Company: SWKH
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-020718
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Company: SWK Holdings Corp
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
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holders to conduct business at the Annual Meeting. The holders of a majority of the voting power of all of the shares of our common stock entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting, present at the Annual Meeting or represented by proxy, will constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at the Annual Meeting. Only holders of our common stock of record at the close of business on April 22, 2025, the record date, are entitled to receive notice of the Annual Meeting and to vote at the Annual Meeting and any adjournments or postponements of the Annual Meeting. At the close of business on the record date, we had 12,269,561 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting.

#### Voting Rights
Only holders of our common stock as of the record date are entitled to vote. Each share of common stock entitles its holder to one vote on each matter properly brought before the Annual Meeting. Shares may not be voted cumulatively. Votes withheld, abstentions and broker non-votes, described below, will be considered as present for purposes of determining a quorum.

#### Required Votes

#### Proposal 1
. Directors are elected by a plurality of the votes cast. This means that the nominees for election as director who receive the highest number of affirmative votes at the Annual Meeting will be elected as director. Withheld votes and broker non-votes will have no effect on the outcome of the vote.

#### Proposal 2
. The ratification of the Audit Committee’s appointment of BPM LLP (“BPM”) as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, requires the affirmative vote of a majority of votes cast on the proposal. Abstentions and broker non-votes, if any, will have no effect on the outcome of the vote on this proposal.

#### Proposal 3
. The approval, on an advisory basis, of the compensation paid to certain executive officers requires the affirmative vote of a majority of votes cast on the proposal. Abstentions and broker non-votes will have no effect on the outcome of the vote on this proposal.

#### Proposal 4
. The approval of an amendment to the Company’s 2010 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended, requires the affirmative vote of a majority of votes cast on the proposal. Abstentions and broker non-votes will have no effect on the outcome of the vote on this proposal.

The Board recommends a vote FOR (i) each of the director nominees; (ii