Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. (e) Amendment of 2006 Employee Equity Incentive Plan, as amended At the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “ Annual Meeting ”) of Synopsys, Inc. (“ Synopsys ”) held on April 10, 2024, Synopsys’ stockholders approved Synopsys’ 2006 Employee Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (the “ Amended Employee Equity Plan ”), in order to, among other items, (i) increase the number of shares of common stock available for issuance under the plan by 3,400,000 shares, (ii) eliminate the term of the plan, and (iii) provide that incentive stock options may be granted without stockholder approval until the ten-year anniversary of the Board of Directors’ (the “ Board ”) approval of the plan. Synopsys’ Board and the Compensation and Organizational Development Committee of the Board previously approved the Amended Employee Equity Plan, subject to such stockholder approval. Synopsys’ executive officers are eligible to participate in the Amended Employee Equity Plan. A summary of the Amended Employee Equity Plan is set forth in Proposal 2 to Synopsys’ definitive proxy statement for the Annual Meeting filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 16, 2024 (the “ Proxy Statement ”), which is incorporated by reference herein. The summary and the description above of the Amended Employee Equity Plan do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the Amended Employee Equity Plan, which is filed as