Company: DVAX
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEFC14A
Source: 0000930413-25-001273
Chunk: 4

Company: DYNAVAX TECHNOLOGIES CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEFC14A
Chunk 4
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NOTICE OF 2025 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

To Be Held on June 11, 2025</div>

Dear Stockholder:

You are cordially invited to attend the 2025
Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) of Dynavax Technologies Corporation, a Delaware corporation
(the “Company”). The Annual Meeting will be held virtually on June 11, 2025, at 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time at www.cesonlineservices.com/dvax25_vm.
The Annual Meeting will be held online only, and you will not be able to attend the Annual Meeting in person.To attend
and participate in the Annual Meeting, including voting your shares at and submitting your questions during such meeting, you
must pre-register by 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time on June 10, 2025 at www.cesonlineservices.com/dvax25_vm using the control number
found on your proxy card, or voting instruction form. Online check-in will begin at 6:30 a.m. Pacific Time and should allow ample
time for the check-in procedures. The Annual Meeting is being convened for the following purposes:

| Proposals                                                                                                                                                                                                            |     | Board Recommendation                                                                                          |
| Proposal                                                                                                                                                                                                             
 1: To elect four nominees as Class I directors to hold office until the 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or until their                                                                                           
 respective successors are duly elected and qualified.                                                                                                                                                                |     | FOR the four Board-recommended nominees only (Brent MacGregor, Scott Myers, Lauren Silvernail and Elaine Sun) |
| Proposal                                                                                                                                                                                                             
 2: To approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers, as disclosed in the proxy statement.                                                                                |     | FOR                                                                                                           |
| Proposal                                                                                                                                                                                                             
 3: To ratify the selection of Ernst & Young LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company for its fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.                                                    |     | FOR                                                                                                           |
| Proposal                                                                                                                                                                                                             
 4: To approve an amendment and restatement of the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation to declassify the Company’s Board of Directors on a phased basis and implement certain other changes.              |     | FOR                                                                                                           |
| Proposal                                                                                                                                                                                                             
 5: Stockholder proposal to amend the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws to repeal each provision of, or amendment to, the