Company: TVRD
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001104659-25-014310
Chunk: 260

Company: Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 424B3
Chunk 260
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 persons will not receive any additional compensation for these activities. Cara has retained, a proxy solicitation firm, to assist in the solicitation of proxies for a fee of approximately $50,000 plus reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses. Cara and Tvardi have agreed to split the costs associated with the printing and filing with the SEC of this proxy statement/prospectus and any amendments and supplements thereto and paid to a financial printer or to the SEC and the costs of Cara’s proxy solicitation firm.

#### Tabulation of Votes
Cara expects to appoint Broadridge Investor Communication Solutions, Inc. (Broadridge) to serve as the Inspector of Election for the Cara special meeting. Broadridge will independently tabulate affirmative and negative votes and abstentions.

#### Adjournments
Subject to certain restrictions contained in the Merger Agreement, the Cara special meeting may be adjourned to allow additional time for obtaining additional proxies. No notice of an adjourned meeting need be given if the time and place thereof are announced at the Cara special meeting at which the adjournment was taken unless: the adjournment is for more than 30 days, in which case a notice of the adjourned meeting will be given to each Cara stockholder of record entitled to vote at the Cara special meeting; or if, after the adjournment, a new record date for determination of Cara stockholders entitled to vote is fixed for the adjourned meeting, in which case the Cara Board will fix as the record date for determining Cara stockholders entitled to notice of such adjourned meeting the same or an earlier date as that fixed for determination of Cara stockholders entitled to vote at the adjourned meeting, and will give notice of the adjourned meeting to each Cara stockholder of record as of such record date.

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At any adjourned meeting, all proxies will be voted in the same manner as they would have been voted at the original convening of the Cara special meeting, except for any proxies that have been effectively revoked or withdrawn prior to the adjourned meeting.

#### Other Matters
As of the date of this proxy statement/prospectus, the Cara Board does not know of any business to be presented at the Cara special meeting other than as set forth in the notice accompanying this proxy statement/ prospectus. If any other matters should properly come before the Cara special meeting, it is intended that the shares represented by proxies will be voted with respect to such matters