Company: SMNR
Filing Date: 2025-07-23
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-163401
Chunk: 249

Company: Semnur Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-23
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 249
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 New Semnur continues to be an emerging growth company, it may take advantage of exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies, including not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in its periodic reports and proxy statements and exemptions from the requirements of holding nonbinding advisory stockholder votes on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved. New Semnur cannot predict if investors will find its common stock less attractive because New Semnur may rely on these exemptions. If some investors find New Semnur Common Stock less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for New Semnur Common Stock and its stock price may be more volatile.

New Semnur will remain an emerging growth company until the earlier of (1) the last day of the fiscal year (a) following the fifth anniversary of the closing of the IPO, (b) in which it has total annual gross revenue of at**

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least $1.235 billion, or (c) in which it is deemed to be a large accelerated filer, which requires the market value of its common stock that is held by non-affiliatesto equal or exceed $700 million as of the last business day of the second fiscal quarter of such year, and (2) the date on which New Semnur has issued more than $1 billion in non-convertibledebt during the prior three-year period. Under the JOBS Act, emerging growth companies can also delay adopting new or revised accounting standards until such time as those standards apply to private companies. New Semnur has irrevocably elected not to avail itself of this exemption from new or revised accounting standards and, therefore, will be subject to the same new or revised accounting standards as other public companies that are not emerging growth companies. As a result, changes in rules of U.S. generally accepted accounting principles or their interpretation, the adoption of new guidance or the application of existing guidance to changes in New Semnur’s business could significantly affect New Semnur’s business, financial condition and results of operations. Additionally, Denali is a “smaller reporting company” as defined in Item 10(f)(1) of Regulation S-K.Smaller reporting companies may take advantage of certain reduced disclosure obligations, including, among other things, providing only two years of aud