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−Removed: During the quarterly period
−Removed: ended September 30, 2025, none of our directors or officers (as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) promulgated under the Exchange Act) adopted or terminated any
−Removed: “Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” or any “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement,” as each term is defined in Item
−Removed: 408 of Regulation S-K.
−Removed: On November 11, 2025, Andrew
−Removed: Crescenzo, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, notified the Company of his intent to retire from his positions as Chief Financial
−Removed: Officer, effective December 31, 2025.
−Removed: The Board of Directors has
−Removed: commenced a process to identify and appoint a successor to serve as the Company’s next Chief Financial Officer.
−Removed: In connection with
−Removed: this transition, management, in consultation with the Board, is evaluating qualified candidates to ensure an orderly and effective succession.
−Removed: Exhibit Number
+Added: the quarterly period ended March 31, 2026, none of our directors or officers (as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) promulgated under the Exchange
+Added: Act) adopted or terminated any “Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” or any “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading
+Added: arrangement,” as each term is defined in Item 408 of Regulation S-K.
+Added: part of its review of our corporate governance policies, on May 8, 2026, the board of directors approved and adopted the Code Of Business
+Added: Conduct And Ethics (the “Code of Ethics”), which governs the conduct of all officers, directors, and employees of the Company
+Added: and its affiliated entities.
+Added: The Code of Ethics was adopted to, among other things, generally update for current governance, ethics,
+Added: and compliance best practices;
+Added: better align various Company policies, including the Code of Ethics, by eliminating certain redundant
+Added: or overlapping provisions and consolidating similar topics in the appropriate policy;
+Added: and make other non-substantive administrative,
+Added: stylistic and typographical changes.
+Added: The description of the Code of Ethics is a summary and is qualified in its entirety by reference
+Added: to the Code of Ethics, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 14.1.
+Added: The Code of Ethics will also be posted on the Company’s
+Added: website at www.sharpstechnology.com/investors/governance-documents .
+Added: May 13, 2026, the Company entered into an employment agreement (the “Danner Employment Agreement”) with Paul Danner, which
+Added: replaces and supersedes in its entirety that certain prior employment agreement, dated August 25, 2025, between the Company and Mr.
+Added: Pursuant to the Employment Agreement, Mr.
+Added: Danner will serve as the Company’s Principal Executive Officer and Executive Chairman
+Added: for a term commencing immediately and continuing until the third anniversary of the Danner Employment Agreement, unless earlier terminated
+Added: in accordance with its terms, and subject to an auto renewal of 1 year.
+Added: For his services, Mr.
+Added: Danner will be paid $600,000 per annum.
+Added: During the course of the employment, Mr.
+Added: Danner will be eligible to earn an annual cash bonus beginning in 2026 based on 1% of the year-over-year
+Added: change in the Company’s market capitalization, subject to a cap of 2.5 times base salary and payable no later than March 15 of
+Added: the following year, subject to continued employment through the payment date (except as otherwise provided).
+Added: Danner will also be
+Added: eligible to receive equity-based compensation awards from time to time, as determined in the sole discretion of the Board or a committee
+Added: The Danner Employment Agreement contains a perpetual confidentiality covenant as well as non-competition and employee and customer
+Added: non-solicitation covenants that apply during the Term and for a period of 18 months following Mr.
+Added: Danner’s termination.
+Added: event the Mr.
+Added: Danner’s employment is terminated by the Company without cause or by Mr.
+Added: Danner for good reason, Mr.
+Added: be entitled to a lump sum severance payment equal to three (3) times Mr.
+Added: Danner’s base salary, subject to Mr.
+Added: Danner’s execution
+Added: and non-revocation of a release of claims;
+Added: provided that, in the event such termination occurs in connection with a change in control
+Added: of the Company, Mr.
+Added: Danner will also be entitled to accelerated vesting of any outstanding equity awards, whereas in the absence of a
+Added: change in control, Mr.
+Added: Danner will not be entitled to any such acceleration.
+Added: May 13, 2026, the Company entered into an employment agreement (the “Zhang Employment Agreement”) with Yuwen Zhang, which
+Added: replaces and supersedes in its entirety that certain prior employment agreement, dated August 25, 2025, between the Company and Ms.
+Added: Pursuant to the Employment Agreement, Ms.
+Added: Zhang will serve as the Company’s Chief Investment Officer and Director for a term commencing
+Added: immediately and continuing until the third anniversary of the Zhang Employment Agreement, unless earlier terminated in accordance with
+Added: its terms, and subject to an auto renewal of 1 year.
+Added: For her services, Ms.
+Added: Zhang will be paid $600,000 per annum.
+Added: During the course of
+Added: the employment, Ms.
+Added: Zhang will be eligible to earn an annual cash bonus beginning in 2026 based on 1% of the year-over-year change in
+Added: the Company’s market capitalization, subject to a cap of 2.5 times base salary and payable no later than March 15 of the following
+Added: year, subject to continued employment through the payment date (except as otherwise provided).
+Added: Zhang will also be eligible to receive
+Added: equity-based compensation awards from time to time, as determined in the sole discretion of the Board or a committee thereof.
+Added: Employment Agreement contains a perpetual confidentiality covenant as well as non-competition and employee and customer non-solicitation
+Added: covenants that apply during the Term and for a period of 2 years following Ms.
+Added: Zhang’s termination.
+Added: In the event the Ms.
+Added: employment is terminated by the Company without cause or by Ms.
+Added: Zhang for good reason, Ms.
+Added: Zhang will be entitled to a lump sum severance
+Added: payment equal to three (3) times Ms.
+Added: Zhang’s base salary, subject to Ms.
+Added: Zhang’s execution and non-revocation of a release
+Added: provided that, in the event such termination occurs in connection with a change in control of the Company, Ms.
+Added: also be entitled to accelerated vesting of any outstanding equity awards, whereas in the absence of a change in control, Ms.
+Added: not be entitled to any such acceleration.
+Added: May 13, 2026, the Board of Directors (the “ Board ”) of Sharps Technology, Inc.
+Added: (the “ Company ”):
+Added: a limited duration stockholder rights plan (the “ Rights Plan ”), the terms
+Added: of which are set forth in a Rights Agreement entered into between the Company and
+Added: VStock Transfer, LLC, as rights agent (the “ Rights Agent ”) dated May 14, 2026;
+Added: to the Rights Plan, authorized and declared a dividend to stockholders of record at the close
+Added: of business on May 26, 2026 (the “ Record Date ”) of one preferred share
+Added: purchase right (each, a “ Right ”) for each outstanding share of the Company’s
+Added: common stock, par value $0.0001 (“ Common Stock ”), held by such stockholders.
+Added: Rights Plan is similar to other rights plans adopted by publicly held companies.
+Added: Generally, under the Rights Plan, the Rights will become
+Added: exercisable only if a person or group (including a group of persons acting in concert with each other) acquires beneficial ownership
+Added: of 15% or more of the Company’s Common Stock in a transaction not approved by the Company’s Board of Directors.
+Added: situation, each holder of a Right (other than the acquiring person or group, whose Rights will become void and will not be exercisable)
+Added: will have the right to purchase, upon payment of the exercise price of $10.00 per Right (both the exercise price and the number of shares
+Added: for which a Right is exercisable being subject to adjustment from time to time as set forth in the Rights Plan) and in accordance with
+Added: the terms of the Rights Plan, a number of shares of the Company’s common stock having a market value of twice such price.
+Added: if the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination after an acquiring person acquires 15% or more of the Company’s
+Added: common stock, each holder of a Right would thereafter have the right to purchase, upon payment of the then-current exercise price and
+Added: in accordance with the terms of the Rights Plan, a number of shares of common stock of the acquiring person having a market value of
+Added: twice such price.
+Added: The acquiring person or group will not be entitled to exercise Rights.
+Added: Generally, the Rights Plan works by imposing
+Added: a significant penalty upon any person or group (including a group of persons acting in concert with each other) that acquires 15% or
+Added: more of the Company’s Common Stock without the approval of the Board.
+Added: As a result, the overall effect of the Rights Plan and the
+Added: dividend of the Rights may be to render more difficult, or discourage, a tender or exchange offer or other acquisition of the Company’s
+Added: Common Stock that is not approved by the Board.
+Added: The Rights Plan does not prevent the Board from considering any offer that it considers
+Added: to be in the best interests of the Company’s stockholders.
+Added: following is a summary of the terms of the Rights Plan.
+Added: This summary is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of
+Added: the Rights Plan, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit 4.1 to this Form 10-Q and incorporated herein by reference.
+Added: Capitalized terms
+Added: used but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Rights Plan.
+Added: and Transfer of Rights
+Added: Board has declared a dividend of one Right for each outstanding share of Common Stock.
+Added: Prior to the Distribution Date (as defined below):
+Added: Rights will be evidenced by and trade with the certificates for the associated shares of
+Added: Common Stock (or, with respect to any uncertificated Common Stock registered in book-entry
+Added: form, by notation in book-entry form), and no separate right certificates will be distributed;
+Added: certificates for shares of Common Stock issued after the Record Date but prior to the earliest
+Added: of the Distribution Date, the redemption or exchange of the rights (as described below) and
+Added: the Expiration Date (as defined below) or, in certain circumstances as stated in the Rights
+Added: Plan, after the Distribution Date, will contain a legend incorporating the Rights Plan by
+Added: reference (or, with respect to any uncertificated Common Stock registered in book-entry form,
+Added: this legend will be contained in a notation in book-entry form);
+Added: the earliest of the Distribution Date, the redemption of the Rights and the Expiration Date,
+Added: the surrender for transfer of any certificates for shares of Common Stock (or the surrender
+Added: for transfer of any uncertificated shares of Common Stock registered in book-entry form)
+Added: will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with such Common Stock.
+Added: to the terms of the Rights Plan, the Rights will separate from the Common Stock and become exercisable following the earlier of (i) the
+Added: tenth business day after the Stock Acquisition Date (as defined below) and (ii) the tenth business day (or such later date as may be
+Added: determined by action of the Board prior to such time as any person becomes an Acquiring Person (as defined below)) after the date of
+Added: the commencement by any person (other than an Exempt Person (as defined below)) of, or of the first public announcement of the intention
+Added: of any such person to commence, a tender or exchange offer the consummation of which would result in any such person having beneficial
+Added: ownership of 15% or more of the Common Stock outstanding or becoming an Acquiring Person (the earlier of such dates being herein referred
+Added: to as the “ Distribution Date ”);
+Added: provided, however, that the Distribution Date shall in no event be prior to the Record
+Added: After the Distribution Date, the Company will promptly cause right certificates to be mailed (or, with respect to any uncertificated
+Added: Common Stock registered in book-entry form, cause book-entry notations to be made evidencing the distribution of Rights) to the Company’s
+Added: stockholders and the Rights will become transferable apart from the Common Stock.
+Added: Acquisition Date
+Added: Stock Acquisition Date shall be the first date of public announcement by the Company or an Acquiring Person that an Acquiring Person
+Added: has become such, or such earlier date as a majority of the Board shall become aware of the existence of an Acquiring Person.
+Added: Person, Exempt Person, Grandfathered Person
+Added: to the terms of the Rights Plan:
+Added: Acquiring Person is any person who or which shall be the beneficial owner of 15% or more
+Added: of the Common Stock then outstanding, but shall not include an Exempt Person or a Grandfathered
+Added: Persons include the Company and any subsidiary of the Company, any employee benefit plan
+Added: of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company and any entity or trustee holding (or acting
+Added: in a fiduciary capacity in respect of) Common Stock for or pursuant to the terms of any such
+Added: Grandfathered Person is any person who or which, together with all affiliates and associates
+Added: of such person, at the time of the first public announcement of the Rights Plan, is a beneficial
+Added: owner of 15% or more of the Common Stock then outstanding.
+Added: to the terms of the Rights Plan, if a person becomes an Acquiring Person, then each Right will entitle the holder thereof to purchase,
+Added: upon payment of the Purchase Price, adjusted in accordance with the terms of the Rights Plan, such number of shares of Common Stock as
+Added: shall equal the result obtained by dividing the Purchase Price (as so adjusted) by 50% of the current market price per share of the Common
+Added: from and after any such Flip-In Event, any Rights that are beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person (or any affiliate, associate or
+Added: transferee of an Acquiring Person, including as a result of a transfer which the Board has determined is part of a plan, arrangement
+Added: or understanding to avoid the provisions of the Rights Plan) shall be void and any holder of such Rights shall thereafter have no rights
+Added: whatsoever with respect to such Rights.
+Added: Rights will be redeemable at the Board’s sole discretion for $0.0001 per Right (payable in cash, Common Stock or other consideration
+Added: deemed appropriate by the Board) at any time prior to a Flip-In Event and up to five Business Days after a Flip-In Event.
+Added: upon the action of the Board ordering redemption, the Rights will terminate and the only rights of the holders of the Rights will be
+Added: to receive the $0.0001 redemption price.
+Added: The redemption price will be adjusted if the Company undertakes a stock dividend, a stock split
+Added: or similar transaction.
+Added: any time after a Flip-In Event, the Board may exchange the Rights, in whole or in part, for Common Stock at an exchange ratio (subject
+Added: to adjustment) of one share of Common Stock per Right.
+Added: Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board shall not be empowered to effect such
+Added: exchange at any time after an Acquiring Person shall have become the beneficial owner of 50% or more of the Common Stock then outstanding.
+Added: Rights shall expire at the earliest of (i) May 12, 2027, (ii) the redemption or exchange of the Rights and (iii) the closing of a merger
+Added: or other acquisition involving the Company as further described in the Rights Plan.
+Added: of Terms of Rights Plan and Rights
+Added: terms of the Rights Plan and the Rights may be amended by action of the Board in any respect without the consent of the holders of the
+Added: Rights for so long as the Rights are redeemable.
+Added: Thereafter, the terms of the Rights Plan and the Rights may be amended by action of
+Added: the Board without the consent of the holders of Rights, provided that no such amendment may (a) adversely affect the interests of the
+Added: holders of Rights (other than an Acquiring Person or an affiliate or associate of an Acquiring Person) or cause the Rights again to become
+Added: a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation,
+Added: the right to vote or to receive dividends.
+Added: Anti-Takeover Effects
+Added: Rights are not intended to prevent a takeover of the Company and should not interfere with any merger or other business combination approved
+Added: by the Board.
+Added: However, the Rights may cause substantial dilution to a person or group that acquires beneficial ownership of 15% or more
+Added: of the outstanding Common Stock.
+Added: Share Provisions
+Added: one one-thousandth of a share of Series C Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company (the “Series C Preferred
+Added: Shares”), if issued, will, among other things:
+Added: holders thereof to 1,000 votes on all matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders of
+Added: the Company, subject to adjustment;
+Added: event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company,
+Added: the holders of the Series C Preferred Shares shall be entitled to receive an amount per share,
+Added: subject to the provision for adjustment, equal to 1,000 times the aggregate amount to be
+Added: distributed per share to holders of Common Stock;
+Added: than as provided for in the Rights Agreement, the Series C Preferred Shares shall not be
+Added: Series C Preferred Share shall be junior to all other series of preferred stock as to the
+Added: payment of dividends and the distribution of assets unless the terms of any series shall
+Added: provide otherwise;
+Added: value of one one-thousandth interest in a Preferred Share should approximate the value of one share of Common Stock.
+Added: Certificate of Designation, Preferences, and Rights of Series C Preferred Stock, dated May 14, 2026.
+Added: Rights Plan, dated as of May 14, 2026, by and between Sharps Technology, Inc.
+Added: and VStock Transfer LLC, as rights agent.
+Added: Form of Rights Certificate (included as an exhibit to Exhibit 4.1).
+Added: Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated May 13, 2026, by and between Company and Paul K.
+Added: Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated May 13, 2026, by and between Company and Alice Zhang
+Added: Code of Ethics
Certification of Chief Executive Officers (Principal Executive Officer) Pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
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Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
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−Removed: Filed herewith.
−Removed: Furnished herewith.
−Removed: Indicates management contract or compensatory plan.
−Removed: Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
−Removed: Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto
−Removed: duly authorized, on this 14th day of November 2025.
−Removed: SHARPS TECHNOLOGY, INC.
−Removed: November 14, 2025
−Removed: Executive Chairman and Principal Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
−Removed: November 14, 2025
−Removed: /s/ Andrew R.
−Removed: Chief Financial Officer
+Added: Summary of Rights to Purchase Preferred Shares of Sharps Technology, Inc.
+Added: (included as an exhibit to Exhibit 4.1).
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+Added: management contract or compensatory plan.
+Added: to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its
+Added: behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized, on the 14th day of May 2025.
+Added: TECHNOLOGY, INC.
+Added: Chairman and Principal Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
Principal Financial Officer)
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