UNITED STATES
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FORM
CURRENT REPORT
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Item 4.01. Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant.
On March 21, 2024, Grant Thornton LLP (“Grant Thornton”) resigned as our independent registered public accounting firm, effective immediately. The reports of Grant Thornton on our financial statements for each of the two fiscal years ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2022 did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, nor were they qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles.
In connection with the audits of our financial statements for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2022, and during the subsequent period through March 21, 2024, there were no “disagreements” (as that term is defined in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K and related instructions) between us and Grant Thornton on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure or auditing scope or procedures which, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Grant Thornton, would have caused Grant Thornton to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreement in their report. During the fiscal years ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2022 and the subsequent period through March 21, 2024, there were no “reportable events” (as that term is defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K).
We provided Grant Thornton with a copy of the disclosures contained in this Current Report on Form 8-K and requested that Grant Thornton furnish us with a letter addressed to the Securities and Exchange Commission stating whether it agrees with the statements contained herein. A copy of Grant Thornton’s letter, dated March 27, 2024 is filed as Exhibit 16.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
Item 8.01 Other Events
As previously disclosed, on December 5, 2023, the Company and certain of its subsidiaries filed a voluntary petitions for relief (the “Chapter 11 Cases”) under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Additional information about the Chapter 11 Cases, including access to Bankruptcy Court documents, is available online at www.donlinrecano.com/nogin, a website administered by Donlin, Recano & Company, Inc., a third-party bankruptcy claims and noticing agent. The documents and other information on this website are not part of this Current Report and shall not be incorporated by reference herein. The contemplated restructuring in the Chapter 11 Cases does not provide for any distribution to holders of the Company’s common stock in their capacity as such and the Company’s common stock and as a result warrants are effectively worthless.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
See the Exhibit Index below, which is incorporated by reference herein.
| Exhibit No. | Description | |
| 16.1 | Letter of Grant Thornton LLP, dated March 27, 2024, to the Securities and Exchange Commission. | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document). |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
Date: March 27, 2024
| NOGIN, INC. | ||
| By: | /s/ Jonathan S. Huberman | |
| Name: | Jonathan S. Huberman | |
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer and President | |
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