Company: DNLI
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001714899-25-000193
Chunk: 384

Company: Denali Therapeutics Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part II, Item 1A
Chunk 384
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 only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of simple error or mistake. Additionally, controls can be circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people or by an unauthorized override of the controls. Accordingly, because of the inherent limitations in our control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected.

We do not expect to pay any dividends for the foreseeable future. Investors may never obtain a return on their investment.

We have never paid cash dividends on our common stock and do not anticipate that we will pay any dividends in the foreseeable future. We currently intend to retain our future earnings, if any, to maintain and expand our existing operations. If we do not pay dividends, our common stock may be less valuable because a return on your investment will only occur if our stock price appreciates, which may never occur.

Delaware law and provisions in our charter documents might discourage, delay, or prevent a change in control of our company or changes in our management and, therefore, depress the trading price of our common stock.

Provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws may discourage, delay, or prevent a merger, acquisition, or other change in control that stockholders may consider favorable, including transactions in which you might otherwise receive a premium for your shares of our common stock. These provisions may also prevent or frustrate attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our management. Therefore, these provisions could adversely affect the price of our common stock. Among other things, our charter documents:

•establish that our board of directors is divided into three classes, Class I, Class II, and Class III, with each class serving staggered three-year terms;

•provide that vacancies on our board of directors may be filled only by a majority of directors then in office, even though less than a quorum;

•provide that our directors may only be removed for cause;

•eliminate cumulative voting in the election of directors;

•authorize our board of directors to issues shares of preferred stock and determine the price and other terms of those shares, including preferences and voting rights, without stockholder approval;

•provide our board of directors with the exclusive right to elect a director to fill a vacancy or newly created directorship;

•permit stockholders to only take actions at a duly called annual or special meeting and not by