Company: SPRB
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0000950170-25-059304
Chunk: 1

Company: SPRUCE BIOSCIENCES, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 1
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# Smartphone users Point your camera here and vote without entering a control number Vote Virtually at the Meeting* June 9, 2025 10:00 AM PDT Virtually at: www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/SPRB2025 *Please check the meeting materials for any special requirements for meeting attendance.
Vote at www.ProxyVote.com THIS IS NOT A VOTABLE BALLOT This is an overview of the proposals being presented at the upcoming stockholder meeting as described in more detail in the complete proxy materials available to you online. You may view the proxy materials online at ProxyVote.com or easily request a paper copy (see reverse side). Please follow the instructions on the reverse side to vote these important matters. Before voting, we encourage you to access and review all of the important information contained in the proxy materials. Voting Items Board Recommends 1. To elect the three Class II directors named below to hold office until the Company’s 2028 annual meeting of stockholders. Nominees: 01) Percival Barretto-Ko 02) Bali Muralidhar, M.D., Ph.D. 03) Daniel Spiegelman For 2. To ratify the selection by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of BDO USA, P.C. as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company for the Company’s fiscal year ending December 31, 2025. For 3. To approve an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to effect a reverse stock split (the “Reverse Stock Split”) of the Company’s common stock by a ratio of between one-for-five and one-for-thirty, with the exact ratio to be determined by the Board in its sole discretion and with such Reverse Stock Split to be effected at such time and date, if at all, as determined by the Board in its sole discretion. For 4. To approve the adjournment of the Annual Meeting, if necessary, to solicit additional proxies