Company: VERA
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-012034
Chunk: 51

Company: Vera Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 51
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 above shall be increased from nine months to 12 months and (c) he shall receive additional cash severance in an amount equal to his target annual bonus for the year of such termination, to be paid in a single lump sum within 10 business days after the effective date of his release. 33

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For the purposes of Dr. Fordyce’s, Mr. Grant and Dr. Brenner’s severance benefits, the following definitions apply:

| • | “cause” means (a) the officer’s commission or conviction (including a guilty plea or plea of nolo contendere) of any felony or any other crime involving fraud, dishonesty or moral turpitude; (b) the officer’s commission or attempted commission of or participation in a fraud or act of dishonesty or misrepresentation against us; (c) willful and material breach of the officer’s duties to us; (d) willful damage to any of our property; (e) willful misconduct, or other willful violation of our policy that causes harm; or (f) the officer’s material violation of any written and fully executed contract or agreement between us and the officer, including without limitation, material breach of agreements relating to non-solicitation, nondisclosure and/or assignment of inventions, or material breach of any company policy, or of any statutory duty officer owes to us; provided, however, that in the event of clause (f) above, we are required to provide written notice of such alleged violation and breach, and the officer will have 30 days from receipt of such notice to cure. For purposes of this definition of cause, no act, or failure to act, on the officer’s part shall be considered “willful” unless it is done, or omitted to be done, by the officer intentionally and without reasonable belief that the officer’s action or omission was in the best interests of the company. |

| • | “change of control” means (a) any consolidation or merger of the company with or into any other corporation or other entity or person, or any other corporate reorganization, other than any such consolidation, merger or reorganization in which the stockholders of the company immediately prior to such consolidation, merger or reorganization, continue to hold a majority of the voting power of the surviving entity (or, if the surviving entity is a wholly owned subsidiary, its parent) immediately after such consolidation, merger or reorganization; (b) any transaction or series of related transactions to which the company