Company: SCLXW
Filing Date: 2025-05-07
Form Type: POS AM
Source: 0001193125-25-115088
Chunk: 355

Company: Scilex Holding Co
Filing Date: 2025-05-07
Form: POS AM
Chunk 355
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 any calendar year for certain current and former executive officers. For grants under the Equity Incentive Plan, we will not be able to take a deduction for any compensation in excess of $1.0 million that is paid to a covered officer.

Requirements of Section409A of the Code. Certain awards under the Equity Incentive Plan may be considered “nonqualified deferred compensation” for purposes of Section 409A of the Code (“Section 409A”), which imposes certain requirements on compensation that is deemed under Section 409A to involve nonqualified deferred compensation. Among other things, the requirements relate to the timing of elections to defer, the timing

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**of distributions and prohibitions on the acceleration of distributions. Failure to comply with these requirements (or an exception from such requirements) may result in the immediate taxation of all amounts deferred under the nonqualified deferred compensation plan for the taxable year and all preceding taxable years, by or for any participant with respect to whom the failure relates, the imposition of an additional 20% income tax on the participant for the amounts required to be included in gross income and the possible imposition of penalty interest on the unpaid tax. Generally, Section 409A does not apply to incentive awards that are paid at the time the award vests. Likewise, Section 409A typically does not apply to restricted stock. Section 409A may, however, apply to incentive awards the payment of which is delayed beyond the calendar year in which the award vests. Treasury regulations generally provide that the type of awards provided under the Equity Incentive Plan will not be considered nonqualified deferred compensation. However, to the extent that Section 409A applies to an award issued under the Equity Incentive Plan, the Equity Incentive Plan and all such awards will, to the extent practicable, be construed in accordance with Section 409A. Under the Equity Incentive Plan, the administrator has the discretion to grant or to unilaterally modify any award issued under the Equity Incentive Plan in a manner that conforms with the requirements of Section 409A with respect to deferred compensation or voids any participant election to the extent it would violate Section 409A. The administrator also has sole discretion to interpret the requirements of the Code, including Section 409A, for purposes of the Equity Incentive Plan and all awards issued under the Equity Incentive Plan.

Scilex Holding Company 2022 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

On October 17, 2022, our