Company: ACCO
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-046374
Chunk: 15

Company: ACCO BRANDS Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 15
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 and incentive awards to non-executive employees; • oversees and, where applicable, administers the Company's health and benefit and defined benefit, retirement and supplemental retirement plans, including the Company's 401(k) plan; • exercises the Board of Directors' authority with respect to employment, compensation, severance and change-in-control arrangements or agreements with executive officers, and, if applicable, other key employees as it may determine, and oversees management's administration of such agreements or arrangements; • oversees the succession planning and management development processes for all executive officers and makes recommendations to the Board of Directors in connection with succession planning for our CEO; • oversees the development of human capital strategies in support of the Company's strategic business plan; • administers and periodically reviews the incentive compensation recoupment or forfeiture policies applicable to the Company’s executive officers and from time-to-time updates or makes recommendations to the Board regarding updates to such policies; and • establishes and reviews guidelines requiring our executives and other officers to maintain certain levels of stock ownership in the Company. Each member meets the independence standards of our Corporate Governance Principles and the NYSE, as well as qualifies as a “non-employee director” within the meaning of Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act.

| Finance and Planning Committee | Current Members:Kathleen Dvorak (Chair)Robert KellerRon LombardiElizabeth Simermeyer |
| 5 meetings held in 2024        |                                                                                      |

Primary Functions Assists the Board of Directors in fulfilling its responsibilities to monitor and oversee the Company's financial affairs with respect to the Company's capital structure, investments, business and financing plans and policies, as well as financing requirements. The Finance and Planning Committee also evaluates specific financial proposals, plans, strategies, transactions and other initiatives. As part of its responsibility, the Finance and Planning Committee, among other things: • reviews the capital structure and financing requirements of the Company, as well as the Company's debt ratings and bank credit facility arrangements, and makes recommendations to management concerning the Company's liquidity needs;

#### ACCO BRANDS| 2025 PROXY STATEMENT25
• reviews and approves the Company's policies related to the use of hedging and derivative instruments, including, among other things, approving any future authorizations for the Company and its subsidiaries to enter into swaps; • reviews and makes recommendations to the Board on strategic actions under consideration by the Company, including any proposed acquisitions or divestitures, mergers, joint ventures or strategic alliances or investments (including the financing thereof