Item 9B. Other Information

Audit and Other Services

During the fourth quarter of 2023, the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors approved the engagement of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm, to perform certain audit, audit related and tax services. This disclosure is made pursuant to Section 10A(i)(2) of the Exchange Act.

Trading Plan Arrangements

During the three-month period ended December 31, 2023, no members of our Board of Directors or officers (as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) of the Exchange Act) adopted, amended or terminated any contract, instruction or written plan for the purchase or sale of our securities intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c) of the Exchange Act or any non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement, as defined in rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Change in Control Severance Agreement Amendments

Because we are filing this Annual Report on Form 10-K within four business days after the triggering event, we are making the following disclosure under this Item 9B instead of filing a Current Report on Form 8-K under Item 1.01, Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement and Item 5.02, Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers:

As part of the ongoing evaluation of its executive compensation programs, the Compensation and Management Development Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company reviewed the existing forms of Change in Control Severance Agreement for executive officers and approved certain modifications to the Change in Control Severance Agreements with executive officers that were entered into subsequent to 2009, in order to better conform to observed peer competitor practice. Therefore, effective as of February 19, 2024, the Company (or one of its subsidiaries) entered into: (i) an Amendment to Change in Control Severance Agreement (the “U.S. Amendment”) with each of Ivan Tornos, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and Suketu Upadhyay, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President - Finance, Operations and Supply Chain, the form of which U.S. Amendment is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.51; (ii) an Amendment to Change in Control Severance Agreement (the “Swiss Amendment”) with Wilfred van Zuilen, Group President, Europe, Middle East and Africa, the form of which Swiss Amendment is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.52; and (iii) a Deed of Amendment (the “Hong Kong Amendment”; together with the U.S. Amendment and Swiss Amendment, the “Amendments”) with Sang Yi, Group President, Asia Pacific, the form of which Hong Kong Amendment is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.53. Messrs. Tornos, Upadhyay, van Zuilen and Yi are referred to as the “Executives.”

The Executives’ underlying Change in Control Severance Agreements provide for certain payments to an Executive if their employment is terminated in certain circumstances in connection with a change in control of the Company, and also imposes limits on such payments. Prior to the Amendments, the Executives’ Change in Control Severance Agreements provided that, if amounts payable to an Executive under the Change in Control Severance Agreement or otherwise in connection with a change in control would be subject to the excise tax imposed under Section 4999 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Excise Tax”), then the value of those payments would be reduced to the extent necessary so that the payments would not trigger that Excise Tax. The Amendments modify this provision so that, if amounts payable to an Executive under the Change in Control Severance Agreement or otherwise in connection with a change in control would be subject to the Excise Tax, then the value of those payments will either (i) be reduced to the extent necessary so that the payments will not trigger that Excise Tax, or (ii) be paid in full, depending on which course of action would result in the better net after-tax result for the Executive, taking into account the Excise Tax and any other applicable tax. Other than the Amendments, the Executives’ Change in Control Severance Agreements continue in effect without further change.

Copies of the forms of the U.S. Amendment, Swiss Amendment and Hong Kong Amendment are filed as Exhibits 10.51, 10.52 and 10.53, respectively, hereto and incorporated by reference. This summary does not purport to be

complete and is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of each of the forms of Amendment.