Articles from JDS1, LLC

JDS1, LLC (“JDS1”), which collectively with the other reporting persons in its Section 13(d) group, beneficially owns approximately 8.4% of the outstanding common stock of Catalyst Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBIO) (“Catalyst” or the “Company”), commented today on its previously announced withdrawal of the director nominations and other proposed business that it had intended to bring before the upcoming 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Catalyst Biosciences, Inc.

JDS1, LLC, which collectively with the other participants in its solicitation beneficially owns approximately 8.4% of the outstanding common stock of Catalyst Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBIO) (“Catalyst” or the “Company”), today announced that it has filed its definitive proxy statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and sent a letter to its fellow stockholders. JDS1 is urging shareholders to vote on the GOLD proxy card to elect its slate of three highly-qualified nominees – Shelly Lombard, Matthew Stecker, and Igor Volshteyn – to Catalyst’s eight-member Board of Directors at Catalyst’s 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in person on August 15, 2022. In its letter to stockholders, included below, JDS1 again calls for Catalyst to firmly, and unequivocally, commit to a distribution to stockholders of most of its available cash at the earliest possible time.