Company: SWKH
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEFR14A
Source: 0001628280-25-021125
Chunk: 36

Company: SWK Holdings Corp
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEFR14A
Chunk 36
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 of the Board of Directors or (v) terminating or hiring a replacement for the Company’s CEO.

Also under the Stockholders’ Agreement, the Carlson Funds agreed that until the earlier of August 18, 2022 or such time as the Ownership Reduction Event,: (i) the Carlson Funds would not engage in a going-private transaction as described in Rule 13e-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”), without offering to acquire all of the then-outstanding common stock on the same terms and conditions and would not engage in such a transaction without the approval of both (x) a special committee of directors that are not affiliates of the Carlson Funds or the Company (“Non-Affiliated Directors”) and (y) the holders of a majority of the common stock held by stockholders of the Company other than the Carlson Funds; (ii) the Company would maintain at least two Non-Affiliated Directors; and (iii) any related party transaction or deregistration of our common stock from SEC reporting requirements would require the approval of a committee of such Non-Affiliated Directors or a subset thereof. We refer to these provisions as the “Minority Protections.”

On June 28, 2022, the Company and the Carlson Funds entered into Amendment No. 1 to the Stockholders’ Agreement (the “Stockholders’ Agreement Amendment”). The Stockholders’ Agreement Amendment extends the Minority Protections until an Ownership Reduction Event and deletes the provision of the Stockholder’s Agreement that would terminate the Minority Protections as of August 18, 2022.

In connection with the Stockholders’ Agreement Amendment, the Company and Carlson agreed on proposed revisions to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation and Amended and Restated Bylaws to, among other things, permit stockholders that own at least 15 percent of the Company’s outstanding shares to call a special meeting of stockholders.

The Stockholders’ Agreement Amendment also, for so long as the Carlson Funds and their affiliates own at least 15 percent of the Company’s outstanding voting securities, (i) exempts the Carlson Funds from certain of the proposed bylaw requirements for calling a special meeting and certain of the requirements of proposed advance notice provisions and

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(ii) provides that, without the approval of the Carlson Funds, the Company and its board of directors would not amend the proposed bylaw provisions relating to special meetings in a manner adverse to the Carlson Funds.

On March 2, 2023, the