Company: TVRD
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001104659-25-014310
Chunk: 39

Company: Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 424B3
Chunk 39
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 Acquisition Proposal; (v) executing or entering into any letter of intent or any contract contemplating or otherwise relating to any Acquisition Transaction (other than, in the case of Cara, a confidentiality agreement permitted as described below); or (vi) publicly proposing to do any of the foregoing.

Subject to certain restrictions and prior to approval of the Required Cara Closing Stockholder Matters by the required Cara Stockholder Vote (as defined below), Cara and its subsidiaries may furnish non-public information regarding Cara or any of its subsidiaries to, and enter into discussions or negotiations with, any person in response to a bona fide Acquisition Proposal by such person, which the Cara Board determines in good faith, after consultation with its outside financial advisor and outside legal counsel, constitutes, or is reasonably likely to result in, a Superior Offer (and is not withdrawn) if: (A) none of Cara, any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective representatives shall have breached the non-solicitation restrictions in the Merger Agreement in any material respect, (B) the Cara Board concludes in good faith based on the advice of outside legal counsel, that the failure to take such action is reasonably likely to be inconsistent with the fiduciary duties of the Cara Board under applicable law, (C) Cara receives from such person an executed confidentiality agreement containing provisions (including nondisclosure provisions, use restrictions, non-solicitation provisions, no hire and “standstill” provisions), in the aggregate, at least as favorable to it as those contained in the confidentiality agreement entered into between Cara and Tvardi in connection with the Merger and (D) substantially contemporaneously with furnishing any such non-public information to such person, Cara gives Tvardi notice of Cara’s intention to furnish non-public information to, or enter into discussions with, such person and furnishes such non-public information to Tvardi (to the extent such information has not been previously furnished by Cara to Tvardi).

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For a more complete description of the non-solicitation provisions, please see the section titled “ The Merger Agreement — Non-Solicitation .”

#### Termination and Termination Fees
Capitalized terms are as defined in the section titled “ The Merger Agreement — Termination and Termination Fees , ” except as otherwise noted below.

The Merger Agreement contains certain customary termination rights, including, among others as described in more detail below, (i) by mutual written consent, (ii) by either Cara or Tvard