−Removed: MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND
−Removed: ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
−Removed: The following discussion and analysis of the
−Removed: Company’s financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our audited financial statements and
−Removed: the notes related thereto which are included in Part II, Item 8 ( Financial Statements and Supplementary Data ) of this Annual Report
−Removed: on Form 10-K.
+Added: MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
+Added: OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
+Added: The following discussion and
+Added: analysis of the Company’s financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our audited financial
+Added: statements and the notes related thereto which are included in “Item 8.
+Added: Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” of this
+Added: Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Certain information contained in the discussion and analysis set forth below includes forward-looking statements.
−Removed: results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of many factors, including those
−Removed: set forth under “ Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements ” in this Annual Report and in the “ Risk
−Removed: Factors ” section of our Prospectus.
−Removed: We are a blank check company formed under the
−Removed: laws of the State of Delaware on November 23, 2021, whose business purpose is to effect a merger, capital stock exchange, asset
−Removed: acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses.
−Removed: We intend to effectuate our
−Removed: initial business combination using cash from the proceeds of the initial public offering and the sale of the private placement warrants,
−Removed: our capital stock, debt or a combination of cash, stock and debt.
−Removed: We expect to continue to incur significant costs
−Removed: in the pursuit of our acquisition plans.
−Removed: we cannot assure you that our plans to complete an initial business combination will be successful.
+Added: Our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of many factors, including
+Added: those set forth under “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements and Risk Factor Summary,” and elsewhere in this
+Added: Annual Report on Form 10-K.
+Added: We are a blank check company
+Added: formed under the laws of the State of Delaware on November 23, 2021, whose business purpose is to effect a merger, capital stock
+Added: exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses.
+Added: effectuate our initial business combination using cash from the proceeds of the IPO and the sale of the Private Placement Warrants (as
+Added: defined below), our capital stock, debt or a combination of cash, stock and debt.
+Added: On December 29, 2023, we
+Added: consummated our IPO”) of 6,900,000 Units, which includes the partial exercise by the underwriters of their over-allotment option
+Added: in the amount of 800,000 Units, at $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $69,000,000.
+Added: Simultaneously with the closing of the IPO,
+Added: we consummated the sale of 2,457,000 warrants (the “Private Placement Warrants”) at a price of $1.00 per Private Placement
+Added: Warrant, in a private placement to the sponsor, generating gross proceeds of $2,457,000.
+Added: Following the IPO and the
+Added: sale of the Private Placement Warrants, a total of $69,000,000 was placed in the Company’s Trust Account with Continental Stock
+Added: Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee (the “Trust Account”).
+Added: We incurred $4,651,705 of transaction expenses in connection
+Added: with the IPO and the sale of the Private Placement Warrants, consisting of $586,500 of cash underwriting fees, $2,518,500 of deferred
+Added: underwriting fees, and $1,546,705 of other offering costs.
+Added: We expect to continue to
+Added: incur significant costs in the pursuit of our acquisition plans.
+Added: We cannot assure you that our plans to complete an initial business combination
+Added: will be successful.
+Added: On September 29, 2024, the
+Added: Company entered into a business combination agreement (the “Business Combination Agreement”), dated as of September 27,
+Added: 2024, with Rosey Sea Holdings Limited, a company incorporated and existing under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (“Seller”)
+Added: and the owner of 100% of the issued and outstanding capital stock of Zhong Guo Liang Tou Group Limited, a company incorporated and existing
+Added: under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (the “Target”), pursuant to which the Company will purchase from Seller the ordinary
+Added: shares of the Target in exchange for shares of Common Stock, as a result of which the Target will become a wholly owned subsidiary of
+Added: Depending on the number of shares of Common Stock that the holders elect to have the Company redeem in connection with the
+Added: proposals presented at the Company’s meeting of stockholders to approve the Business Combination Agreement and the transactions
+Added: contemplated thereby and by the related agreements and certain related matters (collectively, the “Transactions”), the Company
+Added: will issue between 40,988,000 and 47,888,000 shares of Common Stock to Seller pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement.
+Added: On October 14, 2024, the
+Added: Company issued unsecured promissory note to the Target to pay or cause to be paid, the Acquiror Transaction Expenses, as may be incurred
+Added: from time to time and as such expenses become due and payable.
+Added: This loan is non-interest bearing, unsecured and repayable upon the date
+Added: on which the Company consummates its initial business transaction or, at the Company’s discretion, if funds allow.
+Added: As of December
+Added: 31, 2024, there was $425,013 outstanding under the promissory note.
+Added: On December 4, 2024, the Company issued an extension note to the Target
+Added: to fund the Company’s extension, which extends the period of time to complete a Business Combination to March 29, 2025.
+Added: As of December
+Added: 31, 2024, there was $229,770 outstanding under this note reported in Loan Payable in the accompanying audited balance sheets.
+Added: The consummation of the
+Added: Transactions is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including the effectiveness of the registration statement
+Added: that the Company is required to file with the SEC, required Nasdaq and regulatory approvals, and the approval of the Business Combination
+Added: Agreement, the Transactions and other required shareholder proposals by the Company’s stockholders.
Results of Operations
−Removed: We have neither engaged in any operations nor
−Removed: generated any revenues to date.
−Removed: Our only activities from November 23, 2021 (inception) through December 31, 2023 were organizational
−Removed: activities, those necessary to prepare for the initial public offering, and subsequent to the initial public offering, identifying a target
−Removed: company for a business combination.
−Removed: We do not expect to generate any operating revenues until after the completion of our business combination.
+Added: We have neither engaged
+Added: in any operations nor generated any revenues to date.
+Added: Our only activities from November 23, 2021 (inception) through December 31,
+Added: 2024 were organizational activities and those necessary to prepare for the IPO and, subsequent to the IPO, identifying a target company
+Added: for a business combination.
+Added: We do not expect to generate any operating revenues until after the completion of our initial business combination.
We generate non-operating income in the form of interest income on marketable securities held in the Trust Account.
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as a result of being a public company (for legal, financial reporting, accounting and auditing compliance), as well as for due diligence
−Removed: For the year ended December 31, 2023, we
−Removed: had a net loss of $308,792, which consists of formation and operating costs of $309,018, offset by the income tax benefit of $226.
−Removed: For the year ended December 31, 2022, we had
−Removed: a net loss of $181,003, which consists of formation and operating costs.
+Added: expenses in connection with searching for an appropriate target for, and completing, a business combination.
+Added: For the year ended December 31,
+Added: 2024, we had net income of $1,375,819, which consists of change in fair value of overallotment liability of $11,135, gain on lawsuit settlements
+Added: of $295,000 and interest earned on marketable securities held in the Trust Account of $3,526,053, partially offset by formation and operating
+Added: costs of $1,709,829 and provision for income taxes of $746,540.
+Added: For the year ended December 31,
+Added: 2023, we had a net loss of $308,792, which consists of formation and operating costs of $309,018, partially offset by the income tax benefit
Liquidity and Capital Resources
−Removed: On December 29, 2023, we consummated our IPO
−Removed: of 6,900,000 units, which includes the partial exercise by the underwriters of their over-allotment option in the amount of 800,000 units,
−Removed: at $10.00 per unit, generating gross proceeds of $69,000,000.
−Removed: Simultaneously with the closing of the IPO, we consummated the sale of
−Removed: 2,457,000 Private Placement Warrants at a price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant, in a private placement to the sponsor, generating
−Removed: gross proceeds of $2,457,000.
−Removed: Following the IPO, the partial exercise of the
−Removed: over-allotment option, and the sale of the Private Placement Warrants, a total of $69,000,000 was placed in the trust account.
−Removed: $4,651,705 consisting of $586,500 of cash underwriting fees, $2,518,500 of deferred underwriting fees, and $1,546,705 of other offering
−Removed: For the year ended December 31, 2023, cash
−Removed: used in operating activities was $83,200.
+Added: For the year ended December 31,
+Added: 2024, cash used in operating activities was $1,012,960.
+Added: Net income of $1,375,819 was affected by the change in fair value of the overallotment
+Added: liability of $11,135, and interest earned on marketable securities held in the Trust Account of $3,526,053.
+Added: Changes in operating assets
+Added: and liabilities provided $1,148,409 of cash from operating activities.
+Added: For the year ended December 31,
+Added: 2023, cash used in operating activities was $83,200.
Net loss of $308,792 was affected by payment of office expenses made by sponsor of
$269,251 and a courtesy discount on legal fees of $11,301.
−Removed: Changes in operating assets and liabilities used $32,358 of cash from operating activities.
−Removed: For the year ended December 31, 2022, cash
−Removed: used in operating activities was $0.
−Removed: Net loss of $181,003 was affected by payment of office expenses made by sponsor of $113,601.
−Removed: in operating assets and liabilities provided $67,402 of cash from operating activities.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023, we had $69,000,000
−Removed: of cash held in the trust account.
−Removed: Through December 31, 2023, we have not withdrawn any interest earned from the trust account.
−Removed: We intend to use substantially all of the funds held in the trust account, including any amounts representing interest earned on the
−Removed: trust account (less income taxes payable), to complete our business combination.
−Removed: To the extent that our capital stock or debt is used,
−Removed: in whole or in part, as consideration to complete our business combination, the remaining proceeds held in the trust account will be
−Removed: used as working capital to finance the operations of the target business or businesses, make other acquisitions and pursue our growth
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023, we had cash of
−Removed: We intend to use the funds held outside the trust account to fund our SEC and tax compliance and to identify and evaluate target
−Removed: businesses, perform business due diligence on prospective target businesses, travel to and from the offices, plants or similar locations
−Removed: of prospective target businesses or their representatives or owners, review corporate documents and material agreements of prospective
−Removed: target businesses, and structure, negotiate and complete a business combination.
−Removed: We may need to raise additional funds in order
−Removed: to meet the expenditures required for operating our business.
−Removed: If our estimate of the costs of identifying a target business, undertaking
−Removed: in-depth due diligence and negotiating a business combination are less than the actual amount necessary to do so, we may have insufficient
−Removed: funds available to operate our business prior to our business combination.
−Removed: Moreover, we may need to obtain additional financing either
−Removed: to complete our business combination or because we become obligated to redeem a significant number of our public shares upon consummation
−Removed: of our business combination, in which case we may issue additional securities or incur debt in connection with such business combination.
−Removed: In order to fund working capital deficiencies
−Removed: or finance transaction costs in connection with a business combination, our sponsor, or certain of our officers and directors or their
−Removed: affiliates may, but are not obligated to, loan us funds as may be required.
−Removed: if we complete a business combination, we would repay such
−Removed: loaned amounts.
−Removed: In the event that a business combination does not close, we may use a portion of the working capital held outside the
−Removed: trust account to repay such loaned amounts but no proceeds from our trust account would be used for such repayment.
−Removed: Such loans may be
−Removed: convertible into warrants of the post-business combination entity at a price of $1.00 per warrant, at the option of the lender.
−Removed: would be identical to the private placement warrants, including as to exercise price, exercisability and exercise period.
+Added: Changes in operating assets and liabilities used $32,358 of cash from operating
+Added: As of December 31, 2024,
+Added: we had $72,752,485 of cash held in the Trust Account.
+Added: Through December 31, 2024, we have withdrawn $3,338 of interest earned from the
+Added: marketable securities held in the Trust Account.
+Added: We intend to use substantially all of the funds held in the Trust Account, including
+Added: any amounts representing interest earned on the Trust Account (less income taxes payable), to complete a business combination.
+Added: extent that our capital stock or debt is used, in whole or in part, as consideration to complete a business combination, the remaining
+Added: proceeds held in the Trust Account will be used as working capital to finance the operations of the target business or businesses, make
+Added: other acquisitions and pursue our growth strategies.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024,
+Added: we had cash of $454 outside the Trust Account.
+Added: Until consummation of a business combination, we intend to use the funds held outside the
+Added: Trust Account to fund our SEC and tax compliance and to identify and evaluate target businesses, perform business due diligence on prospective
+Added: target businesses, travel to and from the offices, plants or similar locations of prospective target businesses or their representatives
+Added: or owners, review corporate documents and material agreements of prospective target businesses, and structure, negotiate and complete
+Added: a business combination.
+Added: We may need to raise additional
+Added: funds in order to meet the expenditures required for operating our business.
+Added: If our estimate of the costs of identifying a target business,
+Added: undertaking in-depth due diligence and negotiating a business combination are less than the actual amount necessary to do so, we may have
+Added: insufficient funds available to operate our business prior to our consummation of a business combination.
+Added: Moreover, we may need to obtain
+Added: additional financing either to complete a business combination or because we become obligated to redeem a significant number of our public
+Added: shares upon consummation of a business combination, in which case we may issue additional securities or incur debt in connection with
+Added: such business combination.
+Added: In order to fund working
+Added: capital deficiencies or finance transaction costs in connection with a business combination, the sponsor, or certain of our officers and
+Added: directors or their affiliates may, but are not obligated to, loan us funds as may be required.
+Added: If we complete a business combination,
+Added: we would repay such loaned amounts.
+Added: In the event that we do not complete a business combination, we may use a portion of the working capital
+Added: held outside the Trust Account to repay such loaned amounts but no proceeds from the Trust Account would be used for such repayment.
+Added: loans may be convertible into warrants to purchase common stock of the post-business combination entity at a price of $1.00 per warrant,
+Added: at the option of the lender.
+Added: These warrants would be identical to the Private Placement Warrants, including as to exercise price, exercisability
+Added: and exercise period.
Going Concern
−Removed: In connection with the Company’s assessment
−Removed: of going concern considerations in accordance with Financial Accounting Standard Board’s Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”)
+Added: In connection with the Company’s
+Added: assessment of going concern considerations in accordance with Financial Accounting Standard Board’s Accounting Standards Update
2014-15, “Disclosures of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern,” we have determined
−Removed: that mandatory liquidation, should a business combination not occur, and an extension not be approved by the stockholders of the Company,
−Removed: and potential subsequent dissolution and the liquidity issue raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as
−Removed: a going concern through December 29, 2024, the scheduled liquidation date of the Company if it does not complete a business combination
−Removed: prior to such date.
−Removed: Management plans to complete a business combination before the mandatory liquidation date.
−Removed: However, there can be
−Removed: no assurance that the Company will be able to consummate any business combination by December 29, 2024.
−Removed: These financial statements do
−Removed: not include any adjustments relating to the recovery of the recorded assets or the classification of the liabilities that might be necessary
−Removed: should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.
+Added: that mandatory liquidation, should we not complete a business combination and an extension of our deadline to do so not be approved by
+Added: the stockholders of the Company, and potential subsequent dissolution and the liquidity issue raise substantial doubt about the Company’s
+Added: ability to continue as a going concern through March 29, 2025 (or June 29, 2025, if we extend the period of time to consummate a business
+Added: combination as provided in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation), the scheduled liquidation date of the Company if it
+Added: does not complete a business combination prior to such date.
+Added: Management plans to complete a business combination before the mandatory
+Added: liquidation date.
+Added: However, there can be no assurance that we will be able to consummate any business combination by March 29, 2025 (or,
+Added: if extended, June 29, 2024).
+Added: These financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recovery of the recorded assets
+Added: or the classification of the liabilities that might be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.
Off-Balance Sheet Financing Arrangements
−Removed: We have no obligations, assets or liabilities,
−Removed: which would be considered off-balance sheet arrangements as of December 31, 2023.
+Added: We have no obligations,
+Added: assets or liabilities, which would be considered off-balance sheet arrangements as of December 31, 2024.
Contractual Obligations
−Removed: We do not have any long-term debt, capital lease
−Removed: obligations, operating lease obligations or long-term liabilities.
−Removed: We are party to an administrative services agreement with our sponsor,
−Removed: Bengochea SPAC Sponsors I LLC.
−Removed: Our sponsor has agreed that until the Company consummates a business combination, it will make such office
−Removed: space, as well as general and administrative services including utilities and administrative support, available to the Company as may
−Removed: be required by the Company from time to time.
−Removed: The underwriters were entitled to a deferred
−Removed: underwriting discount of 3.65% of the gross proceeds of the IPO, or $2,518,500, payable upon the closing of an initial business combination.
−Removed: The deferred fee will become payable to the underwriters from the amounts held in the trust account solely in the event that we complete
−Removed: a business combination, subject to the terms of the underwriting agreement.
−Removed: Critical Accounting Policies
−Removed: The preparation of financial statements and related
−Removed: disclosures in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and
−Removed: liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and income and expenses during the
−Removed: periods reported.
+Added: We do not have any long-term
+Added: debt, capital lease obligations, operating lease obligations or long-term liabilities.
+Added: We are party to an administrative services agreement
+Added: with the sponsor.
+Added: The sponsor has agreed that until the Company consummates a business combination, it will make office space, as well
+Added: as general and administrative services including utilities and administrative support, available to the Company as may be required by
+Added: the Company from time to time.
+Added: The underwriters in the
+Added: IPO were entitled to a deferred underwriting discount of 3.65% of the gross proceeds of the IPO, or $2,518,500, payable upon the closing
+Added: of an initial business combination.
+Added: The deferred fee will become payable to the underwriters from the amounts held in the Trust Account
+Added: solely in the event that we complete a business combination, subject to the terms of the underwriting agreement.
+Added: Critical Accounting Estimates
+Added: The preparation of financial
+Added: statements and related disclosures in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported
+Added: amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and income
+Added: and expenses during the periods reported.
Actual results could materially differ from those estimates.
−Removed: We have not identified any critical accounting policies
−Removed: as of December 31, 2023.
+Added: We have not identified any critical
+Added: accounting estimates as of December 31, 2024.
Recent Accounting Standards
−Removed: Management does not believe that any other recently
−Removed: issued, but not yet effective, accounting standards, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on our financial statements.
+Added: In November 2023, the FASB
+Added: issued ASU 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280):
+Added: Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures.
+Added: The amendments
+Added: in this ASU require disclosures, on an annual and interim basis, of significant segment expenses that are regularly provided
+Added: to the chief operating officer decision maker (“CODM”), as well as the aggregate amount of other segment items included in
+Added: the reported measure of segment profit or loss.
+Added: The ASU requires that a public entity disclose the title and position of the
+Added: CODM and an explanation of how the CODM uses the reported measure(s) of segment profit or loss in assessing segment performance and deciding
+Added: how to allocate resources.
+Added: Public entities will be required to provide all annual disclosures currently required by Topic 280 in
+Added: interim periods, and entities with a single reportable segment are required to provide all the disclosures required by the amendments
+Added: in this ASU and existing segment disclosures in Topic 280.
+Added: This ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after
+Added: December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted.
+Added: Management does not believe
+Added: that any other recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting standards, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on our
+Added: financial statements.
QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES
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+Added: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY
+Added: This information appears following Item 15 of
+Added: this Annual Report and is included herein by reference.
+Added: CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS
+Added: ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
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