Company: MTB-PJ
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-044781
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Company: M&T BANK CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form: DEF 14A
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) in compliance with the advance notice requirements specified in M&T’s Amended and Restated Bylaws. Under M&T’s Amended and Restated Bylaws, any such shareholder entitled to receive notice of, and to vote at, the annual meeting may nominate an individual for election to the Board or propose other business to be brought directly at an annual meeting of shareholders by giving advance notice to M&T (containing the information specified in M&T’s Amended and Restated Bylaws) no earlier than 150 days and no later than 120 days prior to the anniversary of the date on which M&T first mailed its proxy materials for the preceding year’s annual meeting of shareholders. These advance notice procedures are separate from the SEC’s requirements that a shareholder must meet in order to have a shareholder proposal included in M&T’s proxy statement pursuant to SEC Rule 14a-8referred to above. A shareholder’s notice of a nomination or other business for consideration at the 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders must be delivered by no earlier than October 5, 2025 and no later than November 4, 2025. In addition, pursuant to the SEC’s universal proxy rules, shareholders who intend to solicit proxies in support of director nominees other than the M&T’s nominees must comply with and provide the information requried by M&T’s Amended and Restated Bylaws as well as comply with the additional requirements of SEC Rule 14a-19under the Exchange Act. Proxy Access Procedures M&T’s Amended and Restated Bylaws permit a shareholder, or a group of up to 20 shareholders, who has continuously owned at least 3% of the outstanding shares of M&T’s common stock for at least three years to nominate and include in our proxy statement for the annual meeting of

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shareholders director nominees constituting up to the greater of two directors or 20% of the total number of directors serving on the Board on the last day on which notice of a nomination may be delivered (known generally as “proxy access”). The proxy access notice must be in writing and contain the information specified in M&T’s Amended and Restated Bylaws for a proxy access nomination and must be delivered no earlier than 150 days and no later than 120 days prior to the anniversary of the date on which M&T first mailed its proxy materials for the preceding year’s annual meeting of shareholders. A shareholder wishing to submit a proxy access notice regarding a nomination for the 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders