Company: HGBL
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-056713
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Company: Heritage Global Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form: DEF 14A
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 process is designed to expedite the shareholders’ receipt of proxy materials, lower the cost of the Annual Meeting and help conserve natural resources. Shareholders who would prefer to continue to receive printed proxy materials should follow the instructions included in the Proxy Notice.

This Proxy Statement summarizes the information you need to vote at the Annual Meeting. You do not need to attend the Annual Meeting to vote your shares. You may simply vote in accordance with the instructions contained in this Proxy Statement.

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING THE AVAILABILITY OF PROXY MATERIALS FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS TO BE HELD ONJUNE 4, 2025: THIS PROXY STATEMENT, THE FORM OF PROXY CARD AND THE ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2024 ARE AVAILABLE, FREE OF CHARGE, AT WWW.PROXYVOTE.COM.

How Can I Attend the Annual Meeting?

Our Annual Meeting will be a completely virtual meeting of shareholders, which will be conducted exclusively by a live audio webcast. You are entitled to participate in the Annual Meeting only if you are a shareholder of record as of the close of business on April 7, 2025, the record date, or hold a valid proxy for the Annual Meeting. No physical in-person meeting will be held.

You do not have to register in advance to attend the virtual meeting. To attend and participate in the virtual meeting, please visitwww.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/HGBL2025and enter the 16-digit control number included on your proxy card. Whether or not you plan to attend the virtual annual meeting, we encourage you to vote and submit your proxy in advance of the meeting by one of the methods described under “Voting and Other Information” below. During the meeting, you may submit questions, vote, and examine our shareholder list.

The online meeting will begin promptly at 9:00 a.m. (Pacific Time) on June 4, 2025. We encourage shareholders to log in to the website and access the webcast early, beginning approximately 15 minutes before the

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Annual Meeting’s 9:00 a.m. start time, to ensure you can hear the streaming audio before the Annual Meeting starts. If you experience technical difficulties, please contact the technical support telephone number posted on the virtual meeting website, www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/HGBL2025 . The virtual meeting platform is fully supported across browsers