Company: IPST
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001788230-25-000148
Chunk: 71

Company: Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 71
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 Stiefel

Title: Chief Executive Officer

### APPENDIX C
<div align='center'>[FOURTH] AMENDMENT

TO

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

HERITAGE DISTILLING HOLDING COMPANY, INC.

(Pursuant to Section 242 of the

General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware)

________, 2025</div>

Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc. (the “ Corporation ”), a corporation organized and existing under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “ DGCL ”), does hereby certify as follows:

1. The Board of Directors of the Corporation has duly adopted resolutions setting forth a proposed amendment of the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, as amended, declaring said amendment to be advisable and calling for the stockholders of the Corporation to consider such amendment at a special meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation, which amendment would add the following paragraph to the end of Article IV of the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, as amended, as a new Article IV, Section 4:

“ Section 4 . Reverse Stock Split . Without regard to any other provision of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate, as amended, effective at 12:01, eastern time, on [·] (the “Effective Time”), the shares of Common Stock issued and held in treasury of the Corporation immediately prior to the Effective Time are reclassified into a smaller number of shares such that each [·] ([·]) shares of issued Common Stock immediately prior to the Effective Time is reclassified into one (1) share of Common Stock. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, no fractional shares shall be issued and, in lieu thereof, upon surrender after the Effective Time of a certificate which formerly represented shares of Common Stock that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time, any person who would otherwise be entitled to a fractional share of Common Stock as a result of the reclassification, following the Effective Time, shall be entitled to receive a cash payment equal to the product of the closing sales price of the Common Stock on the applicable national listing exchange on the trading date that is immediately prior to the Effective Time and the amount of the fractional share. Each certificate that immediately prior to the Effective Time represented shares of Common Stock (“Old Certificates”) shall thereafter represent that number of shares of Common Stock into which the shares of Common Stock represented by the Old Certificate shall