{"url_path":"/sec/winv/8-k/2026-06-29/item-4-01","section_key":"item-4-01","section_title":"Item 4.01 Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant**","topic":"sec","document":{"doc_type":"8-K","doc_date":"2026-06-29","source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854463/0001493152-26-031048-index.html","accession_number":"0001493152-26-031048","cik":"0001854463","ticker":"WINV","issuer_name":"WinVest Acquisition Corp.","edgar_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854463/0001493152-26-031048-index.html","primary_entity_key":"0001854463","primary_entity_name":"WinVest Acquisition Corp."},"word_count":486,"has_tables":true,"body_markdown":"**Item\n4.01 Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant**\n\n \n\nWinVest\nAcquisition Corp. (the “Company”) was notified that Simon & Edward LLP (“S&E”) acquired, effective as\nof June 15, 2026, attest business of BCRG Group (“BCRG”). On June 23, 2026, the Audit Committee of the Company’s Board\nof Directors simultaneously dismissed BCRG as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm and approved the appointment\nof S&E as the Company’s new independent registered public accounting firm. The services previously provided by BCRG will now\nbe provided by S&E.\n\n \n\nBCRG’s\naudit report on the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 contained\nno adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion and was not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope, or accounting principles,\nexcept that the report on the consolidated financial statements of the Company for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024\nincluded an explanatory paragraph indicating that there was substantial doubt as to the Company’s ability to continue as a going\nconcern.\n\n \n\nDuring\nthe fiscal years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 and the subsequent interim period through the date of this Current Report on Form 8-K,\nthere were (a) no disagreements (as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K and the related instructions) between the Company\nand BCRG on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedures, which\ndisagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of BCRG, would have caused BCRG to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreements\nin connection with BCRG’s reports on the Company’s financial statements, and (b) no “reportable events” (as defined\nin Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K and the related instructions), except for the material weaknesses in the Company’s internal\ncontrol over financial reporting previously disclosed under Part II, Item 9A of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the\nyear ended December 31, 2025.\n\n \n\nPrior\nto engaging S&E, neither the Company nor anyone acting on its behalf consulted S&E regarding (i) the application of accounting\nprinciples to a specified transaction, either completed or proposed, or the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on the Company’s\nfinancial statements, and no written report was provided to the Company or oral advice was provided that S&E concluded was an important\nfactor considered by the Company in reaching a decision as to the accounting, auditing or financial reporting issue, or (ii) any matter\nthat was either the subject of a disagreement (as described in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K and the related instructions) or\na reportable event (as described in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K and the related instructions).\n\n \n\nThe\nCompany has requested that BCRG furnish it with a letter addressed to the SEC stating whether or not it agrees with the above statements.\nA copy of such letter, dated June 23, 2026, is filed as Exhibit 16.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K."}