Company: SMNR
Filing Date: 2025-10-21
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001193125-25-245178
Chunk: 287

Company: Semnur Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-21
Form: S-1
Chunk 287
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 the adequacy of its charter, including its role and responsibilities as outlined in its charter, and recommend any proposed changes to the Board for its consideration and approval. The composition and functioning of the Compensation Committee will comply with all applicable requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and all applicable SEC rules and Nasdaq Listing Rules. Semnur intends to comply with future requirements to the extent they become applicable to Semnur. Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Semnur’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee consists of Jay Chun, M.D., Ph.D., Dorman Followwill and Yue Alexander Wu, Ph.D., with Dorman Followwill serving as the chairperson of the committee. Jay Chun, M.D., Ph.D., Dorman Followwill and Yue Alexander Wu, Ph.D. each satisfy the independence requirements under the Nasdaq Listing Rules. The responsibilities of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee are included in its written charter. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee acts on behalf of the Board to fulfill the Board’s responsibilities in overseeing all aspects of the company’s Nominating and corporate governance functions. The responsibilities of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee include, among others:

| • |     | making recommendations to the Board regarding corporate governance issues; |

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| • |     | identifying, reviewing and evaluating candidates to serve as directors (consistent with criteria approved by the Board); |

| • |     | determining the minimum qualifications for service on the Board; |

| • |     | reviewing and evaluating incumbent directors; |

| • |     | instituting and overseeing director orientation and director continuing education programs; |

| • |     | serving as a focal point for communication among candidates to the Board, non-committee directors and Semnur’s management; |

| • |     | recommending to the Board for selection candidates to serve as nominees for director for the annual meeting of stockholders and to fill any vacancies on the Board and any committees thereof; |

| • |     | making other recommendations to the Board regarding matters relating to the directors; |

| • |     | overseeing succession plans for Semnur’s Chief Executive Officer and its other executive officers; |

| • |     | reviewing and overseeing matters of corporate responsibility and sustainability, including potential long- and short-term trends and impacts to Semnur’s business of environmental, social and governance issues, and its public reporting on these topics; |

| • |     | considering any recommendations for nominees and proposals submitted by stockholders; and |

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