Company: VERA
Filing Date: 2025-12-10
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-314244
Chunk: 14

Company: Vera Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-10
Form: 424B5
Chunk 14
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 investment). This discussion does not address all U.S. federal income tax consequences relevant to a Non-U.S.Holder’s particular circumstances, including the impact of the Medicare contribution tax on net investment income and the alternative minimum tax. In addition, it does not address consequences relevant to Non-U.S.Holders subject to special rules, including, without limitation:

| • |     | U.S. expatriates and former citizens or long-term residents of the United States; |

| • |     | persons holding our Class A common stock as part of a hedge, straddle or other risk reduction strategy or as part of a 
 conversion transaction or other integrated investment;                                                                 |

| • |     | banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions; |

| • |     | brokers, dealers or traders in securities; |

| • |     | “controlled foreign corporations,” “passive foreign investment companies” and corporations that 
 accumulate earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax;                                           |

| • |     | partnerships or other entities or arrangements treated as partnerships for U.S. federal income tax purposes (and investors 
 therein);                                                                                                                  |

| • |     | tax-exempt organizations or governmental organizations; |

| • |     | persons deemed to sell our Class A common stock under the constructive sale provisions of the Code; |

| • |     | persons who hold or receive our Class A common stock pursuant to the exercise of any employee stock option or 
 otherwise as compensation;                                                                                    |

| • |     | tax-qualified retirement plans; and |

| • |     | “qualified foreign pension funds” as defined in Section 897(l)(2) of the Code and entities all of the 
 interests of which are held by qualified foreign pension funds.                                       |

If an entity treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes holds our Class A common stock, the tax treatment of a partner in the partnership will depend on the status of the partner, the activities of the partnership and certain determinations made at the partner level. Accordingly, partnerships holding our S-12

Class A common stock and the partners in such partnerships should consult their tax advisors regarding the U.S. federal income tax consequences to them. THIS DISCUSSION IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT TAX ADVICE. INVESTORS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR TAX ADVISORS WITH RESPECT TO THE APPLICATION OF THE U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX LAWS TO THEIR PARTICULAR SITUATIONS AS WELL AS ANY TAX CONSEQUENCES OF THE PURCHASE