Company: SCLXW
Filing Date: 2025-05-16
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-073612
Chunk: 31

Company: Scilex Holding Co
Filing Date: 2025-05-16
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 31
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 respect to personal background, perspective and experience and (vi) commitment to rigorously representing the long-term interests of the Company’s stockholders. Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee also reviews director candidates in the context of the current size and composition of our Board, the operating requirements of the Company and the long-term interests of the Company’s stockholders. Although our Board does not maintain a specific policy with respect to board diversity, our Board values diversity as a factor in selecting nominees. Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee considers a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and may consider factors including gender, racial diversity, age, skills, and such other factors as it deems appropriate to maintain an appropriate balance of knowledge, experience and capability. In the case of incumbent directors whose terms of office are set to expire, our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee reviews such directors’ overall service to the Company during their term, including the number of meetings attended, level of participation, quality of performance, and any other relationships and transactions that might impair such directors’ independence. In the case of new director candidates, our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee also determines whether the nominee is independent for purposes of the Nasdaq Listing Rules.

Stockholder Recommendations and Nominations to the Board of Directors

Stockholders may submit recommendations for director candidates to our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee by sending the individual’s name and qualifications to our Corporate Secretary at Scilex Holding Company, 960 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303, who will forward all recommendations to our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will evaluate any candidates recommended by stockholders against the same criteria and pursuant to the same policies and procedures applicable to the evaluation of candidates proposed by directors or management.

Stockholder and Other Interested Party Communications

Our Board provides to every stockholder and any other interested parties the ability to communicate with our Board as a whole, and with individual directors on the Board, through an established process for stockholder communication. For a communication directed to our Board as a whole, stockholders and other interested parties may send such communication to our Corporate Secretary at Scilex Holding Company, 960 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Attn: Board of Directors c/o Corporate Secretary.

For a stockholder or other interested party communication directed to an individual director in his or her capacity as a member of our Board, stockholders and other interested parties may send such communication to the attention of the individual director at