BARNWELL INDUSTRIES INC

On March 26, 2025, the Company commenced a lawsuit against the Sherwood Group in the Delaware Chancery Court, seeking, among other remedies, declaratory judgment that the Sherwood Group’s purported notice to nominate certain individuals for election to the Company’s board of directors at the 2025 Annual Meeting of stockholders was invalid and injunctive relief to enjoin the Sherwood Group from presenting its slate of nominees at the 2025 Annual Meeting due to the failure of the Sherwood Group to comply with the advance notice provisions of the Company’s Bylaws.

On April 21, 2025, the Sherwood Group filed an answer to the Company’s complaint, counterclaims against the Company and a third-party complaint against Alexander Kinzler, Kenneth Grossman and Joshua Horowitz in the Delaware Chancery Court, seeking, amongst other things, dismissal of all claims brought by the Company against the Sherwood Group, declaratory judgment that the Company’s directors breached their fiduciary duties, and injunctive relief to enjoin the Company from (i) applying the Company’s Bylaws to prevent the Sherwood Group from nominating its slate of nominees set forth in the defective Sherwood nomination notice for election at the 2025 Annual Meeting and (ii) filing or distributing further proxy solicitation materials for the 2025 Annual Meeting until the Delaware Chancery Court issued a ruling determining whether the Sherwood Group complied with the advance notice provisions of the Company’s Bylaws.

After a trial, on May 21, 2025, the Delaware Chancery Court ruled in favor of the Company and the Board of Directors, and held that the defective Sherwood nomination notice was invalid and the Board properly applied the Bylaws in response to the defective Sherwood nomination notice and found that Mr. Kinzler, Mr. Grossman and Mr. Horowitz did not breach their fiduciary duties. The Sherwood Group chose not to appeal the Court’s decision. Accordingly, the Board did not permit the Sherwood nominees to be presented for election at the 2025 Annual Meeting, which was held in September 2025.