Company: TVRD
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001104659-25-013053
Chunk: 963

Company: Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 963
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 upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, that Parent, as the sole stockholder of Merger Sub votes to adopt this Agreement and thereby approve the Contemplated Transactions.

E. The Company Board has unanimously (i) determined that the Contemplated Transactions are fair to, advisable and in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders, (ii) authorized, approved and declared advisable this Agreement and the Contemplated Transactions, and (iii) determined to recommend, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, that the stockholders of the Company vote to approve the Company Stockholder Matters.

F. Concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and as a condition and inducement to Parent’s willingness to enter into this Agreement, (a) the Company Signatories (solely in their capacity as stockholders of the Company), which represent the Required Company Stockholder Vote, are executing support agreements in favor of Parent in substantially the form attached hereto as

#### Exhibit B-1
(the “

#### Company Stockholder Support Agreement
”), and (b) the officers, directors and stockholders of the Company listed in Section A-1 of the Company Disclosure Schedule (the “

#### Company Lock-Up Signatories
”) (solely in their capacity as stockholders of the Company) are executing lock-up agreements in substantially the form attached hereto as

#### Exhibit C-1
(the “

#### Company Lock-Up Agreement
”).

G. Concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and as a condition and inducement to the Company’s willingness to enter into this Agreement, (a) the officers, directors and certain stockholders of Parent listed in Section A-1 of the Parent Disclosure Schedule (solely in their capacity as stockholders of Parent) are executing support agreements in favor of the Company in substantially the form attached hereto as

#### Exhibit B-2
(the “

#### Parent Stockholder Support Agreement
”), and (b) the director(s) of Parent listed in Section A-2 of the Parent Disclosure Schedule (solely in their capacity as stockholders of Parent) are executing lock-up agreements in substantially the form attached hereto as

#### Exhibit C-2
(the “

#### Parent Lock-Up Agreement
”).

H. It is expected that within seven (7) Business Days after the Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC, stockholders of the Company holding no less than the Required Company Stockholder

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