Company: LGNZZ
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000886163-25-000025
Chunk: 1

Company: LIGAND PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 1
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 their questions during the meeting by visiting: www.meetnow.global/MMSTHKX on the meeting date and at the time described in the accompanying proxy statement and entering the 15-digit control number included on their notice of proxy materials or printed proxy card. There is no physical location for the annual meeting. The annual meeting will be held for the following purposes:

1. To elect a board of directors for the forthcoming year. Our board of directors has nominated the following eight persons, each to serve for a one-year term to expire at the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders:

• Jason M. Aryeh

• Todd C. Davis

• Nancy R. Gray, Ph.D.

• Jason Haas

• John W. Kozarich, Ph.D.

• John L. LaMattina, Ph.D.

• Stephen L. Sabba, M.D.

• Martine Zimmermann, Pharm.D.

2. To ratify the selection of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.

3. To approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed in this proxy statement.

4. To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment(s) thereof.

Stockholders of record at the close of business on the Record Date will be entitled to vote at the annual meeting. We have elected to use the internet as our primary means of providing our proxy materials to stockholders. Most stockholders will receive only a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials with instructions for accessing the proxy materials, including this proxy statement and the annual report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, and for voting via the internet. The Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials also provides information on how stockholders may obtain paper copies of our proxy materials free of charge, if they so choose.

Our stock transfer books will remain open between the Record Date and the date of the meeting. A list of stockholders entitled to vote at the annual meeting will be available for inspection at our offices for a period of 10 days ending on the day before the meeting. Whether or not you plan to participate in the virtual annual meeting, please vote by internet or telephone as described in the enclosed proxy materials or, if you request that the proxy materials be mailed to you, by signing, dating and returning the proxy card enclosed with those materials. If you attend the virtual annual meeting and vote at the meeting through the virtual