Envoy Medical, Inc.

ITEM 1. Legal Proceedings

From time to time, we may be involved in various claims and legal actions in the ordinary course of business. Except as described below, we are not currently involved in any material legal proceedings outside the ordinary course of our business.

On November 14, 2023, the Company, Whitney Haring-Smith (the former chief executive officer and a former director of the Company), Daniel Hirsch (the former chief financial officer of the Company), and Anzu SPAC GP I LLC were named as defendants in a complaint filed by Atlas Merchant Capital SPAC Fund I LP (“Atlas”) in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Atlas alleges that it was not allowed to redeem its shares of the Anzu class A common stock and that defendants acted to prevent Atlas’s attempt to redeem its shares. Defendants assert that Atlas did not comply with the requirements for redeeming shares set forth in the Company’s organizational documents. Atlas asserts damages in the amount of approximately $9.4 million, pre- and post-judgment interest, costs, and reasonable attorneys’ fees. The Company has standard indemnification obligations to Dr. Haring-Smith and Mr. Hirsch. The Company believes that the lawsuit is meritless and has been defending this matter vigorously. The Company believes that the lawsuit is meritless and has been defending this matter vigorously. On March 3, 2025, the court partially granted a motion to dismiss which dismissed and reduced some of the counts and allegations in the amended complaint, which narrowed the theories and facts at issue in this litigation. The Company is unable to predict the outcome of this legal proceeding.