Company: MTCH
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: PREC14A
Source: 0000891103-25-000047
Chunk: 64

Company: Match Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: PREC14A
Chunk 64
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 firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.

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PROPOSAL 5—MANAGEMENT PROPOSAL TO AMEND MATCH GROUP'S CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION TO DECLASSIFY THE BOARD</div>

Under our current Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws, our Board is divided into three classes. Directors in each class serve on the Board until the third succeeding annual meeting of stockholders after their election, such that the term of office of one class expires at each annual meeting.

Proposal 5 would amend our Certificate of Incorporation to begin declassification of our Board at our 2026 annual meeting of stockholders (the “2026 Annual Meeting”) if this Proposal 5 is approved by the requisite vote of our stockholders at the Annual Meeting. Directors elected at this Annual Meeting will be elected to three-year terms expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders held in 2028 (the “2028 Annual Meeting”). If the proposed amendments are approved at this Annual Meeting, then, beginning with the class of directors standing for election at the 2026 Annual Meeting, directors will be elected to one-year terms of office. Directors currently serving terms that expire at the annual meetings of stockholders to be held in 2026 and 2027 will (subject to their earlier resignation or removal) serve the remainder of their respective terms, and thereafter their successors will be elected to one-year terms. At the 2028 Annual Meeting and annual meetings thereafter, all directors will stand for election annually, and the Board will no longer be classified. Any director appointed to fill a vacancy, or to fill newly created director positions resulting from an increase in the number of directors, before the 2028 Annual Meeting will be appointed for a term expiring upon the expiration of the term of the director whose place is filled, or if appointed to fill a newly created director position, for a term expiring upon the next election of the class to which such director was appointed. Our Board also will approve certain conforming changes to our By-laws, contingent on the effectiveness of these proposed amendments to our Certificate of Incorporation.

Delaware law provides, unless otherwise addressed in the certificate of incorporation, that members of a board that is classified may be removed only for cause. Our Certificate of Incorporation provides that a director may be removed only for cause and upon the approval of holders of not less than a majority of the total voting power of the then outstanding shares of stock entitled to vote in the election of