Company: SWKH
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEFR14A
Source: 0001628280-25-021125
Chunk: 2

Company: SWK Holdings Corp
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEFR14A
Chunk 2
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 Sincerely,         |
| Laurie L. Dotter   |
| Chair of the Board |

Dallas, Texas

April 29, 2025

### SWK HOLDINGS CORPORATION

#### 5956 Sherry Lane, Suite 650

#### Dallas, Texas 75225

#### NOTICE OF THE 2025 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
Dear Stockholders:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual Meeting of SWK Holdings Corporation (the “Company”) will be held in a virtual meeting format only via the Internet. You will not be able to attend the Annual Meeting in person. The Annual Meeting will be held on Friday, June 13, 2025 at 9:00 a.m., Central Time. You may attend, vote, examine the Company’s stock list and submit questions during the Annual Meeting via the Internet by accessing www.meetnow.global/MAR46CD and using your 15-digit control number provided with this proxy statement.

At the Annual Meeting, you will be asked to consider and vote upon the following matters:

1. The election of Jerry Albright, Laurie L. Dotter, and Robert K. Hatcher, as directors of the Company to serve until our 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their respective successors have been elected and qualified, or until their earlier resignation, death or removal;

2. The ratification of the appointment of BPM LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025;

3. The approval on an advisory basis of the compensation paid to certain executive officers; and

4. The approval of an amendment to the Company's 2010 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended.

You may also be asked to transact such other business as may properly come before our Annual Meeting and any postponement or adjournment of our Annual Meeting, by or at the direction of the Company’s board of directors. The foregoing items of business are more fully described in the Proxy Statement accompanying this notice.

This Proxy Statement and our 2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 (the “ 2024 Annual Report”), are first being mailed to stockholders on or about April 29, 2025. Please carefully review this Proxy Statement for information on the matters to be presented at the Annual Meeting and for instructions on how to vote your shares. Our 2024 Annual Report, including financial statements for such period,