Spyre Therapeutics Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Changes in Registrant's Certifying Accountant
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Item 4.01 Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant.
(a) Dismissal of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
On February 28, 2025, the Audit Committee (the “Audit Committee”) of Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Spyre Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”), dismissed PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, effective immediately. PwC served as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company since 2014.
The reports of PwC on the consolidated financial statements of the Company for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 did not contain an adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles.
During the Company’s two most recent fiscal years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 and the subsequent interim period from January 1, 2025 to February 28, 2025, there were (i) no disagreements (as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K and the related instructions thereto) with PwC on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure, which disagreement, if not resolved to the satisfaction of PwC, would have caused it to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreement in connection with its report and (ii) no reportable events (as described in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K), except for a material weakness identified as of December 31, 2024 related to the Company not designing and maintaining effective controls to evaluate the treatment of the Company’s Series A non-voting convertible preferred stock and Series B non-voting convertible preferred stock for the purpose of calculating earnings per share under the two-class method, which resulted in a restatement of the consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023.
The Company provided PwC with a copy of the disclosures made in this Item 4.01 and requested PwC to furnish the Company with a letter addressed to the SEC stating whether it agrees with the statements made by the Company and, if not, stating the respects in which it does not agree. A copy of PwC’s letter to the SEC dated March 6, 2025 regarding these statements is filed as Exhibit 16.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
(b) Appointment of New Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
On February 28, 2025, the Audit Committee, after conducting a competitive process to determine the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, appointed KPMG LLP (“KPMG”) as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company for the year ending December 31, 2025, effective immediately.
During the Company’s two most recent fiscal years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 and the subsequent interim period from January 1, 2025 to February 28, 2025, neither the Company nor anyone on its behalf consulted KPMG regarding: (i) the application of accounting principles to a specified transaction, either completed or proposed, or the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on the Company’s financial statements, and neither a written report nor oral advice was provided to the Company that KPMG concluded was an important factor considered by the Company in reaching a decision as to any accounting, auditing or financial reporting issue; or (ii) any matter that was the subject of a disagreement (as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K and the related instructions thereto) or a reportable event (as described in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K).
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
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| 16.1 | Letter from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, dated March 6, 2025 | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) | |
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.
| SPYRE THERAPEUTICS, INC. | ||||||
| Date: March 6, 2025 | By: | /s/ Cameron Turtle | ||||
| Cameron Turtle Chief Executive Officer | ||||||