Company: IPST
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001788230-25-000148
Chunk: 69

Company: Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 69
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 year ended December 31, 2024 as filed with the SEC. Any exhibits listed in the Form 10-K report also will be furnished upon request at the actual expense incurred by us in furnishing such exhibits. Any such requests should be directed to our Corporate Secretary at our principal executive offices at 9668 Bujacich Road, Gig Harbor, WA 98332.

### Other Business
While the Notice of Special Meeting of Stockholders provides for the transaction of all other business that may properly come before the Special Meeting, including any adjournments or postponements of the Special Meeting, the Board knows of no matters to be brought before the Special Meeting other than those referred to in this Proxy Statement. If, however, other matters are properly presented at the Special Meeting, the individuals appointed as proxies will vote your shares as they determine in their discretion to be advisable.

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Appendix A

<div align='center'>[SECOND] AMENDMENT

TO

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

HERITAGE DISTILLING HOLDING COMPANY, INC.

(Pursuant to Section 242 of the

General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware)

________, 2025</div>

Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc. (the “Corporation”), a corporation organized and existing under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”), does hereby certify as follows:

1. The Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation shall be, and hereby is, amended by deleting Article IV in its entirety and replacing it with the following:

The Corporation is authorized to issue two classes of stock to be designated, respectively, “ Common Stock ” and “ Preferred Stock .” The total number of shares of capital stock that the Corporation shall have authority to issue is nine hundred ninety-five million (995,000,000) shares. The total number of shares of Common Stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is nine hundred eighty-five million (985,000,000), having a par value of $0.0001 per share, and the total number of shares of Preferred Stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is ten million (10,000,000), having a par value of $0.0001 per share.

2. This foregoing amendment was duly and validly adopted in accordance with Section 242 of the DGCL.

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