Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
Item
9A. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation
of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Disclosure
controls are procedures that are designed with the objective of ensuring that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed
under the Exchange Act, such as this Form 10-K, is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time period specified in
the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls are also designed with the objective of ensuring that such information is accumulated
and communicated to our management, including the chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as appropriate to allow timely
decisions regarding required disclosure. Our management evaluated, with the participation of our current chief executive officer and
vice president of finance (our “Certifying Officers”), the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of
December 31, 2025, pursuant to Rule 13a-15(b) under the Exchange Act. Based upon that evaluation, our Certifying Officers concluded that,
as of December 31, 2025, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.
We
do not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures will prevent all errors and all instances of fraud. Disclosure controls and
procedures, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the
disclosure controls and procedures are met. Further, the design of disclosure controls and procedures must reflect the fact that there
are resource constraints, and the benefits must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all disclosure
controls and procedures, no evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures can provide absolute assurance that we have detected all
our control deficiencies and instances of fraud, if any. The design of disclosure controls and procedures also is based partly on certain
assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated
goals under all potential future conditions.
Management’s
Report on Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting
This
Annual Report on Form 10-K does not include a report of management’s assessment regarding internal control over financial reporting
or an attestation report of our independent registered public accounting firm due to a transition period established by rules of the
SEC for newly public companies.
Changes
in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There
were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) of the Exchange
Act) during the most recent fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal
control over financial reporting.
Item
9B. Other Information
None .
Item
9C. Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections
Not
applicable.
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III
Item
10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance.
Directors
and Executive Officers
Our
officers and directors are as follows:
Name
Age
Position
Richard
H. Haywood, Jr.
63
Chief
Executive Officer
Anthony
DeLuca
63
Chief
Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
Mohsen
Fahmi
69
Chairman
David
W. Abbott
53
Director
James
Abbott
57
Director
Michael
J. Giarla
56
Director
Deborah
Kuenstner
67
Director
Patrick
Pagni
75
Director
Richard
H. Haywood, Jr. has been our Chief Executive Officer since April 2025. Mr. Haywood brings over 30 years of global investment
banking and private equity experience from some of the world’s largest financial institutions. Since 2010, Mr. Haywood has served
as a co-owner and managing director of Cambridge International Partners LLC, a Stamford, Connecticut-based investment banking firm focused
on providing mergers and acquisitions advisory services to the asset and wealth management industries. In this capacity, Mr. Haywood
has originated and executed numerous mergers and acquisitions assignments for both asset and wealth managers. Prior to Cambridge, from
2004 to 2007, Mr. Haywood served as executive vice president of Asset Management Finance, a company which invested in asset management
firms using a proprietary revenue sharing structure. In this capacity, Mr. Haywood was responsible for managing the day-to-day operations
of the company and co-leading the origination and deal execution functions, while being a member of the investment committee. Prior to
Asset Management Finance, from 1999 to 2003, Mr. Haywood worked in the investment banking group of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (“Lehman
Brothers”), where he was a Director focused on asset management. Prior to Lehman Brothers, from 1991 to 1998, Mr. Haywood worked
in the investment banking group of Goldman Sachs, where he was a Vice President focused on asset management. Mr. Haywood holds a Master
of Management degree, with distinction, from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Science and
Business Administration degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Anthony
DeLuca has been our Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer since April 2025. Mr. DeLuca brings over 40 years
of global finance and infrastructure experience in the financial services industry. He began his career in public accounting serving
a wide range of global financial institutions in assurance, audit and advisory roles. From 2006 to 2022, Mr. DeLuca spent 15 years at
Moore, where he was a member of its board and served as chief financial officer. During his time at Moore, he was responsible for various
functions including finance, treasury, accounting, operations, technology and facilities. Mr. DeLuca was instrumental in helping Moore
successfully navigate the financial crisis and the company’s subsequent registration with global regulators. He also was Moore’s
representative at the Managed Funds Association where he served two terms on its board and executive committee. Prior to joining Moore
in 2006, Mr. DeLuca spent eight years at Morgan Stanley. His career with Morgan Stanley began as the chief financial officer of its investment
management business where he was responsible for the post-merger integration of several asset management companies as a result of Morgan
Stanley’s acquisition of Van Kampen and Miller Anderson along with its subsequent merger with Dean Witter. The resulting merger
and acquisitions took the business from $35 billion in assets under management to over $400 billion in assets under management in a short
period of time. Mr. DeLuca was then asked to take the position of Global Audit Director to restructure the department to assist Morgan
Stanley’s board and management committee with the changing regulatory and control environment following the adoption of Sarbanes-Oxley.
During his over three years as Global Audit Director, he restructured processes and procedures while reconstituting the global staff
from 120 to over 300 employees in ten global cities. While at Morgan Stanley, Mr. DeLuca was a member of the board of directors of various
funds and partnerships. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. DeLuca was a partner in the financial services practice of Ernst and Young.
While at Ernst and Young, he served multinational clients including investment management firms (alternatives, mutual funds, fund of
funds and partnerships), investment banks, broker dealers, commodities and energy companies on assurance and advisory engagements. Mr.
DeLuca has conducted extensive risk management and trading reviews of international investment and commodities companies. He has also
managed and led M&A due diligence engagements for investment funds involved in venture capital, private equity, real estate, energy
and energy derivatives businesses. Mr. DeLuca served as a director for the DTCC/Deriv Serv, DTCC Data Repository (U.S) LLC and DTCC Derivatives
Repository Ltd business which were formed to address the needs of the financial industry due to regulatory changes following the 2008
financial crisis.
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Mohsen
Fahmi has been our Chairman since April 2025. Mr. Fahmi brings over 40 years of global finance experience in both developing
and developed economies. Throughout his career, he amassed significant experience in both the U.S. and Europe. His experience was with
some of the oldest, largest and most respected financial institutions in the world including the World Bank, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs,
Salomon Brothers, Tokai Bank of Europe, Moore, Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) and Sarawak Sovereign Wealth Future Fund.
Mr.
Fahmi has served as a guardian of the board of Sarawak Sovereign Wealth Future Fund since October 2023. From January 2022 to the end
of 2023, Mr. Fahmi was advisor to PIMCO after being, from 2014 to 2021, a managing director of PIMCO and member of its investment committee,
a committee that sets investment views and parameters for the firm’s close to $2 trillion in assets under management. He was also
responsible for the firm’s entire enhanced equity business which is a business representing more than $30 billion of assets. Prior
to joining PIMCO in 2014, Mr. Fahmi spent 11 years at Moore. His career at Moore started in London and moved to New York. In addition
to being a senior macro portfolio manager, Mr. Fahmi also spent 3 years as the firm’s first ever global chief operating officer
responsible for global risk management, trade execution and technology. During his tenure at Moore, Mr. Fahmi also served as a member
of the board of directors of E*Trade, a leading online brokerage and asset management firm with over $50 billion in assets, from July
2013 to August 2014. Prior to joining Moore, Mr. Fahmi held several senior roles in proprietary trading, portfolio management and asset
management with Tokai Bank of Europe, Salomon Brothers Asset Management, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, and the World Bank Group (working
for the International Finance Corporation as well as the World Bank). Mr. Fahmi is currently retired although he is a founding board
member of the RAIN Foundation (Guernsey), an innovative and disruptive decentralized finance and digital token venture. Additionally,
he is an active investor in venture capital including in FinTech. Mr. Fahmi holds a Master’s degree in civil engineering from the
Ohio State University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
We
believe Mr. Fahmi is qualified to serve on our board of directors due, among other things, to his extensive financial background and
investment experience in both the U.S. and European markets.
David
W. Abbott has served on our board of directors since July 2025. Mr. Abbott brings over 30 years of investment banking and
private equity experience focused on the investment management sector. From 2009 to present, Mr. Abbott has served as co-owner and managing
director, and since 2018, as president, of Cambridge International Partners LLC, a specialist M&A advisor headquartered in Stamford,
CT with a focus on the asset and wealth management industries. Mr. Abbott has originated and executed numerous M&A assignments for
both asset and wealth managers. Prior to Cambridge International Partners, from 2005 to 2007, Mr. Abbott served as senior vice president
of Asset Management Finance, a company backed by Pacific Life, National Bank of Canada and Tokio Marine, which invested in asset and
wealth management firms using a proprietary revenue sharing structure. In this capacity, Mr. Abbott was co-lead of the origination and
deal execution functions. Mr. Abbott joined Asset Management Finance from Cambridge International Partners where he had been vice president
from 2001 through 2004. Prior to joining Cambridge International Partners in 2001, Mr. Abbott worked in the Financial Institutions Group
in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and at Berkshire Global Advisors. Mr. Abbott holds a Master of Business Administration degree
from the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Purdue University
Krannert School of Management.
We
believe Mr. Abbott is qualified to serve on our board of directors due, among other things, to his extensive investment experience and
leadership experience.
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James Abbott has served on
our board of directors since July 2025. Mr. Abbott brings more than 20 years of asset management and wealth management experience. Mr.
Abbott has established growth platforms for a range of investment management entrepreneurs, businesses, and client-types, currently serving
as Chief Investment Officer at City of London Investment Group, and previously serving as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Matthews
Asia since June 2022, and prior to that, as President and Chairman of Carillon Tower Advisers from January 2003 to June 2022. His experience
includes public and private markets, organic and acquisition-led growth, institutional and wealth channels, with a focus on scale, global
reach, and client outcomes. Mr. Abbott has served as President on US mutual fund Boards including Carillon Funds and Matthews Asia Funds,
and as a board member on Luxembourg UCITS, active ETF, and a range of private company boards. Mr. Abbott is a CFA charterholder, a Chartered
Alternative Investments Analyst, and is a Certified Fraud Examiner.
We
believe Mr. Abbott is qualified to serve on our board of directors due, among other things, to his extensive investment experience and
leadership experience.
Michael
J. Giarla has served on our board of directors since July 2025. Mr. Giarla brings over 40 years of experience in financial
services, including leading an institutional investment management firm and holding governance roles on the boards of asset management,
investment banking, commercial banking, venture banking and financial technology organizations. He also serves on the investment committees
of several endowments and foundations. Mr. Giarla is chair of the Board of ConnexMarkets, Inc., a financial technology firm he co-founded
in early 2021. In 2019 and 2020 he served as chair of the board of New World Financial Holdings, a holding company with majority control
of a registered investment advisor, an investment bank, and a broker/dealer. He continues to serve the registered investment advisor
(New World Advisors) as a member of the of its advisory board. Mr. Giarla held several leadership positions (including chair of the board
and chief executive officer) with Smith Breeden Associates during his 30-year career with the firm. He engineered the firm’s sale
to (and integration with) Amundi Asset Management in 2013 and retired from the organization at the end of 2015. Mr. Giarla plays an active
volunteer role on the boards and investment committees of several non-profit organizations including the Center for Community Self Help
(Durham, North Carolina), the Roxbury Latin School (Boston, Massachusetts), the Burroughs Welcome Fund (Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina), the Hill Center (Durham, North Carolina), the Core Knowledge Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia), Durham Academy (Durham,
North Carolina), and Book Harvest, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina). Mr. Giarla holds a Master of Business Administration (1985) with a
Concentration in Finance from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He earned a
Bachelor of Arts in Statistics, summa cum laude, from Harvard University (1981), where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was a Harvard
Club of Boston Scholar.
We
believe Mr. Giarla is qualified to serve on our board of directors due, among other things, to his extensive investment experience and
board leadership experience.
Deborah
Kuenstner has served on our board of directors since July 2025. Ms. Kuenstner brings over 40 years of investment management
experience from large investment firms and asset owners. From 2009 to present, Ms. Kuenstner has served as the chief investment officer
of Wellesley College where she oversees the investment of the College’s $3 billion endowment across multiple asset classes and
geographies. Prior to Wellesley, from 2007 to 2009, Ms. Kuenstner was the first chief investment officer at Brandeis University. From
2005 to 2006, Ms. Kuenstner was managing director of Research at Fidelity Investments. Prior to Fidelity, Ms. Kuenstner spent eight years
at Putnam Investments where she progressed from senior portfolio manager to chief investment officer of the firm’s Value group
and eight years at DuPont where she managed the international equity portfolio for the firm’s pension fund. Ms. Kuenstner served
as a director of Boston Private Financial Holdings from 2008 until its sale to Silicon Valley Bank in 2021. She was also a director of
the Presbyterian Board Pension which oversees the denomination’s defined benefit pension plan. Ms. Kuenstner is a graduate of Wellesley
College and New York University’s Stern School of Business.
We
believe Ms. Kuenstner is qualified to serve on our board of directors due, among other things, to her extensive investment experience
and leadership experience.
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Patrick
Pagni has served on our board of directors since July 2025. Throughout a 45-year career in banking and finance, Mr. Pagni
brings more than 20 years of asset management experience from leading companies like Trust Company of the West and Amundi. He is currently
executive chairman of Lexington Global Distribution Partners, since 2018, a company he co-founded to distribute U.S. and European asset
managers in the U.S. offshore market and a partner in Blue Apple NYC, a New York Real Estate Fund. Prior to Lexington, Patrick was senior
regional officer for North America at Amundi Asset Management from 2010 until 2017, where he orchestrated the acquisition of Smith Breeden
and oversaw the integration of Pioneer. He then served as senior advisor to Amundi from 2017 to 2019. Mr. Pagni spent most of his previous
career at Société Générale, first in corporate banking and then in asset management. He was head of the Hong
Kong operations between 1984 and 1988, chief executive officer of SG’s brokerage business in the U.K. from 1988 to 1992 and senior
country head for the U.K. between 1992 and 1998 when he orchestrated the acquisition of Hambros Bank. Upon his return to France in 1999,
he became chief strategic officer of Société Générale’s corporate and investment banking operations,
then joined SGAM. He negotiated the acquisition of Trust Company of the West of which he became executive vice president upon his relocation
to the U.S. in 2001. When SGAM was merged with Credit Agricole Asset Management to create Amundi, he took the position of senior regional
officer for North America at Amundi. Mr Pagni is chairman of the Albertine Foundation, which finances cultural exchanges between France
and the US, of the American Society of the French Order of Merit (ASFOM), which regroups all recipients of the French order of merit
living in the United States, and chairman emeritus of the Paris-Dauphine Foundation, which aims at collecting donations from US taxpayers
for the development of the University of Paris-Dauphine in France. Mr. Pagni holds a Maitrise en Sciences de gestion from the University
of Paris Dauphine and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
We
believe Mr. Pagni is qualified to serve on our board of directors due, among other things, to his extensive investment experience and
board leadership experience.
Our
director, Mr. David W. Abbott, is not related to Mr. James Abbott or to any of our other officers or directors.
Number
and Terms of Office of Officers and Directors
Our
board of directors consists of seven members and is divided into three classes with only one class of directors being appointed in each
year, and with each class (except for those directors appointed prior to our first annual general meeting) serving a three-year term.
In accordance with Nasdaq corporate governance requirements, we are not required to hold an annual general meeting until one year after
our first fiscal year end following our listing on Nasdaq. The term of office of the first class of directors, consisting of Deborah
Kuenstner and Patrick Pagni, will expire at our first annual general meeting. The term of office of the second class of directors, consisting
of Michael J. Giarla and James Abbott, will expire at the second annual general meeting. The term of office of the third class of directors,
consisting of David W. Abbott and Mohsen Fahmi, will expire at the third annual general meeting.
Our
officers are appointed by the board of directors and serve at the discretion of the board of directors, rather than for specific terms
of office. Our board of directors is authorized to appoint officers as it deems appropriate pursuant to our amended and restated memorandum
and articles of association.
Director
Independence
The
rules of Nasdaq require that a majority of our board of directors be independent within one year of our Initial Public Offering. An “independent
director” is defined generally as a person who, in the opinion of the Company’s board of directors, has no material relationship
with the listed company (either directly or as a partner, shareholder or officer of an organization that has a relationship with the
Company). Our board of directors has determined that Mohsen Fahmi, James Abbott, Deborah Kuenstner, Patrick Pagni and Michael J. Giarla
are “independent directors” as defined in the Nasdaq listing standards and applicable SEC rules. Our independent directors
will have regularly scheduled meetings at which only independent directors are present.
Committees
of the Board of Directors
Our
board of directors has two standing committees: an audit committee and a compensation committee. Subject to phase-in rules, the rules
of Nasdaq and Rule 10A-3 of the Exchange Act require that the audit committee of a listed company be comprised solely of independent
directors. Each committee operates under a charter that has been approved by our board and has the composition and responsibilities described
below.
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Audit
Committee
We
established an audit committee of the board of directors. James Abbott, Deborah Kuenstner and Michael J. Giarla serve as the members
of our audit committee.
Michael
J. Giarla serves as the chairman of the audit committee. Each member of the audit committee is financially literate and our board of
directors has determined that Michael J. Giarla qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” as defined in applicable
SEC rules.
We
adopted an audit committee charter, which will detail the principal functions of the audit committee, including:
● assisting
board oversight of (1) the integrity of our financial statements, (2) our compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, (3) our
independent registered public accounting firm’s qualifications and independence, and (4) the performance of our internal audit
function and independent registered public accounting firm; the appointment, compensation, retention, replacement, and oversight of the
work of the independent registered public accounting firm and any other independent registered public accounting firm engaged by us;
●
pre-approving
all audit and non-audit services to be provided by the independent registered public accounting firm or any other registered public
accounting firm engaged by us, and establishing pre-approval policies and procedures; reviewing and discussing with the independent
auditors all relationships the auditors have with us in order to evaluate their continued independence;
●
setting
clear policies for audit partner rotation in compliance with applicable laws and regulations; obtaining and reviewing a report, at
least annually, from the independent registered public accounting firm describing (1) the independent registered public accounting
firm’s internal quality-control procedures and (2) any material issues raised by the most recent internal quality-control review,
or peer review, of the audit firm, or by any inquiry or investigation by governmental or professional authorities, within the preceding
five years respecting one or more independent audits carried out by the firm and any steps taken to deal with such issues;
●
meeting
to review and discuss our annual audited financial statements and quarterly financial statements with management and the independent
registered public accounting firm, including reviewing our specific disclosures under “Management’s Discussion and Analysis
of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”; reviewing and approving any related party transaction required to be disclosed
pursuant to Item 404 of Regulation S-K promulgated by the SEC prior to us entering into such transaction; and
●
reviewing
with management, the independent registered public accounting firm, and our legal advisors, as appropriate, any legal, regulatory
or compliance matters, including any correspondence with regulators or government agencies and any employee complaints or published
reports that raise material issues regarding our financial statements or accounting policies and any significant changes in accounting
standards or rules promulgated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the SEC or other regulatory authorities.
Compensation
Committee
We
established a compensation committee of our board of directors. The members of our compensation committee are Mohsen Fahmi, James Abbott
and Patrick Pagni, and Mohsen Fahmi serves as chairman of the compensation committee. We adopted a compensation committee charter, which
details the principal functions of the compensation committee, including:
●
reviewing
and approving on an annual basis the corporate goals and objectives relevant to our chief executive officer’s compensation,
evaluating our chief executive officer’s performance in light of such goals and objectives and determining and approving the
remuneration (if any) of our chief executive officer’s based on such evaluation;
●
reviewing
and making recommendations to our board of directors with respect to the compensation, and any incentive compensation and equity
based plans that are subject to board approval of all of our other officers;
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●
reviewing
our executive compensation policies and plans;
●
implementing
and administering our incentive compensation equity-based remuneration plans;
●
assisting
management in complying with our proxy statement and annual report disclosure requirements;
●
approving
all special perquisites, special cash payments and other special compensation and benefit arrangements for our executive officers
and employees;
●
producing
a report on executive compensation to be included in our annual proxy statement; and
●
reviewing,
evaluating and recommending changes, if appropriate, to the remuneration for directors.
The
charter also provides that the compensation committee may, in its sole discretion, retain or obtain the advice of a compensation consultant,
legal counsel or other adviser and will be directly responsible for the appointment, compensation and oversight of the work of any such
adviser. However, before engaging or receiving advice from a compensation consultant, external legal counsel or any other adviser, the
compensation committee will consider the independence of each such adviser, including the factors required by Nasdaq and the SEC.
Director
Nominations
We
do not have a standing nominating committee though we intend to form a corporate governance and nominating committee as and when required
to do so by law or Nasdaq rules. In accordance with Rule 5605(e)(2) of the Nasdaq rules, a majority of the independent directors
may recommend a director nominee for selection by our board of directors. Our board of directors believes that the independent directors
can satisfactorily carry out the responsibility of properly selecting or approving director nominees without the formation of a standing
nominating committee. The directors who will participate in the consideration and recommendation of director nominees are Mohsen Fahmi,
James Abbott, Michael J. Giarla, Deborah Kuenstner and Patrick Pagni. In accordance with Rule 5605(e)(1)(A) of the Nasdaq rules,
all such directors are independent. As there is no standing nominating committee, we do not have a nominating committee charter in place.
The
board of directors will also consider director candidates recommended for nomination by our shareholders during such times as they are
seeking proposed nominees to stand for appointment at the next annual general meeting (or, if applicable, an extraordinary general meeting).
Our shareholders that wish to nominate a director for appointment to our board of directors should follow the procedures set forth in
our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association.
We
have not formally established any specific, minimum qualifications that must be met or skills that are necessary for directors to possess.
In general, in identifying and evaluating nominees for director, our board of directors considers educational background, diversity of
professional experience, knowledge of our business, integrity, professional reputation, independence, wisdom, and the ability to represent
the best interests of our shareholders. Prior to our initial business combination, holders of our Public Shares will not have the right
to recommend director candidates for nomination to our board of directors.
Compensation
Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation
None
of our executive officers currently serves, and in the past year has not served, as a member of the compensation committee of any entity
that has one or more executive officers serving on our board of directors.
Clawback
Policy
We
have adopted a compensation recovery policy that is compliant with Nasdaq listing rules as required by the Dodd-Frank Act.
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Code
of Ethics
We
have adopted a Code of Ethics applicable to our directors, officers and employees. We filed a copy of our Code of Ethics as an exhibit
to the registration statement relating to the Initial Public Offering. You are able to review this document by accessing our public filings
at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. In addition, a copy of the Code of Ethics and the charters of the committees of our board
of directors will be provided without charge upon request from us. If we make any amendments to our Code of Ethics other than technical,
administrative or other non-substantive amendments, or grant any waiver, including any implicit waiver, from a provision of the Code
of Ethics applicable to our principal executive officer, principal financial officer principal accounting officer or controller or persons
performing similar functions requiring disclosure under applicable SEC or Nasdaq rules, we will disclose the nature of such amendment
or waiver on our website. The information included on our website is not incorporated by reference into this Form 10-K or in any other
report or document we file with the SEC, and any references to our website are intended to be inactive textual references only.
Section
16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance
Section
16(a) of the Exchange Act requires our officers, directors and persons who own more than ten percent of a registered class of our equity
securities to file reports of ownership and changes in ownership with the SEC. Officers, directors and ten percent shareholders are required
by regulation to furnish us with copies of all Section 16(a) forms they file. Based solely on review of the copies of such forms furnished
to us, or written representations that no Forms 5 were required, we believe that, during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, all
Section 16(a) filing requirements applicable to our officers and directors were complied with, except for the nine Form 3 reports that
were filed late due to an administrative matter with each such filing for each of our officers and directors.
Conflicts
of Interest
Under
Cayman Islands law, directors and officers owe the following fiduciary duties:
(i)
duty to
act in good faith in what the director or officer believes to be in the best interests of the Company as a whole;
(ii)
duty to
exercise powers for the purposes for which those powers were conferred and not for a collateral purpose;
(iii)
directors
should not improperly fetter the exercise of future discretion;
(iv)
duty to
exercise powers fairly as between different sections of shareholders;
(v)
duty not
to put themselves in a position in which there is a conflict between their duty to the Company and their personal interests; and
(vi)
duty to
exercise independent judgment.
In
addition to the above, directors also owe a duty of care which is not fiduciary in nature. This duty has been defined as a requirement
to act as a reasonably diligent person having both the general knowledge, skill and experience that may reasonably be expected of a person
carrying out the same functions as are carried out by that director in relation to the Company and the general knowledge skill and experience
of that director.
As
set out above, directors have a duty not to put themselves in a position of conflict and this includes a duty not to engage in self-dealing,
or to otherwise benefit as a result of their position. However, in some instances what would otherwise be a breach of this duty can be
forgiven and/or authorized in advance by the shareholders provided that there is full disclosure by the directors. This can be done by
way of permission granted in the memorandum and articles of association or alternatively by shareholder approval at general meetings.
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Each
of our officers and directors presently has, and any of them in the future may have additional, fiduciary or contractual obligations
to at least one other entity pursuant to which such officer or director is or will be required to present a business combination opportunity
to such entity. Accordingly, if any of our officers or directors becomes aware of a business combination opportunity which is suitable
for an entity to which he or she has then — current fiduciary or contractual obligations, he or she will honor his or
her fiduciary or contractual obligations to present such business combination opportunity to such entity, subject to their fiduciary
duties under Cayman Islands law. Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide that, to the fullest extent
permitted by applicable law: (i) no individual serving as a director or an officer shall have any duty, except and to the extent
expressly assumed by contract, to refrain from engaging directly or indirectly in the same or similar business activities or lines of
business as us; and (ii) we renounce any interest or expectancy in, or in being offered an opportunity to participate in, any potential
transaction or matter which may be a corporate opportunity for any director or officer, on the one hand, and us, on the other. We do
not believe, however, that the fiduciary duties or contractual obligations of our officers or directors will materially affect our ability
to complete our initial business combination because the other entities to which our officers and directors currently owe fiduciary duties
or contractual obligations are not themselves in the business of engaging in business combinations.
Below
is a table summarizing the entities to which our officers and directors currently have fiduciary duties or contractual obligations:
Individual
Entity
Entity’s
Business
Affiliation
Richard
H. Haywood, Jr.
Cambridge
International Partners LLC
Investment
banking
Co-Owner
and Managing Director
Mohsen
Fahmi
Sarawak
Sovereign Wealth Future Fund
Investment
fund
Board
Guardian
David
W. Abbott
Cambridge
International Partners LLC
Investment
banking
Co-Owner,
President and Managing Director
Michael
J. Giarla
ConnexMarkets,
Inc.
Financial
technology firm
Chairman
New World
Advisors
Investment
advisor firm
Advisory
Board Member
Center
for Community Self Help
Non-profit
organization
Director
Roxbury
Latin School
Non-profit
organization
Chairman
Burroughs
Welcome Fund
Private
foundation
Board
Member
Hill Center
Non-profit
organization
Treasurer
and Board Member
Core Knowledge
Foundation
Non-profit
organization
Board
Member
Book Harvest,
Inc.
Non-profit
organization
Treasurer
James
Abbott
City of London Investment Group
Investment
Management
Chief Investment Officer
Deborah
Kuenstner
Wellesley
College
Non-profit
organization
Chief
Investment Officer
Patric
Pagni
Lexington
Global Distribution Partners
Investment
fund
Co-Founder
and Executive Chairman
Blue Apple
NYC
Real estate
fund
Partner
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In
addition, our Sponsor and our officers and directors may Sponsor or form other special purpose acquisition companies similar to ours
or may pursue other business or investment ventures during the period in which we are seeking an initial business combination. Any such
companies, businesses or investments may present additional conflicts of interest in pursuing an initial business combination. However,
because the other entities to which our officers and directors currently owe fiduciary duties or contractual obligations are not themselves
in the business of engaging in business combinations, and because we expect that our company will generally have priority over any other
special purpose acquisition companies subsequently formed by our Sponsor, officers or directors with respect to acquisition opportunities
until we complete our initial business combination or enter into a contractual agreement that would restrict our ability to engage in
material discussions regarding a potential initial business combination, we do not believe that any such potential conflicts would materially
affect our ability to complete our initial business combination.
There
may be actual or potential material conflicts of interest between our Sponsor, its affiliates or promoters on the one hand, and our public
investors on the other hand. In addition to the above, potential investors should be aware of the following potential conflicts of interest:
●
Our officers
and directors are not required to, and will not, commit their full time to our affairs, which may result in a conflict of interest
in allocating their time between our operations and our search for a business combination and their other businesses. We do not intend
to have any full-time employees prior to the completion of our initial business combination. Each of our officers is engaged in several
other business endeavors for which he may be entitled to substantial compensation, and our officers are not obligated to contribute
any specific number of hours per week to our affairs.
●
Our initial
shareholders purchased Founder Shares prior to the Initial Public Offering and our Sponsor purchased Private Placement Units in transactions
that closed simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering and the closing of the Over-Allotment Option. Our Sponsor,
officers and directors have entered into a letter agreement with us, pursuant to which they have agreed to waive their redemption
rights with respect to their Founder Shares, Private Placement Shares and any Public Shares they may acquire in connection with the
completion of our initial business combination. Additionally, our Sponsor, officers and directors have agreed to waive their rights
to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to their Founder Shares if we fail to complete our initial business
combination within the prescribed time frame, although they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from assets outside the
Trust Account. Furthermore, our Sponsor, officers and directors have agreed not to transfer, assign or sell any of their Founder
Shares and any Class A ordinary shares issuable upon conversion thereof until the earlier to occur of: (i) 180 days after the completion
of our initial business combination and (ii) the date following the completion of our initial business combination on which we complete
a liquidation, merger, share exchange or other similar transaction that results in all of our shareholders having the right to exchange
their Ordinary Shares for cash, securities or other property and our Sponsor has agreed not to transfer, assign or sell any of its
Private Placement Units (including the securities comprising such Units) until 30 days after the completion of our initial business
combination. Because our Sponsor and members of our management team will directly or indirectly own our securities following the
Initial Public Offering, and accordingly, they may have a conflict of interest in determining whether a particular target business
is an appropriate business with which to effectuate our initial business combination and in negotiating or accepting the terms of
the transaction because of their financial interest in completing an initial business combination within the Completion Window. Our
Sponsor paid a nominal aggregate purchase price of $25,000 for the Founder Shares, or approximately $0.004 per share. Accordingly,
our management team, which owns interest in our Sponsor, may be more willing to pursue a business combination with a riskier or less-established
target business than would be the case if our Sponsor had paid the same per share price for the Founder Shares as our public shareholders
paid for their public shares. The low price that our Sponsor, executive officers and directors (directly or indirectly) paid for
the Founder Shares creates an incentive whereby our officers and directors could potentially make a substantial profit even if we
select an acquisition target that subsequently declines in value and is unprofitable for public shareholders. If we are unable to
complete our initial business combination within the Completion Window, the Founder Shares may expire worthless, except to the extent
they receive liquidating distributions from assets outside the Trust Account, which could create an incentive for our Sponsor, executive
officers and directors to complete a transaction even if we select an acquisition target that subsequently declines in value and
is unprofitable for public shareholders.
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●
If and
when the Warrants become redeemable by us, we may exercise our redemption right even if we are unable to register or qualify the
underlying securities for sale under all applicable state securities laws if the Warrants may be exercised on a cashless basis and
such cashless exercise is exempt from registration under the Securities Act. Because we may redeem the outstanding Warrants held
by Public Warrant holders and the Private Placement Warrants held by our Sponsor are not redeemable by us and are exercisable on
a cashless basis, the Sponsor may profit at times when an unaffiliated security holder cannot profit, such as when the Public Warrants
are called for redemption or if the Sponsor chooses to utilize the cashless exercise option under circumstances where the Public
Warrant holders cannot exercise on a cashless basis. Accordingly, there may be actual or potential material conflicts of interest
between our Sponsor on the one hand, and the Public Warrant holders on the other hand.
●
In the
event our Sponsor or members of our management team provide loans to us to finance transaction costs and/or incur expenses on our
behalf in connection with an initial business combination, such persons may have a conflict of interest in determining whether a
particular target business is an appropriate business with which to effectuate our initial business combination as such loans may
not be repaid and/or such expenses may not be reimbursed unless we consummate such business combination.
●
Our officers
and directors may have a conflict of interest with respect to evaluating a particular business combination if the retention or resignation
of any such officers and directors were to be included by a target business as a condition to any agreement with respect to our initial
business combination.
We
are not prohibited from pursuing an initial business combination with a business combination target that is affiliated with our Sponsor,
officers or directors or completing the business combination through a joint venture or other form of shared ownership with our Sponsor,
officers or directors; accordingly, such affiliated person(s) may have a conflict of interest in determining whether a particular target
business is an appropriate business with which to effectuate our initial business combination as such affiliated person(s) would have
interests different from our public shareholders and would likely not receive any financial benefit unless we consummated such business
combination. In the event we seek to complete our initial business combination with a business combination target that is affiliated
(as defined in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association) with our Sponsor, officers or directors, we, or a committee
of independent directors, would obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking which is a member of FINRA or another independent
entity that commonly renders valuation opinions stating that the consideration to be paid by us in such initial business combination
is fair to our company from a financial point of view. We are not required to obtain such an opinion in any other context. Further, we
pay our Sponsor, for office and administrative services provided to members of our management team in an amount equal to $30,000 per
month. In addition, we have agreed, pursuant to the administrative services and indemnification agreement with our Sponsor, Cambridge
and Alumia relating to the monthly payment for office space and administrative services described above, that we will indemnify our Sponsor,
Cambridge and Alumia from any claims (i) arising out of or relating to the Initial Public Offering or the Company’s operations
or conduct of the Company’s business, (ii) in respect of any investment opportunities sourced by the Sponsor, Cambridge, Alumia
and their affiliates, and/or (iii) any claim against our Sponsor, Cambridge or Alumia alleging any expressed or implied management or
endorsement by our Sponsor, Cambridge or Alumia of any of the Company’s activities or any express or implied association between
our Sponsor, Cambridge or Alumia and the Company or any of its affiliates, which agreement provides that the indemnified parties cannot
access the funds held in our Trust Account.
We
cannot assure you that any of the above-mentioned conflicts will be resolved in our favor.
In
the event that we submit our initial business combination to our public shareholders for a vote, our Sponsor, officers and directors
have agreed to vote their Founder Shares, Private Placement Shares and any shares purchased during or after the Initial Public Offering
in favor of our initial business combination (except with respect to any such Public Shares which may not be voted in favor of approving
the business combination transaction in accordance with the requirements of Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act and any SEC interpretations
or guidance relating thereto).
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Limitation
on Liability and Indemnification of Officers and Directors
Cayman
Islands law does not limit the extent to which a company’s memorandum and articles of association may provide for indemnification
of officers and directors, except to the extent any such provision may be held by the Cayman Islands courts to be contrary to public
policy, such as to provide indemnification against willful default, fraud or the consequences of committing a crime. Our amended and
restated memorandum and articles of association provide for indemnification of our officers and directors to the maximum extent permitted
by law, including for any liability incurred in their capacities as such, except through their own actual fraud, willful default or willful
neglect. We expect to purchase a policy of directors’ and officers’ liability insurance that insures our officers and directors
against the cost of defense, settlement or payment of a judgment in some circumstances and insures us against our obligations to indemnify
our officers and directors.
Our
officers and directors have agreed to waive any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies in the Trust Account,
and have agreed to waive any right, title, interest or claim of any kind they may have in the future as a result of, or arising out of,
any services provided to us and will not seek recourse against the Trust Account for any reason whatsoever. Accordingly, any indemnification
provided will only be able to be satisfied by us if (i) we have sufficient funds outside of the Trust Account or (ii) we consummate an
initial business combination.
Our
indemnification obligations may discourage shareholders from bringing a lawsuit against our officers or directors for breach of their
fiduciary duty. These provisions also may have the effect of reducing the likelihood of derivative litigation against our officers and
directors, even though such an action, if successful, might otherwise benefit us and our shareholders. Furthermore, a shareholder’s
investment may be adversely affected to the extent we pay the costs of settlement and damage awards against our officers and directors
pursuant to these indemnification provisions.
We
believe that these provisions, the insurance and the indemnity agreements are necessary to attract and retain talented and experienced
officers and directors.
Item
11. Executive Compensation.
None
of our executive officers or directors have received any cash compensation for services rendered to us. Commencing on the date that our
securities are first listed on Nasdaq through the earlier of consummation of our initial business combination and our liquidation, we
will reimburse our Sponsor for office and administrative services provided to members of our management team in an amount equal to $30,000
per month. In addition, our Sponsor, executive officers and directors, or any of their respective affiliates will be reimbursed for any
out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with activities on our behalf such as identifying potential target businesses and performing
due diligence on suitable business combinations. In addition, we have agreed, pursuant to the administrative services and indemnification
agreement with our Sponsor, Cambridge and Alumia relating to the monthly payment for office space and administrative services described
above, that we will indemnify our Sponsor, Cambridge and Alumia from any claims (i) arising out of or relating to the Initial Public
Offering or the Company’s operations or conduct of the Company’s business, (ii) in respect of any investment opportunities
sourced by the Sponsor, Cambridge, Alumia and their affiliates, and/or (iii) any claim against our Sponsor, Cambridge or Alumia alleging
any expressed or implied management or endorsement by our Sponsor, Cambridge or Alumia of any of the Company’s activities or any
express or implied association between our Sponsor, Cambridge or Alumia and the Company or any of its affiliates, which agreement provides
that the indemnified parties cannot access the funds held in our Trust Account. Our audit committee will review on a quarterly basis
all payments that were made to our Sponsor, executive officers or directors, or our or their affiliates. Any such payments prior to an
initial business combination will be made from funds held outside the Trust Account. Other than quarterly audit committee review of such
reimbursements, we do not expect to have any additional controls in place governing our reimbursement payments to our directors and executive
officers for their out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with our activities on our behalf in connection with identifying and
consummating an initial business combination. Furthermore, our independent directors has received membership interests in our Sponsor
as compensation for their service as directors to the Company.
After
the completion of our initial business combination, directors or members of our management team who remain with us may be paid consulting
or management fees from the combined company. All of these fees will be fully disclosed to shareholders, to the extent then known, in
the proxy solicitation materials or tender offer materials furnished to our shareholders in connection with a proposed business combination.
We have not established any limit on the amount of such fees that may be paid by the combined company to our directors or members of
management. It is unlikely the amount of such compensation will be known at the time of the proposed business combination, because the
directors of the post-combination business will be responsible for determining executive officer and director compensation.
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Any
compensation to be paid to our executive officers will be determined, or recommended to the board of directors for determination, either
by a compensation committee constituted solely by independent directors or by a majority of the independent directors on our board of
directors.
We
do not intend to take any action to ensure that members of our management team maintain their positions with us after the consummation
of our initial business combination, although it is possible that some or all of our executive officers and directors may negotiate employment
or consulting arrangements to remain with us after our initial business combination. The existence or terms of any such employment or
consulting arrangements to retain their positions with us may influence our management’s motivation in identifying or selecting
a target business but we do not believe that the ability of our management to remain with us after the consummation of our initial business
combination will be a determining factor in our decision to proceed with any potential business combination. We are not party to any
agreements with our executive officers and directors that provide for benefits upon termination of employment.
Item
12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Shareholder Matters.
The
following table sets forth information regarding the beneficial ownership of our Ordinary Shares as of March 20, 2026 by:
● each
person known by us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of our issued and outstanding
Class A ordinary shares;
● each
of our officers and directors; and
● all
our officers and directors as a group.
Unless
otherwise indicated, we believe that all persons named in the table have sole voting and investment power with respect to all of our
Ordinary Shares beneficially owned by them.
The
beneficial ownership of our Ordinary Shares is based on 23,450,000 Class A ordinary shares and 5,750,000 Founder Shares issued and outstanding
as of March 20, 2026.
Name and
Address of Beneficial Owner (1)
Number
of
Class A
Ordinary Shares
Beneficially Owned
Number
of
Founder
Shares Beneficially
Owned (2)
Approximate
Percentage of Total
Voting Power
Solarius Capital
Sponsor, LLC (our Sponsor) (3)
450,000
5,750,000
26.4
%
Richard H. Haywood, Jr.
—
—
—
Anthony Deluca
—
—
—
Mohsen Fahmi
—
—
—
David W. Abbott
—
—
—
James Abbott
—
—
—
Michael J. Giarla
—
—
—
Deborah Kuenstner
—
—
—
Patrick Pagni
—
—
—
All officers and directors
as a group (8 individuals)
—
—
—
(1) Unless
otherwise noted, the business address of each of the following is PO Box 2248, Darien, Connecticut 06820.
(2) Such
shares will automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares concurrently with or immediately following the consummation of our initial
business combination on a one-for-one basis, subject to adjustment.
(3) Solarius
Capital Sponsor, LLC is the record holder of the shares reported herein. There are three managing members of Solarius Capital Sponsor,
LLC. Each managing member has one vote, and the approval of a majority is required to approve an action. Under the so-called “rule
of three,” if voting and dispositive decisions regarding an entity’s securities are made by three or more individuals, and
voting or dispositive decisions require the approval of a majority of those individuals, then none of the individuals is deemed a beneficial
owner of the entity’s securities. Based on the foregoing, no individual managing member of Solarius Capital Sponsor, LLC exercises
voting or dispositive control over any of the securities held by the entity, even those in which he or she holds a pecuniary interest.
Accordingly, none of them will be deemed to have or share beneficial ownership of such shares.
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Item
13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence
Founder
Shares
On
April 4, 2025, our Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 5,750,000 Founder Shares in exchange for a capital contribution of $25,000, or approximately
$0.004 per share. The number of Founder Shares outstanding was determined based on the expectation that the total size of the Initial
Public Offering would be a maximum of 17,250,000 shares if the Over-Allotment Option was exercised in full, and therefore that such Founder
Shares would represent 25% of the outstanding shares after the Initial Public Offering (excluding the Private Placement Shares and the
Class A ordinary shares underlying the Private Placement Warrants and after giving effect to any redemptions of Class A ordinary
shares by public shareholders).
Private
Placement Units
Our
Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 450,000 Private Placement Units, at a price of $10.00 per Unit, or $4,500,000 in the aggregate, in
a private placement that closed simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering.
Related
Party Loan
On
April 3, 2025, the Company issued a promissory note to the Sponsor, pursuant to which the Company could borrow up to an aggregate principal
amount of $400,000 (the “Promissory Note”). The Promissory Note was non-interest bearing and payable on the earlier of the
completion of December 31, 2025 or the date on which the Company consummated the Initial Public Offering. On July 17, 2025, the Promissory
Note was repaid in full.
Administrative
Services and Indemnification Agreement
On
July 15, 2025, the Company entered into the Administrative Services and Indemnification Agreement. We agreed to pay the Sponsor $30,000 per
month for office and administrative services and to provide indemnification to the Sponsor, Cambridge, and Alumia from any claims (i)
arising out of or relating to the Initial Public Offering or the Company’s operations or conduct of the Company’s business,
(ii) in respect of any investment opportunities sourced by the Sponsor, Cambridge, Alumia and their affiliates, and/or (iii) any claim
against our Sponsor, Cambridge or Alumia alleging any expressed or implied management or endorsement by our Sponsor, Cambridge or Alumia
of any of the Company’s activities or any express or implied association between our Sponsor, Cambridge or Alumia and the Company
or any of its affiliates, which agreement provides that the indemnified parties cannot access the funds held in our Trust Account. For
the period from April 1, 2025 (inception) through December 31, 2025, the Company incurred $163,548 in administrative services expenses
under the Administrative Services and Indemnification Agreement.
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Item
14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services.
The
firm of WithumSmith+Brown, PC acts as our independent registered public accounting firm. The following is a summary of fees paid to WithumSmith+Brown,
PC for services rendered.
Audit Fees . Audit fees consist of fees
billed for professional services rendered for the audit of our year-end financial statements and services that are normally provided by
WithumSmith+Brown, PC in connection with regulatory filings. The aggregate fees billed by WithumSmith+Brown, PC for audit fees, inclusive
of required filings with the SEC for the period from April 1, 2025 (inception) through December 31, 2025 and of services rendered in connection
with our Initial Public Offering, amounted to $121,160.
Audit-Related
Fees . Audit-related fees consist of fees billed for assurance and related services that are reasonably related to performance of
the audit or review of our year-end financial statements and are not reported under “Audit Fees.” These services include
attest services that are not required by statute or regulation and consultation concerning financial accounting and reporting standards.
During the period from April 1, 2025 (inception) through December 31, 2025, we did not pay WithumSmith+Brown, PC any audit-related
fees.
Tax
Fees . Tax fees consist of fees billed for professional services relating to tax compliance, tax planning and tax advice. During the
period from April 1, 2025 (inception) through December 31, 2025, we did not pay WithumSmith+Brown, PC any tax fees.
All
Other Fees . All other fees consist of fees billed for all other services. During the period from April 1, 2025 (inception) through
December 31, 2025, we did not pay WithumSmith+Brown, PC any other fees.
Pre-Approval
Policy
Our
audit committee was formed upon the consummation of our Initial Public Offering. As a result, the audit committee did not pre-approve
all of the foregoing services, although any services rendered prior to the formation of our audit committee were approved by our board
of directors. Since the formation of our audit committee, and on a going-forward basis, the audit committee has and will pre-approve
all auditing services and permitted non-audit services to be performed for us by our auditors, including the fees and terms thereof (subject
to the de minimis exceptions for non-audit services described in the Exchange Act which are approved by the audit committee prior to
the completion of the audit).
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PART
IV
Item
15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules.
(a) The
following documents are filed as part of this Form 10-K:
1. Financial
Statements: See “Index to Financial Statements” at “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” herein.
(b) Financial
Statement Schedules. All schedules are omitted for the reason that the information is included in the financial statements or the notes
thereto or that they are not required or are not applicable.
(c) Exhibits:
The exhibits listed in the Exhibit Index below are filed or incorporated by reference as part of this Form 10-K.
Exhibit
Index
Exhibit
Number
Description
1.1
Underwriting Agreement, dated July 15, 2025, by and among the Company and Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated as representative of the underwriters (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-42747, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 18, 2025).
3.1
Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-42747, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 18, 2025).
4.1
Specimen Ordinary Share Certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-288078, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 16, 2025).
4.2
Specimen Warrant Certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-288078, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 16, 2025).
4.3
Specimen Unit Certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 001-288078, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 16, 2025).
4.4
Warrant Agreement, dated July 15, 2025, by and between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as warrant agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-42747, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 18, 2025).
4.5*
Description
of Registrant’s Securities.
10.1
Letter Agreement, dated July 15, 2025 , by and among the Company, its executive officers, its directors and Solarius Capital Sponsor, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-42747, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 18, 2025).
10.2
Investment Management Trust Agreement, dated July 15, 2025, by and between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-42747, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 18, 2025).
10.3
Registration Rights Agreement, dated July 15, 2025, by and among the Company, Solarius Capital Sponsor, LLC and the Holders signatory thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-42747, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 18, 2025).
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10.4
Private Placement Units Purchase Agreement, dated July 15, 2025, by and between the Company and Solarius Capital Sponsor, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-42747, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 18, 2025).
10.5
Administrative Services and Indemnification Agreement, dated July 15,
2025, by and between the Company, Solarius Capital Sponsor, LLC, Cambridge International Partners LLC, and Alumia S.À.R.L. (incorporated
by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (File No. 001-42747, filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on August 29, 2025).
10.6
Form of Indemnity Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5
to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No.333-288078, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June
16, 2025).
10.7
Promissory Note issued to Solarius Capital Sponsor, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 001-288078, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 15, 2025).
10.8
Securities Subscription Agreement between the Company and Solarius Capital Sponsor, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 001-288078, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 16, 2025).
14
Code of Ethics (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 14.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-288078, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 16, 2025).
24
Power of Attorney (included on signature page of this Form 10-K).
31.1*
Certification of the Chief Executive Officer required by Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule 15d-14(a).
31.2*
Certification of the Chief Financial Officer required by Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule 15d-14(a).
32.1**
Certification of the Chief Executive Officer required by Rule 13a-14(b) or Rule 15d-14(b) and 18 U.S.C. 1350.
32.2**
Certification of the Chief Financial Officer required by Rule 13a-14(b) or Rule 15d-14(b) and 18 U.S.C. 1350.
97.1*
Policy
relating to recovery of erroneously awarded compensation, as required by applicable listing standards adopted pursuant to 17 CFR
240.10D-1.
101.INS
Inline XBRL Instance Document.
101.SCH
Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document.
101.CAL
Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase
Document.
101.DEF
Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase
Document.
101.LAB
Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document.
101.PRE
Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase
Document.
104
Cover Page Interactive Data File. (formatted as Inline
XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101).
* Filed
herewith
** Furnished
herewith
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed
on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Date: March 20, 2026
Solarius
Capital Acquisition Corp.
By:
/s/
Richard H. Haywood, Jr.
Name:
Richard
H. Haywood, Jr.
Title:
Chief Executive Officer
POWER
OF ATTORNEY
KNOW
ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Mohsen Fahmi, Richard H. Haywood,
Jr. and Anthony DeLuca, and each or any one of them, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution
and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Annual
Report on Form 10-K, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do
and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes
as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them,
or his or her substitutes or substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the
registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
/s/
Richard H. Haywood, Jr.
Chief Executive
Officer
March 20,
2026
Richard H. Haywood, Jr.
(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Anthony
DeLuca
Chief Financial Officer
March 20, 2026
Anthony DeLuca
(Principal Financial and
Accounting Officer)
/s/ Mohsen
Fahmi
Chairman
March 20, 2026
Mohsen Fahmi
/s/ David
W. Abbott
Director
March 20, 2026
David W. Abbott
/s/ Michael
J. Giarla
Director
March 20, 2026
Michael J. Giarla
/s/ James
Abbott
Director
March 20,
2026
James Abbott
/s/ Deborah
Kuenstner
Director
March 20, 2026
Deborah Kuenstner
/s/ Patrick
Pagni
Director
March 20, 2026
Patrick Pagni
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TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Page
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
F-2
Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2025
F-3
Statement of Operations For the Period From April 1, 2025 (Inception) Through December 31, 2025
F-4
Statement of Changes in Shareholders’ Deficit For the Period From April 1, 2025 (Inception) Through December 31, 2025
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Statement of Cash Flows For the Period From April 1, 2025 (Inception) Through December 31, 2025
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Notes to Financial Statements
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Report
of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To
the Shareholders and Board of Directors of
Solarius
Capital Acquisition Corp.
Opinion
on the Financial Statement
We have audited the accompanying balance sheet
of Solarius Capital Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2025, the related statements of operations, statements
of changes in shareholders’ deficit and cash flows for the period from April 1, 2025 (inception) through December 31, 2025, and
the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements
present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2025, and the results of its operations
and its cash flows for the period from April 1, 2025 (inception) through December 31, 2025, in conformity with accounting principles generally
accepted in the United States of America.
Basis
for Opinion
This
financial statement is the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial
statements based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States)
(“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws
and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We
conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the financial statement is free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company
is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audit
we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion
on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
Our
audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statement, whether due to error or
fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding
the amounts and disclosures in the financial statement. Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant
estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statement. We believe that our audit provides
a reasonable basis for our opinion.
/s/
WithumSmith+Brown, PC
We
have served as the Company’s auditor since 2025.
New
York, NY
March 20, 2026
PCAOB ID Number 100
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SOLARIUS
CAPITAL ACQUISITION CORP.
BALANCE SHEET
DECEMBER
31, 2025
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents
$ 1,229,956
Prepaid expenses – current
72,500
Total Current Assets
1,302,456
Prepaid expenses – non-current
39,173
Cash and cash equivalents held in Trust account
175,986,308
Total Assets
$ 177,327,937
LIABILITIES, CLASS A ORDINARY SHARES SUBJECT TO POSSIBLE REDEMPTION, AND SHAREHOLDERS’ DEFICIT
Current liabilities:
Accrued expenses
90,000
Accounts payable
30,224
Due to related party
137,395
Total Current liabilities
257,619
Deferred underwriting commissions
7,350,000
Total Liabilities
7,607,619
Commitments and Contingencies (Note 7)
Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption, $ 0.0001 par value; 17,250,000 shares issued and outstanding at an approximate redemption value of $ 10.20 per share
175,986,308
Shareholders’ Deficit
Preference shares, $ 0.0001 par value; 1,000,000 shares authorized; none issued and outstanding
—
Class A ordinary shares, $ 0.0001 par value, 400,000,000 shares authorized; 450,000 shares issued and outstanding (excluding 17,250,000 shares subject to possible redemption)
45
Class B ordinary shares, $ 0.0001 par value, 80,000,000 shares authorized; 5,750,000 shares issued and outstanding
575
Additional paid-in capital
—
Accumulated deficit
( 6,266,610 )
Total Shareholders’ Deficit
( 6,265,990 )
TOTAL LIABILITIES, CLASS A ORDINARY SHARES SUBJECT TO POSSIBLE REDEMPTION, AND SHAREHOLDERS’ DEFICIT
$ 177,327,937
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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SOLARIUS
CAPITAL ACQUISITION CORP.
STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
For the
Period
from
April 1,
2025
(inception)
Through
December 31,
2025
Formation, general and administrative expenses
$ 391,875
Administrative expense – related party
163,548
Loss from operations
( 555,423 )
Other income:
Income on cash and cash equivalents in Trust Account
2,623,808
Dividend and interest income
20,075
Total Other income
2,643,883
Net income
$ 2,088,460
Basic and diluted weighted average shares outstanding, Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption
10,538,182
Basic and diluted net income per share, Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption
$ 0.13
Basic and diluted weighted average shares outstanding, non-redeemable Class A ordinary shares
274,909
Basic and diluted net income per share, non-redeemable Class A ordinary shares
$ 0.13
Basic
weighted average shares outstanding, non-redeemable Class B ordinary shares
5,458,182
Basic net income per share, non-redeemable Class B ordinary shares
$ 0.13
Diluted weighted average shares outstanding, non-redeemable Class B ordinary shares
5,501,818
Diluted net income per share, non-redeemable Class B ordinary shares
$ 0.13
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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SOLARIUS
CAPITAL ACQUISITION CORP.
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDER’S DEFICIT
FOR
THE PERIOD FROM APRIL 1, 2025 (INCEPTION) THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2025
Class A
Class B
Additional
Total
Ordinary Shares
Ordinary Shares
Paid-in
Accumulated
Shareholders’
Shares
Amount
Shares
Amount
Capital
Deficit
Deficit
Balance – April 1, 2025 (inception)
—
$ —
—
$ —
$ —
$ —
$ —
Class B ordinary shares
issued to Sponsor
—
—
5,750,000
575
24,425
—
25,000
Fair value of Public Warrants included
in Public Units
—
—
—
—
3,092,629
—
3,092,629
Sale of Private Placement Units
450,000
45
—
—
4,499,955
—
4,500,000
Allocated value of transaction costs
to warrants
—
—
—
—
( 169,568 )
—
( 169,568 )
Reimbursement of underwriting fees
—
—
—
—
65,000
—
65,000
Remeasurement of Class A ordinary
shares to redemption value
—
—
—
—
( 7,512,441 )
( 8,355,070 )
( 15,867,511 )
Net income
—
—
—
—
—
2,088,460
2, 088,460
Balance –
December 31, 2025
450,000
$ 45
5,750,000
$ 575
$ —
$ ( 6,266,610 )
$ ( 6,265,990 )
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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SOLARIUS
CAPITAL ACQUISITION CORP.
STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS
FOR
THE PERIOD FROM APRIL 1, 2025 (INCEPTION) THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2025
Cash Flows from Operating Activities:
Net income
$ 2,088,460
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash used in operating activities:
Formation, general and administrative costs paid by Sponsor under promissory note – related party
27,343
Formation, general and administrative costs paid by Sponsor in exchange for issuance of Class B ordinary shares
25,000
Income on cash and cash equivalents in Trust Account
( 2,623,808 )
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Due to related party
137,395
Prepaid expenses
( 111,673 )
Accrued expenses
90,000
Accounts payable
30,224
Net cash used in operating activities
( 337,059 )
Cash Flows from Investing Activities:
Investment of cash in Trust Account
( 173,362,500 )
Net cash used in investing activities
( 173,362,500 )
Cash Flows from Financing Activities:
Proceeds from sale of Units
172,500,000
Proceeds from Private Placement Units
4,500,000
Payment of underwriting fee, net
( 1,435,000 )
Payment of promissory note – related party
( 223,827 )
Proceeds from promissory note – related party
180,000
Payment of offering costs
( 591,658 )
Net cash provided by financing activities
174,929,515
Net change in cash and cash equivalents
1,229,956
Cash and cash equivalents – beginning of period
—
Cash and cash equivalents – end of
period
$ 1,229,956
Non-Cash Investing and Financing Activities:
Deferred offering costs paid through promissory note – related party
$ 16,484
Deferred underwriting commissions
$ 7,350,000
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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SOLARIUS
CAPITAL ACQUISITION CORP.
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
DECEMBER 31, 2025
Note
1 - Organization and Plan of Business Operations
Solarius
Capital Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”) was incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company on April 1, 2025 . The
Company was incorporated for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or
similar business combination with one or more businesses (the “Business Combination”).
Although
the Company is not limited to a particular industry or geographic region for purposes of completing a Business Combination, the Company
intends to focus on targets that complement its management team’s background and experience, including in the asset management,
wealth management and financial services sectors.
As
of December 31, 2025, the Company had not yet commenced operations. All activity for the period from April 1, 2025 (inception) through
December 31, 2025 relates to the Company’s formation and its initial public offering (“Initial Public Offering”), which
is described below. The Company will not generate any operating revenues until after the completion of its initial Business Combination,
at the earliest. The Company will generate non-operating income in the form of interest income on investments from the
proceeds derived from the Initial Public Offering. The Company has selected December 31 as its fiscal year end.
The
registration statement for the Company’s Initial Public Offering was declared effective on July 15, 2025. On July 17, 2025, the
Company consummated its Initial Public Offering of 17,250,000 units (the “Units”), including the issuance of 2,250,000 Units
as a result of the underwriters’ exercise of their over-allotment option in full (the “Over-Allotment Option”, and
with respect to the units purchased pursuant to the Over-Allotment Option, the “Over-Allotment Option Units”). Each Unit
consists of one Class A ordinary share of the Company, par value $ 0.0001 per share (the “Class A ordinary shares”), and one-half
of one redeemable warrant of the Company (each whole warrant, a “Public Warrant”). The Units were sold at a price of $ 10.00
per Unit, generating gross proceeds to the Company of $ 172,500,000 .
Simultaneously
with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company consummated the sale of an aggregate of 450,000 units (the “Private
Placement Units”) at a price of $ 10.00 per Private Placement Unit, in a private placement to the Company’s sponsor, Solarius
Capital Sponsor, LLC (the “Sponsor”), generating gross proceeds of $ 4,500,000 (the “Private Placement”), which
is described in Note 4. Each Private Placement Unit consists of one Class A ordinary share (each, a “Private Placement Share”)
and one-half of one redeemable warrant (each, a “Private Placement Warrant”). Each whole Private Placement Warrant entitles
the holder to purchase one Class A ordinary share at a price of $ 11.50 per share.
Transaction
costs amounted to $ 9,458,142 , consisting of $ 1,500,000 of net upfront underwriting discounts ($ 3,000,000 of upfront underwriting discounts
less $ 1,500,000 reimbursement from the underwriters), $ 7,350,000 of deferred underwriting fees and $ 608,142 of other offering costs.
Subsequent to the Initial Public Offering, the underwriters reimbursed the Company $ 65,000 of underwriting discounts paid to them at
closing.
The
Company must complete one or more Business Combinations having an aggregate fair market value of at least 80 % of the value of the assets
held in the Trust Account (as defined below) (excluding the amount of deferred underwriting commissions and taxes payable on the interest
earned on the Trust Account) at the time of the agreement to enter into a Business Combination. However, the Company will only complete
a Business Combination if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the target
or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in the target sufficient for it not to be required to register as an investment company
under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”). There is no assurance that
the Company will be able to successfully effect a Business Combination.
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Following
the closing of the Initial Public Offering, on July 17, 2025, an amount of $ 173,362,500 ($ 10.05 per Unit) from the net proceeds of the
sale of the Units and the Private Placement Units was placed in a trust account (the “Trust Account”) with Continental Stock
Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee (the “Trustee”). The funds are only invested in U.S. government treasury
obligations with a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under
the Investment Company Act which invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations; the holding of these assets in this
form is intended to be temporary and for the sole purpose of facilitating the intended Business Combination and may at any time be held
as cash or cash items, including in demand deposit accounts at a bank. The Company will disclose in each quarterly and annual report
filed with the SEC prior to its initial Business Combination whether the proceeds deposited in the Trust Account are invested in U.S. government
treasury obligations or money market funds or a combination thereof or as cash or cash items, including in demand deposit accounts. To
mitigate the risk of the Company being deemed to be an unregistered investment company (including under the subjective test of Section 3(a)(1)(A) of
the Investment Company Act) and thus subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act, the Company may, at any time, instruct the
Trustee to liquidate the U.S. government treasury obligations or money market funds held in the Trust Account and thereafter to
hold all funds in the Trust Account in cash until the earlier of consummation of the initial Business Combination or liquidation of the
Company. Except with respect to interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account that may be released to the Company to pay its
taxes, if any, the proceeds from the Initial Public Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Warrants will not be released from
the Trust Account until the earliest of (i) the completion of the Company’s initial Business Combination, (ii) the redemption
of the Company’s Class A ordinary shares initially issued in the Initial Public Offering (the “Public Shares”, and
the holders of such Public Shares, the “Public Shareholders”) if the Company is unable to complete the initial Business Combination
within 21 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering (i.e., by April 17, 2027), or such other time period in which the Company
must complete an initial Business Combination pursuant to an amendment to the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles
of association (the “Completion Window”), subject to applicable law, or (iii) the redemption of the Company’s
Public Shares properly submitted in connection with a shareholder vote to amend the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and
articles of association to (A) modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to allow redemption in connection
with the initial Business Combination or to redeem 100 % of the Company’s Public Shares if the Company has not consummated an initial
Business Combination within the Completion Window or (B) with respect to any other material provisions relating to shareholders’
rights or pre-initial Business Combination activity. The proceeds deposited in the Trust Account could become subject to the claims of
the Company’s creditors, if any, which could have priority over the claims of the Company’s public shareholders.
The
Company will provide the Company’s public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their Public Shares in
connection with the completion of the initial Business Combination either (i) in connection with a general meeting called to approve
the initial Business Combination or (ii) without a shareholder vote by means of a tender offer. The decision as to whether the Company
will seek shareholder approval of a proposed initial Business Combination or conduct a tender offer will be made by the Company, solely
in its discretion, and will be based on a variety of factors such as the timing of the transaction and whether the terms of the transaction
would require the Company to seek shareholder approval under applicable law or stock exchange listing requirements. The Company will
provide the public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their Public Shares in connection with the completion
of its initial Business Combination at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust
Account calculated as of two business days prior to the consummation of the initial Business Combination, including interest
earned on the funds held in the Trust Account (less taxes paid or payable), divided by the number of then issued and outstanding Public
Shares. The amount in the Trust Account is initially anticipated to be $ 10.05 per Public Share. The Class A ordinary shares subject to
redemption will be recorded at redemption value and classified as temporary equity upon the completion of the Initial Public Offering,
in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 480 ,
“Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity.”
If
the Company seeks shareholder approval, the Company will complete a Business Combination only if it receives an ordinary resolution under
Cayman Islands law approving a Business Combination, which requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the Company’s ordinary
shares which are represented in person or by proxy and are voted at a general meeting of the Company. If a shareholder vote is not required
under applicable law or stock exchange listing requirements and the Company does not decide to hold a shareholder vote for business or
other reasons, the Company will, pursuant to its Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, conduct the redemptions
pursuant to the tender offer rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), and file tender offer documents containing
substantially the same information as would be included in a proxy statement with the SEC prior to completing a Business Combination.
If the Company seeks shareholder approval in connection with a Business Combination, the Sponsor has agreed to vote its Founder Shares
(as defined in Note 6) and any Public Shares purchased in or after the Initial Public Offering in favor of approving a Business Combination
and to waive its redemption rights with respect to any such shares in connection with a shareholder vote to approve a Business Combination.
Additionally, each public shareholder may elect to redeem its Public Shares, without voting, and if they do vote, irrespective of whether
they vote for or against a proposed Business Combination.
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Notwithstanding
the foregoing, if the Company seeks shareholder approval of a Business Combination and it does not conduct redemptions pursuant to the
tender offer rules, the Company’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association provides that a public shareholder,
together with any affiliate of such shareholder or any other person with whom such shareholder is acting in concert or as a “group”
(as defined under Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), will be restricted
from redeeming its shares with respect to more than an aggregate of 15% of the Public Shares without the Company’s prior written
consent.
The
Company will have only the duration of the Completion Window to complete the initial Business Combination. If the Company is unable to
complete its initial Business Combination within the Completion Window, the Company will as promptly as reasonably possible but
not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem the Public Shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate
amount then on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account (net of taxes paid or payable
(other than excise or similar taxes) and up to $ 100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then issued
and outstanding Public Shares, which redemption will constitute full and complete payment for the Public Shares and completely extinguish
public shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidation or other distributions, if any),
subject to the Company’s obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and subject to the other requirements
of applicable law.
The
Sponsor and the Company’s officers and directors have entered into a letter agreement with the Company, pursuant to which they
have agreed to (i) waive their redemption rights with respect to their Founder Shares (as defined below in Note 6), Private Placement
Shares and any Public Shares they may acquire during or after the Initial Public Offering in connection with the completion of the initial
Business Combination; (ii) waive their redemption rights with respect to their Founder Shares, Private Placement Shares and any
Public Shares they may acquire during or after the Initial Public Offering in connection with a shareholder vote to approve an amendment
to the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A) to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s
obligation to allow redemption in connection with the initial Business Combination or to redeem 100 % of the Company’s Public Shares
if it has not consummated an initial Business Combination within the Completion Window or (B) with respect to any other material provisions
relating to shareholders’ rights or pre-initial Business Combination activity; (iii) waive their rights to liquidating distributions
from the Trust Account with respect to their Founder Shares if the Company fails to complete the initial Business Combination within
the Completion Window, although they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to any Public
Shares they hold if the Company fails to complete the initial Business Combination within the Completion Window and to liquidating distributions
from assets outside the Trust Account; and (iv) vote any Founder Shares and Private Placement Shares held by them and any Public
Shares purchased during or after the Initial Public Offering (including in open market and privately negotiated transactions) in favor
of the initial Business Combination (except with respect to any such Public Shares which may not be voted in favor of approving the Business
Combination transaction in accordance with the requirements of Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act and any SEC interpretations
or guidance relating thereto).
The
Sponsor has agreed that it will be liable to the Company if and to the extent any claims by a third party for services rendered or products
sold to the Company, or a prospective target business with which the Company has entered into a written letter of intent, confidentiality
or other similar agreement or Business Combination agreement (except for the Company’s independent auditors), reduce the amount
of funds in the Trust Account to below the lesser of (i) $ 10.00 per Public Share and (ii) the actual amount per Public Share
held in the Trust Account as of the date of the liquidation of the Trust Account, if less than $10.00 per share due to reductions in
the value of the trust assets, less taxes paid or payable (other than excise or similar taxes) and up to $ 100,000 of interest to pay
dissolution expenses, provided that such liability will not apply to any claims by a third party or prospective target business who executed
a waiver of any and all rights to the monies held in the Trust Account (whether or not such waiver is enforceable) nor will it apply
to any claims under the Company’s indemnity of the underwriters of the Initial Public Offering against certain liabilities, including
liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). However, the Company has not asked
the Sponsor to reserve for such indemnification obligations, nor has the Company independently verified whether the Sponsor has sufficient
funds to satisfy its indemnity obligations, and the Company believes that the Sponsor’s only assets are securities of the Company.
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Liquidity
and Capital Resources
As
of December 31, 2025, the Company had $ 1,229,956 of cash and cash equivalents and working capital of $ 1,044,837 . The Company’s
liquidity needs prior to the consummation of the Initial Public Offering were satisfied through receipt of $ 25,000 capital contribution
from the Sponsor in exchange for the issuance of Founder Shares (as defined in Note 6), and up to $ 400,000 under the Promissory Note
(as defined in Note 6). On July 17, 2025, the Promissory Note was repaid in full. In connection with the Company’s assessment of
going concern considerations in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 205-40, “Presentation of Financial Statements — Going
Concern”, subsequent to the consummation of the Initial Public Offering, the Company’s liquidity has been satisfied through
the net proceeds from the consummation of the Initial Public Offering and the Private Placement held outside of the Trust Account, including
$ 1,500,000 of reimbursements from the underwriters for certain expenses and fees. Based on the foregoing, management believes that the
Company will have sufficient working capital and borrowing capacity to meet its needs through the earlier of the consummation of a Business
Combination or one year from this filing. The Company cannot be assured that its plans to consummate an Initial Business Combination
will be successful.
Note
2 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Basis
of Presentation
The
accompanying financial statement is presented in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America
(“U.S. GAAP”) and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).
Emerging
Growth Company
The
Company is an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act, as modified by the Jumpstart Our
Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”), and it may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements
that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies including, but not limited to, not being required
to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, reduced disclosure obligations
regarding executive compensation in its periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a non-binding
advisory vote on executive compensation and shareholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.
Further,
Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting
standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do
not have a class of securities registered under the Exchange Act) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting
standards. The JOBS Act provides that an emerging growth company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with
the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has elected
not to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application
dates for public or private companies, the Company, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time
private companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of the Company’s financial statements with another
public company which is neither an emerging growth company nor an emerging growth company which has opted out of using the extended transition
period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accounting standards used.
Use
of Estimates
The
preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect
the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial
statements.
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Making
estimates requires management to exercise significant judgment. It is at least reasonably possible that the estimate of the effect of
a condition, situation or set of circumstances that existed at the date of the financial statements, which management considered in formulating
its estimate, could change in the near term due to one or more future confirming events. Accordingly, the actual results could differ
significantly from those estimates.
Cash
and Cash Equivalents
The
Company considers all short-term investments with an original maturity of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents.
The Company had no cash and $ 1,229,956 in cash equivalents as of December 31, 2025.
Cash and Cash Equivalents held in Trust
Account
At December 31, 2025, substantially all of the
assets in the Trust Account were held in money market funds and are treated as cash equivalents, amounting to $ 175,986,308 .
Concentration of Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject
the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist of a cash account in a financial institution, which, at times, may exceed the Federal
Depository Insurance Coverage of $ 250,000 . The Company has not experienced losses on this account and management believes the Company
is not exposed to significant risks on such account.
Offering
Costs Associated with the Initial Public Offering
The
Company complies with the requirements of the ASC 340-10-S99 and SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin Topic 5A, “Expenses
of Offering.” Deferred offering costs consist principally of professional and registration fees that are related to the Initial
Public Offering. FASB ASC 470-20, “Debt with Conversion and Other Options,” addresses the allocation of proceeds from
the issuance of convertible debt into its equity and debt components. The Company applies this guidance to allocate Initial Public Offering
proceeds from the Public Units between Public Shares and Public Warrants, using the residual method by allocating Initial Public
Offering proceeds first to assigned value of the Public Warrants and then to the Public Shares. Offering costs allocated to the Public
Shares will be charged to temporary equity. Offering costs allocated to the Public Warrants and Private Placement Warrants will be charged
to shareholder’s equity, as the Public Warrants and Private Placement Warrants, after management’s evaluation, will be accounted
for under equity treatment.
Transaction
costs amounted to $ 9,458,142 , consisting of $ 1,500,000 of net upfront underwriting discounts ($ 3,000,000 of upfront underwriting discounts
less $ 1,500,000 reimbursement from the underwriters), $ 7,350,000 of deferred underwriting fees and $ 608,142 of other offering costs.
Subsequent to the Initial Public Offering, the underwriters reimbursed the Company $ 65,000 of underwriting discounts paid to them at
closing.
Fair
Value of Financial Instruments
The
fair value of the Company’s assets and liabilities, which qualify as financial instruments under FASB ASC 820, “Fair Value
Measurements and Disclosures,” approximate the carrying amounts represented in the balance sheet, primarily due to their short-term
nature.
Fair
value is defined as the price that would be received for sale of an asset or paid to transfer of a liability, in an orderly transaction
between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs
used in measuring fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets
or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurements). These tiers include:
●
Level 1, defined as observable
inputs such as quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical instruments in active markets;
●
Level 2, defined as inputs
other than quoted prices in active markets that are either directly or indirectly observable such as quoted prices for similar instruments
in active markets or quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active; and
●
Level 3, defined as unobservable
inputs in which little or no market data exists, therefore requiring an entity to develop its own assumptions, such as valuations
derived from valuation techniques in which one or more significant inputs or significant value drivers are unobservable.
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Income
Taxes
The
Company accounts for income taxes under ASC Topic 740, “Income Taxes,” which requires an asset and liability approach
to financial accounting and reporting for income taxes. Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are computed for differences between
the financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities that will result in future taxable or deductible amounts, based on enacted
tax laws and rates applicable to the periods in which the differences are expected to affect taxable income. Valuation allowances are
established, when necessary, to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized.
ASC
Topic 740 prescribes a recognition threshold and a measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement
of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. For those benefits to be recognized, a tax position must be more likely
than not to be sustained upon examination by taxing authorities. The Company’s management determined that the Cayman Islands is
the Company’s major tax jurisdiction. The Company recognizes accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits
as income tax expense. As of December 31, 2025, there were no unrecognized tax benefits and no amounts accrued for interest and penalties.
The Company is currently not aware of any issues under review that could result in significant payments, accruals or material deviation
from its position.
The
Company is considered to be an exempted Cayman Islands company with no connection to any other taxable jurisdiction and is presently
not subject to income taxes or income tax filing requirements in the Cayman Islands or the United States. As such, the Company’s
tax provision was zero for the period presented.
Derivative
Financial Instruments
The
Company evaluates its financial instruments to determine if such instruments are derivatives or contain features that qualify as embedded
derivatives in accordance with ASC Topic 815, “Derivatives and Hedging”. For derivative financial instruments that are
accounted for as liabilities, the derivative instrument is initially recorded at its fair value on the grant date and is then re-valued at
each reporting date, with changes in the fair value reported in the statement of operations. The classification of derivative instruments,
including whether such instruments should be recorded as liabilities or as equity, is evaluated at the end of each reporting period.
Derivative liabilities are classified in the balance sheet as current or non-current based on whether or not net cash settlement
or conversion of the instrument could be required within 12 months of the balance sheet date.
Warrant
Instruments
The
Company accounted for the Public Warrants and Private Placement Warrants issued in connection with the Initial Public Offering and the
private placement in accordance with the guidance contained in FASB ASC Topic 815, “Derivatives and Hedging”. Accordingly,
the Company evaluated and classified the warrant instruments under equity treatment at their assigned values. Such guidance provides
that the Public Warrants described above will not be precluded from equity classification. Equity-classified contracts are initially
measured at fair value (or allocated value). Subsequent changes in fair value are not recognized as long as the contracts continue to
be classified in equity in accordance with ASC 480 and ASC 815.
Net
Income per Ordinary Share
The
Company has two classes of shares, Class A ordinary shares and Class B ordinary shares. Income and losses are shared pro rata between
the two classes of shares. The Company complies with the accounting and disclosure requirements of ASC Topic 260, “Earnings Per
Share”. Net income per share is computed by dividing net income by the weighted average number of ordinary shares
outstanding for the period. Accretion associated with redeemable Class A ordinary shares is excluded from earnings per share as the redemption
value approximates fair value.
The
Company has not considered the effect of the 5,750,000 Public Warrants in the calculation of diluted net income per share, since
the exercise of such warrants are contingent upon the occurrence of future events and the inclusion of such warrants would be anti-dilutive.
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The
following table presents a reconciliation of the numerator and denominator used to compute basic and diluted net income per ordinary
share for each class of ordinary shares:
For the Period from April 1, 2025
(inception) through
December 31, 2025
Class A
Redeemable
Class A
Non-redeemable
Class B
Non-redeemable
Basic net income per ordinary shares:
Numerator:
Allocation of net income, basic
$ 1,352,603
$ 35,285
$ 700,572
Denominator:
Basic weighted average ordinary shares outstanding
10,538,182
274,909
5,458,182
Basic net income per ordinary share
$ 0.13
$ 0.13
$ 0.13
Diluted net income per ordinary shares:
Numerator:
Allocation of net income, diluted
$ 1,348,985
$ 35,191
$ 704,284
Denominator:
Diluted weighted average ordinary shares outstanding
10,538,182
274,909
5,501,818
Diluted net income per ordinary share
$ 0.13
$ 0.13
$ 0.13
Class
A Ordinary Shares Subject to Possible Redemption
The
Public Shares contain a redemption feature which allows for the redemption of such Public Shares in connection with the Company’s
liquidation, or if there is a shareholder vote or tender offer in connection with the Company’s initial Business Combination. In
accordance with ASC 480-10-S99, the Company classifies Public Shares subject to possible redemption outside of permanent equity as the
redemption provisions are not solely within the control of the Company. The Company recognizes changes in redemption value immediately
as they occur and will adjust the carrying value of redeemable shares to equal the redemption value at the end of each reporting period.
Immediately upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company recognized the accretion from initial book value to redemption
value. The change in the carrying value of redeemable shares will result in charges against additional paid-in capital (to the extent
available) and accumulated deficit. Accordingly, as of December 31, 2025, Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption are
presented at redemption value as temporary equity, outside of the shareholders’ deficit section of the Company’s balance
sheet. As of December 31, 2025, the Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption reflected in the balance sheet are reconciled
in the following table:
Gross proceeds from Initial Public Offering
$ 172,500,000
Less:
Proceeds allocated to Public Warrants
( 3,092,629 )
Offering costs allocated to Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption
( 9,288,574 )
Plus:
Accretion of Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption
15,867,511
Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption at December 31, 2025
$ 175,986,308
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Recently
Issued Accounting Standards
In
November 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-07, “Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures”
(“ASU 2023-07”). The amendments in this ASU require disclosures, on an annual and interim basis, of significant segment
expenses that are regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker (“CODM”), as well as the aggregate amount of other
segment items included in the reported measure of segment profit or loss. The ASU requires that a public entity disclose the title and
position of the CODM and an explanation of how the CODM uses the reported measure(s) of segment profit or loss in assessing segment
performance and deciding how to allocate resources. Public entities will be required to provide all annual disclosures currently required
by Topic 280 in interim periods, and entities with a single reportable segment are required to provide all the disclosures required
by the amendments in this ASU and existing segment disclosures in Topic 280. The ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning
after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption
permitted. The Company adopted ASU 2023-07 on April 1, 2025, the date of its incorporation.
In
December 2023, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2023-09, “Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures” (“ASU
2023-09”), which provides for additional disclosures primarily related to the income tax rate reconciliations and income taxes
paid. ASU 2023-09 requires entities to annually disclose the income tax rate reconciliation using both amounts and percentages, considering
several categories of reconciling items, including state and local income taxes, foreign tax effects, tax credits and nontaxable or nondeductible
items, among others. Disclosure of the reconciling items is subject to a quantitative threshold and disaggregation by nature and jurisdiction.
ASU 2023-09 also requires entities to disclose net income taxes paid or received to federal, state and foreign jurisdictions, as well
as by individual jurisdiction, subject to a five percent quantitative threshold. ASU 2023-09 may be adopted on a prospective or retrospective
basis and is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024 with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently assessing
the impact, if any, that ASU 2023-09 would have on its financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
Management
does not believe that any other recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting pronouncements, if currently adopted, would have a
material effect on the Company’s financial statements.
Note
3 - Initial Public Offering
Pursuant
to the Initial Public Offering on July 17, 2025, the Company sold 17,250,000 Units at a purchase price of $ 10.00 per Unit, which includes
the full exercise of the underwriters’ Over-Allotment Option in the amount of 2,250,000 Units. Each Unit consists of one Class
A ordinary share and one-half of one redeemable Public Warrant. Each whole Public Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one Class A
ordinary share at a price of $ 11.50 per share, subject to adjustment. Each Public Warrant will become exercisable 30 days after
the completion of the initial Business Combination and will expire five years after the completion of the initial Business Combination,
or earlier upon redemption or liquidation.
Note
4 - Private Placement
Simultaneously
with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 450,000 Private Placement Units, at a price of
$ 10.00 per Private Placement Unit, or $ 4,500,000 in the aggregate. Each Private Placement Unit consists of one Class A ordinary
share (each, a “Private Placement Share”) one-half of one redeemable warrant (each, a “Private Placement Warrant”).
Each whole Private Placement Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one Class A ordinary share at a price of $ 11.50 per share.
The
Private Placement Warrants are identical to the Public Warrants sold in the Initial Public Offering except that, so long as they are
held by the Sponsor, or their permitted transferees, the Private Placement Warrants (i) are not redeemable, (ii) may not (including
the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of these Private Placement Warrants), subject to certain limited exceptions,
be transferred, assigned or sold by the holders until 30 days after the completion of the initial Business Combination, (iii) may
be exercised by the holders on a cashless basis, and (iv) are entitled to registration rights.
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The
Sponsor and the Company’s officers and directors have entered into a letter agreement with the Company, pursuant to which they
have agreed to (i) waive their redemption rights with respect to their Founder Shares, Private Placement Shares and any Public Shares
they may acquire during or after the Initial Public Offering in connection with the completion of the initial Business Combination; (ii) waive
their redemption rights with respect to their Founder Shares, Private Placement Shares and any Public Shares they may acquire during
or after the Initial Public Offering in connection with a shareholder vote to approve an amendment to the amended and restated memorandum
and articles of association (A) to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to allow redemption in connection
with the initial Business Combination or to redeem 100 % of the Public Shares if the Company has not consummated an initial Business Combination
within the Completion Window or (B) with respect to any other material provisions relating to shareholders’ rights or pre-initial
Business Combination activity; (iii) waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to their
Founder Shares and Private Placement Shares if the Company fails to complete an initial Business Combination within the Completion Window,
although they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to any Public Shares they hold if the
Company fails to complete an initial Business Combination within the prescribed time frame and to liquidating distributions from assets
outside the Trust Account; and (iv) vote any Founder Shares and Private Placement Shares held by them and any Public Shares purchased
during or after the Initial Public Offering (including in open market and privately-negotiated transactions) in favor of the initial
Business Combination (except with respect to any such Public Shares which may not be voted in favor of approving the Business Combination
transaction in accordance with the requirements of Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act and any SEC interpretations or guidance
relating thereto).
Note
5 — Segment Information
ASC
Topic 280, “Segment Reporting”, establishes standards for companies to report, in their financial statements, information
about operating segments, products, services, geographic areas, and major customers. Operating segments are defined as components of
an enterprise that engage in business activities from which it may recognize revenues and incur expenses, and for which separate financial
information is available that is regularly evaluated by the Company’s chief operating decision maker, or group, in deciding how
to allocate resources and assess performance.
The
Company’s chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) has been identified as the Chief Financial Officer, who reviews the
assets, operating results, and financial metrics for the Company as a whole to make decisions about allocating resources and assessing
financial performance. Accordingly, management has determined that the Company only has one reporting segment.
The
CODM assesses performance for the single segment and decides how to allocate resources based on net income or loss that also is reported
on the statement of operations as net income or loss. The measure of segment assets is reported on the balance sheet as total assets.
When evaluating the Company’s performance and making key decisions regarding resource allocation, the CODM reviews several key
metrics included in net income or loss and total assets, which includes the following:
December 31,
2025
Cash and cash equivalents
$ 1,229,956
Cash and cash equivalents held in Trust Account
$ 175,986,308
For the
Period from
April 1,
2025
(inception)
Through
December 31,
2025
Formation, general and administrative expenses
$ 391,875
Administrative expense – related party
$ 163,548
Income on investments in Trust Account
$ 2,623,808
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The
CODM reviews formation, general and administrative expenses to manage and forecast cash to ensure enough capital is available to complete
a business combination or similar transaction within the business combination period. The CODM also reviews formation, general and administrative
expenses to manage, maintain and enforce all contractual agreements to ensure costs are aligned with all agreements and budget. Formation,
general and administrative expenses, as reported on the statement of operations, are the significant segment information provided to
the CODM on a regular basis.
All
other segment items included in net income or loss are reported on the statement of operations and described within their respective
disclosures.
Note
6 - Related Party Transactions
Founder
Shares
On
April 4, 2025, the Company issued an aggregate of 5,750,000 Class B ordinary shares, $ 0.0001 par value per share (the “Founder
Shares” or “Class B ordinary shares”), in exchange for a $ 25,000 payment (approximately $ 0.004 per share) from the
Sponsor to cover certain expenses on behalf of the Company. Up to 750,000 of the Founder Shares were subject to surrender for no consideration
depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ Over-Allotment Option in the Initial Public Offering was exercised. As the underwriters
exercised their Over-Allotment Option in full, none of the Founder Shares are subject to such surrender.
The
Founder Shares are identical to the Public Shares included in the Public Units being sold in the Initial Public Offering except
that (i) prior to the closing of the initial Business Combination, only holders of Class B ordinary shares will be entitled to vote on
certain matters, (ii) the Founder Shares are subject to certain transfer restrictions, as described in more detail below, (iii) the Founder
Shares are entitled to registration rights, and (iv) the Sponsor and the Company’s officers and directors have entered into a letter
agreement with the Company, pursuant to which they have agreed to (a) waive their redemption rights with respect to their Founder
Shares, Private Placement Shares and any Public Shares they may acquire during or after the Initial Public Offering in connection with
the completion of the initial Business Combination; (b) waive their redemption rights with respect to their Founder Shares, Private
Placement Shares and any Public Shares they may acquire during or after the Initial Public Offering in connection with a shareholder
vote to approve an amendment to the amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (1) to modify the substance or timing
of the Company’s obligation to allow redemption in connection with the initial Business Combination or to redeem 100 % of the Public
Shares if the Company has not consummated an initial Business Combination within the Completion Window or (2) with respect to any
other material provisions relating to shareholders’ rights or pre-initial Business Combination activity; (c) waive their rights
to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to their Founder Shares and Private Placement Shares if the Company
fails to complete an initial Business Combination within the Completion Window, although they will be entitled to liquidating distributions
from the Trust Account with respect to any Public Shares they hold if the Company fails to complete an initial Business Combination within
the prescribed time frame and to liquidating distributions from assets outside the Trust Account; and (d) vote any Founder Shares
and Private Placement Shares held by them and any Public Shares purchased during or after the Initial Public Offering (including in open
market and privately-negotiated transactions) in favor of the initial Business Combination (except with respect to any such Public Shares
which may not be voted in favor of approving the Business Combination transaction in accordance with the requirements of Rule 14e-5
under the Exchange Act and any SEC interpretations or guidance relating thereto).
The
Sponsor has agreed not to transfer, assign or sell any of its Founder Shares until the earlier to occur of (A) 180 days after the
completion of the initial Business Combination or (B) the date on which the Company completes a liquidation, merger, share exchange,
reorganization or other similar transaction that results in all of the public shareholders having the right to exchange their Public
Shares for cash, securities or other property.
Promissory
Note - Related Party
On
April 3, 2025, the Company and the Sponsor entered into a promissory note (the “Promissory Note”), whereby the Sponsor
agreed to loan the Company an aggregate of up to $ 400,000 to cover expenses related to the Initial Public Offering. The Promissory Note
was non-interest bearing and payable on the earlier of December 31, 2025, or the date on which the Company consummates the Initial Public
Offering. As of July 17, 2025, the Company had borrowed $ 223,827 under the Promissory Note. On July 17, 2025, the Company paid $ 249,981
to the Sponsor, resulting in an overpayment of $ 26,154 that was recorded as a due from related party. On December 31, 2025, the Sponsor
paid the Company $ 26,154 . As a result, the related party receivable has been reduced to $ 0 . The Promissory Note was non-interest bearing
and no amounts are outstanding as of December 31, 2025. Borrowings under the Promissory Note are no longer available.
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Administrative
Services and Indemnification Agreement
On
July 15, 2025, the Company entered into an Administrative Services and Indemnification Agreement with the Sponsor, Cambridge International
Partners LLC (“Cambridge”) and Alumia S.À.R.L. (“Alumia”) (the “Administrative and Indemnification
Agreement”). The Company agreed to pay the Sponsor $ 30,000 per month for office and administrative services and to provide indemnification
to the Sponsor, Cambridge, and Alumia from any claims arising out of or relating to the Initial Public Offering or the Company’s
operations or conduct of the Company’s business or any claim against the Sponsor, Cambridge or Alumia alleging any expressed or
implied management or endorsement by the Sponsor, Cambridge or Alumia of any of the Company’s activities or any express or implied
association between the Sponsor, Cambridge or Alumia and the Company or any of its affiliates, which agreement provides that the indemnified
parties cannot access the funds held in the Trust Account.
As
of December 31, 2025, there was $ 137,395 due to related party pursuant to the Administrative Services and Indemnification Agreement.
The Company incurred $ 163,548 for the period from April 1, 2025 (inception) through December 31, 2025. Amounts have been included in
administrative expense – related party in the accompanying statement of operations.
Related
Party Loans
In
order to finance transaction costs in connection with its initial Business Combination, the Sponsor or an affiliate of the Sponsor, or
the Company’s officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan the Company funds as may be required (“Working Capital
Loans”). If the Company completes its initial Business Combination, the Company would repay the Working Capital Loans. In the event
that the initial Business Combination does not close, the Company may use a portion of proceeds held outside the Trust Account to repay
the Working Capital Loans but no proceeds held in the Trust Account would be used to repay the Working Capital Loans. Any Working Capital
Loans are convertible into private placement-equivalent units of the post-Business Combination entity at a price of $ 10.00 per unit (“Working
Capital Units”) at the option of the lender. As of December 31, 2025, the Company had no Working Capital Loans.
Note
7 - Commitments and Contingencies
Risks
and Uncertainties
Various
macroeconomic, geopolitical and regulatory uncertainties and challenges pose risks to economic conditions in the U.S. and globally, including,
among others, any resurgence in inflation, changes to trade and tariffs, immigration, energy and other policies resulting from the new
U.S. administration, changes in interest rate policies, economic conditions and tensions involving China, U.S. federal government shutdowns
and geopolitical instability resulting from the ongoing wars between Russia and Ukraine and between Israel and Hamas, Iran and its proxies
in certain of the neighboring countries in the Middle East. In response to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (“NATO”) deployed additional military forces to eastern Europe, and the United States, the United
Kingdom, the European Union and other countries have announced various sanctions and restrictive actions against Russia, Belarus and
related individuals and entities, including the removal of certain financial institutions from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial
Telecommunication (“SWIFT”) payment system. Certain countries, including the United States, have also provided and may
continue to provide military aid or other assistance to Ukraine and to Israel, increasing geopolitical tensions among a number of nations.
The ongoing wars between Russia and Ukraine and between Israel and Hamas, Iran and its proxies in certain of the neighboring countries
in the Middle East and the resulting measures that have been taken, and could be taken in the future, by NATO, the United States,
the United Kingdom, the European Union, Israel and its neighboring states and other countries have created global security concerns
that could have a lasting impact on regional and global economies. Although the length and impact of the ongoing conflicts are highly
unpredictable, they could lead to market disruptions, including significant volatility in commodity prices, credit and capital markets,
as well as supply chain interruptions and increased cyber-attacks against U.S. companies. Additionally, any resulting sanctions
could adversely affect the global economy and financial markets and lead to instability and lack of liquidity in capital markets.
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Any
of the above mentioned factors, or any other negative impact on the global economy, capital markets or other geopolitical conditions
resulting from the ongoing wars between Russian and Ukraine, Israel and Hamas, Iran and its proxies in certain of the neighboring countries
in the Middle East and subsequent sanctions or related actions, could adversely affect the Company’s search for an initial Business
Combination and any target business with which the Company may ultimately consummate an initial Business Combination.
Registration
Rights
The
holders of the (i) Founder Shares, (ii) Private Placement Units (including the securities comprising such units), and (iii) Working
Capital Units (including the securities comprising such units) that may be issued upon conversion of working capital loans are entitled
to registration rights, requiring the Company to register such securities and any of the other securities they hold or acquire prior
to the consummation of the initial Business Combination for resale. The holders of these securities are entitled to make up to three
demands, excluding short form demands, that the Company register such securities. In addition, the holders have certain “piggy-back”
registration rights with respect to registration statements filed subsequent to the completion of the initial Business Combination. The
Company will bear the expenses incurred in connection with the filing of any such registration statements.
Underwriting
Agreement
As
described above, The Company granted the underwriters a 45-day option from the date of the Initial Public Offering to purchase up to
an additional 2,250,000 Over-Allotment Option Units to cover over-allotments, if any. On July 17, 2025, the underwriters fully exercised
their Over-Allotment Option.
The
underwriters were entitled to 2.0 % of the gross proceeds of the Initial Public Offering, excluding the gross proceeds pursuant to
the Over-Allotment Option, or $ 3,000,000 , paid to the underwriters upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering in the form of a cash
underwriting discount. The underwriters made a payment to us at the closing of the Initial Public Offering to reimburse certain of our
expenses and fees in connection with the Initial Public Offering, including certain expenses and fees incurred following the consummation
of the Initial Public Offering, in an amount equal to 1.0 % of the aggregate gross proceeds of the offering, including any proceeds from
the exercise of the Over-Allotment Option; provided, however that the expense reimbursement attributable to the aggregate gross proceeds
from the exercise of the Over-Allotment Option was deferred and will be paid to us at the closing of an initial business combination
only if the underwriters’ deferred commissions, including any underwriting fee payable pursuant to the exercise of the Over-Allotment
Option, has been paid to the underwriters at the closing of such initial business combination. On July 17, 2025, as part of the closing
of the Initial Public Offering, the Company received reimbursement from the underwriters of $ 1,500,000 .
In
addition, the underwriters have agreed to defer underwriting commissions of 4.0 % of the gross proceeds of the Initial Public Offering
(excluding the gross proceeds pursuant to the exercise of the underwriters’ Over-Allotment Option) and 6.0 % of the gross proceeds
pursuant to the exercise of the underwriters’ Over-Allotment Option. Upon and concurrently with the completion of a Business Combination,
up to $ 7,350,000 , which constitutes the underwriters’ deferred commissions, will be paid to the underwriters from the funds held
in the Trust Account as follows: (i) a cash payment of $ 2,000,000 and (ii) up to $ 5,350,000 of the aggregate gross proceeds of the Initial
Public Offering, representing the remaining deferred commissions, which will be reduced based on the percentage of total funds from the
Trust Account released to pay redeeming shareholders.
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Note
8 – Shareholder’s Deficit
Preference
Shares - The Company is authorized to issue 1,000,000 preference shares with a par value of $ 0.0001 per share with such designations,
voting and other rights and preferences as may be determined from time to time by the Company’s board of directors. As of December
31, 2025, there were no preference shares issued or outstanding.
Class
A Ordinary Shares - The Company is authorized to issue a total of 400,000,000 Class A ordinary shares, par value of $ 0.0001
per share. At December 31, 2025, 450,000 shares of Class A ordinary shares were issued and outstanding, excluding 17,250,000 shares
subject to possible redemption.
Class
B Ordinary Shares - The Company is authorized to issue a total of 80,000,000 Class B ordinary shares, par value of $ 0.0001
per share. On April 4, 2025, the Company issued 5,750,000 Class B ordinary shares to the Sponsor for $ 25,000 , or approximately $ 0.004
per share. At December 31, 2025, there were 5,750,000 shares of Class B ordinary shares issued and outstanding..
The
Founder Shares will automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares immediately prior to, or concurrently with or immediately
following the consummation of, the initial Business Combination or earlier at the option of the holder on a one-for-one basis, subject
to adjustment for share sub-divisions, share capitalizations, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like, and subject to further
adjustment. In the case that additional Class A ordinary shares or equity-linked securities are issued or deemed issued in connection
with the initial Business Combination, the number of Class A ordinary shares issuable upon conversion of all Class B ordinary
shares will equal, in the aggregate, 25 % of the total number of Class A ordinary shares outstanding after such conversion (excluding
the Private Placement Shares and the Class A ordinary shares underlying the Private Placement Warrants and after giving effect to any
redemptions of Class A ordinary shares by public shareholders), including the total number of Class A ordinary shares issued, or
deemed issued or issuable upon conversion or exercise of any equity-linked securities or rights issued or deemed issued, by the Company
in connection with or in relation to the consummation of the initial Business Combination, excluding any Class A ordinary shares
or equity-linked securities exercisable for or convertible into Class A ordinary shares issued, or to be issued, to any seller in
the initial Business Combination and any Private Placement Units issued to the Sponsor, officers or directors upon conversion of Working
Capital Loans; provided that such conversion of Founder Shares will never occur on a less than one-for-one basis.
Ordinary
shareholders of record are entitled to one vote for each share held on all matters to be voted on by shareholders. Holders of Class A
ordinary shares and holders of Class B ordinary shares will vote together as a single class on all matters submitted to a vote of
the Company’s shareholders except as required by law. However, prior to the closing of the initial Business Combination, only holders
of Class B ordinary shares will be entitled to vote on the appointment and removal of directors or continuing the Company in a jurisdiction
outside the Cayman Islands (including any special resolution required to amend the constitutional documents of the Company or to adopt
new constitutional documents of the Company, in each case, as a result of the Company approving a transfer by way of continuation in
a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands). This provision of the amended and restated memorandum and articles of association may only
be amended by a special resolution passed by not less than 90 % of the ordinary shares which are represented in person or by proxy and
are voted at the general meeting. Unless otherwise specified in the amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, or as
required by applicable provisions of the Companies Act or applicable stock exchange rules, the affirmative vote of a majority of the
ordinary shares that are represented in person or by proxy and are voted is required to approve any such matter voted on by the Company’s
shareholders. Approval of certain actions will require a special resolution under Cayman Islands law, which requires the affirmative
vote of at least two-thirds of the ordinary shares which are represented in person or by proxy and are voted at a general meeting of
the Company, and pursuant to the amended and restated memorandum and articles of association; such actions include amending the amended
and restated memorandum and articles of association and approving a statutory merger or consolidation with another company. The Company’s
board of directors is divided into three classes, each of which will generally serve for a term of three years with only one class
of directors being appointed in each year. There is no cumulative voting with respect to the appointment of directors, with the result
that the holders of more than 50 % of the shares voted for the appointment of directors can appoint all of the directors. The Company’s
shareholders are entitled to receive ratable dividends when, as and if declared by the board of directors out of funds legally available
therefor.
Warrants
- As of December 31, 2025, there were 8,850,000 Warrants outstanding, including 8,625,000 Public Warrants and 225,000 Private Placement
Warrants. Each whole Public Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one Class A ordinary share at a price of $ 11.50 per share, subject
to adjustment as discussed herein. The Public Warrants cannot be exercised until 30 days after the completion of the initial Business
Combination, and will expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, five years after the completion of the initial Business
Combination or earlier upon redemption or liquidation.
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The
Company will not be obligated to deliver any Class A ordinary shares pursuant to the exercise of a Public Warrant and will have
no obligation to settle such Public Warrant exercise unless a registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to the Class A
ordinary shares underlying the Public Warrants is then effective and a prospectus relating thereto is current, subject to the Company’s
satisfying its obligations. No Public Warrant will be exercisable and the Company will not be obligated to issue a Class A ordinary
share upon exercise of a Public Warrant unless the Class A ordinary share issuable upon such Public Warrant exercise has been registered,
qualified or deemed to be exempt under the securities laws of the state of residence of the registered holder of the Public Warrants.
In the event that the conditions in the two immediately preceding sentences are not satisfied with respect to a Public Warrant, the holder
of such Public Warrant will not be entitled to exercise such Public Warrant and such Public Warrant may have no value and expire worthless.
In no event will the Company be required to net cash settle any Public Warrant.
Under
the terms of that certain warrant agreement, dated as of July 15, 2025, by and between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer &
Trust Company (the “Warrant Agreement”), the Company agreed that, as soon as practicable, but in no event later than 20 business
days after the closing of its Business Combination, it will use commercially reasonable efforts to file with the SEC a post-effective
amendment to the registration statement for the Initial Public Offering or a new registration statement for the registration under the
Securities Act of the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the Public Warrants and the Company thereafter
will use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the same to become effective and to maintain the effectiveness of such registration
statement, and a current prospectus relating thereto, until the expiration of the Public Warrants in accordance with the provisions of
the Warrant Agreement. If a registration statement covering the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the Public Warrants
is not effective by the sixtieth (60 th ) business day after the closing of the initial Business Combination, Public Warrant
holders may, until such time as there is an effective registration statement and during any period when the Company will have failed
to maintain an effective registration statement, exercise Public Warrants on a “cashless basis” in accordance with Section 3(a)(9) of
the Securities Act or another exemption. Notwithstanding the above, if the Class A ordinary shares are at the time of any exercise
of a Public Warrant not listed on a national securities exchange such that they satisfy the definition of a “covered security”
under Section 18(b)(1) of the Securities Act, the Company may, at its option, require holders of Public Warrants who exercise
their Public Warrants to do so on a “cashless basis” in accordance with Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act and,
in the event the Company so elects, the Company will not be required to file or maintain in effect a registration statement, and in the
event the Company does not so elect, the Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to register or qualify the shares under applicable
blue sky laws to the extent an exemption is not available.
If
the holders exercise their Public Warrants on a cashless basis, they would pay the Public Warrant exercise price by surrendering the
Public Warrants for that number of Class A ordinary shares equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the product of the
number of Class A ordinary shares underlying the Public Warrants, multiplied by the excess of the “fair market value”
of the Class A ordinary shares over the exercise price of the Public Warrants by (y) the fair market value. The “fair
market value” is the average reported closing price of the Class A ordinary shares for the 10 trading days ending on
the third trading day prior to the date on which the notice of exercise is received by the warrant agent or on which the notice
of redemption is sent to the holders of Public Warrants, as applicable.
Redemption
of Warrants When the Price per Class A Ordinary Share Equals or Exceeds $ 18.00 : Once the Public Warrants become exercisable, the
Company may redeem the outstanding Public Warrants:
● in whole and not in part;
● at a price of $ 0.01 per Public Warrant;
● upon a minimum of 30 days’ prior written notice of redemption (the “ 30 -day redemption period”); and
● if, and only if, the closing price of the Class A ordinary shares equals or exceeds $ 18.00 per share (as adjusted for adjustments to the number of shares issuable upon exercise or the exercise price of a Public Warrant) for any 20 trading days within a 30 -trading day period commencing at least 30 days after completion of the Company’s initial Business Combination and ending three business days before the Company sends the notice of redemption to the Public Warrant holders.
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Additionally,
if the number of outstanding Class A ordinary shares is increased by a share capitalization payable in Class A ordinary shares,
or by a split-up of ordinary shares or other similar event, then, on the effective date of such share capitalization, split-up or similar
event, the number of Class A ordinary shares issuable on exercise of each Public Warrant will be increased in proportion to such
increase in the outstanding ordinary shares. A rights offering to holders of ordinary shares entitling holders to purchase Class A
ordinary shares at a price less than the fair market value will be deemed a share capitalization of a number of Class A ordinary
shares equal to the product of (i) the number of Class A ordinary shares actually sold in such rights offering (or issuable
under any other equity securities sold in such rights offering that are convertible into or exercisable for Class A ordinary shares)
and (ii) the quotient of (x) the price per Class A ordinary share paid in such rights offering and (y) the fair market
value. For these purposes (i) if the rights offering is for securities convertible into or exercisable for Class A ordinary
shares, in determining the price payable for Class A ordinary shares, there will be taken into account any consideration received
for such rights, as well as any additional amount payable upon exercise or conversion and (ii) fair market value means the volume
weighted average price of Class A ordinary shares as reported during the ten (10) trading day period ending on the trading
day prior to the first date on which the Class A ordinary shares trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular
way, without the right to receive such rights.
In
addition, if (x) the Company issues additional Class A ordinary shares or equity-linked securities for capital raising purposes in connection
with the closing of an initial Business Combination at an issue price or effective issue price of less than $ 9.20 per ordinary share
(with such issue price or effective issue price to be determined in good faith by the Company’s board of directors and, in the
case of any such issuance to the Sponsor or its affiliates, without taking into account any Founder Shares held by the Sponsor or such
affiliates, as applicable, prior to such issuance) (the “Newly Issued Price”), (y) the aggregate gross proceeds from such
issuances represent more than 60 % of the total equity proceeds, and interest thereon, available for the funding of an initial Business
Combination on the date of the consummation of an initial Business Combination (net of redemptions), and (z) the volume weighted average
trading price of the Class A ordinary shares during the 20 trading day period starting on the trading day prior to the day on which the
Company consummates the initial Business Combination (such price, the “Market Value”) is below $ 9.20 per share, then the
exercise price of the Public Warrants will be adjusted (to the nearest cent) to be equal to 115 % of the higher of the Market Value and
the Newly Issued Price, and the $ 18.00 per share redemption trigger price described above will be adjusted (to the nearest cent) to be
equal to 180 % of the higher of the Market Value and the Newly Issued Price. The Public Warrants may be exercised upon surrender of the
warrant certificate on or prior to the expiration date at the offices of the warrant agent, with the exercise form on the reverse side
of the warrant certificate completed and executed as indicated, accompanied by full payment of the exercise price (or on a cashless basis,
if applicable), by certified or official bank check payable to the Company, for the number of warrants being exercised. The holders of
Public Warrants do not have the rights or privileges of holders of Class A ordinary shares and any voting rights until they exercise
their warrants and receive Class A ordinary shares. After the issuance of Class A ordinary shares upon exercise of the Public Warrants,
each holder will be entitled to one vote for each share held of record on all matters to be voted on by shareholders.
Note
9 – Fair Value Measurements
The
fair value of the Company’s financial assets and liabilities reflects Management’s estimate of amounts that the Company would
have received in connection with the sale of the assets or paid in connection with the transfer of the liabilities in an orderly transaction
between market participants at the measurement date. In connection with measuring the fair value of its assets and liabilities, the Company
seeks to maximize the use of observable inputs (market data obtained from independent sources) and to minimize the use of unobservable
inputs (internal assumptions about how market participants would price assets and liabilities). The following fair value hierarchy is
used to classify assets and liabilities based on the observable inputs and unobservable inputs used in order to value the assets and
liabilities:
Level 1:
Quoted prices in active
markets for identical assets or liabilities. An active market for an asset or liability is a market in which transactions for the
asset or liability occur with sufficient frequency and volume to provide pricing information on an ongoing basis.
Level 2:
Observable inputs other
than Level 1 inputs. Examples of Level 2 inputs include quoted prices in active markets for similar assets or liabilities and quoted
prices for identical assets or liabilities in markets that are not active.
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Level 3:
Unobservable inputs based
on assessment of the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability.
Upon
consummating the Initial Public Offering on July 17, 2025, the Public Warrants were valued using a Black-Scholes Simulation Model, resulting in a fair value of $ 3,092,629 . The
Public Warrants were valued using Level 3 inputs and have been classified within shareholders’ deficit and will not require remeasurement
after issuance. The following table presents the quantitative information regarding market assumptions used in the valuation of the Public
Warrants:
July 17,
2025
Implied Class A Ordinary Share price $ 9.86
Exercise price $ 11.50
Simulation term (years) 6.75
Risk-free rate 4.19 %
Selected volatility 2.80 %
Calculated value per Warrant $ 0.36
Market adjustment 30.20 %
Note
10 - Subsequent Events
The Company evaluated subsequent events and transactions
that occurred after the accompanying balance sheet date through the date that the accompanying financial statements were issued. Based
upon this review, the Company did not identify any subsequent events that would have required adjustment or disclosure in the accompanying
financial statements.
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