Company: HRTX
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-060882
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Company: HERON THERAPEUTICS, INC. /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEF 14A
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 for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025; 3. To approve, on a nonbinding advisory basis, compensation paid to our Named Executive Officers for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024; 4. To approve, on a nonbinding advisory basis, the frequency of future advisory votes on the compensation paid to our Named Executive Officers; 5. To transact such other business as may properly come before the Annual Meeting. Stockholders will be able to attend the Annual Meeting, vote electronically and submit questions during the Annual Meeting, all by visiting www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/HRTX2025 . To participate in the Annual Meeting, stockholders of record will need the 16-digit control number included on their Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials (the "Notice") or, if they elected to receive proxy materials by mail, their proxy card. If your shares are held in "street name" and your voting instruction form indicates that you may vote those shares through the http://www.proxyvote.com website, then you may access, participate in, and vote electronically during the Annual Meeting with the 16-digit access code indicated on that voting instruction form. Otherwise, stockholders who hold their shares in street name should contact their broker, bank, or other nominee (preferably at least five days before the Annual Meeting) and obtain a “legal proxy” in order to be able to attend, participate in, or vote at the Annual Meeting. The Annual Meeting will begin promptly at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time. We encourage you to access the Annual Meeting webcast prior to the start time. Online check-in will begin at 8:45 a.m. Eastern Time, and you should allow ample time for the check-in procedures. Only stockholders of record at the close of business on April 15, 2025 (the “ Record Date ”) will be entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual Meeting.

| BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS |
| /s/ Ira Duarte                     |
| Cary, North Carolina               |
| April 30, 2025                     |

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<div align='center'>IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING THE AVAILABILITY OF PROXY MATERIALS FOR THE 2025 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS TO BE HELD ON JUNE 12, 2025:

The 2025 Proxy Statement and the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024