Company: IPST
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001788230-25-000148
Chunk: 7

Company: Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 7
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 Proposal, and the Adjournment Proposal. The affirmative vote of a majority in voting power of the shares of our common stock entitled to vote is required to approve the Authorized Share Proposal. Lastly, the affirmative vote of two-thirds (66 2/3%) of the total voting power of all outstanding shares of our common stock entitled to vote is required to approve the Stockholder Action Proposal.

In connection with the transactions contemplated by the Financing Proposal and the Advisory Compensation Proposal, on or prior to July 29, 2025, we and certain of our stockholders entered into Support Agreements (as defined below), pursuant to which, among other things, each such stockholder has agreed, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein, to vote all of their respective shares of our common stock, collectively constituting approximately 40% of the total voting power of the common stock as of the Record Date, in favor of the Financing Proposal and the Advisory Compensation Proposal.

Who is entitled to vote at the Special Meeting?

If you owned shares of our common stock at the close of business on July 23, 2025, the record date for the Special Meeting (the "Record Date"), you are entitled to vote those shares. On the Record Date, there were 15,401,989 shares of our common stock outstanding, which was our only class of stock having general voting rights.

What is the difference between holding shares as a stockholder of record and as a beneficial owner?

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#### Stockholder of Record
. If you have shares registered directly in your name with our stock transfer agent, Equiniti Trust Company, LLC ("Equiniti" or "EQ"), then you are considered the stockholder of record with respect to those shares and we sent the proxy materials directly to you.

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Questions and Answers

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#### Beneficial Owner of Shares Held in Street Name
. If you have shares held in an account at a brokerage firm, bank, broker-dealer, or other similar organization, then you are the beneficial owner of shares held in “street name” and the proxy materials were forwarded to you by that organization. The organization holding the shares in your account is considered the stockholder of record with respect to those shares for the purpose of voting at the Special Meeting. As a beneficial owner, you have the right to direct that organization on how to vote the shares it holds in your account.

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