Company: ZVRA
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form Type: DEFC14A
Source: 0001193125-25-086293
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Company: ZEVRA THERAPEUTICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form: DEFC14A
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 be invited by the Compensation Committee to make presentations, to provide financial or other background information or advice or to otherwise participate in Compensation Committee meetings. Our chief executive officer may not participate in, or be present during, any deliberations or determinations of the Compensation Committee regarding his compensation. The charter of the Compensation Committee grants the Compensation Committee full access to all books, records, facilities and personnel of the Company. In addition, under the Compensation Committee’s charter, the Compensation Committee has the authority to obtain, at the expense of the Company, advice and assistance from internal and external legal, accounting or other advisors and other external resources that the Compensation Committee considers necessary or appropriate in the performance of its duties. The Compensation Committee has direct responsibility for the oversight of the work of any advisers engaged for the purpose of advising the Compensation Committee. In particular, the Compensation Committee has the authority to retain compensation consultants to assist in its evaluation of executive and director compensation, including the authority to approve the consultant’s reasonable fees and other retention terms. Under the Compensation Committee’s charter, the Compensation Committee may select, or receive advice from, a 38

compensation consultant, legal counsel or other adviser to the Compensation Committee, other than in house legal counsel and certain other types of advisers, only after taking into consideration six factors, prescribed by the SEC and Nasdaq, that bear upon the adviser’s independence. However, there is no requirement that any adviser be independent.

In 2024, the Compensation Committee engaged Mercer (US) LLC (“Mercer”) and Alpine Rewards, LLC (“Alpine”) as compensation consultants, who provided reports and recommendations for the Compensation Committee’s consideration when making compensation decisions for our non-employee directors and executive officers in 2024. The Compensation Committee has considered the adviser independence factors required under SEC and Nasdaq rules as they relate to Mercer and Alpine and has determined that Mercer’s and Alpine’s work does not raise a conflict of interest.

Under its charter, the Compensation Committee may form, and delegate authority to, subcommittees as appropriate. In 2015, the Compensation Committee formed a single-member non officer stock award committee, currently composed of our Chief Executive Officer, to which it delegated authority to grant, without any further action required by the Compensation Committee, stock awards to employees who are not officers of the Company, provided that such grants are made in accordance with guidelines established by the Compensation Committee. As part of the Compensation Committee’s oversight function, the minutes of each meeting and copies of each action by unanimous written consent of the single-member committee are