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Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
On May 20, 2021, Simmons First National Corporation (“Corporation”) held its Annual Meeting of Shareholders (“Meeting”) at the Corporation’s corporate offices in Little Rock, Arkansas. At the Meeting, the following matters were submitted to the Corporation’s security holders for consideration: (1) ratification of the action of the Corporation’s board of directors fixing the number of directors at sixteen, (2) election of sixteen directors, (3) adoption of a non-binding resolution approving the compensation of the named executive officers of the Corporation, (4) ratification of the Audit Committee’s selection of the accounting firm BKD, LLP as independent auditors of the Corporation and its subsidiaries for the year ending December 31, 2021, (5) revision of outdated information in the Corporation’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation, and (6) inclusion of provisions in the Corporation’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation to provide for majority voting in uncontested elections of directors.
At the Meeting, all sixteen directors were elected by proxies solicited pursuant to Section 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, without any solicitation in opposition thereto. The following table summarizes the required analysis of the voting by security holders at the Meeting:
Voting of Shares
Action |
For |
% |
Against |
% |
Abstain |
% |
Broker Non-Votes | |
Fix the number of directors at sixteen | 82,756,497 | 97.87 | 1,651,898 | 1.95 | 153,431 | 0.18 | 11,667,253 | |
Election of Directors |
For |
% |
Against |
% |
Abstain |
% |
Broker Non-Votes | |
Jay D. Burchfield | 83,888,028 | 99.20 | 520,770 | 0.62 | 153,028 | 0.18 | 11,667,253 | |
Marty D. Casteel | 83,581,122 | 98.84 | 840,194 | 0.99 | 140,510 | 0.17 | 11,667,253 | |
William E. Clark, II | 78,609,167 | 92.96 | 5,808,802 | 6.87 | 143,858 | 0.17 | 11,667,253 | |
Steven A. Cosse | 82,573,614 | 97.64 | 1,847,707 | 2.19 | 140,505 | 0.17 | 11,667,253 | |
Mark C. Doramus | 83,605,324 | 98.87 | 809,762 | 0.96 | 146,741 | 0.17 | 11,667,253 | |
Edward Drilling | 83,172,521 | 98.36 | 1,235,804 | 1.46 | 153,502 | 0.18 | 11,667,253 | |
Eugene Hunt | 83,418,051 | 98.65 | 1,000,866 | 1.18 | 142,910 | 0.17 | 11,667,253 | |
Jerry Hunter | 83,425,646 | 98.65 | 987,151 | 1.17 | 149,030 | 0.18 | 11,667,253 | |
Susan Lanigan | 83,082,160 | 98.25 | 1,331,666 | 1.57 | 148,002 | 0.18 | 11,667,253 | |
George A. Makris, Jr. | 81,783,450 | 96.71 | 2,634,130 | 3.12 | 144,246 | 0.17 | 11,667,253 | |
W. Scott McGeorge | 83,035,083 | 98.20 | 1,387,644 | 1.64 | 139,100 | 0.16 | 11,667,253 | |
Tom E. Purvis | 84,072,923 | 99.42 | 340,067 | 0.40 | 148,836 | 0.18 | 11,667,253 | |
Robert L. Shoptaw | 82,566,650 | 97.64 | 1,852,072 | 2.19 | 143,104 | 0.17 | 11,667,253 | |
Julie Stackhouse | 84,187,522 | 99.55 | 224,892 | 0.27 | 149,413 | 0.18 | 11,667,253 | |
Russell Teubner | 84,176,751 | 99.54 | 234,451 | 0.28 | 150,626 | 0.18 | 11,667,253 | |
Mindy West | 83,606,602 | 98.87 | 715,433 | 0.85 | 239,792 | 0.28 | 11,667,253 | |
Action |
For |
% |
Against |
% |
Abstain |
% |
Broker Non-Votes | |
Adoption of a non-binding resolution approving the compensation of the named executive officers | 82,712,717 | 97.82 | 1,373,808 | 1.62 | 475,301 | 0.56 | 11,667,253 | |
Action |
For |
% |
Against |
% |
Abstain |
% |
Broker Non-Votes | |
Ratification of the Audit Committee’s selection of BKD, LLP as independent auditors of the Corporation and its subsidiaries for the year ending December 31, 2021 | 94,694,139 | 98.41 | 1,378,285 | 1.43 | 156,657 | 0.16 | 0 | |
Action |
For |
% |
Against |
% |
Abstain |
% |
Broker Non-Votes | |
Revision of outdated information in the Corporation’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation
|
84,257,228 | 99.64 | 84,896 | 0.10 | 219,703 | 0.26 | 11,667,253 | |
Action | For | % | Against | % | Abstain | % | Broker Non-Votes | |
Inclusion of provisions in the Corporation’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation to provide for majority voting in uncontested elections of directors |
83,950,033 |
99.27 |
377,565 |
0.45 |
234,229 |
0.28 |
11,667,253 |
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORPORATION | ||
/s/ Robert A. Fehlman | ||
Date: May 21, 2021 | Robert A. Fehlman, President and Chief Operating Officer |