Company: WHWK
Filing Date: 2025-01-31
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-018470
Chunk: 574

Company: Whitehawk Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-31
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 574
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 accounting firm of nationally recognized standing (other than a so-called “Big Four” accounting firm) with expertise in resolving
disputes of this nature to serve, collectively, as the Accounting Referee. In making such determinations, the Accounting Referee will (A) act as an expert, not as an arbitrator and (B) not consider or review any settlement (or similar)
offers made by Purchaser or Seller in connection therewith.

(ii) Seller will furnish the Accounting Referee with a copy of this
Agreement, the Preliminary Statement and the Notice of Disagreement. Purchaser and Seller will also give the Accounting Referee (with a copy to Seller or Purchaser, as applicable) (A) position papers outlining such Party’s respective
arguments and supporting documentation for such Party’s position, and (B) reasonable access to the books and records of Seller and the Company, including any work papers or other schedules prepared by Seller’s accountants (subject to
compliance with such accountants’ customary procedures for release) relating to the preparation of the Preliminary Statement and the Notice of Disagreement; , in each case of clause (A) and (B) that neither Purchaser nor
Seller shall be required to deliver any books, records or other information not in its possession after the Closing.

(iii) The
Accounting Referee’s engagement will be limited to (A) reviewing the Preliminary Statement and the amounts placed in dispute by the Notice of Disagreement that remain in dispute (the “Unresolved Matters”), (B) determining
(1) whether the calculations of the Unresolved Matters were prepared in accordance with this Agreement, (2) whether and to what extent the Preliminary Statement requires adjustment with respect to such calculations and (3) whether
there were mathematical errors in the Preliminary Statement, (C) preparing the Final Statement, which will include those amounts in the Preliminary Statement accepted by Seller pursuant to (for the
avoidance of doubt, the Accounting Referee shall not be entitled to consider any items or matters other than the Unresolved Matters), and a final determination of the Unresolved

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Matters set forth in the Notice of Disagreement, (D) calculating the Closing Adjustment Amount and (E) determining the Parties’ respective proportionate allocations of the fees and
expenses of the Accounting Referee (as described in this ). With respect to each Unresolved Matter, the Accounting Referee’s determination must (i) not assign a value