---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001408534-25-000048"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FGBI"
cik: "0001408534"
company_name: "First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T02:39:49.660874+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Guaranty Bancshares replaces auditor GDHL with EisnerAmper

## Summary
- Audit firm Griffith Delaney Hillman & Lett resigned on June 13, 2025; Audit Committee accepted.
- No disagreements or reportable events occurred during fiscal years 2024, 2023, or interim period.
- New independent auditor EisnerAmper LLP engaged for year ending December 31, 2025, effective June 13, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001408534-25-000048
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FGBI
- cik: 0001408534
- company_name: First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408534/000140853425000048/0001408534-25-000048-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408534/000140853425000048/fgbi-20250613.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001408534-25-000048
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001408534-25-000048.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Griffith, Delaney, Hillman & Lett, CPAs, PSC resigned as auditor of First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc..
  - Action: resignation
  - Auditor: Griffith, Delaney, Hillman & Lett, CPAs, PSC
  source text: On June 13, 2025, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors (the “Audit Committee”) of First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. (“First Guaranty”) was informed by Griffith, Delaney, Hillman & Lett, CPAs, PSC (“GDHL”) of GDHL’s resignation as First Guaranty’s independent registered public accounting firm.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408534/000140853425000048/0001408534-25-000048-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. engaged EisnerAmper, LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: EisnerAmper, LLP
  source text: On June 13, 2025, the Audit Committee engaged EisnerAmper, LLP as First Guaranty’s new independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2025, effective June 13,2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408534/000140853425000048/0001408534-25-000048-index.htm

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