Company: SLGN
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-083646
Chunk: 79

Company: SILGAN HOLDINGS INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
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 Committee at its next scheduled meeting.

| By the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors:   Niharika Ramdev Leigh J. Abramson William T. Donovan Brad A. Lich Fiona Cleland Nielsen |

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<div align='center'>**PROPOSAL 2: RATIFICATION OF APPOINTMENT OF

INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM**</div>

**Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company has appointed Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025. The Board of Directors of the Company is requesting ratification of this appointment by the stockholders of the Company. It should be noted however that, even if this appointment is ratified by the stockholders of the Company, the Audit Committee in its discretion may replace the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm and appoint a new independent registered public accounting firm for the Company at any time during the year if it determines that such a change would be in the best interests of the Company.

A representative of Ernst & Young LLP is expected to be present at the Meeting and to be available to respond to appropriate questions from those attending the Meeting, but is not otherwise expected to make a statement.

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS THAT STOCKHOLDERS VOTE FOR THE RATIFICATION OF THE APPOINTMENT OF ERNST & YOUNG LLP AS THE COMPANY’S INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2025.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm Fee Information

Audit Fees

Fees for audit services rendered by Ernst & Young LLP in 2024 and 2023 totaled $6.6 million and $4.7 million, respectively, in connection with the audit of the Company’s consolidated financial statements for such years, reviews of the Company’s unaudited financial statements included in its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for such years, the audit of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting for such years, statutory audits of non-U.S. subsidiary financial statements for such years and certain other audit services for the Company and its businesses.

Audit-Related Fees

Fees for audit-related services rendered by Ernst & Young LLP in each of 2024 and 2023 totaled $0.1 million. Services provided in both 2024 and 2023 were in respect of agreed upon procedures for certain contracts, the preparation