---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000715072-25-000226"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RNST"
cik: "0000715072"
company_name: "RENASANT CORP"
filed_at: "2025-11-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T00:59:24.545705+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Renasant Corp auditor HORNE LLP joins BDO USA; BDO appointed as new auditor

## Summary
- HORNE LLP resigned effective Nov 1, 2025; Audit Committee engaged BDO USA, P.C. same day.
- No adverse opinions or disagreements on accounting principles over fiscal 2023 and 2024.
- No reportable events under Reg S-K Item 304 during the interim period or prior fiscal years.
- HORNE provided a letter to the SEC agreeing with the company's statements, filed as Exhibit 16.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000715072-25-000226
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RNST
- cik: 0000715072
- company_name: RENASANT CORP
- filed_at: 2025-11-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/715072/000071507225000226/0000715072-25-000226-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/715072/000071507225000226/rnst-20251101.htm

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## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 0051c2c21f9b0228ec20512b6a701da46a657bcf
  claim: HORNE LLP resigned as auditor of RENASANT CORP.
  evidence_excerpt: On November 1, 2025, Renasant Corporation (the “Company”) was formally notified that the partners and professional staff of HORNE LLP (“HORNE”), the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, joined BDO USA, P.C. (“BDO”) effective as of November 1, 2025. On the same day, following the resignation of HORNE, the Company, through and with the approval of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company, engaged BDO as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/715072/000071507225000226/0000715072-25-000226-index.htm
- claim_id: b3b1871d2208a590d0ecd4145ae4f092750b0b8a
  claim: RENASANT CORP engaged BDO USA, P.C. as its auditor.
  evidence_excerpt: On November 1, 2025, Renasant Corporation (the “Company”) was formally notified that the partners and professional staff of HORNE LLP (“HORNE”), the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, joined BDO USA, P.C. (“BDO”) effective as of November 1, 2025. On the same day, following the resignation of HORNE, the Company, through and with the approval of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company, engaged BDO as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm. The reports of HORNE on the consolidated financial statements of the Company for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, did not contain any adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles. During the Company’s fiscal years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the interim period through November 1
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/715072/000071507225000226/0000715072-25-000226-index.htm

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