Company: VRCA
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEFR14A
Source: 0001193125-25-105562
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Company: Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEFR14A
Chunk 24
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 our employees, executive officers and directors. The Code of Conduct is available on our website at www.verrica.com. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee is responsible for overseeing the Code of Conduct and must approve any waivers of the Code of Conduct for executive officers and directors. If we make any substantive amendments to the Code of Conduct or grants any waiver from a provision of the Code of Conduct to any executive officer or director, we will promptly disclose the nature of the amendment or waiver on our website.

Corporate Governance Guidelines

In connection with our initial public offering, the Board documented the governance practices followed by the Company by adopting Corporate Governance Guidelines to assure that the Board will have the necessary authority and practices in place to review and evaluate our business operations as needed and to make decisions that are independent of our management. The Corporate Governance Guidelines are also intended to align the interests of directors and management with those of our stockholders. The Corporate Governance Guidelines set forth the practices the Board intends to follow with respect to board composition and selection, board meetings and involvement of senior management, Chief Executive Officer performance evaluation and succession planning, and board committees and compensation. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee regularly reviews the Corporate Governance Guidelines, seeks advice and recommendations from outside advisors, and considers corporate governance trends and best practices in our industry.**

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Insider Trading Policy and Hedging and Pledging Policy We have adoptedan insider trading policy governing the purchase, sale, and/or other dispositions of the Company’s securities by directors, officers, employees and designated consultants that is designed to promote compliance with insider trading laws, rules and regulations, as well as procedures designed to further the foregoingpurposes. A copy of our insider trading policy is filed as an exhibit to our Annual Report on Form 10-Kfor our fiscal year ended December 31, 2024. Our Insider Trading Policy prohibits directors, officers and other employees from engaging in derivatives securities or hedging transactions, including prepaid variable forward contracts, equity swaps, collars and exchange funds, or otherwise engage in transactions that hedge or offset, or are designed to hedge or offset any decrease in the market value of our securities and the risks associated with holding our common stock. Our Insider Trading Policy also prohibits trading in publicly-traded options, such as puts and calls, and other derivative securities with respect to our securities (other than stock options and other compensatory equity awards issued by us), as well holding our common stock in margin accounts. Additionally, our Insider Trading Policy prohibits pledging securities