UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Form

FORM 10-K

(Mark One)

ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended:ended December 31, 2021

OR
2023

or

TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from to

Commission file number:

001-40905
TRISTAR ACQUISITION I CORP.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

TRISTAR ACQUISITION I CORP.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Cayman Islands

98-1587643

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

2 Burlington Woods Drive, Suite 100

Burlington, MA

01803

(Address of principal executive offices)

(Zip Code)

2870 Peachtree Road, NW Suite 509, Atlanta,
Georgia
30305
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (412)

327-9294
+1 (781) 640-4446

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class

Trading Symbol(s)

Name of each exchange on

which registered

Units, each consisting of one Class A ordinary share, $0.0001 par value,Ordinary Share and

one-half
of one redeemable warrant
Redeemable Warrant to purchase one Class A Ordinary Share

TRIS.U

The New York Stock Exchange

Class A ordinary shares included as part of the unitsOrdinary Shares, par value $0.0001 per share

TRIS

The New York Stock Exchange

Redeemable warrants included as partWarrants, each exercisable for one Class A Ordinary Share at an exercise price of the units$11.50 per share

TRIS.WS

The New York Stock Exchange

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ☐ No ☐  

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes ☐ No ☒

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant:registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation

S-T
232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a

non-accelerated
filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer, “smaller reporting company”company,” and “emerging growth company” in
Rule 12b-2
of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

Large accelerated filer

Accelerated filer

Large Accelerated Filer

Non-accelerated filer

☒     

Smaller reporting company

Accelerated Filer

☒     

Emerging growth company 

☒     

Non-accelerated FilerSmaller Reporting Company
Emerging Growth Company

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. ☐

If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements. ☒

Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b). ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in

Rule 12b-2
of the Securities Exchange Act). Yes ☐  ☒ No ☐
As

The aggregate market value of March 31, 2022 23,000,000the outstanding shares of the registrant’s Class A ordinaryOrdinary Shares, other than shares $0.0001 par value per share, and 5,750,000held by persons who may be deemed affiliates of the registrant, computed by reference to the closing price for the Class B ordinary shares, $0.0001 par value per share, were issued and outstanding, respectively.

As ofA Ordinary Shares on June 30, 2021,2023, the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, the registrant’s securities were 0t publicly traded. Accordingly, there was no market value for the registrant’s Class A ordinary shares on such date. The registrant’s units began tradingas reported on the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) on October 18, 2021, and the registrant’swas $240,810,000.

As of May 8, 2024, there were 10,608,802 Class A ordinary shares,Ordinary Shares, par value $0.0001 per share, (each a “Class A ordinary share” and collectively,5,750,000 Class B Ordinary Shares, par value $0.0001 per share, of the “Class A ordinary shares”)registrant issued and warrants began trading on the NYSE on December 6, 2021.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
None.

TRISTAR ACQUISITION I CORP.
FORM 10-K
INDEX
outstanding.

 
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Business.

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Risk FactorsFactors.

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Unresolved Staff CommentsComments.

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Cybersecurity.

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Item 2. Properties

Properties.

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Legal ProceedingsProceedings.

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Mine Safety DisclosuresDisclosures.

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PART II

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Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity SecuritiesSecurities.

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[Reserved]

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Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of OperationsOperations.

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Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures aboutAbout Market RiskRisk.

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Financial Statements and Supplementary DataData.

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Changes in and Disagreements withWith Accountants on Accounting and Financial DisclosureDisclosure.

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Controls and ProceduresProcedures.

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Other InformationInformation.

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Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent InspectionsInspections.

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PART III

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Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate GovernanceGovernance.

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Executive CompensationCompensation.

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Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder MattersMatters.

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Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director IndependenceIndependence.

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Item 14.

Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

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PART IV

Item 15.

Exhibit and Financial Statement Schedules.

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Item 16.

Form 10-K Summary.

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CERTAIN TERMS
Unless otherwise stated in this Annual

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Report on Form

10-K
(this “Annual Report”) or(as defined below), including, without limitation, statements under “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” includes forward-looking statements within the context otherwise requires, references to:
“we,” “us,” “our,” “company” or “our company” are to Tristar Acquisition I Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company.
“amended and restated memorandum and articlesmeaning of association” are to the amended and restated memorandum and articles of association that the company adopted prior to the consummationSection 27A of the initial public offering;
“anchor investors” are to certain qualified institutional buyers or institutional accredited investors, each of which is not affiliated with any member of our management teamSecurities Act (as defined below) and each of which purchased up to 9.9%Section 21E of the units (or up to 2,277,000 units)Exchange Act (as defined below). These forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including the words “believes,” “estimates,” “anticipates,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “may,” “will,” “potential,” “projects,” “predicts,” “continue,” or “should,” or, in the initial public offering;
“Companies Act” are to the Companies Act (2021 Revision) of the Cayman Islands as the same mayeach case, their negative or other variations or comparable terminology. There can be amendedno assurance that actual results will not materially differ from time to time;
“forward purchase agreements” are to the forward purchase agreements providing for the sale of forward purchase shares by us to the forward purchase investors in a private placement that will close immediately prior to the closing of our initial business combination;
“forward purchase investors” are to certain institutional investors, each of which will enter into a forward purchase agreement;
“forward purchase shares” are to the Class A ordinary shares purchased pursuant to the forward purchase agreements;
“founder shares” are to our Class B ordinary shares initially purchased by our Sponsor in a private placement prior to the initial public offering and the Class A ordinary shares that will be issued upon the automatic conversion of the Class B ordinary shares at the time of our initial business combination as described herein;
“initial shareholders” are to holders of our founder shares prior to the initial public offering (other than the anchor investors);
“management” or our “management team” are to our executive officers and directors;
“ordinary shares” are to our Class A ordinary shares and our Class B ordinary shares;
“private placement warrants” are to the warrants issued to our Sponsor in a private placement simultaneously with the closing of the initial public offering and upon conversion of working capital loans, if any;
“public shares” are to our Class A ordinary shares sold as part of the units in the initial public offering (whether they are purchased in the initial public offering or thereafter in the open market);
“public shareholders” are to the holders of our public shares, including our initial shareholders and management team to the extent our initial shareholders and/or members of our management team purchase public shares, provided that each initial shareholder’s and each member of our management team’s status as a “public shareholder” will only exist with respect to such public shares;
“representative” or “Wells Fargo Securities” are to Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, the representative of the underwriters of the initial public offering;
“SEC” are to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; and
“Sponsor” are to Tristar Holdings I LLC, a Cayman Islands limited liability company.
Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements and Risk Factor Summary
Some of the statements contained in this Annual Report may constitute “forward-looking statements.” Our forward-lookingexpectations. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our or our management team’s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that referrelating to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intends,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-
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looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this Annual Report may include, for example, statements about:
our ability to consummate any acquisition or other Business Combination (as defined below) and any other statements that are not statements of current or historical facts. These statements are based on Management’s (as defined below) current expectations, but actual results may differ materially due to various factors, including, but not limited to:

our ability to complete our initial Business Combination, including the Helport Business Combination (as defined below);

our expectations around the performance of the prospective target business or businesses, such as Helport (as defined below);

our success in retaining or recruiting, or changes required in, our officers, key employees or directors following our initial Business Combination;

our officers and directors allocating their time to other businesses and potentially having conflicts of interest with our business or in approving our initial Business Combination, as a result of which they would then receive expense reimbursements;

the potential incentive to consummate an initial Business Combination with an acquisition target that subsequently declines in value or is unprofitable for public investors due to the low initial price for the Founder Shares (as defined below) paid by our Prior Sponsor (as defined below);

our potential ability to obtain additional financing to complete our initial Business Combination;

the ability of our officers and directors to generate additional potential acquisition opportunities, if needed;

our pool of prospective target businesses;

our public securities’ potential liquidity and trading;

the lack of a market for our securities;

the use of proceeds not held in the Trust Account (as defined below) or available to us from interest income on the Trust Account balance;

the Trust Account not being subject to claims of third-parties;

our financial performance; or

the other risks and uncertainties discussed in “Item 1A. Risk Factors” below.

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Additionally, on January 24, 2024, the SEC (as defined below) adopted the 2024 SPAC Rules (as defined below), which will become effective on July 1, 2024, that will affect SPAC (as defined below) Business Combination transactions. The 2024 SPAC Rules require, among other matters, (i) additional disclosures relating to SPAC Business Combination transactions; (ii) additional disclosures relating to dilution and to conflicts of interest involving sponsors and their affiliates in both SPAC initial public offerings and Business Combination transactions; (iii) additional disclosures regarding projections included in SEC filings in connection with proposed Business Combination transactions; and (iv) the requirement that both the SPAC and its target company be co-registrants for Business Combination registration statements. In addition, the SEC’s adopting release provided guidance describing circumstances in which a SPAC could become subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act (as defined below), including its duration, asset composition, business combination;

purpose, and the activities of the SPAC and its management team in furtherance of such goals. The 2024 SPAC Rules may materially affect our ability to select an appropriate target business or businesses;
our ability tonegotiate and complete our initial business combination;
our expectations aroundBusiness Combination and may increase the performance of a prospective target business or businesses;
our success in retaining or recruiting, or changes required in, our officers, key employees or directors following our initial business combination;
our officerscosts and directors allocating their time to other businesses and potentially having conflicts of interest with our business or in approving our initial business combination;
our potential ability to obtain additional financing to complete our initial business combination;
our pool of prospective target businesses;
the ability of our officers and directors to generate a number of potential business combination opportunities;
our public securities’ potential liquidity and trading;
the lack of a market for our securities;
the use of proceeds not held in the trust account or available to us from interest income on the trust account balance;
the trust account not being subject to claims of third parties; or
our financial performance following the initial public offering.
related thereto.

The forward-looking statements contained in this Annual Report are based on our current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effects on us. There can be no assurance that futureFuture developments affecting us willmay not be those that we have anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties (some of which are beyond our control) or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the following risks, uncertainties and other factors:

our being a company with no operating history and no revenues;
our ability to select an appropriate target business or businesses;
our ability to complete our initial business combination;
our expectations around the performance of a prospective target business or businesses;
our success in retaining or recruiting, or changes required in, our officers, key employees or directors following our initial business combination;
our officers and directors allocating their time to other businesses and potentially having conflicts of interest with our business or in approving our initial business combination;
our potential ability to obtain additional financing to complete our initial business combination;
our pool of prospective target businesses, including the location and industry of such target businesses;
our ability to consummate an initial business combination due to the continued uncertainty resulting from the
COVID-19
pandemic;
the ability of our officers and directors to generate a number of potential business combination opportunities;
our public securities’ potential liquidity and trading;
the lack of a market for our securities;
the use of proceeds not held in the trust account or available to us from interest income on the trust account balance;
the availability to us of funds from interest income on the trust account balance;
the trust account not being subject to claims of third parties;
our financial performance following the initial public offering;
risks and uncertainties related to the telecommunications, technology and other industries we may target for our initial business combination; or
the other risks and uncertainties discussed in “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this Annual Report.
Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of our assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.
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Unless otherwise stated in this Report, or the context otherwise requires, references to:

“2021 Annual Report” are to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, as filed with the SEC on March 31, 2022, and as amended on August 19, 2022;

“2022 Annual Report” are to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, as filed with the SEC on March 9, 2023;

“2023 EGM” are to our extraordinary general meeting of shareholders on July 18, 2023;

“2023 Redemptions” are to the 12,391,198 Public Shares (as defined below) whose holders properly exercised their right to redeem such Public Shares for cash at a redemption price of approximately $10.52 per share in connection with approval of the Memorandum Amendment Proposals (as defined below) at the 2023 EGM;

“2024 SPAC Rules” are to the new rules and regulations for SPACs adopted by the SEC on January 24, 2024, which will become effective on July 1, 2024;

“Administrative Support Agreement” are to the Administrative Support Agreement we entered into on October 13, 2021 with the Prior Sponsor, which was terminated on June 30, 2023 in connection with the Sponsor Handover (as defined below);

“Amended and Restated Memorandum” are to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, as amended and currently in effect;

“Anchor Investors” are to certain qualified institutional buyers or institutional accredited investors, each of which is not affiliated with any member of our Management Team (as defined below) and each of which purchased up to 9.9% of the Units (as defined below) (or up to 2,277,000 Units) in the Initial Public Offering (as defined below);

“ASC” are to the FASB (as defined below) Accounting Standards Codification;

“ASU” are to the FASB Accounting Standards Update;

“Board of Directors” or “Board” are to our board of directors;

“Business Combination” are to a merger, capital share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar Business Combination with one or more businesses;

“Class A Ordinary Shares” are to our Class A Ordinary Shares, par value $0.0001 per share;

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“Class B Ordinary Shares” are to our Class B Ordinary Shares, par value $0.0001 per share;

“Class B Transfer” are to the transfer of an aggregate of 4,427,500 Class B Ordinary Shares from the Sponsor Handover Sellers (as defined below) to the Sponsor Purchasers (as defined below) and Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, in connection with the Sponsor Handover;

“Combination Period” are to the 36-month period, from the closing of the Initial Public Offering to October 18, 2024, as extended by and pursuant to the terms of the Extension Amendment Proposal (as defined below), that we have to consummate an initial Business Combination;

“Companies Act” are to the Companies Act (As Revised) of the Cayman Islands as the same may be amended from time to time;

“Company,” “our,” “we,” or “us” are to Tristar Acquisition I Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company;

“Continental” are to Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, trustee of our Trust Account and warrant agent for our Public Warrants (as defined below);

“DWAC System” are to the Depository Trust Company’s Deposit/Withdrawal At Custodian System;

“Exchange Act” are to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended;

“Excise Tax” are to the U.S. federal 1% excise tax on certain repurchases of stock by publicly traded U.S. domestic corporations and certain U.S. domestic subsidiaries of publicly traded foreign corporations occurring on or after January 1, 2023 as provided for by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022;

“Extension Amendment Proposal” are to the special resolution approved by our shareholders at the 2023 EGM granting us the right to extend the date by which we have to complete a Business Combination from July 18, 2023 to October 18, 2023, and without another shareholder vote, to further extend such period for an additional one (1) month as needed, on a month-to-month basis, up to twelve (12) times, until October 18, 2024;

“FASB” are to the Financial Accounting Standards Board;

“FINRA” are to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority;

“First Merger Sub” are to Merger I Limited, a British Virgin Islands business company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pubco (as defined below);

“Founder Shares” are to the (i) 5,750,000 Class B Ordinary Shares that are currently outstanding and held by the Initial Shareholders (as defined below) and the Sponsor Purchasers, and (ii) Class A Ordinary Shares that will be issued upon the conversion of the Class B Ordinary Shares (for the avoidance of doubt, such Class A Ordinary Shares will not be “Public Shares”);

“GAAP” are to the accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America;

“Helport” are to Helport Limited, a British Virgin Islands business company;

“Helport Business Combination” are to the transactions and agreements contemplated by the Helport Business Combination Agreement (as defined below);

“Helport Business Combination Agreement” are to the Business Combination Agreement, dated as of November 12, 2023 by and among our Company, Pubco, the First Merger Sub, the Second Merger Sub (as defined below), Helport, the Purchaser Representative (as defined below) and the Seller Representative (as defined below), as amended by the Helport Business Combination Agreement Amendment (as defined below);

“Helport Business Combination Agreement Amendment” are to the First Amendment to Business Combination Agreement, dated as of December 18, 2023, by and among our Company, Pubco, the First Merger Sub, the Second Merger Sub, Helport, the Purchaser Representative and the Seller Representative;

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“Helport Registration Statement” are to the registration statement on Form F-4 initially filed by Pubco with the SEC on February 8, 2024, as amended, relating to the Helport Business Combination and containing a proxy statement of our Company;

“IFRS” are to the International Financial Reporting Standards, as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board;

“Initial Public Offering” or “IPO” are to the initial public offering that we consummated on October 18. 2021;

“Initial Shareholders” are to holders of our Founder Shares immediately prior to our Initial Public Offering, including the Prior Sponsor, officers and directors and certain Anchor Investors at the time of the IPO, which still hold Founder Shares and either entered into the Insider Letter (as defined below) or an investment agreement with the Prior Sponsor at the time of the IPO;

“Insider Letter” are to the Letter Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, which we entered into with our Prior Officers (as defined below), Prior Directors (as defined below) and the Prior Sponsor, as amended by the Insider Letter Amendment (as defined below) and the Insider Letter Second Amendment;

“Insider Letter Amendment” are to the Amendment to Letter Agreement, dated July 18, 2023, which we entered into with our Prior Officers, Prior Directors and the Prior Sponsor;

“Insider Letter Second Amendment” are to the Second Amendment to Letter Agreement, dated November 12, 2023, which we entered into with Helport, the Prior Sponsor, the Sponsor (as defined below) and our directors and officers, pursuant to which Pubco and Helport are to be added as parties to the Insider Letter upon the closing of the Helport Business Combination.

“Investment Company Act” are to the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended;

“IPO Promissory Note” are to that certain unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of up to $300,000 issued to our Prior Sponsor on March 9, 2021, as amended and restated in April and May 2021;

“IPO Registration Statement” are to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 initially filed with the SEC on April 2, 2021, as amended, and declared effective on October 13, 2021 (File No. 333-255009);

“IPO Underwriting Agreement” are to the Underwriting Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, which we entered into with the representative of the underwriters in our Initial Public Offering;

“JOBS Act” are to the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012;

“July 2023 Promissory Note” are to the unsecured promissory note in an amount of $375,000 we issued to Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, our President, Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors, on July 18, 2023;

“Management” or our “Management Team” are to our executive officers and directors;

“Management Changes” are to the changes in our Management Team, effective on July 18, 2023 and September 13, 2023, collectively;

“Marcum” are to Marcum LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm;

“May 2024 Promissory Notes” are two unsecured promissory note, dated May 3, 2024, issued by the Company (i) to Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, the Company’s President, Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of the Board of the Company, in the principal amount of up to $400,000, in connection with working capital loans to the Company, and (ii) to Xiaoma (Sherman) Lu, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Company, in the principal amount of up to $200,000, in connection with working capital loans to the Company

“Memorandum Amendment Proposals” are to the Extension Amendment Proposal, the Trust Agreement Amendment Proposal (as defined below) and the NTA Requirement Amendment Proposal (as defined below), collectively;

“NTA Requirement Proposal” are to the special resolution of our shareholders at the 2023 EGM approving an amendment to the Amended and Restated Memorandum to remove the Redemption Limitation (as defined below) in order to allow us to redeem Public Shares irrespective of whether such redemption would exceed the Redemption Limitation;

“NYSE” are to the New York Stock Exchange;

“Ordinary Shares” are to the Class A Ordinary Shares and the Class B Ordinary Shares, together;

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“PCAOB” are to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States);

“Prior Directors” are to William M. Mounger, Cathy Martine-Dolecki, Robert Willis, Greg Boyd, David Jones, David Barksdale, Alex Parker and Steven Rogers;

“Prior Officers” are to (i) William M. Mounger, our prior Chief Executive Officer, (ii) Timothy Allen Dawson, and (iii) Cathy Martine-Dolecki, our prior Chief Operating Officer;

“Prior Sponsor” are to Tristar Holdings I LLC, a Delaware limited liability company;

“Prior Sponsor WCL Promissory Note” are to the unsecured promissory note we issued to the Prior Sponsor on June 12, 2023, whereby the Prior Sponsor agreed to loan us up to $250,000 to us for working capital needs;

“Private Placement” are to the private placement of Private Placement Warrants (as defined below) that occurred simultaneously with the closing of our Initial Public Offering;

“Private Placement Warrants” are to the warrants issued (i) to our Sponsor in the Private Placement and (ii) upon conversion of any Working Capital Loans (as defined below);

“Pubco” are to Helport AI Limited, a British Virgin Islands business company;

“Public Shares” are to the Class A Ordinary Shares sold as part of the Units (as defined below) in our Initial Public Offering (whether they were purchased in our Initial Public Offering or thereafter in the open market);

“Public Shareholders” are to the holders of our Public Shares, including our Sponsor and Management Team to the extent our Sponsor and/or the members of our Management Team purchase Public Shares, provided that each of our Sponsor’s and member of our Management Team’s status as a “Public Shareholder” will only exist with respect to such Public Shares;

“Public Warrants” are to the redeemable warrants sold as part of the Units in our Initial Public Offering (whether they were subscribed for in our Initial Public Offering or purchased in the open market);

“Purchaser Representative” are to Navy Sail International Limited, a British Virgin islands company, in the capacity as the representative of our shareholders in accordance with the timing, terms and conditions of the Helport Business Combination Agreement;

“Redemption Limitation” are to the limitation in our Amended and Restated Memorandum, prior to approval of the NTA Requirement Amendment Proposal at the 2023 EGM, that we may not redeem Public Shares to the extent that such redemption would result in us having net tangible assets (as determined in accordance with Rule 3a51-1(g)(1) of the Exchange Act), of less than $5,000,001;

“Registration Rights Agreement” are to the Registration Rights Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, which we entered into with the Prior Sponsor and the holders party thereto, including parties of the Sponsor Handover Joinder Agreements (as defined below);

“Report” are to this Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023;

“Sarbanes-Oxley Act” are to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002;

“SEC” are to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission;

“Second Merger Sub” are to Merger II Limited, an exempted company incorporated with limited liability in the Cayman Islands and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pubco;

“Securities Act” are to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended;

“Seller Representative” are to Extra Technology Limited, a BVI business company, in the capacity as the representative of the Helport Shareholders (as defined in “Item 1. Business”) in accordance with the timing, terms and conditions of the Helport Business Combination Agreement;

“September 2023 Promissory Notes” are to the unsecured promissory notes in an aggregate amount of $2,125,000, which we issued to our officers and their affiliates for our working capital needs;

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“SPACs” are to special purpose acquisition companies;

“Sponsor” are to Navy Sail International Limited, a British Virgin Islands business company with limited liability;

“Sponsor Handover” are to the Class B Transfer, all agreements executed in connection with the Class B Transfer (including the transactions contemplated therein) and the Management Changes;

“Sponsor Handover Joinder Agreements” are to the Joinder Agreements, each dated July 18, 2023, which we entered into with the Prior Sponsor and each of the Sponsor Purchasers, pursuant to which the Sponsor Purchasers became parties to the Insider Letter and the Registration Rights Agreement;

“Sponsor Handover Sellers” are to the Prior Sponsor and all other holders of Class B Ordinary Shares on July 18, 2023, together;

“Sponsor Handover Securities Transfer Agreement” are to the Securities Transfer Agreement, dated July 18. 2023, which we entered into with the Prior Sponsor and the Sponsor Purchasers in connection with the Sponsor Handover;

“Sponsor Handover Share Transfer Agreements” are to the Share Transfer Agreements, dated July 18, 2023, entered into between each respective Sponsor Handover Seller and Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, in the Class B Transfer;

“Sponsor Purchasers” are to our Sponsor and its designees, collectively, in connection with the Sponsor Handover;

“Trust Account” are to the U.S.-based trust account in which an amount of $202,000,000 from the net proceeds of the sale of the Units in the Initial Public Offering and a portion of the proceeds of the sale of the Private Placement Warrants in the Private Placement was placed following the closing of the Initial Public Offering;

“Trust Amendment Proposal” are to the special resolution of our shareholders at the 2023 EGM approving an amendment to the Investment Management Trust Agreement, by and between us and Continental, dated October 13, 2021, to extend the end of the Combination Period to October 18, 2024, pursuant to the Extension Amendment Proposal;

“Units” are to the units sold in our Initial Public Offering, which consist of one Public Share and one-half of one Public Warrant;

“Warrant Agreement” are to the Warrant Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, which we entered into with Continental, as warrant agent;

“Warrants” are to the Private Placement Warrants and the Public Warrants, together; and

“Working Capital Loans” are to funds that, in order to provide working capital or finance transaction costs in connection with a Business Combination, the Sponsor or an affiliate of the Sponsor or certain of our directors and officers may, but are not obligated to, loan us.

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PART I

Item 1.

Business
Business.

Overview

We are a recently incorporated blank check company incorporated on March 5, 2021 as a Cayman Islands exempted company and formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combinationBusiness Combination with one or more businesses, which we refer to throughout this Annual Report as our initial business combination. While we have not identified any potential business combination target, we have initiated discussions with potential business combination targets.

businesses.

While we may pursue an acquisition opportunity in any industry, sector or geography, we intend to targetare targeting a telecommunications and technology oriented company. Our management teamManagement Team and board of directors (“Board of Directors” and collectively with management, referred to as the “team”)Directors possess a synergistic combination of executive, strategic, operational, financial and transactional experience, and have demonstrated a strong track record of identifying and creating significant shareholder value at a wide array of telecommunications, technology, consulting, healthcare, private equity, venture capital and agricultural companies. We believe that the experience and expertise of our team willManagement Team make us an attractive partner to potential target businesses, enhance our ability to complete a successful business combinationBusiness Combination and will bring value to the business following our initial business combination.

Business Combination.

Our objective is to generate attractive returns for shareholders and enhance value through both operational improvements and new initiatives to expand the target business organically and/or by strategic acquisitions. Given our team’sManagement Team’s extensive work and business relationships in this sector, we have direct visibility into the growth prospects and developmental promise of differentiated companies. Our teamManagement Team has decades of experience identifying and understanding the key fundamental theses of our targeted businesses and how management teams can better execute on their stated strategies to deliver value. Our team’sManagement Team’s past experiences provide a differentiated set of skills that other companies may not possess. We believe that our team’sManagement Team’s expertise, capabilities, and network provide us with a significant advantage in identifying attractive investments and consummating an initial business combinationBusiness Combination that will be well-received in the public markets.

The 2024 SPAC Rules may materially affect our ability to negotiate and complete our initial Business Combination and may increase the costs and time related thereto.

Initial Public Offering

On October 18, 2021, we consummated our Initial Public Offering of 20,000,000 Units. Each Unit consists of one Public Share and one-half of one Public Warrant, with each whole Public Warrant entitling the holder thereof to purchase one Class A Ordinary Shares for $11.50 per share. The Units were sold at a price of $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds to our Company of $200,000,000.

Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, we completed the private sale of an aggregate of 6,775,000 Private Placement Warrants to our Prior Sponsor in the Private Placement at a purchase price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant, generating gross proceeds of $6,775,000.

A total of $202,000,000, comprised of all of the proceeds from the Initial Public Offering and a portion of the proceeds of the Private Placement, was placed in the Trust Account maintained by Continental, acting as trustee.

Our prior sponsor was Tristar Holdings I LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. On July 18, 2023, upon the consummation of the Sponsor Handover (as described below), Navy Sail International Limited, a British Virgin Islands company, became our new sponsor.

It is the job of our Sponsor and Management Team to complete our initial Business Combination. Our Management Team consists of (i) Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, our President, Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of our Board of Directors, (ii) Xiaoma (Sherman) Lu, our Chief Executive Officer and director, and (iii) Ri (Richard) Yuan, our Chief Investment Officer. We must complete our initial Business Combination by October 18, 2024, the end of our Combination Period, which is 36 months from the closing of our Initial Public Offering. If our initial Business Combination is not consummated by October 18, 2024, then, unless our Board of Directors shall otherwise determine, our existence will terminate, and we will distribute all amounts in the Trust Account.

Extension of Our Combination Period

We initially had until July 18, 2023, 21 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering, to consummate our initial Business Combination. On June 18, 2023, we held the 2023 EGM, at which our shareholders approved (i) Extension Amendment Proposal, (ii) the Trust Agreement Amendment Proposal and (iii) the NTA Requirement Amendment Proposal. In connection with the shareholders’ approval of the Memorandum Amendment Proposals, the holders of 12,391,198 Public Shares properly exercised their right to redeem their Public Shares for cash at a redemption price of approximately $10.52 per share, for an aggregate redemption amount of approximately $130,320,650, in the 2023 Redemptions, without taking into account additional allocation of payments to cover any tax obligation of our Company. Following the 2023 Redemptions, there were 10,608,802 Class A Ordinary Shares and 5,750,000 Class B Ordinary Shares issued and outstanding.

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Sponsor Handover

On July 18, 2023, we entered into the Sponsor Handover Securities Transfer Agreement with the Prior Sponsor and the Sponsor Purchasers, whereby the Prior Sponsor agreed to transfer to the Sponsor Purchasers, 3,046,634 Class B Ordinary Shares and 4,961,250 Private Placement Warrants, which the Prior Sponsor purchased in connection with the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement. In addition, the Sponsor Handover Sellers transferred an aggregate of 1,380,866 Class B Ordinary Shares to Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, our President, Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors, pursuant to the Sponsor Handover Share Transfer Agreements. In connection with the Sponsor Handover Securities Transfer Agreement, any accounts payable and accrued expenses in excess of $200,000 that were incurred by the Company prior to the Sponsor Handover was the responsibility of the Prior Sponsor to settle (the “Company Liability”). Following the transaction, any remaining liabilities incurred by the Company prior to the Sponsor Handover and any liabilities incurred post-the Sponsor Handover, continued as a liability to the Company. The Company incurred $191,628 in excess of the $200,000 Company Liability. The Prior Sponsor paid $191,628 for outstanding accounts payable and accrued expenses, which was recorded as additional paid-in capital for the year ended December 31, 2023. After the closing of the Sponsor Handover on July 18, 2023, the Sponsor Handover Sellers held an aggregate of 1,322,500 Class B Ordinary Shares, and the Prior Sponsor held 2,383,750 Private Placement Warrants.

In connection with the Sponsor Handover, (i) each of the Sponsor Purchasers entered into a Sponsor Handover Joinder Agreements, pursuant to which the Sponsor Purchasers became parties to the Insider Letter and the Registration Rights Agreement and (ii) the Insider Letter was amended by the Prior Officers, the Prior Directors and the Prior Sponsor to allow for the Class B Transfer, pursuant to the Insider Letter Amendment. In addition, at the closing of the Sponsor Handover, the underwriters of the Initial Public Offering waived their respective entitlement to the payment of any deferred underwriting fees to be paid under the terms of Section 2(c) and Section 5(bb) of the IPO Underwriting Agreement. Additionally, we terminated the Administrative Support Agreement with the Prior Sponsor.

As part of the Sponsor Handover, we also introduced the Management Changes and a change in our Board of Directors as follows: (i) effective as of July 18, 2023,  Chunyi (Charlie) Hao replaced William M. Mounger as Chief Executive Officer and director, and Michael H. Liu replaced Timothy Allen Dawson as Chief Financial Officer, and Mr. Liu was also appointed as a director of the Board; (ii) effective as of July 18, 2023, Cathy Martine-Dolecki tendered her resignation as Chief Operating Officer and director and Robert Willis tendered his resignation as director; and (iii) effective August 14, 2023, Greg Boyd, David Jones, David Barksdale, Alex Parker and Steven Rogers tendered their resignations as directors. We then appointed each of Xinyue (Jasmine) Geffner, Stephen Markscheid and Wang Chiu (Tommy) Wong to fill the vacancies left by departing Messrs. Boyd, Jones, Barksdale, Parker and Rogers, effective August 14, 2023. Additionally, effective September 13, 2023, the Board of Directors appointed (x) Chunyi (Charlie) Hao as our President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, following his resignation as Chief Executive Officer, (y) Xiaoma (Sherman) Lu as our Chief Executive Officer and (z) Ri (Richard) Yuan as Chief Investment Officer.

On April 24, 2024, Michael H. Liu notified the Board of his resignation as Chief Financial Officer and director of the Company, effective on April 23, 2024. On April 29, 2024, the Board appointed (i) Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, the Company’s President and Chairman of the Board, as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective on April 29, 2024, and (ii) Xiaoma (Sherman) Lu, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, as a director of the Company, to fill the vacancy left by Mr. Liu’s departure, effective on April 29, 2024.

The foregoing descriptions of the Sponsor Handover Securities Transfer Agreement, Sponsor Handover Share Transfer Agreements, Sponsor Handover Joinder Agreements and the Insider Letter Amendment do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by the terms and conditions of the Sponsor Handover Securities Transfer Agreement, Sponsor Handover Share Transfer Agreements Sponsor Handover Joinder Agreements and the Insider Letter Amendment, copies or forms of which are attached hereto as Exhibits 10.17, 10.18, 10.19 and 10.20, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.

Helport Business Combination

On November 12, 2023, we entered into the Helport Business Combination Agreement with Pubco, the First Merger Sub, the Second Merger Sub, Helport, the Purchaser Representative and the Seller Representative. Pursuant to the Helport Business Combination Agreement, subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein, at the closing of the Helport Business Combination (the “Closing”), (i) the First Merger Sub will merge with and into Helport (the “First Merger”), with Helport surviving the First Merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pubco and the outstanding securities of Helport being converted into the right to receive securities of Pubco; and (b) following the First Merger, the Second Merger Sub will merge with and into our Company (the “Second Merger” and together with the First Merger, the “Mergers”), with our Company surviving the Second Merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pubco and our outstanding securities being converted into the right to receive securities of Pubco. Capitalized terms not defined but otherwise used in the following description have the meanings ascribed to them in the Helport Business Combination Agreement.

On December 18, 2023, we entered into the Helport Business Combination Agreement Amendment with Pubco, the First Merger Sub, the Second Merger Sub, Helport, the Purchaser Representative and the Seller Representative, which amended the Helport Business Combination Agreement to (i) remove the Earnout and the related Earnout Escrow and (ii) reduce the Aggregate Merger Consideration Amount from three hundred and fifty million U.S. dollars ($350,000,000) to three hundred and thirty-five million U.S. dollars ($335,000,000).

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 Consideration

Under the Helport Business Combination Agreement, the Aggregate Merger Consideration Amount to be paid to the shareholders of Helport is $335,000,000, pursuant to the Helport Business Combination Agreement Amendment, subject to net debt and working capital adjustments, and will be paid entirely in newly issued ordinary shares of Pubco, with each share valued at the Per Share Price.

On the Closing Date (as defined below) immediately prior to the First Merger Effective Time, each Company Preferred Share, if any, that is issued and outstanding immediately prior to the First Merger Effective Time shall be canceled in exchange for the right to receive a number of the ordinary shares, par value $1.00 each, of Helport, upon and after completion of the Reorganization (as defined below) (the “Helport Ordinary Shares”), at the then effective conversion rate (the “Conversion”). As a result of the Mergers, (a) each ordinary share of Helport that is issued and outstanding immediately prior to the First Merger Effective Time and after the Conversion shall be cancelled and converted into the right to receive 100% of such number of ordinary shares of Pubco equal to the Exchange Ratio; (b) each of the convertible securities of Helport, to the extent then outstanding and unexercised immediately prior to the First Merger Effective Time, shall be cancelled, retired and terminated; (c) each of our Ordinary Shares that is issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be cancelled and converted automatically into the right to receive one Pubco ordinary share; and (d) each of our outstanding Public Warrants and Private Placement Warrant shall be converted into one Pubco Public Warrant or one Pubco Private Warrant, respectively.

Helport Reorganization

Helport Pte. Ltd., a Singapore exempt private company limited by shares (“Helport Pte”), has entered into certain agreements (together with all agreements, deeds, instruments or other documents as may be necessary or appropriate, the “Reorganization Documents”) with Helport Holdings Limited, certain minority shareholders of Helport, Helport, Helport Group Limited, Helport Pte, and Helport AI, Inc, to implement and effect a reorganization pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Reorganization Documents (the “Reorganization”). The Reorganization Documents were executed throughout the period from October 2023 to December 2023, and on December 22, 2023, the Reorganization was completed.

Representations and Warranties

The Helport Business Combination Agreement contains a number of representations and warranties made by the parties as of the date of such agreement or other specific dates solely for the benefit of certain of the parties to the Helport Business Combination Agreement, which in certain cases are subject to specified exceptions and materiality, Material Adverse Effect, knowledge and other qualifications contained in the Helport Business Combination Agreement or in information provided pursuant to certain disclosure schedules to the Helport Business Combination Agreement. The representations and warranties made by the parties are customary for transactions similar to the Helport Business Combination Agreement.

In the Helport Business Combination Agreement, Helport made certain customary representations and warranties to us, including among others, related to the following: (1) corporate matters, including, due organization, existence and good standing; (2) authority and binding effect relative to execution and delivery of the Helport Business Combination Agreement and other ancillary documents; (3) capitalization; (4) subsidiaries; (5) governmental approvals; (6) non-contravention; (7) financial statements; (8) absence of certain changes; (9) compliance with laws; (10) company permits; (11) litigation; (12) material contracts; (13) intellectual property; (14) taxes and returns; (15) real property; (16) personal property; (17) title to and sufficiency of assets; (18) employee matters; (19) benefit plans; (20) environmental matters; (21) transactions with related persons; (22) insurance; (23) books and records; (24) top customer and suppliers; (25) certain business practices; (26) the Investment Company Act; (27) finders and brokers; (28) disclosure; (29) information supplied; (30) independent investigation; and (31) exclusivity of representations and warranties. Helport also made certain representations and warranties to us with respect to the Reorganization.

In the Helport Business Combination Agreement, we made certain customary representations and warranties to Helport and Pubco, including among others, representations and warranties related to the following: (1) corporate matters, including due organization, existence and good standing; (2) authority and binding effect relative to execution and delivery of the Helport Business Combination Agreement and other ancillary documents; (3) governmental approvals; (4) non-contravention; (5) capitalization; (6) the SEC filings, our financials, and internal controls; (7) absence of certain changes; (8) compliance with laws; (9) actions, orders and permits; (10) taxes and returns; (11) employees and employee benefit plans; (12) properties; (13) material contracts; (14) transactions with affiliates; (15) the Investment Company Act and the JOBS Act; (16) finders and brokers; (17) certain business practices; (18) insurance; (19) information supplied; (20) independent investigation; (21) the Trust Account; (22) registration and listing; and (23) termination of prior Business Combination agreements.

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In the Helport Business Combination Agreement, Pubco, the First Merger Sub and the Second Merger Sub made customary representations and warranties to us, including, among others, representations and warranties related to the following: (1) organization and good standing; (2) authority and binding effect relative to execution and delivery of the Helport Business Combination Agreement and other ancillary documents; (3) governmental approvals; (4) non-contravention; (5) capitalization; (6) activities of Pubco, the First Merger Sub and the Second Merger Sub; (7) finders and brokers; (8) the Investment Company Act; (9) information supplied; (10) independent investigation; (11) exclusivity of representations and warranties and (12) the intended tax treatment of the Helport Business Combination.

None of the representations and warranties of the parties shall survive the Closing.

Covenants of the Parties

Each party agreed in the Helport Business Combination Agreement to use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect the Closing. The Helport Business Combination Agreement contains certain customary covenants by each of the parties during the period between the signing of the Helport Business Combination Agreement and the earlier of the Closing or the termination of the Helport Business Combination Agreement in accordance with its terms, including covenants regarding: (1) the provision of access to their properties, books and personnel; (2) the operation of their respective businesses in the ordinary course of business (subject to certain exceptions); (3) provision of financial statements of Target Companies; (4) our public filings; (5) “no shop” obligations; (6) no insider trading; (7) notifications of certain breaches, consent requirements or other matters; (8) efforts to consummate the Closing and obtain third-party and regulatory approvals and efforts to cause Pubco to maintain its status as a “foreign private issuer” under Rule 3b-4 of the Exchange Act; (9) further assurances; (10) public announcements; (11) confidentiality; (12) indemnification of directors and officers and tail insurance; (13) use of trust proceeds after the Closing; (14) efforts to support a private placement or backstop arrangements, if sought; (15) intended tax treatment of the Mergers and (16) use of Trust Account proceeds.

Helport agreed to use commercially reasonable efforts to consummate the Reorganization by November 30, 2023. Helport agreed to use its best efforts to deliver the audited financial statements of Helport for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2022 and June 30, 2023 to us by November 30, 2023. Pubco shall be responsible for paying the Purchaser Transaction Expenses in an amount up to $3,500,000 (the “Initial Cap”), subject to certain exclusions, provided, that, if the date and time at which the Closing is actually held (the “Closing Date”) occurs later than February 29, 2024 (the “Initial Cap Date”), we may, in our sole discretion, increase the Initial Cap by increments of $200,000 in each month following the Initial Cap Date. In addition, Helport agreed that in the event that either (i) Helport and Helport Pte. do not consummate the Reorganization by December 31, 2023 or (ii) Helport does not deliver the applicable audited financial statements by December 31, 2023 (or by the “staleness” date, as applicable),  then Helport shall pay us and our Sponsor (at our discretion) $125,000 for each month or portion thereof until the later of such date that (i) such applicable audited financial statements are delivered and (ii) the Reorganization has been completed.  

Helport also agreed to cause certain of its shareholders to each enter into a Key Seller Lock-Up Agreement (as defined below).

In addition, the parties agreed to take all necessary actions to cause Pubco’s board of directors immediately after the Closing to consist of five directors, including: (i) two persons who are designated by us prior to the Closing as independent directors; and (ii) three persons who are designated by Helport prior to the Closing.

The Helport Business Combination Agreement and the consummation of the Helport Business Combination require the approval of both our shareholders and the holders of Helport Ordinary Shares as of the Closing (each, a “Helport Shareholder”). Our Company and Pubco also agreed to jointly prepare, and Pubco shall file with the SEC, the Helport Registration Statement in connection with the registration under the Securities Act of the issuance of securities of Pubco to the holders of (i) our Ordinary Shares and Warrants and (i) Helport’s ordinary shares and warrants, and containing a proxy statement/prospectus for the purpose of soliciting proxies from our shareholders for the matters relating to the Helport Business Combination to be acted on at the extraordinary general meeting of our shareholders and providing such shareholders an opportunity to participate in the redemption of their Public Shares upon the Closing (the “Redemption”). Helport agreed to call a meeting of its shareholders or cause a written resolution to be passed, as promptly as practicable after the Helport Registration Statement has become effective, in order to obtain the approval of Helport Shareholders for the approval of the Helport Business Combination Agreement and the Helport Business Combination, and Helport agreed to use its commercially reasonable efforts to solicit from the Helport Shareholders proxies prior to such special meeting or written resolution, and to take all other actions necessary or advisable to secure the approval of the Helport Shareholders.

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Conditions to Closing

The obligations of the parties to consummate the Helport Business Combination are subject to various conditions, including the following mutual conditions of the parties, unless waived: (1) the approval of the Helport Business Combination Agreement and the Helport Business Combination and related matters by the requisite vote of our and the Helport shareholders; (2) obtaining material regulatory approvals; (3) no law or order preventing or prohibiting the Helport Business Combination; (4) our Company or Pubco shall have consolidated net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001 (as calculated and determined in accordance with Rule 3a51-1(g)(1) of the Exchange Act) either immediately prior to the Closing (after giving effect to the Redemption) or upon the Closing after giving effect to the Mergers (including the Redemption), or Pubco otherwise is exempt from the provisions of Rule 419 promulgated under the Exchange Act (i.e. one of several exclusions from the “penny stock” rules of the SEC applies and we rely on another exclusion); (5) amendment by the shareholders of Pubco of Pubco’s memorandum and articles of association; (6) the effectiveness of the Helport Registration Statement; (7) appointment of the post-closing directors of Pubco; and (8) Nasdaq Stock Market LLC or NYSE listing requirements, as applicable, having been fulfilled.

In addition, unless waived by Helport, the obligations of Helport, Pubco, the First Merger Sub and the Second Merger Sub to consummate the Helport Business Combination are subject to the satisfaction of the following Closing conditions, in addition to customary certificates and other closing deliveries: (1) the representations and warranties of our Company being true and correct on and as of the Closing (subject to Material Adverse Effect); (2) our Company having performed in all material respects its obligations and complied in all material respects with its covenants and agreements under the Helport Business Combination Agreement required to be performed or complied with by us on or prior the date of the Closing; (3) absence of any Material Adverse Effect with respect to our Company since the date of the Helport Business Combination Agreement which is continuing and uncured; (4) receipt by the Company and Pubco of the First Amendment to Registration Rights Agreement (as defined below); (5) each of the Sellers shall have received from Pubco a registration rights agreement covering the merger consideration shares received by the Sellers duly executed by Pubco; and (6) receipt by Helport and Pubco of employment agreements between certain management persons from Helport and Helport or our Company, in each case effective as of Closing.

Unless waived by our Company, our obligations to consummate the Helport Business Combination are subject to the satisfaction of the following Closing conditions, in addition to customary certificates and other closing deliveries: (1) the representations and warranties of Helport, Pubco, the First Merger Sub, and the Second Merger Sub being true and correct on and as of the Closing (subject to Material Adverse Effect on the Target Companies, taken as a whole); (2) the Company, Pubco, the First Merger Sub, and the Second Merger Sub having performed in all material respects the respective obligations and complied in all material respects with their respective covenants and agreements under the Helport Business Combination Agreement required to be performed or complied with on or prior the date of the Closing; (3) absence of any Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Target Companies (taken as a whole) since the date of the Helport Business Combination Agreement which is continuing and uncured; (4) the Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement (as defined below), the Employment Agreements, the First Amendment to Registration Rights Agreement, and each Key Seller Lock-Up Agreement shall be in full force and effect from the Closing; (5) resignation of the directors and officers of the Helport as requested by us prior to the Closing; and (6) our Company shall have received evidence that Helport shall have terminated, extinguished and cancelled all of its outstanding convertible securities.

Termination

The Helport Business Combination Agreement may be terminated at any time prior to the Closing by either our Company or Helport if the Closing does not occur by September 30, 2024, or such other date as may be extended pursuant to the Helport Business Combination Agreement.

The Helport Business Combination Agreement may also be terminated under certain other customary and limited circumstances at any time prior the Closing, including, among other reasons: (1) by mutual written consent of our Company and the Helport; (2) by either our Company or Helport if a governmental authority of competent jurisdiction shall have issued an order or taken any other action permanently restraining, enjoining or otherwise prohibiting the Helport Business Combination, and such order or other action has become final and non-appealable; (3) by Helport for our uncured breach of the Helport Business Combination Agreement, such that the related Closing condition would not be met; (4) by our Company for the uncured breach of the Helport Business Combination Agreement by Helport, Pubco, the First Merger Sub, or the Second Merger Sub, such that the related Closing condition would not be met; (5) by either our Company or Helport if we hold our shareholder meeting to approve the Helport Business Combination Agreement and the Helport Business Combination, and such approval is not obtained; and (6) by either our Company or Helport if Helport holds its shareholder meeting to approve the Helport Business Combination Agreement and the Helport Business Combination, and such approval is not obtained.

The Helport Business Combination Business Combination Agreement will terminate automatically if, by June 30, 2024, (i) the Reorganization has not been completed or (ii) Helport has not delivered the applicable PCAOB Financial Statements. As of December 31, 2023, both (i) and (ii) have been either completed and/or delivered.

Helport shall pay us a termination fee of three million U.S. dollars ($3,000,000) plus expenses, in the event that (i) the Helport Business Combination Agreement is automatically terminated or (ii) the Helport Business Combination Agreement is terminated by us for uncured breach of the Helport Business Combination Agreement by Helport, Pubco, the First Merger Sub, or the Second Merger Sub. We shall pay to Helport a termination fee of three million U.S. dollars ($3,000,000) plus expenses, in the event that the Helport Business Combination Agreement is terminated by Helport for an uncured breach of the Helport Business Combination Agreement by our Company.

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If the Helport Business Combination Agreement is terminated, all further obligations of the parties under the Helport Business Combination Agreement (except for certain obligations related to the Termination Fee, confidentiality, effect of termination, fees and expenses, trust fund waiver, miscellaneous and definitions to the foregoing) will terminate, no party to the Helport Business Combination Agreement will have any further liability to any other party thereto except for liability for fraud or for willful breach of the Helport Business Combination Agreement prior to termination.

Trust Account Waiver

Helport, Pubco, the First Merger Sub and the Second Merger Sub have agreed that they and their affiliates will not have any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies in our Trust Account held for our Public Shareholders, and have agreed not to, and waived any right to, make any claim against the Trust Account (including any distributions therefrom).

The foregoing descriptions of the Helport Business Combination Agreement and Helport Business Combination Agreement Amendment do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by the terms and conditions of the Helport Business Combination Agreement and Helport Business Combination Agreement Amendment, copies of which are attached hereto as Exhibits 2.1 and 2.2, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.

Related Agreements and Documents

Lock-Up Agreements

Prior to the Closing, Pubco, Helport, our Company, the Purchaser Representative and certain shareholders holding (i) Helport Ordinary Shares and (ii) any preferred shares, par value $1.00 each, of Helport, upon and after completion of the Reorganization (either as the holder of record or the beneficial owner within the meaning of Rule 135-3 under the Exchange Act), shall enter into Lock-Up Agreements (each, a “Key Seller Lock-Up Agreement”).

Pursuant to each Key Seller Lock-Up Agreement, each signatory thereto will agree not to, during the period commencing from the Closing Date and ending on the 24-month anniversary of the Closing Date (subject to early release if (x) the closing price of Pubco Ordinary Shares equals or exceeds $12.00 per share for any 20 out of 30 trading days commencing 270 days after the Closing or (y) Pubco consummates a sale of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets to a third-party; sale resulting in a change in holding of the majority of the voting power; or a merger, consolidation, recapitalization or reorganization that results in the inability of the pre-transaction equity holders to designate or elect a majority of the board of directors (or its equivalent) of the resulting entity or its parent company) (the “Lock-Up Period”):  (i) lend, offer, pledge, hypothecate, encumber, donate, assign, sell, offer to sell, contract or agree to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, or otherwise transfer or dispose of or agree to transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any Lock-up Securities (as defined under the Key Seller Lock-Up Agreements), (ii) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Lock-up Securities, whether any such transaction is to be settled by delivery of such Lock-up Securities, in cash or otherwise, or (iii) publicly disclose the intention to do any of the foregoing, whether any such transaction described in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) above is to be settled by delivery of Lock-up Securities or other securities, in cash or otherwise (subject to early release if Pubco consummates a Change of Control) (any of the foregoing described in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii), a “Prohibited Transfer”).

On April 26, 2024, the Company entered into lock-up agreements (the “Amended Lock-Up Agreements”) with two shareholders of Helport (the “Helport Investors”), pursuant to which the Helport Investors agreed not to execute a Prohibited Transfer during the Lock-Up Period, provided, however, (i) each Helport Investor would be permitted to transfer the Lock-Up Securities during the Lock-Up Period to certain other shareholders of Helport, subject to certain trading volume limitations, and (ii) if each Holder made a credit facility available to Helport of at least $2,000,000 and $4,000,000, respectively, the Lock-Up Securities would be subject to early release upon the twelve-month anniversary of the Closing.

The foregoing description of the Amended Lock-Up Agreements does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Amended Lock-Up Agreements, which are attached hereto as Exhibits 10.31 and 10.32, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.

Shareholder Support Agreement

Simultaneously with the execution of the Helport Business Combination Agreement, our Company, Helport and a certain Helport Shareholder entered into a Shareholder Support Agreement (the “Shareholder Support Agreement”), pursuant to which, among other things, a Helport Shareholder has agreed (a) to support the adoption of the Business Combination Agreement and the approval of the Transactions, subject to certain customary conditions, and (b) not to transfer any of their subject shares (or enter into any arrangement with respect thereto), subject to certain customary conditions.

The foregoing description of the Shareholder Support Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Shareholder Support Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.26 and is incorporated herein by reference.

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Insider Letter Second Amendment

Simultaneously with the execution of the Helport Business Combination Agreement, our Company, Helport, the Sponsor, Stephen Markscheid, Xin Yue Geffner, Wang Chiu Wong, Chunyi Hao, Michael Hao Liu and Alex Parker entered into the Insider Letter Second Amendment, pursuant to which, Pubco and Helport are added as parties to the Insider Letter.

The foregoing description of the Insider Letter Second Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Second Insider Letter Second Amendment, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.27 and is incorporated herein by reference.

Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement

Simultaneously with the execution of the Helport Business Combination Agreement, certain executive officers (each, a “Subject Party”) of Helport each entered into a non-competition and non-solicitation agreement (collectively, the “Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement”) with our Company, Pubco, Helport and the Purchaser Representative. Under the Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement, the Subject Party agrees not to compete with Pubco, the Sponsor, our Company, the Purchaser Representative, Helport and their respective affiliates during the three-year period following the Closing and, during such three-year restricted period, not to solicit employees or customers of such entities. The Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement also contains customary confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions.

The foregoing description of the Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement, a form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.28 and is incorporated herein by reference.

Assignment, Assumption and Amendment to Warrant Agreement

Prior to the Closing, our Company, Pubco and Continental, as warrant agent, will enter the Assignment, Assumption and Amendment to Warrant Agreement (the “Warrant Amendment”), which amends the Warrant Agreement and. pursuant to which: (i) Pubco will assume our obligations under the Warrant Agreement, such that, among other things, Pubco will be added as a party thereto and (ii) references to our Class A Ordinary Shares in the Warrant Agreement shall mean Pubco ordinary shares.

The foregoing description of the Warrant Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Warrant Amendment, a form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.29 and is incorporated herein by reference.

First Amendment to Registration Rights Agreement

On or prior to the Closing, the Helport Business Combination Agreement provides that each of Helport, the Sponsor, Pubco, our Company and the Prior Sponsor will enter the First Amendment to Registration Rights Agreement (the “First Amendment to Registration Rights Agreement”), which amends the Registration Rights Agreement and pursuant to which, Pubco will agree to undertake certain resale shelf registration obligations in accordance with the Securities Act and the other parties thereto will be granted customary demand and piggyback registration rights.

The foregoing description of the First Amendment to Registration Rights Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the First Amendment to Registration Rights Agreement, a form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.30 and is incorporated herein by reference.

Other than as specifically discussed, this Report does not assume the closing of the Helport Business Combination.

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Business Strategy

Our acquisition strategy is to identify and complete our initial business combinationBusiness Combination with a company that canwill benefit from the managerialbeing a public listed company. Prior Sponsor focused on a wide network of and operational experience of our officers and directors. We believe that the wide networks of our management team will deliveran access to a broad spectrum of opportunities across the telecommunications and technology landscape. Tristar believes fundamental shiftsSponsor and the current Management have focused the search in the telecommunicationscashflow positive and technology ecosystems are significantly altering the way people live, work and communicate. We intend to target a company in the telecommunications andhigh growth industries, including technology industries that hashave a need for business optimization and high-return investment opportunities. Opportunities will be sourced by looking at A) high-growth providers servicing emerging countries; B) attractive markets in developed countries; C) mature

During the period of 2019 novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) outbreak and stable public company subsidiaries which have not been a focus ofprior to the existing owner. Opportunities withinSponsor Handover, the telecommunications and technology include, but are not limited to, wireless service providers, wireless infrastructure, fiber optic networks, full-scale telecommunications service providers, software providers, gaming companies, mobile payment providers, and equipment providers.

Our management team intends to capitalize on the exponential growth in demand for telecommunications and technology services through the:
Significant investment opportunities provided by high fragmentation;
Growing network and bandwidth demands in mobile data usage since smartphones have entered the market;
Significant backlog of investment capital needed to expand network capacity;
Urgent need for network optimization to service growing demands; and
Antiquated network architecture which needs updating for 5G and beyond.
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These trends were accelerating prior to the 2019 novel coronavirus
(“COVID-19”)
outbreak and are likely to continue to accelerate as a result of the pandemic. The telecommunications and technology sectors have remained mission critical to keep economies functioning while fighting
COVID-19.
Telecommunications and technology companies have provided businesses with essential connectivity and resiliency, facilitated the transition to work-from-home and kept individuals connected and informed during social isolation. In contrast to other industries, telecommunications and technology have been generally exempt from
COVID-19
related restrictions.
Despite existing high penetration across

Upon the industry, 2020 saw an acceleration in broadband growth due to the increased reliance on connectivitySponsor Handover and digital services, according to a research report published by Morgan Stanley in December 2020. Growth was driven by the rapid shift to remote work, socialization, learning and doctor experiences, among others, according to the Morgan Stanley report. This increased demand across both rural and urban markets is expected to continue into the future. Telecommunication service revenue growth in the US is expected to be driven by mobile data and fixed broadband revenues, according to an intelligence report published by Research and Markets in July 2020. Mobile data service revenue is expected to grow from $130 billion in 2019 to $211 billion in 2024 at a CAGR of 10%, this report says. In addition, fixed broadband service revenue is expected to grow at a CAGR of 4% from 2019-2024, reaching $77 billion by the end of 2024, according to this report. This is primarily driven by growth in connected devices,

fiber-to-the-home
or business subscriptions, fixed wireless subscriptions and ARPU over the forecast period, according to the Research and Markets report.
With
COVID-19
accelerating the need for greater bandwidth through fixed and mobile services,Management Changes, we believe the resulting growth in overall market size will present attractive investment opportunities. We do not intend to limitthat our search to the telecommunications and technology ecosystems, but will instead target a wide variety of companies that will benefit from the trends detailed in our Business Strategy. We believe that ourManagement’s extensive experience and demonstrated success in both investingprior SPAC transactions, investment careers and operating businesses hascross board transactions have culminated in a unique set of capabilities that will be utilized in generating shareholder returns, such as:

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Management and Operating Experience: Our management team has extensive experience helping businesses increase revenue and margins, reduce costs, navigate complex regulatory environments, execute strategic growth plans, evaluate acquisitions and raise capital. Our team has 50 years of combined management experience. Our team (and Board of Directors’) experience includes long and distinguished careers in a variety of leadership roles at some of the most reputable companies in the world. These companies include AT&T Wireless, Tritel, Inc., Parkway Properties, Inc., Sanderson Farms, Nova Towers, Intellicom Wireless Management,
Cal-Maine
Foods, and Sequential Technology International.
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Professional Network: We believe our network provides us with a distinct advantage. Our network is comprised of former colleagues and contacts across our vast professional experience.

experience, including in our prior SPAC experience and cross board transactions.

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Capital Markets and Mergers and Acquisition Expertise: Our management teamManagement Team has held executive positions at public companies guiding them through strategic transactions,and SPACs and has significant experience developing public market investor communications and raising debt and equity capital in both public and private markets. Mr. Mounger, our CEO, founded Tritel, Inc. and was CEO during that company’s successful IPO in 1999. Tritel raised public equity, which put Tritel valuation at $2.26 billion. In 2002, shortly after the IPO and while Mr. Mounger remained CEO, Tritel merged with TeleCorp PCS and later was acquired by AT&T Wireless in an

all-stock
transaction at an enterprise value of $5.3 billion. Mr. Dawson, our CFO, facilitated eight strategic acquisitions during his 13 year tenure at
Cal-Maine
Foods (NASDAQ: CALM). Prior to his time at
Cal-Maine
Foods, Mr. Dawson successfully lead the IPO of Mississippi Chemical Corporation also serving as the Senior Vice President and CFO. Additionally, Mr. Dawson has conducted leveraged lease, project finance deals, and has led a public bond offering during his time as Mississippi Chemical Corporation.

 
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Navigation Relationship: Our relationship with Navigation Capital, its SPAC Operations Group and operating experience and financial wherewithal will provide synergies

Table of a larger organization to our process. Core assets of this platform include coordinated processes and resources, including deep industry knowledge from its professionals, a focus on talent management, a network of senior advisors and adherence to a code of values. We believe Navigation Capital’s access and knowledge of acquisition targets provide yet another competitive advantage.Contents
Transaction Structuring, Execution and Integration: Our management team as well as Navigation Capital have significant experience in formulating a variety of structures for companies across a number of industries. Much of this structuring capability is based on familiarity with the key performance indicators and growth metrics of companies in our target industries.
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Acquisition Criteria

Consistent with our above business strategy, we have identified the following general criteria and guidelines that we believe are important in evaluating prospective target businesses. We will use these criteria and guidelines in evaluating potential business combinationBusiness Combination opportunities, such as the Helport Business Combination, but we may decide to enter into our initial business combinationBusiness Combination with a target business that doesmeets some, but not meetall of these criteria and guidelines. We intend to conduct a business combinationBusiness Combination with a company that we believe:

has a strong, experienced management team, or provides a platform to assemble an effective management team with a track record of driving growth and profitability;
is a significant player in the telecommunications and technology industries;
provides a platform for
add-on
acquisitions, which we believe will be an opportunity for our management team to deliver incremental shareholder value post-acquisition;
has a defensible market position, with demonstrated advantages when compared to its competitors and which create barriers to entry against new competitors;
is at an inflection point, such as requiring additional management expertise, is able to innovate through new operational techniques, or where we believe we can drive improved financial performance;
is a fundamentally sound company that is underperforming its potential;
exhibits unrecognized value or other characteristics, desirable returns on capital, and a need for capital to achieve the company’s growth strategy, that we believe have been misevaluated by the marketplace based on our analysis and due diligence review;
will offer an attractive risk-adjusted return for our shareholders, potential upside from growth in the target business and an improved capital structure that will be weighed against any identified downside risks; and
can benefit from being publicly traded, is prepared to be a publicly traded company, and can utilize access to broader capital markets.

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has a strong, experienced Management Team, or provides a platform to assemble an effective Management Team with a track record of driving growth and profitability;

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is a significant player in the telecommunications and technology industries;

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provides a platform for add-on acquisitions, which we believe will be an opportunity for our Management Team to deliver incremental shareholder value post-acquisition;

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has a defensible market position, with demonstrated advantages when compared to its competitors and which create barriers to entry against new competitors;

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is at an inflection point, such as requiring additional management expertise, is able to innovate through new operational techniques, or where we believe we can drive improved financial performance;

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is a fundamentally sound company that is underperforming its potential;

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exhibits unrecognized value or other characteristics, desirable returns on capital, and a need for capital to achieve the target’s growth strategy, that we believe have been misevaluated by the marketplace based on our analysis and due diligence review;

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will offer an attractive risk-adjusted return for our shareholders, potential upside from growth in the target business and an improved capital structure that will be weighed against any identified downside risks; and

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can benefit from being publicly traded, is prepared to be a publicly traded company, and can utilize access to broader capital markets.

These criteria are not intended to be exhaustive. Any evaluation relating to the merits of a particular initial business combinationBusiness Combination may be based, to the extent relevant, on these general guidelines as well as other considerations, factors, and criteria that our teamManagement Team may deem relevant. In the event that we decide to enter into our initial business combinationBusiness Combination with a target business that doesmeets some, but not meetall of the above criteria and guidelines, we will disclose that the target business does not meet the above criteria.

Our Acquisition Process

In evaluating a prospective target business, such as Helport, we expect to conduct an extensive due diligence review, which may encompass,encompasses, as applicable and among other things, meetings with members of the target’s management and other employees, document reviews, interviews of customers and suppliers, inspection of facilities and a review of financial and other information about the target and its industry. We will call upon Mr. Mounger, Mrs. Martine-Dolecki, Mr. Dawson, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Willis, Mr. Jones, Mr. Barksdale, Mr. Parker, and Mr. Rogers’our Management Team’s own experience, as well as their network of relationships with chief executive officers, board members and members of executive management teams, to provide specialized insights into their areas of expertise as well as leverage their operational and capital planning experience.

We are not prohibited from pursuing an initial business combinationBusiness Combination with a company that is affiliated with our Sponsor, Prior Sponsor, executive officers or directors, or completing the business combinationBusiness Combination through a joint venture or other form of shared ownership with our Sponsor, executive officers or directors. InWhile Helport is not affiliated with our Sponsor, Prior Sponsor, executive officers or directors, in the event we do not consummate the Helport Business Combination and we seek to complete an initial business combinationBusiness Combination with a target that is affiliated with our Sponsor, executivePrior Sponsor, officers or directors, we, or a committee of independent directors, would obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm which is a member of FINRA or a valuation or appraisal firm stating that such an initial business combinationBusiness Combination is fair to our companyus from a financial point of view.

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Members of our management team and our independent directorsManagement Team directly or indirectly own founder sharesFounder Shares and/or private placement warrantsPrivate Placement Warrants and, accordingly, 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.Business Combination. Further, certain of our officers and directors may have a conflict of interest with respect to evaluating a particular business combinationBusiness Combination if the retention or resignation of any such officers and directors was included by a target business as a condition to any agreement with respect to our initial business combination.

Business Combination.

Certain of our officers and directors presently have, and any of them in the future may have, additional fiduciary or contractual obligations to another entity pursuant to which such officer or director is or will be required to present a business combinationBusiness Combination opportunity to such entity. Accordingly, if any of our officers or directors becomesbecome aware of a business combinationBusiness Combination opportunity whichthat 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 combinationBusiness Combination opportunity to such other entity. Our amendedAmended and restated memorandum and articles of association will provideRestated Memorandum provides that we renounce our interest in any corporate opportunity offered to any director or officer unless such opportunity is expressly offered to such person solely in his or her capacity as a director or officer of the companyour Company and such opportunity is one we are legally and contractually permitted to undertake and would otherwise be reasonable for us to pursue, and to the extent the director or officer is permitted to refer that opportunity to us without violating another legal obligation. 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.

Business Combination.

In addition, Navigation Capital and its affiliates, our Sponsor and our officers and directors may sponsor or form other SPACs similar to ours or may pursue other business or investment ventures during the period in which we are seeking an initial business combination.Business Combination. Any such companies, businesses or investments may present additional conflicts of interest in pursuing an initial business combination.Business Combination. However, we do not believe that any such potential conflicts would materially affect our ability to complete our initial business combination.

Business Combination.

Initial Business Combination

So long as our securities are then listed on the NYSE, our initial business combinationBusiness Combination must occur with one or more target businesses that together have an aggregate fair market value of at least 80% of the value of the assets held in the trust accountTrust Account (excluding the deferred underwriting commissions and taxes payable on the interest earned on the trust account). We refer to this as the 80%Trust Account) (the “80% of net assets test.Net Assets Test”). If our Board of Directors is not able to independently determine the fair market value of the target business or businesses, we will obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm that is a member of FINRA or from an independent accounting firm, with respect to the satisfaction of such criteria. We do not currently intend to purchase multiple businesses in unrelated industries in conjunction with our initial business combination,Business Combination, although there is no assurance that will be the case.

We anticipate structuring our initial business combinationBusiness Combination so that the post-transaction company in which our public shareholdersPublic Shareholders own shares will own or acquire 100% of the equity interests or assets of the target business or businesses. We may, however, structure our initial business combinationBusiness Combination such that the post-transaction company owns or acquires less than 100% of such interests or assets of the target business in order to meet certain objectives of the target management team or shareholders or for other reasons, but we will only complete such business combinationBusiness Combination if the post- transactionpost-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, or the Investment Company Act. Even if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the voting securities of the target, our shareholders prior to the business combinationBusiness Combination may collectively own a minority interest in the post-transaction company, depending on valuations ascribed to the target and us in the business combinationBusiness Combination transaction.

For example, we could pursue a transaction in which we issue a substantial number of new shares in exchange for all of the outstanding capital stock of a target. In this case, we would acquire a 100% controlling interest in the target. However, as a result of the issuance of a substantial number of new shares, our shareholders immediately prior to our initial business combinationBusiness Combination could own less than a majority of our outstanding shares subsequent to our initial business combination.Business Combination. If less than 100% of the equity interests or assets of a target business or businesses are owned or acquired by the post-transaction company, the portion of such business or businesses that is owned or acquired is what will be taken into account for purposes of the 80% of net assets test described above.Net Assets Test. If the business combinationBusiness Combination involves more than one target business, the 80% of net assets testNet Assets Test will be based on the aggregate value of all of the target businesses.

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Based on the valuation analysis of our Management and Board of Directors, we have determined that the fair market value of Helport was substantially in excess of 80% of the funds in the Trust Account and that the 80% of Net Assets Test was therefore satisfied.

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Status as a Public Company

We believe our structure will make us an attractive business combinationBusiness Combination partner to target businesses.businesses, such as Helport. As an existing public company, we offer a target business an alternative to the traditional initial public offeringInitial Public Offering through a merger or other business combinationBusiness Combination with us. In a business combinationBusiness Combination transaction with us, the owners of the target business may, for example, exchange their shares of stock, shares or other equity interests in the target business for our Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares (or shares of a new holding company) or for a combination of our Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares and cash, allowing us to tailor the consideration to the specific needs of the sellers. We believe target businesses will find this method a more expeditious and cost effective method to becoming a public company than the typical initial public offering. The typical initial public offering process takes a significantly longer period of time than the typical business combinationBusiness Combination transaction process, and there are significant expenses in the initial public offering process, including underwriting discounts and commissions, that may not be present to the same extent in connection with a business combinationBusiness Combination with us.

Furthermore, once a proposed business combinationBusiness Combination is completed, the target business will have effectively become public, whereas an initial public offering is always subject to the underwriters’ ability to complete the offering, as well as general market conditions, which could delay or prevent the offering from occurring or have negative valuation consequences. Once public, we believe the target business would then have greater access to capital, an additional means of providing management incentives consistent with shareholders’ interests and the ability to use its shares as currency for acquisitions. Being a public company can offer further benefits by augmenting a company’s profile among potential new customers and vendors and aidaiding in attracting talented employees.

While we believe that our structure and our management team’sManagement Team’s backgrounds will make us an attractive businessBusiness Combination partner, some potential target businesses may view our status as a blank check company, such as our lack of an operating history and our ability to seek shareholder approval of any proposed initial business combination,Business Combination, negatively.

We are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act, as modified by the JOBS Act. As such, we are eligible to 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, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our 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, If some investors find our securities less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our securities and the prices of our securities may be more volatile.
In addition, Section 107 of the JOBS Act also provides that an “emerging growth company” can take advantage of the extended transition period provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act for complying with new or revised accounting standards. In other words, an “emerging growth company” can delay the adoption of certain accounting standards until those standards would otherwise apply to private companies. We intend to take advantage of the benefits of this extended transition period.
We will remain an emerging growth company until the earlier of (1) the last day of the fiscal year (a) following the fifth anniversary of the completion of the initial public offering, (b) in which we have total annual gross revenue of at least $1.07 billion, or (c) in which we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer, which means the market value of our Class A ordinary shares that are held by
non-affiliates
exceeds $700 million as of the prior June 30th, and (2) the date on which we have issued more than $1.0 billion in
non-convertible
debt during the prior three-year period.

Financial Position

With funds available for a business combination initiallyBusiness Combination as of December 31, 2023 in the amount of $232,300,000,approximately $115,166,848, after payment of the (i) estimated

non-reimbursed
expenses of the initial public offeringInitial Public Offering, and $10,350,000 aggregate amount of deferred underwriting fees,(ii) taxes paid and payable, we offer a target business a variety of options, such as (x) creating a liquidity event for its owners, (y) providing capital for the potential growth and expansion of its operations or (y) strengthening its balance sheet by reducing its debt ratio. Because we are able to complete our initial business combinationBusiness Combination using our cash, debt or equity securities, or a combination of the foregoing, we have the flexibility to use the most efficient combination that will allow us to tailor the consideration to be paid to the target business to fit its needs and desires. However, we have not taken any steps to secure third-party financing and there can be no assurance it will be available to us.
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Effecting Our Initial Business Combination

General

We are not presently engaged in, and we will not engage in, any operations for an indefinite period of time. We intend tomay effectuate our initial business combinationBusiness Combination using (i) cash from the proceeds of our public offeringInitial Public Offering and the private placement of the private placement warrants,Private Placement, (ii) the proceeds of the sale of our shares in connection with our initial business combinationBusiness Combination (pursuant to theany forward purchase agreements or any backstop agreements we may enter into), (iii) shares issued to the owners of the target, (iv) debt issued to bank or other lenders or the owners of the target, or (v) a combination of the foregoing or other sources. We may seek to complete our initial business combinationBusiness Combination with a company or business that may be financially unstable or in its early stages of development or growth, which would subject us to the numerous risks inherent in such companies and businesses.

If our initial business combinationBusiness Combination is paid for using equity or debt, or not all of the funds released from the trust accountTrust Account are used for payment of the consideration in connection with our initial business combinationBusiness Combination or used for redemptions of our Class A ordinary shares,Ordinary Shares, we may apply the balance of the cash released to us from the trust accountTrust Account for general corporate purposes, including for maintenance or expansion of operations of the post-business combinationpost-Business Combination company, the payment of principal or interest due on indebtedness incurred in completing our initial business combination,Business Combination, to fund the purchase of other companies or for working capital.

While we have initiated discussions with potential business combination targets, we have not selected any business combination target. Accordingly, there is no current basis for investors to evaluate the possible merits or risks of the target business with which we may ultimately complete our initial business combination.

Although our management will assessManagement assesses the risks inherent in a particular target business with which we may combine, such as Helport, we cannot assure youour shareholders that this assessment will result in our identifying all risks that a target business may encounter. Furthermore, some of those risks may be outside of our control, meaning that we can do nothing to control or reduce the chances that those risks will adversely affect a target business.

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We may need to obtain additional financing to complete our initial business combination,Business Combination, either because the transaction requires more cash than is available from the proceeds held in our trust account,Trust Account, or because we become obligated to redeem a significant number of our public sharesPublic Shares upon completion of the business combination,Business Combination, in which case we may issue additional securities or incur debt in connection with such business combination.Business Combination. There are no prohibitions on our ability to issue securities or incur debt in connection with our initial business combination.Business Combination. We are not currently a party to any arrangement or understanding with any third partythird-party with respect to raising any additional funds through the sale of securities, the incurrence of debt or otherwise.

See “Helport Business Combination” above for more information on the equity and financing arrangements in connection with the Helport Business Combination.

Sources of Target Businesses

We anticipate that target business

Target Business Combination candidates will beare brought to our attention from various unaffiliated sources, including investment market participants, private equity groups, investment banking firms, consultants, accounting firms and large business enterprises. Target businesses may also be brought to our attention by such unaffiliated sources as a result of being solicited by us through calls or mailings. These sources may also introduce us to target businesses in which they think we may be interested on an unsolicited basis, since some of these sources will have read our prospectus and know what types of businesses we are targeting.basis. Our officers and directors, as well as their affiliates, may also bring to our attention target businessBusiness Combination candidates that they become aware of through their business contacts as a result of formal or informal inquiries or discussions they may have, as well as attending trade shows or conventions. In addition, we expect tomay receive a number of proprietary deal flow opportunities that would not otherwise necessarily be available to us as a result of the business relationships of our officers and directors.

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Further, we may engage the services of professional firms or other individuals that specialize in business acquisitions in the future, in which event we may pay a finder’s fee, consulting fee or other compensation to be determined in an arm’s length negotiation based on the terms of the transaction. We will engage a finder only to the extent our managementManagement determines that the use of a finder may bring opportunities to us that may not otherwise be available to us or if finders approach us on an unsolicited basis with a potential transaction that our managementManagement determines is in our best interest to pursue. Payment of finder’s fees is customarily tied to completion of a transaction, in which case any such fee will be paid out of the funds held in the trust account.Trust Account. As of the date of this Report, we have not engaged any third party to provide such services.  In no event, however, will our Sponsor or any of our existing officers or directors, or their respective affiliates, be paid by us any finder’s fee, consulting fee or other compensation prior to, or for any services they render in order to effectuate, the completion of our initial business combinationBusiness Combination (regardless of the type of transaction that it is). Some of our officers and directors may enter into employment or consulting agreements with the post-business combinationpost-Business Combination company following our initial business combination.Business Combination. The presence or absence of any such fees or arrangements will not be used as a criterion in our selection process of an acquisition candidate.

We are not prohibited from pursuing an initial business combinationBusiness Combination with a company that is affiliated with our Sponsor, Prior Sponsor, officers or directors. InWhile Helport is not affiliated with our Sponsor, Prior Sponsor, executive officers or directors, in the event we do not consummate the Helport Business Combination and we seek to complete ouran initial business combinationBusiness Combination with a companytarget that is affiliated with our Sponsor, or any of ourPrior Sponsor, officers or directors, we, or a committee of independent directors, will obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or another independent entity that commonly renders valuation opinions that such initial business combinationBusiness Combination is fair to our companyCompany from a financial point of view. We are not required to obtain such an opinion in any other context.

Each of our officers and directors presently has, and any of them in the future may have, additional fiduciary or contractual obligations to other entities, including entities that are affiliates of our Sponsor, pursuant to which such officer or director is or will be required to present a business combinationBusiness Combination opportunity to such entity. Accordingly, if any of our officers or directors becomesbecome aware of a business combinationBusiness 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 combinationBusiness Combination opportunity to such entity, subject to their fiduciary duties under Cayman Islands law.

the Companies Act.

Evaluation of a Target Business and Structuring of Our Initial Business Combination

In evaluating a prospective target business, such as Helport, we expect to conduct an extensive due diligence review which may encompass,that encompasses, as applicable and among other things, meetings with incumbent management and employees, document reviews, interviews of customers and suppliers, inspection of facilities and a review of financial and other information about the target and its industry. We will also utilize our management team’sManagement Team’s operational and capital planning experience. If we determine to move forward with a particular target, we will proceed to structure and negotiate the terms of the business combination transaction.

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The time required to select and evaluate a target business and to structure and complete our initial business combination,Business Combination, and the costs associated with this process, are not currently ascertainable with any degree of certainty. Any costs incurred with respect to the identification and evaluation of, and negotiation with, a prospective target business with which our initial business combinationBusiness Combination is not ultimately completed will result in our incurring losses and will reduce the funds we can use to complete another business combination. The companyBusiness Combination. We will not pay any consulting fees to members of our management team,Management Team, or their respective affiliates, for services rendered to or in connection with our initial business combination.Business Combination. In addition, we have agreed not to enter into a definitive agreement regarding an initial business combinationBusiness Combination without the prior consent of our Sponsor.

Lack of Business Diversification

For an indefinite period of time after the completion of our initial business combination,Business Combination, the prospects for our success may depend entirely on the future performance of a single business.business, such as Helport. Unlike other entities that have the resources to complete business combinationsBusiness Combinations with multiple entities in one or several industries, it is probable that we will not have the resources to diversify our operations and mitigate the risks of being in a single line of business. By completing our initial business combinationBusiness Combination with only a single entity, our lack of diversification may:

subject us to negative economic, competitive and regulatory developments, any or all of which may have a substantial adverse impact on the particular industry in which we operate after our initial business combination; and
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cause us to depend on the marketing and sale of a single product or limited number of products or services.

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subject us to negative economic, competitive and regulatory developments, any or all of which may have a substantial adverse impact on the particular industry in which we operate after our initial Business Combination; and

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cause us to depend on the marketing and sale of a single product or limited number of products or services.

Limited Ability to Evaluate the Target’s Management Team

Although we intend to closely scrutinize the management of a prospective target business, including the management team of Helport, when evaluating the desirability of effecting our initial business combinationBusiness Combination with that business and plan to continue to do so if the Helport Business Combination is not consummated and we seek other Business Combination opportunities, our assessment of the target business’s management may not prove to be correct. In addition, the future management may not have the necessary skills, qualifications or abilities to manage a public company. Furthermore, the future role of members of our management team,Management Team, if any, in the target business cannot presently be stated with any certainty. The determination as to whether any of the members of our management teamManagement Team will remain with the combined company will be made at the time of our initial business combination.Business Combination. While it is possible that one or more of our directors will remain associated in some capacity with us following our initial business combination,Business Combination, including the Helport Business Combination, it is unlikely that any of them will devote their full efforts to our affairs subsequent to our initial business combination.Business Combination. Moreover, we cannot assure youour shareholders that members of our management teamManagement Team will have significant experience or knowledge relating to the operations of the particular target business.

We cannot assure youour shareholders that any of our key personnel will remain in senior management or advisory positions with the combined company. The determination as to whether any of our key personnel will remain with the combined company will be made at the time of our initial business combination.

Business Combination.

Following a business combination,Business Combination, we may seek to recruit additional managers to supplement the incumbent management of the target business. We cannot assure youour shareholders that we will have the ability to recruit additional managers, or that additional managers will have the requisite skills, knowledge or experience necessary to enhance the incumbent management.

Shareholders May Not Have the Ability to Approve Our Initial Business Combination

We may conduct redemptions without a shareholder vote pursuant to the tender offer rules of the SEC, subject to the provisions of our amendedAmended and restated memorandum and articles of association.Restated Memorandum. However, we will seek shareholder approval if it is required by applicable law or stock exchange listing requirement,requirements (as is the case with the Helport Business Combination as currently contemplated), or we may decide to seek shareholder approval for business or other reasons.

Under the NYSE’s listing rules, shareholder approval would typically be required for our initial business combinationBusiness Combination if, for example:

We issue ordinary shares that will be equal to or in excess of 20% of the number of our ordinary shares then-outstanding (other than in a public offering);
Any of our directors, officers or substantial shareholder (as defined by the NYSE rules) has a 5% or greater interest (or such persons collectively have a 10% or greater interest), directly or indirectly, in the target business or assets to be acquired or in the consideration to be paid in the transaction and the present or potential issuance of ordinary shares could result in an increase in issued and outstanding ordinary shares or voting power of 5% or more; or
The issuance or potential issuance of ordinary shares will result in our undergoing a change of control.

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we issue Ordinary Shares that will be equal to or in excess of 20% of the number of our Ordinary Shares then-outstanding (other than in a public offering);

·

any of our directors, officers or substantial shareholders (as defined by the NYSE rules) has a 5% or greater interest (or such persons collectively have a 10% or greater interest), directly or indirectly, in the target business or assets to be acquired or in the consideration to be paid in the transaction and the present or potential issuance of Ordinary Shares could result in an increase in issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares or voting power of 5% or more; or

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the issuance or potential issuance of Ordinary Shares will result in our undergoing a change of control.

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The decision as to whether we will seek shareholder approval of a proposed business combinationBusiness Combination in those instances in which shareholder approval is not required by law will be made by us, solely in our discretion, and will be based on business and other reasons, which include a variety of factors, including, but not limited to:

The timing of the transaction, including in the event we determine shareholder approval would require additional time and there is either not enough time to seek shareholder approval or doing so would place the company

·

the timing of the transaction, including in the event we determine shareholder approval would require additional time and there is either not enough time to seek shareholder approval or doing so would place us at a disadvantage in the transaction or result in other additional burdens on our Company;

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the expected cost of holding a shareholder vote;

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the risk that the shareholders would fail to approve the proposed Business Combination;

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other time and budget constraints of our Company; and

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additional legal complexities of a proposed Business Combination that would be time-consuming and burdensome to present to shareholders.

See “Helport Business Combination” above for more information on the company;

The expected cost of holding a shareholder vote;
The risk thatrequisite approvals in connection with the shareholders would fail to approve the proposed business combination;
Other time and budget constraints of the company; and
Additional legal complexities of a proposed business combination that would be time-consuming and burdensome to present to shareholders.
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Helport Business Combination.

Permitted Purchases and Other Transactions with Respect to Our Securities

If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combinationBusiness Combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our initial business combinationBusiness Combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, our Sponsor, directors, executive officers, advisors or their affiliates may purchase public sharesPublic Shares or warrantsWarrants in privately negotiated transactions or in the open market either prior to or following the completion of our initial business combination.Business Combination. Additionally, at any time at or prior to our initial business combination,Business Combination, subject to applicable securities laws (including with respect to material nonpublic information), our Sponsor, directors, executive officers, advisors or their affiliates may enter into transactions with investors and others to provide them with incentives to acquire public shares,Public Shares, vote their public sharesPublic Shares in favor of our initial business combinationBusiness Combination or not redeem their public shares.Public Shares. However, they have no current commitments, plans or intentions to engage in such transactions and have not formulated any terms or conditions for any such transactions. None of the funds in the trust accountTrust Account will be used to purchase public sharesPublic Shares or warrantsWarrants in such transactions. If our Sponsor, directors, executive officers, advisors or their affiliates engage in such transactions, they will be restricted from making any such purchases when they are in possession of any material

non-public
information not disclosed to the seller or if such purchases are prohibited by Regulation M under the Exchange Act.

In the event that our Sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates purchase sharesPublic Shares in privately negotiated transactions from public shareholdersPublic Shareholders who have already elected to exercise their redemption rights or submitted a proxy to vote against our initial business combination,Business Combination, such selling shareholders would be required to revoke their prior elections to redeem their sharesPublic Shares and any proxy to vote against our initial business combination.Business Combination. We do not currently anticipate that such purchases, if any, would constitute a tender offer subject to the tender offer rules under the Exchange Act or a going-private transaction subject to the going-private rules under the Exchange Act; however, if the purchasers determine at the time of any such purchases that the purchases are subject to such rules, the purchasers will be required to comply with such rules.

The purpose of any such transaction could be to (i) vote in favor of the business combinationBusiness Combination and thereby increase the likelihood of obtaining shareholder approval of the business combination,Business Combination, (ii) reduce the number of public warrantsPublic Warrants outstanding or vote such warrantsPublic Warrants on any matters submitted to the warrant holders for approval in connection with our initial business combinationBusiness Combination or (iii) satisfy a closing condition in an agreement with a target that requires us to have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash at the closing of our initial business combination,Business Combination, where it appears that such requirement would otherwise not be met. Any such purchases of our securities may result in the completion of our initial business combinationBusiness Combination that may not otherwise have been possible.

In addition, if such purchases are made, the public “float” of our Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares or public warrantsPublic Warrants may be reduced and the number of beneficial holders of our securities may be reduced, which may make it difficult to maintain or obtain the quotation, listing or trading of our securities on a national securities exchange.

Our Sponsor, officers, directors, advisors and/or their affiliates anticipate that they may identify the shareholders with whom our Sponsor, officers, directors, advisors or their affiliates may pursue privately negotiated transactions by either the shareholders contacting us directly or by our receipt of redemption requests submitted by shareholders (in the case of Class A ordinary shares)Ordinary Shares) following our mailing of tender offer or proxy materials in connection with our initial business combination.Business Combination. To the extent that our Sponsor, officers, directors, advisors or their affiliates enter into a private transaction, they would identify and contact only potential selling or redeeming shareholders who have expressed their election to redeem their sharesPublic Shares for a pro rata share of the trust accountTrust Account or vote against our initial business combination,Business Combination, whether or not such shareholder has already submitted a proxy with respect to our initial business combinationBusiness Combination, but only if such sharesPublic Shares have not already been voted at the general meeting related to our initial business combination.Business Combination. Our Sponsor, executive officers, directors, advisors or their affiliates will select which shareholders to purchase sharesPublic Shares from based on the negotiated price and number of sharesPublic Shares and any other factors that they may deem relevant, and will be restricted from purchasing sharesPublic Shares if such purchases do not comply with Regulation M under the Exchange Act and the other federal securities laws.

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Our Sponsor, officers, directors, advisors and/or their affiliates will be restricted from making purchases of shares if the purchases would violate Section 9(a)(2) or Rule

10b-5
of the Exchange Act. We expect any such purchases would be reported by such person pursuant to Section 13 and Section 16 of the Exchange Act to the extent such purchasers are subject to such reporting requirements.
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Redemption Rights for Public Shareholders upon Completion of Our Initial Business Combination

We will provide our public shareholdersPublic Shareholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their Class A ordinary sharesPublic Shares upon the completion of our initial business combinationBusiness Combination at a

per-share
price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust accountTrust Account calculated as of two business days prior to the consummation of the initial business combination,Business Combination, including interest earned on the funds held in the trust accountTrust Account, but net of taxes, if any, divided by the number of then-outstanding public shares,Public Shares, subject to the limitations described herein. TheAs of December 31, 2023, the amount in the trust account is initially anticipated to be $10.10Trust Account was $10.86 per public share.Public Share. The
per-share
amount we will distribute to investors who properly redeem their shares will not be reduced by the deferred underwriting commission we will pay to the underwriters. The redemption rights will include the requirement that a beneficial holder must identify itself in order to validly redeem its shares. There will be no redemption rights upon the completion of our initial business combinationBusiness Combination with respect to our warrants.Warrants. Further, we will not proceed with redeeming our public shares,Public Shares, even if a public shareholderPublic Shareholder has properly elected to redeem its shares, if a business combinationBusiness Combination does not close. Our Prior Sponsor, the Sponsor and its designees and affiliates, each of our Prior Directors and Prior Officer and each member of our management team haveManagement and Board of Directors, entered into an agreementthe Insider Letter with us, pursuant to which, they have agreed to waive their redemption rights with respect to any founder sharesFounder Shares and public sharesPublic Shares held by them in connection with (i) the completion of our initial business combinationBusiness Combination and (ii) a shareholder vote to approve an amendment to our amendedAmended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A)Restated Memorandum (x) that would modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide holders of our Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares the right to have their shares redeemed in connection with our initial business combinationBusiness Combination or to redeem 100% of our public sharesPublic Shares if we do not complete our initial business combinationBusiness Combination within 18 months (or 21 months from the closing of our initial public offering if we have executed a letter of intent, agreement in principleCombination Period or definitive agreement for our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of our initial public offering but have not completed our initial business combination within such 18 month period) from the closing of our initial public offering or (B)(y) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares.
Ordinary Shares.

See “Helport Business Combination” above for more information on redemptions in connection with the Helport Business Combination.

Limitations on Redemptions

Our amended

Prior to approval of our shareholders of the NTA Requirement Proposal at the 2023 EGM, our Amended and restated memorandum and articles of association providesRestated Memorandum provided that in no event willwould we redeem our public sharesPublic Shares in an amount that would cause our net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 (so that we do not then become subject to the SEC’s “penny stock” rules). However, approval of the NTA Requirement Proposal at the 2023 EGM removed this Redemption Limitation.

A proposed business combinationBusiness Combination may require: (i) cash consideration to be paid to the target or its owners, (ii) cash to be transferred to the target for working capital or other general corporate purposes or (iii) the retention of cash to satisfy other conditions in accordance with the terms of the proposed business combination.Business Combination. In the event the aggregate cash consideration we would be required to pay for all Class A ordinary sharesPublic Shares that are validly submitted for redemption plus any amount required to satisfy cash conditions pursuant to the terms of the proposed business combinationBusiness Combination exceed the aggregate amount of cash available to us, we will not complete the business combinationBusiness Combination or redeem any shares, and all Class A ordinary sharesPublic Shares submitted for redemption will be returned to the holders thereof.

Manner of Conducting Redemptions

We will provide our public shareholdersPublic Shareholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their Class A ordinary sharesPublic Shares upon the completion of our initial business combinationBusiness Combination either (i) in connection with a general meeting called to approve the business combinationBusiness Combination or (ii) by means of a tender offer. The decision as to whether we will seek shareholder approval of a proposed business combinationBusiness Combination or conduct a tender offer will be made by us, solely in our 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 us to seek shareholder approval under applicable law or stock exchange listing requirement or whether we were deemed to be a foreign private issuer (which would require a tender offer rather than seeking shareholder approval under SEC rules). Asset acquisitions and share purchases would not typically require shareholder approval, while direct mergers with our companyCompany where we do not survive and any transactions where we issue more than 20% of our issued and outstanding ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares or seek to amend our amendedAmended and restated memorandum and articles of associationRestated Memorandum would typically require shareholder approval. We currently intend to conduct redemptions in connection with a shareholder vote unless shareholder approval is not required by applicable law or stock exchange listing requirement or we choose to conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules of the SEC for business or other reasons. So long as we obtain and maintain a listing for our securities on the NYSE, we will be required to comply with the NYSE rules.

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If we hold a shareholder vote to approve our initial business combination,Business Combination, we will, pursuant to our amendedAmended and restated memorandum and articles of association:

conduct the redemptions in conjunction with a proxy solicitation pursuant to Regulation 14A of the Exchange Act, which regulates the solicitation of proxies, and not pursuant to the tender offer rules; and
file proxy materials with the SEC.
Restated Memorandum:

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conduct the redemptions in conjunction with a proxy solicitation pursuant to Regulation 14A of the Exchange Act, which regulates the solicitation of proxies, and not pursuant to the tender offer rules; and

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file proxy materials with the SEC.

In the event that we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination,Business Combination, we will distribute proxy materials, such as the Helport Registration Statement, and, in connection therewith, provide our public shareholdersPublic Shareholders with the redemption rights described above upon completion of the initial business combination.

Business Combination.

If we seek shareholder approval, we will complete our initial business combinationBusiness Combination only if we obtain the approval of an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law,the Companies Act, being the affirmative vote of a majority of the ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares represented in person or by proxy and entitled to vote thereon and who vote at a general meeting. In such case, ourthe Sponsor and its designees and affiliates, Prior Sponsor, and each member of our management teamManagement Team, as well as Prior Directors and Prior Officers, have agreed to vote their founder sharesFounder Shares and public shares,Public Shares, and the anchor investorsAnchor Investors have agreed to vote any founder sharesFounder Shares held by them, in favor of our initial business combination.Business Combination. As a result of the 2023 Redemptions, unless otherwise required under applicable law, in addition to our founder shares,Founder Shares, we would need 8,625,001 / 37.5,2,429,402, or approximately 22.9%, of the 23,000,000 public shares sold in the initial public offering10,608,802 Public Shares issued and outstanding to be voted in favor of an initial business combinationBusiness Combination in order to have our initial business combinationBusiness Combination approved. In the event that the anchor investors hold the units they purchased in the initial public offering until prior to our initial business combination and vote their public shares in favor of our initial business combination, we would not need any of the other public shares to be voted in favor of an initial business combination for our shareholders to approve our initial business combination. The anchor investorsAnchor Investors have agreed to vote founder sharesFounder Shares they purchase from our Sponsor in favor of our initial business combination,Business Combination, but are not required to vote any of their public sharesPublic Shares in favor of our initial business combinationBusiness Combination or for or against any other matter presented for a shareholder vote. Each public shareholderPublic Shareholder may elect to redeem their public sharesPublic Shares irrespective of whether they vote for or against the proposed transaction or vote at all. In addition, our Prior Sponsor, the Sponsor and its designees and affiliates, each of our Prior Directors and Prior Officer and each member of our management team haveManagement and Board of Directors entered into an agreementthe Insider Letter with us, pursuant to which, they have agreed to waive their redemption rights with respect to any founder sharesFounder Shares and public sharesPublic Shares held by them in connection with (i) the completion of a business combinationour initial Business Combination and (ii) a shareholder vote to approve an amendment to our amendedAmended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A)Restated Memorandum (x) that would modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide holders of our Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares the right to have their shares redeemed in connection with our initial business combinationBusiness Combination or to redeem 100% of our public sharesPublic Shares if we do not complete our initial business combinationBusiness Combination within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of our initial public offeringCombination Period or (B)(y) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares.

Ordinary Shares.

If we conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules of the SEC, we will, pursuant to our amendedAmended and restated memorandum and articles of association:

conduct the redemptions pursuant to Rule
13e-4
and Regulation 14E of the Exchange Act, which regulate issuer tender offers; and
file tender offer documents with the SEC prior to completing our initial business combination which contain substantially the same financial and other information about the initial business combination and the redemption rights as is required under Regulation 14A of the Exchange Act, which regulates the solicitation of proxies.
Restated Memorandum:

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conduct the redemptions pursuant to Rule 13e-4 and Regulation 14E of the Exchange Act, which regulate issuer tender offers; and

·

file tender offer documents with the SEC prior to completing our initial Business Combination that contain substantially the same financial and other information about the initial Business Combination and the redemption rights as is required under Regulation 14A of the Exchange Act, which regulates the solicitation of proxies.

Upon the public announcement of our initial business combination,Business Combination, if we elect to conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules, we and our Sponsor will terminate any plan established in accordance with Rule

10b5-1
to purchase Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares in the open market, in order to comply with Rule
14e-5
under the Exchange Act.

In the event we conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules, our offer to redeem will remain open for at least 20 business days, in accordance with Rule

14e-1(a)
under the Exchange Act, and we will not be permitted to complete our initial business combinationBusiness Combination until the expiration of the tender offer period. In addition, the tender offer will be conditioned on public shareholdersPublic Shareholders not tendering more than the number of public sharesPublic Shares we are permitted to redeem. If public shareholdersPublic Shareholders tender more shares than we have offered to purchase, we will withdraw the tender offer and not complete such initial business combination.
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Limitation on Redemption upon Completion of Our Initial Business Combination If We Seek Shareholder Approval

If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combinationBusiness Combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our initial business combinationBusiness Combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, our amendedAmended and restated memorandum and articles of association provideRestated Memorandum provides that a public shareholder,Public Shareholder, together with any affiliate of such shareholder or any other

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person with whom such shareholder is acting in concert or as a “group” (as defined under Section 13 of the Exchange Act), will be restricted from redeeming its shares with respect to more than an aggregate of 15% of the shares sold in the initial public offering, which we refer to asInitial Public Offering (the “Excess Shares,”Shares”), without our prior consent. We believe this restriction will discourage shareholders from accumulating large blocks of shares, and subsequent attempts by such holders to use their ability to exercise their redemption rights against a proposed business combinationBusiness Combination as a means to force us or our managementManagement to purchase their shares at a significant premium to the then-current market price or on other undesirable terms. Absent this provision, a public shareholderPublic Shareholder holding more than an aggregate of 15% of the shares sold in the initial public offeringInitial Public Offering could threaten to exercise its redemption rights if such holder’s shares are not purchased by us, our Sponsor or our managementManagement at a premium to the then-current market price or on other undesirable terms. By limiting our shareholders’ ability to redeem no more than 15% of the shares sold in the initial public offeringInitial Public Offering without our prior consent, we believe we will limit the ability of a small group of shareholders to unreasonably attempt to block our ability to complete our initial business combination,Business Combination, particularly in connection with a business combinationBusiness Combination with a target that requires as a closing condition that we have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash.

However, we would not be restricting our shareholders’ ability to vote all of their shares (including Excess Shares) for or against our initial business combination.

Business Combination.

Tendering Share Certificates in Connection with a Tender Offer or Redemption Rights

Public shareholdersShareholders seeking to exercise their redemption rights, whether they are record holders or hold their shares in “street name,” will be required to either tender their certificates (if any) to our transfer agent prior to the date set forth in the proxy solicitation or tender offer materials, as applicable, mailed to such holders, or to deliver their shares to the transfer agent electronically using The Depository Trust Company’sthe DWAC (Deposit/ Withdrawal At Custodian) System, at the holder’s option, in each case up to two business days prior to the initially scheduled vote to approve the business combination.Business Combination. The proxy solicitation or tender offer materials, as applicable, that we will furnish to holders of our public sharesPublic Shares in connection with our initial business combinationBusiness Combination will indicate the applicable delivery requirements, which will include the requirement that a beneficial holder must identify itself in order to validly redeem its shares. Accordingly, a public shareholderPublic Shareholder would have from the time we send out our tender offer materials until the close of the tender offer period, or up to two business days prior to the initially scheduled vote on the proposal to approve the business combinationBusiness Combination if we distribute proxy materials, as applicable, to tender its shares if it wishes to seek to exercise its redemption rights. Given the relatively short period in which to exercise redemption rights, it is advisable for shareholders to use electronic delivery of their public shares.

Public Shares.

There is a nominal cost associated with the above-referenced tendering process and the act of certificating the shares or delivering them through the DWAC System. The transfer agent will typically charge the tendering broker a fee of approximately $80.00$100.00 and it would be up to the broker whether or not to pass this cost on to the redeeming holder. However, this fee would be incurred regardless of whether or not we require holders seeking to exercise redemption rights to tender their shares. The need to deliver shares is a requirement of exercising redemption rights regardless of the timing of when such delivery must be effectuated.

The foregoing is different from the procedures used by many blank check companies. In order to perfect redemption rights in connection with their business combinations,Business Combinations, many blank check companies would distribute proxy materials for the shareholders’ vote on an initial business combination,Business Combination, and a holder could simply vote against a proposed business combinationBusiness Combination and check a box on the proxy card indicating such holder was seeking to exercise his or her redemption rights. After the business combinationBusiness Combination was approved, the company would contact such shareholder to arrange for him or her to deliver his or her certificate to verify ownership. As a result, the shareholder then had an “option window” after the completion of the business combinationBusiness Combination during which he or she could monitor the price of the company’s shares in the market. If the price rose above the redemption price, he or she could sell his or her shares in the open market before actually delivering his or her shares to the company for cancellation. As a result, the redemption rights, to which shareholders were aware they needed to commit before the general meeting, would become “option” rights surviving past the completion of the business combinationBusiness Combination until the redeeming holder delivered its certificate. The requirement for physical or electronic delivery prior to the meeting ensures that a redeeming shareholder’s election to redeem is irrevocable once the business combinationBusiness Combination is approved.

Any request to redeem such shares, once made, may be withdrawn at any time up to two business days prior to the initially scheduled vote on the proposal to approve the business combination,Business Combination, unless otherwise agreed to by us. Furthermore, if a holder of a public sharePublic Share delivered its certificate in connection with an election of redemption rights and

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subsequently decides prior to the applicable date not to elect to exercise such rights, such holder may simply request that the transfer agent return the certificate (physically or electronically). It is anticipated that the funds to be distributed to holders of our public sharesPublic Shares electing to redeem their shares will be distributed promptly after the completion of our initial business combination.
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If our initial business combinationBusiness Combination is not approved or completed for any reason, then our public shareholdersPublic Shareholders who elected to exercise their redemption rights would not be entitled to redeem their sharesPublic Shares for the applicable pro rata share of the trust account.Trust Account. In such case, we will promptly return any certificates delivered by public holdersPublic shareholders who elected to redeem their shares.

If our initial proposed business combination is not completed, we may continue to try to complete a business combination with a different target until 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of our initial public offering.
Public Shares.

Redemption of Public Shares and Liquidation If No Initial Business Combination

Our amendedAmended and restated memorandum and articles of association provideRestated Memorandum provides that we have only 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) fromuntil the closingend of the Combination Period to complete our initial public offering to consummate an initial business combination.Business Combination If we have not consummated an initial business combinationBusiness Combination within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of our initial public offering,Combination Period, we will: (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up; (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible, but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem the shares,Public Shares, at a

per-share
price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account,Trust Account, including interest earned on the funds held in the trust accountTrust Account but net of taxes, if any (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses) divided by the number of the then-outstanding public shares,Public Shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public shareholders’Public Shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any); and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of our remaining shareholders and our Board of Directors, liquidate and dissolve, subject in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) to our obligations under Cayman Islands lawthe Companies Act to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law. There will be no redemption rights or liquidating distributions with respect to our warrants,Warrants, which will expire worthless if we fail to consummate an initial business combinationBusiness Combination within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of our initial public offering.Combination Period. Our amendedAmended and restated memorandum and articles of association provideRestated Memorandum provides that, if we wind up for any other reason prior to the consummation of our initial business combination,Business Combination, we will follow the foregoing procedures with respect to the liquidation of the trust accountTrust Account, as promptly as reasonably possible, but not more than ten business days thereafter, subject to the Companies Act and other applicable Cayman Islands law.
Ourlaws.

The Sponsor and its designees and affiliates and each member of our management teamManagement Team, as well as the Prior Sponsor, Prior Directors and Prior Officers, have entered into an agreement with us,the Insider Letter, pursuant to which, they have agreed to waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the trust accountTrust Account with respect to any founder sharesFounder Shares they hold if we fail to consummate an initial business combinationBusiness Combination within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of our initial public offeringCombination Period (although they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the trust accountTrust Account with respect to any public sharesPublic Shares they hold if we fail to complete our initial business combinationBusiness Combination within the prescribed time frame)Combination Period).

Our Sponsor, executive officers and directors have agreed, pursuant to a written agreement with us, that Additionally, they will not propose any amendment to our amendedAmended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A)Restated Memorandum (i) that would modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide holders of our Class A ordinary sharesPublic Shares the right to have their sharesPublic Shares redeemed in connection with our initial business combinationBusiness Combination or to redeem 100% of our public sharesPublic Shares if we do not complete our initial business combinationBusiness Combination within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of our initial public offeringCombination Period, or (B)(ii) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares,Ordinary Shares, unless we provide our public shareholdersPublic Shareholders with the opportunity to redeem their public sharesPublic Shares upon approval of any such amendment at a
per-share
price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account,Trust Account, including interest earned on the funds held in the trust accountTrust Account but net of taxes, if any, divided by the number of the then-outstanding public shares. However, we may not redeem our public shares in an amount that would cause our net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 (so that we do not then becomePublic Shares. Such redemptions are no longer subject to the SEC’s “penny stock” rules).Redemption Limitation following approval of the NTA Requirement Amendment Proposal by our shareholders at the 2023 EGM. If this optional redemption right is exercised with respect to an excessive number of public sharesPublic Shares such that we cannot satisfy the net tangible asset requirement, we would not proceed with the amendment or the related redemption of our public sharesPublic Shares at such time. This redemption right shall apply in the event of the approval of any such amendment, whether proposed by our Sponsor, any executive officer or director, or any other person.
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We expect that all costs and expenses associated with implementing our plan of dissolution, as well as payments to any creditors, will be funded from amounts remaining out of the $1,231,992$436,317 held outside the trust accountTrust Account as of December 31, 2023, plus up to $100,000 of funds from the trust accountTrust Account available to us to pay dissolution expenses, although we cannot assure youour shareholders that there will be sufficient funds for such purpose.

If we were to expend all of the net proceeds of our initial public offeringInitial Public Offering and the sale of the private placement warrants,Private Placement, other than the proceeds deposited in the trust account, and without taking into account interest, if any, earned onTrust Account, the trust account, the

per-share
redemption amount received by shareholders upon our dissolution would be $10.10.$10.86, as of December 31, 2023. The proceeds deposited in the trust accountTrust Account could, however, become subject to the claims of our creditors which would have higher priority than the claims of our public shareholders.Public Shareholders. We cannot assure youour shareholders that the actual
per-share
redemption amount received by shareholders will not be less than $10.10.$10.86. While we intend to pay such amounts, if any, we cannot assure youour shareholders that we will have funds sufficient to pay or provide for all creditors’ claims.

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Although we will seekendeavor to have all vendors, service providers (other than our independent registered public accounting firm), prospective target businesses and other entities with which we do business execute agreements with us waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the trust accountTrust Account for the benefit of our public shareholders,Public Shareholders, there is no guarantee that they will execute such agreements, or even if they execute such agreements, that they would be prevented from bringing claims against the trust accountTrust Account, including, but not limited to, fraudulent inducement, breach of fiduciary responsibility or other similar claims, as well as claims challenging the enforceability of the waiver, in each case in order to gain an advantage with respect to a claim against our assets, including the funds held in the trust account.Trust Account. Seeking such waivers from third parties,third-parties, including prospective business combinationBusiness Combination targets, may deter such parties from entering into agreements with us. If any third-party refuses to execute an agreement waiving such claims to the monies held in the trust account,Trust Account, our managementManagement will perform an analysis of the alternatives available to it and will only enter into an agreement with a third-party that has not executed a waiver if managementManagement believes that such third-party’s engagement would be significantly more beneficial to us than any alternative. Examples of possible instances where we may engage a third-party that refuses to execute a waiver include the engagement of a third-party consultant whose particular expertise or skills are believed by management to be significantly superior to those of other consultants that would agree to execute a waiver or in cases where management is unable to find a service provider willing to execute a waiver. In addition, there is no guarantee that such entities will agree to waive any claims they may have in the future as a result of, or arising out of, any negotiations, contracts or agreements with us and will not seek recourse against the trust accountTrust Account for any reason. In order to protect the amounts held in the trust account, ourTrust Account, the Sponsor has agreed that it will be liable to us if and to the extent any claims by a third-party for services rendered or products sold to us (other than our independent registered public accounting firm), or a prospective target business with which we have discussed entering into a transaction agreement, reduce the amounts in the trust accountTrust Account to below the lesser of (i) $10.10 per public sharePublic Share and (ii) the actual amount per public sharePublic Share held in the trust accountTrust Account as of the date of the liquidation of the trust accountTrust Account if less than $10.10 per public sharePublic Share due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, in each case net of the interest that may be withdrawn to pay our tax obligations, provided that such liability will not apply to any claims by a third-party or prospective target business that executed a waiver of any and all rights to seek access to the trust accountTrust Account nor will it apply to any claims under our indemnity of the underwriters of the initial public offeringInitial Public Offering against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act. In the event that an executed waiver is deemed to be unenforceable against a third-party, ourthe Sponsor will not be responsible to the extent of any liability for such third-party claims. However, we have not asked ourthe Sponsor to reserve for such indemnification obligations, nor have we independently verified whether ourthe Sponsor has sufficient funds to satisfy its indemnity obligations and we believe that ourthe Sponsor’s only assets are securities of our company.Company. Therefore, we cannot assure youour shareholders that ourthe Sponsor would be able to satisfy those obligations. None of our officers or directors will indemnify us for claims by third partiesthird-parties including, without limitation, claims by vendors and prospective target businesses.

In the event that the proceeds in the trust accountTrust Account are reduced below the lesser of (i) $10.10 per public sharePublic Share and (ii) the actual amount per public sharePublic Share held in the trust accountTrust Account as of the date of the liquidation of the trust accountTrust Account if less than $10.10 per public sharePublic Share due to reductions in the value of the trustTrust Account assets, in each case net of the amount of interest which may be withdrawn to pay our income tax obligations, and ourthe Sponsor asserts that it is unable to satisfy its indemnification obligations or that it has no indemnification obligations related to a particular claim, our independent directors would determine whether to take legal action against ourthe Sponsor to enforce its indemnification obligations. While we currently expect that our independent directors would take legal action on our behalf against ourthe Sponsor to enforce its indemnification obligations to us, it is possible that our independent directors in exercising their business judgment may choose not to do so in any particular instance. Accordingly, we cannot assure youour shareholders that due to claims of creditors the actual value of the

per-share
redemption price will not be less than $10.10 per public share.
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Public Share.

We will seek to reduce the possibility that our Sponsor will have to indemnify the trust accountTrust Account due to claims of creditors by endeavoring to have all vendors, service providers (other than our independent registered public accounting firm), prospective target businesses or other entities with which we do business execute agreements with us waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to monies held in the trust account.Trust Account. Our Sponsor willis also not be liable as to any claims under our indemnity of the underwriters of the initial public offeringInitial Public Offering against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act. We have access to up to $1,231,992$436,317 from the proceeds of our initial public offeringInitial Public Offering and the sale of the private placement warrantsPrivate Placement Warrants with which to pay any such potential claims (including costs and expenses incurred in connection with our liquidation, currently estimated to be no more than approximately $100,000). In the event that we liquidate, and it is subsequently determined that the reserve for claims and liabilities is insufficient, shareholders who received funds from our trust accountTrust Account could be liable for claims made by creditors,creditors; however, such liability will not be greater than the amount of funds from our trust accountTrust Account received by any such shareholder.

If we file a bankruptcy or

winding-up
petition or an involuntary bankruptcy or
winding-up
petition is filed against us that is not dismissed, the proceeds held in the trust accountTrust Account could be subject to applicable bankruptcy or insolvency law,laws, and may be included in our bankruptcy estate and subject to the claims of third partiesthird-parties with priority over the claims of our shareholders. To the extent any bankruptcy claims deplete the trust account,Trust Account, we cannot assure youour shareholders we will be able to return $10.10$10.86 per public sharePublic Share to our public shareholders.Public Shareholders. Additionally, if we file a bankruptcy or
winding-up
petition or an involuntary bankruptcy or
winding-up
petition is filed against us that is not dismissed, any distributions received by shareholders could be viewed under applicable debtor/creditor and/or bankruptcy or insolvency laws as either a “preferential transfer” or a “fraudulent conveyance.” As a result, a bankruptcy or insolvency court could seek to recover some or all amounts received by our shareholders. Furthermore, our Board of Directors may be viewed as having breached its fiduciary duty to our creditors and/or may have acted in bad faith, and thereby exposing itself and our companyCompany to claims of punitive damages, by paying public shareholdersPublic Shareholders from the trust accountTrust Account prior to addressing the claims of creditors. We cannot assure youour shareholders that claims will not be brought against us for these reasons.

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Our public shareholdersPublic Shareholders will be entitled to receive funds from the trust accountTrust Account only (i) in the event of the redemption of our public sharesPublic Shares if we do not complete our initial business combinationBusiness Combination within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of our initial public offering,Combination Period, (ii) in connection with a shareholder vote to amend our amendedAmended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A)Restated Memorandum (x) to modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide holders of our Class A ordinary sharesPublic Shareholders the right to have their sharesPublic Shares redeemed in connection with our initial business combinationBusiness Combination or to redeem 100% of our public sharesPublic Shares if we do not complete our initial business combinationBusiness Combination within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of the initial public offeringCombination Period or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares,Ordinary Shares, or (iii) if they redeem their respective shares for cash upon the completion of the initial business combination.Business Combination. Public shareholdersShareholders who redeem their Class A ordinary sharesPublic Shares in connection with a shareholder vote described in clause (ii) in the preceding sentence shall not be entitled to funds from the trust accountTrust Account upon the subsequent completion of an initial business combinationBusiness Combination or liquidation if we have not consummated an initial business combinationBusiness Combination within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of our initial public offering,Combination Period, with respect to such Class A ordinary sharesPublic Shares so redeemed. In no other circumstances will a shareholder have any right or interest of any kind to or in the trust account.Trust Account. In the event we seek shareholder approval in connection with our initial business combination,Business Combination, a shareholder’s voting in connection with the business combinationBusiness Combination alone will not result in a shareholder’s redeeming its shares to us for an applicable pro rata share of the trust account.Trust Account. Such shareholder must have also exercised its redemption rights described above. These provisions of our amendedAmended and restated memorandum and articles of association,Restated Memorandum, like all provisions of our amendedAmended and restated memorandum and articles of association,Restated Memorandum, may be amended with a shareholder vote.

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Competition

In identifying, evaluating and selecting a target business for our initial business combination,Business Combination, such as Helport, we have encountered and may continue to encounter intense competition from other entities having a business objective similar to ours, including other blank check companies, private equity groups and leveraged buyout funds, public companies and operating businesses seeking strategic acquisitions. Many of these entities are well established and have extensive experience identifying and effecting business combinationsBusiness Combinations directly or through affiliates. Moreover, many of these competitors possess greater financial, technical, human and other resources than us. Our ability to acquire larger target businesses will beis limited by our available financial resources. This inherent limitation gives others an advantage in pursuing the acquisition of a target business. Furthermore, our obligation to pay cash in connection with our public shareholdersPublic Shareholders who exercise their redemption rights may reduce the resources available to us for our initial business combinationBusiness Combination, and our outstanding warrants,Warrants, and the future dilution they potentially represent, may not be viewed favorably by certain target businesses. Either of these factors may place us at a competitive disadvantage in successfully negotiating an initial business combination.

Facilities
We currently maintain our executive offices at 2870 Peachtree Road, NW Suite 509, Atlanta, Georgia 30305. We consider our current office space adequate for our current operations.
Business Combination.

Employees

We currently have three executive officers. These individuals are not obligated to devote any specific number of hours to our matters, but they intend to devote as much of their time as they deem necessary to our affairs until we have completed our initial business combination.Business Combination. The amount of time they will devote in any time period will varyvaries based on whether a target business has been selected for our initial business combination and the stage of the business combinationBusiness Combination process we are in. We do not intend to have any full-time employees prior to the completion of our initial business combination.

Item 1A.
Risk Factors
An investment inBusiness Combination.

Periodic Reporting and Financial Information

We have registered our securities involves a high degree of risk. You should consider carefully allUnits, Public Shares and Public Warrants under the Exchange Act and have reporting obligations, including the requirement that we file annual, quarterly and current reports with the SEC. In accordance with the requirements of the risks described below, togetherExchange Act, our annual reports, including this Report, contain financial statements audited and reported on by Marcum, our independent registered public accountant.

We will provide shareholders with the other information contained in this Annual Report, before making a decision to invest in our units. If anyaudited financial statements of the following events occur, our business, financial condition and operating results may be materially adversely affected. In that event, the trading price of our securities could decline, and you could lose all or part of your investment.

Risks Relating to our Ability to Identify and Consummate a Business Combination
We are a recently incorporated company with no operating history and no revenues, and you have no basis on which to evaluate our ability to achieve our business objective.
We are a recently incorporated company, incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands, with no operating results. Because we lack an operating history, you have no basis upon which to evaluate our ability to achieve our business objective of completing our initial business combination with one or more target businesses. We have no plans, arrangements or understandings with any prospective target business concerning aas part of the proxy solicitation materials or tender offer documents sent to shareholders to assist them in assessing the target business, combinationsuch as the Helport Registration Statement. In all likelihood, these financial statements will need to be prepared in accordance with, or reconciled to, GAAP, or IFRS, depending on the circumstances, and the historical financial statements may be required to be audited in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. These financial statement requirements may limit the pool of potential target businesses we may conduct an initial Business Combination with because some targets may be unable to provide such statements in time for us to disclose such statements in accordance with federal proxy rules and complete our initial business combination. If we fail to complete our initial business combination, we will never generate any operating revenues.
Past performance by our management team or their respective affiliates may not be indicative of future performance of an investment in us.
Information regarding performance is presented for informational purposes only. Any past experience or performance of our management team and their respective affiliates is not a guarantee of either (i) our ability to successfully identify and execute a transaction or (ii) success with respect to any business combination that we may consummate. You should not rely on the historical record of our management team or their respective affiliates as indicative of the future performance of an investment in us or the returns we will, or are likely to, generate going forward.
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Our shareholders may not be afforded an opportunity to vote on our proposed initial business combination, which means we may complete our initial business combination even though a majority of our shareholders do not support such a combination.
We may choose not to hold a shareholder vote before we complete our initial business combination if the business combination would not require shareholder approval under applicable law or stock exchange listing requirements. For instance, if we were seeking to acquire a target business where the consideration we were paying in the transaction was all cash, we would typically not be required to seek shareholder approval to complete such a transaction. Except as required by applicable law or stock exchange listing requirements, the decision as to whether we will seek shareholder approval of a proposed business combination or will allow shareholders to sell their shares to us in a tender offer will be made by us, solely in our 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 otherwise require us to seek shareholder approval. Accordingly, we may complete our initial business combination even if holders of a majority of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares do not approve of the business combination we complete.
Please see the section entitled “Proposed Business — Shareholders May Not Have the Ability to Approve Our Initial Business Combination” for additional information.
Your only opportunity to affect the investment decision regarding a potential business combination may be limited to the exercise of your right to redeem your shares for cash.
At the time of your investment in us, you will not be provided with an opportunity to evaluate the specific merits or risks of any target businesses. If our Board of Directors determines to complete a business combination without seeking shareholder approval, your only opportunity to affect the investment decision regarding a potential business combination may be limited to exercising your redemption rights within the period of time (which will be at least 20 business days) set forth in our tender offer documents mailed to our public shareholders in which we describe our initial business combination.
If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination, our Sponsor and members of our management team have agreed to vote, and the anchor investors have agreed to vote any founder shares held by them, in favor of such initial business combination, regardless of how our public shareholders vote.
Our Sponsor owns 15.79% of our outstanding ordinary shares. Our Sponsor and members of our management team also may from time to time purchase Class A ordinary shares prior to our initial business combination. Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide that, if we seek shareholder approval, we will complete our initial business combination only if we obtain the approval of an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law, being the affirmative vote of a majority of the ordinary shares represented in person or by proxy and entitled to vote thereon and who vote at a general meeting. As a result, in addition to our initial shareholders’ founder shares, we would need 8,625,001 / 37.5%, of the 23,000,000 public shares sold in the initial public offering to be voted in favor of an initial business combination in order to have our initial business combination approved. Accordingly, if we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination, the agreement by our Sponsor and each member of our management team to vote, and the agreements by the anchor investors to vote any founder shares held by them, in favor of our initial business combination will increase the likelihood that we will receive the requisite shareholder approval for such initial business combination. In the event that the anchor investors hold their units until prior to our initial business combination and vote their public shares in favor of our initial business combination, we would not need any other public shares to be voted in favor of an initial business combination for our shareholders to approve our initial business combination. The anchor investors have agreed to vote founder shares they purchase from our Sponsor in favor of our initial business combination but are not required to vote any of their public shares in favor of our initial business combination or for or against any other matter presented for a shareholder vote.
Since our anchor investors have the right to acquire certain of our founder shares from our Sponsor, a conflict of interest may arise in determining whether a particular target business is appropriate for our initial business combination.
At the closing of our initial business combination, Cable One, Inc. (NYSE:CABO) will be entitled to purchase 333,333 founder shares from our Sponsor for $1,000,000 and ten other anchor investors will be entitled to purchase 1,585,000 founder shares from our Sponsor at $0.01 per share,. Accordingly, the anchor investors will share in any appreciation in the value of the founder shares above those lower purchase price amounts, provided that we successfully complete a business combination. As a result, the anchor investors may have an incentive to vote any public shares they own in favor of a business combination, and, if a business combination is approved, they may make a substantial profit on such interest, even if the market price of our securities declines in value below the price to the public in the initial public offering and the business combination is not profitable for other public stockholders. In addition, as discussed above, if
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the anchor investors retain a substantial portion of their interests in our public shares and if the anchor investors vote those public shares in favor of a business combination, we will receive sufficient votes to approve the business combination, regardless of how any other public stockholder votes their shares. You should consider the anchor investors’ financial incentive to complete an initial business combination when evaluating whether to redeem your shares prior to or in connection with an initial business combination.
The ability of our public shareholders to redeem their shares for cash may make our financial condition unattractive to potential business combination targets, which may make it difficult for us to enter into a business combination with a target.
We may seek to enter into a business combination transaction agreement with a prospective target that requires as a closing condition that we have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash. If too many public shareholders exercise their redemption rights, we would not be able to meet such closing condition and, as a result, would not be able to proceed with the business combination. Furthermore, in no event will we redeem our public shares in an amount that would cause our net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 (so that we do not then become subject to the SEC’s “penny stock” rules). Consequently, if accepting all properly submitted redemption requests would cause our net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 or such greater amount necessary to satisfy a closing condition as described above, we would not proceed with such redemption and the related business combination and may instead search for an alternate business combination. Prospective targets will be aware of these risks and, thus, may be reluctant to enter into a business combination transaction with us.
The ability of our public shareholders to exercise redemption rights with respect to a large number of our shares may not allow us to complete the most desirable business combination or optimize our capital structure.
At the time we enter into an agreement for our initial business combination, we will not know how many shareholders may exercise their redemption rights, and therefore will need to structure the transaction based on our expectations as to the number of shares that will be submitted for redemption. If our initial business combination agreement requires us to use a portion of the cash in the trust account to pay the purchase price, or requires us to have a minimum amount of cash at closing, we will need to reserve a portion of the cash in the trust account to meet such requirements, or arrange for third party financing. In addition, if a larger number of shares are submitted for redemption than we initially expected, we may need to restructure the transaction to reserve a greater portion of the cash in the trust account or arrange for third party financing. Raising additional third party financing may involve dilutive equity issuances or the incurrence of indebtedness at higher than desirable levels. In addition, the amount of the deferred underwriting commissions payable to the underwriters will not be adjusted for any shares that are redeemed in connection with an initial business combination. The per share amount we will distribute to shareholders who properly exercise their redemption rights will not be reduced by the deferred underwriting commission and after such redemptions, the amount held in trust will continue to reflect our obligation to pay the entire deferred underwriting commissions. The above considerations may limit our ability to complete the most desirable business combination available to us or optimize our capital structure
The ability of our public shareholders to exercise redemption rights with respect to a large number of our shares could increase the probability that our initial business combination would be unsuccessful and that you would have to wait for liquidation in order to redeem your shares.
If our initial business combination agreement requires us to use a portion of the cash in the trust account to pay the purchase price, or requires us to have a minimum amount of cash at closing, the probability that our initial business combination would be unsuccessful is increased. If our initial business combination is unsuccessful, you would not receive your pro rata portion of the funds in the trust account until we liquidate the trust account. If you are in need of immediate liquidity, you could attempt to sell your shares in the open market; however, at such time our shares may trade at a discount to the pro rata amount per share in the trust account. In either situation, you may suffer a material loss on your investment or lose the benefit of funds expected in connection with our redemption until we liquidate or you are able to sell your shares in the open market.
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The requirement that we consummate an initial business combinationCombination within the prescribed time frame afterframe. We cannot assure our shareholders that any particular target business identified by us as a potential Business Combination candidate will have financial statements prepared in accordance with the closing ofrequirements outlined above, or that the initial public offering may give potential target businesses leverage over us in negotiating a business combination and may limit the time we have in which to conduct due diligence on potential business combination targets, in particular as we approach our dissolution deadline, which could undermine our ability to complete our initial business combination on terms that would produce value for our shareholders.
Any potential target business with which we enter into negotiations concerning a business combination will be awareable to prepare its financial statements in accordance with the requirements outlined above. To the extent that we must consummate an initial business combination within 18 months (or 21 months from the closing of our initial public offering if we have executed a letter of intent, agreement in principle or definitive agreement for our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of our initial public offering offering but have not completed our initial business combination within such 18 month period) from the closing of our initial public offering. Consequently, such target business may obtain leverage over us in negotiating a business combination, knowing that if we do not complete our initial business combination with that particular target business, we may be unable to complete our initial business combination with any target business. This risk will increase as we get closer to the time frame described above. In addition, we may have limited time to conduct due diligence and may enter into our initial business combination on terms that we would have rejected upon a more comprehensive investigation.
Our search for a business combination may be materially adversely affected by the
COVID-19
pandemic and the status of debt and equity markets.
The
COVID-19
global pandemic has negatively impacted the global economy, disrupted global supply chains, lowered equity market valuations, created significant volatility and disruption in financial markets, and increased unemployment levels, all of which may become heightened concerns upon a second wave of infection or future developments. In addition, the pandemic has resulted in temporary closures of many businesses and the institution of social distancing and sheltering in placethese requirements in many states and communities. The
COVID-19
pandemic (including recently discovered variant strains of
COVID-19)
has resulted in, and a significant outbreak of other infectious diseases (including recently discovered variant strains of
COVID-19)
also could result in, a widespread health crisis that could adversely affect the economies and financial markets worldwide, and the business of any potential target business with which we consummate a business combination could be materially and adversely affected.
Furthermore, we may be unable to complete a business combination if concerns relating to
COVID-19
continue to restrict travel, limit the ability to have meetings with potential investors or the partner business’s personnel, vendors and services providers are unavailable to negotiate and consummate a transaction in a timely manner. The extent to which
COVID-19
impacts our search for a business combination will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, including new information which may emerge concerning the severity of
COVID-19
and the actions to contain
COVID-19
or treat its impact, including the safety and efficacy of vaccination programs, among others. If the disruptions posed by
COVID-19
or other matters of global concern continue for an extensive period of time, our ability to consummate a business combination, or the operations of a target business with whichmet, we ultimately consummate a business combination, may be materially adversely affected. In addition, our ability to consummate a transaction may be dependent on the ability to raise equity and debt financing which may be impacted by
COVID-19
and other events, including as a result of increased market volatility, decreased market liquidity and third-party financing being unavailable on terms acceptable to us or at all.
As the number of special purpose acquisition companies evaluating targets increases, attractive targets may become scarcer and there may be more competition for attractive targets. This could increase the cost of our initial business combination and could even result in our inability to find a target or to consummate an initial business combination.
In recent years, the number of special purpose acquisition companies that have been formed has increased substantially. Many potential targets for special purpose acquisition companies have already entered into an initial business combination, and there are still many special purpose acquisition companies seeking targets for their initial business combination, as well as many such companies currently in registration. As a result, at times, fewer attractive targets may be available, and it may require more time, more effort and more resources to identify a suitable target and to consummate an initial business combination. In addition, because there are more special purpose acquisition companies seeking to enter into an initial business combination with available targets, the competition for available targets with attractive fundamentals or business models may increase, which could cause targets companies to demand improved financial terms. Attractive deals could also become scarcer for other reasons, such as economic or industry sector downturns, geopolitical tensions, or increases in the cost of additional capital needed to close business combinations or operate targets post-business combination. This could increase the cost of, delay or otherwise complicate or frustrate our ability to find and consummate an initial business combination, and may result in our inability to consummate an initial business combination on terms favorable to our investors altogether.
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We may not be able to consummate an initial business combination within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) afteracquire the closingproposed target business. While this may limit the pool of potential Business Combination candidates, we do not believe that this limitation will be material.

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We are required to evaluate our initial public offering, in which case we would cease all operations exceptinternal control procedures for the purpose of winding upfiscal year ending December 31, 2023 as required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Only in the event we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer or an accelerated filer, and no longer qualify as an emerging growth company, will we would redeembe required to have our public shares and liquidate.

Weinternal control procedures audited. A target business may not be ablein compliance with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act regarding adequacy of their internal controls. The development of the internal controls of any such entity to find a suitable target businessachieve compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may increase the time and consummate an initial business combination within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) after the closing of our initial public offering. Our abilitycosts necessary to complete any such Business Combination.

We have filed a Registration Statement on Form 8-A with the SEC to voluntarily register our initial business combination may be negatively impacted by general market conditions, volatility in the capital and debt markets and the other risks described herein. For example, the

COVID-19
pandemic continues to be a healthcare crisis in the U.S. and globally and, while the extentsecurities under Section 12 of the continuing impact of the pandemic on us will depend on future developments, it could limit our ability to complete our initial business combination, including asExchange Act. As a result, of increased market volatility, decreased market liquidity and third-party financing being unavailable on terms acceptable to us or at all. Additionally, the
COVID-19
pandemic may negatively impact businesses we may seek to acquire. If we have not consummated an initial business combination within such applicable time period, we will: (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up; (ii) 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 but net of taxes payable, if any (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of the then-outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any); and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption,are subject to the approvalrules and regulations promulgated under the Exchange Act. We have no current intention of filing a Form 15 to suspend our remaining shareholders and our Board of Directors, liquidate and dissolve, subject in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii), to ourreporting or other obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law. Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association will provide that, if we wind up for any other reasonExchange Act prior to the consummation of our initial Business Combination.

We are a Cayman Islands exempted company. Exempted companies are Cayman Islands companies conducting business combination,mainly outside the Cayman Islands and, as such, are exempted from complying with certain provisions of the Companies Act. As an exempted company, we have applied for and received a tax exemption undertaking from the Cayman Islands government that, in accordance with Section 6 of the Tax Concessions Act (Revised) of the Cayman Islands, for a period of 20 years from the date of the undertaking, no law that is enacted in the Cayman Islands imposing any tax to be levied on profits, income, gains or appreciations will followapply to us or our operations and, in addition, that no tax to be levied on profits, income, gains or appreciations or which is in the foregoing proceduresnature of estate duty or inheritance tax will be payable (i) on or in respect of our shares, debentures or other obligations or (ii) by way of the withholding in whole or in part of a payment of dividend or other distribution of income or capital by us to our shareholders or a payment of principal or interest or other sums due under a debenture or other obligation of us.

We are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act, as modified by the JOBS Act. As such, we are eligible to 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 reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our 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. If some investors find our securities less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our securities and the prices of our securities may be more volatile.

In addition, Section 107 of the JOBS Act also provides that an “emerging growth company” can take advantage of the extended transition period provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act for complying with new or revised accounting standards. In other words, an “emerging growth company” can delay the adoption of certain accounting standards until those standards would otherwise apply to private companies. We intend to take advantage of the benefits of this extended transition period.

We will remain an emerging growth company until the earlier of (1) the last day of the fiscal year (a) following October 18, 2026, (b) in which we have total annual gross revenue of at least $1.235 billion, or (c) in which we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer, which means the market value of our Class A Ordinary Shares that are held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the prior June 30th, and (2) the date on which we have issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities during the prior three-year period.

Additionally, we are a “smaller reporting company” as defined in Item 10(f)(1) of Regulation S-K. Smaller reporting companies may take advantage of certain reduced disclosure obligations, including, among other things, providing only two years of audited financial statements. We will remain a smaller reporting company until the last day of the fiscal year in which (i) the market value of our Ordinary Shares held by non-affiliates exceeds $250 million as of the prior June 30th, and (ii) our annual revenues exceed $100 million during such completed fiscal year or the market value of our Ordinary Shares held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the prior June 30. 

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Item 1A. Risk Factors.

As a smaller reporting company under Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act, we are not required to include risk factors in this Report. However, the following is a partial list of material risks, uncertainties and other factors that could have a material effect on us and our operations:

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we are a blank check company and an early stage company with no revenue or basis to evaluate our ability to select a suitable business target;

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we may not be able to select an appropriate target business or businesses and complete our initial Business Combination, including the Helport Business Combination, in the prescribed time frame;

·

our expectations around the performance of a prospective target business or businesses, such as Helport, may not be realized;

·

we may not be successful in retaining or recruiting required officers, key employees or directors following our initial Business Combination, including the Helport Business Combination;

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our officers and directors may have difficulties allocating their time between our Company and other businesses and may potentially have conflicts of interest with our business or in approving our initial Business Combination;

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we may not be able to obtain additional financing to complete our initial Business Combination or reduce the number of shareholders requesting redemption;

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we may issue our shares to investors in connection with our initial Business Combination at a price that is less than the prevailing market price of our shares at that time;

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our shareholders may not be given the opportunity to choose the initial business target or to vote on the initial Business Combination;

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Trust Account funds may not be protected against third party claims or bankruptcy;

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an active market for our public securities may not develop and our shareholders will have limited liquidity and trading;

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our financial performance following a Business Combination with an entity may be negatively affected by their lack of an established record of revenue, cash flows and experienced management;

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there may be more competition to find an attractive target for an initial Business Combination, which could increase the costs associated with completing our initial Business Combination and may result in our inability to find a suitable target;

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changes in the market for directors and officers liability insurance could make it more difficult and more expensive for us to negotiate and complete an initial Business Combination;

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if we do not consummate the Helport Business Combination, we may attempt to simultaneously complete Business Combinations with multiple prospective targets, which may hinder our ability to complete our initial Business Combination and give rise to increased costs and risks that could negatively impact our operations and profitability;

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we may engage one or more of our underwriters or one of their respective affiliates to provide additional services to us after the Initial Public Offering, which may include acting as a financial advisor in connection with an initial Business Combination or as placement agent in connection with a related financing transaction. Our underwriters are entitled to receive deferred underwriting commissions that will be released from the Trust Account only upon completion of an initial Business Combination. These financial incentives may cause them to have potential conflicts of interest in rendering any such additional services to us after the Initial Public Offering, including, for example, in connection with the sourcing and consummation of an initial Business Combination;

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we may attempt to complete our initial Business Combination with a private company about which little information is available, such as Helport, which may result in a Business Combination with a company that is not as profitable as we suspected, if at all;

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our Warrants are accounted for as derivative liabilities and are recorded at fair value upon issuance with changes in fair value each period reported in earnings, which may have an adverse effect on the market price of our Ordinary Shares or may make it more difficult for us to consummate an initial Business Combination;

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since our Sponsor will lose its entire investment in us if our initial Business Combination is not completed (other than with respect to any Public Shares they may acquire during or after the Initial Public Offering), and because our Sponsor, officers and directors may profit substantially even under circumstances in which our Public Shareholders would experience losses in connection with their investment, a conflict of interest may arise in determining whether a particular Business Combination target is appropriate for our initial Business Combination;

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the value of the Founder Shares following completion of our initial Business Combination is likely to be substantially higher than the nominal price paid for them, even if the trading price of our Ordinary Shares at such time is substantially less than $10.86 per share (as of December 31, 2023);

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resources could be wasted in researching acquisitions that are not completed, which could materially adversely affect subsequent attempts to locate and acquire or merge with another business. If we have not completed our initial Business Combination within the Combination Period, our Public Shareholders may receive only approximately $10.86 per share (as of December 31, 2023), or less than such amount in certain circumstances, on the liquidation of our Trust Account and our Warrants will expire worthless;

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recent increases in inflation and interest rates in the United States and elsewhere could make it more difficult for us to consummate an initial Business Combination;

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market conditions, economic uncertainty or downturns could adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results and our ability to consummate a Business Combination;

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adverse developments affecting the financial services industry, including events or concerns involving liquidity, defaults or non-performance by financial institutions, could adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations, or our prospects;

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military or other conflicts in Ukraine, the Middle East or elsewhere may lead to increased volume and price volatility for publicly traded securities, or affect the operations or financial condition of potential target companies, which could make it more difficult for us to consummate an initial Business Combination;

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if our initial Business Combination involves a company organized under the laws of a state of the United States, it is possible the Excise Tax will be imposed on us in connection with redemptions of our Ordinary Shares after or in connection with such initial Business Combination;

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If the net proceeds of the Initial Public Offering and the Private Placement not being held in the Trust Account are insufficient to allow us to operate until the end of the Combination Period, it could limit the amount available to complete our initial Business Combination, and we will depend on loans from our Sponsor, its affiliates or members of our Management Team to fund our search and to complete our initial Business Combination;

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there is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a “going concern”; and

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we have identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023. If we are unable to develop and maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting, we may not be able to accurately report our financial results in a timely manner, which may adversely affect investor confidence in us and materially and adversely affect our business and operating results.

We may not be able to complete an initial Business Combination with certain potential target companies if a proposed transaction with the target company may be subject to review or approval by regulatory authorities pursuant to certain U.S. or foreign laws or regulations.

Certain acquisitions or business combinations may be subject to review or approval by regulatory authorities pursuant to certain U.S. or foreign laws or regulations. In the event that such regulatory approval or clearance is not obtained, or the review process is extended beyond the period of time that would permit an initial Business Combination to be consummated with us, we may not be able to consummate a Business Combination with such target. In addition, regulatory considerations may decrease the pool of potential target companies we may be willing or able to consider.

Among other things, the U.S. Federal Communications Act prohibits foreign individuals, governments, and corporations from owning more than a specified percentage of the capital stock of a broadcast, common carrier, or aeronautical radio station licensee. In addition, U.S. law currently restricts foreign ownership of U.S. airlines. In the United States, certain mergers that may affect competition may require certain filings and review by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, and investments or acquisitions that may affect national security are subject to review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”). CFIUS is an interagency committee authorized to review certain transactions involving foreign investment in the United States by foreign persons in order to determine the effect of such transactions on the national security of the United States.

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Outside the United States, laws or regulations may affect our ability to consummate a Business Combination with potential target companies incorporated or having business operations in jurisdictions where national security considerations, involvement in regulated industries (including telecommunications), or in businesses where a country’s culture or heritage may be implicated. Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, the sole shareholder and director of the Sponsor and President, Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company, holds a Hong Kong special administrative region passport and is a permanent resident of Hong Kong. Accordingly, CFIUS may consider us to be a “foreign person.”

Although we do not believe Helport, a British Virgin Islands business company, is a U.S. business with which a Business Combination may affect national security, CFIUS may take a different view and decide to block or delay the Business Combination, impose conditions to mitigate national security concerns with respect to the liquidationBusiness Combination, order us to divest all or a portion of a U.S. business of the trustcombined company if we had proceeded without first obtaining CFIUS clearance, or impose penalties if CFIUS believes that the mandatory notification requirement applied. Additionally, the laws and regulations of other U.S. government entities may impose review or approval procedures on account of any foreign ownership by the Sponsor.

The foreign ownership limitations, and the potential impact of CFIUS, may prevent us from consummating a Business Combination with Helport or a U.S. target company. If we were to seek an initial Business Combination other than the Business Combination with Helport, the pool of potential targets with which it could complete an initial Business Combination may be limited as promptly as reasonably possible buta result of any such regulatory restriction, and we may be adversely affected in terms of competing with other SPACs that do not more than ten business days thereafter, subjecthave similar ownership issues. Moreover, the process of any government review, whether by CFIUS or otherwise, could be lengthy. Because we have only a limited time to applicable Cayman Islands law. In either such case,complete an initial Business Combination, our failure to obtain any required approvals within the requisite time period may require us to liquidate. If we liquidate, our public shareholders may only receive only $10.10$10.86 per public share or less than $10.10 per public share,(plus any applicable interest accrued). This will also cause you to lose any potential investment opportunity in the potential target acquisition and the chance of realizing future gains on your investment through any price appreciation in the redemption of their shares,combined company, and our warrants will expire worthless. See “— If

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Cyber incidents or attacks directed at us or third parties bring claims against us,could result in information theft, data corruption, operational disruption and/or financial loss.

We depend on digital technologies, including information systems, infrastructure and cloud applications and services, including those of third parties with whom we may deal. Sophisticated and deliberate attacks on, or security breaches in, our systems or infrastructure, or the proceeds held insystems or infrastructure of third parties or the trust accountcloud, could be reduced and the

per-share
redemption amount received by shareholders may be less than $10.10 per public share” and other risk factors herein.
If we seek shareholder approvallead to corruption or misappropriation of our initial business combination, our Sponsor, directors, executive officers, advisorsassets, proprietary information and their affiliates may elect to purchase public sharessensitive or warrants, which may influence a vote on a proposed business combination and reduce the public “float” of our Class A ordinary shares or public warrants.
If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination and we do not conduct redemptionsconfidential data. As an early-stage company without significant investments in connection with our initial business combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, our Sponsor, directors, executive officers, advisors or their affiliates may purchase public shares or warrants in privately negotiated transactions or in the open market either prior to or following the completion of our initial business combination, although they are under no obligation to do so. However, they have no current commitments, plans or intentions to engage in such transactions and have not formulated any terms or conditions for any such transactions. None of the funds in the trust account will be used to purchase public shares or warrants in such transactions.
In the event that our Sponsor, directors, executive officers, advisors or their affiliates purchase shares in privately negotiated transactions from public shareholders who have already elected to exercise their redemption rights, such selling shareholders would be required to revoke their prior elections to redeem their shares. The purpose of any such transaction could be to (1) vote in favor of the business combination and thereby increase the likelihood of obtaining shareholder approval of the business combination, (2) reduce the number of public warrants outstanding or vote such warrants on any matters submitted to the warrant holders for approval in connection with our initial business combination or (3) satisfy a closing condition in an agreement with a target that requires us to have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash at the closing of our initial business combination, where it appears that such requirement would otherwise not be met. Any such purchases of our securities may result in the completion of our initial business combination that may not otherwise have been possible. In addition, if such purchases are made, the public “float” of our Class A ordinary shares or public warrants may be reduced and the number of beneficial holders of our securities may be reduced, which may make it difficult to maintain or obtain the quotation, listing or trading of our securities on a national securities exchange. Any such purchases will be reported pursuant to Section 13 and Section 16 of the Exchange Act to the extent such purchasers are subject to such reporting requirements. See “Proposed Business — Permitted Purchases and Other Transactions with Respect to Our Securities” for a description of how our Sponsor, directors, executive officers, advisors or their affiliates will select which shareholders to purchase securities from in any private transaction.
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If a shareholder fails to receive notice of our offer to redeem our public shares in connection with our initial business combination, or fails to comply with the procedures for tendering its shares, such shares may not be redeemed.
We will comply with the proxy rules or tender offer rules, as applicable, when conducting redemptions in connection with our initial business combination. Despite our compliance with these rules, if a shareholder fails to receive our proxy solicitation or tender offer materials, as applicable, such shareholder may not become aware of the opportunity to redeem its shares. In addition, the proxy solicitation or tender offer materials, as applicable, that we will furnish to holders of our public shares in connection with our initial business combination will describe the various procedures that must be complied with in order to validly redeem or tender public shares. In the event that a shareholder fails to comply with these procedures, its shares may not be redeemed. See “Proposed Business — Business Strategy — Effecting Our Initial Business Combination — Tendering Share Certificates in Connection with a Tender Offer or Redemption Rights.”
You will not have any rights or interests in funds from the trust account, except under certain limited circumstances. Therefore, to liquidate your investment, you may be forced to sell your public shares or warrants, potentially at a loss.
Our public shareholders will be entitled to receive funds from the trust account only upon the earliest to occur of: (i) our completion of an initial business combination, and then only in connection with those Class A ordinary shares that such shareholder properly elected to redeem, subject to the limitations described herein, (ii) the redemption of any public shares properly tendered in connection with a shareholder vote to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A) to modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide holders of our Class A ordinary shares the right to have their shares redeemed in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of our initial public offering or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares, and (iii) the redemption of our public shares if we have not consummated an initial business within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of our initial public offering, subject to applicable law and as further described herein. Public shareholders who redeem their Class A ordinary shares in connection with a shareholder vote described in clause (ii) in the preceding sentence shall not be entitled to funds from the trust account upon the subsequent completion of an initial business combination or liquidation if we have not consummated an initial business combination within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of our initial public offering, with respect to such Class A ordinary shares so redeemed. In no other circumstances will a public shareholder have any right or interest of any kind in the trust account. Holders of warrants will not have any right to the proceeds held in the trust account with respect to the warrants. Accordingly, to liquidate your investment, you may be forced to sell your public shares or warrants, potentially at a loss.
Changes in the market for directors and officers liability insurance could make it more difficult and more expensive for us to negotiate and complete an initial business combination.
In recent months, the market for directors and officers liability insurance for special purpose acquisition companies has changed. Fewer insurance companies are offering quotes for directors and officers liability coverage, the premiums charged for such policies have generally increased and the terms of such policies have generally become less favorable. There can be no assurance that these trends will not continue.
The increased cost and decreased availability of directors and officers liability insurance could make it more difficult and more expensive for us to negotiate an initial business combination. In order to obtain directors and officers liability insurance or modify its coverage as a result of becoming a public company, the post-business combination entity might need to incur greater expense, accept less favorable terms or both. However, any failure to obtain adequate directors and officers liability insurance could have an adverse impact on the post-business combination’s ability to attract and retain qualified officers and directors.
In addition, even after we were to complete an initial business combination, our directors and officers could still be subject to potential liability from claims arising from conduct alleged to have occurred prior to the initial business combination. As a result, in order to protect our directors and officers, the post-business combination entity may need to purchase additional insurance with respect to any such claims
(“run-off
insurance”). The need for
run-off
insurance would be an added expense for the post-business combination entity, and could interfere with or frustrate our ability to consummate an initial business combination on terms favorable to our investors.
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The NYSE may delist our securities from trading on its exchange, which could limit investors’ ability to make transactions in our securities and subject us to additional trading restrictions.
We cannot assure you that our securities will continue to be, listed on the NYSE in the future . In order to continue listing our securities on the NYSE prior to our initial business combination, we must maintain certain financial, distribution and share price levels. Generally, we must maintain a minimum market capitalization (generally $50,000,000) and a minimum number of holders of our securities (generally 300 public holders).
Additionally, our units will not be traded after completion of our initial business combination and, in connection with our initial business combination, we will be required to demonstrate compliance with the NYSE initial listing requirements, which are more rigorous than the NYSE continued listing requirements, in order to continue to maintain the listing of our securities on the NYSE. For instance, in order for our shares to be listed upon the consummation of our business combination, at such time our share price would generally be required to be at least $4.00 per share, our total market capitalization would be required to be at least $150,000,000, the aggregate market value of publicly held shares would be required to be at least $40,000,000 and we would be required to have at least 400 round lot shareholders. We cannot assure you that we will be able to meet those listing requirements at that time.
If the NYSE delists any of our securities from trading on its exchange and we are not able to list our securities on another national securities exchange, we expect such securities could be quoted on an
over-the-counter
market. If this were to occur, we could face significant material adverse consequences, including:
a limited availability of market quotations for our securities;
reduced liquidity for our securities;
a determination that our Class A ordinary shares are a “penny stock” which will require brokers trading in our Class A ordinary shares to adhere to more stringent rules and possibly result in a reduced level of trading activity in the secondary trading market for our securities;
a limited amount of news and analyst coverage; and
a decreased ability to issue additional securities or obtain additional financing in the future.
The National Securities Markets Improvement Act of 1996, which is a federal statute, prevents or preempts the states from regulating the sale of certain securities, which are referred to as “covered securities.” Because our units and our Class A ordinary shares and warrants are listed on the NYSE, our units, Class A ordinary shares and warrants qualify as covered securities under the statute. Although the states are preempted from regulating the sale of covered securities, the federal statute does allow the states to investigate companies if there is a suspicion of fraud, and, if there is a finding of fraudulent activity, then the states can regulate or bar the sale of covered securities in a particular case. While we are not aware of a state having used these powers to prohibit or restrict the sale of securities issued by blank check companies, other than the State of Idaho, certain state securities regulators view blank check companies unfavorably and might use these powers, or threaten to use these powers, to hinder the sale of securities of blank check companies in their states. Further, if we were no longer listed on the NYSE, our securities would not qualify as covered securities under the statute and we would be subject to regulation in each state in which we offer our securities.
You will not be entitled to protections normally afforded to investors of many other blank check companies.
Since the net proceeds of the initial public offering and the sale of the private placement warrants are intended to be used to complete an initial business combination with a target business that has not been selected, we may be deemed to be a “blank check” company under the United States securities laws. However, because we will have net tangible assets in excess of $5,000,000 and filed a Current Report on Form
8-K,
including an audited balance sheet demonstrating this fact, we are exempt from rules promulgated by the SEC to protect investors in blank check companies, such as Rule 419. Accordingly, investors will not be afforded the benefits or protections of those rules. Among other things, this means our units will be immediately tradable and we will have a longer period of time to complete our initial business combination than do companies subject to Rule 419. Moreover, if the initial public offering were subject to Rule 419, that rule would prohibit the release of any interest earned on funds held in the trust account to us unless and until the funds in the trust account were released to us in connection with our completion of an initial business combination. For a more detailed comparison of our offering to offerings that comply with Rule 419, please see “Proposed Business — Comparison of This Offering to Those of Blank Check Companies Subject to Rule 419.”
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If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination and we do not conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules, and if you or a “group” of shareholders are deemed to hold in excess of 15% of our Class A ordinary shares, you will lose the ability to redeem all such shares in excess of 15% of our Class A ordinary shares.
If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our initial business combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide 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 Exchange Act), will be restricted from redeeming its shares with respect to more than an aggregate of 15% of the shares sold in the initial public offering, which we refer to as the “Excess Shares,” without our prior consent. However, we would not be restricting our shareholders’ ability to vote all of their shares (including Excess Shares) for or against our initial business combination. Your inability to redeem the Excess Shares will reduce your influence over our ability to complete our initial business combination and you could suffer a material loss on your investment in us if you sell Excess Shares in open market transactions. Additionally, you will not receive redemption distributions with respect to the Excess Shares if we complete our initial business combination. And as a result, you will continue to hold that number of shares exceeding 15% and, in order to dispose of such shares, would be required to sell your shares in open market transactions, potentially at a loss.
Because of our limited resources and the significant competition for business combination opportunities, it may be more difficult for us to complete our initial business combination. If we have not consummated our initial business combination within the required time period, our public shareholders may receive only approximately $10.10 per public share, or less in certain circumstances, on the liquidation of our trust account and our warrants will expire worthless.
We expect to encounter intense competition from other entities having a business objective similar to ours, including private investors (which may be individuals or investment partnerships), other blank check companies and other entities, domestic and international, competing for the types of businesses we intend to acquire. Many of these individuals and entities are well established and have extensive experience in identifying and effecting, directly or indirectly, acquisitions of companies operating in or providing services to various industries. Many of these competitors possess greater technical, human and other resources or more local industry knowledge than we do and our financial resources will be relatively limited when contrasted with those of many of these competitors. While we believe there are numerous target businesses we could potentially acquire with the net proceeds of the initial public offering and the sale of the private placement warrants, our ability to compete with respect to the acquisition of certain target businesses that are sizable will be limited by our available financial resources. This inherent competitive limitation gives others an advantage in pursuing the acquisition of certain target businesses. Furthermore, we are obligated to offer holders of our public shares the right to redeem their shares for cash at the time of our initial business combination in conjunction with a shareholder vote or via a tender offer. Target companies will be aware that this may reduce the resources available to us for our initial business combination. Any of these obligations may place us at a competitive disadvantage in successfully negotiating a business combination. If we have not consummated our initial business combination within the required time period, our public shareholders may receive only approximately $10.10 per public share, or less in certain circumstances, on the liquidation of our trust account and our warrants will expire worthless. See “— If third parties bring claims against us, the proceeds held in the trust account could be reduced and the
per-share
redemption amount received by shareholders may be less than $10.10 per public share” and other risk factors herein.
If the net proceeds of the initial public offering and the sale of the private placement warrants not being held in the trust account are insufficient to allow us to operate for the 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) following the closing of our initial public offering, it could limit the amount available to fund our search for a target business or businesses and our ability to complete our initial business combination, and we will depend on loans from our Sponsor, its affiliates or members of our management team to fund our search and to complete our initial business combination.
Of the net proceeds of our initial public offering and the sale of the private placement warrants, only approximately $1,231,992 are currently available to us outside the trust account to fund our working capital requirements. We believe that the funds available to us outside of the trust account, together with funds available from loans from our Sponsor, its affiliates or members of our management team, are sufficient to allow us to operate for at least the 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) following the closing of our initial public offering; however, we cannot assure you that our estimate is accurate, and our Sponsor, its affiliates or members of our management team are under no obligation to advance funds to us in such circumstances. Of the funds available to us, we may use a portion of the funds available to
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us to pay fees to consultants to assist us with our search for a target business. We could also use a portion of the funds as a down payment or to fund a
“no-shop”
provision (a provision in letters of intent designed to keep target businesses from “shopping” around for transactions with other companies or investors on terms more favorable to such target businesses) with respect to a particular proposed business combination, although we do not have any current intention to do so. If we entered into a letter of intent where we paid for the right to receive exclusivity from a target business and were subsequently required to forfeit such funds (whether as a result of our breach or otherwise), we might not have sufficient funds to continue searching for, or conduct due diligence with respect to, a target business.
If we are required to seek additional capital, we would need to borrow funds from our Sponsor, its affiliates, members of our management team or other third parties to operate or may be forced to liquidate. Neither our Sponsor, members of our management team nor their affiliates is under any obligation to us in such circumstances. Any such advances may be repaid only from funds held outside the trust account or from funds released to us upon completion of our initial business combination. Up to $1,500,000 of such loans may be convertible into warrants of the post-business combination entity at a price of $1.00 per warrant at the option of the lender. The warrants would be identical to the private placement warrants. Prior to the completion of our initial business combination, we do not expect to seek loans from parties other than our Sponsor, its affiliates or members of our management team as we do not believe third parties will be willing to loan such funds and provide a waiver against any and all rights to seek access to funds in our trust account. If we have not consummated our initial business combination within the required time period because we do not have sufficient funds available to us, we will be forced to cease operations and liquidate the trust account. Consequently, our public shareholders may only receive an estimated $10.10 per public share, or possibly less, on our redemption of our public shares, and our warrants will expire worthless. See “— If third parties bring claims against us, the proceeds held in the trust account could be reduced and the
per-share
redemption amount received by shareholders may be less than $10.10 per public share” and other risk factors herein.
We may attempt to simultaneously complete business combinations with multiple prospective targets, which may hinder our ability to complete our initial business combination and give rise to increased costs and risks that could negatively impact our operations and profitability.
If we determine to simultaneously acquire several businesses that are owned by different sellers, we will need for each of such sellers to agree that our purchase of its business is contingent on the simultaneous closings of the other business combinations, which may make it more difficult for us, and delay our ability, to complete our initial business combination. With multiple business combinations, we could also face additional risks, including additional burdens and costs with respect to possible multiple negotiations and due diligence (if there are multiple sellers) and the additional risks associated with the subsequent assimilation of the operations and services or products of the acquired companies in a single operating business. If we are unable to adequately address these risks, it could negatively impact our profitability and results of operations.
We may attempt to complete our initial business combination with a private company about which little information is available, which may result in a business combination with a company that is not as profitable as we suspected, if at all.
In pursuing our acquisition strategy, we may seek to effectuate our initial business combination with a privately held company. Very little public information generally exists about private companies, and we could be required to make our decision on whether to pursue a potential initial business combination on the basis of limited information, which may result in a business combination with a company that is not as profitable as we suspected, if at all.
We may seek business combination opportunities with a high degree of complexity that require significant operational improvements, which could delay or prevent us from achieving our desired results.
We may seek business combination opportunities with large, highly complex companies that we believe would benefit from operational improvements. While we intend to implement such improvements, to the extent that our efforts are delayed or we are unable to achieve the desired improvements, the business combination may not be as successful as we anticipate.
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To the extent we complete our initial business combination with a large complex business or entity with a complex operating structure, we may also be affected by numerous risks inherent in the operations of the business with which we combine, which could delay or prevent us from implementing our strategy. Although our management team will endeavor to evaluate the risks inherent in a particular target business and its operations,data security protection, we may not be ablesufficiently protected against such occurrences. We also lack sufficient resources to properly ascertainadequately protect against, or assess allto investigate and remediate any vulnerability to, cyber incidents. Any of the significant risk factors until we completethese occurrences, or a combination of them, could have material adverse consequences on our business combination. If we are not ableand lead to achieve our desired operational improvements, or the improvements take longer to implement than anticipated, we may not achieve the gains that we anticipate. Furthermore, some of these risks and complexities may be outside of our control and leave us with no ability to control or reduce the chances that those risks and complexities will adversely impact a target business. Such combination may not be as successful as a combination with a smaller, less complex organization.
Risks Relating to our Financial Condition and Trust Account
Subsequent to our completion of our initial business combination, we may be required to take write-downs or write-offs, restructuring and impairment or other charges that could have a significant negative effect on our financial condition, results of operations and the price of our securities, which could cause you to lose some or all of your investment.
Even if we conduct extensive due diligence on a target business with which we combine, we cannot assure you that this diligence will identify all material issues with a particular target business, that it would be possible to uncover all material issues through a customary amount of due diligence, or that factors outside of the target business and outside of our control will not later arise. As a result of these factors, we may be forced to later write-down or
write-off
assets, restructure our operations, or incur impairment or other charges that could result in our reporting losses. Even if our due diligence successfully identifies certain risks, unexpected risks may arise and previously known risks may materialize in a manner not consistent with our preliminary risk analysis. Even though these charges may be
non-cash
items and not have an immediate impact on our liquidity, the fact that we report charges of this nature could contribute to negative market perceptions about us or our securities. In addition, charges of this nature may cause us to violate net worth or other covenants to which we may be subject as a result of assuming
pre-existing
debt held by a target business or by virtue of our obtaining post-combination debt financing. Accordingly, any holders who choose to retain their securities following the business combination could suffer a reduction in the value of their securities. Such holders are unlikely to have a remedy for such reduction in value.
If third parties bring claims against us, the proceeds held in the trust account could be reduced and the
per-share
redemption amount received by shareholders may be less than $10.10 per public share.
Our placing of funds in the trust account may not protect those funds from third-party claims against us. Although we will seek to have all vendors, service providers (other than our independent registered public accounting firm), prospective target businesses and other entities with which we do business execute agreements with us waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the trust account for the benefit of our public shareholders, such parties may not execute such agreements, or even if they execute such agreements, they may not be prevented from bringing claims against the trust account, including, but not limited to, fraudulent inducement, breach of fiduciary responsibility or other similar claims, as well as claims challenging the enforceability of the waiver, in each case in order to gain advantage with respect to a claim against our assets, including the funds held in the trust account. Seeking such waivers from third parties, including prospective business combination targets, may deter such parties from entering into agreements with us. If any third party refuses to execute an agreement waiving such claims to the monies held in the trust account, our management will perform an analysis of the alternatives available to it and will only enter into an agreement with a third-party that has not executed a waiver if management believes that such third party’s engagement would be significantly more beneficial to us than any alternative.
Marcum LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm, and the underwriters of the initial public offering will not execute agreements with us waiving such claims to the monies held in the trust account.
Examples of possible instances where we may engage a third-party that refuses to execute a waiver include the engagement of a third party consultant whose particular expertise or skills are believed by management to be significantly superior to those of other consultants that would agree to execute a waiver or in cases where management is unable to find a service provider willing to execute a waiver. In addition, there is no guarantee that such entities will
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agree to waive any claims they may have in the future as a result of, or arising out of, any negotiations, contracts or agreements with us and will not seek recourse against the trust account for any reason. Upon redemption of our public shares, if we have not consummated an initial business combination within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of our initial public offering, or upon the exercise of a redemption right in connection with our initial business combination, we will be required to provide for payment of claims of creditors that were not waived that may be brought against us within the ten years following redemption. Accordingly, due to the claims of such creditors, the
per-share
redemption amount received by public shareholders could be less than the $10.10 per public share initially held in the trust account. Pursuant to the letter agreement the form of which is filed as an exhibit to the registration statement, our Sponsor has agreed that it will be liable to us if and to the extent any claims by a third-party (other than our independent registered public accounting firm) for services rendered or products sold to us, or a prospective target business with which we have discussed entering into a transaction agreement, reduce the amounts in the trust account to below the lesser of (i) $10.10 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 $10.10 per public share due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, in each case net of the interest that may be withdrawn to pay our tax obligations, provided that such liability will not apply to any claims by a third-party or prospective target business that executed a waiver of any and all rights to seek access to the trust account nor will it apply to any claims under our indemnity of the underwriters of the initial public offering against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act. Moreover, in the event that an executed waiver is deemed to be unenforceable against a third-party, our Sponsor will not be responsible to the extent of any liability for such third-party claims.
However, we have not asked our Sponsor to reserve for such indemnification obligations, nor have we independently verified whether our Sponsor has sufficient funds to satisfy its indemnity obligations and we believe that our Sponsor’s only assets are securities of our company. Therefore, we cannot assure you that our Sponsor would be able to satisfy those obligations. As a result, if any such claims were successfully made against the trust account, the funds available for our initial business combination and redemptions could be reduced to less than $10.00 per public share. In such event, we may not be able to complete our initial business combination, and you would receive such lesser amount per share in connection with any redemption of your public shares. None of our officers or directors will indemnify us for claims by third parties including, without limitation, claims by vendors and prospective target businesses.
Our directors may decide not to enforce the indemnification obligations of our Sponsor, resulting in a reduction in the amount of funds in the trust account available for distribution to our public shareholders.
In the event that the proceeds in the trust account are reduced below the lesser of (i) $10.10 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 $10.10 per public share due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, in each case net of the interest that may be withdrawn to pay our tax obligations, and our Sponsor asserts that it is unable to satisfy its obligations or that it has no indemnification obligations related to a particular claim, our independent directors would determine whether to take legal action against our Sponsor to enforce its indemnification obligations. While we currently expect that our independent directors would take legal action on our behalf against our Sponsor to enforce its indemnification obligations to us, it is possible that our independent directors in exercising their business judgment and subject to their fiduciary duties may choose not to do so in any particular instance. If our independent directors choose not to enforce these indemnification obligations, the amount of funds in the trust account available for distribution to our public shareholders may be reduced below $10.10 per public share.
We may not have sufficient funds to satisfy indemnification claims of our directors and executive officers.
We have agreed to indemnify our officers and directors to the fullest extent permitted by law. However, 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 to not seek recourse against the trust account for any reason whatsoever (except to the extent they are entitled to funds from the trust account due to their ownership of public shares). Accordingly, any indemnification provided will be able to be satisfied by us only if (i) we have sufficient funds outside of the trust account or (ii) we consummate an initial business combination. Our obligation to indemnify our officers and directors 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.
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The securities in which we invest the funds held in the trust account could bear a negative rate of interest, which could reduce the value of the assets held in trust such that the
per-share
redemption amount received by public shareholders may be less than $10.10 per share.
The proceeds held in the trust account will be invested only 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. While short-term U.S. government treasury obligations currently yield a positive rate of interest, they have briefly yielded negative interest rates in recent years. Central banks in Europe and Japan pursued interest rates below zero in recent years, and the Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve has not ruled out the possibility that it may in the future adopt similar policies in the United States. In the event that we are unable to complete our initial business combination or make certain amendments to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, our public shareholders are entitled to receive their
pro-rata
share of the proceeds held in the trust account, plus any interest income, net of income taxes paid or payable (less, in the case we are unable to complete our initial business combination, $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses). Negative interest rates could reduce the value of the assets held in trust such that the
per-share
redemption amount received by public shareholders may be less than $10.10 per share.
If, after we distribute the proceeds in the trust account to our public shareholders, we file a bankruptcy or
winding-up
petition or an involuntary bankruptcy or
winding-up
petition is filed against us that is not dismissed, a bankruptcy or insolvency court may seek to recover such proceeds, and the members of our Board of Directors may be viewed as having breached their fiduciary duties to our creditors, thereby exposing the members of our Board of Directors and us to claims of punitive damages.
If, after we distribute the proceeds in the trust account to our public shareholders, we are ordered to be wound up by the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands or other competent court or we pass a resolution for voluntary winding up in circumstances where we cannot pay our debts, any distributions received by shareholders could be viewed under applicable company/debtor/creditor and/or bankruptcy or insolvency laws as either a “voidable preference”, “fraud in anticipation of winding up” or “fraud of creditor.” As a result, the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands or another Court of competent jurisdiction could seek to recover some or all amounts received by our shareholders. In addition, our Board of Directors may be viewed as having breached its fiduciary duty to our creditors and/or having acted in bad faith, thereby exposing itself and us to claims of punitive damages, by paying public shareholders from the trust account prior to addressing the claims of creditors.
If, before distributing the proceeds in the trust account to our public shareholders, we file a bankruptcy or
winding-up
petition or an involuntary bankruptcy or
winding-up
petition is filed against us that is not dismissed, the claims of creditors in such proceeding may have priority over the claims of our shareholders and the
per-share
amount that would otherwise be received by our shareholders in connection with our liquidation may be reduced.
If, before distributing the proceeds in the trust account to our public shareholders, we are ordered to be wound up by the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands or other competent court or we pass a resolution for voluntary winding up in circumstances where we cannot pay our debts, the proceeds held in the trust account could be subject to applicable bankruptcy or insolvency law, and may be included in our bankruptcy estate and subject to the claims of third parties with priority over the claims of our shareholders. To the extent any bankruptcy claims deplete the trust account, the
per-share
amount that would otherwise be received by our shareholders in connection with our liquidation may be reduced.
If we have not consummated an initial business combination within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of our initial public offering, our public shareholders may be forced to wait beyond such 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) before redemption from our trust account.
If we have not consummated an initial business combination within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of our initial public offering, the proceeds then on deposit in the trust account, including interest earned on the funds held in the trust account but net of taxes payable, if any (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), will be used to fund the redemption of our public shares, as further described herein. Any redemption of public shareholders from the trust account will be effected automatically by function of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association prior to any voluntary winding up. If we are required to wind up, liquidate the trust account and distribute such amount therein, pro rata, to our public shareholders, as part of any liquidation process,
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such winding up, liquidation and distribution must comply with the applicable provisions of the Companies Act. In that case, investors may be forced to wait beyond 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of our initial public offering before the redemption proceeds of our trust account become available to them, and they receive the return of their pro rata portion of the proceeds from our trust account. We have no obligation to return funds to investors prior to the date of our redemption or liquidation unless, prior thereto, we consummate our initial business combination or amend certain provisions of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, and only then in cases where investors have sought to redeem their Class A ordinary shares. Only upon our redemption or any liquidation will public shareholders be entitled to distributions if we do not complete our initial business combination and do not amend certain provisions of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide that, if we wind up for any other reason prior to the consummation of our initial business combination, we will follow the foregoing procedures with respect to the liquidation of the trust account as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, subject to applicable Cayman Islands law.
Our shareholders may be held liable for claims by third parties against us to the extent of distributions received by them upon redemption of their shares.
If we are forced to enter into an insolvent liquidation, any distributions received by shareholders could be viewed as an unlawful payment if it was proved that immediately following the date on which the distribution was made, we were unable to pay our debts as they fall due in the ordinary course of business. As a result, a liquidator could seek to recover some or all amounts received by our shareholders. Furthermore, our directors may be viewed as having breached their fiduciary duties to us or our creditors and/or may have acted in bad faith, thereby exposing themselves and our company to claims, by paying public shareholders from the trust account prior to addressing the claims of creditors. We cannot assure you that claims will not be brought against us for these reasons. We and our directors and officers who knowingly and willfully authorized or permitted any distribution to be paid out of our share premium account while we were unable to pay our debts as they fall due in the ordinary course of business would be guilty of an offence and may be liable for a fine of approximately $18,300.00 and imprisonment for five years in the Cayman Islands.
Risks Relating to our Legal and Regulatory Compliance
If we are deemed to be an investment company under the Investment Company Act, we may be required to institute burdensome compliance requirements and our activities may be restricted, which may make it difficult for us to complete our initial business combination.
If we are deemed to be an investment company under the Investment Company Act, our activities may be restricted, including:
restrictions on the nature of our investments; and
restrictions on the issuance of securities,
each of which may make it difficult for us to complete our initial business combination. In addition, we may have imposed upon us burdensome requirements, including:
registration as an investment company with the SEC;
adoption of a specific form of corporate structure; and
reporting, record keeping, voting, proxy and disclosure requirements and other rules and regulations that we are currently not subject to.
In order not to be regulated as an investment company under the Investment Company Act, unless we can qualify for an exclusion, we must ensure that we are engaged primarily in a business other than investing, reinvesting or trading of securities and that our activities do not include investing, reinvesting, owning, holding or trading “investment securities” constituting more than 40% of our assets (exclusive of U.S. government securities and cash items) on an unconsolidated basis. Our business will be to identify and complete a business combination and thereafter to operate the post-transaction business or assets for the long term. We do not plan to buy businesses or assets with a view to resale or profit from their resale. We do not plan to buy unrelated businesses or assets or to be a passive investor.
We do not believe that our anticipated principal activities will subject us to the Investment Company Act. To this end, the proceeds held in the trust account may only be invested in United States “government securities” within the meaning of Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act having a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds
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meeting certain conditions under Rule
2a-7
promulgated under the Investment Company Act which invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations. Pursuant to the trust agreement, the trustee is not permitted to invest in other securities or assets. By restricting the investment of the proceeds to these instruments, and by having a business plan targeted at acquiring and growing businesses for the long term (rather than on buying and selling businesses in the manner of a merchant bank or private equity fund), we intend to avoid being deemed an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act. The trust account is intended as a holding place for funds pending the earliest to occur of either: (i) the completion of our initial business combination; (ii) the redemption of any public shares properly tendered in connection with a shareholder vote to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A) to modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide holders of our Class A ordinary shares the right to have their shares redeemed in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of our initial public offering or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares; or (iii) absent our completing an initial business combination within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of our initial public offering, our return of the funds held in the trust account to our public shareholders as part of our redemption of the public shares. If we do not invest the proceeds as discussed above, we may be deemed to be subject to the Investment Company Act. If we were deemed to be subject to the Investment Company Act, compliance with these additional regulatory burdens would require additional expenses for which we have not allotted funds and may hinder our ability to complete a business combination. If we have not consummated our initial business combination within the required time period, our public shareholders may receive only approximately $10.10 per public share, or less in certain circumstances, on the liquidation of our trust account and our warrants will expire worthless.
loss.

Changes in laws or regulations, or a failure to comply with any laws and regulations, may adversely affect our business, including our ability to negotiate and complete our initial business combination,Business Combination, and results of operations.

We are subject to laws and regulations enacted by national, regional and local governments. In particular, we will beare required to comply with certain SEC and other legal requirements.requirements and numerous complex tax laws. Compliance with, and monitoring of, applicable laws and regulations may be difficult, time consuming and costly. Those laws and regulations and their interpretation and application may also change from time to time and those changes could have a material adverse effect on our business, investments and results of operations. In addition, a failure to comply with applicable laws or regulations, as interpreted and applied, could have a material adverse effect on our business, including our ability to negotiate and complete our initial business combination,Business Combination, and results of operations.

Risks Relating

On January 24, 2024, the SEC adopted the 2024 SPAC Rules requiring, among other matters, (i) additional disclosures relating to SPAC Business Combination transactions; (ii) additional disclosures relating to dilution and to conflicts of interest involving sponsors and their affiliates in both SPAC initial public offerings and Business Combination transactions; (iii) additional disclosures regarding projections included in SEC filings in connection with proposed Business Combination transactions; and (iv) the Termsrequirement that both the SPAC and its target company be co-registrants for Business Combination registration statements

In addition, the SEC’s adopting release provided guidance describing circumstances in which a SPAC could become subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act, including its duration, asset composition, business purpose, and the activities of Our Securities

We may not hold an annual general meeting until after the consummationSPAC and its management team in furtherance of our initial business combination.
In accordancesuch goals.

Compliance with the NYSE corporate governance requirements, we are not required2024 SPAC Rules and related guidance may (i) increase the costs of and the time needed to hold an annual general meeting until one year after our first fiscal year end following our listing on the NYSE. There is no requirement under the Companies Act for us to hold annual or extraordinary general meetings to appoint directors. Until we hold an annual general meeting, public shareholders may not be afforded the opportunity to appoint directorsnegotiate and to discuss company affairs with management. Our Board of Directors is divided into three classes with only one class of directors being appointed in each year and each class (except for those directors appointed prior to our first annual general meeting) serving a three-year term.

Holders of Class A ordinary shares will not be entitled to vote on any appointment of directors we hold prior to our initial business combination.
Prior to our initial business combination, only holders of our founder shares will have the right to vote on the appointment of directors. Holders of our public shares will not be entitled to vote on the appointment of directors during such time. In addition, prior to our initial business combination, holders of a majority of our founder shares may remove a member of the Board of Directors for any reason. Accordingly, you may not have any say in the management of our company prior to the consummation ofcomplete an initial business combination.
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The warrants may become exercisableBusiness Combination and redeemable for a security other than(ii) constrain the Class A ordinary shares, and you will not have any information regarding such other security at this time.
In certain situations, including ifcircumstances under which we are not the surviving entity in our initial business combination, the warrants may become exercisable for a security other than the Class A ordinary shares. As a result, if the surviving company redeems your warrants for securities pursuant to the warrant agreement, you may receive a security in a company of which you do not have information at this time. Pursuant to the warrant agreement, the surviving company will be required to use commercially reasonable efforts to register the issuance of the security underlying the warrants within 20 business days of the closing of an initial business combination.
We may amend the terms of the warrants in a manner that may be adverse to holders of public warrants with the approval by the holders of at least 65% of the then-outstanding public warrants. As a result, the exercise price of your warrants could be increased, the exercise period could be shortened and the number of our Class A ordinary shares purchasable upon exercise of a warrant could be decreased, all without your approval.
Our warrants will be issued in registered form under a warrant agreement between Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as warrant agent, and us. The warrant agreement provides that the terms of the warrants may be amended without the consent of any holder for the purpose of (i) curing any ambiguity or correct any mistake, including to conform the provisions of the warrant agreement to the description of the terms of the warrants and the warrant agreement set forth in our prospectus, or defective provision (ii) amending the provisions relating to cash dividends on ordinary shares as contemplated by and in accordance with the warrant agreement or (iii) adding or changing any provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under the warrant agreement as the parties to the warrant agreement may deem necessary or desirable and that the parties deem to not adversely affect the rights of the registered holders of the warrants, provided that the approval by the holders of at least 65% of the then-outstanding public warrants is required to make any change that adversely affects the interests of the registered holders of public warrants.
Accordingly, we may amend the terms of the public warrants in a manner adverse to a holder if holders of at least 65% of the then-outstanding public warrants approve of such amendment and, solely with respect to any amendment to the terms of the private placement warrants or any provision of the warrant agreement with respect to the private placement warrants, 65% of the number of the then outstanding private placement warrants. Although our ability to amend the terms of the public warrants with the consent of at least 65% of the then-outstanding public warrants is unlimited, examples of such amendments could be amendments to, among other things, increase the exercise price of the warrants, convert the warrants into cash, shorten the exercise period or decrease the number of Class A ordinary shares purchasable upon exercise of a warrant.
Our warrant agreement will designate the courts of the State of New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York as the sole and exclusive forum for certain types of actions and proceedings that may be initiated by holders of our warrants, which could limit the ability of warrant holders to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with our company.
Our warrant agreement will provide that, subject to applicable law, (i) any action, proceeding or claim against us arising out of or relating in any way to the warrant agreement, including under the Securities Act, will be brought and enforced in the courts of the State of New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and (ii) that we irrevocably submit to such jurisdiction, which jurisdiction shall be the exclusive forum for any such action, proceeding or claim. We will waive any objection to such exclusive jurisdiction and that such courts represent an inconvenient forum.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, these provisions of the warrant agreement will not apply to suits brought to enforce any liability or duty created by the Exchange Act or any other claim for which the federal district courts of the United States of America are the sole and exclusive forum. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in any of our warrants shall be deemed to have notice of and to have consented to the forum provisions in our warrant agreement. If any action, the subject matter of which is within the scope the forum provisions of the warrant agreement, is filed in a court other than a court of the State of New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (a “foreign action”) in the name of any holder of our warrants, such holder shall be deemed to have consented to: (x) the personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in the State of New York in connection with any action brought in any such court to enforce the forum provisions (an “enforcement action”), and (y) having service of process made upon such warrant holder in any such enforcement action by service upon such warrant holder’s counsel in the foreign action as agent for such warrant holder.
This
choice-of-forum
provision may limit a warrant holder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with our company, which may discourage such lawsuits. Alternatively, if a court were to find this provision of our warrant agreement inapplicable or unenforceable with respect to one or more of the specified types of actions or proceedings, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such matters in other jurisdictions, which could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations and result in a diversion of the time and resources of our management and Board of Directors.
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We may redeem your unexpired warrants prior to their exercise at a time that is disadvantageous to you, thereby making your warrants worthless.
We have the ability to redeem the outstanding public warrants at any time prior to their expiration, at a price of $0.01 per warrant, provided that the closing price of our 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 warrant as described under the heading “Description of Securities — Warrants — Public Shareholders’ Warrants — Anti-Dilution Adjustments”) for any 20 trading days within a
30-trading
day period ending on the third trading day prior to proper notice of such redemption and provided that certain other conditions are met. 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. As a result, we may redeem the warrants as set forth above even if the holders are otherwise unable to exercise the warrants. Redemption of the outstanding warrants could force you to (i) exercise your warrants and pay the exercise price therefor at a time when it may be disadvantageous for you to do so, (ii) sell your warrants at the then-current market price when you might otherwise wish to hold your warrants or (iii) accept the nominal redemption price which, at the time the outstanding warrants are called for redemption, we expect would be substantially less than the market value of your warrants.
In addition, we have the ability to redeem the outstanding public warrants at any time prior to their expiration, at a price of $0.10 per warrant upon a minimum of 30 days’ prior written notice of redemption provided that the closing price of our Class A ordinary shares equals or exceeds $10.00 per share (as adjusted for adjustments to the number of shares issuable upon exercise or the exercise price of a warrant as described under the heading “Description of Securities — Warrants — Public Shareholders’ Warrants — Anti-Dilution Adjustments”) for any 20 trading days within a
30-trading
day period ending on the third trading day prior to proper notice of such redemption and provided that certain other conditions are met, including that holders will be able to exercise their warrants prior to redemption for a number of Class A ordinary shares determined based on the redemption date and the fair market value of our Class A ordinary shares. Please see “Description of Securities — Warrants — Public Shareholders’ Warrants — Redemption of warrants when the price per Class A ordinary share equals or exceeds $10.00.” The value received upon exercise of the warrants (1) may be less than the value the holders would have received if they had exercised their warrants at a later time where the underlying share price is higher and (2) may not compensate the holders for the value of the warrants, including because the number of ordinary shares received is capped at 0.361 Class A ordinary shares per warrant (subject to adjustment) irrespective of the remaining life of the warrants.
Securities — Warrants — Public Shareholders’ Warrants — Redemption of warrants when the price per Class A ordinary share equals or exceeds $10.00”) so long as they are held by our Sponsor or its permitted transferees.
Our warrants may have an adverse effect on the market price of our Class A ordinary shares and make it more difficult to effectuate our initial business combination.
We issued warrants to purchase 11,500,000 of our Class A ordinary shares as part of the units offered by our prospectus and, simultaneously with the closing of our initial public offering, we issued in a private placement an aggregate of 7,345,000 private placement warrants each exercisable to purchase one Class A ordinary share at $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment. In addition, if the Sponsor, its affiliates or a member of our management team makes any working capital loans, it may convert up to $1,500,000 of such loans into up to an additional 1,500,000 private placement warrants, at the price of $1.00 per warrant. We may also issue Class A ordinary shares in connection with our redemption of our warrants.
To the extent we issue ordinary shares for any reason, including to effectuate a business combination, the potential for the issuance of a substantial number of additional Class A ordinary shares upon exercise of these warrants could make us a less attractive acquisition vehicle to a target business. Such warrants, when exercised, will increase the number of issued and outstanding Class A ordinary shares and reduce the value of the Class A ordinary shares issued to complete the business transaction. Therefore, our warrants may make it more difficult to effectuate a business transaction or increase the cost of acquiring the target business.
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Because each unit contains
one-half
of one redeemable warrant and only a whole warrant may be exercised, the units may be worth less than units of other blank check companies.
Each unit contains
one-half
of one redeemable warrant. Pursuant to the warrant agreement, no fractional warrants will be issued upon separation of the units, and only whole units will trade. If, upon exercise of the warrants, a holder would be entitled to receive a fractional interest in a share, we will, upon exercise, round down to the nearest whole number the number of Class A ordinary shares to be issued to the warrant holder. This is different from other offerings similar to ours whose units include one ordinary share and one whole warrant to purchase one whole share. We have established the components of the units in this way in order to reduce the dilutive effect of the warrants upon completion of a business combination since the warrants will be exercisable in the aggregate for
one-half
of the number of shares compared to units that each contain a whole warrant to purchase one whole share, thus making us, we believe, a more attractive merger partner for target businesses. Nevertheless, this unit structure may cause our units to be worth less than if a unit included a warrant to purchase one whole share.
A provision of our warrant agreement may make it more difficult for us to consummate an initial business combination.
Unlike most blank check companies, if (i) we issue additional Class A ordinary shares or equity-linked securities for capital raising purposes in connection with the closing of our initial business combination at a Newly Issued Price of less than $9.20 per ordinary share, (ii) the aggregate gross proceeds from such issuances represent more than 60% of the total equity proceeds, and interest thereon, available for the funding of our initial business combination on the date of the consummation of our initial business combination (net of redemptions), and (iii) the Market Value is below $9.20 per share, then the exercise price of the warrants will be adjusted 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 prices described below under “Description of Securities — Warrants — Public Shareholders’ Warrants — Redemption of warrants when the price per Class A ordinary share equals or exceeds $18.00” and “Redemption of warrants when the price per Class A ordinary share equals or exceeds $10.00” will be adjusted (to the nearest cent) to be equal to 180% of the higher of the Market Value and the Newly Issued Price, and the $10.00 per share redemption trigger price described below under “Description of Securities — Warrants — Public Shareholders’ Warrants —Redemption of warrants when the price per Class A ordinary share equals or exceeds $10.00” will be adjusted (to the nearest cent) to be equal to the higher of the Market Value and the Newly Issued Price. This may make it more difficult for us to consummate an initial business combination with a target business.
Certain of our warrants are accounted for as a warrant liability and will be recorded at fair value upon issuance with changes in fair value each period reported in earnings, which may have an adverse effect on the market price of our ordinary shares or may make it more difficult for us to consummate an initial business combination.
Our Sponsor holds 7,345,000 private placement warrants. We expect to account for these as a warrant liability and will record at fair value upon issuance any changes in fair value each period reported in earnings as determined by the company based upon a valuation report obtained from its independent third party valuation firm. The impact of changes in fair value on earnings may have an adverse effect on the market price of our ordinary shares. In addition, potential targets may seek a SPAC that does not have warrants that are accounted for as a warrant liability, which may make it more difficult for us to consummate an initial business combination with a target business.
The grant of registration rights to our Sponsor, our directors and the anchor investors may make it more difficult to complete our initial business combination, and the future exercise of such rights may adversely affect the market price of our Class A ordinary shares.
Our Sponsor, directors the anchor investors and each of their permitted transferees can demand that we register the resale of the Class A ordinary shares into which founder shares are convertible, the private placement warrants and the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the private placement warrants, and warrants that may be issued upon conversion of working capital loans and the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon conversion of such warrants. The registration rights will be exercisable with respect to the founder shares and the private placement warrants and the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of such private placement warrants. We will bear the cost of registering these securities. The registration and availability of such a significant number of securities for trading in the public market may have an adverse effect on the market price of our Class A ordinary shares. In addition, the existence of the registration rights may make our initial business combination more costly or difficult to conclude. This is because the shareholders of the target business may increase the equity stake they seek in the combined entity or ask for more cash consideration to offset the negative impact on the market price of our securities that is expected when the securities owned by our Sponsor or its permitted transferees are registered for resale.
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Risks Relating to our Potential Business Combination
We may face risks related to telecommunications, technology or related businesses.
Business combinations with telecommunications, technology or related businesses may involve special considerations and risks. If we complete our initial business combination with a telecommunications, technology or related business, we will be subject to the following risks, any of which could be detrimental to us and the business we acquire:
an inability to compete effectively in a highly competitive environment with many incumbents having substantially greater resources;
an inability to manage rapid change, increasing consumer expectations and growth;
an inability to build strong brand identity and improve subscriber or customer satisfaction and loyalty;
a reliance on proprietary technology to provide services and to manage our operations, and the failure of this technology to operate effectively, or our failure to use such technology effectively;
an inability to deal with our subscribers’ or customers’ privacy concerns;
an inability to license or enforce intellectual property rights on which our business may depend;
any significant disruption in our computer systems or those of third parties that we would utilize in our operations;
an inability by us, or a refusal by third parties, to license intellectual property to us upon acceptable terms;
potential liability for negligence, copyright, or trademark infringement or other claims based on the nature and content of materials that we may distribute;
competition for the leisure and entertainment time and discretionary spending of subscribers or customers, which may intensify in part due to advances in technology and changes in consumer expectations and behavior;
disruption or failure of our networks, systems or technology as a result of computer viruses, “cyber- attacks,” misappropriation of data or other malfeasance, as well as outages, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, accidental releases of information or similar events;
an inability to obtain necessary hardware, software and operational support; and
reliance on third-party vendors or service providers
Any of the foregoing could have an adverse impact on our operations following a business combination. However, our efforts in identifying prospective target businesses will not be limited to telecommunications, technology or related businesses. Accordingly, if we acquire a target business in another industry, these risks will likely not affect us and we will be subject to other risks attendant with the specific industry in which we operate or target business which we acquire, none of which can be presently ascertained.
Because we are neither limited to evaluating a target business in a particular industry sector you will be unable to ascertain the merits or risks of any particular target business’s operations.
We may pursue business combination opportunities in any sector, except that we will not, under our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, be permitted to effectuate our initial business combination solely with another blank check company or similar company with nominal operations. Because we have not yet selected or approached any specific target business with respect to a business combination, there is no basis to evaluate the possible merits or risks of any particular target business’s operations, results of operations, cash flows, liquidity, financial condition or prospects. To the extent we complete our initial business combination, we may be affected by numerous risks inherent in the business operations with which we combine. For example, if we combine with a financially unstable business or an entity lacking an established record of sales or earnings, we may be affected by the risks inherent in the business and operations of a financially unstable or a development stage entity. Although our officers and directors will endeavor to evaluate the risks inherent in a particular target business, we cannot assure you that we will properly ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors or that we will have adequate time to complete due diligence. Furthermore, some of these risks may be outside of our control and leave us with no ability to control or reduce the
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chances that those risks will adversely impact a target business. We also cannot assure you that an investment in our units will ultimately prove to be more favorable to investors than a direct investment, if such opportunity were available, in a business combination target. Accordingly, any holders who choose to retain their securities following the business combination could suffer a reduction in the value of their securities. Such holders are unlikely to have a remedy for such reduction in value.
We may seek acquisition opportunities in industries or sectors which may or may not be outside of our management’s area of expertise.
We will consider a business combination outside of our management’s area of expertise if a business combination target is presented to us and we determine that such candidate offers an attractive acquisition opportunity for our company. Although our management will endeavor to evaluate the risks inherent in any particular business combination target, we cannot assure you that we will adequately ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors. We also cannot assure you that an investment in our units will not ultimately prove to be less favorable to investors than a direct investment, if an opportunity were available, in a business combination target. In the event we elect to pursue an acquisition outside of the areas of our management’s expertise, our management’s expertise may not be directly applicable to its evaluation or operation, and the information contained in this Annual Report regarding the areas of our management’s expertise would not be relevant to an understanding of the business that we elect to acquire. As a result, our management may not be able to adequately ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors. Accordingly, any holders who choose to retain their securities following the business combination could suffer a reduction in the value of their securities. Such holders are unlikely to have a remedy for such reduction in value.
Although we have identified general criteria and guidelines that we believe are important in evaluating prospective target businesses, we may enter into our initial business combination with a target that does not meet such criteria and guidelines, and as a result, the target business with which we enter into our initial business combination may not have attributes entirely consistent with our general criteria and guidelines.
Although we have identified general criteria and guidelines for evaluating prospective target businesses, it is possible that a target business with which we enter into our initial business combination will not have all of these positive attributes. If we complete our initial business combination with a target that does not meet some or all of these guidelines, such combination may not be as successful as a combination with a business that does meet all of our general criteria and guidelines. In addition, if we announce a prospective business combination with a target that does not meet our general criteria and guidelines, a greater number of shareholders may exercise their redemption rights, which may make it difficult for us to meet any closing condition with a target business that requires us to have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash. In addition, if shareholder approval of the transaction is required by applicable law or stock exchange listing requirements, or we decide to obtain shareholder approval for business or other reasons, it may be more difficult for us to attain shareholder approval of our initial business combination if the target business does not meet our general criteria and guidelines. If we have not consummated our initial business combination within the required time period, our public shareholders may receive only approximately $10.10 per public share, or less in certain circumstances, on the liquidation of our trust account and our warrants will expire worthless.
We are not required to obtain an opinion from an independent accounting or investment banking firm, and consequently, you may have no assurance from an independent source that the price we are paying for the business is fair to our shareholders from a financial point of view.
Unless we complete our initial business combination with an affiliated entity, we are not required to obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or another independent entity that commonly renders valuation opinions that the price we are paying is fair to our shareholders from a financial point of view. If no opinion is obtained, our shareholders will be relying on the judgment of our Board of Directors who will determine fair market value based on standards generally accepted by the financial community. Such standards used will be disclosed in our proxy solicitation or tender offer materials, as applicable, related to our initial business combination.
We may issue additional Class A ordinary shares or preference shares to complete our initial business combination or under an employee incentive plan after completion of our initial business combination. Any such issuances would dilute the interest of our shareholders and likely present other risks.
Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association authorize the issuance of up to 90,000,000 Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share, 10,000,000 Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share, and 1,000,000 preference shares, par value $0.0001 per share. There are 67,000,000 and 4,250,000 authorized but unissued
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Class A ordinary shares and Class B ordinary shares, respectively, available for issuance which amount does not take into account shares reserved for issuance upon exercise of outstanding warrants or shares issuable upon conversion of the Class B ordinary shares, if any. The Class B ordinary shares will automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares (which such Class A ordinary shares delivered upon conversion will not have any redemption rights or be entitled to liquidating distributions from the trust account if we fail to consummate an initial business combination) at the time of our initial business combination or earlier at the option of the holders thereof as described herein and in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. There are no preference shares issued and outstanding.
We may issue a substantial number of additional Class A ordinary shares or preference shares to complete our initial business combination or under an employee incentive plan after completion of our initial business combination. We may also issue Class A ordinary shares in connection with our redeeming the warrants as described in “Description of Securities — Warrants — Public Shareholders’ Warrants” or upon conversion of the Class B ordinary shares on a
share-for-share
basis at the time of our initial business combination. However, our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide, among other things, that prior to or in connection with our initial business combination, we may not issue additional shares that would entitle the holders thereof to (i) receive funds from the trust account or (ii) vote on any initial business combination or on any other proposal presented to shareholders prior to or in connection with the completion of an initial business combination. These provisions of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, like all provisions of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, may be amended with a shareholder vote. The issuance of additional ordinary or preference shares:
may significantly dilute the equity interest of investors;
may subordinate the rights of holders of Class A ordinary shares if preference shares are issued with rights senior to those afforded our Class A ordinary shares;
could cause a change in control if a substantial number of Class A ordinary shares are issued, which may affect, among other things, our ability to use our net operating loss carry forwards, if any, and could result in the resignation or removal of our present officers and directors;
may have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control of us by diluting the share ownership or voting rights of a person seeking to obtain control of us;
may adversely affect prevailing market prices for our units, Class A ordinary shares and/or warrants; and
may not result in adjustment to the exercise price of our warrants.
Resources could be wasted in researching acquisitions that are not completed, which could materially adversely affect subsequent attempts to locate and acquire or merge with another business. If we have not consummated our initial business combination within the required time period, our public shareholders may receive only approximately $10.10 per public share, or less in certain circumstances, on the liquidation of our trust account and our warrants will expire worthless.
We anticipate that the investigation of each specific target business and the negotiation, drafting and execution of relevant agreements, disclosure documents and other instruments will require substantial management time and attention and substantial costs for accountants, attorneys and others. If we decide not to complete a specific initial business combination, the costs incurred up to that point for the proposed transaction likely would not be recoverable.
Furthermore, if we reach an agreement relating to a specific target business, we may fail to complete our initial business combination for any number of reasons including those beyond our control. Any such event will result in a loss to us of the related costs incurred which could materially adversely affect subsequent attempts to locate and acquire or merge with another business. If we have not consummated our initial business combination within the required time period, our public shareholders may receive only approximately $10.10 per public share, or less in certain circumstances, on the liquidation of our trust account and our warrants will expire worthless.
Combination.

We may be a passive foreign investment company, or “PFIC,” which could result in adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences to U.S. investors.

If we are a PFIC (as described below) for any taxable year (or portion thereof) that is included in the holding period of a U.S. Holder (as definedinvestors in the section of the prospectus captioned “Taxation — United States Federal Income Tax Considerations — General”) of our Class A ordinary shares or warrants, thesuch U.S. Holderinvestors may be subject to adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences and may be subject to additional reporting requirements. Our PFIC status for our current and subsequent taxable years may depend on whether we qualify for thea PFIC

start-up
“start-up” exception and the status of an acquired company
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pursuant to our initial business combination (see the section of the prospectus captioned “Taxation — United States Federal Income Tax Considerations — U.S. Holders — Passive Foreign Investment Company Rules”).combination. Depending on the particular circumstances, the application of the
start-up
exception may be subject to uncertainty, and there cannot be any assurance that we will qualify for the
start-up
exception. Accordingly, there can be no assurances with respect to our status as a PFIC for our current taxable year or any subsequent taxable year.

A foreign (i.e., non-U.S.) corporation will be classified as a PFIC for U.S. federal income tax purposes if either (i) at least 75% of its gross income in a taxable year, including its pro rata share of the gross income of any corporation in which it is considered to own at least 25% of the shares by value, is passive income or (ii) at least 50% of its assets in a taxable year (ordinarily determined based on fair market value and averaged quarterly over the year), including its pro rata share of the assets of any corporation in which it is considered to own at least 25% of the shares by value, are held for the production of, or produce, passive income. Passive income generally includes dividends, interest, rents and royalties (other than rents or royalties derived from the active conduct of a trade or business) and gains from the disposition of passive assets.

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Because we are a blank check company, with no current active business, we believe that it is likely that we will meet the PFIC asset or income test for our current taxable year. However, pursuant to a start-up exception, a corporation will not be a PFIC for the first taxable year the corporation has gross income (the “start-up year”), if (1) no predecessor of the corporation was a PFIC; (2) the corporation satisfies the IRS that it will not be a PFIC for either of the first two taxable years following the start-up year; and (3) the corporation is not in fact a PFIC for either of those years. The applicability of the start-up exception to us is uncertain and will not be known until after the close of our current taxable year (or possibly not until after the close of the first two taxable years following our start-up year, as described under the start-up exception). After the acquisition of a company or assets in a business combination, we may still meet one of the PFIC tests depending on the timing of the acquisition and the amount of our passive income and assets as well as the passive income and assets of the acquired business. If the company that we acquire in a business combination is a PFIC, then we will likely not qualify for the start-up exception and will be a PFIC for our current taxable year. Our actual PFIC status for our current taxable year or any subsequent taxable year, however, will not be determinable until after the end of such taxable year. Moreover,Accordingly, there can be no assurance with respect to our status as a PFIC for our current taxable year or any future taxable year.

Although our PFIC status is determined annually, an initial determination that our company is a PFIC will generally apply for subsequent years to a U.S. investor who held Class A ordinary shares or warrants while we were a PFIC, whether or not we meet the test for PFIC status in those subsequent years. If we are determined to be a PFIC for any taxable year (or portion thereof) that is included in the holding period of a U.S. investor of our Class A ordinary shares or warrants and, in the case of our Class A ordinary shares, the U.S. investor did not make either a qualified electing fund (“QEF”) election for our first taxable year as a PFIC in which the U.S. investor held (or was deemed to hold) Class A ordinary shares, a QEF election along with a purging election, or a mark-to-market election, each as described under the PFIC rules, such U.S. investor generally will be subject to special rules with respect to (i) any gain recognized by the U.S. investor on the sale or other disposition of its Class A ordinary shares or warrants and (ii) any “excess distribution” made to the U.S. investor (generally, any distributions to such U.S. investor during a taxable year of the U.S. investor that are greater than 125% of the average annual distributions received by such U.S. investor in respect of the Class A ordinary shares during the three preceding taxable years of such U.S. investor or, if shorter, such U.S. investor’s holding period for the Class A ordinary shares).

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the U.S. investor’s gain or excess distribution will be allocated ratably over the U.S. investor’s holding period for the Class A ordinary shares or warrants (which may include gain realized by reason of transfer of Class A ordinary shares or warrants that would otherwise qualify as nonrecognition transactions for U.S. federal income tax purposes);

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the amount allocated to the U.S. investor’s taxable year in which the U.S. investor recognized the gain or received the excess distribution, or to the period in the U.S. investor’s holding period before the first day of our first taxable year in which we are a PFIC, will be taxed as ordinary income;

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the amount allocated to other taxable years (or portions thereof) of the U.S. investor and included in its holding period will be taxed at the highest tax rate in effect for that year and applicable to the U.S. investor; and

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an additional tax equal to the interest charge generally applicable to underpayments of tax will be imposed on the U.S. investor with respect to the tax attributable to each such other taxable year of the U.S. investor.

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In general, if we are determined to be a PFIC, a U.S. investor may avoid the PFIC tax consequences described above in respect of our Class A ordinary shares (but not our warrants) by making a timely and valid QEF election (if eligible to do so) to include in income its pro rata share of our net capital gains (as long-term capital gain) and other earnings and profits (as ordinary income), on a current basis, in each case whether or not distributed, in the taxable year of the U.S. investor in which or with which our taxable year ends. A U.S. investor generally may make a separate election to defer the payment of taxes on undistributed income inclusions under the QEF rules, but if deferred, any such taxes will be subject to an interest charge. In additional, a U.S. investor may be able to make a “mark to market” election with respect to the Class A ordinary shares (but not out warrants) as described in the PFIC rules. 

If we determine we are a PFIC for any taxable year upon written request,prior to the time we willeffect a Business Combination, we currently intend to endeavor to provide to a U.S. Holderholder, upon written request, such information as the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”IRS) may require, including a PFIC Annual Information Statement, in order to enable the U.S. Holder to make and maintain a “qualified electing fund” election, but there can be no assurance that we will timely provide such required information, and final Treasury Regulations provide that such election would be unavailable with respect to our warrants in all cases. warrants.

We urge U.S. investors to consult their tax advisors regarding the possible application of the PFIC rules. For a more detailed discussion of

If we are deemed to be an investment company under the tax consequences of PFIC classification to U.S. Holders, see the section of the prospectus captioned “Taxation — United States Federal Income Tax Considerations — U.S. Holders — Passive Foreign Investment Company Rules.”

WeAct, we may reincorporate or become a tax resident in another jurisdiction in connection withbe required to institute burdensome compliance requirements and our activities may be restricted, which may make it difficult for us to complete our initial business combination and such reincorporation or change in tax residency may result in taxes imposed on us or our shareholders or warrant holders.
We may, in connection with our initial business combination and subject to requisite shareholder approval under the Companies Act, reincorporate in the jurisdiction in which the target company or business is located or in another jurisdiction. Tax structuring considerations are complex, the relevant facts and law are uncertain and may change, and we may prioritize commercial and other considerations over tax considerations Business Combination.

The transaction may require a shareholder or warrant holder to recognize taxable income in the jurisdiction in which the shareholder or warrant holder is a tax resident or in which its members are resident if it is a tax transparent entity. We do not intend to make any cash distributions to shareholders or warrant holders to pay such taxes. Shareholders or warrant holders may be subject to withholding taxes or other taxes, or other adverse tax consequences,SEC‘s adopting release with respect to their ownershipthe 2024 SPAC Rules provided guidance relating to the potential status of SPACs as investment companies subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act and the regulations thereunder. Whether a SPAC is an investment company is dependent on specific facts and circumstances and we can give no assurance that a claim will not be made that we have been operating as an unregistered investment company.

If we are deemed to be an investment company under the Investment Company Act, our activities may be restricted, including (i) restrictions on the nature of our investments; and (ii) restrictions on the issuance of securities, each of which may make it difficult for us after the reincorporation. to complete our initial Business Combination.

In addition, regardlesswe may have imposed upon us burdensome requirements, including: (i) registration as an investment company; (ii) adoption of whether we reincorporate in another jurisdiction, we could be treated as tax resident in the jurisdiction in which the partner company or business is located, which could result in adverse tax consequences to us (e.g., taxation on our worldwide income in such jurisdiction) and to our shareholders or warrant holders.

After our initial business combination, it is possible that a majority of our directors and officers will live outside the United States and all of our assets will be located outside the United States; therefore investors may not be able to enforce federal securities laws or their other legal rights.
It is possible that after our initial business combination, a majority of our directors and officers will reside outside of the United States and all of our assets will be located outside of the United States. As a result, it may be difficult, or in some cases not possible, for investors in the United States to enforce their legal rights, to effect service of process upon all of our directors or officers or to enforce judgments of United States courts predicated upon civil liabilities and criminal penalties on our directors and officers under United States laws.
Risks Relating to Our Management and Key Personnel
We are dependent upon our executive officers and directors and their loss could adversely affect our ability to operate.
Our operations are dependent upon a relatively small group of individuals and, in particular, our executive officers and directors. We believe that our success depends on the continued service of our officers and directors, at least until we have completed our initial business combination. In addition, our executive officers and directors are not required to commit any specified amount of time to our affairs and, accordingly, will have conflicts of interest in allocating their time among various business activities, including identifying potential business combinations and monitoring the related due diligence. We do not have an employment agreement with, or
key-man
insurance on the life of, any of our directors or executive officers.
The unexpected loss of the services of one or more of our directors or executive officers could have a detrimental effect on us.
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Our ability to successfully effect our initial business combination and to be successful thereafter will be totally dependent upon the efforts of our key personnel, some of whom may join us following our initial business combination. The loss of key personnel could negatively impact the operations and profitability of our post-combination business.
Our ability to successfully effect our initial business combination is dependent upon the efforts of our key personnel. The role of our key personnel in the target business, however, cannot presently be ascertained. Although some of our key personnel may remain with the target business in senior management, director or advisory positions following our initial business combination, it is likely that some or all of the management of the target business will remain in place. While we intend to closely scrutinize any individuals we engage after our initial business combination, we cannot assure you that our assessment of these individuals will prove to be correct. These individuals may be unfamiliar with the requirements of operating a company regulated by the SEC, which could cause us to have to expend time and resources helping them become familiar with such requirements.
Our key personnel may negotiate employment or consulting agreements with a target business in connection with a particular business combination, and a particular business combination may be conditioned on the retention or resignation of such key personnel. These agreements may provide for them to receive compensation following our initial business combination and as a result, may cause them to have conflicts of interest in determining whether a particular business combination is the most advantageous.
Our key personnel may be able to remain with our company after the completion of our initial business combination only if they are able to negotiate employment or consulting agreements in connection with the business combination. Such negotiations would take place simultaneously with the negotiation of the business combination and could provide for such individuals to receive compensation in thespecific form of cash payments and/or our securities for services they would render to us after the completion of the business combination. Such negotiations also could make such key personnel’s retention or resignation a condition to any such agreement. The personalcorporate structure; and financial interests of such individuals may influence their motivation in identifying(iii) reporting, record keeping, voting, proxy and selecting a target business.
We may have a limited ability to assess the management of a prospective target businessdisclosure requirements and as a result, may affect our initial business combination with a target business whose management may not have the skills, qualifications or abilities to manage a public company.
When evaluating the desirability of effecting our initial business combination with a prospective target business, our ability to assess the target business’s management may be limited due to a lack of time, resources or information. Our assessment of the capabilities of the target business’s management, therefore, may prove to be incorrectother rules and such management may lack the skills, qualifications or abilities we suspected. Should the target business’s management not possess the skills, qualifications or abilities necessary to manage a public company, the operations and profitability of the post-combination business may be negatively impacted. Accordingly, any holders who choose to retain their securities following the business combination could suffer a reduction in the value of their securities. Such holders are unlikely to have a remedy for such reduction in value.
The officers and directors of an acquisition candidate may resign upon completion of our initial business combination. The loss of a business combination target’s key personnel could negatively impact the operations and profitability of our post-combination business.
The role of an acquisition candidate’s key personnel upon the completion of our initial business combination cannot be ascertained at this time. Although we contemplate that certain members of an acquisition candidate’s management team will remain associated with the acquisition candidate following our initial business combination, it is possible that members of the management of an acquisition candidate will not wish to remain in place, which could negatively impact the operations and profitability of our post-combination business.
Our management may not be able to maintain control of a target business after our initial business combination. Upon the loss of control of a target business, new management may not possess the skills, qualifications or abilities necessary to profitably operate such business.
We may structure our initial business combination so that the post-business combination company in which our public shareholders own shares will own less than 100% of the equity interests or assets of a target business, but we will only complete such business combination if the post-business combination company owns or acquires 50% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in the target business sufficient for usregulations.

In order not to be required to registerregulated as an investment company under the Investment Company Act.Act, unless we can qualify for an exclusion, we must ensure that we are engaged primarily in a business other than investing, reinvesting or trading in securities and that our activities do not include investing, reinvesting, owning, holding or trading “investment securities” constituting more than 40% of our total assets (exclusive of U.S. government securities and cash items) on an unconsolidated basis. We will not consider any

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transaction that does not meet such criteria. Even if the post-business combination company owns 50% or moreare mindful of the voting securities of the target, our shareholders priorSEC’s investment company definition and guidance and intend to ourcomplete an initial Business Combination with an operating business, combination may collectively own aand not with an investment company, or to acquire minority interestinterests in the post-business combination company, depending on valuations ascribed to the target and us in the business combination. For example, we could pursue a transaction in which we issue a substantial number of new Class A ordinary shares in exchange for all of the outstanding capital stock, shares or other equity interests of a target. In this case, we would acquire a 100% interest in the target. However, as a result of the issuance of a substantial number of new Class A ordinary shares, our shareholders immediately prior to such transaction could own less than a majority of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares subsequent to such transaction. In addition, other minority shareholders may subsequently combine their holdings resulting in a single person or group obtaining a larger share of the company’s shares than we initially acquired. Accordingly, this may make it more likely that our management will not be able to maintain control of the target business. We cannot provide assurance that, upon loss of control of a target business, new management would possess the skills, qualifications or abilities necessary to profitably operate such business.
Our executive officers and directors will allocate their time to other businesses thereby causing conflicts of interest in their determination as to how much time to devote to our affairs. This conflict of interest could have a negative impact on our ability to complete our initial business combination.
Our executive 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. exceeding the permitted threshold.

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We do not intendbelieve that our business activities will subject us to have any full-time employees priorthe Investment Company Act. To this end, the proceeds held in the Trust Account were initially invested only 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. To mitigate the risk that we might be deemed to be an investment company for purposes of the Investment Company Act, which risk increases the longer that we hold investments in the Trust Account, on November 9, 2023, we instructed Continental, as trustee of the Trust Account, to liquidate the investments held in the Trust Account and instead to hold the funds in the Trust Account in cash or in an interest bearing demand deposit account at a bank.

Pursuant to the Investment Management Trust Agreement we entered into with Continental in connection with our Initial Public Offering, Continental is not permitted to invest in securities or assets other than as described above. By restricting the investment of the proceeds to these instruments, and by having a business plan targeted at acquiring and growing businesses for the long term (rather than on buying and selling businesses in the manner of a merchant bank or private equity fund), we intended to avoid being deemed an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act. Our Initial Public Offering was not intended for persons who were seeking a return on investments in government securities or investment securities. The Trust Account is intended solely as a temporary depository for funds pending the earliest to occur of: (i) the completion of our initial business combination. Each of our executive officers is engaged in several other business endeavors for which he may be entitled to substantial compensation, and our executive officers are not obligated to contribute any specific number of hours per week to our affairs. Our independent directors also serve as officers and board members for other entities. If our executive officers’ and directors’ other business affairs require them to devote substantial amounts of time to such affairs in excess of their current commitment levels, it could limit their ability to devote time to our affairs which may have a negative impact on our ability to complete our initial business combination. For a complete discussion of our executive officers’ and directors’ other business affairs, please see “Management — Officers, Directors and Director Nominees.”

Our officers and directors presently have, and any of them inBusiness Combination; (ii) the future may have, additional fiduciary or contractual obligations to other entities, including another blank check company, and, accordingly, may have conflicts of interest in determining to which entity a particular business opportunity should be presented.
Until we consummate our initial business combination, we intend to engage in the business of identifying and combining with one or more businesses or entities. Each of our officers and directors presently has, and any of them in the future may have, additional fiduciary or contractual obligations to other entities pursuant to which such officer or director is or will be required to present a business combination opportunity to such entity, subject to his or her fiduciary duties under Cayman Islands law. Accordingly, they may have conflicts of interest in determining to which entity a particular business opportunity should be presented. These conflicts may not be resolved in our favor and a potential target business may be presented to another entity prior to its presentation to us, subject to their fiduciary duties under Cayman Islands law.
In addition, our Sponsor, officers and directors may in the future become affiliated with other blank check companies that may have acquisition objectives that are similar to ours. Accordingly, they may have conflicts of interest in determining to which entity a particular business opportunity should be presented. These conflicts may not be resolved in our favor and a potential target business may be presented to such other blank check companies prior to its presentation to us, subject to our officers’ and directors’ 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.
For a complete discussion of our executive officers’ and directors’ business affiliations and the potential conflicts of interest that you should be aware of, please see “Management — Officers, Directors and Director Nominees,” “Management — Conflicts of Interest” and “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions.”
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Members of our management team and Board of Directors have significant experience as founders, board members, officers or executives of other companies. As a result, certain of those persons have been, may be, or may become, involved in proceedings, investigations and litigation relating to the business affairs of the companies with which they were, are, or may in the future be, affiliated or relating to other actual or alleged misconduct, unrelated to our business affairs. This may have an adverse effect on us, which may impede our ability to consummate an initial business combination.
During the course of their careers, members of our management team and Board of Directors have had significant experience as founders, board members, officers or executives of other companies. As a result of their involvement and positions in these companies, certain persons were, are now, or may in the future become, involved in litigation, investigations or other proceedings relating to the business affairs of such companies or transactions entered into by such companies or relating to actual or alleged misconduct or other negative developments relating to their affairs unrelated to our company. Any such litigation, investigations or other proceedings may divert our management team’s and directors’ attention and resources away from identifying and selecting a target business or businesses for our initial business combination and may negatively affect our reputation, which may impede our ability to complete an initial business combination.
Our directors, management, shareholders, employees and affiliates may from time to time be subject to negative publicity or legal proceedings, which could adversely affect our reputation and may impede our ability to consummate an initial business combination.
Negative publicity about our shareholders, affiliates, directors, officers and other employees can harm our brand and reputation. However, we do not have control or have limited control over the actions of these parties, and any misbehavior or misconduct by these parties could bring us negative publicity or even liability. In addition, our shareholders, directors, employees and affiliates may from time to time be subject to litigation, regulatory investigations, proceedings and/or disputes or otherwise face potential liability and expense in relation to commercial, labor, employment, securities, tax or other matters, which could adversely affect our reputation and results of operations.
Our executive officers, directors, security holders and their respective affiliates may have competitive pecuniary interests that conflict with our interests.
We have not adopted a policy that expressly prohibits our directors, executive officers, security holders or affiliates from having a direct or indirect pecuniary or financial interest in any investment to be acquired or disposed of by us or in any transaction to which we are a party or have an interest. In fact, we may enter into a business combination with a target business that is affiliated with our Sponsor, our directors or executive officers, although we do not intend to do so. Nor do we have a policy that expressly prohibits any such persons from engaging for their own account in business activities of the types conducted by us. Accordingly, such persons or entities may have a conflict between their interests and ours.
The personal and financial interests of our directors and officers may influence their motivation in timely identifying and selecting a target business and completing a business combination. Consequently, our directors’ and officers’ discretion in identifying and selecting a suitable target business may result in a conflict of interest when determining whether the terms, conditions and timing of a particular business combination are appropriate and in our shareholders’ best interest. If this were the case, it would be a breach of their fiduciary duties to us as a matter of Cayman Islands law and we or our shareholders might have a claim against such individuals for infringing on our shareholders’ rights. See the section titled “Description of Securities — Certain Differences in Corporate Law — Shareholders’ Suits” for further information on the ability to bring such claims. However, we might not ultimately be successful in any claim we may make against them for such reason.
We may engage in a business combination with one or more target businesses that have relationships with entities that may be affiliated with our Sponsor, executive officers, directors or initial shareholders which may raise potential conflicts of interest.
In light of the involvement of our Sponsor, executive officers and directors with other entities, we may decide to acquire one or more businesses affiliated with our Sponsor, executive officers, directors or initial shareholders. Our directors also serve as officers and board members for other entities, including, without limitation, those described under “Management — Conflicts of Interest.” Our sponsor, officers and directors may Sponsor, form or participate in other blank check companies similar to ours during the period in which we are seeking an initial business combination. Such entities may compete with us for business combination opportunities. Our Sponsor, officers and directors are not currently awareredemption of any specific opportunities for us to complete our initial business combination with any entities with
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which they are affiliated, and there have been no substantive discussions concerning a business combination with any such entity or entities. Although we will not be specifically focusing on, or targeting, any transaction with any affiliated entities, we would pursue such a transaction if we determined that such affiliated entity met our criteria and guidelines for a business combination as set forth in “Proposed Business — Effecting Our Initial Business Combination — Evaluation of a Target Business and Structuring of Our Initial Business Combination” and such transaction was approved by a majority of our independent and disinterested directors. Despite our agreement to obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or another independent entity that commonly renders valuation opinions regarding the fairness to our company from a financial point of view of a business combination with one or more domestic or international businesses affiliated with our Sponsor, executive officers, directors or initial shareholders, potential conflicts of interest still may exist and, as a result, the terms of the business combination may not be as advantageous to our public shareholders as they would be absent any conflicts of interest.
Since our Sponsor, executive officers and directors will lose their entire investment in us if our initial business combination is not completed (other than with respect to public shares they have or may acquire), a conflict of interest may arise in determining whether a particular business combination target is appropriate for our initial business combination.
In March 2021, our Sponsor paid $25,000, or approximately $0.0035 per share, to cover certain offering costs on our behalf in consideration of 7,187,500 Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001. Also in March 2021, our Sponsor assigned 50,000 of such founder shares (25,000 shares each) to Timothy Dawson, our Chief Financial Officer, and
Cathy-Ann
Martine-Dolecki, our Chief Operating Officer, in each case, at their original purchase price. In August 2021, the initial shareholders forfeited 1,437,500 of such founder shares in the aggregate for no consideration. In November 2021, our Sponsor transferred 150,000 of such founder shares (25,000 shares each) to David Barksdale, Greg Boyd, David Jones, Alex Parker, Steven Rogers, and Robert Willis, each a director of the Company, in each case for their par value. Prior to the initial investment in the company of $25,000 by the Sponsor, the company had no assets, tangible or intangible. The per share price of the founder shares was determined by dividing the amount contributed to the company by the number of founder shares issued. The founder shares will be worthless if we do not complete an initial business combination. However, since our Sponsor, together with such officers, only paid $25,000, or approximately $0.0035 per share, for their founder shares and we offered the units for $230,000,000, or $10.00 per unit, the Sponsor and such officers could make a substantial profit on their investment in the founder shares after an initial business combination even if you or other purchasers of Class A ordinary shares experience substantial losses on an investment in the units offered hereby or Class A ordinary shares, which in turn may potentially create different interests between the Sponsor, on the one hand, and you or other purchasers of units or Class A ordinary shares, on the other hand, to complete an initial business combination. In addition, our Sponsor has purchased an aggregate of 7,345,000 private placement warrants, each exercisable to purchase one Class A ordinary share at $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment, at a price of $1.00 per warrant $7,345,000 in the aggregate), in a private placement that will closed simultaneously with the closing of our initial public offering. If we do not consummate an initial business within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of our initial public offering, the private placement warrants will expire worthless. The personal and financial interests of our executive officers and directors may influence their motivation in identifying and selecting a target business combination, completing an initial business combination and influencing the operation of the business following the initial business combination. This risk may become more acute as the
18-month
(or
21-month,
as applicable) anniversary of the closing of the initial public offering nears, which is the deadline for our consummation of an initial business combination.
Risks Relating to Financing any Business Combination
We may be unable to obtain additional financing to complete our initial business combination or to fund the operations and growth of a target business, which could compel us to restructure or abandon a particular business combination. If we have not consummated our initial business combination within the required time period, our public shareholders may receive only approximately $10.10 per public share, or less in certain circumstances, on the liquidation of our trust account and our warrants will expire worthless.
Although we believe that the net proceeds of the initial public offering and the sale of the private placement warrants will be sufficient to allow us to complete our initial business combination, because we have not yet selected any prospective target business we cannot ascertain the capital requirements for any particular transaction. If the net proceeds of the initial public offering and the sale of the private placement warrants prove to be insufficient, either because of the size of our initial business combination, the depletion of the available net proceeds in search of a target business, the obligation to redeem for cash a significant number of shares from shareholders who elect redemptionPublic Shares properly submitted in connection with our initial business combination or the terms of negotiated transactions to purchase shares in connection with our initial business combination, we may be required to seek additional financing or to abandon the proposed business
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combination. We cannot assure you that such financing will be available on acceptable terms, if at all. The current economic environment may make it difficult for companies to obtain acquisition financing. To the extent that additional financing proves to be unavailable when needed to complete our initial business combination, we would be compelled to either restructure the transaction or abandon that particular business combination and seek an alternative target business candidate. If we have not consummated our initial business combination within the required time period, our public shareholders may receive only approximately $10.10 per public share, or less in certain circumstances, on the liquidation of our trust account and our warrants will expire worthless. In addition, even if we do not need additional financing to complete our initial business combination, we may require such financing to fund the operations or growth of the target business. The failure to secure additional financing could have a material adverse effect on the continued development or growth of the target business. None of our officers, directors or shareholders is required to provide any financing to us in connection with or after our initial business combination.
We may issue notes or other debt securities, or otherwise incur substantial debt, to complete a business combination, which may adversely affect our leverage and financial condition and thus negatively impact the value of our shareholders’ investment in us.
Although we have no commitments as of the date of this Annual Report to issue any notes or other debt securities, or to otherwise incur outstanding debt, we may choose to incur substantial debt to complete our initial business combination. We and our officers have agreed that we will not incur any indebtedness unless we have obtained from the lender a waiver of any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to the monies held in the trust account. As such, no issuance of debt will affect the
per-share
amount available for redemption from the trust account. Nevertheless, the incurrence of debt could have a variety of negative effects, including:
default and foreclosure on our assets if our operating revenues after an initial business combination are insufficient to repay our debt obligations;
acceleration of our obligations to repay the indebtedness even if we make all principal and interest payments when due if we breach certain covenants that require the maintenance of certain financial ratios or reserves without a waiver or renegotiation of that covenant;
our immediate payment of all principal and accrued interest, if any, if the debt is payable on demand;
our inability to obtain necessary additional financing if the debt contains covenants restricting our ability to obtain such financing while the debt is outstanding;
our inability to pay dividends on our Class A ordinary shares;
using a substantial portion of our cash flow to pay principal and interest on our debt, which will reduce the funds available for dividends on our Class A ordinary shares if declared, expenses, capital expenditures, acquisitions and other general corporate purposes;
limitations on our flexibility in planning for and reacting to changes in our business and in the industry in which we operate;
increased vulnerability to adverse changes in general economic, industry and competitive conditions and adverse changes in government regulation; and
limitations on our ability to borrow additional amounts for expenses, capital expenditures, acquisitions, debt service requirements, execution of our strategy and other purposes and other disadvantages compared to our competitors who have less debt.
We may issue our shares to investors in connection with our initial business combination at a price which is less than the prevailing market price of our shares at that time.
In connection with our initial business combination, we may issue shares to investors in private placement transactions
(so-called
PIPE transactions) at a price of $10.10 per share or which approximates the
per-share
amounts in our trust account at such time, which is generally approximately $10.10. The purpose of such issuances will be to enable us to provide sufficient liquidity to the post-business combination entity. The price of the shares we issue may therefore be less, and potentially significantly less, than the market price for our shares at such time.
We may only be able to complete one business combination with the proceeds of the initial public offering and the sale of the private placement warrants, which will cause us to be solely dependent on a single business which may have a limited number of products or services. This lack of diversification may negatively impact our operations and profitability.
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The net proceeds from the initial public offering (after deducting the underwriting commission payable at closing and estimated
non-reimbursed
offering expenses) and the sale of the private placement warrants will provide us with up to $232,300,000 that we may use to complete our initial business combination (after taking into account the $10,350,000 of deferred underwriting commissions being held in the trust account and the estimated
non-reimbursed
expenses of the initial public offering).
We may effectuate our initial business combination with a single-target business or multiple-target businesses simultaneously or within a short period of time. However, we may not be able to effectuate our initial business combination with more than one target business because of various factors, including the existence of complex accounting issues and the requirement that we prepare and file pro forma financial statements with the SEC that present operating results and the financial condition of several target businesses as if they had been operated on a combined basis. By completing our initial business combination with only a single entity, our lack of diversification may subject us to numerous economic, competitive and regulatory developments. Further, we would not be able to diversify our operations or benefit from the possible spreading of risks or offsetting of losses, unlike other entities which may have the resources to complete several business combinations in different industries or different areas of a single industry. Accordingly, the prospects for our success may be:
solely dependent upon the performance of a single business, property or asset; or
dependent upon the development or market acceptance of a single or limited number of products, processes or services.
This lack of diversification may subject us to numerous economic, competitive and regulatory risks, any or all of which may have a substantial adverse impact upon the particular industry in which we may operate subsequent to our initial business combination.
Risks Relating to an Investment in our Units Generally
We do not have a specified maximum redemption threshold. The absence of such a redemption threshold may make it possible for us to complete our initial business combination with which a substantial majority of our shareholders do not agree.
Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association does not provide a specified maximum redemption threshold, except that in no event will we redeem our public shares in an amount that would cause our net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 (so that we do not then become subject to the SEC’s “penny stock” rules). As a result, we may be able to complete our initial business combination even though a substantial majority of our public shareholders do not agree with the transaction and have redeemed their shares or, if we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination and do not conduct redemptions in connection with our initial business combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, have entered into privately negotiated agreements to sell their shares to our Sponsor, officers, directors, advisors or their affiliates. In the event the aggregate cash consideration we would be required to pay for all Class A ordinary shares that are validly submitted for redemption plus any amount required to satisfy cash conditions pursuant to the terms of the proposed business combination exceed the aggregate amount of cash available to us, we will not complete the business combination or redeem any shares, all Class A ordinary shares submitted for redemption will be returned to the holders thereof, and we instead may search for an alternate business combination.
In order to effectuate an initial business combination, blank check companies have, in the recent past, amended various provisions of their charters and other governing instruments, including their warrant agreements. We cannot assure you that we will not seekvote to amend our amendedAmended and restated memorandum and articles of association or governing instrumentsRestated Charter (x) in a manner that will make it easier for us to complete our initial business combination that our shareholders may not support.
In order to effectuate a business combination, blank check companies have, in the recent past, amended various provisions of their charters and governing instruments, including their warrant agreements. For example, blank check companies have amended the definition of business combination, increased redemption thresholds, extended the time to consummate an initial business combination and, with respect to their warrants, amended their warrant agreements to require the warrants to be exchanged for cash and/or other securities. Amending our amended and restated memorandum
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and articles of association will require at least a special resolution of our shareholders as a matter of Cayman Islands law, meaning the approval of holders of at least
two-thirds
of our ordinary shares who attend and vote at a general meeting of the company, and amending our warrant agreement will require a vote of holders of at least 65% of the public warrants and, solely with respect to any amendment to the terms of the private placement warrants or any provision of the warrant agreement with respect to the private placement warrants, 65% of the number of the then outstanding private placement warrants. In addition, our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association will require us to provide our public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem their public shares for cash if we propose an amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A) that would modifyaffect the substance or timing of our obligation to provide holders of our Class A ordinary shares the right to have their shares redeemed in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public sharesPublic Shares if we do not complete our initial business combinationBusiness Combination within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of our initial public offeringCombination Period; or (B)(y) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares. To the extent any of such amendments would be deemed to fundamentally change the nature of any of the securities offered through this registration statement, we would register,Ordinary Shares or seek an exemption from registration for, the affected securities.
The provisions of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association that relate to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares (and corresponding provisions of the agreement governing the release of funds from our trust account) may be amended with the approval of a special resolution which requires the approval of the holders of at least
two-thirds
of our ordinary shares who attend and vote at a general meeting of the company, which is a lower amendment threshold than that of some other blank check companies. It may be easier for us, therefore, to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to facilitate the completion ofpre-initial Business Combination activity; or (iii) absent an initial business combination that someBusiness Combination within the Combination Period, our return of our shareholders may not support.
Some other blank check companies have a provision in their charter which prohibits the amendment of certain of its provisions, including those which relate to the rights of a company’s shareholders, without approval by a certain percentage of the company’s shareholders. In those companies, amendment of these provisions typically requires approval by between 90% and 100% of the company’s shareholders. Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide that any of its provisions related to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares (including the requirement to deposit proceeds of the initial public offering and the private placement of warrants into the trust account and not release such amounts except in specified circumstances, and to provide redemption rights to public shareholders as described herein) may be amended if approved by special resolution, meaning holders of at least
two-thirds
of our ordinary shares who attend and vote at a general meeting of the company, and corresponding provisions of the trust agreement governing the release of funds from our trust account may be amended if approved by holders of at least 65% of our ordinary shares; provided that the provisions of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association governing the appointment or removal of directors prior to our initial business combination may only be amended by a special resolution passed by not less than
two-thirds
of our ordinary shares who attend and vote at our general meeting which shall include the affirmative vote of a simple majority of our Class B ordinary shares. Our Sponsor and its permitted transferees, if any, who collectively beneficially own 15% of our Class A ordinary shares, will participate in any vote to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association and/or trust agreement and will have the discretion to vote in any manner they choose. As a result, we may be able to amend the provisions of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association which govern our
pre-business
combination behavior more easily than some other blank check companies, and this may increase our ability to complete a business combination with which you do not agree. Our shareholders may pursue remedies against us for any breach of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association.
Our Sponsor, executive officers, and directors have agreed, pursuant to agreements with us, that they will not propose any amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A) that would modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide holders of our Class A ordinary shares the right to have their shares redeemed in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of our initial public offering or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares, unless we provide our public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem their Class A ordinary shares upon approval of any such amendment 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 but netTrust Account to our Public Shareholders as part of taxes payable, if any, divided by the numberour redemption of the then-outstanding public shares. Our shareholdersPublic Shares.

We are not parties to, or third-party beneficiariesaware of litigation claiming that certain SPACs should be considered investment companies. Although we believe that these agreements and, as a result,claims are without merit, we cannot guarantee that we will not have the abilitybe deemed to pursue remedies against our Sponsor, executive officers, or directors for any breach of these agreements. As a result, in the event of a breach, our shareholders would need to pursue a shareholder derivative action,be an investment company and thus subject to applicable law.

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Our Sponsor controls a substantial interest in us and thus may exert a substantial influence on actions requiring a shareholder vote, potentially in a manner that you do not support.
Our Sponsor owns 15.79% of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares. Accordingly, it may exert a substantial influence on actions requiring a shareholder vote, potentially in a manner that you do not support, including amendmentsthe Investment Company Act. If we were deemed to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. If our Sponsor purchases any units or Class A ordinary shares in the aftermarket or in privately negotiated transactions, this would increase its control. Neither our Sponsor nor, to our knowledge, any of our officers or directors, have any current intention to purchase additional securities. Factors that would be considered in making such additional purchases would include consideration of the current trading price of our Class A ordinary shares. In addition, our Board of Directors whose members were appointed by our Sponsor, 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. We may not hold an annual general meeting to appoint new directors priorsubject to the completion of our initial business combination, inInvestment Company Act, compliance with these additional regulatory burdens would require additional expenses for which case all of the current directors will continue in office until at least the completion of the business combination. If there is an annual general meeting, as a consequence of our “staggered” Board of Directors only a minority of the Board of Directors will be considered for appointment and our Sponsor, because of its ownership position, will control the outcome, as only holders of our Class B ordinary shares will have the right to vote on the appointment of directors and to remove directors prior to our initial business combination. Accordingly, our Sponsor will continue to exert control at least until the completion of our initial business combination. In addition, we have agreed not to enter into a definitive agreement regarding an initial business combination without the prior consent ofallotted funds and may hinder our Sponsor.
Because we must furnish our shareholders with target business financial statements, we may lose the ability to complete an otherwise advantageous initial business combination with some prospective target businesses.
The federal proxy rules require that a proxy statement with respect to a vote on a business combination meeting certain financial significance tests include historical and/Business Combination or pro forma financial statement disclosuremay result in periodic reports. We will include the same financial statement disclosure in connection with our tender offer documents, whether or not theyliquidation. If we are required under the tender offer rules. These financial statements may be required to be prepared in accordance with, or be reconciled to, accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, or GAAP, or international financial reporting standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, or IFRS, depending on the circumstances and the historical financial statements may be required to be audited in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), or PCAOB. These financial statement requirements may limit the pool of potential target businesses we may acquire because some targets may be unable to provide such statements in time for us to disclose such statements in accordance with federal proxy rules and complete our initial business combination withinBusiness Combination, our Public Shareholders may receive only approximately $10.86 per Public Share upon the prescribed time frame.
liquidation of our Trust Account and our warrants will expire worthless.

We are an emerging growth company andhave received a smaller reporting company withinnotice from the meaning of the Securities Act, and ifNYSE notifying us that we take advantage of certain exemptions from disclosure requirements available to “emerging growth companies” or “smaller reporting companies,” this could make our securities less attractive to investors and may make it more difficult to compare our performance with other public companies.

We are an “emerging growth company” within the meaning of the Securities Act, as modified by the JOBS Act, and we may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that arewere not “emerging growth companies” including, but not limited to, not being required to complyin compliance with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and shareholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved. As a result, our shareholders may not have access to certain information they may deem important. We could be an emerging growth company for up to five years, although circumstances could cause us to lose that status earlier, including if the market value of our Class A ordinary shares held by
non-affiliates
exceeds $700 million as of any June 30 before that time, in which case we would no longer be an emerging growth company as of the following September 30. We cannot predict whether investors will find our securities less attractive because we will rely on these exemptions. If some investors find our securities less attractiveNYSE Listed Company Manual as a result of our reliance on these exemptions, the trading prices of our securities may be lower than they otherwise would be, there may be a less active trading market for our securities and the trading prices of our securities may be more volatile.
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Further, Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being requiredfailure 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 a 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 an election to opt out is irrevocable. We have 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, we, 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 our 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.
Additionally, we are a “smaller reporting company” as defined in Item 10(f)(1) of Regulation
S-K.
Smaller reporting companies may take advantage of certain reduced disclosure obligations, including, among other things, providing only two years of audited financial statements. We will remain a smaller reporting company until the last day of the fiscal year in which (1) the market value of our ordinary shares held by
non-affiliates
exceeds $250 million as of the prior June 30, or (2) our annual revenues exceeded $100 million during such completed fiscal year and the market value of our ordinary shares held by
non-affiliates
exceeds $700 million as of the prior June 30. To the extent we take advantage of such reduced disclosure obligations, it may also make comparison of our financial statements with other public companies difficult or impossible.
Compliance obligations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may make it more difficult for us to effectuate a business combination, require substantial financial and management resources, and increase the time and costs of completing an acquisition.
Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that we evaluate and report on our system of internal controls beginning withtimely file our Annual Report on Form
10-K
for the fiscal year endingended December 31, 2023. If we cannot regain compliance, our securities will be subject to delisting, and the liquidity and the trading price of our securities could be adversely affected.

On April 17, 2024, we received a notice (the “NYSE Notice”) from NYSE that the Company is not in compliance with Section 802.01E of the NYSE Listed Company Manual as a result of our failure to timely file our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 with the SEC. The NYSE Notice has no immediate effect on the listing of our Ordinary Shares on NYSE. The NYSE Notice informed us that, under NYSE rules, the Company has six months from April 16, 2024 to regain compliance with the NYSE listing standards by filing this Report with the SEC. If we fail to file this Report within the six-month period, NYSE may grant, in its sole discretion, an extension of up to six additional months for the Company to regain compliance, depending on the specific circumstances. The NYSE Notice also notes that NYSE may nevertheless commence delisting proceedings at any time if it deems that the circumstances warrant.

If NYSE delists our securities from trading on its exchange and we are not able to list our securities on another national securities exchange, we expect our securities could be quoted on an over-the-counter market. If this were to occur, we could face significant material adverse consequences, including:

a limited availability of market quotations for our securities;

reduced liquidity for our securities;

a determination that our Class A Ordinary Shares are a “penny stock” which will require brokers trading in our Class A Ordinary Shares to adhere to more stringent rules and possibly result in a reduced level of trading activity in the secondary trading market for our securities;

a limited amount of news and analyst coverage;

a decreased ability to issue additional securities or obtain additional financing in the future; and

being subject to regulation in each state in which we offer our securities, including in connection with our initial Business Combination.

For additional risks relating to our operations, other than as set forth above, see the section titled “Risk Factors” contained in our  (i) IPO Registration Statement, (ii) 2022 Annual Report and 2021 Annual Report, (iii) Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarterly periods ended March 31, 2022, June 30, 2022, September 30, 2022. Only2022, March 31, 2023, June 30, 2023 and September 30, 2023, as filed with the SEC on May 16, 2022, August 19, 2022, November 14, 2022, May 12, 2023, August 14, 2023 and November 14, 2023, respectively, and (iv) Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A, as filed with the SEC on July 7, 2023. Any of these factors could result in a significant or material adverse effect on our results of operations or financial condition. Additional risks could arise that may also affect our business or ability to consummate an initial Business Combination. We may disclose changes to such risk factors or disclose additional risk factors from time to time in our future filings with the SEC.

For risks related to Helport and the Helport Business Combination, please see the section titled “Risk Factors” contained in the event we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer or an accelerated filer and no longer qualify as an emerging growth company, will we be required to comply with the independent registered public accounting firm attestation requirement on our internal control over financial reporting. The fact that we areHelport Registration Statement.

Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments.

Not applicable.

Item 1C. Cybersecurity.

As a blank check company, makes compliance with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act particularly burdensome on us as compared to other public companies because a target business with which we seek to complete our initial business combination may not be in compliance with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act regarding adequacy of its internal controls. The development of the internal control of any such entity to achieve compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may increase the time and costs necessary to complete any such acquisition.

Because we are incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands, you may face difficulties in protecting your interests, and your ability to protect your rights through the U.S. federal courts may be limited.
We are an exempted company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands. As a result, it may be difficult for investors to effect service of process within the United States upon our directors or executive officers, or enforce judgments obtained in the United States courts against our directors or officers.
Our corporate affairs are governed by our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, the Companies Act (as the same may be supplemented or amended from time to time) and other legislation and common law of the Cayman Islands. We are also subject to the federal securities laws of the United States. The rights of shareholders to take action against the directors, actions by minority shareholders and the fiduciary responsibilities of our directors to us under Cayman Islands law are to a large extent governed by the common law of the Cayman Islands. The common law of the Cayman Islands is derived in part from comparatively limited judicial precedent in the Cayman Islands as well as from English common law, the decisions of whose courts are of persuasive authority, but are not binding on a court in the Cayman Islands. The rights of our shareholders and the fiduciary responsibilities of our directors under Cayman Islands law are different from what they would be under statutes or judicial precedent in some jurisdictions in the United States. In particular, the Cayman Islands has a different body of securities laws as compared to the United States, and certain states, such as Delaware, may have more fully developed and judicially interpreted bodies of corporate law. In addition, shareholders of a Cayman Islands company maydo not have standingany operations and our sole business activity has been to initiatesearch for and consummate a shareholders derivative actionBusiness Combination. However, because we have investments in a Federal court of the United States.
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We have been advised by our Cayman Islands legal counsel that the courts of the Cayman Islands are unlikely (i) to recognize or enforce against us judgments of courts of the United States predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the federal securities laws of the United States or any state;Trust Account and (ii) in original actions brought in the Cayman Islands, to impose liabilities against us predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the federal securities laws of the United States or any state, so far as the liabilities imposed by those provisions are penal in nature. In those circumstances, although there is no statutory enforcement in the Cayman Islands of judgments obtained in the United States, the courts of the Cayman Islands will recognizebank deposits and enforce a foreign money judgment of a foreign court of competent jurisdiction without retrialwe depend on the merits based on the principle that a judgment of a competent foreign court imposes upon the judgment debtor an obligation to pay the sum for which judgment has been given provided certain conditions are met. For a foreign judgment to be enforced in the Cayman Islands, such judgment must be final and conclusive , and must not be in respect of taxes or a fine or penalty, inconsistent with a prior Cayman Islands judgment in respect of the same matter, inconsistent with a prior foreign judgment between the same parties on the same matter, impeachable on the grounds of fraud or obtained in a manner, or be of a kind the enforcement of which is, contrary to natural justice or the public policy of the Cayman Islands (awards of punitive or multiple damages may well be held to be contrary to public policy). A Cayman Islands Court may stay enforcement proceedings if concurrent judicial or arbitral proceedings are being brought elsewhere.
As a result of all of the above, public shareholders may have more difficulty in protecting their interests in the face of actions taken by management, members of the Board of Directors or controlling shareholders than they would as public shareholders of a United States company.
Cyber incidents or attacks directed at us could result in information theft, data corruption, operational disruption and/or financial loss.
We depend on digital technologies including information systems, infrastructure and cloud applications and services, including those of third parties, with which we and third parties may deal. Sophisticated and deliberatebe subject to attacks on or security breaches in our systems or infrastructure, ortheir systems. Because of our reliance on the systems or infrastructuretechnologies of third parties, we also depend upon the personnel and the processes of third parties to protect against cybersecurity threats, and we have no personnel or the cloud, could lead to corruption or misappropriationprocesses of our assets, proprietary informationown for this purpose. In the event of a cybersecurity incident impacting us, the Management Team will report to the Board of Directors and sensitive or confidential data.provide updates on the Management Team’s incident response plan for addressing and mitigating any risks associated with such an incident. As an early stageearly-stage company without significant investments in data security protection, we may not be sufficiently protected against such occurrences. We may not havealso lack sufficient resources to adequately protect against, or to investigate and remediate any vulnerability to, cyber incidents. It is possible that any of these occurrences, or a combination of them, could have material adverse consequences on our business and lead to financial loss.
Since holders of We have not encountered any cybersecurity incidents since our founder sharesInitial Public Offering.

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Item 2. Properties.

Our executive offices are the only shareholders of the Company that will have the right to vote on the appointment of directors, the NYSE may consider us to be a “controlled company” within the meaning of the NYSE rules and, as a result, we may qualify for exemptions from certain corporate governance requirements.

Only holders ofnow located at 2 Burlington Woods Drive, Suite 100 Burlington, MA 01803, our founder shares have the right to vote on the appointment of directors. As a result, the NYSE may consider us to be a “controlled company” within the meaning of the NYSE corporate governance standards. Under the NYSE corporate governance standards, a company of which more than 50% of the voting powertelephone number is held by an individual, group or another company is a “controlled company” and may elect not to comply with certain corporate governance requirements, including the requirements that:
we have a board that includes a majority of “independent directors,” as defined under the rules of the NYSE;
we have a compensation committee of our board that is comprised entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee’s purpose and responsibilities; and
we have a nominating and corporate governance committee of our board that is comprised entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee’s purpose and responsibilities.
We do not intend to utilize these exemptions and intend to comply with the corporate governance requirements of the NYSE, subject to applicable
phase-in
rules. However, if we determine in the future to utilize some or all of these exemptions, you will not have the same protections afforded to shareholders of companies that are subject to all of the NYSE corporate governance requirements.
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Risks Associated with Acquiring and Operating a Business in Foreign Countries
If we pursue a target company with operations or opportunities outside of the United States for our initial business combination, we may face additional burdens in connection with investigating, agreeing to and completing such initial business combination, and if we effect such initial business combination, we would be subject to a variety of additional risks that may negatively impact our operations.
If we pursue a target company with operations or opportunities outside of the United States for our initial business combination, we would be subject to risks associated with cross-border business combinations, including in connection with investigating, agreeing to and completing our initial business combination, conducting due diligence in a foreign jurisdiction, having such transaction approved by any local governments, regulators or agencies and changes in the purchase price based on fluctuations in foreign exchange rates.
If we effect our initial business combination with such a company, we would be subject to any special considerations or risks associated with companies operating in an international setting, including any of the following:
costs and difficulties inherent in managing cross-border business operations;
rules and regulations regarding currency redemption;
complex corporate withholding taxes on individuals;
laws governing the manner in which future business combinations may be effected;
exchange listing and/or delisting requirements;
tariffs and trade barriers;
regulations related to customs and import/export matters;
local or regional economic policies and market conditions;
unexpected changes in regulatory requirements;
longer payment cycles;
tax issues, such as tax law changes and variations in tax laws as compared to the United States;
currency fluctuations and exchange controls;
rates of inflation;
challenges in collecting accounts receivable;
cultural and language differences;
employment regulations;
underdeveloped or unpredictable legal or regulatory systems;
corruption;
protection of intellectual property;
social unrest, crime, strikes, riots and civil disturbances;
epidemics and pandemics;
regime changes and political upheaval;
terrorist attacks, natural disasters and wars; and
deterioration of political relations with the United States.
We may not be able to adequately address these additional risks. If we were unable to do so, we may be unable to complete such initial business combination, or, if we complete such combination, our operations might suffer, either of which may adversely impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.
If our management following our initial business combination is unfamiliar with United States securities laws, they may have to expend time and resources becoming familiar with such laws, which could lead to various regulatory issues.
Following our initial business combination, our management may resign from their positions as officers or directors of the company and the management of the target business at the time of the business combination will remain in place. Management of the target business may not be familiar with United States securities laws. If new management is unfamiliar with United States securities laws, they may have to expend time and resources becoming familiar with such laws. This could be expensive and time-consuming and could lead to various regulatory issues which may adversely affect our operations.
After our initial business combination, substantially all of our assets may be located in a foreign country and substantially all of our revenue may be derived from our operations in any such country. Accordingly, our results of operations and prospects will be subject, to a significant extent, to the economic, political and social conditions and government policies, developments and conditions in the country in which we operate.
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The economic, political and social conditions, as well as government policies, of the country in which our operations are located could affect our business. Economic growth could be uneven, both geographically and among various sectors of the economy and such growth may not be sustained in the future. If in the future such country’s economy experiences a downturn or grows at a slower rate than expected, there may be less demand for spending in certain industries. A decrease in demand for spending in certain industries could materially and adversely affect our ability to find an attractive target business with which to consummate our initial business combination and if we effect our initial business combination, the ability of that target business to become profitable.
Exchange rate fluctuations and currency policies may cause a target business’ ability to succeed in the international markets to be diminished.
In the event we acquire a
non-U.S.
target, all revenues and income would likely be received in a foreign currency, and the dollar equivalent of our net assets and distributions, if any, could be adversely affected by reductions in the value of the local currency. The value of the currencies in our target regions fluctuate and are affected by, among other things, changes in political and economic conditions. Any change in the relative value of such currency against our reporting currency may affect the attractiveness of any target business or, following consummation of our initial business combination, our financial condition and results of operations. Additionally, if a currency appreciates in value against the dollar prior to the consummation of our initial business combination, the cost of a target business as measured in dollars will increase, which may make it less likely that we are able to consummate such transaction.
We may reincorporate in another jurisdiction in connection with our initial business combination, and the laws of such jurisdiction may govern some or all of our future material agreements and we may not be able to enforce our legal rights.
In connection with our initial business combination, we may relocate the home jurisdiction of our business from the Cayman Islands to another jurisdiction. If we determine to do this, the laws of such jurisdiction may govern some or all of our future material agreements. The system of laws and the enforcement of existing laws in such jurisdiction may not be as certain in implementation and interpretation as in the United States. The inability to enforce or obtain a remedy under any of our future agreements could result in a significant loss of business, business opportunities or capital.
We are subject to changing law and regulations regarding regulatory matters, corporate governance and public disclosure that may increase both our costs and the risk of
non-compliance.
We are subject to rules and regulations by various governing bodies, including, for example, the SEC, which are charged with the protection of investors and the oversight of companies whose securities are publicly traded, and to new and evolving regulatory measures under applicable law. Our efforts to comply with any new or changing laws and regulations are likely to result in increased general and administrative expenses and a diversion of management time and attention from seeking a business combination target.
Moreover, because these laws, regulations and standards are subject to varying interpretations, their application in practice may evolve over time as new guidance becomes available. This evolution may result in continuing uncertainty regarding compliance matters and additional costs necessitated by ongoing revisions to our disclosure and governance practices. If we fail to address and comply with these regulations and any subsequent changes, we may be subject to penalty(781) 640-4446 and our business may be harmed.
Item 1B.
Unresolved Staff Comments
None.
Item 2.
Properties
We currently utilize office spaceCompany’s website is located at 2870 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 509, Atlanta, GA 30305 from our sponsor and the members of our management team as our executive offices.https://tristaracq.com. We consider our current office space adequate for our current operations.
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Item 3.

Legal Proceedings
ThereProceedings.

To the knowledge of our Management, there is no material litigation arbitration or governmental proceeding currently pending or contemplated against us, or any members of our management teamofficers or directors in their capacity as such.

such or against any of our property.

Item 4.

Mine Safety Disclosures
Disclosures.

Not applicable.

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Item 5.

Market for Registrant
sRegistrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters, and Issuer Purchases of Equity
Securities
Market Information
Securities.

(a)

Market Information

Our units, Class A ordinary sharesUnits, Public Shares and warrantsPublic Warrants are each traded on the NYSE under the symbols “TRIS.U,” “TRIS” and “TRIS.WS,” respectively. Our unitsUnits commenced public trading on October 18, 2021. Our Class A ordinary shares2021, and warrants beganour Public Shares and Public Warrants commenced separate public trading on December 6, 2021.

Holders
As

(b)

Holders

On May 6, 2024, there was one holder of December 31, 2021, there were approximately 148 registeredrecord of our Units, one holder of record of our Class A Ordinary Shares and three holders of record of common stock. A substantially greater number of holders of common stock are “street name” or beneficial holders, whose shares are held of record by banks, brokers and other financial institutions.

Dividends
our Warrants.

(c)

Dividends

We have not paid any cash dividends on our ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares to date and do not intend to pay cash dividends prior to the completion of our initial business combination.Business Combination. The payment of cash dividends in the future will be dependent upon our revenues and earnings, if any, capital requirements and general financial condition subsequent to completion of our initial business combination.Business Combination. The payment of any cash dividends subsequent to our initial business combinationBusiness Combination will be within the discretion of our Board of Directors at such time. In addition, our Board of Directors is not currently contemplating and does not anticipate declaring any stock dividends in the foreseeable future. Further, if we incur any indebtedness in connection with a business combination,our initial Business Combination, our ability to declare dividends may be limited by restrictive covenants we may agree to in connection therewith.

(d)

Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans

None.

(e)

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

On July 18, 2023, we entered into the Sponsor Handover Securities

In March 2021, our Transfer Agreement with the Prior Sponsor paid $25,000, or approximately $0.0035 per share,and the Sponsor Purchasers, whereby the Prior Sponsor agreed to cover certain offering costs on our behalf in consideration of 7,187,500transfer to the Sponsor Purchasers, 3,046,634 Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001. AlsoOrdinary Shares and 4,961,250 Private Placement Warrants, which the Prior Sponsor purchased in March 2021,connection with the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement. In addition, the Sponsor Handover Sellers transferred an aggregate of 1,380,866 Class B Ordinary Shares to Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, our Sponsor transferred 50,000 of such shares (25,000 shares each) to Timothy Dawson, ourPresident, Chief Financial Officer and
Cathy-Ann
Martine-Dolecki, our Chief Operating Officer, in each case, at their original purchase price. In August 2021, the initial shareholders forfeited 1,437,500 of such Class B ordinary shares in the aggregate for no consideration. In November 2021, our Sponsor transferred 150,000 of such founder shares (25,000 shares each) to David Barksdale, Greg Boyd, David Jones, Alex Parker, Steven Rogers, and Robert Willis, each a director Chairman of the Company, in each case for their par value.
Such securities were issued in connection with our organizationBoard of Directors, pursuant to the exemption from registration containedSponsor Handover Share Transfer Agreements. In connection with the Sponsor Handover Securities Transfer Agreement, any accounts payable and accrued expenses in Section 4(a)(2)excess of $200,000 that were incurred by the Company prior to the Sponsor Handover was the responsibility of the Securities Act.Prior Sponsor to settle (the “Company Liability”). Following the transaction, any remaining liabilities incurred by the Company prior to the Sponsor Handover and any liabilities incurred post-the Sponsor Handover, continued as a liability to the Company. The total numberCompany incurred $191,628 in excess of the $200,000 Company Liability. The Prior Sponsor paid $191,628 for outstanding accounts payable and accrued expenses, which was recorded as additional paid-in capital for the year ended December 31, 2023. After the closing of the Sponsor Handover on July 18, 2023, the Sponsor Handover Sellers held an aggregate of 1,322,500 Class B ordinary shares outstanding equal 20.0%Ordinary Shares, and the Prior Sponsor held 2,383,750 Private Placement Warrants.

For more information on the Sponsor Handover, see “Item 1. Business.”

(f)

Use of Proceeds from the Initial Public Offering

For a description of the total numberuse of Class A ordinary sharesproceeds generated in our Initial Public Offering and Class B ordinary shares outstanding.Private Placement, see Part II, Item 2 of our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2021, as filed with the SEC on November 29, 2021. There has been no material change in the planned use of proceeds from our Initial Public Offering and Private Placement as described in the IPO Registration Statement. The Class B ordinary shares will automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares concurrentlyspecific investments in our Trust Account may change from time to time.

On November 9, 2023, we instructed Continental to liquidate the investments held in the Trust Account and instead to hold the funds in the Trust Account in an interest-bearing demand deposit account at a bank, with or immediately followingContinental continuing to act as trustee, until the earlier of the consummation of our initial business combination,Business Combination or earlier atour liquidation. As a result, following the optionliquidation of the holder thereof as describedinvestments in the prospectus.

Our Sponsor has purchased an aggregate of 7,345,000 private placement warrants, each exercisable to purchase one ordinary share at $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment, at a price of $1.00 per warrant $7,345,000Trust Account, the remaining proceeds from the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement are no longer invested in the aggregate),U.S. government securities or money market funds invested in a private placement that will closed simultaneously with the closing of the initial public offering. This issuance was made pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.
No underwriting discounts or commissions were paid with respect to such sales.
Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans
U.S. government securities.

(g)

Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers

None.

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Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers
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Item 6. [Reserved]

[Reserved]

Item 7.

Management
sManagement’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Operations.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this Report including, without limitation, statements under this Item regarding our financial position, business strategy and the plans and objectives of Management for future operations, are forward-looking statements. When used in this Report, words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend” and similar expressions, as they relate to us or our Management, identify forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs of our Management, as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, our Management. Actual results could differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors detailed in our filings with the SEC. All subsequent written or oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are qualified in their entirety by this paragraph.

The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and the notes thereto contained elsewhere in this Report.

Overview

We are a blank check company incorporated on March 5, 2021, as a Cayman Islands exempted company, for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase or similar business combinationBusiness Combination with one or more businesses or entities. We have not yet selected any business combination target. We intend to effectuate our initial business combinationBusiness Combination using (i) cash from the proceeds of the initial public offeringInitial Public Offering and the private placement of the private placement warrants,Private Placement, (i) the proceeds of the sale of our shares in connection with our initial business combinationBusiness Combination (pursuant to any forward purchase agreements or backstop agreements we may enter into), (iii) shares issued to the owners of the target, debt issued to bank or other lenders or the owners of the target, (iv) or a combination of the foregoing or other sources.

The issuance of additional shares in a business combination:

may significantly dilute the equity interest of investors;
may subordinate the rights of holders of Class A ordinary shares if preference shares are issued with rights senior to those afforded our Class A ordinary shares;
could cause a change in control if a substantial number of our Class A ordinary shares are issued, which may affect, among other things, our ability to use our net operating loss carry forwards, if any, and could result in the resignation or removal of our present officers and directors;
may have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control of us by diluting the share ownership or voting rights of a person seeking to obtain control of us;
may adversely affect prevailing market prices for our units, Class A ordinary shares and/or warrants; and
may not result in adjustment to the exercise price of our warrants.
Business Combination:

·

may significantly dilute the equity interest of investors;

·

may subordinate the rights of holders of Class A Ordinary Shares if preference shares are issued with rights senior to those afforded our Class A Ordinary Shares;

·

could cause a change in control if a substantial number of our Class A Ordinary Shares are issued, which may affect, among other things, our ability to use our net operating loss carry forwards, if any, and could result in the resignation or removal of our present officers and directors;

·

may have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control of us by diluting the share ownership or voting rights of a person seeking to obtain control of us;

·

may adversely affect prevailing market prices for our Units, Public Shares and/or Public Warrants; and

·

may not result in adjustment to the exercise price of our Warrants.

Similarly, if we issue debt or otherwise incur significant debt, it could result in:

default and foreclosure on our assets if our operating revenues after an initial business combination are insufficient to repay our debt obligations;
acceleration of our obligations to repay the indebtedness even if we make all principal and interest payments when due if we breach certain covenants that require the maintenance of certain financial ratios or reserves without a waiver or renegotiation of that covenant;
our immediate payment of all principal and accrued interest, if any, if the debt is payable on demand;
our inability to obtain necessary additional financing if the debt contains covenants restricting our ability to obtain such financing while the debt is outstanding;
our inability to pay dividends on our Class A ordinary shares;
using a substantial portion of our cash flow to pay principal and interest on our debt, which will reduce the funds available for dividends on our Class A ordinary shares if declared, expenses, capital expenditures, acquisitions and other general corporate purposes;
limitations on our flexibility in planning for and reacting to changes in our business and in the industry in which we operate;
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increased vulnerability to adverse changes in general economic, industry and competitive conditions and adverse changes in government regulation; and
limitations on our ability to borrow additional amounts for expenses, capital expenditures, acquisitions, debt service requirements, execution of our strategy and other purposes and other disadvantages compared to our competitors who have less debt.

·

default and foreclosure on our assets if our operating revenues after an initial Business Combination are insufficient to repay our debt obligations;

·

acceleration of our obligations to repay the indebtedness even if we make all principal and interest payments when due if we breach certain covenants that require the maintenance of certain financial ratios or reserves without a waiver or renegotiation of that covenant;

·

our immediate payment of all principal and accrued interest, if any, if the debt is payable on demand;

·

our inability to obtain necessary additional financing if the debt contains covenants restricting our ability to obtain such financing while the debt is outstanding;

·

our inability to pay dividends on our Class A Ordinary Shares;

·

using a substantial portion of our cash flow to pay principal and interest on our debt, which will reduce the funds available for dividends on our Class A Ordinary Shares if declared, expenses, capital expenditures, acquisitions and other general corporate purposes;

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limitations on our flexibility in planning for and reacting to changes in our business and in the industry in which we operate;

·

increased vulnerability to adverse changes in general economic, industry and competitive conditions and adverse changes in government regulation; and

·

limitations on our ability to borrow additional amounts for expenses, capital expenditures, acquisitions, debt service requirements, execution of our strategy and other purposes and other disadvantages compared to our competitors who have less debt.

As indicated in the accompanying financial statements and the notes thereto contained elsewhere in this Report, as of December 31, 2021,2023, we had $1,231,992$436,317 of cash held outside of the Trust Account, and no deferred offering costs. Further, we expect to incur significant costs in the pursuit of our initial business combination.Business Combination. We cannot assure youour shareholders that our plans to raise capital or to complete our initial business combinationBusiness Combination will be successful.

Recent Developments

On January 5, 2024, we received the remaining $500,000 of proceeds from the September 2023 Promissory Notes.  On January 17, 2024, February 16, 2024, March 18, 2024 and April 17, 2024, we made the monthly deposit totaling $125,000 to extend the Combination Period until May 18, 2024.

On April 17, 2024, we received a notice from NYSE that the Company is not in compliance with Section 802.01E of the NYSE Listed Company Manual as a result of our failure to timely file our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 with the SEC. The NYSE Notice has no immediate effect on the listing of our Ordinary Shares on NYSE. The NYSE Notice informed us that, under NYSE rules, the Company has six months from April 16, 2024 to regain compliance with the NYSE listing standards by filing this Report with the SEC. If we fail to file this Report within the six-month period, NYSE may grant, in its sole discretion, an extension of up to six additional months for the Company to regain compliance, depending on the specific circumstances. The NYSE Notice also notes that NYSE may nevertheless commence delisting proceedings at any time if it deems that the circumstances warrant.

On April 24, 2024, Michael H. Liu notified the Board of his resignation as Chief Financial Officer and director of the Company, effective on April 23, 2024. On April 29, 2024, the Board appointed (i) Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, the Company’s President and Chairman of the Board, as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective on April 29, 2024, and (ii) Xiaoma (Sherman) Lu, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, as a director of the Company, to fill the vacancy left by Mr. Liu’s departure, effective on April 29, 2024.

On April 26, 2024, the Company entered into the Amended Lock-Up Agreements with two Helport Investors, pursuant to which the Helport Investors agreed not to execute a Prohibited Transfer during the Lock-Up Period, provided, however, (i) each Helport Investor would be permitted to transfer the Lock-Up Securities during the Lock-Up Period to certain other shareholders of Helport, subject to certain trading volume limitations, and (ii) if each Holder made a credit facility available to Helport of at least $2,000,000 and $4,000,000, respectively, the Lock-Up Securities would be subject to early release upon the twelve-month anniversary of the Closing.

On May 3, 2024, the Company issued the May 2024 Promissory Notes in connection with working capital loans to the Company, consisting of (i) an unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of up to $400,000 to Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, the Company’s President, Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of the Board of the Company, and (ii) an unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of up to $200,000 to Xiaoma (Sherman) Lu, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Company.

Helport Business Combination

On November 12, 2023, we entered into the Helport Business Combination Agreement with Pubco, the First Merger Sub, the Second Merger Sub, Helport, the Purchaser Representative and the Seller Representative. Pursuant to the Helport Business Combination Agreement, subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein. at the closing of the Helport Business Combination, (i) the First Merger Sub will merge with and into Helport with Helport surviving such merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pubco and the outstanding securities of Helport being converted into the right to receive securities of Pubco; and (ii) subsequently, the Second Merger Sub will merge with and into our Company, with our Company surviving such merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pubco and our outstanding securities being converted into the right to receive securities of Pubco.

On December 18, 2023, we entered into the Helport Business Combination Agreement Amendment with Pubco, the First Merger Sub, the Second Merger Sub, Helport, the Purchaser Representative and the Seller Representative, which amended the Helport Business Combination Agreement.

For a full description of the Helport Business Combination Agreement, the Helport Business Combination Agreement Amendment and the proposed Helport Business Combination, please see “Item 1. Business.”

Extension of Our Combination Period

We initially had until July 18, 2023, 21 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering, to consummate our initial Business Combination. On June 18, 2023, we held the 2023 EGM, at which our shareholders approved the Memorandum Amendment Proposals. In connection with the shareholders’ approval of the Memorandum Amendment Proposals, the holders of 12,391,198 Public Shares properly exercised their right to redeem their Public Shares for cash at a redemption price of approximately $10.52 per share, for an aggregate redemption amount of approximately, $130,320,650 in the 2023 Redemptions, without taking into account additional allocation of payments to cover any tax obligation of our Company. Following the 2023 Redemptions, there were 10,608,802 Class A Ordinary Shares and 5,750,000 Class B Ordinary Shares issued and outstanding.

Sponsor Handover

On July 18, 2023, we entered into the Sponsor Handover Securities Transfer Agreement with the Prior Sponsor and the Sponsor Purchasers, whereby the Prior Sponsor agreed to transfer to the Sponsor Purchasers, 3,046,634 Class B Ordinary Shares and 4,961,250 Private Placement Warrants, which the Prior Sponsor purchased in connection with the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement. In addition, the Sponsor Handover Sellers transferred an aggregate of 1,380,866 Class B Ordinary Shares to Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, our President, Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors, pursuant to the Sponsor Handover Share Transfer Agreements. In connection with the Sponsor Handover Securities Transfer Agreement, any accounts payable and accrued expenses in excess of $200,000 that were incurred by the Company prior to the Sponsor Handover was the responsibility of the Prior Sponsor to settle (the “Company Liability”). Following the transaction, any remaining liabilities incurred by the Company prior to the Sponsor Handover and any liabilities incurred post-the Sponsor Handover, continued as a liability to the Company. The Company incurred $191,628 in excess of the $200,000 Company Liability. The Prior Sponsor paid $191,628 for outstanding accounts payable and accrued expenses, which was recorded as additional paid-in capital for the year ended December 31, 2023. After the closing of the Sponsor Handover on July 18, 2023, the Sponsor Handover Sellers held an aggregate of 1,322,500 Class B Ordinary Shares, and the Prior Sponsor held 2,383,750 Private Placement Warrants.

For a full description of the Sponsor Handover, please see “Item 1. Business.”

Results of Operations and Known Trends or Future Events

Our only activities since inception have been organizational activities, those necessary to prepare for our initial public offering,Initial Public Offering, which was consummated on October 18, 2021, and since the initial public offering,Initial Public Offering, searching for aand consummating prospective initial business combination.Business Combination. We will not generate any operating revenues until after completion of our initial business combination.Business Combination. We will generate

non-operating
income in the form of interest income on cash and cash equivalents. There has been no significant change in our financial or trading position and no material adverse change has occurred since the date of our audited the financial statements.
statements and the notes thereto contained elsewhere in this Report.

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For the year ended December 31, 2023, we had net income of $7,120,609, which consists of operating costs of $(2,365,310) offset by interest income of $8,816,194, change in fair value of warrant liabilities of $188,450, and forgiveness of deferred underwriting fee payable totaling $481,275.

For the year ended December 31, 2022, we had net income of $11,758,533, which consists of operating costs of $(996,769), offset by interest earned of $3,636,252 and change in fair value of warrant liability totaling $9,119,050.

Factors That May Adversely Affect our Results of Operations

Our results of operations and our ability to complete an initial Business Combination may be adversely affected by various factors that could cause economic uncertainty and volatility in the financial markets, many of which are beyond our control. Our business could be impacted by, among other things, downturns in the financial markets or in economic conditions, increases in oil prices, inflation, increases in interest rates, supply chain disruptions, declines in consumer confidence and spending, public health considerations, and geopolitical instability, such as the military conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. We cannot at this time predict the likelihood of one or more of the above events, their duration or magnitude or the extent to which they may negatively impact our business and our ability to complete an initial Business Combination.

Liquidity, and Capital Resources

Our liquidity and Going Concern

As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, we had cash outside the Trust Account of $436,317 and $587,546 available for working capital needs, have been satisfied through (i) $25,000 paid byrespectively. As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, we had cash held in the Trust Account of $115,166,848 and $235,933,496, respectively. All cash held in the Trust Account are generally unavailable for our Sponsoruse, prior to cover certainan initial Business Combination, and is restricted for use either in a Business Combination or to redeem Ordinary Shares. As of our offering costs in exchange for the issuanceDecember 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, none of the founder sharesamount in the Trust Account was available to our Sponsor, (ii)be withdrawn as described above.

On November 9, 2023, we instructed Continental to liquidate the receiptinvestments held in the Trust Account and instead to hold the funds in the Trust Account in an interest-bearing demand deposit account at a bank, with Continental continuing to act as trustee, until the earlier of loans to us of $300,000 by our Sponsor under an unsecured promissory note, (iii) and the net proceeds from the consummation of our initial public offering andBusiness Combination or our liquidation. As a result, following the saleliquidation of investments in the private placement warrants. The netTrust Account, the remaining proceeds from (i) the sale of the units in the initial public offering, after deducting estimated

non-reimbursed
offering expenses of $918,989, underwriting commissions of $4,600,000 (excluding deferred underwriting commissions of $10,350,000),Initial Public Offering and (ii) the sale of the private placement warrants for a purchase price of $7,345,000 was $234,126,011. Of this amount, $232,300,000 is held in the trust account, which includes the deferred underwriting commissions described above. The proceeds held in the trust account will bePrivate Placement are no longer invested only in U.S. government treasury obligations with a maturity of 185 dayssecurities or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule
2a-7
under the Investment Company Act which invest onlyinvested in direct U.S. government treasury obligations. The remaining $1,826,011 issecurities.

Until consummation of our Business Combination, we have used and will continue to use the funds not held in the trust account.

We intend to use substantially all of the funds held in the trust account, includingTrust Account, and any amounts representing interest earned on the trust account (less taxes payableadditional Working Capital Loans for (i) identifying and deferred underwriting commissions), to complete our initial business combination. We may withdraw interest income (if any) to pay income taxes, if any. Our annual income tax obligations will depend on the amount of interest and other income earned on the amounts held in the trust account. We expect the interest income earned on the amount in the trust account (if any) will be sufficient to pay our income taxes. To the extent that our equity or debt is used, in whole or in part, as consideration to complete our initial business combination, the remaining proceeds held in the trust account will be used as working capital to finance the operations of the target business or businesses, make other acquisitions and pursue our growth strategies.
Prior to the completion of our initial business combination, we have available to us the $1,231,992 of proceeds held outside the trust account, as well as certain funds from loans from our Sponsor, its affiliates or members of our management team. We will use these funds to primarily identify and evaluate target businesses, performevaluating prospective acquisition candidates, (ii) performing business due diligence on prospective target businesses, travel(iii) traveling to and from the offices, plants or similar locations of prospective target businesses, or their representatives or owners, review(iv) reviewing corporate documents and material agreements of prospective target businesses, (v) selecting the target business to acquire, and structure, negotiate(vi) structuring, negotiating and completeconsummating the Business Combination.

Going Concern

We have until October 18, 2024, the end of the Combination Period, to consummate a business combination.

We do not believeBusiness Combination. It is uncertain that we will be able to consummate a Business Combination by this time. If a Business Combination is not consummated by this date and a further extension is not approved by our shareholders, there will be a mandatory liquidation and subsequent dissolution of our Company. In connection with our assessment of going concern considerations in accordance with FASB ASU Topic 2014-15, “Disclosures of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern,” Management has determined that the mandatory liquidation, should a Business Combination not occur within the Combination Period, approval for extension of the Combination Period needed by our shareholders, and potential subsequent dissolution raises substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. No adjustments have been made to the carrying amounts of assets or liabilities should we be required to liquidate after October 18, 2024.

Additionally, we may need to raise additional funds in order to meet the expenditures required for operating our business prior to our initial business combination, other than funds available from loans from our Sponsor, its affiliates or members of our management team. However, if our estimates of the costs of identifying a target business, undertaking

in-depth
due diligence and negotiating an initial business combination are less than the actual amount necessary to do so,
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we may have insufficient funds availablecapital to operate our business prior to our initial business combination. In order to fund working capital deficienciesBusiness Combination through loans or finance transaction costs in connection with an intended initial business combination, ouradditional investments. Our officers, directors, Sponsor or an affiliate of our Sponsor or certain of our officers and directors may, but are not obligated to loan us funds asthe Company Working Capital Loans to meet our working capital needs. Accordingly, we may not be able to obtain additional financing. If we are unable to raise additional capital, we may be required. If we completerequired to take additional measures to conserve liquidity, which could include, but not necessarily be limited to, curtailing operations, suspending the pursuit of a potential transaction, and reducing overhead expenses. We cannot provide any assurance that new financing will be available to us on commercially acceptable terms, if at all. These conditions raise substantial doubt about our initial business combination, we may repay such loaned amounts outability to continue as a going concern. No adjustments have been made relating to the recovery of the proceedsrecorded assets or the classification of the trust account releasedliabilities that might be necessary should we be unable to us. Incontinue as a going concern.

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On June 12, 2023, we issued the event that our initial business combination does not close, we may usePrior Sponsor WCL Promissory Note to the Prior Sponsor, whereby the Prior Sponsor agreed to loan us up to $250,000 to us for working capital needs as a Working Capital Loan. The Prior Sponsor has the option to convert all or any portion of the working capital held outside the trust account to repay such loaned amounts but no proceeds from our trust account would be used for such repayment. Up to $1,500,000 of such loans may be convertibleWorking Capital Loan into warrants of the post-business combination entityPrivate Placement Warrants at a price of $1.00 per warrant atPrivate Placement Warrant. This Working Capital Loan accrues no interest on the optionunpaid principal balance and is due on demand by the Prior Sponsor. Drawdowns could be requested until December 31, 2023. During July 2023 we had drawdowns totaling $158,968 under the Prior Sponsor WCL Promissory Note. On September 6, 2023, the Prior Sponsor agreed to forgive the Prior Sponsor WCL Promissory Note balance due of $158,968, with the fair value on September 6, 2023 of $58,992. The initial difference between the cash value and fair value of the lender. The warrants would be identicalWorking Capital Loan under the Prior Sponsor WCL Promissory Note totaling $99,976 is included in additional paid in capital for the year ended December 31, 2023 presented in the financial statements contained elsewhere in this Report. We accounted for the extinguishment of the fair value of such Working Capital Loan as additional paid in capital due to the related party relationship in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 470-50-40-2, ”Debt”.

On July 18, 2023, we issued the July 2023 Promissory Note in an amount of $375,000, to Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, our President, Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors, for depositing $375,000 into the Trust Account to support the first three months of the extension of our Combination Period from July 18, 2023 to October 18, 2023 pursuant to the Extension Amendment Proposal. The July 2023 Promissory Note does not bear interest and is due and payable on the earlier of the date (i) that we consummate an initial Business Combination and (ii) of our liquidation. As of December 31, 2023, we had received $375,000 of the proceeds from the July 2023 Promissory Note.

On September 13, 2023, we issued the September 2023 Promissory Notes in an aggregate amount of $2,125,000 to our officers and their affiliates, for our working capital needs. The September 2023 Promissory Notes do not bear interest and mature upon the earlier of the date (i) that we consummate an initial Business Combination and (ii) of our liquidation. As of December 31, 2023, we had received $1,625,000 of the proceeds from the September 2023 Promissory Notes. On January 5, 2024, we received the remaining $500,000 of proceeds from the September 2023 Promissory Notes.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements; Commitments and Contractual Obligations; Quarterly Results

As of December 31, 2023, we did not have any off-balance sheet arrangements as defined in Item 303(a)(4)(ii) of Regulation S-K and did not have any commitments or contractual obligations. No unaudited quarterly operating data is included in this Report as we have not conducted any operations to date.

Forward Purchase Agreements

On June 21, 2021 and July 26, 2021, respectively, we entered into forward purchase agreements (the “Forward Purchase Agreements”), pursuant to which one Anchor Investor and one institutional accredited investor (the “Forward Purchase Investors”) that are not affiliated with the Prior Sponsor, Sponsor or any member of Management, subscribed to purchase from us an aggregate of 4,500,000 Class A Ordinary Shares at a price of $10.00 per share, each in a private placement warrants. The terms of such loans, if any, have not been determined and no written agreements exist with respect to such loans. Priorthat would close immediately prior to the completionclosing of our initial business combination,Business Combination. On September 13, 2023 and September 14, 2023, we do not expectentered into agreements with the Forward Purchase Investors to seek loans from parties other than our Sponsor, its affiliates or our management team as we do not believe third parties will be willing to loan such fundsmutually terminate and provide a waiver against any and all rights to seek access to funds in our trust account.

We expect our primary liquidity requirements during that period to include approximately $582,400 for directors and officers insurance premiums, $700,000 for legal, accounting, due diligence, travel and other expenses associated with structuring, negotiating and documenting successful business combinations; $200,000 for legal and accounting fees related to regulatory reporting obligations; $10,000 per month (or up to $240,000 in total) for office space and administrative and support services; $85,000 forcancel the NYSE continued listing fees; and $425,000 for general working capital that will be used for miscellaneous expenses and reserves.
These amounts are estimates and may differ materially from our actual expenses. Forward Purchase Agreements.

Investment Banking Services Agreement

In addition, we could use a portion of the funds not being placed in trust to pay commitment fees for financing, fees to consultants to assist us with our search for a target business or as a down payment or to fund a

“no-shop”
provision (a provision designed to keep target businesses from “shopping” around for transactions with other companies or investors on terms more favorable to such target businesses) with respect to a particular proposed business combination, although we do not have any current intention to do so. IfFebruary 2023, we entered into an agreement wherewith a third-party investment banking company (the “Investment Banking Services Agreement”) to provide certain investment banking services in connection with a potential Business Combination of a privately held company and a possible private placement by us to one or more potential investors of our securities in connection with the potential Business Combination. Pursuant to the Investment Banking Services Agreement, we agreed, among other things, to reimburse the investment banking company for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses, not to exceed $525,000, regardless of the consummation of a Business Combination. As of December 31, 2023 we had paid all outstanding reimbursable costs, totaling $98,089.

In July 2023, we terminated the Investment Banking Services Agreement for the provision of certain investment banking services in connection with a potential Business Combination, which included waiver of all potential fees and rights thereunder by the third-party investment banking company, excluding the above unbilled reimbursable costs noted above.

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Administrative Support Agreement

In connection with the Initial Public Offering, we entered into the Administrative Support Agreement with the Prior Sponsor, to pay a total of $10,000 per month for office space, secretarial and administrative services. Upon the completion of an initial Business Combination or liquidation, the Company would cease paying these monthly fees. As of June 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, we owed the Prior Sponsor $204,516 and $144,516, respectively, under the Administrative Support Agreement. However, on June 30, 2023, in connection with the Sponsor Handover, the Administrative Support Agreement was terminated and the outstanding amount was cancelled.

Underwriting Agreement

 Pursuant to the IPO Underwriting Agreement, we paid foran underwriting discount of $0.20 per Unit Offering Price (as defined in the rightIPO Underwriting Agreement) to receive exclusivitythe underwriters at the closing of the Initial Public Offering. The underwriting discount was paid in cash. In addition, we agreed to pay deferred underwriting commissions of $0.45 per Unit, or $10,350,000 in the aggregate. The deferred underwriting commission would become payable to the underwriters from a target business, the amount held in the Trust Account solely in the event that would be used aswe complete a down payment orBusiness Combination, subject to fund a

“no-shop”
provision would be determined based on the terms of the specific business combination andIPO Underwriting Agreement, including the amountperformance of our available funds atservices specified therein.

On June 23, 2023, in connection with the time. Our forfeitureSponsor Handover, the underwriters agreed to waive their entitlement to the deferred underwriting commission of such funds (whether as a result of our breach or otherwise) could result in our not having sufficient funds$10,350,000 to continue searching for, or conducting due diligence with respect to, prospective target businesses.

Moreover, we may need to obtain additional financing to complete our initial business combination, either because the transaction requires more cash than is available from the proceeds held in our trust account, or because we become obligated to redeem a significant number of our public shareswhich it became entitled upon completion of the business combination, in which caseInitial Public Offering. As a result, we may issuederecognized the entire deferred underwriting fee payable of $10,350,000 and recorded $9,868,725 of the forgiveness of the deferred underwriting fee allocated to Public Shares to additional securities or incur debt in connection with such business combination. If we have not consummated our initial business combination withinpaid-in capital and the required time period because we do not have sufficient funds availableremaining balance of $481,275 was a gain from extinguishment of liability allocated to us, we will be forced to cease operations and liquidate the trust account.
warrant liabilities.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

The preparation of financial statements and related disclosures in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of AmericaGAAP requires managementManagement to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and income and expenses during the periods reported. Actual results could materially differ from those estimates. We base our estimates on our own historical experience and other assumptions that we believe are reasonable after taking account of our circumstances and expectations for the future based on available information. We evaluate these estimates on an ongoing basis. 

We consider an accounting estimate to be critical if: (i) the accounting estimate requires us to make assumptions about matters that were highly uncertain at the time the accounting estimate was made, and (ii) changes in the estimate that are reasonably likely to occur from period to period or use of different estimates that we reasonably could have identifiedused in the followingcurrent period, would have a material impact on our financial condition or results of operations. The critical accounting policies:

Class A Ordinary Shares Subjectestimates, assumptions, judgements and the related policies that we believe have the most significant impact on our financial statements are described below:

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Prior Sponsor Working Capital Convertible Note

We utilized a third-party valuation firm to Possible Redemption

The Company accounts for its ordinary shares subject to possible redemption in accordance with the guidance in ASC 480. Ordinary Shares subject to mandatory redemption are classified as a liability instrument and are measured at fair value. Conditionally redeemable ordinary shares (including ordinary shares that feature redemption rights that are either within the control of the holder or subject to redemption upon the occurrence of uncertain events not solely within the Company’s control) are classified as temporary equity. At all other times, ordinary shares are classified as shareholders’ equity. The Company’s ordinary shares feature certain redemption rights that are considered to be outside of the Company’s control and subject to the occurrence of uncertain future events. The Company recognizes changes in redemption value immediately as they occur and adjusts the carrying value of redeemable Class A ordinary shares to equal the redemption value at the end of each reporting period. Increases or decreases in the carrying amount of redeemable Class A ordinary shares are affected by charges against additional paid-in capital and accumulated deficit.
Offering Costs associated with the Initial Public Offering
The Company complies with the requirements of ASC 340-10-S99-1 and SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin Topic 5A—
Expenses of Offering
. Offering costs consist principally of professional and registration fees incurred through the balance sheet date that are related to the Initial Public Offering. Offering costs directly attributable to the issuance of an equity contract to be classified in equity are recorded as a reduction in equity. Offering costs for equity contracts that are classified as assets and liabilities are expensed immediately. The Company incurred offering costs amounting to $25,910,754, consisting of $4,600,000 of underwriting fees, $10,350,000 of deferred underwriting fees, $12,546,764 forestimate the fair value of the FounderPrior Sponsor WCL Promissory Note. A valuation approach utilizing a compound option valuation model was used to provide the estimated fair value. Some of the inputs utilized included the conversion Price, Private Placement Warrant price, volatility of the Ordinary Shares, attributablerisk-free rate, dividend yield, and probability of completing a Business Combination. The most significant estimate relates to the anchor investors (see Note 5),probability of completing a Business Combination which is based on the facts and $918,989circumstances at the time on whether the Business Combination would occur. The facts and circumstances contemplated included the communications with any targets and whether a Business Combination agreement had been signed yet.

Fair Value of offering costs, partially offset by the reimbursement of $2,505,000 of offering expenses by the underwriters. Of the $25,910,754 in offering costs, $24,329,399 were charged to shareholders’ deficit, and $1,581,355 were expensed immediately.

Derivative Financial Instruments
Class B Ordinary Shares for Share-based Compensation

The Company evaluates its financial instrumentsutilized a third party valuation firm to determine if such instruments are derivatives or contain features that qualify as embedded derivatives in accordance with ASC Topic 815, “Derivatives and Hedging”. Derivative instruments are initially recorded at fair value on the grant date and re-valued at each reporting date, with changes inestimate the fair value reported in the statements of operations. Derivative assets and 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 Liabilities
The Company evaluated the Public Warrants and Private Placement Warrants (collectively, “Warrants”),Class B Ordinary Shares in accordance with ASC 815-40, “Derivatives and Hedging—Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity”, and concluded that a provision in the Warrant Agreement related to certain tender or exchange offers precludes the Warrants from being accounted for as components of equity. As the Warrants meet the definition of a derivative as contemplated in ASC 815, the Warrants are recorded as derivative liabilities on the balance sheet and measured at fair value at inception (on the date of the IPO) and at each reporting date in accordance with ASC 820, “Fair Value Measurement”, with changes in fair value recognized in the statement of operations in the period of change.
Net Loss Per Ordinary Share
The Company applies the two-class method in calculating net loss per ordinary share. The contractual formula utilizedorder to calculate the redemption amount approximates fair value. The Class feature to redeem at fair value means that there is effectively only one class of ordinary share. Changes in fair value are not considered a dividendshare-based compensation expense for the year ended December 31, 2023. Some of the purposesinputs used to calculate included, the share price of the numerator in the earnings per share calculation. Net loss per ordinary share is computed by dividing the pro rata net loss between the Class A Ordinary Shares at July 18, 2023, volatility of the Company’s ordinary shareshares, dividend yield and probability of completing a business combination. The most significant estimate related to the fair value of the Class B ordinary share byOrdinary Shares related to the weighted average numberprobability of ordinary shares outstanding.a business combination which was based on facts and circumstances at the time on whether the business combination would occur. The calculationfacts and circumstances contemplated included current pipeline of diluted loss per ordinary share does not consider the effect of the warrants and rights issued in connection with the Public Offering since the exercise of the warrants and rights are contingent upon the occurrence of future eventstargets at July 18, 2023 and the inclusion of such warrants would be anti-dilutive. The warrants and rights are exercisable for 18,845,000 shares of Class A ordinary share in the aggregate.
Controls and Procedures
We are not currently requiredcurrent market regarding SPAC’s that were able to maintain an effective system of internal controls as defined by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. We will be required to comply with the internal control requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2022. Only in the event that we are deemed to beconsummate a large accelerated filer or an accelerated filer and no longer qualify as an emerging growth company would we be required to comply with the independent registered public accounting firm attestation requirement on internal control over financial reporting. Further, for as long as we remain an emerging growth company as defined in the JOBS Act, we intend to 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 independent registered public accounting firm attestation requirement.
We have not completed an assessment, nor have our auditors tested our systems,business combination.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

For a detailed discussion of our internal controls. We expect to assess the internal controls of our target business or businesses prior to the completion of our initial business combination and, if necessary, to implement and test additional controls as we may determine are necessary in order to state that we maintain an effective system of internal controls. A target business may not be in compliance with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act regarding the adequacy of internal controls. Many small and

mid-sized
target
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businesses we may consider for our initial business combination may have internal controls that need improvement in areas such as:
staffing for financial, accounting and external reporting areas, including segregation of duties;
reconciliation of accounts;
proper recording of expenses and liabilities in the period to which they relate;
evidence of internal review and approval of accounting transactions;
documentation of processes, assumptions and conclusions underlying significant estimates; and
documentation of accounting policies and procedures.
Because it will take time, management involvement and perhaps outside resources to determine what internal control improvements are necessary for us to meet regulatory requirements and market expectations for our operationrelated judgments, see Note 2 – Summary of a target business, we may incur significant expenses in meeting our public reporting responsibilities, particularly in the areas of designing, enhancing, or remediating internal and disclosure controls. Doing so effectively may also take longer than we expect, thus increasing our exposure to financial fraud or erroneous financing reporting.
Once our management’s report on internal controls is complete, we will retain our independent registered public accounting firm to audit and render an opinion on such report when required by Section 404Significant Accounting Policies, of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The independent registered public accounting firm may identify additional issues concerning a target business’s internal controls while performing their auditfinancial statements and notes thereto beginning on page F-1 of internal control over financial reporting.
this Report.

Item 7A.Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

The net proceeds of the initial public offering and the sale of the private placement warrants held in the trust account are 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. Due to the short-term nature of these investments, we believe there will be no associated material exposure to interest rate risk.
Off-Balance
Sheet Arrangements; Commitments and Contractual Obligations; Quarterly Results
As of December 31, 2021, we did not have any
off-balance
sheet arrangements as defined in Item 303(a)(4)(ii) of Regulation
S-K
and did not have any commitments or contractual obligations. No unaudited quarterly operating data is included in this Annual Report as we have not conducted any operations to date.
JOBS Act
The JOBS Act contains provisions that, among other things, relax certain reporting requirements for qualifying public companies. We will qualify as an “emerging growth company” and under the JOBS Act will be allowed to comply with new or revised accounting pronouncements based on the effective date for private (not publicly traded) companies. We have 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, we, 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 our 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.
Additionally, we are in the process of evaluating the benefits of relying on the other reduced reporting requirements provided by the JOBS Act. Subject to certain conditions set forth in the JOBS Act, if, as an “emerging growth company,” we choose to rely on such exemptions we may not be required to, among other things, (i) provide an auditor’s attestation report on our system of internal controls over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, (ii) provide all of the compensation disclosure that may be required of
non-emerging
growth public companies under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, (iii) comply with any requirement that may be adopted by the PCAOB regarding mandatory audit firm rotation or a supplement to the auditor’s report providing additional information about the audit and the financial statements (auditor discussion and analysis) and (iv) disclose certain executive compensation related items such as the correlation between executive compensation and performance and comparisons of the principal executive officer’s compensation to median employee compensation. These exemptions will apply for a period of five years following the completion of our initial public offering or until we are no longer an “emerging growth company,” whichever is earlier.
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Item 7A.
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
Risk.

We are a smaller reporting company as defined by Rule

12b-2
of the Exchange Act and are not required to provide the information otherwise required under this item.
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Item 8.

Consolidated Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
Data.

Reference is made to Pages

pages F-1
through
F-17
F-29 comprising a Portionportion of this report.
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Item 9.

Changes in and Disagreements Withwith Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.

None.

Item 9A.Controls and Procedures.

Evaluation of Disclosure

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Controls and Procedures

Disclosure controls and procedures are controls and other procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to Management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer (together, the “Certifying Officers”), or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Under the supervision and with the participation of our Management, including our Certifying Officers, we carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act. Based on the foregoing, our Certifying Officers concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of the end of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, due to the material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting related to the accounting and recording of liabilities in 2021 and accounting and recording financial instruments related to convertible debt and share based compensation, and extinguishment of related party liabilities as of December 31, 2023. As a result, we performed additional analyses as deemed necessary to ensure that our financial statements were prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Accordingly, Management believes that the financial statements included in this Report present fairly in all material respects our financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented.

Management is in the process of implementing remediation steps to improve our disclosure controls and procedures and our internal control over financial reporting process after the recently identified material weaknesses noted above. The elements of our remediation plan can only be accomplished over time, and we can offer no assurance that these initiatives will ultimately have the intended effects.

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 Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

As required by SEC rules and regulations implementing Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, our Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. Our internal control over financial reporting is designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of our financial statements for external reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP. Our internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that:

(1)

pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of our Company,

(2)

provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP, and that our receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorizations of our Management and directors, and

(3)

provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

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Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect errors or misstatements in our financial statements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree or compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate. Management assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023. In making these assessments, Management used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013). Based on our assessments and those criteria, Management determined that we did not maintain effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023 due to a previously identified material weaknesses related to accounting and reporting of liabilities for the year ended December 31, 2021. Additionally, Management has identified material weaknesses in 2023, related to failure to properly account for and classify the extinguishment of the Prior Sponsor’s Working Capital Loan and the service administrative fee as capital contributions in accordance with U.S. GAAP and failure to record share-based compensation costs related to Founder Shares transferred to former directors of the Company.

Management has implemented remediation steps to improve our internal control over financial reporting related to the material weakness identified in 2021. Specifically, we have implemented the following:

·

We have implemented procedures to identify all our accrued liabilities through communication with management and third party vendors for services performed but not billed before preparing financial statements.

·

Expenses are reviewed by the chief financial officer as part of their quarterly review of the financial statements.

Management is in the process of implementing remediation steps to improve our disclosure controls and procedures and our internal control over financial reporting process after the identified material weaknesses related to the extinguishment of convertible debt and service administrative fees and accounting for share based compensation noted for 2023. The elements of our remediation plan can only be accomplished over time, and we can offer no assurance that these initiatives will ultimately have the intended effects.

This Report does not include an attestation report of our internal controls from our independent registered public accounting firm due to our status as an emerging growth company under the JOBS Act.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Other than as discussed above, there have been no changes to our internal control over financial reporting during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Item 9B.Other Information.

Trading Arrangements

During the quarterly period ended December 31, 2023, none of our directors or officers (as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) promulgated under the Exchange Act) adopted or terminated any “Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” or any “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement,” as each term is defined in Item 408 of Regulation S-K.

Additional Information

None.

Item 9C.Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections.

Not applicable.

 
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PART III

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance.

Directors and Executive Officers

As of the date of this Report, our directors and officers are as follows:

Name

Age

Position 

Xiaoma (Sherman) Lu

57

Chief Executive Officer and Director

Ri (Richard) Yuan

48

Chief Investment Officer

Chunyi (Charlie) Hao

64

President, Chief Financial StatementsOfficer and Chairman of the Board

Xinyue (Jasmine) Geffner

51

Director

Stephen Markscheid

70

Director

Wang Chiu (Tommy) Wong

50

Director

The experience of our directors and executive officers is as follows:

Xiaoma (Sherman) Luhas served as our Chief Executive Officer since September 11, 2023, and a director since April 2024. Mr. Lu is a founding partner and has been a managing director of East Stone Capital Limited, a private equity firm focusing on emerging industries, since October 2017. Currently, Mr. Lu serves as independent non-executive director on the board of NWTN Inc. (Nasdaq: NWTN), which completed a business combination with East Stone Acquisition Corporation in November 2022 and for which Mr. Lu served as Chief Executive Officer and a director prior to the business combination. From January 2017 to November 2017, Mr. Lu served as the Executive Vice president of Kangde Investment Group, a Chinese company engaging in new energy and financial services and capital investment. Prior to that, Mr. Lu served as the Chief Executive Officer of Wanda Investment Company and Vice President of Wanda Financial Group, the investment and financial arms of Wanda Group, a Chinese multinational conglomerate in the real estate, hospitality, retailing, entertainment and heath care, responsible for business expansion, capital investment, and cross board merger and acquisition in commercial real estate and entertainment business from May 2015 to December 2016. Mr. Lu served as the Executive Vice President of Shenzhen Stock Exchange, one of the two primary stock exchanges in China, overseeing public company governance, product development and international businesses from November 2012 to May 2015. Prior to Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Mr. Lu was a full-time non-executive board director, representing Central Huijin Investment Co, at China Construction Bank from August 2010 to November 2012. Mr. Lu has also served in various positions and in different functions at State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) from May 2000 to August 2010, a financial services and bank holding company headquartered in Boston with operations worldwide. He also serves as an independent director on the boards of Forgame Holdings Limited (HK.0484), a China-based gaming, trading and development company, Sailing Henan Investment, a private investment company, and Bank of China International (China) Co, Limited (601696.SH), an affiliate of Bank of China, which offers investment banking and securities brokerage services in China. From June 2017 to August 2022, Mr. Lu served as an independent director on the board of Yango Group Co., Ltd. (000671.SZ), a China-based company principally engaged in real estate development. Mr. Lu received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in thermal engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China and an MBA degree from Boston College. Mr. Lu is well qualified to serve as the Company’s director due to his prior experience serving on public company boards and his extensive investment and financial experience.

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Ri (Richard) Yuan has been our Chief Investment Officer since September 2023. He is an accomplished executive with a proven track record in the technology industry. From January 2013 to January 2023, he served as General Manager of Zhejiang Zelihe Investment Management Co., Ltd., an investment management company, responsible for the company’s daily management and project review for external investments. Mr. Yuan has extensive leadership experience, including his roles as Director at Jinhua Julong Pipe Industry Co., Ltd, a construction material manufacturing company, from 2009 to 2013 and as Deputy General Manager at Zhejiang Weike Venture Investment Co., Ltd., an investment company, from 2009 to 2012. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in international trade from Zhejiang University and a Master’s degree in Finance from Zhejiang University.

Chunyi (Charlie) Hao has been our President and has served as the Chairman of our Board of Directors since September 2023 and our Chief Financial Officer since April 2024. Prior to that, he served as our Chief Executive Officer and director from July 2023 to September 2023. He is a founding partner and has been a managing director of East Stone Capital Limited, a private equity firm focusing on emerging industries, since October 2017. He has also served as a director of Finnovate Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: FNVT), a special purpose acquisition company, since May 2023. Most recently, Mr. Hao served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Financial Officer of East Stone Acquisition Corporation from August 2018 through November 2022, when it completed its business combination with NWTN, Inc. (Nasdaq: NWTN). Mr. Hao has served as chief executive officer and president of Shandong Haizhishe Energy Engineering Co., Ltd., a solar and wind engineering company in China, and was in charge of the daily operations and business development of the company from December 2015 to March 2019. Prior to that, Mr. Hao was an investment officer of Shanghai Guxin Investment Limited, a firm engaging in the investment of solar farms across China, from 2014 to June 2015. He served as chief financial officer at Delphi Automotive Corp (Saginaw Steering System) (“Delphi”) of General Motors Inc., overseeing joint venture operation across China and Asia Pacific from 1995 to 1998. Mr. Hao is an independent director of Cogobuy Group PLC (HKSE: 0400.HK), an e-commerce platform and distributor for electronic goods in China. He served as chief executive officer and director at China Fundamental Acquisition Corporation and a board director and president of China operations at Asia Automotive Acquisition Corporation, two SPACs in 2008 and 2006, respectively. Mr. Hao received his Bachelor’s degree in French from Beijing Language and Culture University, a Master of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA degree from Pace University. Mr. Hao is well qualified to serve as the Company’s director due to his extensive experience with SPACs, as well as his expertise in management, finance and capital investments.

Xinyue (Jasmine) Geffner has served on our Board of Directors since August 2023. She has served as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the board of directors of NWTN, Inc. (Nasdaq: NWTN), an electric vehicle company, since November 2022. Ms. Geffner has been the Chief Financial Officer of Dorsett Hospitality International Services Limited (part of HKSE: 0035.HK) since February 2019. She was a director and the audit committee chair of China Finance Online Co. Limited (Nasdaq: JRJC) from May 2021 to November 2021. She led the successful IPO of GreenTree Hospitality Group Limited on New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: GHG) in March 2018 and served as Chief Financial Officer from October 2017 to December 2018 at GreenTree. She served as a vice president in charge of corporate finance and development with Asia Pacific in LeEco from October 2016 to August 2017. She was an independent director of AG Semiconductor (Hong Kong) Ltd. from April 2013 to April 2017. From August 2014 to March 2016, she served as Chief Financial Officer of Carnival Group International Holdings Limited (HKSE: 0996.HK). From November 2008 to January 2011, she served as a director of corporate and institutional banking in ANZ Hong Kong. From March 2005 to February 2008, she worked for HSBC as a head of China business development and as a vice president of the consumer and retail group in New York. Ms. Geffner received a bachelor’s degree in international marketing and finance from the City University of New York in February 1994 and an MBA degree from the Stern School of Business at New York University in September 1997. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in both Washington State, USA and Hong Kong. She is also a CFA Charterholder. Ms. Geffner is well qualified to serve as a director due to her extensive experience in finance, accounting, banking and capital markets. 

Stephen Markscheid has served on our Board of Directors since August 2023. He has been the Managing Principal of Aerion Capital, a family office, since July 2022. He currently serves as independent non-executive director of six other publicly listed companies: Jinko Solar Inc. (NYSE: JKS), a solar panel manufacturer (since 2010); Kingwisoft Technology Services Ltd. (HKSE: 8295.HK), an information technology company (since 2016); Monterey Capital Acquisition Corporation (Nasdaq: MCAC), a special purpose acquisition company (since 2022); Four Leaf Acquisition Corporation (Nasdaq: FORL), a special purpose acquisition company (since 2023); Richtech Robotics Inc. (Nasdaq: RR), a automation company (since November 2023); and QMIS TBS Capital Group Corp. (since March 2024). Mr. Markscheid previously served as a director of UGE International (XTSX:UGE), a solar installation company, from August 2019 to July 2023, Fanhua, Inc. (Nasdaq: FANH), a financial services provider, from 2007 to February 2024, and Centro Electric Group Limited (Nasdaq: CENN), an electric vehicle technology company, from 2023 to March 2024. He is also a trustee emeritus of Princeton-in-Asia. From 1998 to 2006, he worked for GE Capital. During his time with GE Capital, Mr. Markscheid led GE Capital’s business development activities in China and Asia Pacific, primarily acquisitions and direct investments. Prior to GE Capital, Mr. Markscheid worked with the Boston Consulting Group throughout Asia. He was a banker for ten years in London, Chicago, New York, Hong Kong and Beijing with Chase Manhattan Bank and First National Bank of Chicago. Mr. Markscheid began his career with the US-China Business Council, in Washington D.C. and Beijing. He earned a BA in East Asian Studies from Princeton University in 1976, an MA in international affairs from Johns Hopkins University in 1980, and an MBA from Columbia University in 1991, where he was class valedictorian. Mr. Markscheid is well qualified to serve as a director due to his extensive investment experience and his experience working with special purpose acquisition companies.

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Mr. Markscheid was a consolidated defendant in his capacity as a director of ChinaCast Education Corporation (“ChinaCast”) in a securities lawsuit filed on May 2, 2012 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, alleging misrepresentation of ChinaCast’s financial conditions and its failure to disclose cash transfers of $120 million to certain officers and directors of ChinaCast. On November 8, 2016, the district court ruled in favor of the class action plaintiffs, finding ChinaCast was liable for $65.8 million. On August 25, 2014, a securities complaint alleging similar violations was also filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery (the “Chancery Court”) by ChinaCast, where Mr. Markscheid was named a third-party defendant. On March 23, 2015, the Chancery Court entered a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, ordering a former director of ChinaCast with damages of $183.3 million caused by breach of fiduciary duty. The former director filed a third party complaint against the other directors, including Mr. Markscheid, which was settled in December 2022.

Mr. Markscheid was a defendant in his capacity as a director of JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. (“JinkoSolar”) in a class action securities lawsuit filed in October 2011. The plaintiff alleged the JinkoSolar directors of making materially false and misleading statements regarding its compliance with environmental regulations. The case was settled in March 2016.

Mr. Markscheid was a defendant in his capacity as a director of China Integrated Energy, Inc. (“CBEH”) in a class action securities lawsuit filed on June 30, 2011, where the president, officers, directors of CBEH were alleged to have disseminated materially misleading statements and failed to disclose material information concerning the CBEH’s true financial condition and business prospects (“CBEH June 2011 Case”). Mr. Markscheid was also a defendant in his capacity as a director of CBEH in a class action securities lawsuit filed on July 8, 2011, where the officers of CBEH were alleged to have made improper statements regarding its financial results and business operations, caused it to enter into non-accretive acquisitions for entities that they knew were overvalued, failed to implement an effective system of internal and financial controls, and obstructed the CBEH’s audit committee’s independent investigation (“CBEH July 2011 Case”). CBEH June 2011 Case and CBEH July 2011 Case were later consolidated, which was settled in December 2015.

Wang Chiu (Tommy) Wong has served on our Board of Directors since August 2023. Heis a seasoned finance and investment professional with more than 20 years of experience. Mr. Wong has served as the Chief Financial Officer and director of Finnovate Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: FNVT), a special purpose acquisition company, since May 2023. Since November 2012, Mr. Wong has worked at Yitian Group in various roles, and most recently as a vice president with responsibility for urban renewal projects. During his tenure, Mr. Wong led negotiations with numerous stakeholders and overseen various managerial finance and property management functions. From August 2004 to October 2012, he worked at Safe Chemical, a Hong Kong-based chemicals company, as general manager. Mr. Wong was also a business development manager at iiLcorp Limited, a communications firm from January 2003 to August 2004. Mr. Wong received his Bachelor of Science degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and was a visiting student at the University California, Los Angeles. He received a Master of Public Affairs from Indiana University with a concentration in Information Systems and Public Finance. Mr. Wong is well-qualified to serve on our Board of Directors due to his extensive managerial finance-related experience.

Family Relationships

No family relationships exist between any of our directors or executive officers.

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Involvement in Certain Legal Proceedings

Other than as described above, there are no material proceedings to which any director or executive officer, or any associate of any such director or officer is a party adverse to our Company, or has a material interest adverse to our Company.

Number and Terms of Office of Officers and Directors

Our Board is comprised of five members. Our Board of Directors 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 of shareholders) serving a three-year term. The term of office of the first class of directors, consisting of Xinyue (Jasmine) Geffner and Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, will expire at our first annual general meeting. The term of office of the second class of directors, consisting of Stephen Markscheid and Wang Chiu (Tommy) Wong, will expire at our second annual general meeting. The term of office of the third class of directors, consisting of Xiaoma (Sherman) Lu, will expire at our third annual general meeting.

Prior to the completion of an initial Business Combination, any vacancy on the Board of Directors may be filled by a nominee chosen by holders of a majority of our Founder Shares. In addition, prior to the completion of an initial Business Combination, holders of a majority of our Founder Shares may remove a member of the Board of Directors for any reason.

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 persons to the offices set forth in our Amended and Restated Memorandum as it deems appropriate. Our Amended and Restated Memorandum provides that our officers may consist of one or more chairman of the Board, chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, vice presidents, secretary, treasurer and such other offices as may be determined by the Board of Directors.

Committees of the Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors has three standing committees: an audit committee, a compensation committee and a nominating and corporate governance committee. Subject to phase-in rules and a limited exception, the rules of the NYSE and Rule 10A-3 of the Exchange Act require that the audit committee of a listed company be comprised solely of independent directors. Subject to phase-in rules and a limited exception, the rules of the NYSE require that the compensation committee and the nominating committee of a listed company be comprised solely of independent directors.

Audit Committee

We established an audit committee of the Board of Directors. Xinyue (Jasmine) Geffner, Stephen Markscheid and Wang Chiu (Tommy) Wong serve as members of our audit committee. Ms. Geffner serves as chair of the audit committee. Each member of the audit committee qualifies as an independent director under the NYSE corporate governance standards and the independence requirements of Rule 10A-3 of the Exchange Act. Each member of the audit committee is financially literate, and our Board has determined that Ms. Geffner qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert,” as such term is defined in Item 407(d)(5) of Regulation S-K, and possesses accounting or related financial management expertise, as required under the rules of the NYSE.

We have adopted an amended audit committee charter, which details the principal functions of the audit committee, including:

·

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 permitted 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 registered public accounting firm all relationships the auditors have with us in order to evaluate their continued independence;

·

setting clear hiring policies for employees or former employees of the independent registered public accounting firm;

·

setting clear policies for audit partner rotation in compliance with applicable laws and regulations;

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obtaining and reviewing a report, at least annually, from the independent registered public accounting firm describing (i) the independent registered public accounting firm’s internal quality-control procedures and (ii) 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;

·

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;

·

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 FASB, the SEC or other regulatory authorities; and

·

advising the Board and any other Board committees if the clawback provisions of Rule 10D-1 under the Exchange Act (the “Rule”) are triggered based upon a financial statement restatement or other financial statement change, with the assistance of Management and to the extent that our securities continue to be listed on an exchange and subject to the Rule.

Compensation Committee

We established a compensation committee of the Board of Directors. Xinyue (Jasmine) Geffner and Wang Chiu (Tommy) Wong serve as members of our compensation committee. Under the NYSE listing standards and applicable SEC rules, we are required to have at least two members of the compensation committee, all of whom must be independent, and all three such members are independent. Ms. Geffner serves as chair of the compensation committee.

We have adopted an amended 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 based on such evaluation;

·

reviewing and approving on an annual basis the compensation of all of our other officers;

·

reviewing on an annual basis 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 officers and employees;

·

if required, producing a report on executive compensation to be included in our annual proxy statement;

·

reviewing, evaluating and recommending changes, if appropriate, to the remuneration for directors; and

·

advising the Board and any other Board committees if the clawback provisions of the Rule are triggered based upon a financial statement restatement or other financial statement change, with the assistance of Management and to the extent that our securities continue to be listed on an exchange and subject to the Rule.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, as indicated above, other than reimbursement of expenses, no compensation of any kind, including finders, consulting or other similar fees, is paid to any of our current shareholders, officers, directors or any of their respective affiliates, prior to, or for any services they render in order to effectuate, the consummation of a Business Combination. Accordingly, it is likely that prior to the consummation of our initial Business Combination, the compensation committee will only be responsible for the review and recommendation of any compensation arrangements to be entered into in connection with such initial Business Combination.

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The amended compensation committee 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 the NYSE and the SEC.

Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

We established a nominating and corporate governance committee. Stephen Markscheid is the sole member of our nominating and corporate governance committee. The primary purposes of our nominating and corporate governance committee is to assist the Board of Directors in:

·

identifying, screening and reviewing individuals qualified to serve as directors and recommending to the Board of Directors candidates for nomination for appointment at the annual general meeting or to fill vacancies on the Board of Directors;

·

developing, recommending to the Board of Directors and overseeing implementation of our corporate governance guidelines;

·

coordinating and overseeing the annual self-evaluation of the Board of Directors its committees, individual directors and management in the governance of our Company; and

·

reviewing on a regular basis our overall corporate governance and recommending improvements as and when necessary.

The nominating and corporate governance committee is governed by a charter that complies with the rules of the NYSE.

Our nominating and corporate governance committee recommends to the Board of Directors candidates for nomination for appointment at any annual general meeting. 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, the 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.

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 and our nominating and corporate governance committee charters as exhibits to the IPO Registration Statement, and copies of our amended audit and compensation committee charters as exhibits to this Report. Our shareholders may review these documents by accessing our public filings at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov and at our website at https://tristaracq.com/. In addition, a copy of the Code of Ethics will be provided without charge upon request from us. We intend to disclose any amendments to or waivers of certain provisions of our Code of Ethics in a Current Report on Form 8-K.

Compensation Recovery and Clawback Policy

Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, in the event of misconduct that results in a financial restatement that would have reduced a previously paid incentive amount, we can recoup those improper payments from our executive officers. The SEC also recently adopted rules which direct national stock exchanges to require listed companies to implement policies intended to recoup bonuses paid to executives if the company is found to have misstated its financial results.

On December 1, 2023, our Board of Directors approved the adoption of the Executive Compensation Clawback Policy (the “Clawback Policy”), in order to comply with the final clawback rules adopted by the SEC under the Rule, and the listing standards, as set forth in Section 303A.14 of the NYSE Listed Company Manual (the “Final Clawback Rules”).

The Clawback Policy provides for the mandatory recovery of erroneously awarded incentive-based compensation from our current and former executive officers as defined in the Rule (“Covered Officers”) in the event that we are required to prepare an accounting restatement, in accordance with the Final Clawback Rules. The recovery of such compensation applies regardless of whether a Covered Officer engaged in misconduct or otherwise caused or contributed to the requirement of an accounting restatement. Under the Clawback Policy, our Board of Directors may recoup from the Covered Officers erroneously awarded incentive compensation received within a lookback period of the three completed fiscal years preceding the date on which we are required to prepare an accounting restatement.

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Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports

Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires our executive officers, directors and persons who beneficially own more than 10% of a registered class of our equity securities to file with the SEC initial reports of ownership and reports of changes in ownership of our Ordinary Shares and other equity securities. These executive officers, directors, and greater than 10% beneficial owners are required by SEC regulation to furnish us with copies of all Section 16(a) forms filed by such reporting persons. Based solely on our review of such forms furnished to us and written representations from certain reporting persons, we believe that during the year ended December 31, 2023, all reports applicable to our executive officers, directors and greater than 10% beneficial owners were filed in a timely manner in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act, except as set forth below:

Ms. Geffner, one of our directors, failed to timely file one Form 3.

Item 11. Executive Compensation.

None of our executive officers or directors have received any cash compensation for services rendered to us. Our executive officers and directors, or their respective affiliates are 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. Our audit committee reviews, on a quarterly basis, all payments that were made by us to our executive officers or directors, or their affiliates. Any such payments prior to an initial Business Combination are made using funds held outside the Trust Account. Other than quarterly audit committee review of such reimbursements, we do not 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. Other than these payments and reimbursements, no compensation of any kind, including finder’s and consulting fees, is paid by us to our Sponsor, executive officers and directors, or their respective affiliates, prior to completion of our initial Business Combination.

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, such as the Helport Registration Statement. 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. 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.

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Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters.

The following table sets forth information regarding the beneficial ownership of our Ordinary Shares as of May 8, 2024 based on information obtained from the persons named below, with respect to the beneficial ownership of Ordinary Shares, by:

each person known by us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of our outstanding Ordinary Shares;

each of our executive officers and directors that beneficially owns our Ordinary Shares; and

all our executive officers and directors as a group.

In the table below, percentage ownership is based on 16,358,802 shares of our Ordinary Shares, consisting of (i) 10,608,802 Class A Ordinary Shares and (ii) 5,750,000 Class B Ordinary Shares, issued and outstanding as of May 8, 2024. On all matters to be voted upon, except for the election of directors of the Board, holders of the Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares vote together as a single class, unless otherwise required by applicable law. Currently, all of the Class B Ordinary Shares are convertible into Class A Ordinary Shares on a one-for-one basis, subject to adjustment pursuant to the anti-dilution provisions contained therein.

Unless otherwise indicated, we believe that all persons named in the table have sole voting and investment power with respect to all Ordinary Shares beneficially owned by them. The following table does not reflect record or beneficial ownership of the Private Placement Warrants as these Private Placement Warrants are not exercisable within 60 days of the date of this Report.

 

 

Class A Ordinary Shares

 

 

Class B Ordinary Shares(1)

 

 

 

Name and Address of Beneficial Owner(2)

 

Number of

Shares

Beneficially

Owned

 

 

Approximate

Percentage

of Class

 

 

Number of

Shares

Beneficially

Owned

 

 

Approximate

Percentage

of Class

 

 

Approximate

Percentage of

Outstanding

Ordinary

Shares

 

Navy Sail International Limited (our Sponsor)(3)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

715,125

 

 

 

12.4%

 

 

4.4%

Chunyi (Charlie) Hao(4)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2,907,500

 

 

 

50.6%

 

 

17.8%

Xiaoma (Sherman) Lu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ri (Richard) Yuan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Xinyue (Jasmine) Geffner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stephen Markscheid

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wang Chiu (Tommy) Wong

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All directors and executive officers as a group (6 individuals)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2,907,500

 

 

 

50.6%

 

 

17.8%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other 5% Shareholders

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tristar Holdings I LLC(5)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

872,658

 

 

 

15.2%

 

 

5.3%

Cable One, Inc.(6)

 

 

1,980,000

 

 

 

18.7%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12.1%

Radcliffe Parties(7)

 

 

1,241,525

 

 

 

11.7%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.6%

Highbridge Capital Management, LLC (8)

 

 

1,051,255

 

 

 

9.9%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6.4%

Picton Mahoney Asset Management(9)

 

 

1,013,160

 

 

 

9.6%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6.2%

First Trust Parties(10)

 

 

1,006,705

 

 

 

9.5%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6.2%

Calamos Market Neutral Income Fund(11)

 

 

900,000

 

 

 

8.5%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.5%

D.E. Shaw Parties(12)

 

 

850,000

 

 

 

8.0%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.2%

K2 Parties(13)

 

 

780,331

 

 

 

7.4%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.8%

Cowen and Company, LLC (14)

 

 

776,430

 

 

 

7.3%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.7%

Periscope Capital Inc.(15)

 

 

552,001

 

 

 

5.2%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.4%

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Less than 1%

(1)

The following table does not include any Class B Ordinary Share held by any Anchor Investors.

(2)

Unless otherwise noted, the principal business address of each of the following entities or individuals is c/o Tristar Acquisition I Corp., 2 Burlington Woods Drive, Suite 100, Burlington, MA 01803.

(3)

The shares reported in this row are held of record by our Sponsor, Navy Sail International Limited, a British Virgin Islands company. Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, our President, Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of our Board of Directors, is the sole shareholder and director of the Sponsor, and as such, has voting and investment discretion with respect to the shares held of record by the Sponsor and may be deemed to have beneficial ownership of such shares. Mr. Hao disclaims beneficial ownership of the securities held by the Sponsor other than to the extent of his direct or indirect pecuniary interest in such securities.

(4)

The shares beneficially owned include: (i) 715,125 Class B Ordinary Shares held by the Sponsor; and (ii) 2,192,375 Class B Ordinary Shares held directly by Mr. Hao.

(5)

The shares reported in this row are held of record by our Prior Sponsor, Tristar Holdings I LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. William M. Mounger is the managing member of Prior Sponsor, and as such, has voting and investment discretion with respect to the shares held of record by Prior Sponsor and may be deemed to have beneficial ownership of such shares. Mr. Mounger disclaims any beneficial ownership of the reported shares other than to the extent of any pecuniary interest he may have therein, directly or indirectly.

(6)

Based a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on October 27, 2021 by Cable One, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Cable One”). The number of Public Shares held by Cable One is reported as of October 18, 2021, which does not reflect any redemption of shares by Cable One in the 2023 Redemptions or any other transactions after October 18, 2021, such as the Sponsor Handover. Accordingly, the number of Public Shares and the percentages set forth in the table may not reflect Cable One’s current beneficial ownership. The principal business address for Cable One is 210 E. Earll Drive, Phoenix, Arizona 85012.

(7)

Based on a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on October 14, 2021, as amended on February 14, 2022, by (i)  Radcliffe Capital Management, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“Radcliffe”), (ii) RGC Management Company, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“RGC”), (iii) Steven B. Katznelson, a citizen of Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom (“Mr. Katznelson”), (iv) Christopher Hinkel, a citizen of the United States (“Mr. Hinkel”), (v) Radcliffe SPAC Master Fund, L.P., a limited partnership of the Cayman Islands (“Radcliffe Master Fund”), and (vi) Radcliffe SPAC GP, LLC, Delaware limited liability company (“Radcliffe GP,” collectively with Radcliffe, RGC, Mr. Katznelson, Mr. Hinkel, Radcliffe Master Fund and Radcliffe GP, the “Radcliffe Parties”). Such Public Shares are held of record by Radcliffe Master Fund, which shares voting and investment power over such shares with Radcliffe GP, Mr. Katznelson, Mr. Hinkel, RGC and Radcliffe, each of whom may be deemed to beneficially own such Public Shares. The number of Public Shares held by the Radcliffe Parties is reported as of December 31, 2021, which does not reflect any redemption of shares by Radcliffe Parties’ in the 2023 Redemptions or any other transactions after December 31, 2021, such as the Sponsor Handover. Accordingly, the number of Public Shares and the percentages set forth in the table may not reflect the Radcliffe Parties’ current beneficial ownership. The principal business address for each of the Radcliffe Parties.is 50 Monument Road, Suite 300, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004.

(8)

Based on a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on November 5, 2021, as amended on January 27, 2022, by Highbridge Capital Management, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Highbridge”), which, as the trading manager of Highbridge Tactical Credit Master Fund, L.P. and Highbridge SPAC Opportunity Fund, L.P. (collectively, the “Highbridge Funds”), may be deemed to be the beneficial owner of the Public Shares held by the Highbridge Funds. The number of Public Shares held by Highbridge is reported as of December 31, 2021, which does not reflect any redemption of shares by Highbridge in the 2023 Redemptions or any other transactions after December 31, 2021, such as the Sponsor Handover. Accordingly, the number of Public Shares and the percentages set forth in the table may not reflect Highbridge’s current beneficial ownership. The principal business address for Highbridge is 277 Park Avenue, 23rd Floor, New York, New York 10172.

 
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(9)

Based on a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on January 23, 2024 by Picton Mahoney Asset Management (“Picton”). The principal business address for Picton is 3 Yonge St #830, Toronto, ON M5E 1G4, Canada.

(10)

Based on a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 14, 2024 by (i) First Trust Merger Arbitrage Fund, a series of Investment Managers Series Trust II (“VARBX”), (ii) First Trust Capital Management L.P., an investment adviser registered with the SEC , (“FTCM”), (iii) First Trust Capital Solutions L.P., a Delaware limited partnership and control person of FTCM (“FTCS”) and (iv) FTCS Sub GP LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and control person of FTCM (“Sub GP” and collectively with VARBX, FTCM and FTCS, the “First Trust Parties”). FTCM provides investment advisory services to, among others, (i) series of Investment Managers Series Trust II, an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act, specifically First Trust Multi-Strategy Fund and VARBX, (ii) First Trust Alternative Opportunities Fund, an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act and (iii) Highland Capital Management Institutional Fund II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (collectively, the “Client Accounts”). As investment adviser to the Client Accounts, FTCM has the authority to invest the funds of the Client Accounts in securities (including our Ordinary Shares), as well as the authority to purchase, vote and dispose of securities, and may thus be deemed the beneficial owner of any Public Shares held in the Client Accounts. As of December 31, 2023, VARBX held 959,011 Public Shares, while FTCM, FTCS and Sub GP collectively held 1,006,705 Public Shares. The principal business address of FTCM, FTCS and Sub GP is 225 W. Wacker Drive, 21st Floor, Chicago, IL 60606. The principal business address of VARBX is 235 West Galena Street, Milwaukee, WI 53212.

(11)

Based on a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 14, 2024 by Calamos Market Neutral Income Fund, a series of Calamos Investment Trust (“Calamos”). The principal business address of Calamos is 2020 Calamos Court, Naperville, IL 60563.

(12)

Based on a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on October 28, 2021, as amended on February 14, 2023, by (i) D. E. Shaw Valence Portfolios, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (“D.E. Shaw Valence”), (ii) D. E. Shaw & Co., L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (“D.E. Shaw LLC”), (iii) D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“D.E. Shaw LP”), and (iv) David E. Shaw, a United States citizen (“Mr. Shaw.” collectively, with D.E. Shaw Valence, D.E. Shaw LLC and D.E. Shaw LP,  the “D. E. Shaw Parties”). Mr. Shaw does not own any Public Shares directly. By virtue of Mr. Shaw’s position as President and sole shareholder of D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc., which is the general partner of D. E. L.P., which in turn is the investment adviser of D. E. Shaw Valence, and by virtue of David E. Shaw’s position as President and sole shareholder of D. E. Shaw & Co. II, Inc., which is the managing member of D. E. Shaw L.L.C., which in turn is the manager of D. E. Shaw Valence, Mr. Shaw may be deemed to have the shared power to vote or direct the vote of, and the shared power to dispose or direct the disposition of, such Public Shares and may be deemed to be the beneficial owner of such Public Shares, of which Mr. Shaw  disclaims beneficial ownership. The number of Public Shares held by the D.E. Shaw Parties is reported as of December 31, 2022, which does not reflect any redemption of shares by the D.E. Shaw Parties in the 2023 Redemptions or any other transactions after December 31, 2021, such as the Sponsor Handover. Accordingly, the number of Public Shares and the percentages set forth in the table may not reflect the D.E. Shaw Parties’ current beneficial ownership. The principal business address for each of the D.E. Shaw Parties is 1166 Avenue of the Americas, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10036.

(13)

Based on a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on October 14, 2021, as amended on January 5, 2022, by (i) Shawn Kimel Investments, Inc., an Ontario corporation (“SKI”), (ii) The K2 Principal Fund, L.P., an Ontario limited partnership (the “Fund”), (iii) K2 Genpar 2017 Inc., an Ontario corporation and the General Partner to the Fund (“Genpar 2017”), and (iv) K2 & Associates Investment Management Inc., an Ontario corporation (“K2 & Associates.” and collectively, with SKI, the Fund, Genpar2017, and K2 & Associates, the “K2 Parties”). Mr. Mr. Daniel Gosselin is Vice President of SKI, Secretary of Genpar 2017, and President of K2 & Associates. K2 & Associates is a direct 66.5% owned subsidiary of SKI, and is the investment manager of the Fund. The Public Shares are held by the Fund and Mr. Daniel Gosselin exercises ultimate voting and investment powers over the Public Shares. The number of Public Shares held by the K2 Parties is reported as of January 3, 2022, which does not reflect any redemption of shares by the K2 Parties in the 2023 Redemptions or any other transactions after January 3, 2022, such as the Sponsor Handover. Accordingly, the number of Public Shares and the percentages set forth in the table may not reflect the K2 Parties’ current beneficial ownership. The principal business address for each of the K2 Parties is 2 Bloor St West, Suite 801, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3E2, Canada.

(14)

Based on a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 5, 2024 by Cowen and Company, LLC (“Cowen”). The principal business address of Cowen is 599 Lexington Ave. New York, NY 10022.

(15)

Based on a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 9, 2024 by Periscope Capital Inc. (“Periscope”), which is the beneficial owner of 117,234 Public Shares, and acts as investment manager of, and exercises investment discretion with respect to, certain private investment funds, that collectively directly own 434,767 Public Shares. The principal business address of Periscope is 333 Bay Street, Suite 1240, Toronto, Ontario, M5H 2R2, Canada.

 
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Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans

None.

Changes in Control

None. For more information on the Helport Business Combination and the Sponsor Handover, see “Item 1. Business.”

Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence.

In March 2021, our Prior Sponsor paid $25,000, or approximately $0.0035 per share, to cover certain offering costs on our behalf in consideration of 7,187,500 Class B Ordinary Shares, par value $0.0001. Also in March 2021, our Prior Sponsor transferred 50,000 of such Founder Shares (25,000 shares each) to Timothy Dawson and Cathy-Ann Martine-Dolecki, each a Prior Officer, and in each case, at their original purchase price. In August 2021, our Sponsor forfeited 1,437,500 of such Founder Shares in the aggregate for no consideration. In November 2021, our Sponsor transferred 150,000 of such Founder Shares (25,000 shares each) to David Barksdale, Greg Boyd, David Jones, Alex Parker, Steven Rogers, and Robert Willis, each a Prior Director, in each case for their par value. The number of Founder Shares issued was determined based on the expectation that such Founder Shares would represent 20.0% of the issued and outstanding shares upon completion of our Initial Public Offering. The Founder Shares (including the Class A Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise thereof) may not, subject to certain limited exceptions, be transferred, assigned or sold by the holder.

Our Prior Sponsor also purchased an aggregate of 7,345,000 Private Placement Warrants for a purchase price of $1.00 per whole warrant in the Private Placement. Each Private Placement Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one Class A ordinary share at $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment. The Private Placement Warrants (including the Class A Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise thereof) may not, subject to certain limited exceptions, be transferred, assigned or sold by the holder until 30 days after the completion of our initial Business Combination.

On July 18, 2023, we entered into the Sponsor Handover Securities Transfer Agreement with the Prior Sponsor and the Sponsor Purchasers, whereby the Prior Sponsor agreed to transfer to the Sponsor Purchasers, 3,046,634 Class B Ordinary Shares and 4,961,250 Private Placement Warrants, which the Prior Sponsor purchased in connection with the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement. In addition, the Sponsor Handover Sellers transferred an aggregate of 1,380,866 Class B Ordinary Shares to Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, our President, Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors, pursuant to the Sponsor Handover Share Transfer Agreements. In connection with the Sponsor Handover Securities Transfer Agreement, any accounts payable and accrued expenses in excess of $200,000 that were incurred by the Company prior to the Sponsor Handover was the responsibility of the Prior Sponsor to settle (the “Company Liability”). Following the transaction, any remaining liabilities incurred by the Company prior to the Sponsor Handover and any liabilities incurred post-the Sponsor Handover, continued as a liability to the Company. The Company incurred $191,628 in excess of the $200,000 Company Liability. The Prior Sponsor paid $191,628 for outstanding accounts payable and accrued expenses, which was recorded as additional paid-in capital for the year ended December 31, 2023. After the closing of the Sponsor Handover on July 18, 2023, the Sponsor Handover Sellers held an aggregate of 1,322,500 Class B Ordinary Shares, and the Prior Sponsor held 2,383,750 Private Placement Warrants.

On March 9, 2021, the Prior Sponsor agreed to loan us an aggregate of up to $100,000 to cover expenses related to the Initial Public Offering pursuant to the IPO Promissory Note. The IPO Promissory Note was amended in April 2021 and then again in May 2021, to increase the aggregate principal balance ultimately up to $300,000. The IPO Promissory Note was non-interest bearing and payable on the earlier of (i) September 30, 2021 or (ii) the consummation of the Initial Public Offering. The outstanding balance under the Promissory Note was repaid on October 18, 2021 upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering.

On June 12, 2023, we issued the Prior Sponsor WCL Promissory Note to the Prior Sponsor, whereby the Prior Sponsor agreed to loan us up to $250,000 to us for working capital needs as a Working Capital Loan. The Prior Sponsor has the option to convert all or any portion of such Working Capital Loan into Private Placement Warrants at a price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant. This Working Capital Loan accrues no interest on the unpaid principal balance and is due on demand by the Prior Sponsor. Drawdowns could be requested until December 31, 2023. During July, 2023 we had drawdowns totaling $158,968 under the Prior Sponsor WCL Promissory Note. On September 6, 2023, the Prior Sponsor agreed to forgive the Prior Sponsor WCL Promissory Note balance due of $158,968, with the fair value on September 6, 2023 of $58,992.

On July 18, 2023, we issued the July 2023 Promissory Note in an amount of $375,000, to Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, our President, Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors, for depositing $375,000 into the Trust Account to support the first three months of the extension of our Combination Period from July 18, 2023 to October 18, 2023 pursuant to the Extension Amendment Proposal. The July 2023 Promissory Note does not bear interest and is due and payable on the earlier of the date (i) that we consummate an initial Business Combination and (ii)  of our liquidation. As of December 31, 2023, we had received $375,000 of the proceeds from the July 2023 Promissory Note.

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On September 13, 2023, we issued the September 2023 Promissory Notes in an aggregate amount of $2,125,000 to our officers and their affiliates, for our working capital needs. The September 2023 Promissory Notes do not bear interest and mature upon the earlier of the date (i) that we consummate an initial Business Combination and (ii)  of our liquidation. As of December 31, 2023, we had received $1,625,000 of the proceeds from the September 2023 Promissory Notes. On January 5, 2024, we received the remaining $500,000 of proceeds from the September 2023 Promissory Notes.

If any of our officers or directors become aware of a Business Combination opportunity that falls within the line of business of any 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 opportunity to such entity. Our officers and directors currently have certain relevant fiduciary duties or contractual obligations that may take priority over their duties to us.

No compensation of any kind, including finder’s and consulting fees, has been or will be paid to our Sponsor, officers and directors, or their respective affiliates, for services rendered prior to or in connection with the completion of an initial Business Combination. However, these individuals are 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. Our audit committee reviews on a quarterly basis all payments that were made by us to our Sponsor, officers, directors or their affiliates and will determine which expenses and the amount of expenses that are reimbursed. There is no cap or ceiling on the reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such persons in connection with activities on our behalf.

In addition, in order to finance transaction costs in connection with an intended initial Business Combination, our Sponsor or an affiliate of our Sponsor or certain of our officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan us Working Capital Loans as may be required. If we complete an initial Business Combination, we may repay such Working Capital Loans out of the proceeds of the Trust Account released to us. In the event that the initial Business Combination does not close, we may use a portion of the working capital held outside the Trust Account to repay such Working Capital Loans, but no proceeds from our Trust Account would be used for such repayment. Up to $1,500,000 of such Working Capital Loans may be convertible into warrants at a price of $1.00 per warrant at the option of the lender. The warrants would be identical to the Private Placement Warrants, including as to exercise price, exercisability and exercise period. As of the date hereof, no such convertible loans have been issued. We may seek loans from parties other than our Sponsor, its affiliates or our Management Team, although as of the date of this Report, we do not have any such loans. In the event we do seek a third-party loan, we intend to obtain a waiver against any and all rights to seek access to funds in our Trust Account from such third party.

After our initial Business Combination, members of our Management Team who remain with us may be paid consulting, management or other fees from the combined company with any and all amounts being fully disclosed to our shareholders, to the extent then known, in the tender offer or proxy solicitation materials, as applicable, furnished to our shareholders, such as the Helport Registration Statement. It is unlikely the amount of such compensation will be known at the time of distribution of such tender offer materials or at the time of a general meeting held to consider our initial Business Combination, as applicable, as it will be up to the directors of the post-combination business to determine executive and director compensation.

At the time of the IPO, we entered into the Registration Rights Agreement, pursuant to which, the Prior Sponsor, Prior Directors and Prior Officers and the Anchor Investors are entitled to certain registration rights with respect to the Private Placement Warrants, the warrants issuable upon conversion of Working Capital Loans (if any) and the Class A Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of the foregoing and upon conversion of the Founder Shares, as long as the Prior Sponsor, Prior Directors and Prior Officers hold any securities covered by the registration agreement. Also at the time of the IPO, we entered into the Letter Agreement, pursuant to which, the Prior Sponsor and the Prior Directors and Prior Office agreed to (i) vote their shares in favor of an initial Business Combination, (ii) waive their redemption rights with respect to their Founder Shares and Ordinary Shares in connection with a shareholder vote to approve certain amendments to our Amended and Restated Memorandum, as set forth therein, (iii) waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to any Founder Shares, and (iv) certain transfer restrictions on their Founder Shares and Private Placement Warrants. In connection with the Sponsor Handover, each of the Sponsor, its designees and our current officers signed a Sponsor Handover Joinder Agreement to become a party to the Letter Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement. Upon their appointments to the Board, our current directors also signed Sponsor Handover Joinder Agreements.

For more information on the Sponsor Handover and the agreements entered into in connection with the Sponsor Handover, as well as the Helport Business Combination, see “Item 1. Business.”

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Director Independence

NYSE listing standards require that a majority of our Board of Directors be independent. Our Board of Directors has determined that Xinyue (Jasmine) Geffner, Stephen Markscheid and Wang Chiu (Tommy) Wong are “independent directors” as defined in the NYSE listing standards. Our independent directors have regularly scheduled meetings at which only independent directors are present.

Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

The following is a summary of fees paid or to be paid to Marcum for services rendered.

Audit Fees

Audit fees consist of fees for professional services rendered for the audit of our year-end financial statements and services that are normally provided by Marcum in connection with regulatory filings. The aggregate fees of Marcum for professional services rendered for the audit of our annual financial statements, review of the financial information included in our Forms 10-Q for the respective periods and other required filings with the SEC for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 totaled approximately $334,235 and $125,660, respectively. The above amounts include interim procedures and audit fees, as well as attendance at audit committee meetings.

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 financial statements and are not reported under “Audit Fees.” These services include attest services that are not required by statute or regulation and consultations concerning financial accounting and reporting standards. We did not pay Marcum for any audit-related fees for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.

Tax Fees

Tax fees consist of fees billed for professional services relating to tax compliance, tax planning and tax advice.  We did not pay Marcum for tax services, planning or advice for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.

All Other Fees

All other fees consist of fees billed for all other services.  We did not pay Marcum for any other services for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.

Pre-Approval Policy

Our audit committee was formed upon the consummation of our Initial Public Offering. As a result, any such services rendered prior to the formation of our audit committee in 2021 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.Exhibit and Financial Statement Schedules.

(a)

The following documents are filed as part of this Report:

(1)

Financial Statements

Page

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID Number 688)

F-2

F-
1

F-3

Statements of Income for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022

F-4

F-
2
2023 and 2022

F-
3

F-5

F-
4

F-6

-

F-7

(2)

F-
5

Financial Statement Schedules

All financial statement schedules are omitted because they are not applicable or the amounts are immaterial and not required, or the required information is presented in the financial statements and notes thereto beginning on page F-1 of this Report.

(3)

Exhibits

We hereby file as part of this Report the exhibits listed in the attached Exhibit Index. Exhibits that are incorporated herein by reference can be inspected on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. 

Item 16.Form 10-K Summary.

Omitted at our Company’s option.

 
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To the StockholdersShareholders and the Board of Directors of

Tristar Acquisition I Corp.

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying balance sheets of Tristar Acquisition I Corp. (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2021,2023 and 2022, the related statements of operations, changes in shareholders’ deficit and cash flows for each of the two years in the period from March 5, 2021 (inception) throughended December 31, 2021,2023, 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, 2021,2023 and 2022, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the two years in the period from March 5, 2021 (inception) throughended December 31, 2021,2023 , in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Explanatory Paragraph – Going Concern

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As described in Note 1 to the financial statements, the Company is a Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation that was formed for the purpose of completing a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses on or before October 18, 2024. The Company entered into a business combination agreement with a business combination target on November 12, 2023, as amended on December 18, 2023; however, the completion of this transaction is subject to the approval of the Company’s shareholders among other conditions. There is no assurance that the Company will obtain the necessary approvals, satisfy the required closing conditions, raise the additional capital it needs to fund its operations, and complete the transaction prior to October 18, 2024, if at all. The Company also has no approved plan in place to extend the business combination deadline and fund operations for any period of time after October 18, 2024 in the event that it is unable to complete a business combination by that date. These matters raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s plans with regard to these matters are also described in Note 1. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that may be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’sCompany's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’sCompany's financial statements based on our audit.audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”("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 auditaudits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are 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,audits 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’sCompany's internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our auditaudits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, 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 statements. Our auditaudits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audit providesaudits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ Marcum llp

LLP

Marcum llp

LLP

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2021.

Tampa, FL
March 31, 2022

New York, NY

May 8, 2024

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TRISTAR ACQUISITION I CORP.

BALANCE SHEETS

December 31,

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

ASSETS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CURRENT ASSETS:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash

 

$436,317

 

 

$587,546

 

Prepaid expenses

 

 

217,255

 

 

 

258,535

 

Total current assets

 

 

653,572

 

 

 

846,081

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and Investments held in trust account

 

 

115,166,848

 

 

 

235,933,496

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL ASSETS

 

$115,820,420

 

 

$236,779,577

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' DEFICIT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CURRENT LIABILITIES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts payable

 

$238,824

 

 

$99,514

 

Accrued expenses

 

 

379,242

 

 

 

198,580

 

Total current liabilities

 

 

618,066

 

 

 

298,094

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LONGTERM LIABILITIES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Promissory notes - related parties

 

 

2,000,000

 

 

 

-

 

Derivative warrant liabilities

 

 

376,900

 

 

 

565,350

 

Deferred underwriting fee payable

 

 

-

 

 

 

10,350,000

 

Total long term liabilities

 

 

2,376,900

 

 

 

10,915,350

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total liabilities

 

 

2,994,966

 

 

 

11,213,444

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commitments and contingencies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption, 10,608,802 at $10.86 and 23,000,000 at $10.26 redemption value as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively

 

 

115,164,356

 

 

 

235,931,005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shareholders' deficit:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preferred shares, $0.0001 par value; 1,000,000 shares authorized; none issued and outstanding

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

Class A ordinary shares, $0.0001 par value; 90,000,000 shares authorized; no shares issued and outstanding

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Class B ordinary shares, $0.0001 par value; 10,000,000 shares authorized; 5,750,000 shares issued and outstanding

 

 

575

 

 

 

575

 

Additional paid-in capital

 

 

3,495,690

 

 

 

-

 

Accumulated deficit

 

 

(5,835,167)

 

 

(10,365,447)

Total shareholders' deficit

 

 

(2,338,902)

 

 

(10,364,872)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' DEFICIT

 

$115,820,420

 

 

$236,779,577

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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TRISTAR ACQUISITION I CORP.

STATEMENTS OF INCOME

FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31,

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

General and administrative expenses

 

$(2,365,310)

 

$(996,769)

Loss from operations

 

 

(2,365,310)

 

 

(996,769)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest income

 

 

12,182

 

 

 

5,247

 

Interest income - cash held in trust

 

 

8,804,012

 

 

 

3,631,005

 

Change in fair value of warrant liability

 

 

188,450

 

 

 

9,119,050

 

Forgiveness of deferred underwriting fee payable

 

 

481,275

 

 

 

-

 

Total other income

 

 

9,485,919

 

 

 

12,755,302

 

Net income

 

$7,120,609

 

 

$11,758,533

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic and diluted weighted average shares outstanding, Class A ordinary shares subject to redemption

 

 

17,364,551

 

 

 

23,000,000

 

Basic and diluted net income per share, Class A ordinary shares subject to redemption

 

$0.31

 

 

$0.41

 

Basic and diluted weighted average shares outstanding, Class B ordinary shares

 

 

5,750,000

 

 

 

5,750,000

 

Basic and diluted net income per share, Class B ordinary shares

 

$0.31

 

 

$0.41

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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TRISTAR ACQUISITION I CORP.

STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS' DEFICIT

 

 

FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2023 AND 2022

 

 

 

Ordinary Shares

 

 

Additional

 

 

 

 

 

Total 

 

 

 

Class A

 

 

Class B

 

 

Paid-in

 

 

Accumulated

 

 

Shareholders'

 

 

 

Shares

 

 

Amount

 

 

Shares

 

 

Amount

 

 

Capital

 

 

Deficit

 

 

Deficit

 

Balance - December 31, 2021

 

 

-

 

 

$-

 

 

 

5,750,000

 

 

$575

 

 

$-

 

 

$(18,492,975)

 

$(18,492,400)

Remeasurement of Class A ordinary shares to redemption amount

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

as of December 31, 2022

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

(3,631,005)

 

 

(3,631,005)

Net income

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

11,758,533

 

 

 

11,758,533

 

Balance December 31, 2022

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

5,750,000

 

 

 

575

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

(10,365,447)

 

 

(10,364,872)

Remeasurement of Class A ordinary shares to redemption amount

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

as of December 31, 2023

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

(6,963,682)

 

 

(2,590,329

 

 

(9,554,011)

Forgiveness of deferred underwriting fee payable

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

9,868,725

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

9,868,725

 

Share based compensation

 

 

 -

 

 

 

 -

 

 

 

 -

 

 

 

 -

 

 

 

 35,535

 

 

 

 -

 

 

 

 35,535

 

Prior Sponsor capital contribution

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

191,628

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

191,628

 

Initial fair value adjustment of convertible promissory note - related party

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

99,976

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

99,976

 

Forgiveness of service administrative fees

 

 

 -

 

 

 

 -

 

 

 

 -

 

 

 

 -

 

 

 

204,516

 

 

 

 -

 

 

 

204,516

 

Forgiveness of convertible promissory note - related party

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

58,992

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

58,992

 

Net income

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

7,120,609

 

 

 

7,120,609

 

Balance December 31, 2023

 

 

-

 

 

$-

 

 

 

5,750,000

 

 

$575

 

 

$3,495,690

 

 

$(5,835,167)

 

$(2,338,902)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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TRISTAR ACQUISITION I CORP.

STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31,

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

$7,120,609

 

 

$11,758,533

 

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash used in operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Change in derivative warrant liabilities

 

 

(188,450)

 

 

(9,119,050)

Interest income earned on investment held in Trust Account

 

 

(8,804,012)

 

 

(3,631,005)

Forgiveness of deferred underwriting fee payable

 

 

(481,275)

 

 

-

 

Service administrative fees

 

 

60,000

 

 

 

-

 

Share based compensation

 

 

 35,535

 

 

 

 -

 

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prepaid expenses

 

 

41,280

 

 

 

308,398

 

Accounts payable

 

 

139,310

 

 

 

(32,027)

Accrued expenses

 

 

325,178

 

 

 

155,705

 

Net cash used in operating activities

 

 

(1,751,825)

 

 

(559,446)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash withdrawal from Trust Account

 

 

130,320,660

 

 

 

-

 

Cash deposited into Trust Account

 

 

(750,000)

 

 

-

 

Net cash provided by investing activities

 

 

129,570,660

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Redemptions of Class A ordinary shares

 

 

(130,320,660)

 

 

-

 

Proceeds from promissory note - related party

 

 

2,000,000

 

 

 

-

 

Proceeds from Prior Sponsor

 

 

350,596

 

 

 

-

 

Payment of offering costs

 

 

-

 

 

 

(85,000)

Net cash used in financing activities

 

 

(127,970,064)

 

 

(85,000)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NET DECREASE IN CASH

 

 

(151,229)

 

 

(644,446)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CASH BEGINNING OF PERIOD

 

 

587,546

 

 

 

1,231,992

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CASH END OF PERIOD

 

$436,317

 

 

$587,546

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF NON-CASH ACTIVITIES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Initial fair value adjustment Prior Sponsor Working Capital Loan Promissory Note

 

$99,976

 

 

$-

 

Forgiveness of Prior Sponsor Working Capital Loan Promissory Note

 

$58,992

 

 

$-

 

Forgiveness of administrative support fees

 

$204,516

 

 

$-

 

Forgiveness of deferred underwriting fee payable allocated to additional paid in capital

 

$9,868,725

 

 

$-

 

Remeasurement of Class A ordinary shares to redemption amount

 

$9,554,011

 

 

$3,631,005

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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TRISTAR ACQUISITION I CORP.

BALANCE SHEET
December 31, 2021
ASSETS
     
CURRENT ASSETS:
     
Cash
  $1,231,992 
Prepaid expenses
   307,045 
Total current assets
   1,539,037 
   
 
 
 
Prepaid expenses, net of current portion
   259,888 
Marketable securities held in Trust Account
   232,302,491 
   
 
 
 
TOTAL ASSETS
  $ 234,101,416 
   
 
 
 
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ DEFICIT
 
CURRENT LIABILITIES:
     
Accounts payable
  $131,541 
Accrued expenses
   24,516 
   
 
 
 
Total current liabilities
   156,057 
   
 
 
 
LONG TERM LIABILITIES:
     
Derivative warrant liabilities
   9,684,400 
Deferred underwriting fee payable
   10,350,000 
   
 
 
 
Total long term liabilities
   20,034,400 
   
 
 
 
Total liabilities
   20,190,457 
   
 
 
 
Commitments and contingencies (Note 5)
   0 
Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption, 23,000,000 at $10.10 redemption value
   232,300,000 
Shareholders’ deficit:
     
Preferred shares, $0.0001 par value; 1,000,000 shares authorized; NaN issued and outstanding
   0—   
Class A ordinary shares, $0.0001 par value; 90,000,000 shares authorized; 0 shares issued and outstanding
   0   
Class B ordinary shares, $0.0001 par value; 10,000,000 shares authorized; 5,750,000 shares issued and outstanding
   575 
Additional
paid-in
capital
   0   
Accumulated deficit
   (18,389,616
   
 
 
 
Total shareholders’ deficit
   (18,389,041
   
 
 
 
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ DEFICIT
  $234,101,416 
   
 
 
 
See accompanying notes to financial statements
.
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TRISTAR ACQUISITION I CORP.
STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
For the period from March 5, 2021 (inception) through December 31, 2021
   
For the period
from March 5,
2021 (inception)
through
December 31,
2021
 
General and administrative expenses
  $(1,994,497
   
 
 
 
Loss from operations
   (1,994,497
   
 
 
 
Other income
     
Interest income
   2,491 
Change in fair value of warrant liability
   7,988,350 
   
 
 
 
Total other income
   7,990,841 
   
 
 
 
Net income
  $5,996,344 
   
 
 
 
Basic and diluted weighted average shares outstanding, Class A ordinary shares subject to redemption
   5,446,667 
   
 
 
 
Basic and diluted net income per share, Class A ordinary shares subject to redemption
  $0.54 
   
 
 
 
Basic and diluted weighted average shares outstanding, Class B ordinary shares
   5,750,000 
   
 
 
 
Basic and diluted net income per share, Class B ordinary shares
  $0.54 
   
 
 
 
See accompanying notes to financial statements.
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TRISTAR ACQUISITION I CORP.
STATEMENT OF CHANGES SHAREHOLDERS’ DEFICIT
For the period from March 5, 2021 (inception) through December 31, 2021
   
Ordinary Shares
   
Additional
Paid-in

Capital
     
Total
Shareholders’
Deficit
 
   
Class A
   
Class B
  
Accumulated
Deficit
 
   
Shares
   
Amount
   
Shares
   
Amount
 
Balance—March 5, 2021 (inception)
  
 
0  
 
  
$
 0  
 
  
 
0  
 
  
$
0  
 
  
$
0  
 
 
$
0  
 
 
$
0  
 
Issuance of Class B
ordinary shares to Sponsor
   —      —      5,750,000    575    24,425   —     25,000 
Excess cash received over fair value of 
private placement warrants
   —      —      —      —      367,250   —     367,250 
Founder share anchor investor contribution
   —      —      —      —      12,546,764   —     12,546,764 
Accretion of Class A ordinary share subject to redemption
   —      —      —      —      (12,938,439  (24,385,960  (37,324,399
Net loss
   —      —      —      —      —     5,996,344   5,996,344 
   
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
Balance—December 31, 2021
   0     $ 0      5,750,000   $ 575   $0    $ (18,389,616 $(18,389,041
   
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
See accompanying notes to financial statements.
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TRISTAR ACQUISITION I CORP.
STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS
For the period from March 5, 2021 (inception) through December 31, 2021
   
For the period
from March 5,
2021 (inception)
through
December 31,
2021
 
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
     
Net income
  $5,996,344 
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
     
Change in derivative warrant liabilities
   (7,988,350
Interest income earned on investment held in Trust Account
   (2,491
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
     
Prepaid expenses
   (566,933
Accounts payable
   131,541 
Accrued expenses
   24,516 
   
 
 
 
Net cash used in operating activities
   (2,405,373
   
 
 
 
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
     
Cash deposited into Trust Account
   (232,300,000
   
 
 
 
Net cash used in investing activities
   (232,300,000
   
 
 
 
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
     
Proceeds from sale of Units in Public Offering
   232,300,000 
Proceeds from sale of Private Placement Warrants
   7,345,000 
Proceeds from promissory note—related party
   252,717 
Payment of promissory note—related party
   (252,717
Proceeds from issuance of Class B ordinary shares to Sponsor
   25,000 
Payment of offering costs
   (3,732,635
   
 
 
 
Net cash provided by financing activities
   235,937,365 
   
 
 
 
NET INCREASE IN CASH
   1,231,992 
CASH BEGINNING OF PERIOD
   0   
   
 
 
 
CASH END OF PERIOD
  $1,231,992 
   
 
 
 
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF
NON-CASH
ACTIVITIES:
     
Deferred underwriting commission charged to Class A ordinary shares subject to redemption
  $10,350,000 
   
 
 
 
Initial classification of Class A ordinary shares subject to redemption
  $232,300,000 
   
 
 
 
See accompanying notes to financial statements.
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TRISTAR ACQUISITION I CORP.

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Note 1—Description of Organization and Business Operations and Liquidity

Tristar Acquisition I Corp.  (the “Company”) is a blank check company incorporated in the Cayman Islands on March 5, 2021. The Company was formed for the purpose of entering into a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar Business Combination with one or more businesses (a “Business Combination”).

The Company is not limited to a particular industry or geographic region for purposes of consummating a Business Combination. The Company is an early stage and emerging growth company and, as such, the Company is subject to all of the risks associated with early stage and emerging growth companies.

As of December 31, 2021,2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company had not yet commenced any operations. All activity for the period from March 5, 2021 (inception) through December 31, 20212023 relates to the Company’s formation and the initial public offering (“Initial Public Offering”Offering (as defined below) and since completion of the IPO, searching for a target with which to consummate a Business Combination and consummating such Business Combination. 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 cash and cash equivalents from the proceeds derived from the Initial Public Offering. The Company has selected December 31st as its fiscal year end.

The Company’s prior sponsor was Tristar Holdings I LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Prior Sponsor”).

On July 18, 2023, upon the consummation of the Sponsor Handover (as defined below), Navy Sail International Limited, a British Virgin Islands company (the “Sponsor”), became the new sponsor of the Company.

Initial Public Offering

The registration statement for the Company’s Initial Public Offering was declared effective on October 13, 2021. On October 18, 2021, the Company consummated the Initialits initial public offering (the “Initial Public OfferingOffering”) of 20,000,000 units (the “Units” and, with respect to the shares of the Company’s Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class A Ordinary Shares”), included in the Units, sold, the “Public Shares”), at $10.00 per Unit, generating total gross proceeds of $200,000,000 which is described in(see Note 3.3). On November 3, 2021, the underwriters exercised the over-allotment option (“over-allotment option”Over-Allotment Option”) and purchased an additional 3,000,000 Units, generating gross proceeds of $30 million which is described in(see Note 3.

3). Each Unit consists of one Public Share and one-half of one redeemable warrant (each a “Public Warrant”).

Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering and exercise of the over-allotment option,Over-Allotment Option, the Company consummated the sale of 7,345,000 warrants (the “Private Placement Warrants” and together with the Public Warrants, the “Warrants”) at a price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant in a private placement to Tristar Holdings I LLCthe Prior Sponsor (the “Sponsor”“Private Placement”), generating gross proceeds of $7,345,000 which is described in(see Note 4.

4). Each whole Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one Class A Ordinary Share at a price of $11.50 per share.

Transaction costs amounted to $25,910,754,$25,995,754, consisting of $4,600,000 of underwriting fees, $10,350,000 of deferred underwriting fees, $12,546,764 for the fair value of the Founder Shares (as defined in Note 5) attributable to the anchor investors (seeAnchor Investors (as defined in Note 5), and $918,989$1,003,989 of offering costs, partially offset by the reimbursement of $2,505,000 of offering expenses by the underwriters. The Company’s remaining cash after payment of the offering costs iswas held outside of the Trust AccountCompany’s U.S.-based trust account (the “Trust Account”) for working capital purposes.

Following the closing of the Initial Public Offering and over-allotment option,Over-Allotment Option, an amount of $232,300,000 from the net proceeds of the (i) sale of the Units in the Initial Public Offering and over-allotment option, (ii) exercise of the Over-Allotment Option and the sale of the Private Placement Warrants in the Private Placement was placed in a trust account (the “Trust Account”)the Trust Account and is invested only in U.S. government treasury obligations with maturities of 185 days or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule

2a-7
under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”), which invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations. To mitigate the risk that the Company might be deemed an investment company for purposes of the Investment Company Act, on November 9, 2023, the Company instructed Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company (“Continental”), the trustee with respect to the Trust Account, to liquidate the investments held in the Trust Account and instead to hold the funds in the Trust Account in an interest-bearing demand deposit account at a bank, with Continental continuing to act as trustee. As a result, following the liquidation of investments in the Trust Account, the remaining proceeds from the Initial Public Offering, Over-Allotment Option and Private Placement are no longer invested in U.S. government securities or money market funds.

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TRISTAR ACQUISITION I CORP.

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Except with respect to interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account that may be released to the Company to pay its tax obligations (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), the proceeds held in the Trust Account will not be released from the Trust Account until the earlier of: (i) the completion of the initial Business Combination; (ii) the redemption of any public sharesPublic Shares properly tendered in connection with a shareholder vote to amend the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (as amended and currently in effect, the “Amended and Restated Memorandum”) to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to redeem 100% of the public sharesPublic Shares if the Company does not complete the initial Business Combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering; and (iii) absent an initial Business Combination within 18 months from the closing of this offeringPeriod (as defined below) or with respect to any other material provisions relating to shareholders’ rights or

pre-initial
Business Combination activity,activity; and (iii) failure by the Company to complete an initial Business Combination within the Combination Period and the return of the funds held in the trust accountTrust Account to the public shareholdersholder of its Public Shares (“Public Shareholders”) as part of the redemption of the public shares. If the Company does not invest the proceeds as discussed above, the Company may be deemed to be subject to the Investment Company Act. If the Company is deemed to be subject to the Investment Company Act, compliance with these additional regulatory burdens would require additional expenses for which the Company has not allotted funds and may hinder the Company’s ability to complete a business combination.Public Shares. If the Company is unable to complete the initial Business Combination, the Company’s public shareholdersPublic Shareholders may only receive their pro rata portion of the funds in the trust accountTrust Account that are available for distribution to public shareholders,Public Shareholders, and the warrantsWarrants will expire worthless.
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TRISTAR ACQUISITION I CORP.
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

The Company will provide its public shareholdersPublic Shareholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their Public Shares upon the completion of a Business Combination either (i) in connection with a shareholder meeting called to approve the Business Combination or (ii) by means of a tender offer. The decision as to whether the Company will seek shareholder approval of a Business Combination or conduct a tender offer will be made by the Company, in its sole discretion. The public shareholdersPublic Shareholders will be entitled to redeem their Public Shares for a pro rata portion of the amount held in the Trust Account ($10.1010.86 per share)share as of December 31, 2023), calculated as of two business days prior to the completion of a Business Combination, including any pro rata interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to the Company to pay its tax obligations.obligations (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses). There will be no redemption rights upon the completion of a Business Combination with respect to the Company’s warrants.Warrants. The Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares are recorded at redemption value and classified as temporary equity upon the completion of the Initial Public Offering, in accordance with the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 480,

Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity
 (“Equity” (“ASC 480”).

The Company will proceed with a Business Combination if the Company has net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001 upon consummation of such Business Combination and a majority of the shares voted are voted in favor of the Business Combination. 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 amendedAmended and restated memorandum and articles of associationRestated Memorandum as then in effect, (the “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 initial shareholders, anchor investors,Prior Sponsor, Sponsor, Prior Officers (as defined below), Prior Directors (as defined below), Anchor Investors, and the Company’s current management team (the “Management”) have agreed to vote any Founder Shares held by them, and any Public Shares purchased in or after the Initial Public Offering in favor of approving a Business Combination. Additionally, each public shareholderPublic Shareholder may elect to redeem their Public Shares irrespective of whether they vote for or against the proposed transaction or whether they were a public shareholderPublic Shareholder on the record date for the general meeting held to approve the proposed transaction.

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,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 initial shareholdersPrior Sponsor, Sponsor, Prior Officers, Prior Directors, Anchor Investors, and anchor investors (as described in Note 5)the Management, and their respective designees and affiliates have agreed to (i) waive their redemption rights with respect to any Founder Shares and Public Shares they hold in connection with the completion of an initial Business Combination, (ii) waive their redemption rights with respect to any Founder Shares and Public Shares they hold in connection with a shareholder vote to approve an amendment to the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association to modify the substance or timing of the Company’sCompany's obligation to redeem 100% of the Public Shares if the Company has not consummated an initial Business Combination within 18 months from the closing of the Initial Public OfferingCombination Period or with respect to any other material provisions relating to shareholders’ rights or

pre-initial
Business Combination activity and (iii) waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to any Founder Shares they hold if the Company fails to complete an initial Business Combination within 18 months from the Initial Public Offering.Combination Period. However, if the initial shareholders or anchor investorssuch persons acquire Public Shares in or after the Initial Public Offering, such Public Shares will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account if the Company fails to complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period (as defined below).
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The Company will have until October 18, months from2024 if it utilizes the closing of the Initial Public Offering (the “Combination Period”)full Extension (as defined below) to complete a Business Combination.Combination (the “Combination Period”). If the Company is unable to complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period, the Company will (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) 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 (which interest shall be net of taxes payable and up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding Public Shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public shareholders’Public Shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidating distributions, if any), and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of the Company’sCompany's remaining shareholders and its board of directors (the “Board”), liquidate and dissolve, subject, in each case, to the Company’sCompany's obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law.
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The underwriters have agreed to waive their rights to their deferred underwriting commission (see Note 6) held in the Trust Account in the event the Company does not complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period and, in such event, such amounts will be included with the other funds held in the Trust Account that will be available to fund the redemption of the Public Shares. In the event of such distribution, it is possible that the per share value of the assets remaining available for distribution will be less than the Initial Public Offering price per Unit ($10.00).

In order to protect the amounts held in the Trust Account, the Prior Sponsor has agreed to 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 discussed entering into a transaction agreement, reduce the amount of funds in the Trust Account to below (1)(i) $10.10 per Public Share or (2)(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 $10.10 per Public Share due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, in each case net of the interest that may be withdrawn to pay the Company’s tax obligations, provided that such liability will not apply to any claims by a third-party or prospective target business that executed a waiver of any and all rights to seek access to 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”). Moreover, in the event that an executed waiver is deemed to be unenforceable against a third party, the Prior Sponsor will not be responsible to the extent of any liability for such third-party claims. The Company will seek to reduce the possibility that the Sponsor will have to indemnify the Trust Account due to claims of creditors by endeavoring to have all vendors, service providers (other than the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm), prospective target businesses or other entities with which the Company does business, execute agreements with the Company waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to monies held in the Trust Account.

Extension of the Combination Period

The Company initially had until July 18, 2023, 21 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering, to consummate its initial Business Combination. On June 18, 2023, the Company held an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders, at which its shareholders approved, among other things, an amendment to the Amended and Restated Memorandum (the “Memorandum Amendment”) to (i) extend the date by which it has to complete a Business Combination from July 18, 2023 to October 18, 2023, and without another shareholder vote, to further extend the such period for an additional one (1) month as needed, on a month-to-month basis, up to twelve (12) times, until October 18, 2024 (the “Extension”), and (ii) remove the limitation that the Company may not redeem Public Shares to the extent that such redemption would result in the Company having net tangible assets (as determined in accordance with Rule 3a51-1(g)(1) of the Exchange Act), of less than $5,000,001 (the “Redemption Limitation”) in order to allow the Company to redeem Public Shares irrespective of whether such redemption would exceed the Redemption Limitation.

In connection with the Memorandum Amendment, on July 18, 2023, shareholders holding 12,391,198 Public Shares exercised their right to redeem such shares for a pro rata portion of the funds in the Trust Account. As a result, $130,320,660 (approximately $10.52 per share) was removed from the Trust Account to pay such holders. Following redemptions, the Company had 10,608,802 Public Shares outstanding.

Sponsor Handover

On July 18, 2023, the Company entered into a securities transfer agreement (the “Sponsor Handover Securities Transfer Agreement”) by and among the Prior Sponsor and the Sponsor and its designees (the “Sponsor Purchasers”), whereby the Prior Sponsor agreed to transfer to the Sponsor Purchasers 3,046,634 of the Company’s Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class B Ordinary Shares”) and 4,961,250 Private Placement Warrants, which the Prior Sponsor purchased in connection with the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement. In addition, all other holders of Class B Ordinary Shares at July 18, 2023 (together with the Prior Sponsor, the “Sponsor Handover Sellers”) transferred an aggregate of 1,380,866 of their Class B Ordinary Shares to Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, President, Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors, pursuant to  founder share transfer agreements executed by each respective holder on July 18, 2023 (the “Sponsor Handover Share Transfer Agreements” and collectively with the Sponsor Handover Securities Transfer Agreement, such transfers, the agreements executed in connection therewith (including the transactions contemplated therein) and the Management Changes (as defined below), the “Sponsor Handover”). After the closing of the Sponsor Handover on July 18, 2023, the Sponsor Handover Transferors held an aggregate of 1,322,500 Class B Ordinary Shares, and the Prior Sponsor held 2,383,750 Private Placement Warrants. In connection with the Sponsor Handover Securities Transfer Agreement, any accounts payable and accrued expenses in excess of $200,000 that were incurred by the Company prior to the Sponsor Handover was the responsibility of the Prior Sponsor to settle (the “Company Liability”). Following the transaction, any remaining liabilities incurred by the Company prior to the Sponsor Handover and any liabilities incurred post-the Sponsor Handover, continued as a liability to the Company. The Company incurred $191,628 in excess of the $200,000 Company Liability. The Prior Sponsor paid $191,628 for outstanding accounts payable and accrued expenses, which was recorded as additional paid-in capital for the year ended December 31, 2023.

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In connection with the Sponsor Handover, the Company, the Prior Officers, Prior Directors, and the Sponsor Purchasers entered into additional agreements whereby: (i) the Sponsor Purchasers each signed a joinder agreement (the “Joinder Agreement”) to become a party to the Letter Agreement (the “Insider Agreement”) and the Registration Rights Agreement (“Registration Rights Agreement”), both dated October 13, 2021 and entered into in connection with the Initial Public Offering, by and among the Company, the Prior Sponsor and certain equity holders of the Company; and (ii) the Insider Agreement was amended by the parties thereto to allow for the Transfer (the “Letter Agreement Amendment”). In addition, upon the closing of the Sponsor Holdover, the underwriters of the Initial Public Offering waived their respective entitlement to the payment of any deferred underwriting fees to be paid under the terms of Section 2(c) and Section 5(bb) of the Underwriting Agreement dated October 13, 2021 (the “Underwriting Agreement”). Additionally, the Company terminated the Administrative Support Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, with the Prior Sponsor (the “Administrative Support Agreement”) entered into in connection with the Initial Public Offering (see Note 5).

As part of the Sponsor Handover, the Company also changed its management (the “Management Changes”) and the Board as follows:  (i) effective as of July 18, 2023,  Chunyi (Charlie) Hao replaced William M. Mounger as Chief Executive Officer and director, and Michael H. Liu replaced Timothy Allen Dawson as Chief Financial Officer, and Mr. Liu was also appointed as a director of the Board; (ii) effective as of July 18, 2023, Cathy Martine-Dolecki (collectively with William M. Mounger and Timothy Allen Dawson, the “Prior Officers”) tendered her resignation as Chief Operating Officer and director and Robert Willis tendered his resignation as director; and (iii) effective August 14, 2023, Greg Boyd, David Jones, David Barksdale, Alex Parker and Steven Rogers (collectively with William M. Mounger, Cathy Martine-Dolecki and Robert Willis, the “Prior Directors”) tendered their resignations as directors. We then appointed each of Xinyue (Jasmine) Geffner, Stephen Markscheid and Wang Chiu (Tommy) Wong to fill the vacancies left by departing Messrs. Boyd, Jones, Barksdale, Parker and Rogers. Additionally, effective on September 13, 2023, the Board appointed (x) Chunyi (Charlie) Hao as the President and Chairman of the Board, following his resignation as Chief Executive Officer, (y) Xiaoma (Sherman) Lu as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer to fill in the vacancy left by Chunyi (Charlie) Hao as Chief Executive Officer, and (z) Ri (Richard) Yuan as its Chief Investment Officer.

On April 24, 2024, Michael H. Liu notified the Board of his resignation as Chief Financial Officer and director of the Company, effective on April 23, 2024. On April 29, 2024, the Board appointed (i) Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, the Company’s President and Chairman of the Board, as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective on April 29, 2024, and (ii) Xiaoma (Sherman) Lu, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, as a director of the Company, to fill the vacancy left by Mr. Liu’s departure, effective on April 29, 2024.

As part of the Sponsor Handover, the Prior Sponsor paid for certain expenses incurred by the Company as part of the Sponsor Handover. The Prior Sponsor paid a total of $191,628 of expenses incurred.The Prior Sponsor payments are considered capital contributions to the Company and is included as additional paid-in capital for the year ended December 31, 2023.

Business Combination Agreement

On November 12, 2023, the Company entered into the Business Combination Agreement (“Helport Business Combination Agreement”) with Helport AI Limited, a British Virgin Islands business company (“Pubco”), Merger I Limited, a British Virgin Islands business company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pubco (“the First Merger Sub”), Merger II Limited, an exempted company incorporated with limited liability in the Cayman Islands and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pubco (“the Second Merger Sub”), Helport Limited, a British Virgin Islands business company (“Helport”), the Sponsor and Extra Technology Limited, a BVI business company, in the capacity as the representative of the Helport Shareholders (“the Seller Representative”). Pursuant to the Helport Business Combination Agreement, subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein, at the closing of the Helport Business Combination (the “Closing”), (i) the First Merger Sub will merge with and into Helport (the “First Merger”), with Helport surviving the First Merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pubco and the outstanding securities of Helport being converted into the right to receive securities of Pubco; and (b) following the First Merger, the Second Merger Sub will merge with and into the Company (the “Second Merger.” and together with the First Merger, the “Mergers”), with the Company surviving the Second Merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pubco and the Company’s outstanding securities being converted into the right to receive securities of Pubco. Capitalized terms not defined but otherwise used in the following description have the meanings ascribed to them in the Helport Business Combination Agreement.

On December 18, 2023, the Company entered into the Helport Business Combination Agreement Amendment with Pubco, the First Merger Sub, the Second Merger Sub, Helport, the Sponsor and the Seller Representative, which amended the Helport Business Combination Agreement to (i) remove the Earnout and the related Earnout Escrow and (ii) reduce the Aggregate Merger Consideration Amount from three hundred and fifty million U.S. dollars ($350,000,000) to three hundred and thirty-five million U.S. dollars ($335,000,000).

 Consideration

Under the Helport Business Combination Agreement, the Aggregate Merger Consideration Amount to be paid to the shareholders of Helport is $335,000,000, pursuant to the Helport Business Combination Agreement Amendment, subject to net debt and working capital adjustments, and will be paid entirely in newly issued ordinary shares of Pubco, with each share valued at the per share price.

On the Closing Date immediately prior to the First Merger Effective Time, each Company Preferred Share (authorized but not issued as of December 31, 2023), if any, that is issued and outstanding immediately prior to the First Merger Effective Time shall be canceled in exchange for the right to receive a number of the ordinary shares, par value $1.00 each, of Helport, upon and after completion of the Reorganization (as defined below) (the “Helport Ordinary Shares”), at the then effective conversion rate (the “Conversion”). As a result of the Mergers, (a) each ordinary share of Helport that is issued and outstanding immediately prior to the First Merger Effective Time and after the Conversion shall be cancelled and converted into the right to receive 100% of such number of ordinary shares of Pubco equal to the Exchange Ratio; (b) each of the convertible securities of Helport, to the extent then outstanding and unexercised immediately prior to the First Merger Effective Time, shall be cancelled, retired and terminated; (c) each of the Company’s Ordinary Shares that is issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be cancelled and converted automatically into the right to receive one Pubco ordinary share; and (d) each of the Company’s outstanding Public Warrants and Private Placement Warrant shall be converted into one Pubco Public Warrant or one Pubco Private Warrant, respectively.

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Helport Reorganization

Helport Pte. Ltd., a Singapore exempt private company limited by shares (“Helport Pte”), has entered into certain agreements (together with all agreements, deeds, instruments or other documents as may be necessary or appropriate, the “Reorganization Documents”) with Helport Holdings Limited, certain minority shareholders of Helport, Helport, Helport Group Limited, Helport Pte, and Helport AI, Inc, to implement and effect a reorganization pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Reorganization Documents (the “Reorganization”). The Reorganization Documents were executed throughout the period from October 2023 to December 2023, and on December 22, 2023, the Reorganization was completed.

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Covenants of the Parties

Each party agreed in the Helport Business Combination Agreement to use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect the Closing. The Helport Business Combination Agreement contains certain customary covenants by each of the parties during the period between the signing of the Helport Business Combination Agreement and the earlier of the Closing or the termination of the Helport Business Combination Agreement in accordance with its terms, including covenants regarding: (1) the provision of access to their properties, books and personnel; (2) the operation of their respective businesses in the ordinary course of business (subject to certain exceptions); (3) provision of financial statements of Target Companies; (4) the Company’s public filings; (5) “no shop” obligations; (6) no insider trading; (7) notifications of certain breaches, consent requirements or other matters; (8) efforts to consummate the Closing and obtain third-party and regulatory approvals and efforts to cause Pubco to maintain its status as a “foreign private issuer” under Rule 3b-4 of the Exchange Act; (9) further assurances; (10) public announcements; (11) confidentiality; (12) indemnification of directors and officers and tail insurance; (13) use of trust proceeds after the Closing; (14) efforts to support a private placement or backstop arrangements, if sought; (15) intended tax treatment of the Mergers and (16) use of Trust Account proceeds.

Helport also agreed to cause certain of its shareholders to each enter into a Key Seller Lock-Up Agreement (as defined below).

In addition, the parties agreed to take all necessary actions to cause Pubco’s board of directors immediately after the Closing to consist of five directors, including: (i) two persons who are designated by the Company prior to the Closing as independent directors; and (ii) three persons who are designated by Helport prior to the Closing.

The Helport Business Combination Agreement and the consummation of the Helport Business Combination require the approval of both the Company’s shareholders and the holders of Helport Ordinary Shares as of the Closing (each, a “Helport Shareholder”). The Company and Pubco also agreed to jointly prepare, and Pubco shall file with the SEC, the Helport Registration Statement in connection with the registration under the Securities Act of the issuance of securities of Pubco to the holders of (i) the Company’s Ordinary Shares and Warrants and (i) Helport’s ordinary shares and warrants, and containing a proxy statement/prospectus for the purpose of soliciting proxies from the Company’s shareholders for the matters relating to the Helport Business Combination to be acted on at the extraordinary general meeting of the Company’s shareholders and providing such shareholders an opportunity to participate in the redemption of their Public Shares upon the Closing (the “Redemption”). Helport agreed to call a meeting of its shareholders or cause a written resolution to be passed, as promptly as practicable after the Helport Registration Statement has become effective, in order to obtain the approval of Helport Shareholders for the approval of the Helport Business Combination Agreement and the Helport Business Combination, and Helport agreed to use its commercially reasonable efforts to solicit from the Helport Shareholders proxies prior to such special meeting or written resolution, and to take all other actions necessary or advisable to secure the approval of the Helport Shareholders.

Conditions to Closing

The obligations of the parties to consummate the Helport Business Combination are subject to various conditions, including the following mutual conditions of the parties, unless waived: (1) the approval of the Helport Business Combination Agreement and the Helport Business Combination and related matters by the requisite vote of the Company and the Helport shareholders; (2) obtaining material regulatory approvals; (3) no law or order preventing or prohibiting the Helport Business Combination; (4) the Company or Pubco shall have consolidated net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001 (as calculated and determined in accordance with Rule 3a51-1(g)(1) of the Exchange Act) either immediately prior to the Closing (after giving effect to the Redemption) or upon the Closing after giving effect to the Mergers (including the Redemption), or Pubco otherwise is exempt from the provisions of Rule 419 promulgated under the Exchange Act (i.e. one of several exclusions from the “penny stock” rules of the SEC applies and the Company relies on another exclusion); (5) amendment by the shareholders of Pubco of Pubco’s memorandum and articles of association; (6) the effectiveness of the Helport Registration Statement; (7) appointment of the post-closing directors of Pubco; and (8) Nasdaq Stock Market LLC or NYSE listing requirements, as applicable, having been fulfilled.

In addition, unless waived by Helport, the obligations of Helport, Pubco, the First Merger Sub and the Second Merger Sub to consummate the Helport Business Combination are subject to the satisfaction of the following Closing conditions, in addition to customary certificates and other closing deliveries: (1) the representations and warranties of the Company being true and correct on and as of the Closing (subject to Material Adverse Effect); (2) the Company having performed in all material respects its obligations and complied in all material respects with its covenants and agreements under the Helport Business Combination Agreement required to be performed or complied with by us on or prior the date of the Closing; (3) absence of any Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company since the date of the Helport Business Combination Agreement which is continuing and uncured; (4) receipt by the Company and Pubco of the First Amendment to Registration Rights Agreement (as defined below); (5) each of the Sellers shall have received from Pubco a registration rights agreement covering the merger consideration shares received by the Sellers duly executed by Pubco; and (6) receipt by Helport and Pubco of employment agreements between certain management persons from Helport and Helport or the Company, in each case effective as of Closing.

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Unless waived by the Company, the Company’s obligations to consummate the Helport Business Combination are subject to the satisfaction of the following Closing conditions, in addition to customary certificates and other closing deliveries: (1) the representations and warranties of Helport, Pubco, the First Merger Sub, and the Second Merger Sub being true and correct on and as of the Closing (subject to Material Adverse Effect on the Target Companies, taken as a whole); (2) the Company, Pubco, the First Merger Sub, and the Second Merger Sub having performed in all material respects the respective obligations and complied in all material respects with their respective covenants and agreements under the Helport Business Combination Agreement required to be performed or complied with on or prior the date of the Closing; (3) absence of any Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Target Companies (taken as a whole) since the date of the Helport Business Combination Agreement which is continuing and uncured; (4) the Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement (as defined below), the Employment Agreements, the First Amendment to Registration Rights Agreement, and each Key Seller Lock-Up Agreement shall be in full force and effect from the Closing; (5) resignation of the directors and officers of the Helport as requested by us prior to the Closing; and (6) the Company shall have received evidence that Helport shall have terminated, extinguished and cancelled all of its outstanding convertible securities.

Termination

The Helport Business Combination Agreement may be terminated at any time prior to the Closing by either the Company or Helport if the Closing does not occur by September 30, 2024, or such other date as may be extended pursuant to the Helport Business Combination Agreement.

The Helport Business Combination Agreement may also be terminated under certain other customary and limited circumstances at any time prior the Closing, including, among other reasons: (1) by mutual written consent of the Company and the Helport; (2) by either the Company or Helport if a governmental authority of competent jurisdiction shall have issued an order or taken any other action permanently restraining, enjoining or otherwise prohibiting the Helport Business Combination, and such order or other action has become final and non-appealable; (3) by Helport for the Company’s uncured breach of the Helport Business Combination Agreement, such that the related Closing condition would not be met; (4) by the Company for the uncured breach of the Helport Business Combination Agreement by Helport, Pubco, the First Merger Sub, or the Second Merger Sub, such that the related Closing condition would not be met; (5) by either the Company or Helport if we hold the Company’s shareholder meeting to approve the Helport Business Combination Agreement and the Helport Business Combination, and such approval is not obtained; and (6) by either the Company or Helport if Helport holds its shareholder meeting to approve the Helport Business Combination Agreement and the Helport Business Combination, and such approval is not obtained.

The Helport Business Combination Business Combination Agreement will terminate automatically if, by September 30, 2024, (i) the Reorganization has not been completed or (ii) Helport has not delivered the applicable PCAOB Financial Statements. 

Helport shall pay the Company a termination fee of three million U.S. dollars ($3,000,000) plus expenses, in the event that (i) the Helport Business Combination Agreement is automatically terminated or (ii) the Helport Business Combination Agreement is terminated by the Company for uncured breach of the Helport Business Combination Agreement by Helport, Pubco, the First Merger Sub, or the Second Merger Sub.

If the Helport Business Combination Agreement is terminated, all further obligations of the parties under the Helport Business Combination Agreement (except for certain obligations related to the Termination Fee, confidentiality, effect of termination, fees and expenses, trust fund waiver, miscellaneous and definitions to the foregoing) will terminate, no party to the Helport Business Combination Agreement will have any further liability to any other party thereto except for liability for fraud or for willful breach of the Helport Business Combination Agreement prior to termination.

Trust Account Waiver

Helport, Pubco, the First Merger Sub and the Second Merger Sub have agreed that they and their affiliates will not have any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies in the Company’s Trust Account held for the Company’s Public Shareholders, and have agreed not to, and waived any right to, make any claim against the Trust Account (including any distributions therefrom).

The foregoing descriptions of the Helport Business Combination Agreement and Helport Business Combination Agreement Amendment do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by the terms and conditions of the Helport Business Combination Agreement and Helport Business Combination Agreement Amendment.

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Related Agreements and Documents

Lock-Up Agreements

Prior to the Closing, Pubco, Helport, the Company, the Sponsor and certain shareholders holding (i) Helport Ordinary Shares and (ii) any preferred shares, par value $1.00 each, of Helport, upon and after completion of the Reorganization (either as the holder of record or the beneficial owner within the meaning of Rule 135-3 under the Exchange Act), shall enter into Lock-Up Agreements (each, a “Key Seller Lock-Up Agreement”).

Pursuant to each Key Seller Lock-Up Agreement, each signatory thereto will agree not to, during the period commencing from the Closing Date and ending on the 24-month anniversary of the Closing Date (subject to early release if (x) the closing price of Pubco Ordinary Shares equals or exceeds $12.00 per share for any 20 out of 30 trading days commencing 270 days after the Closing or (y) Pubco consummates a sale of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets to a third-party; sale resulting in a change in holding of the majority of the voting power; or a merger, consolidation, recapitalization or reorganization that results in the inability of the pre-transaction equity holders to designate or elect a majority of the board of directors (or its equivalent) of the resulting entity or its parent company) (the “Lock-Up Period”):  (i) lend, offer, pledge, hypothecate, encumber, donate, assign, sell, offer to sell, contract or agree to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, or otherwise transfer or dispose of or agree to transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any Lock-up Securities (as defined under the Key Seller Lock-Up Agreements), (ii) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Lock-up Securities, whether any such transaction is to be settled by delivery of such Lock-up Securities, in cash or otherwise, or (iii) publicly disclose the intention to do any of the foregoing, whether any such transaction described in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) above is to be settled by delivery of Lock-up Securities or other securities, in cash or otherwise (subject to early release if Pubco consummates a Change of Control)  (any of the foregoing described in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii), a “Prohibited Transfer”).

On April 26, 2024, Tristar entered into lock-up agreements (the “Amended Lock-Up Agreements”) with two shareholders of Helport (the “Helport Investors”), pursuant to which the Helport Investors agreed not to execute a Prohibited Transfer during the Lock-Up Period, provided, however, (i) each Helport Investor would be permitted to transfer the Lock-Up Securities during the Lock-Up Period to certain other shareholders of Helport, subject to certain trading volume limitations, and (ii) if each Holder made a credit facility available to Helport of at least $2,000,000 and $4,000,000, respectively, the Lock-Up Securities would be subject to early release upon the twelve-month anniversary of the Closing.

The foregoing description of the Amended Lock-Up Agreements does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Amended Lock-Up Agreements, which are attached hereto as Exhibits 10.31 and 10.32, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.

Shareholder Support Agreement

Simultaneously with the execution of the Helport Business Combination Agreement, the Company, Helport and a certain Helport Shareholder entered into a Shareholder Support Agreement (the “Shareholder Support Agreement”), pursuant to which, among other things, a Helport Shareholder has agreed (a) to support the adoption of the Business Combination Agreement and the approval of the Transactions, subject to certain customary conditions, and (b) not to transfer any of their subject shares (or enter into any arrangement with respect thereto), subject to certain customary conditions.

The foregoing description of the Shareholder Support Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Shareholder Support Agreement.

Insider Letter Second Amendment

Simultaneously with the execution of the Helport Business Combination Agreement, the Company, Helport, the Sponsor, Stephen Markscheid, Xin Yue Geffner, Wang Chiu Wong, Chunyi Hao, Michael Hao Liu and Alex Parker entered into the Insider Letter Second Amendment, pursuant to which, Pubco and Helport are added as parties to the Insider Letter.

The foregoing description of the Insider Letter Second Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Second Insider Letter Second Amendment.

Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement

Simultaneously with the execution of the Helport Business Combination Agreement, certain executive officers (each, a “Subject Party”) of Helport each entered into a non-competition and non-solicitation agreement (collectively, the “Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement”) with the Company, Pubco, Helport and the Sponsor. Under the Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement, the Subject Party agrees not to compete with Pubco, the Sponsor, the Company,  Helport and their respective affiliates during the three-year period following the Closing and, during such three-year restricted period, not to solicit employees or customers of such entities. The Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement also contains customary confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions.

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The foregoing description of the Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement.

Assignment, Assumption and Amendment to Warrant Agreement

Prior to the Closing, the Company, Pubco and Continental, as warrant agent, will enter the Assignment, Assumption and Amendment to Warrant Agreement (the “Warrant Amendment”), which amends the Warrant Agreement and. pursuant to which: (i) Pubco will assume the Company’s obligations under the Warrant Agreement, such that, among other things, Pubco will be added as a party thereto and (ii) references to the Company’s Class A Ordinary Shares in the Warrant Agreement shall mean Pubco ordinary shares.

The foregoing description of the Warrant Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Warrant Amendment.

First Amendment to Registration Rights Agreement

On or prior to the Closing, the Helport Business Combination Agreement provides that each of Helport, the Sponsor, Pubco, the Company and the Prior Sponsor will enter the First Amendment to Registration Rights Agreement (the “First Amendment to Registration Rights Agreement”), which amends the Registration Rights Agreement and pursuant to which, Pubco will agree to undertake certain resale shelf registration obligations in accordance with the Securities Act and the other parties thereto will be granted customary demand and piggyback registration rights.

Liquidity,

Capital Resources and Going Concern

As of December 31, 2021,2023, the Company had cash outside the Trust Account of $1,231,992$436,317 available for working capital needs. All remaining cash held in the Trust Account are generally unavailable for the Company’s use, prior to an initial business combination,Business Combination, and is restricted for use either in a Business Combination or to redeem ordinary shares.Ordinary Shares. As of December 31, 2021,2023 and December 31, 2022, none of the amount in the Trust Account was available to be withdrawn as described above.

The Company anticipates thatCompany’s cash held outside the $1,231,992 outside ofTrust Account does not hold any cash taken from the Trust Account as of and for the years ended December 31, 2021, will be sufficient to allow the Company to operate for at least the next 12 months from the issuance of the financial statements, assuming that a Business Combination is not consummated during that time. 2023 and 2022.

Until consummation of its Business Combination, the Company will be usinguses the funds not held in the Trust Account, and any additional Working Capital Loans (as defined in Note 6) from the initial shareholders, the Company’s officers and directors, or their respective affiliates (which is described in Note 6),5) for identifying and evaluating prospective acquisition candidates, performing business due diligence on prospective target businesses, traveling to and from the offices, plants or similar locations of prospective target businesses, reviewing corporate documents and material agreements of prospective target businesses, selecting the target business to acquire and structuring, negotiating and consummating the Business Combination.

The Company doeshas until October 18, 2024, the end of the Combination Period, to consummate a Business Combination. It is uncertain that the Company will be able to consummate a Business Combination by this time. If a Business Combination is not believe it will need to raise additional funds in order to meet the expenditures required for operating its business. However, ifconsummated by this date and a further extension is not approved by the Company’s estimatesshareholders, there will be a mandatory liquidation and subsequent dissolution of the costsCompany. In connection with the Company’s assessment of undertaking

in-depth
due diligencegoing concern considerations in accordance with FASB ASU Topic 2014-15, “Disclosures of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern,” Management has determined that the mandatory liquidation, should a Business Combination not occur within the Combination Period, approval for extension needed by the Company’s shareholders, and negotiating business combination is less thanpotential subsequent dissolution raises substantial doubt about the actual amount necessaryCompany’s ability to do so,continue as a going concern. No adjustments have been made to the carrying amounts of assets or liabilities should we be required to liquidate after October 18, 2024.

Additionally, the Company may have insufficient funds available to operate its business prior to the Business Combination. Moreover, the Company will need to raise additional capital in order to operate the Company’s business prior to the Company’s initial Business Combination through loans from its Sponsor,or additional investments. The Company’s officers, directors, Sponsor or third parties. Noneaffiliate of the Sponsor officers or directorsmay, but are under any obligationnot obligated to advanceloan the Company funds to ormeet working capital needs. Accordingly, the Company may not be able to invest in, the Company.obtain additional financing. If the Company is unable to raise additional capital, it may be required to take additional measures to conserve liquidity, which could include, but not necessarily be limited to, curtailing operations, suspending the pursuit of its business plan,a potential transaction, and reducing overhead expenses. The Company cannot provide any assurance that new financing will be available to it on commercially acceptable terms, if at all.

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These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. No adjustments have been made relating to the recovery of the recorded assets or the classification of the liabilities that might be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.

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Risks and Uncertainties

Management continues to evaluate the

The impact of current conflicts around the

COVID-19
pandemic globe, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and has concluded that while it is reasonably possible that the virus could have a negative effectIsrael-Hamas war, and related sanctions, on the Company’s financial position, results of its operations, and/or search for a target company, the specific impactworld economy is not readily determinable as of the date of these financial statements. The specific impact on the Company’s financial statement. Thecondition, results of operations, and cash flows is also not determinable as of the date of these financial statement does not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
statements.

Note 2—Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying financial statement isstatements are presented in U.S. dollars, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) and pursuant to the rules and regulations of 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, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in its periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding 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 whichthat 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 the accompanying financial statementstatements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires the Company’s managementManagement 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 and the reported amounts of expenses during the reporting period.

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Making estimates requires managementManagement 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 accompanying financial statement,statements, which managementManagement 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 from those estimates.

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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 cash of $1,231,992, and nodid not have any cash equivalents as of December 31, 2021.

Marketable Securities2023 and December 31, 2022.

Cash and Investments Held in Trust Account

At

As of December 31, 2021,2023 the assets held in Trust Account were held in an interest-bearing demand deposit account. As of December 31, 2022, the assets held in Trust Account were held in money market funds, which invest in U.S. Treasury securities. During

Until November 9, 2023, the year ended December 31, 2021,Company’s portfolio of investments held in the Trust Account was comprised of U.S. government securities, within the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act, with a maturity of 185 days or less, or investments in money market funds that invest in U.S. government securities, or a combination thereof. The Company classifies its U.S. Treasury securities as trading securities in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 320 “Investments—Debt and Equity Securities.”

To mitigate the risk that the Company did not withdraw anymight be deemed an investment company for purposes of the interest income fromInvestment Company Act, on November 9, 2023, the Company instructed Continental, the trustee with respect to the Trust Account, to pay its tax obligations.

liquidate the investments held in the Trust Account and instead to hold the funds in the Trust Account in an interest-bearing demand deposit account at a bank, with Continental continuing to act as trustee. As a result, following the liquidation of investments in the Trust Account, the remaining proceeds from the Initial Public Offering, Over-Allotment Option and Private Placement are no longer invested in U.S. government securities or money market funds.

Class A Ordinary Shares Subject to Possible Redemption

The Company accounts for its ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares subject to possible redemption in accordance with the guidance in ASC 480. Ordinary Shares subject to mandatory redemption are classified as a liability instrument and are measured at fair value. Conditionally redeemable ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares (including ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares that feature redemption rights that are either within the control of the holder or subject to redemption upon the occurrence of uncertain events not solely within the Company’s control) are classified as temporary equity. At all other times, ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares are classified as shareholders’ equity. The Company’s ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares feature certain redemption rights that are considered to be outside of the Company’s control and subject to the occurrence of uncertain future events. The Company recognizes changes in redemption value immediately as they occur and adjusts the carrying value of redeemable Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares to equal the redemption value at the end of each reporting period. Increases or decreases in the carrying amount of redeemable Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares are affected by charges against additional

paid-in
capital totaling $9,554,011 for the year ended December 31, 2023. For the year ended December 31, 2022, the increases in the carrying out of redeemable Class A Ordinary Shares are affected by charges against accumulated deficit totaling $3,361,005.

The Class A Ordinary Shares subject to possible redemption reflected on the accompanying balance sheets as of December 31, 2023 and accumulated deficit.

December 31, 2022 are reconciled on the following table:

Gross proceeds from Initial Public Offering, including sale of the Over-Allotment Option

 

$230,000,000

 

Less:

 

 

 

 

Fair value of Public Warrants at issuance

 

 

(10,695,000)

Offering costs allocated to Class A Ordinary Shares subject to possible redemption, net of reimbursement from underwriters

 

 

(24,329,399)

Plus:

 

 

 

 

Initial accretion on Class A Ordinary Shares subject to possible redemption amount

 

 

37,324,399

 

Class A Ordinary Shares subject to possible redemption, December 31, 2021

 

 

232,300,000

 

Plus:

 

 

 

 

Remeasurement on Class A Ordinary Shares subject to possible redemption amount

 

 

3,631,005

 

Class A Ordinary Shares subject to possible redemption, December 31, 2022

 

 

235,931,005

 

Less:

 

 

 

 

Redemption of Class A Ordinary Shares

 

 

(130,320,660)

Plus:

 

 

 

 

Accretion on Class A Ordinary Shares subject to possible redemption amount

 

 

9,554,011

 

Class A Ordinary Shares subject to possible redemption, December 31, 2023

 

$115,164,356

 

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As of December 31, 2021,

2023 and December 31, 2022, 10,608,802 and 23,000,000,
respectively, Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares subject to possible redemption are presented at redemption value as temporary equity, outside of the shareholders’ deficit section of the Company’s accompanying balance sheet.
Offering Costs associated with the Initial Public Offering
The Company complies with the requirements of ASC
340-10-S99-1
and SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin Topic 5A -
 Expenses of Offering
. Offering costs consist principally of professional and registration fees incurred through the balance sheet date that are related to the Initial Public Offering. Offering costs directly attributable to the issuance of an equity contract to be classified in equity are recorded as a reduction in equity. Offering costs for equity contracts that are classified as liabilities are expensed immediately. The Company incurred offering costs amounting to
$25,910,754, consisting of $4,600,000 of underwriting fees, $10,350,000 of deferred underwriting fees, $12,546,764 for the fair value of the Founder Shares attributable to the anchor investors (see Note 5), and $918,989 of offering costs, partially offset by the reimbursement of $2,505,000 of offering expenses by the underwriters. Of the $25,910,754 in offering costs, $24,329,399 were charged to shareholders’ deficit, and $1,581,355 were expensed immediately.
sheets.

Income Taxes

The Company accounts for income taxes under FASB ASC Topic 740,

Income Taxes
(“ASC 740”). ASC 740 requires the recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities for both the expected impact of differences between the financial statement and tax basis of assets and liabilities and for the expected future tax benefit to be derived from tax loss and tax credit carry forwards. ASC 740 additionally requires a valuation allowance to be established when it is more likely than not that all or a portion of deferred tax assets will not be realized.

ASC 740 also clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes recognized in an enterprise’s financial statements and prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement process for financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position 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. ASC 740 also provides guidance on derecognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim period, disclosure and transition. Based on the Company’s evaluation, it has been concluded that there are no significant uncertain tax positions requiring recognition in the Company’saccompanying financial statement. Since thestatements. The Company was incorporated on March 5, 2021, the evaluation was performed for the upcoming 2021 tax year which will be the only periodis subject to examination.
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income tax examinations by major taxing authorities since inception.

The Company recognizes accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense. There were no unrecognized tax benefits and no amounts accrued for interest and penalties as of December 31, 2021.2023 and December 31, 2022. The Company is currently not aware of any issues under review that could result in significant payments, accruals or material deviation from its position. There are no taxes in the Cayman Islands and accordingly income taxes are not levied on the Company. Consequently, income taxes are not reflected in the Company’s financial statement.

statements.

Share-based Compensation

The Company adopted FASB ASC Topic 718, Compensation—“Compensation—Stock Compensation,Compensation” (“ASC 718”)”, guidance to account for its share-based compensation. It defines a fair value-based method of accounting for an employee share option or similar equity instrument. The Company recognizes all forms of share-based payments, including share option grants, warrants and restricted share grants, at their fair value on the grant date, which are based on the estimated number of awards that are ultimately expected to vest. Share-based payments, excluding restricted shares, are valued using a Black-Scholes option pricing model. Grants of share-based payment awards issued to nonemployees for services rendered have been recorded at the fair value of the sharebasedshare-based payment, which is the more readily determinable value. The grants are amortized on a straight-line basis over the requisite service periods, which is generally the vesting period. If an award is granted, but vesting does not occur, any previously recognized compensation cost is reversed in the period related to the termination of service. Share-based compensation expenses are included in costs and operating expenses depending on the nature of the services provided in the statements of operations.

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 managementManagement believes the Company is not exposed to significant risks on such account.

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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 FASB ASC Topic 815, “Derivatives and Hedging” (“ASC 815”). Derivative instruments are initially recorded at fair value on the grant date and

re-valued
at each reporting date, with changes in the fair value reported in the accompanying statements of operations. Derivative assets and liabilities are classified in the accompanying balance sheetsheets 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 Liabilities

The Company evaluated the Public Warrants and Private Placement Warrants, (collectively, “Warrants”), in accordance with FASB ASC

Topic 815-40,
“Derivatives “Derivatives and Hedging - Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity” (“ASC 815-40”), and concluded that a provision in the Warrant Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, by and between the Company and Continental (the “Warrant Agreement”), related to certain tender or exchange offers precludes the Warrants from being accounted for as components of equity. As the Warrants meet the definition of a derivative as contemplated in ASC 815,815-40, the Warrants are recorded as derivative liabilities on the accompanying balance sheetsheets and measured at fair value at inception (on the date of the IPO) and at each reporting date in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 820, “Fair Value Measurement” (“ASC 820”), with changes in fair value recognized in the statement of operations in the period of change.

The Private Placement Warrants were initially measured at fair value using a modified Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model. As the transfer of Private Placement Warrants to anyone who is not permitted transferee would result in the Private Placement Warrants having substantially the same terms as the Public Warrants, the Company determined the fair value of each Private Placement Warrant is equivalent to that of each Public Warrant. The fair value of the Public and Private Placement Warrants as of December 31, 2023 and 2022 is based on observable listed prices. The Private Placement Warrants have the same value as the Public Warrants since they are also subject to the make-whole provisions, per the warrant agreement.  

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

ASC 820 establishes a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes and ranks the level of observability of inputs used to measure investments at fair value. The observability of inputs is impacted by a number of factors, including the type of investment, characteristics specific to the investment, market conditions and other factors. 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). Investments with readily available quoted prices or for which fair value can be measured from quoted prices in active markets will typically have a higher degree of input observability and a lesser degree of judgment applied in determining fair value.

The carrying amounts reflected in the accompanying balance sheetsheets for cash, prepaid expenses, due from related party, cashinvestments held in trust account, accounts payable, and accrued offering costs and expenses approximate fair value due to their short-term nature.

The three levels of the fair value hierarchy under ASC 820 are as follows:

Level 1—Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical investments at the measurement date are used.
Level 2—Pricing inputs are other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are observable for the investment, either directly or indirectly. Level 2 pricing inputs include quoted prices for similar investments in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar investments in markets that are not active, inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the investment, and inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data by correlation or other means.
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Level 3—Pricing inputs are unobservable and include situations where there is little, if any, market activity for the investment. The inputs used in determination of fair value require significant judgment and estimation.

·

Level 1—Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical investments at the measurement date are used.

·

Level 2—Pricing inputs are other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are observable for the investment, either directly or indirectly. Level 2 pricing inputs include quoted prices for similar investments in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar investments in markets that are not active, inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the investment, and inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data by correlation or other means.

·

Level 3—Pricing inputs are unobservable and include situations where there is little, if any, market activity for the investment. The inputs used in determination of fair value require significant judgment and estimation.

In some cases, the inputs used to measure fair value might fall within different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, the level in the fair value hierarchy within which the investment is categorized in its entirety is determined based on the lowest level input that is significant to the investment. Assessing the significance of a particular input to the valuation of an investment in its entirety requires judgment and considers factors specific to the investment. The categorization of an investment within the hierarchy is based upon the pricing transparency of the investment and does not necessarily correspond to the perceived risk of that investment.

See Note 9 for additional information on assets and liabilities measured at fair value.

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Convertible Promissory Note – Prior Sponsor Working Capital Loan

The Company accounts for the convertible promissory notes under ASC 815. The Company has made the election under ASC 815-15-25 to account for the notes under the fair value option. Using the fair value option, the convertible promissory notes are required to be recorded at their initial fair value on the date of issuance, and each balance sheet date thereafter. Differences between the face value of the notes and fair value at issuance are recognized as either an expense in the statement of operations (if issued at a premium) or as a capital contribution (if issued at a discount). Changes in the estimated fair value of the notes are recognized as non-cash gains or losses in the accompanying statements of income.

The Company accounts for any extinguishment of the fair value of convertible notes in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 470-50-40-2, “(Debt): Borrower’s Accounting for Debt Modifications“ (“ASC 470-50-40-2”) . Under ASC 470-50-40-2 the fair value extinguishment of convertible notes from related parties are recognized as additional paid in capital.

Net LossIncome Per Ordinary Share

The Company applies the

two-class
method in calculating net lossincome per ordinary share.Ordinary Share. The contractual formula utilized to calculate the redemption amount approximates fair value. The Class feature to redeem at fair value means that there is effectively only one class of ordinary share.Ordinary Share. Changes in fair value are not considered a dividend forof the purposes of the numerator in the earnings per share calculation. Net lossincome per ordinary share is computed by dividing the pro rata net lossincome between the Class A ordinary shareOrdinary Share and the Class B ordinary shareOrdinary Share by the weighted average number of ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares outstanding. The calculation of diluted lossincome per ordinary shareOrdinary Share does not consider the effect of the warrants and rightsWarrants issued in connection with the Initial Public Offering since the exercise of the warrants and rightsWarrants are contingent upon the occurrence of future events and the inclusion of such warrantsWarrants would be anti-dilutive. The warrants and rights are exercisable
for 18,845,000 shares of Class A ordinary share in the aggregate.
   
For the period
from March 5,
2021 (inception)
to December

31, 2021
 
Ordinary shares subject to possible redemption
     
Numerator: Earnings allocable to Redeemable Class A Common Stock
     
Net income allocable to Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption
  $2,916,947 
Denominator: Redeemable Class A ordinary shares,
     
Basic and diluted weighted average shares outstanding
   5,446,667 
   
 
 
 
Basic and diluted net income per share, Redeemable Class A ordinary share
  $0.54 
   
 
 
 
Non-redeemable
ordinary shares
     
Numerator: Net income allocable to Class B ordinary shares not subject to redemption
     
Net income allocable to Class B ordinary shares not subject to redemption
  $3,079,397 
Denominator: Weighted Average
non-redeemable
Class B ordinary shares
     
Basic and diluted weighted average shares outstanding
   5,750,000 
   
 
 
 
Basic and diluted net income per share
  $0.54 
   
 
 
 

 

 

For the year ended

December 31,

 

 

For the year ended December 31,

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

Ordinary Shares subject to possible redemption

 

 

 

 

 

 

Numerator: Earnings allocable to Redeemable Class A Ordinary Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income allocable to Class A Ordinary Share subject to possible redemption

 

$5,349,279

 

 

$9,406,826

 

Denominator: Redeemable Class A Ordinary Shares,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic and diluted weighted average shares outstanding

 

 

17,364,551

 

 

 

23,000,000

 

Basic and diluted net income per share, Redeemable Class A Ordinary Shares

 

$0.31

 

 

$0.41

 

Non-redeemable ordinary shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Numerator: Net income allocable to Class B Ordinary Shares not subject to redemption

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income allocable to Class B Ordinary Shares not subject to redemption

 

$1,771,330

 

 

$2,351,707

 

Denominator: Weighted Average non-redeemable Class B Ordinary Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic and diluted weighted average shares outstanding

 

 

5,750,000

 

 

 

5,750,000

 

Basic and diluted net income per share

 

$0.31

 

 

$0.41

 

Recent Accounting Standards

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU Topic 2016-13, “Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments”. The amendments in this ASU replace the incurred loss model for recognition of credit losses with a methodology that reflects expected credit losses over the life of the loan and requires consideration of a broader range of reasonable and supportable information to calculate credit loss estimates. The Company adopted this standard on January 1, 2023. The adoption of this standard did not have a significant impact on the accompanying financial statements.

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In August 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”)FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”)

ASU 2020-06,
 Debt — Debt “Debt-Debt with Conversion and Other Options (Subtopic
470-20)
and Derivatives and Hedging — ContractsHedging-Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (Subtopic
815-40)
: Accounting for Convertible Instruments and Contracts in an Entity’s Own Equity” (“ASU
2020-06”)
to simplify, which simplifies accounting for certain financial instruments. ASU
2020-06
eliminates the current models that require separation of beneficial conversion and cash conversion features from convertible instruments and simplifies the derivativeby removing major separation models required under current GAAP. The ASU also removes certain settlement conditions that are required for equity-linked contracts to qualify for scope exception, guidance pertaining to equity classification of contracts in an entity’s own equity. The new standard also introduces additional disclosures for convertible debt and freestanding instruments that are indexed to and settled in an entity’s own equity. ASU 2020-
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06 amendsit simplifies the diluted earnings per share guidance, including the requirement to use the
if-converted
method for all convertible instruments.calculation in certain areas. ASU
2020-06
is effective no later than January 1, 20222024 and should be applied on a full or modified retrospective basis, with early adoption permitted beginning on January 1, 2021. The Company adopted this standard on January 1, 2023. The adoption of this standard did not have a significant impact to the Company’s financial statements.

In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, “Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures”, which requires disaggregated information about a reporting entity’s effective tax rate reconciliation, as well as information related to income taxes paid to enhance the transparency and decision usefulness of income tax disclosures. ASU 2023-09 will be effective for the annual period ending December 31, 2024. The Company is currently assessing thewhat impact, if any, that ASU

2020-06
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 standards if currently adopted would have a material effect on the Company’saccompanying financial statement.

statements.

Note 3—Initial Public Offering

Pursuant to the Initial Public Offering, the Company sold 20,000,000 Units, at a purchase price of $10.00 per Unit. Each Unit consists of one Class A ordinary sharePublic Share and

one-half
of one redeemable warrant (“Public Warrant”).Warrant. Each whole Public Warrant entitles the holder to purchase 1one Class A ordinary shareOrdinary Share at an exercise price of $11.50 per whole share (see Note 7). The Company granted the underwriters an option,the Over-Allotment Option, exercisable for 45 days from the date of the prospectus for the Initial Public Offering, October 13, 2021, to purchase up to 3,000,000 additional Units. The underwriters exercised the over-allotment optionOver-Allotment Option on November 3, 2021 by purchasing 3,000,000 Units at a purchase price of $10.00 per Unit. Each Unit consists of one Class A ordinary share and
one-half
of one redeemable warrant (“Public Warrant”). Each Public Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one Class A ordinary share at an exercise price of $11.50 per whole share (see Note 7).

Note 4—Private Placement

Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Prior Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 6,775,000 Private Placement Warrants at a price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant ($

6,775,000
in the aggregate). in the Private Placement. Each Private Placement Warrant is exercisable to purchase one Class A ordinary shareOrdinary Share at a price of $11.50 per share. The proceeds from the sale of the Private Placement Warrants were added to the net proceeds from the Initial Public Offering held in the Trust Account. If the Company does not complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period, the proceeds from the sale of the Private Placement Warrants will be used to fund the redemption of the Public Shares (subject to the requirements of applicable law) and the Private Placement Warrants will expire worthless. On November 3, 2021, pursuant to the underwriters exercisingexercise of the additional UnitsOver-Allotment Option (see Note 3)1), the Sponsor purchased an additional 570,000 Private Placement Warrants at a price of $1.00.

On July 18, 2023, in connection with the Sponsor Handover, the Prior Sponsor transferred 4,961,250 Private Placement Warrants to a designee of the Sponsor, pursuant to the Sponsor Handover Share Transfer Agreement. After the closing of the Sponsor Handover, the Prior Sponsor held 2,383,750 Private Placement Warrants.

Note 5—Related Party Transactions

Founder Shares

On March 15, 2021, the Prior Sponsor subscribed to purchase 7,187,500 Class B ordinary shares of the Company, par value $0.0001 per shareOrdinary Shares (the “Founder Shares”), and fully paid for those shares on March 19, 2021. In August 2021, the Prior Sponsor forfeited 1,437,500 Founder Shares, resulting in a decrease in the total number of Founder Shares from 7,187,500 to 5,750,000. All shares and associated amounts have been retroactively restated to reflect the share forfeiture.

In March 2021, the Prior Sponsor transferred 50,000 Founder Shares (25,000 shares each) to the former Chief Financial Officer and former Chief Operating Officer at their original purchase price. On July 18, 2023, as part of the Sponsor Handover, the former Chief Financial Officer and former Chief Operating Officer transferred 38,500 Founder Shares (19,250 each) to Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, President, Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors and retained 11,500 Founder Shares (5,750 each).

 In November 2021, the Prior Sponsor transferred a total of 150,000 Founder Shares or 25,000 shares to each of David Barksdale, Greg Boyd, David Jones, Alex Parker, Steven Rogers, and Robert Willis, each a former director of the Company (“former directors”), in each case for their par value. The initial shareholdersCompany estimated the fair value of the Founder Shares attributable to the such individuals to be $1,116,000 or $7.44 per share.

Effective July 18, 2023, the Prior Sponsor amended the Founder Share Transfer Agreement with the former directors to remove the performance condition clause which required the former directors to be a director of the Company until the consummation of a Business Combination or would forfeit their Founder Shares back to the Prior Sponsor.

The Founder Shares transferred to the then-Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and former directors is in the scope of ASC 718 (see Note 10).

On July 18, 2023, the Company entered into the Sponsor Handover Securities Transfer Agreement with the Prior Sponsor and the Sponsor Purchasers, whereby the Prior Sponsor agreed to transfer to the Sponsor Purchasers, at no cost, 3,046,634 Class B Ordinary Shares and 4,961,250 Private Placement Warrants, which the Prior Sponsor purchased in connection with the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement. In addition, the Sponsor Handover Sellers transferred, at no cost, an aggregate of 1,380,866 Class B Ordinary Shares to Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, our President, Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors, pursuant to the Sponsor Handover Share Transfer Agreements. In connection with the Sponsor Handover Securities Transfer Agreement, the Company retained up to $200,000 in accounts payable incurred by the Company before the Sponsor Handover, and the Sponsor agreed to finance the Company to pay off the Company Liability. After the closing of the Sponsor Handover on July 18, 2023, the Sponsor Handover Sellers held an aggregate of 1,322,500 Class B Ordinary Shares, and the Prior Sponsor held 2,383,750 Private Placement Warrants.

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The Prior Sponsor, the Company Sponsor, Prior Officers, Prior Directors, Anchor Investors (as defined below), the Management, and their respective designees and affiliates, have agreed that, subject to certain limited exceptions, the Founder Shares will not be transferred, assigned, or sold until the earlier of (i) one year after the completion of a Business Combination or (ii) subsequent to an initial Business Combination, (x) if the closing price of Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for share subdivisions, share capitalizations, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within any

30-trading
day period commencing at least 150 days after an initial Business Combination, or (y) the date on which the Company completes a liquidation, merger, share exchange or other similar transaction that results in all of the public shareholdersPublic Shareholders having the right to exchange their ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares for cash, securities or
other property.
In March 2021, the Sponsor transferred 50,000 founder shares (25,000 shares each) to the chief financial officer and chief operating officer for no consideration. In November 2021, the Sponsor transferred a total of 150,000 founder shares to six director nominees (25,000 shares to each director nominee) for no consideration.
The transfer of Founder shares is in the scope of FASB ASC Topic 718 “Compensation Stock Compensation” (“ASC 718”). Under ASC 718, stock-based compensation associated with equity-classified awards is measured at fair value upon the grant date and expensed when earned. Shares granted to the directors, chief financial officer and chief operating officer are forfeited if their status as director or officer is terminated for any reason prior to the date of the initial Business Combination, and as such, there has been no stock-based compensation expense recognized in the accompanying financial statements.

A total of eleven anchor investors (the “Anchor Investors”) each purchased an allocation of unitsUnits as determined by the underwriters, in the Initial Public Offering at the offering price of $10.00 per unit. Pursuant to such units,Units, the anchor investorsAnchor Investors have not been granted any shareholder or other rights in addition to those afforded to the Company’s other public shareholders.Public Shareholders. Further, the anchor investorsAnchor Investors are not required to (i) hold any units,Units, Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares or warrantsWarrants they may purchase in the Initial Public Offering or thereafter for any amount of time, (ii) vote any Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares they

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may own at the applicable time in favor of the Business Combination or (iii) refrain from exercising their right to redeem their public sharesPublic Shares at the time of the Business Combination. The anchor investors willAnchor Investors have the same rights to the funds held in the trust accountTrust Account with respect to the Class A ordinary sharesPublic Shares underlying the unitsUnits purchased in the Initial Public Offering as the rights afforded to the Company’s other public shareholders.
Public Shareholders.

Each anchor investorAnchor Investor has entered into separate investment agreements with the Company and the Prior Sponsor pursuant to which each anchor investorAnchor Investor agreed to purchase a specified number of Founder Shares. One anchor investorAnchor Investor purchased 333,333 Founder Shares at a purchase price of $3 per share. In addition, the Prior Sponsor sold to the other ten anchor investorsAnchor Investors an aggregate of 1,585,000 of Founder Shares at a purchase price of $0.01 per share. Pursuant to the investment agreements, the anchor investorsAnchor Investors have agreed to (a) vote any Founder Shares held by them in favor of the Business Combination and (b) subject any Founder Shares held by them to the same

lock-up
restrictions as the Founder Shares held by the Prior Sponsor.

The Company estimated the fair value of the Founder Shares attributable to the anchor investorsAnchor Investors to be $13,562,614 or $7.07 per share. The excess of the fair value of the Founder Shares sold over the purchase price of $1,015,850 was determined to be an offering cost in accordance with Staff Accounting Bulletin Topic 5A.SEC SAB 5A. Accordingly, the offering cost will bewas allocated to the separable financial instruments issued in the Initial Public Offering based on a relative fair value basis, compared to total proceeds received. Offering costs allocated to derivative warrant liabilities will beare expensed immediately in the Company’s statement of operations. Offering costs allocated to the Public Shares will bewere charged to the shareholders’ deficit upon the completion of the Initial Public Offering.

Promissory Note—Related Party
On March 9, 2021, the Sponsor agreed to loan the Company an aggregate of up to $100,000 to cover expenses related to

Administrative Support Agreement

In connection with the Initial Public Offering, pursuant to a promissory note (the “Promissory Note”). The Promissory Note was amended in April, 2021 and then again in May, 2021, to increase the aggregate principal balance ultimately up to $300,000. This loan was

non-interest
bearing and payable onCompany entered into the earlier of (i) September 30, 2021 or (ii) the consummation of the Initial Public Offering. The outstanding balance under the Promissory Note was repaid on October 18, 2021 upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering.
Administrative Support Agreement
The Company has entered into an agreement with the Prior Sponsor, to pay a total of $10,000 per month for office space, secretarial and administrative services. Upon the completion of an initial Business Combination or liquidation, the Company willwould cease paying these monthly fees. As of December 31, 20212022 the Company owesowed the Prior Sponsor $24,516 and$144,516, is included in accrued expenses on the accompanying balance sheet.
On June 30, 2023, in connection with the Sponsor Handover, the Administrative Support Agreement was terminated and the outstanding amount totaling $204,516 was cancelled. The Company classified the forgiveness of service administrative fee as additional paid in capital in the accompanying statements of shareholders’ deficit.

Related Party Loans

In addition, in order to fund working capital deficiencies or finance transaction costs in connection with a Business Combination, the Sponsor or an affiliate of the Sponsor, or certain of 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 a Business Combination, the Company may repay the Working Capital Loans out of the proceeds of the Trust Account released to the Company. Otherwise, the Working Capital Loans could be repaid only out of funds held outside the Trust Account. In the event that a 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. The Working Capital Loans would either be repaid upon consummation of a Business Combination or, at the lender’s discretion, up to $1,500,000 of such Working Capital Loans may be convertible into warrants of the post Business Combination entity at a price of $1.00 per warrant. The warrants would be identical to the Private Placement Warrants. Except for the foregoing, the terms of such Working Capital Loans, if any, have not been determined and no written agreements exist with respect to such loans. To

On June 12, 2023, we issued an unsecured promissory note to the Prior Sponsor (the “Prior Sponsor WCL Promissory Note”), whereby the Prior Sponsor agreed to loan up to $250,000 to us for working capital needs (the “Prior Sponsor Working Capital Loan”).

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The Prior Sponsor has the option to convert all or any portion of the Prior Sponsor Working Capital Loan into Private Placement Warrants at a price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant. The Prior Sponsor Working Capital Loan accrues no interest on the unpaid principal balance. The Prior Sponsor Working Capital Loan is due on demand by the Prior Sponsor. Drawdowns could be requested until December 31, 2023. During July 2023 the Company had 4 drawdowns for a total of $158,968 under the Prior Sponsor Working Capital Loan. On September 6, 2023, the Prior Sponsor agreed to forgive the Prior Sponsor WCL Promissory Note balance due of $158,968. The fair value of the Prior Sponsor Working Capital Loan as of September 6, 2023 was $58,992 (see Note 9). The Company has accounted for the extinguishment of the fair value of Prior Sponsor Working Capital Loan as additional paid in capital due to the related party relationship in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 470-50-40-2, “Debt”.

In connection with the closing of the Sponsor Handover, on July 18, 2023, the Sponsor Purchasers caused $375,000 to be deposited into the Trust Account to support the first three months of the Extension from July 18, 2023 to October 18, 2023 (the “July 2023 Extension Deposit”). The Purchaser agreed to deposit into the Trust Account an additional $125,000 for each successive month, or portion thereof, that is needed by the Company to complete an initial Business Combination until the end of the Combination Period. On October 17, 2023, November 16, 2023, December 13, 2023, January 17, 2024, February 16, 2024, March 18, 2024, April 17, 2024, the Company made the monthly deposit totaling $125,000 to extend the date the Company had no borrowings underhas to complete a Business Combination until May 18, 2024.

On July 18, 2023, the Working Capital Loans.

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Company issued an unsecured promissory note in an amount of $375,000 (the “July 2023 Promissory Note”), to Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, for the July 2023 Extension Deposit. The July 2023 Promissory Note does not bear interest and will be due and payable on the earlier (a) the date that the Company consummates an initial Business Combination and (b) the date of the liquidation of the Company.

On September 13, 2023, the Company issued unsecured promissory notes in an aggregate amount of $2,125,000 to the Company’s officers and their affiliates, for the Company’s working capital needs (the “September 2023 Promissory Notes”). The September 2023 Promissory Notes do not bear interest and mature upon the earlier of on the earlier (a) the date that the Company consummates an initial Business Combination and (b) the date of the liquidation of the Company. As of December 31, 2023, the Company received $1,625,000 of the proceeds from the September 2023 Promissory Notes. On January 5, 2024, the Company received the remaining $500,000 of proceeds from the September 2023 Promissory Notes.

The outstanding promissory notes from the July 2023 Promissory Note and September 2023 Promissory Notes totaled $2,000,000 as of December 31, 2023.

Note 6—Commitments and Contingencies

Registration and Shareholder Rights Agreement

The

Pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the holders of the Founder Shares, Private Placement Warrants and warrants that may be issued upon conversion of Working Capital Loans (and any Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares issuable upon the exercise of the Private Placement Warrants and warrants issued upon conversion of the Working Capital Loans) are entitled to registration rights pursuant to a registration rights agreement to be signed prior to or on the effective date of the Initial Public Offering.rights. 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 consummation of a Business Combination. The Company bears the expenses incurred in connection with the filing of any such registration statements.

Underwriting Agreement

The

Pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, the Company paid an underwriting discount of $0.20 per Public Unit Offering (as defined in the Underwriting Agreement) price to the underwriters at the closing of the Initial Public Offering and over-allotment option.Over-Allotment Option. The underwriting discount was paid in cash. In addition, the Company has agreed to pay deferred underwriting commissions of $0.45 per Public Unit, or $10,350,000 in the aggregate. The deferred underwriting commission willwould become payable to the underwriters from the amount held in the Trust Account solely in the event that the Company completes a Business Combination, subject to the terms of the underwriting agreement,Underwriting Agreement, including the performance of services specified therein.

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On June 23, 2023, in connection with the Sponsor Handover, the underwriters agreed to waive their entitlement to the deferred underwriting commission of $10,350,000 to which it became entitled upon completion of the Initial Public Offering. As a result, the Company derecognized the entire deferred underwriting fee payable of $10,350,000 and recorded $9,868,725 of the forgiveness of the deferred underwriting fee allocated to Public Shares to additional paid-in capital and the remaining balance of $481,275 was a gain from extinguishment of liability allocated to warrant liabilities.

Forward Purchase Agreements

On June 21, 2021 and July 26, 2021, respectively, the Company entered into forward purchase agreements (the “Forward Purchase Agreements”) pursuant to which one anchor investorAnchor Investor and one institutional accredited investor that are not affiliated with the Prior Sponsor, Sponsor, Prior Directors, Prior Officers or any member of the Company’s management, haveManagement (the “Forward Purchase Investors”), subscribed to purchase from the Company an aggregate of 4,500,000 Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares at a price of $10.00 per share as described in the forward purchase agreements,Forward Purchase Agreements, each in a private placement that willwould close immediately prior to the closing of our initial Business Combination. The terms of the forward purchase shares willwould generally be identical to the Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares included in the Units, being sold in this offering, except that they willwould have registration rights and rights of first refusal with respect to any business combinationBusiness Combination financing, as described in the forward purchase agreements.Forward Purchase Agreements. One of the forward purchase investorsForward Purchase Investors may elect, in its sole discretion, to purchase convertible debt securities

or non-convertible debt
instruments in lieu of the forward purchase shares, or a combination thereof, for an aggregate purchase price of up to $25,000,000.

On September 13, 2023 and September 14, 2023, the Company and the Forward Purchase Investors mutually terminated and cancelled the Forward Purchase Agreements described above.

Investment Banking Services

In February 2023, the Company entered into an agreement with a third-party investment banking company to provide certain investment banking services in connection with a potential Business Combination of a privately held company as described in Note 1 and a possible private placement by the Company to one or more potential investors of securities of the Company in connection with the potential Business Combination. The investment banking company as part of the agreement, may be entitled to success fees in the event that the Company finalizes a Business Combination.

The Company also agreed to reimburse the investment banking company for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses, not to exceed $525,000, regardless of the consummation of a Business Combination. As of December 31, 2023 the Company has paid all outstanding reimbursable costs in the amount of $98,089.

In July 2023, the Company terminated the agreement with the third party investment banking company for the provision of certain investment banking services in connection with a potential Business Combination (which included waiver of all potential fees and rights thereunder by the third-party investment banking company, excluding the above unbilled reimbursable costs noted above).

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Note 7—Warrant Liability

Public Warrants may only be exercised for a whole number of shares. No fractional Public Warrants will be issued upon separation of the Units and only whole Public Warrants will trade. The Public Warrants will become exercisable on the later of (a) 30 days after the completion of a Business Combination and (b) 12 months from the closing of the ProposedInitial Public Offering; provided in each case that the Company has an effective registration statement under the Securities Act covering the issuance of the Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares issuable upon exercise of the Public Warrants and a current prospectus relating to them is available and such shares are registered, qualified or exempt from registration under the securities, or blue sky, laws of the state of residence of the holder (or the Company permits holders to exercise their Public Warrants on a cashless basis under the circumstances specified in the warrant agreement)Warrant Agreement). The Company has agreed that as soon as practicable, but in no event later than 20 business days after the closing of the initial Business Combination, the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to file, and within 60 business days following the initial Business Combination to have declared effective, a registration statement covering the issuance of Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares issuable upon exercise of the warrantsWarrants and to maintain a current prospectus relating to those Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares until the warrantsWarrants expire or are redeemed; provided, that if the Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares are at the time of any exercise of a warrant not listed on a national securities exchange such that it satisfies 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 warrantsPublic 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, it will not be required to file or maintain in effect a registration statement, but it will be required to use its best efforts to register or qualify the shares under applicable blue sky laws to the extent an exemption is not available. The Public Warrants will expire five years after the completion of a Business Combination or earlier upon redemption or liquidation.

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The warrants willWarrants have an exercise price of $11.50 per share. If (x) the Company issues additional shares or equity-linked securities for capital raising purposes in connection with the closing of the initial Business Combination at an issue price or effective issue price of less than $9.20 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, rights issuances, subdivisions, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) (with such issue price or effective issue priceto be determined in good faith by the Company’s board of directors,Board, and in the case of any such issuance to the Sponsor, initial shareholdersPrior Sponsor, Prior Directors, Prior Officers and members of Management, or their affiliates, without taking into account any Founder Shares held by them 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 the initial Business Combination on the date of the consummation of the Initial Business Combination (net of redemptions), and (z) the volume weighted average trading price of the Company’s Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary 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, the exercise price of each warrant will be adjusted (to the nearest cent) such that the effective exercise price per full share will be equal to 115% of the higher of (i) the Market Value and (ii) the Newly Issued Price, and the $18.00 per share redemption trigger price described below will be adjusted (to the nearest cent) to be equal to 180% of the higher of (i) the Market Value and (ii) the Newly Issued Price.

The Private Placement Warrants will beare identical to the Public Warrants, except that (1) the Private Placement Warrants and the Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares issuable upon exercise of the Private Placement Warrants willare not be transferable, assignable or salable until 30 days after the completion of a Business Combination, subject to certain limited exceptions, (2) the Private Placement Warrants will

be non-redeemable (except
as described below) so long as they are held by the Sponsor or its permitted transferees, (3) the Private Placement Warrants may be exercised by the holders on a cashless basis and (4) the holders of the Private Placement Warrants(includingWarrants (including with respect to the ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares issuable upon exercise of the Private Placement Warrants) are entitled to registration rights. If the Private Placement Warrants are held by someone other than the Sponsor or its permitted transferees, the Private Placement Warrants will be redeemable by the Company in all redemption scenarios and exercisable by such holders on the same basis as the Public Warrants.

The Company may call the Public Warrants for redemption:

in whole and not in part;
at a price of $0.01 per warrant;
upon a minimum of 30 days’ prior written notice of redemption; and
if, and only if, the last reported sale price of the Class A ordinary shares equals or exceeds $18.00 per share (as adjusted
for split-up of
ordinary shares, share dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within
the 30-trading day
period ending on the third business day prior to the date on which the Company sends the notice of redemption to the warrant holders.

·

in whole and not in part;

·

at a price of $0.01 per warrant;

·

upon a minimum of 30 days’ prior written notice of redemption; and

·

if, and only if, the last reported sale price of the Class A Ordinary Shares equals or exceeds $18.00 per share (as adjusted for split-up of Ordinary Shares, share dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within the 30-trading day period ending on the third business day prior to the date on which the Company sends the notice of redemption to the warrant holders.

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If the Company calls the Public Warrants for redemption, managementManagement will have the option to require all holders that wish to exercise the Public Warrants to do so on a “cashless basis,” as described in the warrant agreement.

Warrant Agreement.

In no event will the Company be required to net cash settle any warrant.Warrant. If the Company is unable to complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period and the Company liquidates the funds held in the Trust Account,holders of warrantsWarrants will not receive any of such funds with respect to their warrants,Warrants, nor will they receive anydistribution from the Company’s assets held outside of the Trust Account with the respect to such warrants.Warrants. Accordingly, the warrantsWarrants may expire worthless.

The Company accounts for the 18,845,000 warrantsWarrants issued in connection with the Initial Public Offering (including 11,500,000 Public Warrants and 7,345,000 Private Placement Warrants) in accordance with the guidance contained in ASC

815-40.
Such guidance provides that because the warrantsWarrants do not meet the criteria for equity treatment thereunder, each warrantWarrant must be recorded as a liability.
 The Private Placement Warrants have a provision whereby the Private Placement Warrants  if transferred to persons other than permitted transferees shall upon transfer cease to be Private Placement Warrants and shall become Public Warrants. Because of this provision the Private Placement Warrants settlement amounts are dependent on the warrant holder and the Private Placement Warrants are not considered indexed to the Company’s ordinary shares therefore precluding equity classification. The Public Warrant tender provisions do not provide for the warrant holders and the underlying shareholders to receive the same pro rata settlement amount. Because of this tender offer provision it requires the Public Warrants to be classified as a liability because the settlement amount received by the warrant holder could be greater than the holder of the Company’s ordinary shares.

The accounting treatment of derivative financial instruments requires that the Company record the warrantsWarrants as derivative liabilities at fair value upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering. The Public Warrants have been allocated a portion of the proceeds from the issuance of the Units equal to its fair value. These warrant liabilities are subject to

re-measurement
at each balance sheet date. With each such
re-measurement,
the warrant liability will be adjusted to its current fair value, with the change in fair value recognized in the Company’s statement of operations. The Company will reassess the classification at each balance sheet date. If the classification changes as a result of events during the period, the warrants will be reclassified as of the date of the event that causes the reclassification.
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Note 8—Shareholders’ Deficit

Class

 A Ordinary Shares

The Company is authorized to issue 90,000,000 Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares with a par value of $0.0001 per share. At December 31, 2021,2023 and 2022, there were no Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares issued and outstanding, excluding 10,608,802 and 23,000,000 Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption.

redemption, respectively.

Class

 B Ordinary Shares

The Company is authorized to issue 10,000,000 Class B ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares with a par value of $0.0001 per share. At December 31, 2021,2023 and 2022, there were 5,750,000 Class B ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares issued and outstanding.

Shareholders of record are entitled to one vote for each share held on all matters to be voted on by shareholders; provided that, prior to the completion of the initial Business Combination, holders of the Class B ordinary shares willOrdinary Shares have the right to elect all of the Company’s directors and remove members of the Company’s board of directorsBoard for any reason. Holders of the Public Shares willare not be entitled to vote on the Company’s election of directors during such time. In addition, prior to the completion of the initial Business Combination, holders of a majority of the outstanding Class B ordinary shares may remove a member of the Company’s board of directors for any reason. These provisions of the Company’s memorandumAmended and articles of associationRestated Memorandum governing the appointment or removal of directors prior to the initial Business Combination may only be amended by a special resolution passed by no less

than two-thirds of
the Company’s ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares who attend and vote at the Company’s general meeting, which shall include the affirmative vote of a simple majority of the Company’s Class B ordinary shares.Ordinary Shares. With respect to any other matter submitted to a vote of the Company’s shareholders, including any vote in connection with the initial Business Combination, holders of the Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares and holders of the Class B ordinary shares willOrdinary Shares vote together as a single class on all matters submitted to a vote of the Company’s shareholders, except as required by law.

The Class B ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares will automatically convert into Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares at the time of the initial Business Combination, or earlier at the option of the holders, on

a one-for-one basis.
In the case that additional Class A ordinary shares,Ordinary Shares, or equity-linked securities, are issued or deemed issued in excess of the amounts issued in the Initial Public Offering and related to the closing of the initial Business Combination, including pursuant to a specified future issuance, the ratio at which Class B ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares shall convert into Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares will be adjusted (unless the holders of a majority of the then-outstanding Class B ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares agree to waive such adjustment with respect to any such issuance or deemed issuance, including a specified future issuance) so that the number of Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares issuable upon conversion of all Class B ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares will equal, in the aggregate, on
an as-converted basis,
20% of the sum of the total number of all ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares outstanding upon the completion of the ProposedInitial Public Offering plus all Class A ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares and equity-linked securities issued or deemed issued in connection with the initial Business Combination (excluding any shares or equity-linked securities issued or issuable to any seller in the initial Business Combination).

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Preferred Shares

 —The

The Company is authorized to issue 1,000,000 shares of preferred shares, par value $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.Board. At December 31, 2021,2023 and 2022, there were 0no preferred shares issued or outstanding.

Dividends

The Company has not paid any cash dividends on the ordinary sharesOrdinary Shares to date and does not intend to pay cash dividends prior to the completion of the initial Business Combination.

Note 9—Fair Value Measurements

The following table presents information about the Company’s financial assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of December 31, 2021,2023 and December 31, 2022, and indicates the fair value hierarchy of the valuation inputs the Company utilized to determine such fair value:


As of December 31, 2021
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Total
Assets:
Marketable Securities held in Trust Account  $232,302,491  $0     $0    $232,302,491
Total
  
$
232,302,491
   
$
0  
 
  
$
0  
   
$
232,302,491
 
   
As of December 31, 2021
 
   
Level 1
   
Level 2
   
Level 3
   
Total
 
Liabilities:
        
Warrant liability – Public Warrants
  $5,865,000   $0     $0     $ 5,865,000 
Warrant liability—Private Placement Warrants
   0      0      3,819,400    3,819,400 
Total
  
$
5,865,000
   
$
0  
 
  
$
3,819,400
 
  
$
9,684,400
 
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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

 

As of December 31, 2022

 

 

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Total

 

Assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investments held in Trust Account

 

$235,933,496

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$235,933,496

 

Total

 

$235,933,496

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$235,933,496

 

On November 9, 2023, the Company instructed Continental, the trustee with respect to the Trust Account, to liquidate the investments held in the Trust Account and instead to hold the funds in the Trust Account in an interest-bearing demand deposit account at a bank, with Continental continuing to act as trustee. As a result, following the liquidation of investments in the Trust Account, the remaining proceeds from the Initial Public Offering, Over-Allotment Option and Private Placement are no longer invested in U.S. government securities or money market funds. As of December 31, 2021,2023, the cash held in Trust Account no longer falls under the fair value hierarchy.

 

 

As of December 31, 2023

 

 

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Total

 

Liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Warrant liability – Public Warrants

 

$230,000

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$230,000

 

Warrant liability - Private Placement Warrants

 

 

 

 

 

146,900

 

 

 

 

 

 

146,900

 

Total

 

$230,000

 

 

$146,900

 

 

$

 

 

$376,900

 

 

 

As of December 31, 2022

 

 

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Total

 

Liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Warrant liability – Public Warrants

 

$345,000

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$345,000

 

Warrant liability - Private Placement Warrants

 

 

 

 

 

220,350

 

 

 

 

 

 

220,350

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$345,000

 

 

$220,350

 

 

$

 

 

$565,350

 

As of December 31, 2023 and 2022 estimated fair value of the Public Warrants was determined by their public trading price and the Private Placement Warrants estimated fair value was based on the public trading price of the Public Warrants. The reason for the Private Placement Warrants being estimated as the same value as the Public Warrants was determined using a probability-adjusted Black-Scholes method to valuebecause of the make-whole provisions, whereby, the Private Placement Warrants at each reporting period, with changes in fair value recognized inare subject to the statement of operations.same redemption rights as the Public Warrants (see Note 7). The estimated fair value of the Private Placement Warrants are determined using Level 32 inputs. Inherent in pricing models are assumptions related to expected share-price volatility, expected life, risk-free interest rate and dividend yield.

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

The Company estimates the volatility of its ordinary shares based on historical volatility that matches the expected remaining life of the warrants. The risk-free interest rate is based on the U.S. Treasury

zero-coupon
yield curve on the grant date forutilized a maturity similarcompound option valuation model to the expected remaining life of the warrants. The expected life of the warrants is assumed to be equivalent to their remaining contractual term. The dividend rate is based on the historical rate, which the Company anticipates to remain at zero.
The following table provides the significant inputs to the probability-adjusted Black-Scholes method forestimate the fair value of the Private Warrants:
   
December 31,
2021
 
Stock price
  $9.76 
Exercise price
  $11.50 
Dividend yield
   0.0
Expected term (in years)
   5 
Volatility
   12
Risk-free rate
   1.26
Fair value
  $0.52 
Prior Sponsor Working Capital Loan. Significant inputs to the valuation are as follows at each drawdown:

 

 

July 6,

2023

 

 

July 7,

2023

 

 

July 13,

2023

 

 

July 13,

2023

 

Conversion price

 

$1.00

 

 

$1.00

 

 

$1.00

 

 

$1.00

 

Private warrant price

 

$0.03

 

 

$0.03

 

 

$0.03

 

 

$0.03

 

Volatility

 

 

3.20%

 

 

3.20%

 

 

3.20%

 

 

3.20%

Term

 

 

1.29

 

 

 

1.28

 

 

 

1.27

 

 

 

1.27

 

Risk-free rate

 

 

5.31%

 

 

5.28%

 

 

5.09%

 

 

5.43%

Dividend yield

 

 

0.00%

 

 

0.00%

 

 

0.00%

 

 

0.00%

Number of steps

 

 

50

 

 

 

50

 

 

 

50

 

 

 

50

 

Drawdown amount – cash value

 

$39,585

 

 

$19,602

 

 

$98,089

 

 

$1,692

 

Fair value

 

$1,090

 

 

$540

 

 

$2,717

 

 

$47

 

As noted in Note 5, the Prior Sponsor forgave the Prior Sponsor WCL Promissory Note on September 6, 2023. Significant inputs to the valuation are as follows at September 6, 2023:

 

 

September 6,

2023

 

Conversion price

 

$1.00

 

Private warrant price

 

$0.07

 

Volatility

 

 

3.30%

Term

 

 

1.12

 

Risk-free rate

 

 

5.39%

Dividend yield

 

 

0.00%

Number of steps

 

 

50

 

Total drawdowns date of forgiveness – cash value

 

$158,968

 

Fair value

 

$58,992

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

The following tabletables provides a summary of the changes in the fair value of the Company’s Level 3 financial instruments that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis:

   
Private Placement
   
Public
   
Warrant Liabilities
 
Fair value at March 5, 2021 (inception)
  $0     $0     $0   
Initial measurement at November 3, 2021
   6,977,750    10,695,000    17,672,750 
Change in fair value of Private Warrants
   (3,158,350   0      (3,158,350
Transfer to Level 1
        (10,695,000   (10,695,000
   
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
Fair value at December 31, 2021
  $3,819,400   $0     $3,819,400 
   
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
basis for the year ended December 31, 2023 and 2022:

 

 

Convertible promissory note – Prior Sponsor Working Capital Loan

 

 

Private Placement Warrants

 

 

Total

 

Fair value at  December 31, 2022

 

$-

 

 

$220,350

 

 

$220,350

 

Proceeds from drawdown – cash value

 

 

158,968

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

158,968

 

 Change in fair value of Private Placement Warrants

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (73,450

)

 

 

 (73,450

 Transfer of Private Placement Warrants from Level 3 to Level 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (146,900

)

 

 

 (146,900

)

Change in fair value of convertible note

 

 

(99,976)

 

 

-

 

 

 

(99,976)

Forgiveness of convertible note moved to additional paid in capital

 

 

(58,992)

 

 

-

 

 

 

(58,992)

Fair value at December 31, 2023

 

$-

 

 

$-

 

 

$-

 

 

 

Private Placement Warrants

 

Fair value at  December 31, 2021

 

$3,819,400

 

Change in fair value of Private Placement Warrants

 

 

(3,599,050)

Transfer of Private Placement Warrants from Level 3 to Level 2

 

 

 (220,350

Fair value at December 31, 2022

 

$-

 

Transfers to/from Levels 1, 2 and 3 are recognized at the end of the reporting period in which a change in valuation technique or methodology occurs. On December 6, 2021, the Publicoccurs.The Private Placement Warrants were transferred out offrom Level 3 to Level 1.

2 as of December 31, 2023 and 2022 because the fair value was based off the public trading price of the Public Warrants due to the make-whole provisions. The Private Placement Warrants were previously valued using a probability-adjusted Black Scholes pricing model.

Note 10—Share-Based Compensation

Under ASC 718, share-based compensation associated with equity-classified awards is measured at fair value upon the grant date and expensed when earned, unless there is a modification in the award.  As described in Note 5, the former Chief Financial Officer and former Chief Operating Officer were transferred 50,000 Founder Shares (25,000 each) from the Prior Sponsor at the original purchase price in March 2021. The Company did not record any share-based compensation related to the 50,000 Founder Shares held by the former Chief Financial Officer and former Chief Operating Officer at the grant date as the amount was deemed de minimise.

The 150,000 Founder Shares transferred from the Prior Sponsor to the former directors had no share-based compensation recorded at the original grant date because the Founder Share Transfer Agreement had a performance condition that was not probable of being met.

On July 18, 2023, as part of the Sponsor Handover each of the former directors transferred 19,250 of Founder Shares to Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, President, Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors, for a total of 115,500 and the former directors retained 5,750 each for a total of 34,500 Founder Shares. The 115,500 Founder Shares transferred to Chunyi (Charlie) Hao requires him to be a director at the time of the consummation of a Business Combination or the 115,500 Founder Shares will be transferred back to the former directors. Under ASC 718, the 115,500 Founder Shares transferred to Chunyi (Charlie) Hao have a performance condition that is not probable of occurring at the date he received the 115,500 Founder Shares, therefore no share based compensation has been recorded for the 115,500 Founder Shares as of September 30, 2023.

.

The former directors retained 34,500 Founder Shares (5,750 Founder shares each) as part of the Sponsor Handover. Effective July 18, 2023, the Prior Sponsor amended the Founder Share Transfer Agreement with the former directors to eliminate the performance condition. Under ASC 718, the amendment to remove the performance condition is considered a modification of the equity-classified award. In accordance with ASC 718, the modification to change the vesting in an equity-classified award from improbable to probable requires the Company to determine the fair value of the modified equity-classified award at the modification date and recognize share-based compensation over the remaining service period, if any. The 34,500 Founder Shares retained by the former directors, effective July 18, 2023 were considered fully vested and the Company recorded a share-based compensation expense in the amount of $35,535 which is included in general and administrative expenses in the statement of income for the year ended December 31, 2023. 

The Company estimated the Founder Shares fair value on July 18, 2023 by using a pricing model with the following inputs:

 

 

July 18, 2023

 

Class A Ordinary Share Price

 

$10.46

 

Discount rate using Finnerty Model

 

 

1.10%

Volatility

 

 

3.20%

Term (in years)

 

 

2.3

 

Fair value

 

$1.03

 

Note 11—Subsequent Events

The Company evaluated subsequent events and transactions that occurred after the balance sheetsheets date up to the date that the accompanying financial statement wasstatements were issued. Based upon this review, other than as set forth below, the Company did not identify any subsequent events that would have required adjustment or disclosure in the accompanying financial statement.

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Item 9A.
Controlsstatements.

On January 5, 2024, the Company received the remaining $500,000 of proceeds from the September 2023 Promissory Notes (see Note 5).  On January 17, 2024, February 16, 2024, March 18, 2024 and Procedures

Disclosure Controls and Procedures
We areApril 17, 2024 the Company made the monthly deposit totaling $125,000 to extend the date the Company has to complete a Business Combination until May 18, 2024.

On April 17, 2024, the Company received a notice (the “NYSE Notice”) from the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) that the Company is not currently required to maintain an effective system of internal controls as defined byin compliance with Section 404802.01E of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. We will be requiredNYSE Listed Company Manual as a result of its failure to comply with the internal control requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Acttimely file its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year endingended December 31, 2022. Only in the event that we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer or an accelerated filer and no longer qualify as an emerging growth company would we be required to comply2023 (the “Form 10-K”) with the independent registered public accounting firm attestation requirementSEC. The NYSE Notice has no immediate effect on internal control over financial reporting. Further, for as long as we remain an emerging growth company as defined in the JOBS Act, we intendlisting of the Company’s Ordinary Shares on NYSE. The NYSE Notice informed the Company that, under NYSE rules, the Company has six months from April 16, 2024 to 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 independent registered public accounting firm attestation requirement.

We have not completed an assessment, nor have our auditors tested our systems, of our internal controls. We expect to assess the internal controls of our target business or businesses prior to the completion of our initial business combination and, if necessary, to implement and test additional controls as we may determine are necessary in order to state that we maintain an effective system of internal controls. A target business may not be inregain compliance with the provisions ofNYSE listing standards by filing the Sarbanes-Oxley Act regardingForm 10-K with the adequacy of internal controls. Many small and
mid-sized
target businesses we may consider for our initial business combination may have internal controls that need improvement in areas such as:
staffing for financial, accounting and external reporting areas, including segregation of duties;
reconciliation of accounts;
proper recording of expenses and liabilities inSEC. If the periodCompany fails to which they relate;
evidence of internal review and approval of accounting transactions;
documentation of processes, assumptions and conclusions underlying significant estimates; and
documentation of accounting policies and procedures.
Because it will take time, management involvement and perhaps outside resources to determine what internal control improvements are necessary for us to meet regulatory requirements and market expectations for our operation of a target business, we may incur significant expenses in meeting our public reporting responsibilities, particularly infile the areas of designing, enhancing, or remediating internal and disclosure controls. Doing so effectively may also take longer than we expect, thus increasing our exposure to financial fraud or erroneous financing reporting.
Once our management’s report on internal controls is complete, we will retain our independent registered public accounting firm to audit and render an opinion on such report when required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The independent registered public accounting firm may identify additional issues concerning a target business’s internal controls while performing their audit of internal control over financial reporting.
Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
The 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 the rules of the SEC for newly public companies.
Item 9B.
Other Information
None.
Item 9C.
Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections
None.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the most recent fiscal quarter that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
PART III
Item 10.
Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance
Our officers and Director are as follows:
Name
Age
Position
William M. Mounger II
65
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Cathy Martine-Dolecki63Chief Operating Officer and Director
Timothy Dawson
68
Chief Financial Officer
Robert Willis52Director
Greg Boyd
56
Director
David Jones
64
Director
David Barksdale45Director
Alex Parker51Director
Steven Rogers67Director
William M. Mounger II
Mr. Mounger, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, is a highly-experienced executive with over 40 years of successfully founding, building, leading and advising corporations within the telecommunication and wireless industries. With his operational and investment experience, Mr. Mounger has raised capital, navigated the initial public offering process, and been directly involvedsix-month period, NYSE may grant, in multiple mergers and acquisitions. Since October 2002, Mr. Mounger has been serving as Chairman and CEOits sole discretion, an extension of Tristar Technologies, LLC, a telecom and technology search firm. In July 2014, Mr. Mounger founded Tristar License Group, LLC,up to develop and acquire Advanced Wireless Services
(AWS-3)
spectrum licenses in FCC Auction 97. Since its inception, Mr. Mounger has been serving as the manager of Tristar License Group. In addition, Mr. Mounger founded twosix additional companiesmonths for the acquisition and development of wireless spectrum licenses in two separate FCC auctions. In August 2015, Mr. Mounger founded Tstar 600, LLCCompany to participate in FCC Auction 1002 for 600 MHz spectrum licenses. In August 2020, Mr. Mounger founded Widespread Wireless, LLC to participate in FCC Auction 107 for
C-Band
3.7 – 3.98 GHz spectrum licenses. Mr. Mounger currently serves as the manager at Widespread Wireless, where he focusesregain compliance, depending on the acquisition and
build-out
specific circumstances. The NYSE Notice also notes that NYSE may nevertheless commence delisting proceedings at any time if it deems that the circumstances warrant.

On April 24, 2024, Michael H. Liu notified the Board of wireless spectrum licenses using private equity capital. In December 2013, Mr. Mounger founded Nova Towers Holdings, LLC and servedhis resignation as a manager until January 2017. At Nova Towers Holdings, Mr. Mounger worked with Nova Towers, LLC and with AT&T Wireless as one of five approved vendors to build communication towers. Mr. Mounger also founded Tritel Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEL) and served as Chairman and CEO from January 2000 to April 2000. Tritel had its initial public offering in 1999. During Mr. Mounger’s tenure, Tritel merged with TeleCorp PCS (NASDAQ: TLCP) in 2000. From April 2000 to October 2002, he served as Chairman of TeleCorp PCS. TeleCorp provided digital wireless services under the SunCom and AT&T brands in 14 states and Puerto Rico. In 2002, TeleCorp was acquired by AT&T Wireless. In addition to his time at Tritel and TeleCorp, Mr. Mounger’s extensive experience in the telecommunications industry includes his role as the former Chairman of the Cellular One Advisory Council and former board member of the Wireless Infrastructure Association. Mr. Mounger has been a board member of the CTIA – The Wireless Association since January 2017. He has also founded and sold companies such as Continuum 700 to acquire wireless spectrum licenses at FCC held auctions. From January 1990 until the formation of Tritel in January 1999, he was President of Mercury Communications Company, a cellular operating company, where he was involved with the management and operation of numerous wireless telecommunication ventures. At Mercury Communications Company, Mr. Mounger built, operated, and managed rural cellular telephone systems for third-party cellular license holders. He worked with financial institutions as well as Novatel Wireless to

build-out
its systems. Mercury’s operating markets were branded under CellularOne and operated in MS, AR, KY, WV, FL, WA, AK, OH and IL. From 1993 to 1996, he sold the markets managed by Mercury in several multi-stage transactions to McCaw Cellular, U.S. Cellular, Horizon, and CenturyTel Enterprises. Alongside these roles, since June 2015, Mr. Mounger has been serving as the Chairman of Delta Industries, a multi-state concrete operator. He has also been a board member at Delta Industries since December 2014. In addition, Mr. Mounger has been a Commissioner of the Mississippi Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks since July 2017 and is involved in many charitable and civic organizations. Mr. Mounger graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. from Vanderbilt University and holds an M.A. from Reformed Theological Seminary.

Cathy Martine-Dolecki
serves as our Chief Operating Officer and a Director. Mrs. Martine-Dolecki is a highly experienced and accomplished executive with more than 30 years of experience across the global telecommunications industry. From November 2020 to December 2020, Mrs. Martine-Dolecki was a Board Member at TESSCO Technologies Incorporated (NASDAQ: TESS), a technology distributor and manufacturer serving commercial customers in the wireless space. Her various board positions and extensive executive experience at AT&T (NYSE: T) provide for her robust operational skillset and ability to create value and drive growth. As the former President of National Business at AT&T from January 2015 to March 2017, she led a team of over 7,000 sales associates. During her time, she led a multi-billion dollar business unit based on revenues. Prior to her role at National Business, she was the President of Enterprise Business Solutions at AT&T from January 2013 to December 2014. From January 2008 to December 2012, she was President of AT&T Small Business Solutions, a multi-billion dollar business unit based on revenues, with overall responsibilities for the sales, distribution, marketing and product management of solutions for businesses with up to 500 employees. Her experience at AT&T also includes serving as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Midwest (formerly Ameritech) and East (formerly SNET) regions from January 2008 to December 2012. In that role, Mrs. Martine-Dolecki led one of AT&T’s largest business units, serving appropriately 95% of AT&T’s business customers in the United States. Mrs. Martine-Dolecki previously served as a board member of Legal Shield, a portfolio company owned by Mid Ocean Partners from January 2013 to May 2018. She joined and is currently serving on the Americas executive board at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management. Mrs. Martine-Dolecki graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Economics from the College of Mount Saint Vincent, holds a M.S. in General Management from M.I.T. where she was a Sloan Fellow, and an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
Timothy Dawson
serves as our Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Dawson has over 30 years of executive corporate financial experience in various roles across public and private companies. His experience financing and restructuring the capital stack of public and private firms, executing bond issuances, and facilitating mergers and acquisitions provide him with a robust skill set in managing public company financial operations. From August 2005 to October 2018, Mr. Dawson served as the Chief Financial Officer and a memberdirector of the Company, effective on April 23, 2024. On April 29, 2024, the Board appointed (i) Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, the Company’s President and Chairman of the Board, of Directors and of the Executive Committee of
Cal-Maine
Foods (NASDAQ: CALM), the largest producer and distributor of fresh eggs in the U.S. During his
13-year
tenure as CFO, he facilitated eight strategic acquisitions for the firm. Additionally, as one of the three members of
Cal-Maine’s
Executive Committee Mr. Dawson oversaw the Information Technology and Human Resources departments at the firm. Prior to his position at
Cal-Maine
Foods, in January 1996 Mr. Dawson became the Vice-President of Finance and the Chief Financial Officer of the Mississippi Chemical Corporations, a nitrogen, phosphateCompany, effective on April 29, 2024, and potash-based fertilizer manufacturer. In January 1999, Mr. Dawson was promoted to Senior Vice President and CFO and served until December 2004. At Mississippi Chemical Corporation. Mr. Dawson facilitated(ii) Xiaoma (Sherman) Lu, the firm’s conversion from a cooperative to a public company, leading to a successful initial public offering in 1994, as well as overseeing its eventual sale to Terra Industries, Inc. in 2004. During his tenure at Mississippi Chemical Corporation, Mr. Dawson also conducted a $350 million leveraged lease with GE Capital on a newsprint mill and a $250 million project finance deal through a joint venture for an ammonia plant in Trinidad. Mr. Dawson also led a $200 million public bond offering for the company. From May 1975 to June 1979, Mr. Dawson was the Exports Accountant and held multiple accounting related positions at Cook Industries, a publicly traded international grain business and at the time the 3rd largest grain exporter in the U.S. Mr. Dawson graduated with special distinction from Mississippi State University with a Bachelor of Accountancy, and holds an M.B.A. from Millsaps College.
Robert Willis
serves as a Director. Mr. Willis brings more than 30 years of leadership and entrepreneurial experience and has sourced and led control transactions in various industries including online gaming, computer software, natural resources and among others. Mr. Willis is qualified to serve as our Director because of his operational experience, his capital market expertise, and his investment experience in identifying, evaluating, and structuring acquisition opportunities. Mr. Willis is a
co-founder
of Navigation Capital Partners L.P. In addition to his role at Navigation Capital, Mr. Willis served as President of Pensare Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ: WRLS), which completed an acquisition in April 2020 and was renamed to American Virtual Cloud Technologies (NASDAQ: AVCT), where Mr. Willis is still an advisor. He was a key financial architect of Pensare’s successful acquisition of Computex Technology Solutions and AVC Technologies’ contract with AT&T. Prior to
co-founding
Navigation Capital, Mr. Willis served as the President of Nsoro, LLC in 2007. In such capacity, he negotiated the acquisition of the business by MasTec (NYSE: MTZ) and following its acquisition, served in an advisory role from 2010 through July 2016. From December 2013 until December 2015,

Mr. Willis served as the chairman of U.S. Shale Solutions, Inc., a shale services company which he founded in 2013. In 2004, Mr. Willis founded Gaming VC Holdings, now named Entain plc (LSE: ENT) which listed on the London Stock Exchange. Mr. Willis served as the financial director of Entain until 2006. Entain is now one of the world’s largest gaming groups, employing more than 24,000 people in 20 offices across the five continents.
Greg Boyd
serves as a Director. Mr. Boyd has extensive experience within the telecommunications industry, founding and successfully exiting more than eight companies in the cell tower vertical. In July 1994, Mr. Boyd founded the Intellicom Wireless Management, Inc. Mr. Boyd is currently the Founder and theCompany’s Chief Executive Officer, of Intellicom Wireless Management, Inc., which has managed the development, construction and/or infrastructure coordination of over 800 communication towers throughout the U.S. since February 2000. In December 2011, he also founded Nova Towers, LLC and since its inception, has served as its Chief Operating Officer. Nova Towers, LLC has been selected by AT&T as one of five approved U.S. BTS vendors. Mr. Boyd’s vast mergers and acquisitions history and transactional experience with the sales of his previous ventures provides a unique insight on value creation within the cell tower vertical. His previous experience includes positions with Motorola (NYSE: MSI) as the Southeastern Business Manager from 1988 to 1994 and as a Regional Manager from 1997 to 1998 at MJA Communications Corp., the latter of which helped launch AT&T’s initial PCS buildout across the southeast U.S. Mr. Boyd received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Auburn University.
David Jones
serves as a Director. He is the founder and chairman of Chrysalis Ventures, a venture capital firm that has invested in technology-enabled businesses since 1993. At Chrysalis Ventures, Mr. Jones has worked with and served on the boards of many growth companies in the Midwest and South, including Appriss, Inc., Tritel Communications (founded and led by Mr. Mounger), which went public and was later sold to AT&T Wireless, Regent Communications, a radio station consolidator which was acquired by Jacor Communications, and High Speed Access Corp., which went public and later was sold to Charter Communications. Mr. Jones currently serves on the board of directors at Humana, Inc. (NYSE: HUM), a healthcare company where he was Vice-Chair from 1996 to 2005 and Chairman from 2005 to 2010. Mr. Jones chairs the board’s nominating and governance committee and serves on its compensation and executive committees. He is also a director of the following companies: Votive Health,Company, to fill the vacancy left by Mr. Liu’s departure, effective on April 29, 2024.

On April 26, 2024, in connection with the Business Combination Agreement, the Company entered into the Amended Lock-Up Agreements with two Helport Investors, pursuant to which the Helport Investors agreed not to execute a healthcare network manager; New Life Solution, Inc. (d.b.a. meQuilibrium),Prohibited Transfer during the Lock-Up Period, provided, however, (i) each Helport Investor would be permitted to transfer the Lock-Up Securities during the Lock-Up Period to certain other shareholders of Helport, subject to certain trading volume limitations, and (ii) if each Holder made a digital coachingcredit facility available to Helport of at least $2,000,000 and analytics company where he chairs$4,000,000, respectively, the board’s audit committee; Confluent Health, a company that operates outpatient physical therapy clinics and provides clinician education services, where Mr. Jones chairsLock-Up Securities would be subject to early release upon the board’s audit committee. Mr. Jones also serves on the boards of The Humana Foundation, a

non-profit
organization that invests in community well-being by focusing on the social determinants of health and on the boardtwelve-month anniversary of the C.E. & S. Foundation. Mr. Jones previously served onClosing.

On May 3, 2024, the boards of ACCH Holdings (formerly known as HCCA Holdco, LLC), a healthcare staffing and clinical process outsourcing company, from September 2002 to August 2016 and of Connecture, Inc., a provider of health insurance sales and service automation software, from March 2004 to 2019. In addition, he was on the boards of MyHealthDirect, Inc., a provider of healthcare coordination software, from December 2009 to December 2017 and of Insider Media Group, a local media startup in Louisville, KY. Mr. Jones has a B.A.,

magna cum
laude
, from Yale University and a J.D. from Yale University Law School. Prior to founding Chrysalis Ventures, he practiced lawCompany issued (i) an unsecured promissory note in the U.S. Departmentprincipal amount of State Legal Adviser’s office in Washington and in a commercial law firm.
David Barksdale
serves as a Director. Mr. Barksdale has 15 years of legal, operating, and principal investing experience. As a result of his broad range of business and legal experience, Mr. Barksdale brings valuable business development, technology, and investing experienceup to $400,000 to Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, the Board. Mr. Barksdale currently serves as a Principal at Alluvian Capital, LLC, a privately held company with diversified investments in the telecommunications and software industries. Previously, he was
Co-Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of Spread Networks, LCC, which was acquired by Zayo Group (NYSE: ZAYO) in 2018. During his tenure as CEO, Spread Networks completed construction of its
Chicago-to-New
York fiber optic network and expansion of services throughout the greater Chicago and New York markets. Mr. Barksdale is a Director at Sanderson Farms (NASDAQ: SAFM), the third largest poultry producer in the U.S. with a market capitalization of $3.1 billion. He also serves as the vice chairman of the Greater New Orleans Foundation, a nonprofit organization. Mr. Barksdale was previously an attorney in the New York office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP. Mr. Barksdale holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. from Tulane University.
Alex Parker
serves as a Director. Since May 2020, Mr. Parker has been serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Sequential Technology International (STI). STI is a global provider of BPO, SaaS and Consulting Services. Previously, Mr. Parker was the Senior Vice President of Service Delivery Excellence at AT&T from September 2018 to May 2020. During this time, Mr. Parker is the CEO of Sequential Technology International. Previously, he was the Senior Vice President of Service Excellence at AT&T, where he ran global provisioning operations and led a team of over 5,000

people. From June 2017 to September 2018, Mr. Parker was the Senior Vice President of AT&T’s State, Local and Education, where he covered more than 50,000 customers while generating over $2.5 billion in revenue. Additionally, from June 2016 to June 2017, as Senior Vice President of Global Solutions and Sales Operations at AT&T, Mr. Parker supported a global team of more than 2,000 associates and was responsible for executing deal negotiation, solution design, contracting and compensation strategy. Mr. Parker also held positions abroad during his tenure at AT&T. From November 2011 to July 2014, Mr. Parker was the Vice President of Global Service Management in London, England, where he was responsible for the overall customer experience across Europe, Middle East and Africa, Canada, Caribbean and Latin America, and Asia Pacific. Mr. Parker is an advisory board member of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement and a board member of the Grapevine-Colleyville ISD Education Foundation. Mr. Parker holds a B.S. in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of International Business degree from Saint Louis University.
Steven Rogers
serves as a Director. Mr. Rogers has 38 years of commercial real estate investment experience to identify and evaluate acquisition opportunities. In 2011, Mr. Rogers founded and currently serves as the manager of Rogers & Associates, LLC, a firm that provides specialized solutions for principals and institutional owners in the real estate industry and board level advisory work. From 1983 to 2011, Mr. Rogers served asCompany’s President, Chief ExecutiveFinancial Officer and director at Parkway Properties Inc. (NYSE: PKY) since its early development stage and through its move to the New York Stock Exchange and the S&P 600 Small Cap Index. Parkway Properties was a real estate investment trust specializing in the acquisition, ownership, development, and management of quality office properties in the Sun Belt region of the United States. At Parkway Properties, Mr. Rogers provided leadership, policy setting, capital allocation and discretionary fundraising for the real estate investment trust (REIT). During his tenure at Parkway, Parkway was named A Great Place to Work five times by the Society of Human Resource Management, NAREIT Leader in Light Award, and the Urban Land Institute Award for Excellence. Mr. Rogers’ numerous current community and business activities include serving as the Chairman of the Board and a member of the compensation, nominating,Company, and governance committees at RREEF America REIT II since 2014 and as the audit committee chair and a member of the nominating and governance committee at Cedar Realty Trust (NYSE: CDR), since 2016. Mr. Rogers is also the chairman of the board of Net Lease Alliance and a director of First Commercial Bank. Mr. Rogers graduated
magna cum
laude
from the University of Mississippi and went on to complete five years(ii) an unsecured promissory note in the U.S. Army, where he was quickly advanced from Lieutenantprincipal amount of up to Captain and was selected for early command. He received$200,000 to Xiaoma (Sherman) Lu, the Army Commendation Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal for his services. Mr. Rogers also holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.
Number and Terms of Office of Officers and Directors
Our Board of Directors 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 of shareholders) serving a three-year term. In accordance with the NYSE corporate governance requirements, we are not required to hold an annual meeting until one year after our first fiscal year end following our listing on the NYSE. The term of office of the first class of directors, consisting of Cathy Martine-Dolecki, Robert Willis and William M. Mounger II, will expire at our first annual general meeting. The term of office of the second class of directors, consisting of Greg Boyd, Alex Parker and Steven Rogers, will expire at our second annual general meeting. The term of office of the third class of directors, consisting of David Barksdale and David Jones, will expire at our third annual general meeting.
Prior to the completion of an initial business combination, any vacancy on the Board of Directors may be filled by a nominee chosen by holders of a majority of our founder shares. In addition, prior to the completion of an initial business combination, holders of a majority of our founder shares may remove a member of the Board of Directors for any reason.
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 persons to the offices set forth in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association as it deems appropriate. Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide that our officers may consist of one or more chairman of the board, chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, vice presidents, secretary, treasurer and such other offices as may be determined by the Board of Directors.

Director Independence
NYSE listing standards require that a majority of our Board of Directors be independent. Our Board of Directors has determined that Greg Boyd, David Barksdale, David Jones, Alex Parker and Steven Rogers are “independent directors” as defined in the NYSE listing standards. 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 three standing committees: an audit committee, a nominating committee and a compensation committee. Subject to
phase-in
rules and a limited exception, the rules of the NYSE and Rule
10A-3
of the Exchange Act require that the audit committee of a listed company be comprised solely of independent directors. Subject to
phase-in
rules and a limited exception, the rules of the NYSE require that the compensation committee and the nominating committee of a listed company be comprised solely of independent directors.
Audit Committee
We established an audit committee of the Board of Directors. David Barksdale, David Jones and Steven Rogers serve as members of our audit committee. David Barksdale serves as chair of the audit committee. Each member of the audit committee qualifies as an independent director under the NYSE corporate governance standards and the independence requirements of Rule
10A-3
of the Exchange Act. Following the merger, our Board of Directors will determine which member of our audit committee qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” as such term is defined in Item 407(d)(5) of Regulation
S-K
and possesses financial sophistication, as defined under the rules of the NYSE.
We adopted an audit committee charter, which details the principal functions of the audit committee, including:
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 permitted
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 registered public accounting firm all relationships the auditors have with us in order to evaluate their continued independence;
setting clear hiring policies for employees or former employees of the independent registered public accounting firm;
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 (i) the independent registered public accounting firm’s internal quality-control procedures and (ii) 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;
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 the Board of Directors. David Barksdale, Greg Boyd and Alex Parker serve as members of our compensation committee. Under the NYSE listing standards and applicable SEC rules, we are required to have at least two members of the compensation committee, all of whom must be independent. and all three such members are independent. Greg Boyd serves as chair 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 ourCompany’s Chief Executive Officer based on such evaluation;
reviewing and approving on an annual basis the compensation of all of our other officers;
reviewing on an annual basis 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 officers and employees;
if required, 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.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, as indicated above, other than reimbursement of expenses, no compensation of any kind, including finders, consulting or other similar fees, will be paid to any of our current shareholders, officers, directors or any of their respective affiliates, prior to, or for any services they render in order to effectuate the consummation of a business combination. Accordingly, it is likely that prior to the consummation of our initial business combination, the compensation committee will only be responsible for the review and recommendation of any compensation arrangements to be entered into in connection with such initial business combination.
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 the NYSE and the SEC.
Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
We established a nominating and corporate governance committee. The members of our nominating and corporate governance are Greg Boyd, David Jones and Alex Parker. Alex Parker serves as chair of the nominating and corporate governance committee.
The primary purposes of our nominating and corporate governance committee is to assist the board in:
identifying, screening and reviewing individuals qualified to serve as directors and recommending to the Board of Directors candidates for nomination for appointment at the annual general meeting or to fill vacancies on the Board of Directors
developing, recommending to the Board of Directors and overseeing implementation of our corporate governance guidelines;
coordinating and overseeing the annual self-evaluation of the Board of Directors its committees, individual directors and management in the governance of the company; and
reviewing on a regular basis our overall corporate governance and recommending improvements as and when necessary.
The nominating and corporate governance committee is governed by a charter that complies with the rules of the NYSE.
Director Nominations
Our nominating and corporate governance committee will recommend to the Board of Directors candidates for nomination for appointment at the annual general meeting. 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, the 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.

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation
None of our officers currently serves, or in the past year has served, as a member of the Board of Directors or compensation committee of any entity that has one or more officers serving on our Board of Directors.
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 and our audit and compensation committee charters as exhibits to the registration statement. You may review these documents by accessing our public filings at the SEC’s web site at
www.sec.report
. In addition, a copy of the Code of Ethics will be provided without charge upon request from us. We intend to disclose any amendments to or waivers of certain provisions of our Code of Ethics in a Current Report on Form
8-K.
Conflicts of Interest
Under Cayman Islands law, directors and officers owe the following fiduciary duties:
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;
duty to exercise powers for the purposes for which those powers were conferred and not for a collateral purpose;
directors should not improperly fetter the exercise of future discretion;
duty to exercise powers fairly as between different sections of shareholders;
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
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 amended and restated memorandum and articles of association or alternatively by shareholder approval at general meetings.
Certain of our officers and directors presently have, and any of them in the future may have, additional fiduciary and contractual duties to other entities. As a result, 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, then, subject to their fiduciary duties under Cayman Islands law, he or she will need to honor such fiduciary or contractual obligations to present such business combination opportunity to such entity, before we can pursue such opportunity. If these other entities decide to pursue any such opportunity, we may be precluded from pursuing the same. However, we do not expect these duties to materially affect our ability to complete our initial business combination. Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide that we renounce our interest in any business combination opportunity offered to any director or officer unless such opportunity is expressly offered to such person solely in his or her capacity as a director or officer of the company and it is an opportunity that we are able to complete on a reasonable basis.
Below is a table summarizing the entities to which our executive officers and directors currently have fiduciary duties, contractual obligations or other material management relationships:
Individual
Entity
Entity’s Business
Affiliation
William Mounger II
Delta Industries, Inc.
Tristar Technologies
Tristar License Group, LLC
Tstar 600, LLC
Widespread Wireless, LLC
Concrete
Telecommunications
Chairman
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Manager
Manager
Robert WillisNavigation Capital Partners L.P.InvestmentManaging partner
Greg BoydIntellicom Wireless Management, Inc.IT servicesChief Executive Officer

David JonesHumana Inc.HealthcareDirector
Humana Foundation, Inc.Nonprofit organization for healthcareDirector
CE&S FoundationNonprofit organization for educationDirector
Votive HealthNetwork ManagerDirector
New Life Solution, Inc. (meQuilibrium)Digital coaching servicesDirector
Confluent HealthPhysical therapy servicesDirector
Chrysalis VenturesVenture capitalChairman
David BarksdaleAlluvian Capital, LLCInvestmentPrincipal
Sanderson Farms, IncorporatedPoultry producerDirector
The Idea VillageNonprofit organization supporting regional startupsChairman of the board
The Greater New Orleans FoundationPhilanthropic nonprofit organizationVice Chairman of the board
Alex ParkerSequential Technology International LLCTechnology consultingChief Executive Officer
Steven RogersCedar Realty Trust, Inc.Real estate investmentIndependent director
RREEF America REIT II, Inc.Chairman of the board
Net Lease Alliance, LLCChairman of the board
First Commercial Bank, N.A.FinanceDirector
Potential investors should also be aware of the following other potential conflicts of interest:
Our executive 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 executive officers is engaged in several other business endeavors for which he may be entitled to substantial compensation, and our executive officers are not obligated to contribute any specific number of hours per week to our affairs.
Our Sponsor subscribed for founder shares prior to the date of the initial public offering and purchased private placement warrants in a transaction that closed simultaneously with the closing of the initial public offering.
Our Sponsor and each member of our management team have entered into an agreement with us, pursuant to which they have agreed to waive their redemption rights with respect to any founder shares and public shares held by them in connection with (i) the completion of our initial business combination and (ii) a shareholder vote to approve an amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A) that would modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide holders of our Class A ordinary shares the right to have their shares redeemed in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 18 months (or 21 months, as applicable) from the closing of our initial public offering or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares. Additionally, our Sponsor has agreed to waive its rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to its founder shares if we fail to complete our initial business combination within the prescribed time frame. If we do not complete our initial business combination within the prescribed time frame, the private placement warrants will expire worthless. Except as described herein, our Sponsor and our directors and executive officers have agreed not to transfer, assign or sell any of their founder shares until the earliest of (A) one year after the completion of our initial business combination and (B) subsequent to our initial business combination, (x) if the closing price of our Class A ordinary shares equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for share subdivisions, share capitalizations, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within any
30-trading
day period commencing at least 150 days after our initial business combination, or (y) the date on which we complete a liquidation, merger, share exchange or other similar transaction that results in all of our public shareholders having the right to exchange their ordinary shares for cash, securities or other property. Except as described herein, the private placement warrants will not be transferable until 30 days following the completion of our initial business combination. Because each of our executive officers and directors will own ordinary shares or warrants directly or indirectly, 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.
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 is included by a target business as a condition to any agreement with respect to our initial business combination. In addition, our Sponsor, officers and directors may Sponsor, form or participate in other blank check companies similar to ours during the period in which we are seeking an initial business combination. Any such companies may present additional conflicts of interest in pursuing an acquisition target, particularly in the event there is overlap among investment mandates.

We cannot assure you that any of the above-mentioned conflicts will be resolved in our favor.
We are not prohibited from pursuing an initial business combination with a company that is affiliated with our Sponsor, officers or directors. In the event we seek to complete our initial business combination with a company that is affiliated with our Sponsor or any of our officers or directors, we, or a committee of independent directors, will obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or another independent entity that commonly renders valuation opinions that 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.
Furthermore, in no event will our Sponsor or any of our existing officers or directors, or their respective affiliates, be paid by us any finder’s fee, consulting fee or other compensation prior to, or for any services they render in order to effectuate, the completion of our initial business combination.
If we seek shareholder approval, we will complete our initial business combination only if we obtain the approval of an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law, being the affirmative vote of a majority of the ordinary shares represented in person or by proxy and entitled to vote thereon and who vote at a general meeting. In such case, our Sponsor and each member of our management team have agreed to vote their founder shares and public shares in favor of our initial business combination.
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, willful neglect, civil 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 have entered into agreements with our directors and officers to provide contractual indemnification in addition to the indemnification provided for in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. We have purchased 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 (except to the extent they are entitled to funds from the trust account due to their ownership of public shares). 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
Executive Officer and Director Compensation
None of our executive officers or directors have received any cash compensation for services rendered to us. Our executive officers and directors, or 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. Our audit committee will review on a quarterly basis all payments that were made by us to our executive officers or directors, or their affiliates. Any such payments prior to an initial business combination will be made using 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. Other than these payments and reimbursements, no compensation of any kind, including finder’s and consulting fees, will be paid by the company to our Sponsor, executive officers and directors, or their respective affiliates, prior to completion of our initial business combination.

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. 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 Stockholder Matters
The following table sets forth information regarding the beneficial ownership of our ordinary shares as of the date of this Annual Report, by:
each person known by us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares;
each of our executive officers and directors that beneficially owns ordinary shares; and
all our executive 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 following table does not reflect record or beneficial ownership of the private placement warrants as these warrants are not exercisable within 60 days of the date of this prospectus.
In March 2021, our Sponsor paid $25,000, or approximately $0.0035 per share, to cover certain offering costs on our behalf in consideration of 7,187,500 Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001. Also in March 2021, our Sponsor transferred 50,000 of such founder shares (25,000 shares each) to Timothy Dawson, our Chief Financial Officer, and
Cathy-Ann
Martine-Dolecki, our Chief Operating Officer, in each case, at their original purchase price. In August 2021, the initial shareholders forfeited 1,437,500 of such founder shares in the aggregate for no consideration. In November 2021, our Sponsor transferred 150,000 of such founder shares (25,000 shares each) to David Barksdale, Greg Boyd, David Jones, Alex Parker, Steven Rogers, and Robert Willis, each a director of the Company, in each case for their par value. Prior to the initial investment in the company of $25,000 by the Sponsor, the company had no assets, tangible or intangible. The per share price of the founder shares was determined by dividing the amount contributed to the company by the number of founder shares issued.

   
Class B Ordinary Shares
   
Class A Ordinary Shares
 
Name of Beneficial Owner(1)
  
Number of

Shares
Beneficially
Owned(2)
  
Approximate

Percentage
of Class
   
Number of
Shares
Beneficially
Owned
   
Approximate
Percentage
of Class
   
Approximate
Percentage
of Voting
Control
 
Tristar Holdings I LLC (our Sponsor)
   3,631,667(3)   63.16%    —      —      15.79% 
William M. Mounger (4)
   —     —      —      —     
Cathy Martine-Dolecki (5)
   25,000   0.4%    —      —      0.1% 
Timothy Dawson (5)
   25,000   0.4%    —      —      0.1% 
Robert Willis (6)
   25,000   0.4%    —      —      0.1% 
Greg Boyd (7)
   25,000   0.4%    —      —      0.1% 
David Jones (7)
   25,000   0.4%    —      —      0.1% 
David Barksdale (7)
   25,000   0.4%    —      —      0.1% 
Alex Parker (7)
   25,000   0.4%    —      —      0.1% 
Steven Rogers (7)
   25,000   0.4%    —      —      0.1% 
All officers and directors as a group (9 individuals)(4) (8)
   50,000   0.8%    —      —      0.2% 
Radcliffe Management LP
   162,500   2.8%    1,079,023    6.26   5.4% 
Polar Asset Management Partners
   162,500   2.8%    1,687,500    9.8   8.0% 
Spring Creek LLC
   162,500   2.8%    1,687,500    9.8   8.0% 
Magnetar Financial LLC (9)
   162,500   2.8%    1,687,500    9.8   8.0% 
Highbridge Capital Management, LLC (9)
   162,500   2.8%    888,725      4.6% 
Shawn Kimel Investments, Inc.
   —     —      780,331    5.15   3.4% 
LMR Master Fund Ltd.
   67,500   1.2%    907,500    5.26   4.2% 
DE Shaw Valence Portfolios LC
   162,500   2.8%    1,695,000    9.8   8.1% 
Cable One Inc.
   333,333   5.8%    1,646,667    9.6   8.6% 
The K2 Principal Fund LP
   162,500   2.8%    1,687,500    9.8   8.0% 
(1)
Unless otherwise noted, the business address of each of our shareholders is 2780 Peachtree Road, NW Suite 509, Atlanta, Georgia 30305.
(2)
Interests shown consist solely of founder shares, classified as Class B ordinary shares. Such shares will automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares at the time of our initial business combination or earlier at the option of the holders thereof as described in the section entitled “Description of Securities.”
(3)
The shares reported above are held in the name of our Sponsor. Our Sponsor is 70% owned by SPAC Opportunity Partners Investment Sub, LLC. Mr. Mounger controls the entity which is the managing member and only other member of our Sponsor and, accordingly, Mr. Mounger has voting power over all these shares held in the name of our Sponsor. However, Mr. Mounger disclaims beneficial ownership of all such shares except to the extent of his pecuniary interest in such shares.
(4)
Mr. Mounger does not own any shares directly. However, Mr. Mounger has a pecuniary interest in our shares through his ownership interest in an entity which is the managing member of our Sponsor. Such entity owns a 30% membership interest in our Sponsor. Mr. Mounger is the managing member of such entity and, accordingly, has voting power over the shares held in the name of our Sponsor. However, Mr. Mounger disclaims beneficial ownership of all such shares except to the extent of his pecuniary interest in such shares.
(5)
Each of these individuals also has a pecuniary interest in our shares through their ownership interest in an entity which is the managing member of our Sponsor. Such entity owns a 30% membership interest in our Sponsor. Neither of these individuals has voting or dispositive control of the shares held in the name of our Sponsor. Accordingly, each of them disclaims beneficial ownership of all such shares held in the name of our Sponsor except to the extent of their respective pecuniary interests in such shares.
(6)
Mr. Willis is a member of Navigation Capital which, through an affiliate, is a
non-managing
member of our Sponsor with a 70% membership interest in our Sponsor. Since neither Mr. Willis nor Navigation Capital or its affiliate is a managing member of our Sponsor, Mr. Willis disclaims beneficial ownership of all shares held in the name of our Sponsor except to the extent of his pecuniary interest in such shares.
(7)
In addition to the shares that each of these individuals owns directly, each of them has a pecuniary interest in our shares through their ownership interest in an entity which is the managing member of our Sponsor. Such entity owns a 30% membership interest in our Sponsor. None of these individuals has voting or dispositive control of the shares held in the name of our Sponsor. Accordingly, each of them disclaims beneficial ownership of all such shares except to the extent of their respective pecuniary interests in such shares.
(8)
Excludes shares owned in the name of our Sponsor for which such individuals disclaim beneficial ownership except to the extent of their pecuniary interest therein by virtue of their ownership interest in an entity which is the managing member of our Sponsor.
(9)
These entities hold the listed shares through a number of affiliated entities.
Our Sponsor beneficially owns 15.79% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares and has the right to elect all of our directors prior to our initial business combination. Holders of our public shares will not have the right to elect any directors to our Board of Directors prior to our initial business combination. Because of this ownership block, our Sponsor may be able to effectively influence the outcome of all other matters requiring approval by our shareholders, including amendments to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association and approval of significant corporate transactions including our initial business combination.
Our Sponsor has agreed (a) to vote any founder shares and public shares held by it in favor of any proposed business combination and (b) not to redeem any founder shares or public shares held by it in connection with a shareholder vote to approve a proposed initial business combination.
Our Sponsor is deemed to be our “promoter” as such term is defined under the federal securities laws.

Changes in Control
None.
Item 13.
Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence
In March 2021, our Sponsor paid $25,000, or approximately $0.0035 per share, to cover certain offering costs on our behalf in consideration of 7,187,500 Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001. Also in March 2021, our Sponsor transferred 50,000 of such founder shares (25,000 shares each) to Timothy Dawson, our Chief Financial Officer, and
Cathy-Ann
Martine-Dolecki, our Chief Operating Officer, in each case, at their original purchase price. In August 2021, the initial shareholders forfeited 1,437,500 of such founder shares in the aggregate for no consideration. In November 2021, our Sponsor transferred 150,000 of such founder shares (25,000 shares each) to David Barksdale, Greg Boyd, David Jones, Alex Parker, Steven Rogers, and Robert Willis, each a director of the Company, in each case for their par value. The number of founder shares issued was determined based on the expectation that such founder shares would represent 20.0% of the issued and outstanding shares upon completion of our initial public offering. The founder shares (including the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise thereof) may not, subject to certain limited exceptions, be transferred, assigned or sold by the holder.
Our Sponsor has purchased an aggregate of 7,345,000 private placement warrants for a purchase price of $1.00 per whole warrant in a private placement that occurred simultaneously with the closing of our initial public offering. As such, our Sponsor’s interest in this transaction is valued at $7,345,000. Each private placement warrant entitles the holder to purchase one Class A ordinary share at $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment. The private placement warrants (including the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise thereof) may not, subject to certain limited exceptions, be transferred, assigned or sold by the holder until 30 days after the completion of our initial business combination.
As more fully discussed in the section of the prospectus entitled “Management — Conflicts of Interest,” if any of our officers or directors becomes aware of a business combination opportunity that falls within the line of business of any 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 opportunity to such entity. Our officers and directors currently have certain relevant fiduciary duties or contractual obligations that may take priority over their duties to us.
No compensation of any kind, including finder’s and consulting fees, will be paid to our Sponsor, officers and directors, or their respective affiliates, for services rendered prior to or in connection with the completion of an initial business combination. However, these individuals 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. Our audit committee will review on a quarterly basis all payments that were made by us to our Sponsor, officers, directors or their affiliates and will determine which expenses and the amount of expenses that will be reimbursed. There is no cap or ceiling on the reimbursement of
out-of-pocket
expenses incurred by such persons in connection with activities on our behalf.
In addition, in order to finance transaction costs in connection with an intended initial business combination, our Sponsor or an affiliate of our Sponsor or certain of our officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan us funds as may be required. If we complete an initial business combination, we may repay such loaned amounts out of the proceeds of the trust account released to us. In the event that the initial business combination does not close, we may use a portion of the working capital held outside the trust account to repay such loaned amounts but no proceeds from our trust account would be used for such repayment. Up to $1,500,000 of such loans may be convertible into warrants at a price of $1.00 per warrant at the option of the lender. The warrants would be identical to the private placement warrants, including as to exercise price, exercisability and exercise period. The terms of such loans by our officers and directors, if any, have not been determined and no written agreements exist with respect to such loans. We do not expect to seek loans from parties other than our Sponsor, its affiliates or our management team as we do not believe third parties will be willing to loan such funds and provide a waiver against any and all rights to seek access to funds in our trust account.

After our initial business combination, members of our management team who remain with us may be paid consulting, management or other fees from the combined company with any and all amounts being fully disclosed to our shareholders, to the extent then known, in the tender offer or proxy solicitation materials, as applicable, furnished to our shareholders. It is unlikely the amount of such compensation will be known at the time of distribution of such tender offer materials or at the time of a general meeting held to consider our initial business combination, as applicable, as it will be up to the directors of the post-combination business to determine executive and director compensation.
We entered into a registration rights agreement pursuant to which our Sponsor, directors and the anchor investors are entitled to certain registration rights with respect to the private placement warrants, the warrants issuable upon conversion of working capital loans (if any) and the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the foregoing and upon conversion of the founder shares, as long as the Sponsor and directors hold any securities covered by the registration agreement, which is described under the section of the prospectus entitled “Description of Securities — Registration Rights.”
Policy for Approval of Related Party Transactions
The audit committee of our Board of Directors adopted a charter, providing for the review, approval and/or ratification of “related party transactions,” which are those transactions required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 of Regulation
S-K
as promulgated by the SEC, by the audit committee. At its meetings, the audit committee shall be provided with the details of each new, existing, or proposed related party transaction, including the terms of the transaction, any contractual restrictions that the company has already committed to the business purpose of the transaction, and the benefits of the transaction to the company and to the relevant related party. Any member of the committee who has an interest in the related party transaction under review by the committee shall abstain from voting on the approval of the related party transaction, but may, if so requested by the chairman of the committee, participate in some or all of the committee’s discussions of the related party transaction. Upon completion of its review of the related party transaction, the committee may determine to permit or to prohibit the related party transaction.
Item 14.
Principal Accounting Fees and Services
Marcum LLP (“Marcum”) acts as our independent registered public accounting firm. The following is a summary of fees paid or to be paid to Marcum 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 Marcum in connection with regulatory filings. The aggregate fees billed by Marcum for professional services rendered for the audit of our annual financial statements, review of the financial information included in our Forms 10-Q for the respective periods and other required filings with the SEC for the period March 5, 2021 (inception) through December 31, 2021 totaled $116,776. The above amounts include interim procedures and audit fees, as well as attendance at audit committee meetings.
Audit-Related Fees
. Audit-related services consist of fees billed for assurance and related services that are reasonably related to performance of the audit or review of our financial statements and are not reported under “Audit Fees.” These services include attest services that are not required by statute or regulation and consultations concerning financial accounting and reporting standards. We did not pay Marcum for consultations concerning financial accounting and reporting standards for for the period from March 5, 2021 (inception) through December 31, 2021.
Tax Fees
. We did not pay Marcum for tax planning and tax advice for the the period from March 5, 2021 (inception) through December 31, 2021.
All Other Fees
. We did not pay Marcum for other services for the period from March 5, 2021 (inception) through December 31, 2021.
PART IV
Item 15.
Exhibits and Consolidated Financial Statement Schedules
(a) The following documents are filed as part of this Annual Report on
Form 10-K:
Company.

(1)Financial Statements
(See above)
(2)
Financial Statements Schedules:
None.
(3)
Exhibits
We hereby file as part of this Report the exhibits listed in the attached Exhibit Index. Exhibits incorporated herein by reference can be found on the SEC’s website as www.sec.gov.
Exhibit No.
Description
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EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.

Description

1.1

Underwriting Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, by and between the Company, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and Loop Capital Markets LLC, as representativerepresentatives of the underwriters named therein (1)therein. (4)

2.1

Business Combination Agreement, dated as of November 12, 2023, by and among the Company, Pubco, the First Merger Sub, the Second Merger Sub, Helport, the Purchaser Representative and the Seller Representative. + (8)

  3.1

2.2

First Amendment to the Business Combination Agreement, dated as of December 18, 2023, by and among the Company, Pubco, the First Merger Sub, the Second Merger Sub, Helport, the Purchaser Representative and the Seller Representative. (9)

3.1

Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association (1)Association. (4)

3.2

Resolution Approving Amendment to the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association. (6)

4.1

Specimen Unit Certificate (2)Certificate. (3)

4.2

  4.2

Specimen Class A Ordinary Share Certificate (2)Certificate. (3)

4.3

  4.3

Specimen Warrant Certificate (2)Certificate. (3)

4.4

  4.4

Warrant Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, by and between the Company and Continental, Stock Transfer & Trust Company (1)as warrant agent. (4)

4.5

  4.5

Description of Registered Securities*Securities. (5)

10.1

Amended and Restated Promissory Note, dated as of May 31, 2021, issued to the Prior Sponsor. (1)

10.1

10.2

LetterSecurities Subscription Agreement, dated October 13,March 15, 2021, by and between the Company each of its officers and directors, and the Sponsor (1)Prior Sponsor. (2)

10.3

10.2

Private Placement Warrants PurchaseInvestment Management Trust Account Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, by and between the Company and the Sponsor (1)Continental, as trustee. (4)

10.4

10.3

Registration Rights Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, by and among the Company, the Prior Sponsor and certain other securitythe holders name therein (1)party thereto. (4)

10.5

Letter Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, by and among the Company, its Prior Officers, Prior Directors and the Prior Sponsor. (4)

10.4

10.6

Investment Management TrustPrivate Placement Warrants Transfer Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, by and between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as trustee (1)the Prior Sponsor. (4)

10.7

10.5

Administrative Support Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, by and between the Company and the Sponsor (1)Prior Sponsor. (3)

10.8

Indemnity Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, by and between the Company and William M. Mounger II. (4)

10.6

10.9

AmendedIndemnity Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, by and Restated between the Company and Cathy Martine-Dolecki. (4)

10.10

Indemnity Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, by and between the Company and Timothy Dawson. (4)

10.11

Indemnity Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, by and between the Company and Robert Willis. (4)

10.12

Indemnity Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, by and between the Company and Greg Boyd. (4)

10.13

Indemnity Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, by and between the Company and David Jones. (4)

10.14

Indemnity Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, by and between the Company and David Barksdale. (4)

10.15

Indemnity Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, by and between the Company and Alex Parker. (4)

10.16

Indemnity Agreement, dated October 13, 2021, by and between the Company and Steven Rogers. (4)

10.17

Securities Transfer Agreement, dated July 18, 2023, by and among the Company, the Prior Sponsor and the Sponsor. (6)

10.18

Form of Founder Share Transfer Agreement, by and between Chunyi (Charlie) Hao and the transferor thereto. (6)

10.19

Form of Joinder to Letter Agreement and Registration Rights Agreement, by and among the Company, the Prior Sponsor and the Sponsor. (6)

10.20

Amendment to Letter Agreement, dated as of July 18, 2023, by and among the Company, the Prior Sponsor, and the other parties thereto. (6)

10.21

Promissory Note, dated as of May 31, 2021,July 18, 2023, issued to Chunyi (Charlie) Hao. (6)

10.22

Form of September 2023 Promissory Notes. (6)

10.23

Amended and Restated Investment Management Trust Agreement, dated as of July 18, 2023, by and between the RegistrantCompany and Continental, as trustee.*

10.24

Amendment No. 1 to Amended and Restated Investment Management Trust Agreement, dated as of November 13, 2023, by and between the Company and Continental, as trustee. (7)

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10.25

Form of Lock-Up Agreement, by and among the Company, the Sponsor, Helport, and the Sponsor (3)Helport holders party thereto. (8)

10.26

Shareholder Support Agreement, dated as of November 12, 2023, by and among the Company, Helport and the Helport holders party thereto. (8)

31.1

10.27

Second Amendment to Letter Agreement, dated as of November 12, 2023, by and among the Company, the Prior Sponsor, the Sponsor, Helport, Pubco, and the other parties thereto. (8)

10.28

Form of Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement, dated as of November 12, 2023, by and among the Company, the Sponsor, Helport, Pubco and Subject Parties party thereto. (8)

10.29

Form of Assignment, Assumption and Amendment to Warrant Agreement, by and among the Company, Pubco and Continental, as warrant agent. (8)

10.30

Form of First Amendment to Registration Rights Agreement, by and among the Company, the Sponsor, Pubco and Helport. (8)

10.31

Lock-Up Agreement, dated as of April 26, 2024, by and among Tristar Acquisition I Corp., Helport AI Limited, Navy Sail International Limited and the shareholder named therein. (10)

10.32

Lock-Up Agreement, dated as of April 26, 2024, by and among Tristar Acquisition I Corp., Helport AI Limited, Navy Sail International Limited and the shareholder named therein. (10)

14.1

Code of Ethics.(3)

31.1

Certification of the Principal Executive Officer required bypursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) orand Rule 15d-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.*

31.2

31.2

Certification of the Principal Financial Officer required bypursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) orand Rule 15d-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.*

32.1

32.1

Certification of the Principal Executive Officer required by Rule 13a-14(b) or 15d-14(b) andpursuant to 18 U.S.C. 1350*1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.**

32.2

32.2

Certification of the Principal Financial Officer required by Rule 13a-14(b) or 15d-14(b) andpursuant to 18 U.S.C. 1350*1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.** 

97.1

Policy Related to Recovery of Erroneously Awarded Compensation, adopted December 1, 2023.*

*

99.1

Amended Audit Committee Charter.*

99.2

Amended Compensation Committee Charter.*

99.3

Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Charter.(3)

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 (Embedded as Inline XBRL document and contained in Exhibit 101).*

*

Filed herewith.herewith

**

Furnished herewith.

herewith

+

Certain of the exhibits and schedules to this exhibit have been omitted in accordance with Regulation S-K Item 601(b)(2). The Company agrees to furnish supplementally a copy of all omitted exhibits and schedules to the SEC upon its request.

(1)

Incorporated by reference to Amendment No. 2 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-255009), filed with the SEC on June 25, 2021.

(2)

Incorporated by reference to Amendment No. 3 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-255009), filed with the SEC on September 3, 2021.

(3)

Incorporated by reference to Amendment No. 5 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-255009), filed with the SEC on September 29, 2021.

(4)

Incorporated by reference to the registrant’sCompany’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on October 18,19, 2021.

(5)

(2)

Incorporated by reference to the Company’s S-1/Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, as filed with the SEC on September 29, 2021.

August 19, 2022.

(6)

(3)

Incorporated by reference to the Company’s S-1/A,Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on June 21, 2021.

July 24, 2023.

(7)

Incorporated by reference to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2023, as filed with the SEC on November 14, 2023.

(8)

Incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, as filed with the SEC on November 16, 2023.

(9)

Incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, as filed with the SEC on December 22, 2023.

(10)

Incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, as filed with the SEC on May 2, 2024.


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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrantRegistrant has duly caused this reportReport to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

May 8, 2024

TRISTAR ACQUISITION I CORP.

By:

By:

/s/ William M. Mounger IIXiaoma (Sherman) Lu

Name:

Name: William M. Mounger II

Xiaoma (Sherman) Lu

Title:

Title: 

Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the BoardDirector

(Principal Executive Officer)

Dated: March 31, 2022
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints William M. Mounger II, Cathy Martine-Dolecki, and Timothy Dawson, and each of them, his true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact
and agents, 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 the 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 and about the premises, as fully and to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact
and agents, or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this reportReport has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrantRegistrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Name

Position

Date

Signature

Title
Date

/s/ William M. Mounger II

William M. Mounger II
Xiaoma (Sherman) Lu

Chief Executive Officer and Chairman

Director

May 8, 2024

Xiaoma (Sherman) Lu

(Principal Executive Officer)

March 31, 2022

/s/ Timothy Dawson

Timothy Dawson
Chunyi (Charlie) Hao

President, Chief Financial Officer

and Chairman of the Board of Directors

May 8, 2024

Chunyi (Charlie) Hao

(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

March 31, 2022

/s/ Cathy Martine Dolecki

Cathy Martine Dolecki
Ri (Richard) Yuan

Chief OperatingInvestment Officer and Director

March 31, 2022

May 8, 2024

Ri (Richard) Yuan

/s/ Robert Willis
Robert Willis

DirectorMarch 31, 2022

/s/ Xinyue (Jasmine) Geffner

Director

May 8, 2024

/s/ Greg Boyd
Greg Boyd

Xinyue (Jasmine) Geffner

Director

March 31, 2022

/s/ David Jones

David Jones
Stephen Markscheid

Director

March 31, 2022

May 8, 2024

Stephen Markscheid

/s/ David Barksdale
David Barksdale

Director

March 31, 2022

/s/Wang Chiu (Tommy) Wong

Director

May 8, 2024

/s/ Alex Parker
Alex Parker

Wang Chiu (Tommy) Wong

Director

March 31, 2022

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/s/ Steven Rogers
Steven Rogers
DirectorMarch 31, 2022