U.S. SILICA HOLDINGS, INC. 2024-2025 Proxy Voting Records

Description as filed by funds: To approve and adopt the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of April 26, 2024 (as it may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time), by and among Star Holding LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("Parent"), Star Merger Co., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Parent ("Merger Sub") and U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. (the "Company"), pursuant to which, among other things, Merger Sub will be merged with and into the Company, with the Company surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (the "Merger" and such proposal, the "Merger Proposal");

U.S. SILICA HOLDINGS, INC.’s own tally for this item (“1. Merger Proposal. A proposal to approve and adopt the Merger Agreement (the "Merger Proposal")”): 58,830,565 for, 1,350,576 against — passed, per its Form 8-K filed July 16, 2024 (Item 5.07).

Reported outcome: Approved, in the filing’s own words: “The Merger Proposal was approved.”
Support: 98% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.
Voting standard, as the filing states it: a supermajority of the shares outstanding (“78.02% of the voting power”).

The 79 asset managers below reported 36,113,653 for, 69,440 abstained.

Showing the 25 largest of 79 asset managers. See all 79 in the interactive database.

Description as filed by funds: To approve any adjournment of the special meeting of stockholders (the "Special Meeting") to a later date or dates if necessary or appropriate, including adjournments to solicit additional proxies if there are insufficient votes at the time of the Special Meeting to approve the Merger Proposal or in the absence of a quorum (the "Adjournment Proposal").

U.S. SILICA HOLDINGS, INC.’s own tally for this item (“3. Adjournment Proposal. One or more proposals to adjourn the Special Meeting to a later date or dates, if necessary or appropriate, including adjournments to solicit additional proxies if there are insufficient votes at”): 55,096,868 for, 5,057,047 against — passed, per its Form 8-K filed July 16, 2024 (Item 5.07).

Reported outcome: Approved, in the filing’s own words: “The Adjournment Proposal was approved, but was not necessary in light of the approval of the Merger Proposal.”
Support: 92% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.
Voting standard, as the filing states it: a majority of the shares outstanding (“majority of the voting power”).

The 78 asset managers below reported 34,412,083 for, 1,696,770 against, 74,216 abstained.

Showing the 25 largest of 78 asset managers. See all 78 in the interactive database.

Description as filed by funds: To approve, by a non-binding advisory vote, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to the Company's named executive officers in connection with the Merger; and

U.S. SILICA HOLDINGS, INC.’s own tally for this item (“2. Merger Compensation Proposal. A proposal to approve, by a non-binding, advisory vote, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to the Company's named executive officers in connection with the Merger (the "M”): 56,593,640 for, 3,515,144 against — passed, per its Form 8-K filed July 16, 2024 (Item 5.07).

Reported outcome: Approved, in the filing’s own words: “The Merger Compensation Proposal was approved.”
Support: 94% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.
Voting standard, as the filing states it: a majority of the shares outstanding (“majority of the voting power”).

Fund voting reports and institutional-manager reports both cover this item. An institutional manager can report shares that a fund it advises also reports, so the two are shown separately below and never added together, and their sum is not shown (fund and manager reports combined may count the same shares twice).

Fund voting reports, all 77 managers: 35,686,307 for, 378,279 against, 44,256 abstained. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

Institutional-manager reports, all 177 managers: 27,556,364 for, 2,213,821 against, 828,083 abstained. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

Fund voting reports and institutional-manager reports both cover this item. An institutional manager can report shares that a fund it advises also reports, so the two are shown separately below and never added together, and their sum is not shown (fund and manager reports combined may count the same shares twice). The figure above is FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST + WITHHELD) of the shares these managers voted; abstained and unvoted shares are in neither half, and these managers are a subset of all shareholders, not the meeting result.

Fund voting reports, all 1 managers: 74,227 for.

Institutional-manager reports, all 3 managers: 174,517 for, 30,000 against.