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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001304280-25-000056"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001304280"
company_name: "Novelis Inc."
filed_at: "2025-12-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:20:21.155544+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Novelis selects EY as new auditor; PwC dismissed after FY 2027 audit

## Summary
- Audit Committee approved Ernst & Young as independent auditor for FY ending March 31, 2028.
- Current auditor PwC dismissed effective after completing FY 2027 audit; no disagreements or reportable events.
- Change driven by mandatory audit firm rotation requirements in India (Hindalco indirect parent).
- PwC provided letter agreeing with disclosures, attached as Exhibit 16.1.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001304280-25-000056
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001304280
- company_name: Novelis Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-12-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1304280/000130428025000056/0001304280-25-000056-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1304280/000130428025000056/nvl-20251208.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001304280-25-000056.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 07b522618026a88c82635a65074998a24e7185e7
  claim: Novelis Inc. dismissed PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as its auditor.
  evidence_excerpt: The Company’s current independent registered public accounting firm, PwC, was notified on December 8, 2025 that it was dismissed as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm effective following the completion of PwC’s audit of the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2027, and the filing of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for that fiscal year.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1304280/000130428025000056/0001304280-25-000056-index.htm
- claim_id: 751fa23995ed192e86244c447a73b2741e70f92f
  claim: Novelis Inc. engaged Ernst & Young LLP as its auditor.
  evidence_excerpt: On December 8, 2025, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors (the “Audit Committee”) of Novelis Inc. (the “Company”) approved the selection of Ernst & Young LLP (“EY”) to serve as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2028, subject to the completion of EY standard client acceptance and independence procedures and execution of an engagement letter, and effective following the completion of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP’s (“PwC”) audit of the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2027, and the filing of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for that fiscal year.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1304280/000130428025000056/0001304280-25-000056-index.htm

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