Company: TVRD
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001104659-25-006050
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Company: Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 131
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 of its executives or other employees.

If Cara fails to maintain proper and effective internal controls, Cara’s ability to produce accurate financial statements on a timely basis could be impaired.

Cara is subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations of Nasdaq. Pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Section 404), Cara is required to perform system and process evaluation and testing of its internal control over financial reporting to allow its management to report on the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting and, in the past, Cara has also previously been required to have its

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independent registered public accounting firm issue an opinion on the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting on an annual basis as a large accelerated filer. However, based on Cara’s public float as of June 30, 2024, the company remained qualified as a non-accelerated filer at the end of 2024, which would allow it to forgo the auditor attestation requirement. While Cara has previously voluntarily complied with the auditor attestation requirement when it qualified as a non-accelerated filer in 2023, it will forgo the auditor attestation requirement for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.

During the evaluation and testing process, if Cara identifies one or more material weaknesses in its internal control over financial reporting, Cara will be unable to assert that its internal control over financial reporting is effective. Further, Cara may in the future discover weaknesses in its system of internal financial and accounting controls and procedures that could result in a material misstatement of its financial statements. Moreover, Cara’s internal controls over financial reporting will not prevent or detect all errors and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the control system’s objectives will be met. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that misstatements due to error or fraud will not occur or that all control issues and instances of fraud will be detected. Moreover, Cara is aware that the increased prevalence of remote working arrangements potentially presents additional areas of risk, including cyber and privacy risks, and Cara is carefully monitoring any impact to its internal controls and procedures.

If Cara is unable to assert that its internal control over financial reporting is effective