Company: TVRD
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001104659-25-014310
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Company: Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 424B3
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 to unforeseen difficulties, delays or unexpected costs. If Cara is unable to realize the expected operational efficiencies and cost savings from the restructuring, its operating results and financial condition will be adversely affected.

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Furthermore, its restructuring plan may be disruptive to its operations. For example, Cara’s headcount reductions could yield unanticipated consequences, such as increased difficulties in implementing its business strategy, including retention of its remaining employees. Employee litigation related to the headcount reduction could be costly and prevent management from fully concentrating on the business. Any future growth of Cara’s business would impose significant added responsibilities on members of management, including the need to identify, recruit, maintain and integrate additional employees. Due to its limited resources, Cara may not be able to effectively manage its operations or recruit and retain qualified personnel, which may result in weaknesses in its infrastructure and operations, risks that Cara may not be able to comply with legal and regulatory requirements, loss of employees and reduced productivity among remaining employees.

The impact and results of Cara’s ongoing strategic process are uncertain and may not be successful.

The Cara Board remains dedicated to diligent deliberations and the making of informed decisions that the directors believe are in the best interests of Cara and its stockholders. There can be no assurance, however, that Cara’s current strategic direction, or the Cara’s Board’s evaluation of strategic alternatives, will result in any initiatives, agreements, transactions or plans that will further enhance stockholder value. In addition, given the substantial restructuring of Cara’s operations over the past several years, it may be difficult to evaluate its current business and future prospects on the basis of historical operating performance.

Risks Related to Cara’s Financial Condition and Capital Requirements

Cara has incurred significant losses from Cara’s inception, and Cara anticipates that it may incur losses in the foreseeable future.

Cara is a biopharmaceutical company. Until recently, Cara had focused its efforts primarily on developing KORSUVA injection, Kapruvia and oral difelikefalin for a number of indications with the goal of achieving regulatory approval and, more recently, commercializing KORSUVA injection and Kapruvia. However, the commercial launches of KORSUVA injection and Kapruvia did not achieve meaningful success and, in January 2024, Cara made the strategic decision to focus its efforts on developing oral difelikefalin for the treatment of pruritus associated with NP. In June 2024, Cara discontinued the clinical program in NP following the outcome