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Shareholder Meeting to Be Held on April 28, 2011.

 

  

                    NYSE EURONEXT

 

       

 

Meeting Information            

 

   
           Meeting Type:     Annual    
           For holders as of:     March 1, 2011    
          

 

Date:  April 28, 2011

 

 

  Time: 8:00 a.m. New York

      
           Location:    NYSE EURONEXT    
          

 11 WALL STREET

   
          

 NEWYORK, NY 10005

 

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             Voting Items                                
                    

The Board of Directors recommends you vote

FOR the following proposals:

           
1.  

Election of Directors.

 

Nominees:

 

1a.     André Bergen

   2.  

To ratify the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as NYSE Euronext’s independent registered public accountants for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2011.

 

     
 

 

1b.     Ellyn L. Brown

 

1c.     Marshall N. Carter

 

1d.     Dominique Cerutti

   3.  

To approve the Company’s proposal to adopt majority voting with respect to certain provisions in our Certificate of Incorporation that currently require an 80% stockholder vote to amend (the Proposed Charter Amendment).

 

     
 

 

1e.     Patricia M. Cloherty

   4.  

To approve the Company’s advisory vote on executive compensation (the “Say-on-Pay” proposal).

     
 

1f.     Sir George Cox

 

1g.     Sylvain Hefes

  

 

The Board of Directors does not have a recommendation for voting on the following proposal:

 

     
 

1h.     Jan-Michiel Hessels

 

1i.      Duncan M. McFarland

   5.  

Should there be an advisory stockholder vote to approve executive compensation disclosure every one year, every two years or every three years? (the “Say-When-on-Pay” proposal).

 

     
 

1j.      James J. McNulty

  

The Board of Directors recommends you vote AGAINST the following proposals:

 

     
 

1k.     Duncan L. Niederauer

 

1l.      Ricardo Salgado

   6.  

To approve the stockholder proposal to give holders of 10% of the outstanding common stock the power to call a special stockholder meeting (the Kenneth Steiner Proposal).

 

     
 

1m.    Robert G. Scott

   7.  

To approve the stockholder proposal regarding action by written consent (the William Steiner Proposal).

 

     
 

1n.     Jackson P. Tai

 

1o.     Rijnhard van Tets

  

To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

     
 

 

1p.     Sir Brian Williamson

          

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