Company: GROVW
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-020642
Chunk: 36

Company: Grove Collaborative Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 36
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, presentation and integrity of the Company’s financial statements, the application of accounting and financial reporting principles and its internal controls and procedures designed to assure compliance with accounting standards and applicable laws and regulations. The independent registered public accounting firm is responsible for auditing the Company’s financial statements and expressing an opinion as to their conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.

In the performance of its oversight function, the Audit Committee reviewed and discussed with management and Moss Adams, as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, the Company’s audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024. The Audit Committee also discussed with the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm the matters required to be discussed by applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the “PCAOB”) and the SEC. In addition, the Audit Committee received and reviewed the written disclosures and the letters from the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm required by applicable requirements of the PCAOB, regarding such independent registered public accounting firm’s communications with the Audit Committee concerning independence and discussed with the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm their independence from the Company.

Based upon the review and discussions described in the preceding paragraph, the Audit Committee recommended to the Board that the Company’s audited financial statements be included in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.

Submitted by the Audit Committee of Grove’s Board of Directors:

Rayhan Arif (former member of the Audit Committee)

Larry Cheng (former member of the Audit Committee)

David Glazer

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CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PERSON TRANSACTIONS

Certain Relationships and Related Person Transactions — Company

Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement

In connection with the consummation of the Business Combination, the Company, Virgin Group Acquisition Sponsor II LLC (the “Sponsor”), and certain other stockholders of the Company (collectively, the “Registration Rights Agreement Parties”) entered into the Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, which became effective upon the consummation of the Business Combination (the “Registration Rights Agreement”). In accordance with the Registration Rights Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement Parties and their permitted transferees are entitled to, among other things, customary registration rights, including demand, piggy-back and shelf registration rights. The Registration Rights Agreement also provides that the Company will pay certain expenses relating to such registrations and indemnify the registration rights holders against (or make contributions in respect of) certain liabilities which may