Company: GDV-PK
Filing Date: 2025-08-08
Form Type: N-14
Source: 0001829126-25-006008
Chunk: 11

Company: GABELLI DIVIDEND & INCOME TRUST
Filing Date: 2025-08-08
Form: N-14
Chunk 11
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 presence in person or by proxy of the holders of one-third of the outstanding shares of Dividend Trust entitled to vote at the Meeting. In the event a quorum is not present at the Meeting, or in the event that a quorum is present at the Meeting but sufficient votes to approve any of the proposed items are not received, the chairman of the Meeting may adjourn the Meeting one or more times to permit further solicitation of proxies. Absent the establishment of a subsequent record date and the giving of notice to the holders of record thereon, the adjourned Meeting must take place not more than 130 days after the record date. At such adjourned Meeting, any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the original Meeting.

The close of business on [date] has been fixed as the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at the Meeting and all adjournment(s), postponement(s) or delay(s) thereof.

Dividend Trust has two classes of capital stock outstanding: common shares, par value $0.001 per share (“Dividend Trust Common Shares”), and preferred shares consisting of (i) 5.375% Series H Cumulative Preferred Shares (“Series H Preferred”), (ii) Series J Cumulative Term Preferred Shares (“Series J Preferred”), (iii) 4.250% Series K Cumulative Preferred Shares (“Series K Preferred”) and (iv) 5.20% Series M Cumulative Preferred Shares (“Series M Preferred”), each having a par value of $0.001 per share (together, “Dividend Trust Preferred Shares” and together with Dividend Trust Common Shares, “Dividend Trust Shares”). The holders of Dividend Trust Common Shares and Dividend Trust Preferred Shares are each entitled to one vote for each full Dividend Trust Share held. On the record date, there were outstanding [ ] Dividend Trust Common Shares, [ ] Series H Preferred shares, [ ] Series J Preferred shares, [ ] Series K Preferred shares and [ ] Series M Preferred shares.

As of the record date, based upon Schedule 13D/13G filings with the SEC, the following persons were know to Dividend Trust to be beneficial owners of more than 5% of Dividend Trust’s outstanding voting securities:

| Name and Address of Beneficial Owner(s) |     | Title of Class |     | Amount of  
 Shares and 
 Nature of  
 Ownership  |     | Percent of 
 Class      |

In addition to the solicitation