Scilex Holding Company Announces Change in Record Date for its Previously Announced Dividend of Preferred Stock Exchangeable for up to 10% of Scilex’s Ownership Interest in Semnur Pharmaceuticals, Inc., its Wholly Owned Subsidiary from April 11, 2025 to May 2, 2025

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Scilex Holding Company (SCLX) has announced a change in the record date for its previously declared dividend of preferred stock. The dividend, which is exchangeable for up to 10% of Scilex's ownership interest in its wholly owned subsidiary Semnur Pharmaceuticals, will now have a record date of May 2, 2025, instead of the previously announced April 11, 2025.

The payment date will be determined by subsequent Board resolutions and will occur within 60 days following the new record date. Scilex, which focuses on non-opioid pain management products for acute and chronic pain, neurodegenerative and cardiometabolic disease treatments, maintains its commitment to delivering value to its stockholders and securityholders through this dividend distribution.

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• Dividend distribution demonstrates commitment to shareholder value
• Offering shareholders participation in subsidiary ownership through preferred stock

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• Delay in record date might indicate administrative complications
• Payment date remains uncertain within 60-day window

PALO ALTO, Calif., April 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Scilex Holding Company (Nasdaq: SCLX, “Scilex” or “Company”), an innovative revenue-generating company focused on acquiring, developing and commercializing non-opioid pain management products for the treatment of acute and chronic pain and neurodegenerative and cardiometabolic disease, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved changing the previously announced record date of April 11, 2025 for its previously announced dividend of Scilex preferred stock (the “Dividend”) to its stockholders and certain other securityholders of Scilex. The new record date for the Dividend will be May 2, 2025 (the “New Record Date”). Subject to the Board’s right to further change the New Record Date, the payment date (the “Payment Date”) will be determined by subsequent resolutions of the Board, which will be within 60 days following the New Record Date.

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About Scilex Holding Company

Scilex Holding Company is an innovative revenue-generating company focused on acquiring, developing and commercializing non-opioid pain management products for the treatment of acute and chronic pain and neurodegenerative and cardiometabolic disease. Scilex targets indications with high unmet needs and large market opportunities with non-opioid therapies for the treatment of patients with acute and chronic pain and is dedicated to advancing and improving patient outcomes. Scilex’s commercial products include: (i) ZTlido^® (lidocaine topical system) 1.8%, a prescription lidocaine topical product approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”) for the relief of neuropathic pain associated with postherpetic neuralgia, which is a form of post-shingles nerve pain; (ii) ELYXYB®, a potential first-line treatment and the only FDA-approved, ready-to-use oral solution for the acute treatment of migraine, with or without aura, in adults; and (iii) Gloperba^®, the first and only liquid oral version of the anti-gout medicine colchicine indicated for the prophylaxis of painful gout flares in adults.

In addition, Scilex has three product candidates: (i) SP-102 (10 mg, dexamethasone sodium phosphate viscous gel) (“SEMDEXA” or “SP-102”), a novel, viscous gel formulation of a widely used corticosteroid for epidural injections to treat lumbosacral radicular pain, or sciatica, for which Scilex has completed a Phase 3 study and was granted Fast Track status from the FDA in 2017; (ii) SP-103 (lidocaine topical system) 5.4%, (“SP-103”), a next-generation, triple-strength formulation of ZTlido, for the treatment of acute pain and for which Scilex has recently completed a Phase 2 trial in acute low back pain. SP-103 has been granted Fast Track status from the FDA in low back pain; and (iii) SP-104 (4.5 mg, low-dose naltrexone hydrochloride delayed-release capsules) (“SP-104”), a novel low-dose delayed-release naltrexone hydrochloride being developed for the treatment of fibromyalgia.

Scilex Holding Company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

About Semnur Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Semnur Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Semnur”) is a clinical late-stage specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel non-opioid pain therapies. Semnur’s product candidate, SP-102 (SEMDEXA™), is the first non-opioid novel gel formulation administered epidurally in development for patients with moderate to severe chronic radicular pain/sciatica.

Semnur Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is headquartered in Palo Alto, California

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release and any statements made for and during any presentation or meeting concerning the matters discussed in this press release contain forward-looking statements related to Scilex and its subsidiaries under the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding Scilex’s declaration and payment of the Dividend and timing thereof (including that the Board may change the New Record Date and, as a result, the Payment Date), Scilex’s potential development and commercialization of treatments for obesity, neurodegenerative, cardiometabolic disease.

Risks and uncertainties that could cause Scilex’s actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed in our forward-looking statements, include, but are not limited to: risks associated with the Board’s right to change the New Record Date and/or revoke the Dividend, Scilex’s ability to develop and commercialize treatments for obesity, neurodegenerative, cardiometabolic disease; risks associated with the unpredictability of trading markets and whether a market will be established for Scilex’s common stock; general economic, political and business conditions; risks related to COVID-19 (and other similar disruptions); the risk that the potential product candidates that Scilex develops may not progress through clinical development or receive required regulatory approvals within expected timelines or at all; risks relating to uncertainty regarding the regulatory pathway for Scilex’s product candidates; the risk that Scilex will be unable to successfully market or gain market acceptance of its product candidates; the risk that Scilex’s product candidates may not be beneficial to patients or successfully commercialized; the risk that Scilex has overestimated the size of the target patient population, their willingness to try new therapies and the willingness of physicians to prescribe these therapies; risks that the outcome of the trials and studies for SP-102, SP-103 or SP-104 may not be successful or reflect positive outcomes; risks that the prior results of the clinical and investigator-initiated trials of SP-102 (SEMDEXA™), SP-103 or SP-104 may not be replicated; regulatory and intellectual property risks; and other risks and uncertainties indicated from time to time and other risks described in Scilex’s most recent periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Scilex’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q that the Company has filed or may file with the SEC, including the risk factors set forth in those filings. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release, and Scilex undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement in this press release except as may be required by law.

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SEMDEXA™ (SP-102) is a trademark owned by Semnur Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Scilex Holding Company. A proprietary name review by the FDA is planned.

ZTlido^® is a registered trademark owned by Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Scilex Holding Company.

Gloperba^® is the subject of an exclusive, transferable license to use the registered trademark by Scilex Holding Company.

ELYXYB^® is a registered trademark owned by Scilex Holding Company.

All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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FAQ

When is the new record date for SCLX's preferred stock dividend?

The new record date for Scilex's preferred stock dividend is May 2, 2025, changed from the previously announced date of April 11, 2025.

What percentage of Semnur Pharmaceuticals ownership is being offered in SCLX's dividend?

The preferred stock dividend is exchangeable for up to 10% of Scilex's ownership interest in Semnur Pharmaceuticals, its wholly owned subsidiary.

When will SCLX pay the preferred stock dividend?

The payment date will be determined by Board resolutions and will occur within 60 days following the new record date of May 2, 2025.

What type of dividend is SCLX offering to its shareholders?

SCLX is offering a dividend in the form of preferred stock that is exchangeable for ownership interest in its subsidiary Semnur Pharmaceuticals.