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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#### CARA THERAPEUTICS, INC.

### NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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#### 18. Employee Benefit Plan
The Company’s defined contribution retirement plan complies with Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code. All employees over the age of 21 are eligible to participate in the plan on the first day of the month after completing three consecutive months of service. Employees are able to defer a portion of their pay into the plan on the first day of the month on or after the day all age and service requirements have been met. All eligible employees receive an employer contribution equal to 3% of their salary up to the annual IRS limit. During the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, employer contributions to the plan were $643, $505, and $460, respectively.

#### 19. Commitments and Contingencies
License Agreement with Enteris Biopharma, Inc.

In August 2019, the Company entered into a non-exclusive license agreement, or the Enteris License Agreement, with Enteris Biopharma, Inc., or Enteris, pursuant to which Enteris granted to the Company a non-exclusive, royalty-bearing license, including the right to grant sublicenses, under certain proprietary technology and patent rights related to or covering formulations for oral delivery of peptide active pharmaceutical ingredients with functional excipients to enhance permeability and/or solubility, known as Enteris’s Peptelligence ® technology, to develop, manufacture and commercialize products using such technology worldwide, excluding Japan and South Korea.

As consideration for the licensed rights under the Enteris License Agreement, the Company paid an upfront fee equal to $8,000, consisting of $4,000 in cash and $4,000 in shares of the Company’s common stock pursuant to the Purchase Agreement with Enteris.

The Company is also obligated, pursuant to the Enteris License Agreement, to pay Enteris (1) milestone payments upon the achievement of certain development, regulatory and commercial milestones and (2) low-single digit royalty percentages on net sales of licensed products, subject to reductions in specified circumstances. During the year ended December 31, 2023, no milestone payments or royalties were paid to Enteris by the Company in relation to the Enteris License Agreement. During the years ended December 31, 2022 and 202