Company: TVRD
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001104659-25-013053
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Company: Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: S-4/A
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If you own shares in street name through an account with a bank, broker or other nominee, please send proof of your Cara share ownership as of the Cara record date (for example, a brokerage firm account statement or a “legal proxy” from your intermediary) along with your registration request. If you are not sure what proof to send, check with your intermediary.

If your shares are registered in your name with Cara’s stock registrar and transfer agent, Equiniti Trust Company, LLC, no proof of ownership is necessary because Cara can verify your ownership.

#### Solicitation of Proxies; Expenses of Solicitation
The Cara Board is soliciting proxies for the Cara special meeting from its stockholders. Cara will bear a portion of the cost of the solicitation of proxies, including preparation, assembly and delivery, as applicable, of this proxy statement/prospectus, the Cara proxy card and any additional materials furnished to Cara stockholders. Proxies may be solicited by directors, officers and a small number of Cara’s regular employees by mail, email, in person and by telephone, but such persons will not receive any additional compensation for these activities. Cara has retained, a proxy solicitation firm, to assist in the solicitation of proxies for a fee of approximately $50,000 plus reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses. Cara and Tvardi have agreed to split the costs associated with the printing and filing with the SEC of this proxy statement/prospectus and any amendments and supplements thereto and paid to a financial printer or to the SEC and the costs of Cara’s proxy solicitation firm.

#### Tabulation of Votes
Cara expects to appoint Broadridge Investor Communication Solutions, Inc. (Broadridge) to serve as the Inspector of Election for the Cara special meeting. Broadridge will independently tabulate affirmative and negative votes and abstentions.

#### Adjournments
Subject to certain restrictions contained in the Merger Agreement, the Cara special meeting may be adjourned to allow additional time for obtaining additional proxies. No notice of an adjourned meeting need be given if the time and place thereof are announced at the Cara special meeting at which the adjournment was taken unless: the adjournment is for more than 30 days, in which case a notice of the adjourned meeting will be given to each Cara stockholder of record entitled to vote at the Cara special meeting; or if, after the adjournment, a new record date for determination of Cara stockholders entitled to vote