Company: MSEX
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001174947-25-000561
Chunk: 52

Company: MIDDLESEX WATER CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 52
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 a Current Report on Form 8-K previously filed with the SEC on March 4, 2025. As a result of the competitive process noted above, on February 28, 2025, the Audit Committee approved the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”) to serve as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2025, subject to PwC’s completion of its standard client acceptance procedures. During the two years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 and the subsequent interim period from January 1, 2025 through March 3, 2025, neither the Company nor anyone acting on its behalf has consulted with PwC with respect to (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 us by PwC that was an important factor considered by us in reaching a decision as to any accounting, auditing or financial reporting issue; (ii) any matter that was the subject of a disagreement as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K of Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the related instructions thereof; or (iii) a reportable event as described in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K.

| THE BOARD                                                       
 RECOMMENDS                                                      
 SHAREHOLDERS VOTE FOR PROPOSAL 3,                               
 THE RATIFICATION OF THE APPOINTMENT                             
 OF THE COMPANY’S INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM. |

Middlesex Water Company 38 2025 Proxy Statement SECURITY OWNERSHIP AND OTHER MATTERS SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF DIRECTORS, MANAGEMENT AND CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS The following table sets forth as of March 25, 2025, the number of shares of Middlesex common stock beneficially owned by the elected Directors, Executive Officers named in the table appearing under Executive Compensation, and all elected Directors and Executive Officers as a group. All individual elected Directors and Executive Officers owned less than 1.32% of the shares outstanding on March 25, 2025.

| Name                                                                                              |                         Total 
 Shares Beneficially Owned (1) |
| Directors                                                                                         |                               |
| Joshua Bershad, M.D.                                                                              |                        58,757 |
| Dennis W. Doll