Company: TVRD
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001104659-25-013053
Chunk: 351

Company: Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 351
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 Cash Schedule, and Cara and Tvardi will use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Accounting Firm to make its determination within 10 calendar days of accepting its selection. Cara and Tvardi will be afforded the opportunity to present to the Accounting Firm any material related to the unresolved disputes and to discuss the issues with the Accounting Firm; provided, however , that no such presentation or discussion will occur without the presence of a representative of each of Cara and Tvardi. The determination of the Accounting Firm will be limited to the disagreements

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submitted to the Accounting Firm. The determination of the amount of Cara Net Cash, made by the Accounting Firm will be final and binding upon the parties and deemed to have been finally determined for purposes of the Merger Agreement and to represent Cara Net Cash as of the Anticipated Closing Date for purposes of the Merger Agreement, and the parties will delay the Closing until the resolution of the Cara Net Cash calculation. The fees and expenses of the Accounting Firm will be allocated between Cara and Tvardi in the same proportion that the disputed amount of Cara Net Cash that was unsuccessfully disputed by such party (as finally determined by the Accounting Firm) bears to the total disputed amount of Cara Net Cash. If the determination of Cara Net Cash as of the Anticipated Closing Date is done in accordance with this paragraph, the parties will not be required to determine Cara Net Cash, again even though the Closing may occur later than the Anticipated Closing Date, except that either party may request a re-determination of Cara Net Cash if the Closing Date is more than five business days after the Anticipated Closing Date.

#### Asset Disposition
Cara must use commercially reasonable efforts to sell, transfer, license, assign or otherwise divest its intellectual property and other assets and technology in existence on the date of the Merger Agreement (Potentially Transferrable Assets) to one or more third parties in one or a series of transactions concurrently with, or immediately following, Closing (Potential Asset Dispositions); provided, that any such Potential Asset Disposition will require, to the extent consistent with applicable laws, the prior written consent of Tvardi (which consent shall be in the sole discretion of Tvardi) if such Potential Asset Disposition would create any post-disposition liabilities or indemnity obligations for Cara following Closing; provided, however, that the prior written consent of Tvardi will not be required in connection with any Potential Asset Disposition if Cara agrees that