Company: IPST
Filing Date: 2025-06-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001788230-25-000111
Chunk: 82

Company: Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 82
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 its entirety with the following:

The Corporation is authorized to issue two classes of stock to be designated, respectively, “ Common Stock ” and “ Preferred Stock .” The total number of shares of capital stock that the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 495,000,000 shares. The total number of shares of Common Stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is 490,000,000, having a par value $0.0001 per share, and the total number of shares of Preferred Stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is 5,000,000, having a par value of $0.0001 per share.

2. This foregoing amendment was duly adopted in accordance with Section 242 of the DGCL.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be duly executed by an authorized officer this ____ day of _________, 2025.

HERITAGE DISTILLING HOLDING

COMPANY, INC.

By: ________________________________

Name: Justin Stiefel

Title: Chief Executive Officer

Appendix B

#### HERITAGE DISTILLING HOLDING COMPANY, INC.

### FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE

#### 2024 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
This First Amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), 2024 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) as adopted by the unanimous approval of the members of the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) upon the recommendation of the Compensation Committee (the “Committee”) of the Board, amends the Plan as set forth herein, effective as of the date ratified and approved by the stockholders of the Company set forth at the end of this Amendment (the “Effective Date”). Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Plan..

WHEREAS , the Plan, as adopted by the Board, ratified and approved by the stockholders of the Company, and becoming effective on November 25, 2024, was adopted as the equity compensation plan of the Company to promote the success of the Company and to increase stockholder value by providing an additional means through the grant of Awards to attract, motivate, retain and reward selected employees and other eligible persons; and

WHEREAS , the Plan had, as of the date of its adoption, an Overall Share Limit of 2,500,000 shares of the Company