Company: HRTX
Filing Date: 2025-09-19
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-209064
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Company: HERON THERAPEUTICS, INC. /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-09-19
Form: DEF 14A
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 As a stockholder of record, you may vote electronically during the Special Meeting or via one of the methods described in the proxy card you received. Whether or not you plan to attend the Special Meeting, we urge you to vote well before the Special Meeting to ensure your vote is counted.

Beneficial Owner: Shares Registered in the Name of a Broker, Bank or Other Agent

If at the close of business on the Record Date, your shares were held, not in your name, but in an account at a brokerage firm, bank or other agent, then you are the beneficial owner of shares held in “street name,” and the proxy materials are being forwarded to you by your broker, bank or other agent. The broker, bank or other agent holding your account is considered to be the stockholder of record for purposes of voting at the Special Meeting. As a beneficial owner, you have the right to direct your broker, bank or other agent on how to vote the shares in your account.

You are entitled to attend the Special Meeting only if you were a stockholder at the close of business on the Record Date or if you hold a valid proxy to vote at the Special Meeting.

We will be hosting the Special Meeting via the Internet.You will not be able to attend the Special Meeting in person.Any stockholder can listen to and participate in the Special Meeting via the Internet atwww.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/HRTX2025SM .Stockholders may submit questions and comments before and during the Special Meeting. After the Special Meeting, we will spend up to fifteen minutes answering any appropriately submitted stockholder questions that are pertinent to the Company and that comply with our rules of conduct. Our rules of conduct will be made available atwww.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/HRTX2025SM .

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The Special Meeting will begin promptly at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time. We encourage you to access the Special Meeting webcast prior to the start time. Online check-in will begin, and stockholders may begin submitting written questions, at approximately 8:45 a.m. Eastern Time, and you should allow ample time for the check-in procedures.

In order to be able to vote your shares, view the list of our stockholders of record, or submit questions during the Special Meeting, you will need the 16-digit control number included on your proxy card or included in the email to you if you received the proxy materials by email. If your shares are held in street name and your voting instruction form indicates that you