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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-038442"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ADIL"
cik: "0001513525"
company_name: "ADIAL PHARMACEUTICALS, INC."
filed_at: "2025-05-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T00:18:25.083242+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Adial Pharmaceuticals replaces auditor Marcum with CBIZ CPAs effective April 28, 2025

## Summary
- Marcum resigned as independent auditor; CBIZ CPAs engaged for FY 2025, effective immediately.
- Marcum's reports for FY 2024 and 2023 included a going-concern explanatory paragraph but no adverse opinion.
- No disagreements with Marcum; previously reported material weaknesses in internal controls continue.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-038442
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ADIL
- cik: 0001513525
- company_name: ADIAL PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-05-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1513525/000121390025038442/0001213900-25-038442-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1513525/000121390025038442/ea0240327-8k_adial.htm

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## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Marcum LLP resigned as auditor of ADIAL PHARMACEUTICALS, INC..
  - Action: resignation
  - Auditor: Marcum LLP
  source text: On April 28, 2025, Marcum resigned as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, and CBIZ CPAs was engaged to serve as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company for the year ending December 31, 2025, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1513525/000121390025038442/0001213900-25-038442-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  ADIAL PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. engaged CBIZ CPAs P.C. as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: CBIZ CPAs P.C.
  source text: On April 28, 2025, Marcum resigned as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, and CBIZ CPAs was engaged to serve as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company for the year ending December 31, 2025, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1513525/000121390025038442/0001213900-25-038442-index.htm

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