, internet or other electronic means for which they will not receive any compensation other than their regular compensation as directors, officers, and employees.

#### Attending the Annual Meeting
Only stockholders and their spouses are entitled to attend the Annual Meeting, and each stockholder and his or her spouse must present a valid, government issued form of identification in order to be admitted to the Annual Meeting. Each stockholder also must provide proof of ownership of shares of the Company’s voting common stock as of the Record Date. If you are a registered stockholder, proof of ownership will be established by our verification of your name against our list of registered stockholders as of the Record Date. If you hold your shares through a bank, broker or other nominee, any one of the following will suffice as proof of ownership:

• Account Statement. Account statement showing share ownership as of the record date.

• Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials. The notice of internet availability of proxy materials that you received in the mail containing a valid control number.

• E-mail with Voting Instructions. A copy of an e-mail that you received with instructions containing a link to the website where the Company’s proxy materials are available and a valid control number.

• Legal Proxy. A valid legal proxy containing a valid control number or a letter from a registered stockholder naming you as