---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-123142"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DTI"
cik: "0001884516"
company_name: "Drilling Tools International Corp"
filed_at: "2025-05-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T00:31:10.558834+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Drilling Tools International replaces auditor Weaver with Grant Thornton for FY2025

## Summary
- Audit Committee dismissed Weaver and Tidwell as independent auditor on May 15, 2025.
- Appointed Grant Thornton LLP as new auditor for fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.
- Weaver's reports on FY2024 and FY2023 financials were unqualified; no disagreements or reportable events.
- Company confirmed no prior consultations with Grant Thornton on accounting or audit matters.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-123142
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DTI
- cik: 0001884516
- company_name: Drilling Tools International Corp
- filed_at: 2025-05-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1884516/000119312525123142/0001193125-25-123142-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1884516/000119312525123142/d32306d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Drilling Tools International Corp dismissed Weaver and Tidwell, L.L.P. as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: Weaver and Tidwell, L.L.P.
  - Successor: Grant Thornton LLP
  source text: the Committee approved the dismissal of Weaver and Tidwell, L.L.P. ("Weaver") as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1884516/000119312525123142/0001193125-25-123142-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  Drilling Tools International Corp engaged Grant Thornton LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: Grant Thornton LLP
  source text: the Committee approved the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP ("Grant Thornton") as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1884516/000119312525123142/0001193125-25-123142-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.