Company: TVRD
Filing Date: 2025-08-14
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001558370-25-011562
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Company: Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-14
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part II, Item 1L
Chunk 7
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Item 1. Legal Proceedings

Merger Proceedings 

Between December 20, 2024, and March 19, 2025, Cara received thirteen demands (and three draft complaints) from purported stockholders of Cara (collectively, the Demands) challenging the disclosures in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus related to the Merger and asserting claims for violations of Sections 14(a) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  In addition, on March 5 and March 6, 2025, two lawsuits were filed by purported stockholders of Cara in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York. The lawsuits are captioned Joseph Clark v. Cara Therapeutics, Inc., et al., No. 651260/2025 and Michael Kent v. Cara Therapeutics, Inc., et al., No. 651272/2025 (collectively,  the Complaints). The Complaints named Cara and the members of the Cara board of directors as defendants, and, like the Demands, challenged the disclosures (under New York state law) in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus.

Cara and the other named defendants deny that they violated any laws or breached any duties to stockholders of Cara, and they believe that no supplemental disclosure was required to the Proxy Statement/Prospectus under any applicable law, rule or regulation. Nevertheless, solely to eliminate the burden and expense of litigation and to avoid any possible disruption to the Merger that could result from such litigation, Cara filed certain supplemental disclosures on March 24, 2025 to moot the disclosure claims alleged in the Demands and the Complaints. On April 15, 2025, the Merger closed. Thereafter, counsel for the purported stockholders (that sent the Demands or filed the Complaints) reached out to counsel for Tvardi to discuss a potential mootness fee in connection with the supplemental disclosures filed by Cara. Those discussions are ongoing.

Tvardi cannot predict the outcome of any litigation or the Demands. It is possible additional lawsuits may be filed or additional demand letters may be received arising out of the Merger. Absent new or significantly different allegations, Tvardi will not necessarily disclose such additional filings

Given the early stage of this litigation, at this time, Tvardi is not in a position to assess the likelihood of any potential loss or adverse effect on its financial condition or to estimate the amount or range of potential losses, if any