BEY TT eT te Bet I WATE EN EP ee 5 wesw Sere ee ——e a Jeff G. Hamme! 1271 Avenue of the Americas Direct Dial: +1.212.906.1260 New York, New York 10020-1401 jeff.hammel@!w.com Tel: +1.212.906.1200 Fax: +1.212.751.4864 www.lw.com FIRM / AFFILIATE OFFICES LATHAM&WATKI N Sue Sie 7 ae Beijing Munich Boston New York Ss Brussels Orange County oP a Century City Paris Chicago Riyadh January 27, 2023 ye we Dubai San Diego : Dusseldorf San Francisco Frankfurt Seoul Hamburg Shanghai VIA ECF pv fh Hong Kong Silicon Valley Houston Singapore □□ Longon Tel Aviv The Honorable Colleen McMahon a Tuas DC. U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse r ata 5 500 Pearl Street, Room 2550 | Tah. j New York, NY 10007 □□ Re: Inre Omnicom Group Inc. ERISA Litigation, No. 1:20-cv-04141 Letter Motion to Seal Joint Stipulation of Facts Dear Judge McMahon: On behalf of Defendants Omnicom Group Inc., the Board of Directors of Omnicom Group Inc., and the Administrative Committee of the Omnicom Group Retirement Savings Plan (collectively, “Defendants”), I write pursuant to Your Honor’s Individual Practices to request permission to file under seal the Joint Stipulation of Facts submitted by the Parties in advance of trial in this matter. Pursuant to the Court’s Individual Rules and Practices, the Court’s addendum to the parties Stipulated Protective Order (ECF No. 67), and in light of Your Honor’s October 24, 2022 Order (ECF No. 155), Defendants have conducted a line-by-line review of the Joint Stipulation of Facts and request that certain information therein be redacted from the public record. Consistent with Defendants’ December 12, 2022 Letter Motion to Seal (ECF No. 175) and December 22, 2022 Letter Regarding the De-Designation of Documents Filed Under Seal (ECF No. 188), Defendants have limited their redactions to (i) proprietary information contained in Plan adviser’s, Mercer, presentations to the Administrative Committee, see In re Long Island Lighting Co., 129 F.3d 268, 272 (2d Cir. 1997); and (ii) pricing information regarding the RFP that the Administrative Committee, through Mercer, conducted to solicit recordkeeping fee proposals from five recordkeepers, see Kewazinga Corp. v. Microsoft Corp., 2021 WL 1222122, at *6 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 31, 2021); Skyline Steel, LLC v. PilePro, LLC, 101 F. Supp. 3d 394, 412-13 (S.D.N.Y. 2015). Defendants have conferred with Plaintiffs regarding the proposed redactions and Plaintiffs have indicated that they do not object. Accordingly, Defendants intend to file the Joint Stipulation of Facts under seal. Defendants will publicly file copies of the Joint Stipulation of Facts with sensitive information redacted while : | USDC SDNY || DOCUMENT |! ELECTRONICALLY FILED | □ a VASE L.CU-CVUS A441 -ONME VOCUTTIEML 2US rhea Uileéfies FAaYe z Ole January 27, 2023 Page 2 LATHAM4&WATKINS»» simultaneously filing a sealed copy with proposed redactions highlighted, through the ECF system. Defendants respectfully request the Court order that the ECF Clerk seal the Joint Stipulation of Facts. Should the Court, after the filing of the Joint Stipulation of Facts, rule upon Defendants’ December 12, 2022 Letter Motion to Seal (ECF No. 175), December 22, 2022 Letter Regarding the De-Designation of Documents Filed Under Seal (ECF No. 188) and the [Proposed] Order filed in connection therewith (ECF No. 190), and modify Defendants’ sealing requests, Defendants will re-file the Joint Stipulation of Facts, redacting only that information the Court has found appropriate. Respectfully, Jeff G. Hammel of LATHAM & WATKINS LLP ce: All Counsel of Record (via ECF)