Company: SMNR
Filing Date: 2025-08-12
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-178821
Chunk: 863

Company: Semnur Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-12
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 863
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LIST OF EXHIBITS

| Exhibit A |     | Form of Certificate of Incorporation            |
| Exhibit B |     | Form of Bylaws                                  |
| Exhibit C |     | Form of Registration Rights Agreement           |
| Exhibit D |     | Plan of Domestication                           |
| Exhibit E |     | Domesticated Parent Certificate of Designations |

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<div align='center'>**AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER**</div>

This AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER (the “Agreement”), dated as of August 30, 2024 (the “Signing Date”), is made and entered into by and among Denali Capital Acquisition Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company (which shall migrate to and domesticate as a Delaware corporation prior to the Closing, “Parent”), Denali Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), and Semnur Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”).

<div align='center'>**W I T N E S E T H :**</div>

WHEREAS, the Company is a subsidiary of Scilex Holding Company, a Delaware corporation (“Scilex”), which is a publicly owned company listed on Nasdaq;

WHEREAS, the Company is in the business of identifying potential non-opioid pain therapy candidates, undertaking preclinical studies and clinical trials of its product candidate SP-102 and establishing research and development and manufacturing collaborations (the “Business”);

WHEREAS, Parent is a blank check company formed for the sole purpose of entering into a share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, recapitalization, reorganization or other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities;

WHEREAS, prior to the Effective Time and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, Parent shall migrate to and domesticate as a Delaware corporation in accordance with Section 388 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as amended (the “DGCL”) and de-register in the Cayman Islands in accordance with Section 206 of the Cayman Companies Act (the “Domestication”);

WHEREAS, concurrently with the Domestication, Parent shall file a certificate of incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and adopt bylaws in the forms attached as ExhibitA and ExhibitB, respectively, with such changes as may be agreed in writing by Parent and the Company (such certificate of incorporation, the “Parent Certificate of Incorporation,” and such bylaws