Company: WHWK
Filing Date: 2025-01-31
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-018470
Chunk: 394

Company: Whitehawk Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-31
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 394
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 remuneration to a federal healthcare beneficiary that a person knows or should know is likely to influence the beneficiary’s decision to order or receive items or services reimbursable by the government from a particular provider or supplier; |

| • |     | the FCPA, the U.K. Bribery Act of 2010, and other local anti-corruption laws that apply to our international 
 activities;                                                                                                  |

| • |     | the federal HIPAA, which created new federal criminal statutes that prohibit a person from knowingly and                                                                                                                                              
 willfully executing, or attempting to execute, a scheme to defraud any healthcare benefit program or obtain, by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises, any of the money or property owned by, or under the custody or   
 control of, any healthcare benefit program, regardless of the payor (e.g., public or private) and knowingly and willfully falsifying, concealing or covering up by any trick or device a material fact or making any materially false, fictitious, or 
 fraudulent statements or representations in connection with the delivery of, or payment for, healthcare benefits, items or services relating to healthcare matters; similar to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, a person or entity does not need to 
 have actual knowledge of the statute or specific intent to violate it in order to have committed a violation;                                                                                                                                         |

| • |     | HIPAA, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (“HITECH”)                                                                                                                                                   
 and their respective implementing regulations, including the Final Omnibus Rule published in January 2013, which impose requirements on certain covered healthcare providers, health plans, and healthcare clearinghouses as well as their respective    
 business associates, independent contractors or agents of covered entities, that perform services for them that involve the creation, maintenance, receipt, use, or disclosure of, individually identifiable health information relating to the privacy, 
 security and transmission of individually identifiable health information. HITECH also created new tiers of civil monetary penalties, amended HIPAA to make civil and criminal penalties directly applicable to business associates, and gave state      
 attorneys general new authority to file civil actions for damages or injunctions in federal courts to enforce the federal HIPAA laws and seek attorneys’ fees and costs associated with pursuing federal civil actions;                                  |

| • |     | the federal Physician Payments Sunshine Act requires applicable manufacturers of covered drugs, devices, 
 biologics and medical supplies for which payment is available under Medicare, Medicaid or                |

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