Company: EPR-PE
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001045450-25-000068
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Company: EPR PROPERTIES
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
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 achievement of long-term corporate economic objectives. As of February 24, 2025, there were 54 non-employee trustees, officers and employees of our Company, its affiliates and its subsidiaries, including all of our executive officers and trustees, who would be eligible to receive awards under the Amended and Restated 2016 Equity Incentive Plan.

#### Shares Subject to the Plan
If the proposed Amended and Restated 2016 Equity Incentive Plan is approved by the Company’s shareholders, the maximum number of common shares reserved for issuance under the Amended and Restated 2016 Equity Incentive Plan will be increased from 3,950,000 shares to 5,950,000 shares, subject to certain adjustments discussed below. As of February 24, 2025, 354,935 shares remained available for issuance under the 2016 Equity Incentive Plan under the existing share reserve. Awards granted under the Amended and Restated 2016 Equity Incentive Plan (referred to in this proposal as, collectively, the “Awards”), may be in the form of share options, share appreciation rights, restricted common shares, restricted share units, performance shares, performance units, bonus shares, deferred shares or other share-based awards. Except for certain

#### 2025 Proxy StatementPage 77
share counting rules applicable with respect to incentive share options, shares previously subject to Awards which are forfeited, expire or are canceled may be reissued pursuant to future Awards under the Amended and Restated 2016 Equity Incentive Plan. Awards may be granted by the Committee in replacement of share and share-based awards (“Substitute Awards”) held by current and former employees or non-employee directors or trustees of another business that is acquired by the Company as agreed to by the parties to such transaction, and such Substitute Awards will not count against the maximum number of shares available for issuance under the Amended and Restated 2016 Equity Incentive Plan.

Share Options. A share option is the right to purchase our common shares at a future date at a specified price per share which we refer to as the “option price.” An option may either be an incentive share option or a nonqualified share option. Incentive share options are taxed differently from nonqualified share options, and are subject to more restrictive terms. Incentive share options may only be granted to employees of the Company or a subsidiary. Both incentive share options and nonqualified share options may be granted under the