Company: DVAX
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form Type: DEFC14A
Source: 0001193125-25-087127
Chunk: 29

Company: DYNAVAX TECHNOLOGIES CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form: DEFC14A
Chunk 29
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 2025 Annual Meeting, including the ratification of independent registered public
accounting firm. A broker’s inability to vote with respect to matters for which the broker has not received voting instructions from the beneficial owner is referred to as a “broker non-vote.”
As a result, if you hold your shares in street name and you do not instruct your broker, bank, or other such holder how to vote your shares, no votes will be cast on your behalf on any of the proposals. According to the Company’s proxy
statement, abstentions and broker non-votes will be counted towards the quorum requirement.

We
encourage you to vote promptly, even if you plan on attending the 2025 Annual Meeting.

Votes Required for Approval

What vote is required to elect the Deep Track Nominees?

According to the Bylaws, directors shall be elected by the vote of a plurality of the votes cast at any meeting for the election of directors
at which a quorum is present (meaning that, assuming that the Board size is decreased to nine immediately prior to the 2025 Annual Meeting, as announced by the Company, the four director nominees who receive the highest number of shares voted
“FOR” their election by the Stockholders will be elected to the Board). Votes withheld and broker non-votes are not votes cast and will result in the applicable nominees receiving fewer
“FOR” votes for purposes of determining the four director nominees receiving the most votes. A properly executed proxy marked to “WITHHOLD” a vote with respect to the election of any or all director nominees will be counted for
purposes of determining whether there is a quorum but will not be considered to have been voted for or against such nominee. Since a “WITHHOLD” vote will not be counted as a vote for a director candidate, a proxy marked
“WITHHOLD” with respect to a specific nominee will result in such nominee receiving fewer “FOR” votes.

How many shares of Common Stock must be voted in favor of the other proposals described in this Proxy Statement?

The approval of Proposal No. 2—Advisory Vote on Executive CompensationandProposal No.3— Ratification of the Selection of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, will each require the affirmative vote of the holders of a
majority of the shares present virtually or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the matter at the 2025 Annual Meeting. You may vote “FOR” or “AGAINST” or you may abstain on these proposals. According to