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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-25-027667"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CING"
cik: "0001862150"
company_name: "Cingulate Inc."
filed_at: "2025-12-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:15:33.772365+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CEO Shane Schaffer reinstated after no-contest plea; amended employment agreement modified severance

## Summary
- Shane Schaffer reinstated as CEO Dec 15, 2025, after administrative leave; pled no contest to misdemeanor, received 12 months probation.
- Amended employment agreement: base salary reinstated; 'Cause' definition expanded to include probation violation; board vote reduced to majority.
- Severance modified: lump sum lowered to 1x base+bonus (without cause/good reason) and 1.5x base+bonus (change in control).
- John Roberts ends Executive Chairman role but remains Chairman; Jennifer Callahan continues as CFO.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-25-027667
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CING
- cik: 0001862150
- company_name: Cingulate Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-12-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1862150/000149315225027667/0001493152-25-027667-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1862150/000149315225027667/form8-k.htm

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