---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001870600-25-000040"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SBDS"
cik: "0001870600"
company_name: "Solo Brands, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T17:29:27.160852+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Solo Brands appoints BDO as new auditor, dismisses EY; cites material weaknesses

## Summary
- Audit committee approved BDO as independent auditor on April 7, 2025; EY dismissed thereafter.
- No disagreements with EY on accounting principles; audit reports for 2023 and 2024 were unqualified.
- Material weaknesses in internal controls reported for fiscal 2023 and 2024 (segregation of duties, IT change management, accounting resources).
- EY letter filed as Exhibit 16.1 agreeing with disclosures in this Form 8-K.
- No pre-engagement consultations with BDO on accounting or auditing matters.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001870600-25-000040
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SBDS
- cik: 0001870600
- company_name: Solo Brands, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-10T23:59:59+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/1870600/000187060025000040/0001870600-25-000040-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1870600/000187060025000040/dtc-20250410.htm

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## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Solo Brands, Inc. dismissed Ernst & Young LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: Ernst & Young LLP
  - Successor: BDO USA, P.C.
  source text: subsequently notified and dismissed Ernst & Young LLP ("EY") as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1870600/000187060025000040/0001870600-25-000040-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  Solo Brands, Inc. engaged BDO USA, P.C. as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: BDO USA, P.C.
  source text: on April 7, 2025, the Committee approved the engagement of BDO USA, P.C. ("BDO") as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1870600/000187060025000040/0001870600-25-000040-index.htm

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