Seritage Growth Properties
For the period ended Jun 10, 2025. Filed Apr 30, 2025.
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Jun 10, 2025 · Filed Apr 30, 2025
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**UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
SCHEDULE 14A
Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Amendment No. )
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SERITAGE GROWTH PROPERTIES
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500 Fifth Avenue
Suite 1530
New York, NY 10110
(212) 355-7800
April 30, 2025
Dear Shareholder:
The trustees and officers of Seritage Growth Properties (“Seritage,” the “Company,” “our company,” “we,” “our” or “us”) are pleased to invite you to attend the 2025 annual meeting (the “Annual Meeting”) of the Company’s shareholders on June 10, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time). This year’s Annual Meeting will be held in a virtual meeting format only. You will be able to attend the Annual Meeting virtually and vote and submit questions during the virtual Annual Meeting by visiting meetnow.global/MWYH2DM. For instructions on how to attend and vote your shares at the Annual Meeting, see the information in the accompanying Proxy Statement in the section titled “Questions and Answers - How do I attend and vote shares at the Annual Meeting?” Any reference herein to attending the Annual Meeting, including any reference to “in person” attendance, means attending by remote communication via live webcast on the Internet.
The formal notice of this Annual Meeting and the Proxy Statement appear on the following pages. We have elected to provide access to our proxy materials over the Internet under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s “notice and access” rules. After reading the Proxy Statement, please submit your proxy through the Internet, by touch-tone telephone or by requesting a printed copy of the proxy materials and using the enclosed proxy card. We must receive properly authorized proxies submitted via mail by June 9, 2025 to ensure they will be counted at the Annual Meeting. We encourage you to authorize a proxy to vote your shares via telephone or the Internet and to choose to view future mailings electronically rather than receiving them on paper. You may vote electronically via telephone or the Internet up to the time the polls close at the virtual meeting. Please review the instructions on each of your voting options described in this Proxy Statement, as well as the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials you received in the mail.
Whether or not you plan to attend the virtual meeting, please read the Proxy Statement and vote your shares.
Sincerely,
Adam Metz
Chairman and Interim Chief Executive Officer and President
Seritage Growth Properties
500 Fifth Avenue
Suite 1530
New York, NY 10110
SERITAGE GROWTH PROPERTIES
500 Fifth Avenue
Suite 1530
New York, NY 10110
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
June 10, 2025
10:00 a.m. Eastern Time
We invite you to attend the 2025 annual meeting of shareholders (the “Annual Meeting”) of Seritage Growth Properties, a Maryland real estate investment trust (“Seritage,” “the Company,” “our company,” “we,” “our” or “us”), to consider and vote upon:
The election of John T. McClain, Adam Metz, Talya Nevo-Hacohen, Mitchell Sabshon, Allison L. Thrush and Mark Wilsmann as trustees, each to serve until the 2026 annual meeting of shareholders and until his or her successor is duly elected and qualifies;
The ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2025;
An advisory, non-binding resolution to approve the Company’s executive compensation program for our named executive officers, as described in the proxy statement; and
Any other business that may properly come before the meeting or any postponement or adjournment of the meeting.
The record date for determining shareholders entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual Meeting is the close of business on April 25, 2025 (the “Record Date”). Only shareholders of record on the Record Date are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the meeting. For more information, please read the accompanying Proxy Statement.
The Annual Meeting will be held in a virtual meeting format only. You will be able to attend the Annual Meeting by remote communication and vote and submit questions during the Annual Meeting by visiting meetnow.global/MWYH2DM. For instructions on how to attend and vote your shares at the Annual Meeting, see the information in the accompanying Proxy Statement in the section titled “Questions and Answers - How do I attend and vote shares at the Annual Meeting?” Any reference herein to attending the Annual Meeting, including any reference to “in person” attendance, means attending by remote communication via live webcast on the Internet.
It is important that your shares are represented at the meeting. Shareholders of record as of the Record Date may vote their shares online at the Annual Meeting, or authorize a proxy (1) by telephone, (2) through the Internet or (3) if you requested to receive printed proxy materials, by executing and submitting your enclosed proxy card at any time prior to the Annual Meeting. If you do not attend the Annual Meeting but your vote is submitted by telephone or Internet before 10:00 A.M., Eastern Time, on June 10, 2025, your vote will be cast as if you were personally present at the Annual Meeting. If you are a shareholder of record as of the Record Date or hold a legal proxy from a shareholder of record and attend and vote at the Annual Meeting, your vote at the Annual Meeting will replace any earlier vote.
Sincerely,
Matthew Fernand
Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
April 30, 2025
IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING THE AVAILABILITY OF PROXY MATERIALS FOR THE 2025 ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS TO BE HELD ON JUNE 10, 2025.
The Company’s Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting and the 2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 are available athttps://www.edocumentview.com/SRG.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 1 |
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| CORPORATE GOVERNANCE | 6 |
| Corporate Governance Practices | 6 |
| Environmental, Social and Governance Practices | 6 |
| Trustee Independence | 7 |
| Risk Management | 7 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES | 8 |
| Board Membership | 8 |
| Committees of the Board of Trustees | 8 |
| Communications with the Board of Trustees | 10 |
| Board Leadership Structure | 10 |
| Nomination of Trustee Candidates | 10 |
| CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND TRANSACTIONS | 11 |
| Review and Approval of Transactions with Related Persons | 11 |
| Our Relationships with Transform Holdco LLC and Edward S. Lampert | 11 |
| Our Relationship with Winthrop Capital Advisors, LLC and John Garilli | 12 |
| ITEM 1. ELECTION OF TRUSTEES | 13 |
| AMOUNT AND NATURE OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP | 15 |
| Security Ownership of Trustees and Management | 15 |
| Security Ownership of 5% Beneficial Owners | 16 |
| EXECUTIVE OFFICERS | 17 |
| COMPENSATION OF NAMED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS | 18 |
| COMPENSATION OF TRUSTEES | 27 |
| ITEM 2. RATIFICATION OF APPOINTMENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM | 27 |
| REPORT OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE | 28 |
| ITEM 3. ADVISORY VOTE ON EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION | 29 |
| 2026 ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS | 30 |
| Procedures for Submitting Shareholder Proposals | 30 |
| SOLICITATION OF PROXIES | 30 |
| IMPORTANT | 31 |
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