Company: HRTX
Filing Date: 2025-09-19
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-209064
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Company: HERON THERAPEUTICS, INC. /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-09-19
Form: DEF 14A
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 without your voting selections, proxies named in the proxy card will vote your shares in accordance with the Board’s recommendations (as described above).

Beneficial Owner: Shares Registered in the Name of Broker, Bank or Other Agent

If you are a beneficial owner of shares registered in the name of your broker, bank or other agent, you should have received a proxy card and voting instructions with the proxy materials from that institution rather than from us. To ensure that your vote is counted, simply follow the instructions in the materials received from your broker, bank or other agent to vote electronically during the Special Meeting, via the Internet in advance of the Special Meeting or by telephone or, if you received a proxy card by mail, complete, sign and return the proxy card.

How many votes do I have?

On each matter to be voted on, you have one vote for each share of Common Stock you own as of the close of business on the Record Date for the Special Meeting. Stockholders do not have cumulative voting rights.

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The Company will pay for the entire cost of soliciting proxies. In addition to the mailed proxy materials, our directors and employees may also solicit proxies in person, by telephone or by other means of communication.

Directors and employees will not be paid any additional compensation for soliciting proxies. We may also reimburse brokerage firms, banks and other agents for the cost of forwarding proxy materials to beneficial owners.

If you receive more than one proxy card, your shares are registered in more than one name or are registered in different accounts. Please complete, sign and returneachproxy card to ensure that all of your shares are voted.

Yes. You can revoke your proxy and change your vote at any time before the applicable vote deadlines for the Special Meeting. If you are the record holder of your shares, you may revoke your proxy in any one of four ways:

you may submit another properly completed proxy with a later date;

you may vote again by Internet or telephone at a later time;

you may send a written notice that you are revoking your proxy to our Corporate Secretary at 100 Regency Forest Drive, Suite 300, Cary, NC 27518; or

you may attend the Special Meeting and vote electronically during the Special Meeting (however, simply attending the Special Meeting will not, by itself, revoke your proxy or change your vote).

Your most current proxy card or Internet proxy is the one that is counted.

If you hold your shares beneficially in street name, you may change your vote by submitting new