Company: CDT
Filing Date: 2025-07-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001641172-25-018242
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Company: CDT Equity Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-08
Form: DEF 14A
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 a member of its board of directors. Faith L. Charles, a member of our Board during the fiscal year ended 2024, is a partner at Thompson Hine LLP, a law firm that provides legal services to us.

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<div align='center'>REPORT OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS</div>

Report of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors

The audit committee reviewed and discussed the audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2024, with the Company’s management. The audit committee discussed with the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm the matters required to be discussed by the applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) and the SEC. The audit committee also received the written disclosures and the letter from the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm required by applicable requirements of the PCAOB regarding the independent accountants’ communications with the audit committee concerning independence and has discussed with the independent registered public accounting firm the accounting firm’s independence. Based on the foregoing, the audit committee recommended to the Board that the audited financial statements be included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024.

| THE                                  
 AUDIT COMMITTEE                      |
| Ms.                                  
 Chele Chiavacci Farley (Chairperson) 
 Dr.                                  
 Freda Lewis-Hall                     
 Mr.                                  
 Simon Fry                            |

The foregoing report of the Audit Committee does not constitute soliciting material and shall not be deemed filed, incorporated by reference into or a part of any other filing by the Company (including any future filings) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or the Exchange Act, except to the extent the Company specifically incorporates such report by reference therein.

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<div align='center'>SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT</div>

The following table sets forth beneficial ownership of the Company’s Common Stock as of July 3, 2025, by:

| ● | each                                                                                                    
 person known to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of the outstanding Common Stock of the Company; |
| ● | each                                                                                                    
 of the Company’s executive officers and directors; and                                                  |
| ● | all                                                                                                     
 of the Company’s current executive officers and directors as a group.                                   |

Beneficial ownership is determined according to the rules of the SEC, which generally provide that a person