Company: IPST
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001788230-25-000148
Chunk: 8

Company: Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 8
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 can I vote my shares?

If you are a stockholder of record, you may vote:

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#### Via the Internet.
You may vote by proxy via the Internet by following the instructions found on the proxy card.

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#### By Mail.
You may vote by proxy by filling out the proxy card and returning it in the envelope provided.

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#### In Person.
You may vote in person at the Special Meeting. You must request a ballot when you arrive.

Internet voting will be available 24 hours a day and will close at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, September 17, 2025.

If you are a beneficial owner of shares held in street name, you should have received from your broker, bank or other nominee instructions on how to vote or instruct the broker to vote your shares, which are generally contained in a "voting instruction form" sent by the broker, bank or other nominee. Please follow their instructions carefully. Beneficial owners generally may vote:

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#### Via the Internet.
You may vote by proxy via the Internet by following the instructions on the voting instruction form provided to you by your broker, bank or other nominee.

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#### By Mail.
You may vote by proxy by filling out the voting instruction form and returning it in the envelope provided to you by your broker, bank or other nominee.

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#### In Person.
If you wish to vote in person, you must obtain a legal proxy from the organization that holds your shares. Please contact that organization for instructions on how to obtain a legal proxy to you from your broker, bank or other nominee.

If you received more than one set of proxy materials or proxy card, then you hold shares of Heritage common stock in more than one account. You should vote via the Internet, by mail or in person for all shares held in each of your accounts.

If I submit a proxy, how will it be voted?

At the Special Meeting, the persons named in the proxy card or, if applicable, their substitutes, will vote your shares as you instruct. If you sign your proxy card and return it without indicating how you would like to vote your shares, your shares will be voted as the Board of Directors recommends, which is:

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the approval of the Financing Proposal;

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the approval of the Advisory Compensation Proposal;

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the approval of the Authorized Share Proposal;

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the approval of the Stockholder Action Proposal;

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the approval of