Company: HCWB
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-032115
Chunk: 8

Company: HCW Biologics Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 8
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 voting instructions provided by your nominee to direct it how to vote your shares. The voting deadlines and availability of telephone and internet voting for beneficial owners of shares will depend on the voting processes of the broker, bank or other nominee that holds your shares. Therefore, we urge you to carefully review and follow the voting instruction form and any other materials that you receive from that organization. To ensure that your vote is counted, complete and mail the voting instruction form provided by your brokerage firm, bank, or other nominee as directed by your nominee. To electronically vote in person virtually at the meeting online, you must obtain a legal proxy from your nominee. Follow the instructions from your nominee included with our proxy materials or contact your nominee to request a proxy form. Your vote is important. Whether or not you plan to participate in the Special Meeting, we urge you to vote by proxy to ensure that your vote is counted.

| Q: | What shares can I vote? |

| A: | Each share of our Common Stock issued and outstanding as of the close of business on February 18, 2025 is                                                                                                                               
 entitled to vote on all items being voted on at the meeting. You may vote all shares owned by you as of February 18, 2025, including (1) shares held directly in your name as the stockholder of record, and (2) shares held for you as 
 the beneficial owner in street name through a broker, bank, trustee, or other nominee.                                                                                                                                                  |

| Q: | How many votes am I entitled to per share? |

| Q: | What is the quorum requirement for the meeting? |

| A: | The holders of a majority of the voting power of the shares of our common stock entitled to vote at the Special                                                                                                                                         
 Meeting as of the Record Date must be present in person virtually or represented by proxy at the Special Meeting in order to hold the Special Meeting and conduct business. This presence is called a quorum. Your shares are counted as present at the 
 Special Meeting if you are present and vote in person virtually at the Special Meeting or if you have properly submitted a proxy.                                                                                                                       |

| Q: | How are abstentions and broker non-votes treated? |

| A: | Abstentions (i.e., shares present at the Special Meeting and marked “abstain”) are deemed to                                                                                                                           
 be shares presented or represented by proxy and entitled to vote, and are counted for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present. Abstentions have no effect