Company: OPGN
Filing Date: 2025-08-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001829126-25-006628
Chunk: 1320

Company: OPGEN INC
Filing Date: 2025-08-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7A
Chunk 1320
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Shares”), of the Company having an aggregate
value of up to an additional $7.0 million.

Policies for Approval of Related Person Transactions

We have adopted a written policy that transactions with directors, officers, and holders of 5% or more of our voting securities and their affiliates, each, a related person, must be approved by our Audit Committee.

Director Independence

Information concerning the independence of the members of our Board of Directors is described in Item 10 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

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Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Our Audit Committee previously appointed UHY LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 and related interim periods. As previously disclosed in April 2024, UHY notified the Company that it would resign as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm effective as of April 22, 2024. In light of such resignation, on April 23, 2024, the Board appointed and engaged Beckles & Co., Inc. (“Beckles”) to serve as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023, and the Board re-engaged Beckles to serve as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024 and related interim periods.

During the period of UHY’s engagement, which commenced in March 2023, UHY did not provide any report on the financial statements of the Company. During the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, and the subsequent interim period through April 22, 2024, there were no: (1) disagreements with UHY on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedures, which disagreements, if not resolved to their satisfaction, would have caused them to make reference in connection with their opinion to the subject matter of the disagreement, or (2) reportable events under Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K.

CohnReznick served as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm from 2014 through the completion of the audit for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022. During the Company’s fiscal years ended December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021 and the subsequent interim period through January 18, 2023, there were no: (i) disagreements with Cohn