Company: TVRD
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001104659-25-014310
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Company: Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 424B3
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, 2024 and 2023, no milestone payments or royalties were paid to Enteris by Cara in relation to the Enteris License Agreement.

The Enteris License Agreement will expire on a country-by-country, licensed product-by-licensed product basis upon the later of (1) the expiration (or invalidation) of all valid claims in licensed patent rights that cover such product in such country, (2) the end of the calendar quarter in which generic competition (as defined in the Enteris License Agreement) occurs for such product in such country and (3) ten years from the first commercial sale of such product.

Either party may terminate the Enteris License Agreement upon written notice if the other party has failed to remedy a material breach within 60 days (or 30 days in the case of a material breach of a payment obligation). Enteris may terminate the Enteris License Agreement upon 30 days’ written notice to Cara if Cara or any of its affiliates formally challenge the validity of any licensed patent rights or assists a third party in doing so. Cara may terminate the Enteris License Agreement for any reason or no reason (a) prior to receipt of first regulatory approval for a licensed product in the United States for any indication upon 30 days’ prior written notice to Enteris or (b) on or after receipt of first regulatory approval for a licensed product in the United States for any indication upon 60 days’ prior written notice to Enteris. In June 2024, Cara announced its decision to discontinue the clinical program in NP following the outcome from the dose-finding Part A of the KOURAGE-1 study evaluating the efficacy and safety of oral difelikefalin for moderate-to-severe pruritus in adult patients with NP.

#### Patheon UK Limited
In July 2019, Cara entered into a Master Services Agreement (MSA), with Patheon UK Limited, or Patheon. The MSA governs the general terms under which Patheon, or one of its affiliates, will provide non-exclusive manufacturing services to Cara for the drug products specified by Cara from time to time. Pursuant to the MSA, Cara have agreed to order from Patheon at least a certain percentage of its commercial requirements for a product under a related Product Agreement. Each Product Agreement that Cara may enter into from time to time will be governed by the terms of the MSA, unless expressly modified in such Product Agreement.

The MSA had an initial term ending December 31, 2024,