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As filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on August 11, 2025.

Registration

No. 333-[ ]

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM

S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

GigCapital8 Corp.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


Cayman Islands	6770	98-1868645
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)	(Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

1731 Embarcadero Rd., Suite 200

Palo Alto,

94303

(650)

276-7040

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Dr. Avi S. Katz

Chief Executive Officer and Chairman

GigCapital8 Corp.

1731 Embarcadero Rd., Suite 200

Palo Alto,

94303

(650)

276-7040

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:


Jeffrey C. Selman, Esq. Elena Nrtina, Esq. DLA Piper LLP (US) 555 Mission Street, Suite 2400 San Francisco, CA 94105 Telephone: (415) 615-6095 Facsimile: (415) 659 7465		George Weston Christopher Hall Harney Westwood & Riegels (Cayman) LLP 3rd Floor, Harbour Place 103 South Church Street Grand Cayman Tel: (345) 949-8599		Douglas S. Ellenoff, Esq. Stuart Neuhauser, Esq. Anthony Ain, Esq. Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP 1345 Avenue of the Americas, 11 th Fl. New York, NY 10105 Telephone: (212) 370-1300 Facsimile: (212) 370-7889

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:

As soon as practicable after the effective date of this registration statement.

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933 check the following box. ☐

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

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

non-filer,

a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule

12b-2

of the Exchange Act.

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 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission acting pursuant to said section 8(a), may determine.

The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and it is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.

PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS

SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED AUGUST 11, 2025

$220,000,000

GigCapital8 Corp.

22,000,000 Units

GigCapital8 Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “company”), is a newly organized

Private-to-Public

Equity (PPE) company, also known as a blank check company or special purpose acquisition company (“SPAC”), formed by an affiliate of the serial SPAC issuer GigCapital Global, for the purpose of entering into a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses, which we refer to throughout this prospectus as our “initial business combination.” We have not selected any specific business combination target. To date, our efforts have been limited to organizational activities as well as activities related to this offering. Our efforts to identify a prospective target business will not be limited to a particular industry or geographic region, although we intend to focus on companies in the aerospace and defense services, cybersecurity and secured communications and quantum-based command and control systems, and artificial intelligence and machine-learning industries.

This is an initial public offering of our securities. We are offering 22,000,000 units at an offering price of $10.00 each. Each unit consists of one Class A ordinary share and one right to receive

one-tenth of

one Class A ordinary share upon the consummation of an initial business combination. Each ten rights entitle the holder thereof to receive one Class A ordinary share

upon the consummation of our business combination. We will not issue fractional shares upon the conversion of the rights. As a result, you must hold rights in multiples of ten in order to receive shares for all of your rights upon the consummation of a business combination. We refer herein to the units sold in this offering as our “public units,” and the components thereof as our “public shares” and “public rights,” respectively. We have granted D. Boral Capital LLC, the representative of the underwriters of this offering, a

45-day

option to purchase up to an additional 3,300,000 units solely to cover over-allotments, if any.

We will provide the purchasers of our public units, or our “public shareholders,” with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their public shares upon the completion of our initial business combination at a

per-share

price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account described below as of two business days prior to consummation of the initial business combination, including interest earned on the funds held in the trust account (net of amounts withdrawn to fund our working capital requirements, subject to an annual limit of $1,000,000, and to pay our taxes, if any, (“permitted withdrawals”)), divided by the number of then issued and outstanding public shares, subject to the limitations and on the conditions described herein. The amount in the trust account will initially be $10.00 per public share. We will have 24 months from the closing of this offering or until such earlier liquidation date as our board of directors may approve, to consummate an initial business combination, which we refer to herein as the completion window. If we anticipate that we may be unable to consummate our initial business combination within such

24-month

period, we may seek shareholder approval to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to extend the date by which we must consummate our initial business combination. If we seek shareholder approval for an extension, holders of public shares will be offered an opportunity to redeem their shares at a per share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest earned thereon (less permitted withdrawals), divided by the number of then issued and outstanding public shares, subject to applicable law. If we are unable to complete our initial business combination within the completion window (or such later date as approved by our shareholders), or by such

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earlier liquidation date as our board of directors may approve, we will redeem 100% of 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 thereon (less permitted withdrawals and up to $100,000 of interest income to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then issued and outstanding public shares, subject to applicable law and certain conditions as further described herein.

See

“

Summary — The Offering — Redemption rights for public shareholders upon completion of our initial business combination

” on page [ ] and “

Summary — The Offering — Redemption of public shares and distribution and liquidation if no initial business combination

” on page [ ] for more information.

Notwithstanding the foregoing redemption rights, 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 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 shares sold in this offering without our prior consent. However, we would not be restricting our shareholders’ ability to vote all of their shares (including all shares held by those shareholders that hold more than 15% of the shares sold in this offering) for or against our initial business combination.

See “

Summary—The Offering—

Limitation on redemption rights of shareholders holding more than 15% of the public shares sold in this offering if we hold a shareholder vote

” on page [ ] for further discussion on certain limitations on redemption rights.

Our sponsor, GigAcquisitions8 Corp., (or

non-affiliated

investors to which our sponsor assigns this subscription as described below) will subscribe to purchase an aggregate of 95,200 private placement units (including if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), at a price of $9.7374 per unit, for an aggregate purchase price of $927,000 in a private placement that will close simultaneously with the closing of this offering. Each unit sold in this private placement consists of one Class A ordinary share and one right to receive

one-tenth of

one Class A ordinary share upon the consummation of an initial business combination, as described in more detail in this prospectus. We refer to these units throughout this prospectus as “private placement units,” the Class A ordinary shares included in the units as “private placement shares” and the share rights included in such units as “private placement rights.” The sponsor reserves the right to allocate participation in the private placement for the 95,200 private placement units to some

non-affiliated

investors in connection with the completion of this offering in exchange for interests in our founder shares (as defined below). The private placement units are identical to the public units sold in this offering, subject to certain limited exceptions as described in this prospectus.

At our formation on June 30, 2025, one Class B ordinary share that was allotted to Harneys Fiduciary (Cayman) Limited “Harneys Fiduciary”) upon our formation was transferred by Harneys Fiduciary to our sponsor and 8,099,613 Class B ordinary shares were issued to our sponsor for an aggregate purchase price of $25,000. On July 18, 2025, our sponsor surrendered 249,385 Class B ordinary shares to us (which were cancelled) for no consideration, with the resulting 7,850,229 founder shares paid for at a purchase price of $0.00318 per share, of which up to 1,023,943 Class B ordinary shares remain subject to forfeiture depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised during this offering. As a result, as of the date of this prospectus, we have 7,850,229 Class B ordinary shares, which we can transfer to permitted transferees as set forth in the subscription agreement. We refer to such 7,850,229 Class B ordinary shares throughout this prospectus as “founder shares.”

See

“

Summar

— The Offering— Sponsor

’

s Securities and Compensation

”

for further discussion on sponsor

’

s and our affiliates

’

securities and compensation.

The proceeds from the sale of the founder shares will not be placed in the trust account. Prior to the completion of our initial business combination, only holders of our Class B ordinary shares will be entitled to vote on the election of directors.

Eight groups of institutional accredited investors (none of which are affiliated with any member of our management, our sponsor or any other investor), which we refer to as the

“non-managing

investors” throughout this prospectus, have committed to purchase an aggregate of (a) 2,964,203 Class B ordinary shares (of which up to 386,681 Class B ordinary shares remain subject to forfeiture depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised during this offering) at a purchase price per Class B ordinary

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share of $0.023254, and (b) an aggregate of 242,475 private placement units (or up to 262,457 private placement units if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) at a price of $9.7374 per private placement unit, for an aggregate purchase price of $2,430,006 (or $2,624,578 if the underwriters’

over-allotment

option is exercised in full) in a private placement that will close simultaneously with the completion of this offering. We refer to the 2,964,203 Class B ordinary shares being issued to the

non-managing

investors throughout this prospectus as “private investor shares.”

The Class B ordinary shares will automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares at the time of our initial business combination, or at any time prior thereto at the option of the holder thereof, on a

one-for-one

basis, subject to adjustment for share

sub-divisions,

share capitalizations, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like. Because our sponsor acquired the founder shares at a nominal price of $0.00318 per Class B ordinary share, and the

non-managing

to our public shareholders due to the anti-dilution rights of our Class B ordinary shares that may result in an issuance of Class A ordinary shares on a greater than

one-to-one

basis upon conversion. In addition, because our sponsor and the

non-managing

See the section titled “

Risk Factors

—

Risks Relating to our Securities

—

The nominal purchase price paid by our sponsor for the founder shares and paid by the

non-managing

investors for the private investor shares, in addition to the sale of private placement units to the sponsor and the

non-managing

investors, may result in significant dilution to the implied value of your public shares upon the consummation of our initial business combination.

” on page [ ]

. In the case that additional Class A ordinary shares, or equity-linked securities (as described herein), are issued or deemed issued in excess of the amounts issued in this offering and related to or in connection with the closing of our initial business combination, the ratio at which the Class B ordinary shares will convert into Class A ordinary shares will be adjusted (unless the holders of a majority of the issued and outstanding Class B ordinary shares agree to waive such anti-dilution adjustment with respect to any such issuance or deemed issuance) so that the number of Class A ordinary shares issuable upon conversion of all Class B ordinary shares will equal, in the aggregate, 30% of the sum of (i) all ordinary shares issued and outstanding upon the completion of this offering (including any Class A ordinary shares issued pursuant to the underwriters’ over-allotment option and excluding the securities underlying the private placement units issued to the sponsor and

non-managing

investors, as described below), (ii) plus all Class A ordinary shares and equity-linked securities issued or deemed issued in connection with our initial business combination (excluding any shares or equity-linked securities issued, or to be issued, to any seller in the initial business combination and any private placement-equivalent units issued to our sponsor or any of its affiliates or to our officers or directors upon conversion of working capital loans) and (iii) minus any redemptions of Class A ordinary shares by public shareholders in connection with an initial business combination; provided that such conversion of founder shares will never occur on a less than

one-for-one

basis. If we increase or decrease the size of this offering, we will effect a share capitalization or a share repurchase or redemption or other appropriate mechanism, as applicable, with respect to our Class B ordinary shares immediately prior to the consummation of this offering in such amount as to maintain the ownership of founder shares by our sponsor, on an

as-converted

basis, at 30% of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares upon the consummation of this offering. Prior to our initial business combination, only holders of our Class B ordinary shares will have the right to vote on the appointment and removal of directors. Holders of our Class A ordinary shares will not be entitled to vote on the appointment or removal of directors during such time. These provisions of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association may only be amended by a special resolution passed by a majority of at least 90% (or, where such amendment is proposed in respect of the consummation of our initial business combination,

two-thirds)

of our ordinary shares voting at the applicable general meeting. With respect to any other matter submitted to a vote of our shareholders, including any vote in connection with our initial business combination, except as required by applicable law or stock exchange rule, holders of our Class A ordinary shares and holders of our Class B ordinary shares will vote together as a single class, with each share entitling the holder to one vote. In addition, to continue the company in a jurisdiction outside of the Cayman Islands, including the adoption of the

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organizational documents for such jurisdiction, our board of directors will be able to approve such continuation and organizational documents without the vote of any holders of our Class A ordinary shares and Class B ordinary shares. Collectively, the sponsor’s 6,826,286 Class B ordinary shares and 95,200 private placement shares will represent 21.8% of all ordinary shares outstanding upon completion of this offering, assuming that the underwriters’ over-allotment option is not exercised. In addition, together with the

non-managing

investors’ 2,577,522 Class B ordinary shares and 242,475 private placement shares, the total founder shares, private investor shares and private placement shares of the sponsor and the

non-managing

investors will represent 30.7% of all 31,741,483 ordinary shares outstanding upon completion of this offering, assuming that the underwriters’ over-allotment option is not exercised.

See “

Summary—Sponsor

” for further discussion on our sponsor’s securities and compensation on page [ ]; “

Summary —The Offering —Transfer restrictions applicable to founder shares, private investor shares, private placement shares and private placement rights (and shares into which the rights convert)

” on page [ ], “

Summary —The Offering—Conversion of founder shares and private investor shares and anti-dilution rights

” on page [ ] “

Summary — The Offering —Election of directors; Voting rights

” on page [ ], “

Risk Factors —Risks Relating to our Securities—

The nominal purchase price paid by our sponsor for the founder shares and paid by the

non

-managing

investors for the private investor shares, in addition to the sale of private placement units to the sponsor and the

non-managing

investors, may result in significant dilution to the implied value of your public shares upon the consummation of our initial business combination.

” on page [ ], and “

General Risk Factors —

We may issue additional ordinary or preferred shares to complete our initial business combination or under an employee incentive plan upon or after consummation of our initial business combination, which would dilute the interest of our shareholders and likely present other risks.

” on page [ ] and “

Dilution

” on page [ ].

None of the

non-managing

investors have currently expressed to us an interest in purchasing any of the public units in this offering and neither us nor the representatives have had discussions with any

non-managing

investors regarding any purchases of public units in this offering. However, we expect that some or all of the

non-managing

investors may seek to purchase public units in the offering, but if they do indicate an interest in doing so, that a smaller amount of the public units in this offering will be offered by the underwriters to the

non-managing

investors than the amount for which the

non-managing

investors may express an interest. Furthermore, we would not expect any of the

non-managing

investors to express an interest to purchase more than 9.9% of the public units to be sold in this offering. There can be no assurance that the

non-managing

investors will acquire any public units, either directly or indirectly, in this offering, or as to the amount of the public units the

non-managing

investors will retain, if any, prior to or upon the consummation of our initial business combination. In addition, the underwriters have full discretion to allocate the public units to investors and may determine to sell a different number or no public units to the

non-managing

investors. If the

non-managing

investors purchase public units in the offering, and depending on how many public units are purchased by the

non-managing

investors, the post-offering trading volume, volatility and liquidity of our securities may be reduced relative to what they would have been had the units been more widely offered and sold to other public investors. We do not expect any potential purchases of units by the

non-managing

investors to negatively impact our ability to meet the listing eligibility requirements of the Nasdaq Global Market tier of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”). The underwriters will receive the same upfront discounts and commissions on public units purchased by the

non-managing

investors in the offering, if any, as it will on the other public units sold to the public in this offering. In addition, although the

non-managing

investors have agreed to vote their private investor shares and private placement shares in favor of an initial business combination, none of the

non-managing

investors has any obligation to vote any public shares which they may hold in favor of our initial business combination. Nevertheless, regardless of the number of public units they may purchase, the

non-managing

investors will be incentivized to vote their public shares in favor of a business combination due to their ownership of private investor shares and private placement shares and private placement rights issued as part of the private placement units. In the event that the

non-managing

investors purchase such public units (either in this offering or after) and vote them in favor of our initial business combination, no affirmative votes from other public shareholders may be required to approve our initial business combination if all of our issued and outstanding shares are voted. However, because the

non-managing

investors are not obligated to continue owning any public shares following the closing of this offering and are not obligated to

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vote any public shares in favor of our initial business combination, we cannot assure you that any of these

non-managing

investors will be public shareholders at the time our shareholders vote on our initial business combination, and, if they are public shareholders, we cannot assure you as to how such

non-managing

investors will vote on any business combination. Additionally, these

non-managing

investors have the potential to realize enhanced economic returns from their investments compared to other investors in this offering.

If the

non-managing

investors that purchase public units otherwise hold a substantial number of our public units, then the

non-managing

investors will potentially have different interests than our other public shareholders in approving our initial business combination and otherwise exercising their rights as public shareholders because of their ownership of private investor shares and private placement shares. Such ownership may create an incentive for the

non-managing

investors to vote any public shares they own in favor of a business combination and make a substantial profit on their private investor shares and private placement shares, even if the business combination is with a target that ultimately declines in value and is not profitable for other public shareholders.

As more fully discussed in “

Management—Conflicts of Interest

” on page [ ], each of our officers and directors presently has, and any of them in the future may have additional, fiduciary, contractual or other obligations or duties to one or more other entities pursuant to which such officer or director is or will be required to present a business combination opportunity to such entities.

The low price that our sponsor, executive officers and directors (directly or indirectly) paid for the founder shares creates an incentive whereby our sponsor, officers and directors could potentially make a substantial profit even if we select an acquisition target that subsequently declines in value and is unprofitable for public shareholders. If we are unable to complete our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering, or by such earlier liquidation date as our board of directors may approve, the founder shares and private placement units held by our sponsor may expire worthless, except to the extent they receive liquidating distributions from assets outside the trust account, which could create an incentive for our sponsor, executive officers and directors to complete a transaction even if we select an acquisition target that subsequently declines in value and is unprofitable for public shareholders. Further, each of 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 was included by a target business as a condition to any agreement with respect to our initial business combination. Additionally, commencing on the date on which our securities are listed on Nasdaq, we will pay an affiliate of our sponsor in an amount equal to $30,000 per month for office space, utilities and secretarial and administrative support made available to us, as described elsewhere in this prospectus. Furthermore, we will pay our Chief Financial Officer up to $10,000 per month for her services to us. Upon consummation of this offering, we will repay a $100,000 loan made to us by our sponsor to cover offering-related and organizational expenses. In the event that following this offering we obtain working capital loans from our sponsor to finance transaction costs related to our initial business combination, up to $1,500,000 of such loans may be convertible into units of the post-business combination entity at a price of $10.00 per unit at the option of our sponsor. Additionally, our sponsor, our officers and directors or their affiliates may be paid finder’s fees, advisory fees, consulting fees or success fees in order to effectuate the completion of our initial business combination. Additionally, following consummation of a business combination, members of our management team will be entitled to reimbursement for any

out-of-pocket

expenses related to identifying, investigating and completing an initial business combination. As a result, there may be actual or potential material conflicts of interest between members of our management team, our sponsor and its affiliates on one hand, and purchasers in this offering on the other.

See the sections titled “

Prospectus Summary

—

Our Sponsor

” on page [ ] for further discussion on our sponsor’s and affiliate’s compensation;

“

Proposed Business

—

Our Business Combination Process — Sources of Target Businesses”

on page

[ ]

and

“Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions

”

on page

[ ]

for more information. For more details on related risks, see

“

Risk Factors — Risks Relating to our Search for, and Consummation of or Inability to

Consummate, a Business Combination — We may engage in our initial business combination with one or more target businesses that have relationships with entities that may be affiliated with our sponsor, executive

officers or directors, which may raise potential conflicts of interest.

”

on page

[ ], “

Risk Factors — Risks Relating to Our Search for, and Consummation of or Inability to Consummate, a Business Combination — “We may engage in our initial business combination with one or more target businesses that have relationships with entities that may be affiliated with our sponsor, executive officers or directors, which may raise potential conflicts of interest.”

on page

[ ],

“Risk Factors — Risks

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Relating to our Search for, and Consummation of or Inability to Consummate, a Business Combination —

We are not required to obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or another independent entity, and consequently, an independent source may not confirm that the price we are paying for

the business is fair to our shareholders from a financial point of view.”

on page

[ ], “

Risk Factors — Risks Relating to Our Management Team — Our executive officers and directors may negotiate employment or consulting agreements with a target business in connection with a particular business combination. 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.”

on page

[ ], “

Risk Factors — Risks Relating to our Management Team— Our 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.

”

on page

[ ]

and

“

Risk Factors — Risks Relating to Our Management Team — Certain of our officers and directors are now, and all of them may in the future become, affiliated with entities engaged in business activities similar to those intended to be conducted by us, including other blank check companies, and, accordingly, may have conflicts of interest in allocating their time and determining to which entity a particular business opportunity should be presented

”

on page

[ ].

We have until the date that is 24 months from the closing of this offering or until such earlier liquidation date as our board of directors may approve to consummate our initial business combination. If we anticipate that we may be unable to consummate our initial business combination within such

24-month

period, we may seek shareholder approval to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to extend the date by which we must consummate our initial business combination. If we seek shareholder approval for an extension, holders of public shares will be offered an opportunity to redeem their shares at a per share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest earned thereon (which interest shall be net of permitted withdrawals), divided by the number of then issued and outstanding public shares, subject to applicable law. If we are unable to complete our initial business combination within the

24-month

period, we will redeem 100% of 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 thereon (which interest shall be net of permitted withdrawals and up to $100,000 of interest income to pay liquidation expenses), divided by the number of then issued and outstanding public shares, which redemption will constitute full and complete payment for the public shares and completely extinguish public shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidation or other distributions, if any), subject to our obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and subject to the other requirements of applicable law. The redemption rights will also include the requirement that any beneficial owner on whose behalf a redemption right is being exercised must identify itself in order to validly redeem its shares.

There is presently no public market for our public units, public shares or public rights. We intend to apply to list our public units on the Nasdaq, under the symbol “GIWWU” on or promptly after the date of this prospectus. We cannot guarantee that our securities will be approved for listing on Nasdaq. The public shares and the public rights constituting the public units will begin separate trading on the 52nd day following the date of this prospectus, unless the underwriters determine that an earlier date is acceptable, and subject to our filing a Current Report on Form

8-K

with the SEC containing an audited balance sheet of ours reflecting our receipt of the gross proceeds of this offering and issuing a press release announcing when such separate trading will begin. Once the securities comprising the public units begin separate trading, we expect that our public shares and public rights will be listed on Nasdaq under the symbols “GIW” and “GIWWR,” respectively.

We are an “emerging growth company” and a “smaller reporting company” under applicable federal securities laws and will be subject to reduced public company reporting requirements. Investing in our securities involves a high degree of risk. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 55 for a discussion of information that should be considered in connection with an investment in our securities. Investors will not be entitled to protections normally afforded to investors in Rule 419 blank check offerings.

Neither the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

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No offer or invitation, whether directly or indirectly, is being or may be made to the public in the Cayman Islands to subscribe for any of our securities.


	Price to Public		Underwriting Discount(1)		Proceeds, Before Expenses, to us
Per Unit	$	10.00	$	0.0455	$	9.9545
Total	$	220,000,000	$	1,000,000	$	219,000,000

(1)

$0.0455 per unit or $1,000,000 in the aggregate (including a $250,000 referral fee to be paid by the underwriters to United First Partners LLC) (or $0.0405 per unit or $1,025,000 in the aggregate if the underwriters’ over-allotment option to purchase additional public units is exercised in full), is payable upon the closing of this offering. There is no deferred underwriting commission payable to the underwriters. See the section titled “

Underwriting

” for a description of compensation payable to the underwriters.

Upon consummation of the offering, $10.00 per public unit sold in this offering (whether or not the

over-allotment

option has been exercised, and whether exercised in full or in part) will be deposited into a segregated trust account located in the United States managed by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee. Except as described in this prospectus, these funds will not be released to us until the earlier of (1) the completion of our initial business combination within the required time period or (2) our redemption of 100% of the outstanding public shares if we have not completed an initial business combination in the required time period. We are exempt from rules promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) to protect investors in blank check companies, such as Rule 419.

See the risk factor titled

“

You will not be entitled to protections normally afforded to investors of many other blank check companies.

”

on page [ ]

and

“Proposed Business

—

Comparison of This Offering to Those of Blank Check Companies Subject to Rule 419”

on page [ ] for further information.

The following table illustrates the difference between the public offering price per unit and our net tangible book value per share, as adjusted to reflect various potential redemption levels that may occur in connection with the closing of our initial business combination, which we refer to as “Adjusted NTBVPS,” on a pro forma basis to give effect to this offering and the issuance of the private placement units, assuming the exercise in full and no exercise of the over-allotment option. Adjusted NTBVPS excludes the effect of the consummation of our initial business combination or any related transactions or expenses.

See the section titled “

Dilution

” on page [ ] for more information.


As of July 21, 2025
Offering Price of $10.00 per Unit	25% of Maximum Redemption				50% of Maximum Redemption				75% of Maximum Redemption				Maximum Redemption
Adjusted NTBVPS	Adjusted NTBVPS		Difference between Adjusted NTBVPS and Offering Price		Adjusted NTBVPS		Difference between Adjusted NTBVPS and Offering Price		Adjusted NTBVPS		Difference between Adjusted NTBVPS and Offering Price		Adjusted NTBVPS		Difference between Adjusted NTBVPS and Offering Price
		Assuming No Exercise of Over-Allotment Option
$6.96	$	6.33	$	3.67	$	5.35	$	4.65	$	3.68	$	6.32	$	0.11	$	9.89
		Assuming Full Exercise of Over-Allotment Option
$6.98	$	6.34	$	3.66	$	5.37	$	4.63	$	3.70	$	6.30	$	0.14	$	9.86

The underwriters are offering the public units on a firm commitment basis. The underwriters expect to deliver the public units to purchasers on or about, [X], 2025, subject to customary closing conditions.

Sole Book-Running Manager

D. Boral Capital

The date of this prospectus is , 2025

We are responsible for the information contained in this prospectus. We have not, and the underwriters have not, authorized anyone to provide any information or to make any representations other than those contained in this prospectus. We and the underwriters take no responsibility for, and can provide no assurance as to the reliability of, any other information that others may give you. This prospectus is an offer to sell only the securities offered hereby, but only under circumstances and in jurisdictions where it is lawful to do so. The information contained in this prospectus is current only as of its date.

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Summary		1
Summary Financial Data		50
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements		51
Risks		52
Risk Factors		55
Use of Proceeds		112
Dividend Policy		116
Dilution		117
Capitalization		119
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations		121
Proposed Business		128
Management		163
Principal Shareholders		177
Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions		180
Description of Securities		183
Securities Eligible For Future Sale		200
Material United States Federal Income Tax Considerations		205
Underwriting		215
Legal Matters		223
Experts		224
Where You Can Find Additional Information		225
Index to Financial Statements		F-1

Trademarks

This prospectus contains references to trademarks and service marks belonging to other entities. Solely for convenience, trademarks and trade names referred to in this prospectus may appear without the ^® or ^™ symbols, but such references are not intended to indicate, in any way, that the applicable licensor will not assert, to the fullest extent under applicable law, its rights to these trademarks and trade names. We do not intend our use or display of other companies’ trade names, trademarks or service marks to imply a relationship with, or endorsement or sponsorship of us by, any other companies.

SUMMARY

This summary only highlights the more detailed information appearing elsewhere in this prospectus. As this is a summary, it does not contain all of the information that you should consider in making an investment decision. You should read this entire prospectus carefully, including the information under “Risk Factors” and our financial statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus before investing

Unless otherwise stated in this prospectus or the context otherwise requires, references to:

•

“amended and restated memorandum and articles of association” refer to the amended and restated memorandum and articles of association of the company which will be adopted prior to the consummation of this offering;

•

“combined team” refer to our management team and our other advisors, collectively;

•

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

•

“completion window” are to (i)

months from the closing of this offering; or (ii)

or such earlier liquidation date as our board of directors may approve, in which we must complete an initial business combination; or (iii)

such other time period in which we must complete an initial business combination pursuant to an amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. Our shareholders can also vote at any time to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to modify the amount of time we will have to complete an initial business combination, in which case our public shareholders will be offered an opportunity to redeem their public shares;

•

“directors” are to our directors (including our director nominees named in this prospectus);

•

“founder shares” are to Class

B ordinary shares initially purchased by our sponsor in a private placement prior to this 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 or earlier at the option of the holders thereof as described herein (such Class

A ordinary shares will not be “public shares”);

•

“initial shareholders” refer to our sponsor (or

non-affiliated

investors to which our sponsor assigns this subscription for the private placement units and as a result, transfers any founder shares) and the

non-managing

investors;

•

“Investment Company Act” are to the Investment Company Act

1940, as amended;

•

“management” or our “management team” refer to our directors and executive officers;

•

“

non-managing

investors

”

refer to eight groups of institutional accredited investors (none of which are affiliated with our sponsor, any member of our management, other members of our sponsor or any other investor) that have committed to purchase an aggregate of (a) 2,964,203 Class

B ordinary shares (of which up to 386,681 Class

B ordinary shares remain subject to forfeiture depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised during this offering) at a purchase price per Class

B ordinary share of $0.023254, and (b)

an aggregate of 242,475 private placement units (or up to 262,457 private placement units if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) at a price of $9.7374 per private placement unit, for an aggregate purchase price of $2,430,006 (or $2,624,578 if the underwriters’ over allotment option is exercised in full) from the company in a private placement that will close simultaneously with this offering;

•

“ordinary resolution” are to a resolution of the company passed by a simple majority of the votes cast by such shareholders as, being entitled to do so, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting of the company, or a resolution approved in writing by all of the holders of the

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issued shares entitled to vote on such matter (or such lower threshold as may be allowed under the Companies Act from time to time);;

•

“ordinary shares” are to our Class

A ordinary shares and our Class

B ordinary shares;

•

“permitted withdrawals” refer to amounts withdrawn to fund our working capital requirements, subject to an annual limit of $1,000,000, and to pay our taxes, if any, and such withdrawals can only be made from interest and not from the principal held in the trust account;

•

“private investor shares” refer to 2,964,203 Class

B ordinary shares to be purchased by the

non-managing

investors in a private placement, of which 386,681 Class

B ordinary shares remain subject to forfeiture;

•

“private placement rights” refer to the rights to receive 1/10

of one Class

A ordinary share upon the consummation of an initial business combination included in the private placement units;

•

“private placement shares” refer to (i) 95,200 Class

A ordinary shares included in private placement units to be purchased by the sponsor (or

non-affiliated

investors to which our sponsor assigns this subscription for the private placement units) in a private placement concurrently with this offering, and (ii) 242,475 Class

A ordinary shares (or 262,457 Class

A ordinary shares if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full) included in private placement units to be purchased by the

non-managing

investors in a private placement concurrently with this offering;

•

“private placement units” refer to the units issued in private placements with the sponsor (or

non-affiliated

investors to which our sponsor assigns this subscription for the private placement units) for 95,200 private placement units, and the

non-managing

investors for 242,475 private placement units (or 262,457 private placement units if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full) that will occur concurrently with the closing of this offering, which private placement units

are identical to the public units sold in this offering, subject to certain limited exceptions as described in this prospectus;

•

“public rights” are to the rights to receive 1/10

of one Class

A ordinary share upon the consummation of an initial business combination that are being sold as part of the public units in this offering;

•

“public shares” are to our Class

A ordinary shares sold as part of the public units in this offering (whether they are purchased in this offering or thereafter on the open market; such Class

A ordinary shares exclude private placement shares and any Class

A ordinary shares that are issued upon conversion of our Class

B ordinary shares);

•

“public shareholders” refer to the holders of our public shares, including our sponsor (as defined below), any

non-managing

investors, executive officers and directors to the extent they purchase public shares, provided that their status as “public shareholders” shall only exist with respect to such public shares;

•

“rights” refer to the public rights and the private placement rights;

•

“special resolution” are to a resolution of our company passed by at least a

two-thirds

(2/3) majority (or such higher approval threshold as specified in our company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association) of the votes cast by such shareholders as, being entitled to do so, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting of our company of which notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution as a special resolution has been duly given, or a resolution approved in writing by all of the holders of the issued shares entitled to vote on such matter. For example, assuming that only the holders of

one-third

of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares, representing a quorum under our amended and restated memorandum and articles of

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association, vote their shares at such shareholders meeting, a special resolution can be passed by

holders of at least 7,053,664

ordinary shares of our company (assuming no exercise of the over-allotment option by the underwriters), which means that the initial shareholders along with

non-managing

investors holding 9,403,808 ordinary shares in the aggregate may adopt such special resolution without any additional vote by public shareholders. If all the issued and outstanding ordinary shares of our company are present and entitled to vote at such shareholders meeting, a special resolution will require vote of holders of at least 21,160,989

ordinary shares of our company (assuming no exercise of the over-allotment option by the underwriters), which in addition to the founder shares, private investor shares and private placement units that our sponsor and

non-managing

investors have committed to purchase, will require approximately 11,757,181

public shares, or approximately 53.44% of the 22,000,000;

•

“sponsor” refer to GigAcquisitions8 Corp., a company owned by Dr.

Avi Katz, our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, and Dr.

Raluca Dinu, who is one of our directors; Drs. Katz and Dinu are husband and wife;

•

“underwriters’ over-allotment option” are to the underwriters’

45-day

option to purchase up to an additional 3,300,000 units to cover over-allotments, if any; and

•

“we,” “us” or “our company” refer to GigCapital8 Corp.

All references in this prospectus to shares of the company being forfeited shall take effect as surrenders for no consideration of such shares as a matter of Cayman Islands law. Any conversion of the Class B ordinary shares described in this prospectus will take effect as a compulsory redemption of Class B ordinary shares and an issuance of Class A ordinary shares, or as otherwise permitted by our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, as a matter of Cayman Islands law. Any share dividends described in this prospectus will take effect as share capitalizations as a matter of Cayman Islands law (that is, an issuance of shares from share premium).

Unless we tell you otherwise, the information in this prospectus assumes that the underwriters will not exercise their over-allotment option. You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus. We have not, and the Underwriter has not, authorized anyone to provide you with different information. We are not, and the underwriters are not, making an offer of these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer is not permitted.

“Private-to-Public

Equity (PPE)TM” is a trademark of GigFounders, LLC, an affiliate of our sponsor, and all are used pursuant to an agreement.

General

We are a newly organized Private-to-Public Equity (PPE) company, also known as a blank check company or SPAC, formed by an affiliate of the serial SPAC issuer GigCapital Global, and incorporated in the Cayman Islands on June 30, 2025 for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization or other similar business combination with one or more businesses, which we refer to throughout this prospectus as our initial business combination. We have not selected any specific business combination target and we have not, nor has anyone on our behalf, engaged in any substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, with any business combination target with respect to an initial business combination with us. To date, our efforts have been limited to organizational activities as well as activities related to this offering. Our sponsor and its principals may from time to time become aware of potential business opportunities, one or more of which we may desire to pursue, for a business combination, but from the date of our incorporation through the date of this prospectus, there have been no substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, between any of our officers, directors, promoters and other affiliates on our behalf and any of their contacts or relationships regarding a potential initial business combination with our company. Additionally, we have not engaged or retained any agent or other representative to identify or locate any suitable acquisition candidate for us.

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While we may pursue an acquisition opportunity in any business, industry, sector or geographical location, we intend to focus on industries that complement our management team’s background, and to capitalize on the ability of our management team to identify and acquire a business, focusing on the aerospace and defense (“A&D”) services, cybersecurity and secured communications and quantum-based command and control systems, and artificial intelligence (“AI”) and machine-learning (“ML”) industries.

Our management team believes there is a backlog of companies that are interested in becoming public companies. We believe that because this backlog is substantial, there may be a number of attractive companies that will not be able to list via a traditional initial public offering (an “IPO”) in the near-term, and therefore may opt to pursue a listing via a SPAC instead. Moreover, we believe current market conditions are causing middle-market financial sponsors and venture capital firms to consider alternative methods for providing liquidity to their limited partners.

Business Strategy

Our acquisition and value creation strategy is to identify, acquire and, after our initial business combination, further accelerate the growth of a company at the intersection of the A&D services, cybersecurity and secured communications and quantum-based command and control systems, and AI and ML, and to contribute to the global A&D economy. Our company’s unique expertise offers a comprehensive framework for a publicly traded company to foster both organic and strategic growth initiatives within its operational ecosystem. Our selection process is expected to leverage our management team’s broad and deep relationship network and unique expertise in the A&D services, cybersecurity and secured communications and quantum-based command and control systems industries, as well as in AI and ML. Market size, growth potential, competition, and barriers to entry are all essential factors to consider as we identify the acquisition target. Our team intends to utilize an

in-depth

evaluation process of potential acquisition targets based on financial performance, strategic fit, and potential synergies as well as the company’s products, and services to ensure our target is aligned. Although, the global A&D economy is highly regulated, and there are many legal and regulatory considerations that companies must consider, such as licensing requirements, export controls, and liability issues; our management team’s expertise and track record in the A&D ecosystem, and all related technologies, will help mitigate these factors by proactively advising potential target companies on navigating these issues.

Overall, an acquisition and value creation strategy impacting the global A&D economy requires a careful and strategic approach, the potential benefits can be significant for companies with the ability to identify and acquire complementary businesses and technologies with synergies through effective integration. Our management team believes that the global A&D economy has significant market growth potential, related to the development and use of innovative technologies. Over the last decade, there has been a steady increase in the demand for space-based services and applications for both the private sector as well as various government agencies. Over the last few years, rising geopolitical tensions plus ever growing commercial applications in a variety of fields of use, have driven the increased demand for unmanned aerial vehicles (“UMV”) systems and other drone technologies.

We expect to distinguish ourselves with our ability to:

•

Tap into our vast international network of relationships to develop a distinctive pipeline of acquisition opportunities.

We believe the combination of our Chief Executive Officer’s industry experience and our directors’ and management’s ability and network of relationships with CEOs, founders, family offices, private equity,

hedge-funds,

venture capitalists, sponsors and investment banks will help us to identify and evaluate suitable target businesses that could benefit from our operational and strategic expertise and from management’s experience in structuring complex transactions and accessing capital for growth.

•

Revitalize the acquisition target and generate value for shareholders after the business combination.

Given our management’s experience, we are confident that our officers and directors

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will be able to drive value after the combination. By implementing strategies that have proven successful in the past, they intend to focus on accelerating revenue growth, improving profit margins and fostering a results-driven culture.

•

Show a proven record of successful completions of business combinations

. We believe that our management team’s track record and experience will provide a distinct advantage for identifying, valuing and completing a business combination that will meet our investors’ expectations. GigCapital8 is our eighth SPAC affiliated with GigCapital Global, with five out of seven prior SPACs having completed business combinations and one SPAC looking for a suitable business target, as summarized below.

•

GIG1 — a

Private-to-Public

Equity (PPE) company formed for the purpose of acquiring a company in the technology, media, and telecommunications (“TMT”) industry, completed its initial public offering in December 2017, in which it sold 14,375,000 units at price of $10.00 per unit, with each unit consisting of one share of GIG1 common stock, three-fourths (3/4) of one warrant to purchase one share of GIG1 common stock and one right to receive

one-tenth

•

GIG2 — a

Private-to-Public

Equity (PPE) company formed for the purpose of acquiring a company in the TMT industry, completed its initial public offering in June 2019, in which it sold 17,250,000 units at a per unit price of $10.00, with each unit consisting of one share of GIG2 common stock, one warrant to purchase one share of GIG2 common stock, and one right to receive

one-twentieth

(1/20) of one share of GIG2 common stock, generating aggregate proceeds of about $173 million. On June 8, 2021, GIG2 successfully completed its business combination with each of UpHealth Holdings, Inc. and Cloudbreak Health, LLC, and the company changed its name to UpHealth, Inc. and was listed on the NYSE under the new ticker symbol “UPH”, where it remained listed until 2024 when it was delisted from the NYSE and commenced trading on the OTC Pink, and subsequently on the OTC Expert Market, under the new ticker symbol “UPHL.” UpHealth, Inc. closed down certain of its subsidiaries sold subsidiaries Innovations Group Incorporated to Belmar Pharma Solutions in June 2023 and Cloudbreak Health to an affiliate of GTCR, LLC in March 2024.

•

GIG3 — a

Private-to-Public

Equity (PPE) company formed for the purpose of acquiring a company in the TMT industry, completed its initial public offering in May 2020, in which it sold 20,000,000 units at a per unit price of $10.00, with each unit consisting of one share of GIG3 common stock and three-fourths (3/4) of one warrant to purchase one share of GIG3 common stock, generating aggregate proceeds of $200 million. On May 6, 2021, GIG3 successfully completed its business combination with Lightning Systems, Inc., which did business as Lightning eMotors, and GIG3 retained such name. Lightning eMotors, Inc. was listed on the NYSE under the new ticker symbol “ZEV,” before being listed on the OTC Expert Market under the ticker symbol “ZEVY.” Lighting eMotors’ assets were sold to GILLIG in 2024. In October 2021, Dr. Katz left Lightning eMotors as he did not stand for reelection to the board of directors.

•

GigCapital4, Inc. (“GIG4”), a

Private-to-Public

Equity (PPE) company formed for the purpose of acquiring a company in the TMT and sustainable industries, completed its initial public offering in February 2021, in which it sold 35,880,000 units at a per unit price of $10.00, with each unit consisting of one share of GIG4 common stock and

one-third

(1/3) of one (1) warrant to purchase

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one share of GIG4 common stock, generating aggregate proceeds of about $359 million. GIG4 listed on Nasdaq under the symbol “GIG.” On December 9, 2021, GIG4 successfully completed its business combination with BigBear.ai Holdings, LLC, following which it was renamed as BigBear.ai Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BBAI).

•

GigCapital5, Inc. (“GIG5”), a

Private-to-Public

Equity (PPE) company formed for the purpose of acquiring a company in the TMT, A&D, advanced medical equipment, intelligent automation and sustainable industries, completed its initial public offering in September 2021, in which it sold 23,000,000 units at a per unit price of $10.00, with each unit consisting of one share of GIG5 common stock and one warrant to purchase one share of GIG5 common stock, generating aggregate proceeds of $230 million. GIG5 listed on the NYSE under the symbol “GIA” and then subsequently transferred to Nasdaq and later, to the OTCQB Venture Market. In March 2024, GIG5 successfully completed its business combination with QT Imaging, Inc., following which it was renamed as QT Imaging Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: QTIH).

•

GigInternational1, Inc. (“GIW”), a

Private-to-Public

Equity (PPE) company formed for the purpose of acquiring a company in the TMT, A&D, mobility and semiconductor industries with a particular emphasis on the EMEA market, completed its initial public offering in May 2021, in which it sold 20,900,000 units at a per unit price of $10.00, with each unit consisting of one share of GigInternational1 common stock and

one-half

(1/2) of one (1) warrant to purchase one share of GigInternational1 common stock, generating aggregate proceeds of $209 million. GigInternational1 listed on Nasdaq under the symbol “GIW,” but in November 2022, decided to liquidate and dissolve the company rather than pursue a business combination, and in December 2022, GigInternational1 delisted from Nasdaq after liquidating its trust account.

•

GigCapital7 Corp. (“GIG7”), a

Private-to-Public

Equity (PPE) company formed for the purpose of acquiring a company in the TMT, artificial intelligence and machine learning, cybersecurity, medical technology and medical equipment, semiconductors and sustainable industries, completed its initial public offering in August 2024, in which it sold 20,000,000 units at a per unit price of $10.00, with each unit consisting of one Class A ordinary share and one redeemable warrant to purchase one Class A ordinary share of GIG7, generating $200 million. GIG7 listed on Nasdaq under the symbol “GIG” and is currently looking for a suitable acquisition target.

With respect to the foregoing examples, the past performance of the members of our management team or their affiliates, including with respect to GIG1, GIG2, GIG3, GIG4, GIG5 and GIG7, and their engagement in the TMT and other markets, is not a guarantee that we will be able to identify a suitable candidate for our initial business combination or of success with respect to any business combination we may consummate. The principals of the company and our management team have a significant number of relationships across numerous innovative industries. The operational background of the GigCapital Global team provides significant touchpoints across relevant industries. They have developed a meaningful pipeline of high potential, mutually interested U.S. and foreign acquisition targets from extensive screening with previous GigCapital PPE platforms. Our management team’s expertise in data-driven identification, evaluation and engagement with potential targets will facilitate and efficient

de-SPAC

process. You should not rely on the historical record of the performance of our management or any of its affiliates’ performance, including GIG1, GIG2, GIG3, GIG4, and GIG5, as indicative of our future performance. Members of our management team and their affiliates are likely to form other

Private-to-Public

Equity (PPE) companies prior to the completion of our initial business combination.

Management Team

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quantum-based command and control systems, and AI and ML. Our team is well positioned to originate attractive investment opportunities and has a history of executing various business transactions in multiple geographies and under varying economic and financial market conditions.

We have assembled a strong management team with a broad network of connections and corporate relationships across the A&D, cybersecurity and secured communications and quantum-based command and control systems, and AI and ML industries. We are confident that we will be able to use our individual experiences as well as our networks to achieve success. Together, we will formulate an

all-encompassing

plan for growth, one that accounts for both organic expansion and expansion via mergers and acquisitions. In the end, we will attempt to transform our target company into a widely respected industry leader by leveraging the benefits of becoming a public company, including access to finance and equity for expansion.

Any 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 an assurance of the future performance of an investment in us or the returns we will, or are likely to, generate going forward. Moreover, although some of our key personnel may remain with a target business in senior management or advisory positions following a business combination, it is likely that some or all of the management of the target business will remain in place. Additionally, our management team members are subject to certain conflicts of interest.

For more information, please refer to “

Risk Factors

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Risks Related to Management Team

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Executive Officers and Directors

Dr.

Avi

S. Katz

serves as our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. Dr. Katz has served as the Chairman of the Board of QT Imaging Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: QTIH) since its inception of GIG5 in January 2021, which he

co-founded

with Dr. Dinu. He had also been GIG5’s Chief Executive Officer and President for a short period of time before Dr. Dinu substituted for him as GIG5’s Chief Executive Officer and President. Dr. Katz was the sole manager of GigAcquisitions5, which was our founding stockholder, until its dissolution in March 2025. Dr. Katz holds a 50% membership interest in GigManagement, LLC, and has served as a managing member of GigManagement, LLC since its inception. Dr. Katz has spent approximately 35 years in international executive positions within the TMT industry founding and managing startups, and at privately held

start-ups,

and publicly traded

middle-cap

companies and large enterprises. After the sale of GigPeak (also known as GigOptix), which he founded and bootstrapped in April 2007 to IDT in April 2017, in October 2017, Dr. Katz founded GigCapital Global as a serial issuer of

private-to-public

equity (PPE) entities, also known as special-purpose-acquisition-company (SPAC). Dr. Katz

co-founded

GIG7 with Dr. Dinu, and Dr. Katz has served as the Chief Executive Officer and the Chairman of the Board since the inception of GIG7 in May 2024. GIG7 completed its initial public offering in August 2024, raising $200 million. It is listed on Nasdaq and trades under the ticker symbol “GIG.” In September 2017 he founded GIG1, a company formed for the purpose of acquiring a company in the TMT industry. GIG1 completed its initial public offering in December 2017, in which it sold 14,375,000 units at price of $10.00 per unit, with each unit consisting of one share of GIG1 common stock, three-fourths (3/4) of one warrant to purchase one share of GIG1 common stock and one right to receive

one-tenth

(1/10) of one share of GIG1 common stock, generating aggregate proceeds of approximately $144 million. On February 22, 2019, GIG1 entered into a stock purchase agreement to acquire Kaleyra S.p.A. at about transaction enterprise value of $187 million with combined cash and/or promissory note consideration of $15 million. The transaction closed on November 25, 2019, and GIG1 was renamed Kaleyra, Inc. and listed on the NYSE American stock exchange under the symbol “KLR” (and since that time, Kaleyra uplisted to the NYSE). In November 2023, Kaleyra was sold to Tata Communications at a transaction enterprise value of about $320 million in a cash deal and ceased to exist as a public company. Dr. Katz served as the Chairman of the Board and Secretary of Kaleyra since the consummation of the transaction in November 2019 until the acquisition by Tata. In this capacity, Dr. Katz steered many restructurings and refinancings, including the

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acquisition of mGage from Blackstone for about $225 million in a cash and stock deal in June 2021. Prior to that time, Dr. Katz served as the Executive Chairman, Secretary, and Chief Executive Officer of GIG1. In March 2019, Dr. Katz founded GIG2, a

Private-to-Public

Equity (PPE) company formed for the purpose of acquiring a company in the TMT industry. GIG2 completed its initial public offering in June 2019, in which it sold 17,250,000 units at a per unit price of $10.00, with each unit consisting of one share of GIG2 common stock, one warrant to purchase one share of GIG2 common stock, and one right to receive

one-twentieth

(1/20) of one share of GIG2 common stock, generating aggregate proceeds of about $173 million. On June 8, 2021, GIG2 completed its business combination with each of UpHealth Holdings, Inc. and Cloudbreak Health, LLC, and the company changed its name to UpHealth, Inc. and was listed on the NYSE under the new ticker symbol “UPH”, where it remained listed until 2024 when it was delisted from the NYSE and commenced trading on the OTC Pink, and subsequently on the OTC Expert Market, under the new ticker symbol “UPHL.” Dr. Katz initially served as the Chief Executive Officer of GIG2 until August 2019, when Dr. Dinu substituted for him in that position. He also served as the Executive Chairman and Secretary of GIG2 since inception until the closing of the business combination in June 2021, when Dr. Katz was appointed as the

Co-Chairman

of the board of directors of UpHealth, becoming the sole Chairman of the Board of UpHealth in June 2022. In this capacity, Dr. Katz has steered many restructurings and refinancings of the company, including the sales of two divisions of the company — IGI, which was sold for $56 million in a cash deal to Belmar Pharma Solutions in June 2023, and Cloudbreak Health, which was sold for $180 million in a cash deal to GTCR in March 2024. In February 2020, Drs. Katz and Dinu

co-founded

GIG3, a

Private-to-Public

Equity (PPE) company formed for the purpose of acquiring a company in the TMT industry. GIG3 completed its initial public offering in May 2020, in which it sold 20,000,000 units at a per unit price of $10.00, with each unit consisting of one share of GIG3 common stock and three-fourths (3/4) of one warrant to purchase one share of GIG3 common stock, generating aggregate proceeds of $200 million. On May 6, 2021, GIG3 completed its business combination with Lightning Systems, Inc., which did business as Lightning eMotors, and GIG3 retained such name. Lightning eMotors, Inc. was listed on the NYSE under the new ticker symbol “ZEV,” but now is listed on the OTC Expert Market under the ticker symbol “ZEVY.” Dr. Katz served as the Chief Executive Officer, Executive Chairman and Secretary of GIG3 since its inception until the closing of the business combination in May 2021, when Dr. Katz was appointed as the

Co-Chairman

of the board of directors of Lightning eMotors and served in that position until October 2021 when he did not stand for reelection to the board of directors. In December 2020, Drs. Katz and Dinu

co-founded

GIG4, a

Private-to-Public

Equity (PPE) company formed for the purpose of acquiring a company in the TMT and sustainable industries. GIG4 completed its initial public offering in February 2021, in which it sold 35,880,000 units at a per unit price of $10.00, with each unit consisting of one share of GIG4 common stock and

one-third

(1/3) of one (1) warrant to purchase one share of GIG4 common stock, generating aggregate proceeds of about $359 million. GIG4 listed on Nasdaq under the symbol “GIG.” In June 2021, GIG4 announced its agreement for a business combination with BigBear.ai Holdings, LLC. The business combination between GIG4 and BigBear.ai Holdings, LLC closed in December 9, 2021, and GIG4 was renamed BigBear.ai Holdings, Inc. BigBear.ai moved its listing from Nasdaq to the NYSE, where it is listed under the ticker symbol “BBAI.” Dr. Katz served as the Executive Chairman of GIG4 from its inception until the closing of the business combination with BigBear.ai on December 9, 2021, and since then and until March 2024, has continued to serve as a member of the board of directors of BigBear.ai. In February 2021, Drs. Katz and Dinu

co-founded

GigInternational1, Inc. a

Private-to-Public

Equity (PPE) company formed for the purpose of acquiring a company in the TMT, A&D, mobility and semiconductor industries with a particular emphasis on the EMEA market. GigInternational1 completed its initial public offering in May 2021, in which it sold 20,900,000 units at a per unit price of $10.00, with each unit consisting of one share of GigInternational1 common stock and

one-half

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$250 million in cash. While Dr. Katz was at GigPeak’s helm, the company completed 10 M&A deals. From 2003 to 2005, Dr. Katz was the chief executive officer, president, and a member of the board of directors of Intransa, Inc. From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Katz was the chief executive officer, president and a member of the board of directors of Equator Technologies. Prior to it, Dr. Katz held several leadership positions over the span of his career within the TMT industry since serving as member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories between 1988 and 1994, and made numerous angel investments in high-tech companies around the world, being a serial entrepreneur. He holds many U.S. and international patents, authored and

co-authored

more than 350 published scientific and technical articles in reputable journals, and is the editor of a number of technical books. Dr. Katz is a global philanthropist, and among many other activities, serves as board member of the NY Philharmonic Company. He is a graduate of the 1976 class of the Israeli Naval Academy, graduate of the 1979 USA Naval ASW class, and holds a B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Materials from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology). Dr. Katz is married to Dr. Dinu, one of our directors.

Dr.

Raluca Dinu

is our director. Dr. Dinu is the Chief Executive Officer, President, Secretary, serving in those roles since March 2024 and as a director of QT Imaging Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: QTIH), since its inception by her and Dr. Katz as GIG5 in February 2021. Dr. Dinu has spent approximately 21 years in international executive positions within the TMT industry working for privately held

start-ups,

middle-cap

companies and large enterprises. In these roles, Dr. Dinu has been instrumental in launching and accelerating entities, building teams, large scale fund-raising, developing key alliances and technology partnerships, M&A activities, business development, financial management, global operations and sales and marketing. She served as the Chief Executive Officer of GIG2 from August 2019 to June 2021 and as a member of its board of directors since March 2019 and has continued in that role after that company became UpHealth, Inc. She also served on the board of directors of GIG3 beginning in February 2020 and continued in that role after that company became Lightning eMotors, Inc. in May 2021 until October 2021. She has also served as a member of the board of directors of BigBear.ai Holdings, Inc. since its inception in December 2020 as GIG4 until March 2024, and prior to the December 2021 business combination, was also the President, Chief Executive Officer and Secretary of GIG4 since its inception in December 2020. Drs. Katz and Dinu

co-founded

GIG7 in May 2024, a

Private-to-Public

Equity (PPE) company formed for the purpose of acquiring a company in the TMT, AI/ML, cybersecurity, MedTech, semiconductor and sustainable industries, and Dr. Dinu has served on the board of directors of GIG7 since its inception. GIG7 completed its initial public offering in August 2024. Drs. Katz and Dinu also

co-founded

GigInternational1, Inc., a

Private-to-Public

Equity (PPE) company formed for the purpose of acquiring a company in the TMT, A&D, mobility and semiconductor industries with a particular emphasis on the EMEA market. GigInternational1 completed its initial public offering in May 2021, and Dr. Dinu served as a director beginning with the inception of GigInternational1 and as the Chief Executive Officer, President and Secretary of GigInternational1 beginning in March 2021. In November 2022, GigInternational1 decided to liquidate and dissolve the company rather than pursue a business combination, and in December 2022, GigInternational1 delisted from Nasdaq after liquidating its trust account. Dr. Dinu also holds a 50% membership interest in GigManagement, LLC, and has served as a managing member of GigManagement, LLC since its inception. From April 2017 to May 2019, Dr. Dinu was the Vice President and General Manager of Optical Interconnects Division of Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (“IDT”) (Nasdaq: IDTI). Prior to that, she held several executive-level positions at GigPeak, Inc. (NYSE MKT: GIG) including Executive Vice President and Chief Operation Officer from April 2016 until it was acquired by IDT in April 2017, and before that, as its Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing from August 2015 to April 2016, and as its Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing from December 2014 to August 2015. From February 2014 to September 2017, Dr. Dinu was a member of the board of directors of

Brazil-Photonics,

in Campinas, Brazil, a joint venture that GigPeak established with the Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Telecomunicações (CPqD). From 2001 to 2008, Dr. Dinu was Vice President of Engineering at Lumera (Nasdaq: LMRA). Lumera was acquired by GigPeak in 2008, and Dr. Dinu joined GigPeak at that time. Dr. Dinu holds a B.Sc. in Physics and Ph.D. in Solid State Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Bucharest, and an

Executive-M.B.A.

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from Stanford University. She also has a Corporate Director certificate from Harvard Business School, after completing the certification for Audit Committees and Compensation Committees in 2021 and Making Corporate Boards More Effective in 2022. Dr. Dinu is married to Dr. Katz, our Chairman of the Board.

Christine M. Marshall

joined our company as Chief Financial Officer on June 30, 2025. Ms. Marshall is an accomplished finance leader with extensive expertise in GAAP, SEC reporting, SOX compliance, financial policies and procedures, process enhancements, mergers and acquisitions, debt offerings and operation accounting. Ms. Marshall has a proven track record of building and leading high performing teams throughout her long career. Prior to joining our company, Ms. Marshall was a consultant for the DeWinter Group from September 2023 to March 2024, and in that capacity, acted as the Interim Controller for one of their SaaS clients. Mr. Marshall has also been the chief financial officer of GIG7 since May 2024. From 2015 to 2023, Ms. Marshall was the Senior Director of Accounting, as well as for a portion that time, the Assistant Controller at Vocera Communications, Inc., a company supplying a wireless network-based software solution for voice communication in a variety of settings, which was acquired by Stryker Corporation in February 2022. Her extensive experience also includes acting as an External Reporting and Technical Accounting Consultant from 2009 until 2015 for a number of companies. From 2005 until 2007, Ms. Marshall also performed management and technical accounting functions in her role as External Reporting Manager at Adaptec, Inc., a computer storage company acquired by Microchip Technology. She was also previously a Senior Manager of Assurance and Advisory Services at Deloitte, one of the largest global accounting firms, from 1993 until 2004. Ms. Marshall holds a Bachelor of Science in Commerce from Santa Clara University and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) with the State of California.

Nominees for our Board of Directors

Admiral (Ret.) David

Ben-Bashat

will serve as our independent director upon the completion of this offering. V. Admiral (Ret.)

Ben-Bashat

was the Commander in Chief of the Israeli Navy, retiring in 2008 after serving more than 38 years. Throughout his service in the Israeli Navi, V. Admiral (Ret.)

Ben-Bashat

assumed the role as the Chief Commander of the missile boat flotilla and commander of the Naval Officers Academy, as well as held different commanding positions as a naval commander and as an officer at the Navy Headquarter. Between 1996 and 1999, V. Admiral (Ret.)

Ben-Bashat

served as Israel’s Defense attaché and the Head of the Israeli Ministry of Defense Mission in Singapore. As the Commander in Chief of the Israeli Navy, V. Admiral (Ret.)

Ben-Bashat

had a significant role in building the Israeli naval forces for the years to come. He executed the contract for the advance “Dolphin” type submarines from Germany and started the process of designing the next generation of the future corvette of the Israeli Navy. He was pivotal in leading the IDF’s decision to start using maritime UAVs for EEV maritime airborne surveillance missions. In 2007, V. Admiral (Ret.)

Ben-Bashat’s

achievements were rewarded with the highest decoration by the USA President for a foreign officer, the “Legion of Merit” and by the Italian President with the highest special decoration in appreciation for his contribution to the NATO forces. After his retirement in 2008, V. Admiral (Ret.)

Ben-Bashat

established a consulting firm that specializes in Defense, Homeland Security (HLS) and Cyber domains. V. Admiral (Ret.)

Ben-Bashat

and the firm’s professionals team specialize in analyzing security risks and identifying design security technology solutions for national and critical assets engaged with governments and international technology companies. The firm also advises on the development of national economic usage of EEZ waters. Since 2021, he has served as active board member for GaitMetrics, a Singapore based AI company that provides innovative, cutting-edge security and monitoring solutions for security markets. GaitMetrics technologies empower organizations with AI technology,

non-intrusive

radio tools for human detection, and synergistic and integrated human identification and monitoring systems. In parallel to his business operations, V. Admiral (Ret.)

Ben-Bashat

serves as the Chairman of the Israel Navy Veterans Association. V. Admiral (Ret.)

Ben-Bashat

holds a B.A. in Economics and an MBA from Haifa University and is a graduate of the USA Naval War College for senior officers in Newport, Rhode Island.

Rear Admiral (Ret.) Omri Dagul

will serve as our independent director upon the completion of this offering. Over several decades, R. Admiral (Ret.) Omri has shared his vast maritime experience with Global

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Shipping and Port Companies in Israel and abroad. Since 2007, he has been the Owner and CEO of Dockport Ltd, a Consultancy and Project Management company. In his role as Executive VP Ray Shipping Ltd, which he has held since 2007, R. Admiral (Ret.) Omri is responsible for the extensive technical and management activities of its worldwide fleet. His emphasis was on the design and production of a Car Carrier fleet. This included all management and supervision of ships’ construction in many global shipyards. At the same time, until 2010, R. Admiral (Ret.) Omri was also Consultant to several Defense companies including Elbit Systems, Asia Global Technologies, Lockheed Martine and General Dynamics. Prior to 2007, he served for 32 years in the Israel Navy in a variety of technical and engineering positions, after graduating the Israeli Naval Academy in 1977. R. Admiral (Ret.) Omri retired from the Navy with the rank of Rear Admiral and his last position was as the Head of Materiel Command. R. Admiral (Ret.) Omri holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Technion, Haifa, Israel and a M.Sc. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Raanan I. Horowitz

will serve as our independent director upon the completion of this offering. Mr. Horowitz currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Defense Analysis, an American

non-profit

corporation that administers three federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) to assist the United States government in addressing national security issues. He also serves on the board of directors of the DFW International Airport, the board of directors of Parry Labs, a digital engineering company serving the defense market, and the board of directors of GIG7 (Nasdaq:GIG). He is a member of the Wall Street Journal board of directors Council and a member of the Board of Directors of Business Executives for National Security (BENS), a non-partisan, non-profit organization that connects business leaders with national security efforts to enhance the United States’ defense and security. He was previously a member of the board of directors of BigBear.ai Holdings, Inc. (BBAI: NYSE) following its business combination with GIG4 in December 2021, serving as the chair of the Nominations and Governance Committee until May 2023. He also served on the board of directors of GIG5 (Nasdaq:GIA) until its business combination with QTI, Inc. (OTCQB:QTIH) in March 2024. Mr. Horowitz was the President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Elbit Systems of America, LLC, a leading provider of high-performance products and systems solutions for the defense, homeland security, commercial aviation, and medical instrumentation markets from 2007 until March 2024. Elbit Systems of America, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems Ltd., a global source of innovative, technology-based systems for diverse defense and commercial applications with more than 19,500 employees in 15 countries. Prior to being appointed to lead Elbit Systems of America, LLC, Mr. Horowitz served as the Executive Vice President and General Manager of EFW, Inc., a subsidiary of Elbit Systems of America, from 2003 to 2007. In 2014, 2015, 2018, 2022 and 2023, The Ethisphere Institute named Elbit Systems of America one of the “World’s Most Ethical Companies.” In addition, Mr. Horowitz is active in the A&D industry, serving on the Board of Governors of the Aerospace Industries Association since 2008, the board of directors for the National Defense Industrial Association since 2015, as a member of Business Executives for National Security since 2014, and as a member of the Wall Street Journal CEO Council from 2018 until 2024. Since April 2024, Mr. Horowitz has also been a member of the board of trustees of the Institute for Defense Analysis and the board of directors of Parry Labs, LLC, an engineering services company. Previously, he served on the National Board of Directors for one of the nation’s largest volunteer health organizations, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, from 2009 to 2018. Mr. Horowitz earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the Seidman School of Business (1993) at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. He was also awarded a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (1991) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering (1981) from

Tel-Aviv

University in Israel.

Ambassador Adrian Zuckerman

will serve as our independent director upon the completion of this offering. Ambassador Zuckerman was the United States Ambassador to Romania from 2019 to 2021. Under his leadership Romania signed a

ten-year

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help finance this project, the Ambassador negotiated a $7 billion financing agreement with the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM). The Cernavoda project was the largest-ever joint project between the United States and Romania. He was the recipient of the Star of Romania, Order of Grand Cross. Ambassador Zuckerman has worked as an Of Counsel to DLA Piper LLP (US) from 2021 to date, bringing his unique skills as a lawyer and former government official to advise multinational corporations on legal, regulatory and governmental affairs as they expand into emerging markets in Eastern Europe and around the world. Before being named as the United States Ambassador to Romania, he was a partner at Seyfath Shaw LLP from 2013 to 2019. Ambassador Zuckerman is also a member of the advisory board of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue University. He holds an undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a law degree from the New York Law School.

Luis Machuca

will serve as our independent director upon the completion of this offering. He also serves as a director of UpHealth, Inc. (OTC Expert Market: UPHL) since December 2022, and as a director of Columbia Banking System (Nasdaq: COLB) since 2010 and as Chair of its Compensation Committee from 2015 to 2025, and was the designated director for its FinTech venture. In addition, he served as a director of Cambia Health Solutions from 2008 to 2024, and also serves as Cambia’s director on the board of Echo Health Ventures, which he chaired from 2019 until 2021. Mr. Machuca also served as an independent director and chairman of the board of Saphyre, a private equity-backed FinTech startup from 2022 to 2025. Mr. Machuca is a leader in technology and healthcare with experience in governance, turnarounds, mergers and acquisitions, finance, risk management and talent development. In December 2001, he founded Kryptiq Corporation, a venture-backed company in the healthcare technology field, and served as its chief executive officer from January 2002 until 2015. Under Mr. Machuca’s leadership, Kryptiq had a profound impact on the relationship between medical providers and patients, leading to its acquisition by Surescripts as a wholly owned subsidiary in August 2012. After spinning off in January 2015 as Enli Health Intelligence Corporation, under Mr. Machuca’s continued leadership as Chief Executive Officer (a role that he held until December 2020), the newly independent company rapidly became the market leader in population health management software. Prior to Enli Health Intelligence, Mr. Machuca served as President and Chief Operating Officer of eFusion Corporation from 1998 until its acquisition by ITXC in 2000, after which he served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of

e-Commerce

until 2001. Before eFusion, Mr. Machuca served as Executive Vice President of the NEC Computer Services Division of Packard

Bell-NEC

Corporation from 1996 to 2001. He began his career with Intel in 1981, where he spent 15 years ascending to leadership roles in manufacturing, engineering, marketing, and ultimately became the General Manager of the OEM Systems Division. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.

Bryan Timm

will serve as our independent director upon the completion of this offering. Mr. Timm currently serves as a Board Advisor for Pape’ Group, a family company serving the West Coast with Kenworth, John Deere, and Hyster heavy equipment dealerships. He previously served on the Board of Directors of Umpqua Holdings Corporation (Nasdaq:UMPQ) from 2004 to 2023. As a director he served in multiple roles including Vice Chairman of the Board, Chairman of the Audit and Compliance Committees, and Finance and Capital Committee Chair. Mr. Timm also served on and chaired Northwestern Mutual Policy Owner’s Examining committee in 2011 and 2012. Mr. Timm most recently worked for Columbia Sportswear Company (Nasdaq: COLM) over a twenty-year period serving in the executive roles of President from February 2015 to June 2017, Chief Operating Officer from May 2008 to June 2017, and Chief Financial Officer from 1997 to May 2008. Prior to 1997, he held financial positions for Oregon Steel Mills, Inc. (NYSE: OS) and at KPMG as part of the Audit practice. Mr. Timm holds a B.S. degree from the University of Idaho and is a Certified Public Accountant (lapsed) in the state of Oregon.

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UPHL) since December 2023. He is a founder and Managing Partner of Sky D Ventures, LLC, a private equity and advisory services company serving the financial services and FinTech global market. Prior to Sky D Ventures, Mr. Greene was a general partner with an incubator of

start-ups

focused on digital platforms and solutions from November 2013 to October 2015. He was previously a Vice President with Cisco Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) in its Global Advanced Services Organization, a position he held from February 2012 to September 2013. He joined Cisco in 2005 as Vice President and Global Head of its Financial Services Consulting Business. From there he served as a leader of Cisco’s global Strategic Partner Organization. Before Mr. Greene’s tenure at Cisco and Accenture, he generated significant growth as the president and chief executive officer of Abilizer, a portal technology

start-up

company, as managing director at Capgemini, and as global head of financial services at TeleTech.

Investment Criteria

Consistent with our strategy, we have identified general criteria and guidelines that we believe are important in evaluating prospective acquisition target and, when evaluating a prospective acquisition target, we expect to conduct a thorough due diligence review that will encompass, among other things, meetings with incumbent management and employees, document reviews and inspection of facilities, as applicable, as well as a review of financial and other information that will be made available to us. We intend to use the following and other criteria and guidelines in evaluating acquisition opportunities, but we may decide to enter into our initial business combination with an acquisition target business that does not meet any or all of these criteria or guidelines:

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Companies that embrace today’s digital transformation and intelligent automation.

We will seek acquisition candidates active in the A&D services, cybersecurity and secured communications and quantum-based command and control systems, and AI and ML anywhere in the world that embrace today’s digital transformation and intelligent automation as a competitive advantage. Businesses who rethink their current and future capabilities amid disruption will be better positioned for growth in the digital age. We seek to combine with the best available U.S. private or overseas private or foreign listed companies.

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Companies that will benefit from a public listing.

We will focus on partners looking to move to the next level through a public business combination and

roll-up

and primarily seek companies with entrepreneurial owners and leadership that may benefit from being publicly traded and may effectively utilize in furtherance of growth a broader access to capital and a public profile. A public status is designed to enhance organic and strategic growth opportunities and accelerate execution of business ideas in dynamic and competitive growth markets.

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Companies that will benefit from our industry expertise and relationships.

We will seek companies that will be best positioned to leverage our industry expertise, international capabilities, global experience, prior references, insights and relationships to create opportunities for value creation, whether through acquisitions, capital investments in organic growth opportunities, generating greater operating efficiencies or significantly improving financial performance. Our management has a proven track record and extensive M&A and capital market experience to help to define the public market strategy for our initial business combination. We believe our strategy leverages our management team’s distinctive background and vast network of industry leaders in the A&D services, cybersecurity and secured communications and quantum-based command and control systems, and AI and ML. We will seek to identify such opportunities for value creation in evaluating potential business combinations. Our management also demonstrated the speed, certainty and efficiency in executing prior deals, which is highly desirable to quality business partners.

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Companies that are market-leading participants

. We will seek an acquisition target that has an established business and market position. While we will focus on the A&D services, cybersecurity and secured communications and quantum-based command and control systems, and AI and ML, we will not seek a target that

is pre-revenue or

in early stages of development with unproven technologies.

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Companies with strong management.

We will prioritize entities with well-established, proven and talented management teams that wish to continue to drive their companies to growth by leveraging a public market platform and are eager to succeed with support from an interactive

and hands-on board

of directors. To the extent we believe it will enhance shareholder value, we would seek to selectively supplement the existing leadership of the business with proven leaders from our network, whether at the senior management level or at the board level.

These criteria are not intended to be exhaustive. Any evaluation relating to the merits of a particular initial business combination may be based, to the extent relevant, on these general guidelines as well as other considerations, factors and criteria that our management team may deem relevant.

Our Acquisition Process

We intend to partner with a late-stage growth and high-quality acquisition target where our management team can offer financial, operational, and executive mentoring in order to accelerate its growth and expansion, organically and strategically, from a privately held entity to a fast-growing publicly traded company. Our approach can be broken down into several phases:

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Inception

. This phase usually lasts up to approx.

2-3

months and entails incorporating a SPAC and bringing on a

Private-to-Public

(PPE) management team that includes A&D experts, entrepreneurs and executive operators. During this phase, a blank check company also secures a sponsorship team composed of industry veterans in the A&D sector, family offices, institutional buyers, private equity firms and hedge funds. In launching an initial public offering, the SPAC management pays the most attention to forming an IPO book to ensure a solid balance of fundamental equity investors.

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Searching

. The search for a financially viable acquisition target ready to become a public company may take approx. 6 to 12 months. Our search for a potential business combination will focus on the A&D sector and other diversified verticals nationally and worldwide. In determining whether a company may become our initial business combination, we look at the acquisition target’s prospects as a public company, consider potential avenues for exit and financing, and if the company is supported by an entrepreneurial management team and technology-oriented owners.

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Engagement

. The next step is negotiation and execution of a letter of intent. It may take approx. from 3 to 6 weeks, and approx. another 5 to 10 weeks are required to conduct due diligence review and sign a binding definitive agreement.

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Closing

. Following entry into the binding definitive agreement, the acquisition target must deliver audited financial statements as required to enable us to file all necessary SEC filings and obtain SEC clearance of these filings in a process that may take approx. 3 to 6 months. During this phase, to the extent not yet done, we also need to secure financing through back-stop lenders or fundamental equity investors and ensure compliance with the minimum listing conditions (e.g., maintaining a

market-cap,

providing a required float and secure minimum

round-lot

shareholders), before closing a business combination. With the support of our investors, underwriters, legal counsel, accounting, investment and commercial banking firms, research analysts, investor and public relations and human resources firms, we create a

“one-stop-shop”

to ensure the successful path to becoming a public company.

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Growth and Exit

. The final phase may last approx. from 1 to 4 years, during which we invest our time and resources in expanding and growing the business. We actively participate in meetings of the board of directors and strategic advisory board, provide continuous financing and M&A advisory support for growth, geographic expansion and consolidation, and prepare the business combination for

de-SPAC.

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Sponsor

Our sponsor, GigAcquisitions8 Corp., is a Cayman Islands exempted company. Although our sponsor is permitted to undertake any activities permitted under the Companies Act and other applicable law, our sponsor’s operations are focused on investing in our company. Our Chief Executive Officer, Avi S. Katz, and Dr. Raluca Dinu, our director, currently own 100% of the shares in the sponsor, and hold voting and investment discretion with respect to the securities held of record by the sponsor. Dr. Avi S. Katz and Dr. Raluca Dinu are sole directors of the sponsor. No other entity or person has a direct or indirect material interest in our sponsor.

The following table sets forth the payments to be received by our sponsor and its affiliates from us prior to or in connection with the completion of our initial business combination and the securities issued and to be issued by us to our sponsor or its affiliates:


Entity/Individual	Amount of Compensation to be Received or Securities Issued or to be Issued	Consideration Paid or to be Paid
GigAcquisitions8 Corp.	$30,000 per month	Office space, administrative and shared personnel support services

	7,850,229 Class B ordinary shares, of which 1,023,943 Class B ordinary shares remain subject to forfeiture depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised during this offering	$25,000

	95,200 private placement units to be purchased simultaneously with the closing of this (including if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full)	$927,000

	Up to $100,000 in loans	Repayment of loans made to us to cover offering related and organizational expenses

	Up to $1,500,000 in working capital loans, which loans may be convertible into private placement units at a price of $10.00 per unit at the option of the lender	Working capital loans to finance transaction costs in connection with an initial business combination

	Reimbursement for any out-of-pocket expenses related to identifying, investigating and completing an initial business combination	Services in connection with identifying, investigating and completing an initial business combination

Holders of Class B ordinary shares	Anti-dilution protection upon conversion into Class A ordinary shares at a greater than one-to-one ratio	Issuance of the Class A ordinary shares issuable in connection with the conversion of the founder shares on a greater than one-to-one basis upon conversion

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Entity/Individual	Amount of Compensation to be Received or Securities Issued or to be Issued	Consideration Paid or to be Paid

GigAcquisitions8 Corp, our officers, directors, or our or their affiliates	Finder’s fees, advisory fees, consulting fees, success fees	Any services in order to effectuate the completion of our initial business combination, which, if payments are made in connection with such services prior to the completion of our initial business combination, will be paid from funds held outside the trust account. No agreements have been signed as of the date of this prospectus. We may engage our sponsor or an affiliate of our sponsor as an advisor or otherwise in connection with our initial business combination and certain other transactions and pay such person or entity a salary or fee in an amount that constitutes a market standard for comparable transactions. No agreements have been signed as of the date of this prospectus.

Because our sponsor acquired the founder shares at a nominal price of $0.00318 per Class B ordinary share, and the

non-managing

investors acquired the private investor shares at a nominal price of $0.023254 per Class B ordinary share, our public shareholders will incur an immediate and material dilution upon the closing of this offering. Further, the Class A ordinary shares issuable in connection with the conversion of the Class B ordinary shares may result in material dilution to our public shareholders due to the anti-dilution rights of our Class B ordinary shares that may result in an issuance of Class A ordinary shares on a greater than

one-to-one

basis upon conversion. In addition, because our sponsor and the

non-managing

investors acquired the private placement units, including the private placement shares, at a price of $9.7374 per private placement unit that is less than the amount paid by our public shareholders for the public units which we are selling in this offering, our public shareholders will incur an immediate and substantial dilution upon the closing of this offering. Additionally, our public shareholders may experience dilution from the conversion of the 337,675 private placement rights that form a part of the private placement units into 33,767 Class A ordinary shares (or up to 357,657 private placement rights converting into 35,765 Class A ordinary shares if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) to be purchased in the private placement simultaneously with the closing of this offering. Further, our public shareholders may experience material dilution if the $1,500,000 in working capital loans is fully advanced by the sponsor and the sponsor elects to convert the working capital loans into private placement units at $10.00 per unit, resulting in the sponsor receiving an additional 150,000 private placement units.

See the sections titled

“

Risk Factors

—

Risks Relating to our Securities

—

The nominal purchase price paid by our sponsor for the founder shares and paid by the

non-managing

investors for the private investor shares, in addition to the sale of private placement units to the sponsor and the

non-managing

investors, may result in significant dilution to the implied value of your public shares upon the consummation of our initial business combination.”

and “

Dilution

.”

The founder shares and private investor shares will automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares concurrently with or immediately following the consummation of our initial business combination or earlier at the option of the holder on a

one-for-one basis,

subject to adjustment for share

sub-divisions,

share capitalizations, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like, and subject to further adjustment as provided herein. In the case that additional Class A ordinary shares, or any other equity-linked securities, are issued or

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deemed issued in excess of the amounts issued in this offering and related to or in connection with the closing of the initial business combination, the ratio at which Class B ordinary shares convert into Class A ordinary shares will be adjusted (unless the holders of a majority of the outstanding Class B ordinary shares agree to waive such anti-dilution adjustment with respect to any such issuance or deemed issuance) so that the number of Class A ordinary shares issuable upon conversion of all Class B ordinary shares will equal, in the aggregate, 30% of the sum of (i) all ordinary shares issued and outstanding upon the completion of this offering (including any Class A ordinary shares issued pursuant to the underwriters’ over-allotment option and excluding the securities underlying the private placement units issued to the sponsor and

non-managing

investors), (ii) plus all Class A ordinary shares and equity-linked securities issued or deemed issued in connection with our initial business combination (excluding any shares or equity-linked securities issued, or to be issued, to any seller in the initial business combination and any private placement-equivalent units issued to our sponsor or any of its affiliates or to our officers or directors upon conversion of working capital loans) and (iii) minus any redemptions of Class A ordinary shares by public shareholders in connection with an initial business combination; provided that such conversion of founder shares will never occur on a less than

one-for-one

basis.

See the section titled “

Summary

— The Offering —

Conversion of founder shares and private investor shares and anti-dilution rights

.”

If we raise additional funds through equity or convertible debt issuances, our public shareholders may suffer significant dilution. This dilution would increase to the extent that the anti-dilution provision of the founder shares and private investor shares result in the issuance of Class A ordinary shares on a greater than

one-for-one basis

upon conversion of the founder shares and private investor shares at the time of our initial business combination.

Pursuant to a letter agreement to be entered with us, each of our sponsor, directors and officers has agreed to restrictions on its ability to transfer, assign, or sell the founder shares and private placement units, as summarized in the table below. In addition, the

non-managing

investors have agreed to substantially the same certain transfer restrictions with respect to the private placement units and private investor shares held by them, as summarized in the table below.


Subject Securities	Expiration Date	Natural Persons and Entities Subject to Restrictions	Exceptions to Transfer Restrictions
Founder shares	The earlier of (A) six months after the date of the consummation of our initial business combination or (B) subsequent to our initial business combination, (x) the date on which the last sale price of our ordinary shares equals or exceeds $11.50 per share (as adjusted for share divisions, share dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing at least 90 days after our initial business combination, or (y) the date on which we consummate a liquidation, merger, stock exchange or other similar transaction after our initial business combination which results in all of our shareholders having the right to exchange their	GigAcquisitions8 Corp. Dr. Avi S. Katz Dr. Raluca Dinu Christine M. Marshall Admiral (Ret.) David Ben-Bashat Rear Admiral (Ret.) Omri Dagul Raanan I. Horowitz Ambassador Adrian Zuckerman Luis Machuca Bryan Timm James Greene	Transfers permitted (1) amongst the sponsor and its affiliates, to our executive officers or directors, or to any affiliate or family member of any of our executive officers or directors, (2) in the case of an entity, as a distribution to its partners, shareholders or members upon its liquidation, (3) in the case of an individual, (i) by bona fide gift to such person’s immediate family or to a trust, the beneficiary of which is a member of such person’s immediate family, an affiliate of such person or to a charitable organization, (ii) by virtue of the laws of descent and distribution upon death of such person, (iii) pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order, (4) by certain pledges to secure

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Subject Securities	Expiration Date	Natural Persons and Entities Subject to Restrictions	Exceptions to Transfer Restrictions
	ordinary shares for cash, securities or other property.		obligations incurred in connection with purchases of our company’s securities, (5) through private sales or transfers made in connection with the consummation of our initial business combination at prices no greater than the price at which such securities were originally purchased, (6) to us for no value for cancellation in connection with the consummation of our initial business combination; provided that (except for clause (6)) these transferees (“permitted transferees”) shall enter into a written agreement with us agreeing to be bound by the transfer restrictions agreed to by the original holder in connection with the purchase of the securities being transferred. In addition, the sponsor, executive officers and directors may transfer, assign or sell any of the founder shares or private placement units ((including underlying securities) (i) in the event of our liquidation prior to the consummation of our initial business combination; (ii) by virtue of the laws of the Cayman Islands, by virtue of sponsor’s memorandum and articles of association or other constitutional, organizational or formational documents, as amended, upon dissolution of the sponsor, or by virtue of the constitutional,

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Subject Securities	Expiration Date	Natural Persons and Entities Subject to Restrictions	Exceptions to Transfer Restrictions
			organizational or formational documents of a subsidiary of the sponsor that holds any such securities, upon liquidation or dissolution of such subsidiary; or (iii) in the event of our completion of a liquidation, merger, share exchange, reorganization or other similar transaction which results in all of our shareholders having the right to exchange their ordinary shares for cash, securities or other property subsequent to the completion of our initial business combination.

Private placement units (including underlying securities)	Thirty days after the completion of our initial business combination	GigAcquisitions8 Corp. Dr. Avi S. Katz Dr. Raluca Dinu Christine M. Marshall Admiral (Ret.) David Ben-Bashat Rear Admiral (Ret.) Omri Dagul Raanan I. Horowitz Ambassador Adrian Zuckerman Luis Machuca Bryan Timm James Greene Non-managing investors	Same as above.

Private investor shares	The earlier of (A) six months after the date of the consummation of our initial business combination or (B) subsequent to our initial business combination, (x) the date on which the last sale price of our ordinary shares	Non-managing investors	Same as above.

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Subject Securities	Expiration Date	Natural Persons and Entities Subject to Restrictions	Exceptions to Transfer Restrictions
			directors are also subject to separate transfer restrictions on their founder shares and private placement units pursuant to the letter agreement described in the immediately preceding paragraphs.

Up to 1,023,943 of the founder shares and up to 386,681 of the private investor shares will be surrendered for no consideration depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised. In addition, in order to facilitate our initial business combination as determined by our sponsor in its sole discretion, our sponsor may surrender or forfeit, transfer or exchange our founder shares, private placement units or any of our other securities, including for no consideration, as well as subject any such securities to earn-outs or other restrictions, or otherwise amend the terms of any such securities or enter into any other arrangements with respect to any such securities. We may also issue Class A ordinary shares upon conversion of the Class B ordinary shares at a ratio greater than

one-to-one

at the time of our initial business combination as a result of the anti-dilution provisions as set forth therein.

Our letter agreement may be amended without shareholder approval. Such transfer restrictions have been amended in connection with business combinations for certain other special purpose acquisition companies. While we do not expect our board to approve any amendment to the letter agreement prior to our initial business combination, it may be possible that our board, in exercising its business judgment and subject to its fiduciary duties, chooses to approve one or more amendments to the letter agreement.

The

non-managing

investors have agreed in their subscription agreements to the transfer restrictions with respect to the private investor shares and private placement units. Since such subscription agreements are bilateral contractual obligations of the company and such

non-managing

investors, the transfer restrictions may be amended without any vote of the public shareholders. However, the

non-managing

sponsor investors will not be subject to transfer restrictions or a

lock-up

agreement on any public units, public shares or public rights that they may purchase in this offering or thereafter.

See “

Summary

—

The Offering —

Transfer restrictions applicable to founder shares, private investor shares, private placement shares and private placement rights (and shares into which the rights convert).

”

Initial Business Combination

We will either (1) seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination at a meeting called for such purpose at which shareholders may seek to convert their shares, regardless of whether they vote for or against the proposed business combination, into their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest (which interest shall be net of permitted withdrawals), or (2) provide our shareholders with the opportunity to sell their shares to us by means of a tender offer (and thereby avoid the need for a shareholder vote) for an amount equal to their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account (net of permitted withdrawals, if any), in each case subject to the limitations described herein. The decision as to whether we will seek shareholder approval of our proposed business combination or 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. Unlike other blank check companies which require

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shareholder votes and conduct proxy solicitations in conjunction with their initial business combinations and related conversions of public shares for cash upon consummation of such initial business combinations even when a vote is not required by law, we will have the flexibility to avoid such shareholder vote and allow our shareholders to sell their shares pursuant to the tender offer rules of the SEC. In that case, we will file tender offer documents with the SEC, which will contain substantially the same financial and other information about the initial business combination as is required under the SEC’s proxy rules.

We will have until 24 months from the closing of this offering to consummate an initial business combination. If we are unable to consummate an initial business combination within such time period, we will, as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than 10 business days thereafter, redeem 100% of the outstanding public shares, at a

per-share

price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including any interest earned on the funds held in the trust account and net of interest that may be used by us to pay permitted withdrawals, and less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses, divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish the public shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any), subject to applicable law and as further described herein, and then seek to dissolve and liquidate. We expect the pro rata redemption price to be approximately $10.00 per public share (regardless of whether or not the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option), without taking into account any interest earned on such funds. However, we cannot assure you that we will in fact be able to distribute such amounts as a result of claims of creditors, which may take priority over the claims of our public shareholders.

Our initial business combination must occur with one or more target businesses that together have a fair market value of at least 80% of the assets held in the trust account (excluding permitted withdrawals) at the time of the agreement to enter into the initial business combination. Such initial business combination must be approved by a majority of the company’s independent directors. The fair market value of the acquisition target(s) will be determined by our board of directors based upon one or more standards generally accepted by the financial community (such as actual and potential sales, earnings, cash flow, valuation of the specific market segment of the target and/or book value). Even though our board of directors will rely on generally accepted standards, our board of directors will have discretion to select the standards employed. In addition, the application of the standards generally involves a substantial degree of judgment. Accordingly, investors will be relying on the business judgment of our board of directors in evaluating the fair market value of the acquisition target(s). The proxy solicitation materials or tender offer documents used by us in connection with any proposed transaction will provide public shareholders with our analysis of the fair market value of the acquisition target, as well as the basis for our determinations. If our board of directors is not able independently to determine the fair market value of the target business(es), we may, in our sole discretion, obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm, or another independent entity that commonly renders valuation opinions on the type of target business we are seeking to acquire, with respect to the satisfaction of such criteria. However, unless we consummate our initial business combination with an affiliated entity, our board of directors is not required to obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or another independent entity that the price we are paying is fair to our shareholders from a financial point of view.

As described below adjacent to the caption “

Summary

—

The Offering — Offering proceeds to be held in the trust account

”

the Nasdaq rules provide that at least 90% of the gross proceeds from this offering and the sale of the public units be deposited in a trust account. Of the $220,000,000 gross proceeds we will receive from this offering and the sale of the private investor shares and private placement units (or $253,000,000 if the over-allotment option is exercised in full), an aggregate of $220,000,000 (or $10.00 per unit), or $253,000,000 (or $10.00 per unit) if the over-allotment option is exercised in full, will be placed in a segregated trust account located in the United States maintained by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee pursuant to an agreement to be signed on the date of this prospectus. The funds in the trust account will be invested only in specified U.S. government treasury bills or in specified money market funds.

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We currently anticipate structuring a business combination to acquire 100% of the equity interests or assets of the acquisition target(s). We may, however, structure our initial business combination where we merge directly with the acquisition target or where we acquire less than 100% of such interests or assets of the acquisition target in order to meet certain objectives of the target management team or shareholders or for other reasons, but we will only complete such business combination if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in the acquisition target sufficient for it not to be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act. Even if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the voting securities of the acquisition target, our shareholders prior to the business combination may collectively own a minority interest in the post-transaction company, depending on valuations ascribed to the acquisition target and us in the business 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 could acquire a 100% controlling interest in the acquisition target; however, as a result of the issuance of a substantial number of new shares, our shareholders immediately prior to our initial business combination could own less than a majority of our outstanding shares subsequent to our initial business combination. If less than 100% of the equity interests or assets of an acquisition target(s) 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 valued for purposes of the 80% fair market value test, as described above.

As more fully discussed in “

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 fiduciary or contractual obligations, including, among other things, UpHealth, Inc., QT Imaging Holdings, Inc. and GIG7, he or she may be required to present such business combination opportunity to such entities prior to presenting such business combination opportunity to us. Certain of our directors currently have, and any of our officers or directors may in the future have, certain relevant fiduciary duties or contractual obligations.

In addition, our sponsor, officers and directors may participate in the formation of, or become an officer or director of, any other blank check company prior to completion of our initial business combination. As a result, our sponsor, officers or directors could have conflicts of interest in determining whether to present business combination opportunities to us or to any other blank check company with which they may become involved. Further, there is a significant overlap among the directors and officers of UpHealth, Inc., QT Imaging Holdings, Inc., GIG7 and our company. Dr. Katz, our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, serves as the Chairman of UpHealth, Inc. and QT Imaging Holdings, Inc. and the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of GIG7. Dr. Dinu, our director, is also the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of QT Imaging Holdings, Inc., as well as a member of the board of directors of each of UpHealth, Inc. and GIG7. Any of such companies may present additional conflicts of interest in pursuing an acquisition target. However, we do not believe that any potential conflicts would materially affect our ability to complete our initial business combination, particularly as we are planning to focus the target search of our company in different A&D services, cybersecurity and secured communications and quantum-based command and control systems, and AI and ML verticals.

Emerging Growth Company Status and Other Information

We are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (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 of 2002 (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

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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 this offering, (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 ordinary shares that is held by

non-affiliates

exceeds $700 million as of the prior June 30, 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. References herein to “emerging growth company” will have the meaning associated with it in the JOBS Act.

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 $220 million as of the prior June 30th, and (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.

Prior to the date of this prospectus, we will file a Registration Statement on Form

8-A

with the SEC to voluntarily register our securities under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act. As a result, we will be subject to the rules and regulations promulgated under the Exchange Act. We have no current intention of filing a Form 15 to suspend our reporting or other obligations under the Exchange Act prior or subsequent to the consummation of our initial business combination.

Corporate Information

Our executive offices are located at 1731 Embarcadero Rd., Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94303, and our telephone number is (650)

276-7040.

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THE OFFERING

In making your decision on whether to invest in our securities, you should take into account not only the backgrounds of the members of our management team, but also the special risks we face as a blank check company and the fact that this offering is not being conducted in compliance with Rule 419 promulgated under the Securities Act. You will not be entitled to protections normally afforded to investors in Rule 419 blank check offerings. You should carefully consider these and the other risks set forth in the section below entitled “Risk Factors.”

Securities offered

22,000,000 public units (or 25,300,000 public units if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), at $10.00 per unit, each public unit consisting of one Class A ordinary share and one right to receive

one-tenth

(1/10) of one Class A ordinary share upon consummation of our initial business combination, subject to the conditions described in this prospectus. Every ten rights entitle the holder to receive one ordinary share upon consummation of our initial business combination.

Listing of our securities and proposed symbols

We anticipate that the public units, as well as the public shares and public rights underlying the public units (once they begin separate trading), will be listed on Nasdaq under the symbols “GIWWU,” “GIW,” and “GIWWR,” respectively.

Each of the public units, public shares and public rights may trade separately on the 52nd day after the date of this prospectus unless the underwriters determine that an earlier date is acceptable. In no event will the underwriters allow separate trading of our public shares and public rights until we file a Current Report on Form

8-K

with the SEC with an audited balance sheet reflecting our receipt of the gross proceeds at the closing of this offering. Once our public shares and public rights commence separate trading, the holders thereof will have the option to continue to hold units or separate their units into the component securities. Holders will need to have their brokers contact our transfer agent in order to separate the public units into public shares and public rights. No fractional rights will be issued upon separation of the public units and only whole rights will trade.

We will file a Current Report on Form

8-K

with the SEC, including an audited balance sheet reflecting our receipt of the gross proceeds at the closing of this offering, promptly upon the closing of this offering, which is anticipated to take place two business days from the date the public units commence trading. If the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised following the initial filing of such Current Report on Form

8-K,

a second or amended Current Report on Form

8-K

will be filed to provide updated financial information to reflect the exercise of the over- allotment option. We will also include in the initial Current Report on Form

8-K,

or any amendment thereto or subsequent filing, as applicable, information indicating if the underwriters have allowed separate trading of the public shares and public rights prior to the 52nd day after the date of this prospectus.

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Units:

Issued and outstanding before this offering:

0 units

Issued and outstanding after this offering and the concurrent private placement:

22,337,675 units

(1)

Ordinary shares:

Issued and outstanding before this offering:

7,850,229 shares

(2)

Issued and outstanding after this offering and the concurrent private placement:

31,741,483 shares

(3)

Rights:

Outstanding before this offering

0 rights

Outstanding after this offering and the concurrent private placement

22,337,675

(4)

Term of Rights

Except in cases where we are not the surviving company in an initial business combination, each holder of a right will automatically receive

one-tenth (1/10

) of one Class A ordinary share upon consummation of our initial business combination. In the event we will not be the surviving company upon completion of our initial business combination, each holder of a right will be required to affirmatively convert his, her or its rights in order to receive the

one-tenth (1/10

) of a Class A ordinary share of the new entity underlying each right upon consummation of the initial business combination. We will not issue fractional shares in connection with an exchange of rights. Fractional shares will either be rounded down to the nearest whole share or otherwise determined by the board of directors as provided by Cayman Islands laws. As a result, you must hold rights in multiples of ten in order to receive shares for all of your rights upon closing of an initial business combination. If we are unable to complete an initial business combination within the required time period and we redeem the public shares for the funds held in the trust account, holders of rights will not receive any of such funds for their rights and the rights will expire worthless

(1)	Assumes no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option, and includes, accordingly, (i) an aggregate of 22,000,000 public units and (ii) 337,675 private placement units purchased by our sponsor and non-managing investors.

(2)

Includes up to 1,023,943 founder shares issued to the sponsor that are subject to forfeiture if the over-allotment option is not exercised. Founder shares are currently classified as Class B ordinary shares, which shares will automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares at the time of our initial business combination or earlier at the option of a holder on a

one-for-one

basis, subject to adjustment as described below adjacent to the caption “

Conversion of founder shares and private investor shares and anti-dilution rights

” and in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association.

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(3)

Assumes no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option, and includes, accordingly, (i) an aggregate of 22,000,000 public shares, (ii) an aggregate of 9,403,808 Class B ordinary shares purchased by our sponsor and

non-managing

investors, and (iii) 337,675 private placement shares included in the private placement units purchased by our sponsor and

non-managing

investors.

(4)	Represents 22,000,000 public rights and 337,675 private placement rights.

Founder shares, private investor shares and private placement units

At our formation on June 30, 2025, one Class B ordinary share that was allotted to Harneys Fiduciary upon our formation was transferred by Harneys Fiduciary to our sponsor and 8,099,613 Class B ordinary shares were issued to our sponsor for an aggregate purchase price of $25,000. On July 18, 2025, our sponsor surrendered 249,385 Class B ordinary shares to us (which were cancelled) for no consideration, with the resulting 7,850,229 founder shares paid for at a purchase price of $0.00318 per share, of which up to 1,023,943 Class B ordinary shares remain subject to forfeiture depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised during this offering.

Our sponsor (or

non-affiliated

investors to which our sponsor assigns this subscription as described below) will subscribe to purchase an aggregate of 95,200 private placement units (including if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), at a price of $9.7374 per private placement unit, for an aggregate purchase price of $927,000 in a private placement that will close simultaneously with the closing of this offering. Each private placement unit sold in this private placement consists of one Class A ordinary share and one right to receive

one-tenth of

one Class A ordinary share upon the consummation of an initial business combination

The

non-managing

investors, which are eight groups of institutional accredited investors (none of which are affiliated with any member of our management, our sponsor or any other investor), have committed to purchase an aggregate of (a) 2,964,203 Class B ordinary shares (of which up to 386,681 Class B ordinary shares remain subject to forfeiture depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised during this offering) as the private investor shares at a purchase price per Class B ordinary share of $0.023254, and (b) an aggregate of 242,475 private placement units (or up to 262,457 private placement units if the underwriters’

over-allotment

option is exercised in full) at a price of $9.7374 per private placement unit, for an aggregate purchase price of $2,430,006 (or $2,624,578 if the underwriters’

over-allotment

option is exercised in full) in a private placement that will close simultaneously with the completion of this offering.

The number of founder shares and private investor shares, and the forfeiture mechanism underlying the founder shares and private investor shares, has been determined in order to ensure that the founder shares and private investor shares will collectively represent 30% of the outstanding ordinary shares upon completion of this offering and the exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option, if any (not including the private placement shares). If we increase or decrease the size of this offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, we will effect a share dividend or a share contribution

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back to capital, as applicable, immediately prior to the consummation of the offering, in such amount so that the founder shares and private investor shares will continue collectively representing 30% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares (not including the private placement shares) upon completion of this offering. Prior to the investment in the company of an aggregate of $25,000 by our sponsor, we had no assets, tangible or intangible.

A portion of the purchase price of the private placement units and private investor shares will be

added

to the proceeds of this offering to be held in the trust account. If we do not complete our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering, the proceeds from the sale of the private placement units and private investor shares held in the trust account will be used to fund the redemption of our public shares (subject to the requirements of applicable law).

The founder shares, private investor shares, private placement shares and shares issued upon conversion of the private placement rights upon the consummation of our initial business combination are identical to the public shares being sold in this offering, except that:

•

only holders of the founder shares and private investor shares have the right to vote on the appointment of directors prior to the completion of our initial business combination (by a majority of votes cast by the holders of the founder shares and private investor shares);

•

the founder shares, private investor and private placement units (including underlying securities) are subject to certain transfer restrictions, as described in more detail below;

•

as described below adjacent to the caption “

Voting arrangements with our sponsor,

non-managing

investors and related parties

,” our sponsor, officers and directors will each enter into a letter agreement with us, pursuant to which they will agree: (1) to waive their redemption rights with respect to their founder shares and private placement shares in connection with the consummation of our initial business combination or a tender offer conducted prior to a business combination or in connection with it; (2) to waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to their founder shares and private placement shares if we fail to complete our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering; and (3) to waive their redemption rights with respect to their founder shares and private placement shares in connection with a shareholder vote to approve an amendment to our company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association that would modify the substance or timing of our company’s obligation to redeem 100% of our company’s public shares if our company does not timely complete the initial business combination or with respect to any other provision relating to shareholders’ rights or

pre-business

combination activity. The

non-managing

investors have entered

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into written agreements, pursuant to which they have agreed: (1) to waive their redemption rights with respect to their private investor shares and private placement shares held by them in connection with the consummation of our initial business combination or a tender offer conducted prior to a business combination or in connection with it; (2) to waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to their private investor shares and private placement shares if we fail to complete our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering; and (3) to waive their redemption rights with respect to their private investor shares and private placement shares in connection with a shareholder vote to approve an amendment to our company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association that would modify the substance or timing of our company’s obligation to redeem 100% of our company’s public shares if our company does not timely complete the initial business combination or with respect to any other provision relating to shareholders’ rights or

pre-business

combination activity. Notwithstanding the foregoing, our initial shareholders will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to any public shares purchased in this offering or on the open market after the completion of this offering if we fail to complete our initial business combination within the prescribed time frame;

•

the

non-managing

investors are not granted any shareholder or other rights in addition to those afforded to our other public shareholders, and will only be issued the private investor shares and private placement units of our company. The

non-managing

investors are not required to (i) hold any public units, public shares or public rights they may purchase in this offering or thereafter for any amount of time, (ii) vote any public shares they may own at the applicable time in favor of our initial business combination (although the

non-managing

investors have agreed to vote their private investor shares and private placement shares in favor of an initial business combination), or (iii) refrain from exercising their right to redeem their public shares at the time of our initial business combination. The

non-managing

investors will have the same rights to the funds held in the trust account with respect to the public shares comprising part of the public units they may purchase in this offering or otherwise acquire as the rights afforded to our other public shareholders. However, if the

non-managing

investors purchase public units or public shares or otherwise hold a substantial number of our public units or public shares, then the

non-managing

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•

the founder shares and private investor shares will automatically convert into our Class A ordinary shares at the time of our initial business combination or earlier at the option of the holder on a

one-for-one

basis, subject to adjustment pursuant to certain anti-dilution rights, as described below adjacent to the caption “

Conversion of founder shares and private investor shares and

anti-dilution rights

” and in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association; and

•

the founder shares, private investor shares, private placement shares and any shares issued upon conversion of the private placement rights are entitled to registration rights.

Sponsor’s Securities and Compensation

The table below summarizes (i) the amount of founder shares issued or to be issued to the sponsor in connection with this offering and the price paid or to be paid by the sponsor for such securities, and (ii) the main items of compensation received or to be received by the sponsor or our affiliates:


	Description	Price Paid or Payable
Number of founder shares	7,850,229 founder shares (of which 1,023,943 are subject to forfeiture to the extent the underwriters do not exercise their over-allotment option)	$0.00318 per share

Number of private placement units	95,200 private placement units	$9.7374 per unit

Office space and general and administrative services	Monthly payments to GigManagement, LLC	$30,000 per month

Compensation to Chief Financial Officer	Monthly payments to Chief Financial Officer	Up to $10,000 per month

Working Capital Loans	Up to $1,500,000 in working capital loans, which loans may be convertible into units of the post-business combination entity at a price of $10.00 per unit (1)	Working capital loans to finance transaction costs in connection with an initial business combination

Anti-dilution protection upon conversion of Class B ordinary shares	Anti-dilution protection upon conversion into Class A ordinary shares at a greater than one-to-one ratio	Issuance of the Class A ordinary shares issuable in connection with the conversion of the founder shares on a greater than one-to-one basis upon conversion

(1)

After the completion of this offering, our board of directors may approve working capital loans for the purpose of funding working capital, which loans may be converted into our private placement units.

See

“

Risk Factors — Risks Relating to our Search for, and Consummation of or Inability to Consummate, a

Business Combination — We may issue additional ordinary or preferred shares to complete our initial business combination or under an employee incentive plan upon or after consummation of our initial business combination, which would dilute the interest of our shareholders and likely present other risks.

” and

“Risks Relating to our Securities — Unlike some other similarly structured blank check companies, our sponsor will receive additional Class

A ordinary shares if we issue shares to consummate an initial business combination.

”

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As described below adjacent to the caption “

Conversion of founder shares and private investor shares and anti-dilution rights

” the founder shares and Class A ordinary shares issuable in connection with the conversion of the founder shares may result in material dilution to our public shareholders due to the nominal price of $0.00318 per founder share at which our sponsor purchased the founder shares and/or the anti-dilution rights of our founder shares and private placement shares that may result in an issuance of Class A ordinary shares on a greater than

one-to-one

basis upon conversion. Our sponsor or its affiliates may receive additional compensation and/or may be issued additional securities in connection with an initial business combination, including securities that may result in material dilution to public shareholders. For more information also see below adjacent to the caption “

Limited payments to insiders

.”

Transfer restrictions applicable to founder shares, private placement units, private investor shares, private placement shares and private placement rights (and shares into which the rights convert)

Except with respect to permitted transferees as described herein under “

Principal Shareholders

,” our initial shareholders have agreed not to transfer, assign or sell any of their respective founder shares and private investor shares until six months after the consummation of the initial business combination and their private placement units, private placement shares, private placement rights and shares issued upon conversion of the private placement rights until thirty days after the consummation of the initial business combination.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the

lock-up

period of the

non-managing

investors shall not be longer than the sponsor’s

lock-up

period; provided that if upon consummation of an initial business combination, any securityholder holding more than three percent (3.0%) of the capital stock of the surviving company is not subject to a

lock-up

agreement or is subject to a

lock-up

agreement for a shorter period of time than the

non-managing

investors, unless required to comply with the Nasdaq listing conditions, the

non-managing

investors’

lock-up

period shall be reduced to the shortest

lock-up

period or terminated, as the case may be. Further, if any such securityholder is released from the

lock-up

period subsequent to the consummation of an initial

business

combination, the company shall release the private investor shares, private placement shares and shares issued upon conversion of the private placement rights held by the

non-managing

investors from the

lock-up

provisions.

Any permitted transferees would be subject to the same restrictions and other agreements of our initial shareholders with respect to any founder shares, private investor shares, private placement units, private placement shares, private placement rights and shares issued upon conversion of the private placement rights. We refer to such transfer restrictions throughout this prospectus as the

“lock-up.”

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Conversion of founder shares and private investor shares and anti-dilution rights

Subject to adjustment for share

sub-divisions,

share capitalizations, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like, and subject to further adjustment as provided herein, the founder shares and private investor shares, which are designated as Class B ordinary shares, will be convertible at the option of the holder on a

one-for-one

basis or will automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares concurrently with or immediately following the consummation of our initial business combination at a ratio such that the number of Class A ordinary shares issuable upon conversion of all founder shares and private investor shares will equal, in the aggregate, on an

as-converted

basis, 30% of the sum of (i) all ordinary shares issued and outstanding upon the completion of this offering (including any Class A ordinary shares issued pursuant to the underwriters’ over-allotment option and excluding the securities underlying the private placement units issued to the sponsor and

non-managing

investors), (ii) plus all Class A ordinary shares and equity-linked securities issued or deemed issued in connection with our initial business combination (excluding any shares or equity-linked securities issued, or to be issued, to any seller in the initial business combination and any private placement-equivalent units issued to our sponsor or any of its affiliates or to our officers or directors upon conversion of working capital loans) and (iii) minus any redemptions of Class A ordinary shares by public shareholders in connection with an initial business combination. Any conversion of Class B ordinary shares described herein will take effect as a compulsory redemption of Class B ordinary shares and an issuance of Class A ordinary shares as a matter of Cayman Islands law. In no event will the Class B ordinary shares convert into Class A ordinary shares at a rate of less than

one-to-one.

The term “equity-linked securities” refers to any debt or equity securities that are convertible, exercisable or exchangeable for our Class A ordinary shares issued in a financing transaction in connection with our initial business combination, including, but not limited to, a private placement of equity or debt.

Voting arrangements with our sponsor,

non-managing

investors and related parties

Our sponsor, officers and directors will each enter into a letter agreement with us, pursuant to which they will agree: (1) to waive their redemption rights with respect to their founder shares and private placement shares in connection with the consummation of our initial business combination or a tender offer conducted prior to a business combination or in connection with it; (2) to waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to their founder shares and private placement shares if we fail to complete our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering; and (3) to waive their redemption rights with respect to their founder shares and private placement shares in connection with a shareholder vote to approve an amendment to the

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company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association that would modify the substance or timing of the company’s obligation to redeem 100% of the company’s public shares if the company does not timely complete the initial business combination or with respect to any other provision relating to shareholders’ rights or

pre-business

combination activity. The

non-managing

investors have entered into written subscription agreements, pursuant to which they have agreed: (1) to waive their redemption rights with respect to their private investor shares and private placement shares held by them in connection with the consummation of our initial business combination or a tender offer conducted prior to a business combination or in connection with it; (2) to waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to their private investor shares and private placement shares if we fail to complete our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering; and (3) to waive their redemption rights with respect to their private investor shares and private placement shares in connection with a shareholder vote to approve an amendment to the company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association that would modify the substance or timing of the company’s obligation to redeem 100% of the company’s public shares if the company does not timely complete the initial business combination or with respect to any other provision relating to shareholders’ rights or

pre-business

Any permitted transferees would be subject to the same restrictions and other agreements as the transferor.

If we submit an initial business combination to our shareholders for a vote, we will complete our initial business combination only if a majority of the ordinary shares, represented in person or by proxy and entitled to vote thereon, voted at a shareholder meeting, are voted in favor of the business combination. Our initial shareholders have agreed to vote their founder shares, private investor shares and private placement shares in favor of such initial business combination. However, our sponsor, officers and directors have also agreed to vote any public shares they may hold in favor of such initial business combination. As a result, in addition to the founder shares, private investor shares and private placement shares that our sponsor and the

non-managing

investors have committed to purchase (as described above), we would need approximately 6,129,258 public shares, or approximately 27.9% of the 22,000,000 public shares sold in this offering, to be voted in favor of a transaction (assuming all issued and outstanding shares are voted, the over-allotment option is not exercised and 1,023,943 founder shares and 386,681 private investor shares have been forfeited) in order to have such initial business combination approved.

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Assuming that only the holders of

one-third

non-managing

investors purchase any public units, and assuming none of them will trade such public units after this offering, depending upon the amount of public units purchased by the

non-managing

investors, we may be able to have our initial shareholders approve our initial business combination without vote of the other public shareholders.

Expression of Interest

None of the

non-managing

investors have currently expressed to us an interest in purchasing any of the public units in this offering and neither us nor the representatives have had discussions with any

non-managing

investors regarding any purchases of public units in this offering. However, we expect that some or all of the

non-managing

investors than the amount for which the

non-managing

investors may express an interest. Furthermore, we would not expect any of the

non-managing

investors to express an interest to purchase more than 9.9% of the public units to be sold in this offering. There can be no assurance that the

non-managing

investors will acquire any public units, either directly or indirectly, in this offering, or as to the amount of the public units the

non-managing

investors. If the

non-managing

investors purchase public units in the offering, and depending on how many public units are purchased by the

non-managing

investors to negatively impact our ability to meet Nasdaq listing eligibility requirements. The underwriters will receive the same upfront discounts and commissions on public units purchased by the

non-managing

investors in the offering, if any, as it will on the other public units sold to the public in this offering. In addition, although the

non-managing

investors have agreed to vote their private investor shares and private placement shares in favor of an initial business combination, none of the

non-managing

investors has any obligation to vote any public shares which they may hold in favor of our initial business combination. Nevertheless, regardless of the number of public units they may purchase, the

non-managing

investors will be incentivized to vote their public shares in favor of a business combination due to their

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ownership of private investor shares and private placement shares and private placement rights issued as part of the private placement units. In the event that the

non-managing

investors are not obligated to continue owning any public shares following the closing of this offering and are not obligated to vote any public shares in favor of our initial business combination, we cannot assure you that any of these

non-managing

investors will be public shareholders at the time our shareholders vote on our initial business combination, and, if they are public shareholders, we cannot assure you as to how such

non-managing

investors will vote on any business combination. Additionally, these

non-managing

investors have the potential to realize enhanced economic returns from their investments compared to other investors in this offering. If the

non-managing

investors that purchase public units otherwise hold a substantial number of our public units, then the

non-managing

investors and public shareholders,

please see

“

Risk Factors — Risks Relating to Our Search for, and Consummation of or Inability to

Consummate, a Business Combination

—

Our management team,

the

non-managing

investors and our sponsor may make a profit on any initial business combination, even if any public shareholders who did not redeem their shares would experience a loss on that business combination. As a result, the economic interests of our management team, the

non-managing

investors and our sponsor may not fully align with the economic interests of public shareholders.”

The

non-managing

investors have agreed to vote their private investor shares and private placement shares in favor of an initial business

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combination), or (iii) refrain from exercising their right to redeem their public shares at the time of our initial business combination. The

non-managing

investors purchase public units or public shares or otherwise hold a substantial number of our public units or public shares, then the

non-managing

For more information on additional financing we may raise in connection with our initial business combination and risks related thereto, see “

Risk Factors — Risks Relating to Our Search for, and Consummation of or Inability to Consummate, a Business Combination

—

We may issue additional ordinary or preferred shares to complete our initial business combination or under an employee incentive plan upon or after consummation of our initial

business combination, which would dilute the interest of our shareholders and likely present other risks.”

Offering proceeds to be held in the trust account

The Nasdaq rules provide that at least 90% of the gross proceeds from this offering and the sale of the public units be deposited in a trust account. Of the $220,000,000 gross proceeds we will receive from this offering and the sale of the private investor shares and private placement units (or $253,000,000 if the over-allotment option is exercised in full), an aggregate of $220,000,000 (or $10.00 per unit), or $253,000,000 (or $10.00 per unit) if the over-allotment option is exercised in full, will be placed in a segregated trust account located in the United States maintained by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee pursuant to an agreement to be signed on the date of this prospectus. The funds in the trust account will be invested only in specified U.S. government treasury bills or in specified money market funds.

Except as set forth below, the proceeds held in the trust account will not be released until the earlier of: (1) the completion of our initial business combination within the required time period; (2) our redemption of 100% of the outstanding public shares if we have not completed an initial business combination in the required time period; or (3) our redemption of our public shares in connection with the approval of any amendment to the provisions of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association governing our

pre-initial

business combination activity and related shareholders’ rights. Therefore, unless and until our initial business combination is consummated, the proceeds held in the trust account will not be available for our use for any expenses related to this offering or expenses which we may incur related to the investigation and

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selection of a target business and the negotiation of an agreement to acquire a target business. The proceeds deposited in the trust account could become subject to the claims of our creditors, if any, which could have priority over the claims of our public shareholders.

Unless and until we complete our initial business combination, no proceeds held in the trust account will be available for our use, except for permitted withdrawals. Based upon current interest rates, we expect the trust account to generate approximately $9,108,000 of interest annually (or $10,474,200 if the over-allotment option is exercised in full) (assuming an interest rate of 4.14% per year). Unless and until we complete our initial business combination, we may pay our expenses only from:

•

that portion of the net proceeds of this offering not held in the trust account and cash held outside the trust account before the offering, which will be approximately $1,400,000 in working capital (or, if the underwriters exercise the over-allotment option in full, $1,507,000 in working capital) after the payment of approximately $1,957,006 in net offering expenses (or, if the underwriters exercise the over-allotment option in full, approximately $2,044,578 in net offering expenses), relating to this offering; and

•

any loans or additional investments from our sponsor, members of our management team or any of their affiliates or other third parties, although they are under no obligation to loan funds or invest in us and provided that any such loans will not have any claim on the proceeds held in the trust account unless such proceeds are released to us upon completion of our initial business combination.

Limited payments to insiders

There will be no fees, reimbursements or other cash payments paid to our sponsor, officers and directors, or their affiliates prior to, or for any services they render in order to effectuate, the consummation of our initial business combination (regardless of the type of transaction that it is) other than the following payments, none of which will be made from that portion of the proceeds of this offering prior to the consummation of our initial business combination:

•

payment to an affiliate of our sponsor, GigManagement, LLC, of a monthly fee of $30,000 for office space and administrative and support services until the consummation of an initial business combination;

•

payment to the company’s Chief Financial Officer of up to $10,000 per month for her services to the company;

•

reimbursement of

out-of-pocket

expenses incurred by our executive officers and directors and advisory fees to directors in connection with certain activities on our behalf, such as identifying and investigating possible business targets and business combinations as well as advisory fees to directors pertaining to board committee service and extraordinary administrative and analytical services;

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payment for analyst and consultant services as approved by our board of directors; and

•

repayment upon consummation of our initial business combination of any loans which may be made by our sponsor, executive officers and directors, or their affiliates, to finance transaction costs in connection with an intended initial business combination. The terms of any such loans have not been determined nor have any written agreements been executed with respect thereto.

These payments may be funded using that portion of the net proceeds of this offering not held in the trust account, plus any working capital funded as a permitted withdrawal, or, upon completion of the initial business combination, from any amounts remaining from the proceeds of the trust account released to us in connection therewith.

Our audit committee will review on a quarterly basis all payments that were made to our sponsor, executive officers or directors, or our or any of their affiliates.

Audit Committee

Prior to the effectiveness of this registration statement, we will have established and will maintain an audit committee (which will be composed entirely of independent directors) to, among other things, monitor compliance with the terms described above and the other terms relating to this offering. If any noncompliance is identified, then the audit committee will be charged with the responsibility to immediately take all action necessary to rectify such noncompliance or otherwise to cause compliance with the terms of this offering. For more information, see “

Management—Committees of the Board of Directors—Audit Committee

.”

Election of directors; Voting rights

Prior to the completion of our initial business combination, only holders of our founder shares and private investor shares will have the right to vote on the appointment of directors (by a majority of votes cast by the holders of the founder shares, private investor shares and private placement shares). Holders of our public shares will not be entitled to vote on the election of directors during such time. These provisions of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association may only be amended by a special resolution passed by a majority of at least 90% (or, where such amendment is proposed in respect of the consummation of our initial business combination,

two-thirds)

of our ordinary shares voting at the applicable general meeting.

With respect to any other matter submitted to a vote of our shareholders, including any vote in connection with our initial business combination, except as required by law or the applicable rules of Nasdaq then in effect, holders of our founder shares, private investor shares and private placement shares and holders of our public shares will vote together as a single class, with each share entitling the holder to one vote.

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Conditions to completing our initial business combination

There is no limitation on our ability to raise funds privately or through loans in connection with our initial business combination. The Nasdaq rules require that our initial business combination must be with one or more operating businesses or assets with a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the net assets held in trust (less permitted withdrawals) at the time of our signing a definitive agreement in connection with our initial business combination. Such initial business combination must be approved by a majority of the company’s independent directors. We do not currently intend to purchase multiple businesses in unrelated industries in conjunction with our initial business combination.

If our board of directors is not able to independently determine the fair market value of the acquisition target(s), we may obtain an opinion, in our sole discretion, from an independent investment banking firm that is a member of FINRA, or from another independent entity. However, unless we consummate our initial business combination with an affiliated entity, our board of directors is not required to obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or another independent entity that the price we are paying is fair to our shareholders from a financial point of view. We will complete our initial business combination only if the post-transaction company in which our public shareholders own shares will own or acquire 50% or more of the issued and outstanding voting securities of the acquisition target or otherwise acquire a controlling interest in the acquisition target sufficient for it not to be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act. Even if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the voting securities of the acquisition target, our shareholders prior to our initial business combination may collectively own a minority interest in the post-transaction company, depending on valuations ascribed to the acquisition target and us in our initial business combination transaction. 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 valued for purposes of the 80% of net assets test; provided that in the event that our initial business combination involves more than one target business, the 80% of net assets test will be based on the aggregate value of all of the acquisition targets.

Permitted purchases of public shares by our affiliates

Proposed Business—Initial Business

Combination

” for a description of how such persons will determine

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from which shareholders to seek to acquire shares. There is no limit on the number of shares such persons may purchase, or any restriction on the price that they may pay. Any such price per share may be different than the amount per share a public shareholder would receive if it elected to redeem its shares in connection with our initial business combination. However, such persons have no current commitments, plans or intentions to engage in such transactions and have not formulated any terms or conditions for any such transactions. In the event our sponsor, directors, executive officers, or any of their affiliates determine to make any such purchases at the time of a shareholder vote relating to our initial business combination, such purchases could have the effect of influencing the vote necessary to approve such transaction. None of the funds in the trust account will be used to purchase public shares in such transactions. If any of our sponsor, directors, executive officers, or any of their affiliates engages in such transactions, they will not make 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 Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).

Subsequent to the consummation of this offering, we will adopt an insider trading policy which will require insiders to (1) refrain from purchasing securities during certain blackout periods and when they are in possession of any material

non-public

information and (2) clear all trades with our legal counsel prior to execution. We cannot currently determine whether any of our insiders will make such purchases pursuant to a Rule

10b5-1

plan, as that would be dependent upon several factors, including but not limited to, the timing and size of any such purchase. Depending on the circumstances, any of our insiders may decide to make purchases of our public shares pursuant to a Rule

10b5-1

plan or may determine that acting pursuant to such a plan is not required under the Exchange Act.

We do not currently anticipate that purchases of our public shares by any of our sponsor, directors, executive officers or any of their affiliates, 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 comply with such rules. None of our sponsor, directors, officers or any of their affiliates will purchase public shares if such purchases would violate Section 9(a)(2) or Rule

10b-5

of the Exchange Act.

Redemption rights for public shareholders upon completion of our initial business combination

We will provide our public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their public shares upon the completion of our initial business combination at a

per-share

price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account as of two business days prior to the consummation of our initial business combination, including interest (which interest shall be net of

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permitted withdrawals), divided by the number of then issued and outstanding public shares, subject to the limitations described herein.

The amount in the trust account is initially anticipated to be $10.00 per public share. Our initial shareholders have entered into agreements with us, pursuant to which they agree to waive their redemption rights with respect to their founder shares, private investor shares and any Class A ordinary shares issuable upon conversion thereof in connection with the consummation of our initial business combination.

The

non-managing

investors purchase public units or public shares or otherwise hold a substantial number of our public units or public shares, then the

non-managing

Manner of conducting redemptions

We will provide our public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their public shares upon the completion of our initial business combination either (1) in connection with a shareholder meeting called to approve the business combination or (2) by means of a tender offer. The decision as to whether we will seek shareholder approval of a proposed business 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. Asset acquisitions and share purchases would not typically require shareholder approval while direct mergers with our company where we do not survive and any transactions where we issue more than 20% of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares or seek to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association would 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

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exchange rule or we choose to conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules of the SEC for business or other reasons.

If a shareholder vote is not required and we do not decide to hold a shareholder vote for business or other reasons, we will, pursuant to our amended 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.

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

10b5-1

under the Exchange Act to purchase public shares on 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 combination until the expiration of the tender offer period.

If, however, shareholder approval of the transaction is required by applicable law or stock exchange listing requirement, or we decide to obtain shareholder approval for business or other reasons, we will:

•

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.

We expect that a final proxy statement would be mailed to public shareholders at least 20 days prior to the shareholder vote. However, we expect that a draft proxy statement would be made available to such shareholders well in advance of such time, providing additional notice of redemption if we conduct redemptions in conjunction with a proxy solicitation. Although we are not required to do so, we currently intend to comply with the substantive and procedural requirements of Regulation 14A in connection with any shareholder vote even if we are not able to maintain our Nasdaq listings or Exchange Act registration.

If we seek shareholder approval, we will complete our initial business combination only if a majority of the ordinary shares, represented in person or by proxy and entitled to vote thereon, voted at a shareholder

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meeting are voted in favor of the business combination. In such case, pursuant to the terms of agreements entered into with us, our initial shareholders will agree (and any of their permitted transferees will agree) to vote their founder shares, private investor shares and private placement shares held by them in favor of our initial business combination, but not any public shares that the

non-managing

investors may buy in this offering or after this offering on the open market. As a result, in addition to the founder shares, private investor shares and private placement shares that our sponsor and the

non-managing

investors have purchased or committed to purchase (as described above), we would need approximately 6,129,258 public shares, or approximately 27.9% of the 22,000,000 public shares sold in this offering, to be voted in favor of a transaction (assuming all issued and outstanding shares are voted, the over-allotment option is not exercised and 1,023,943 founder shares and 386,681 private investor shares have been forfeited) in order to have such initial business combination approved. Assuming that only the holders of

one-third

of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares, representing a quorum under our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, vote their shares, we will not need any public shares in addition to our founder shares held by our sponsor to be voted in favor of an initial business combination in order to approve an initial business combination. These voting thresholds, and the voting agreements of our initial shareholders may make it more likely that we will consummate our initial business combination. Each public shareholder may elect to redeem their public shares without voting, and if they do vote, irrespective of whether they vote for or against the proposed transaction. Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association will require that at least five clear days’ notice will be given of any such shareholder meeting.

Redemptions of our public shares may also be subject to a cash requirement pursuant to an agreement relating to our initial business combination. For example, the proposed business combination may require: (1) cash consideration to be paid to the acquisition target or its owners; (2) cash to be transferred to the acquisition target for working capital or other general corporate purposes; or (3) the retention of cash to satisfy other conditions in accordance with the terms of the proposed business combination. In the event the aggregate cash consideration we would be required to pay for all public 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 would not complete the business combination or redeem any public shares, and all public shares submitted for redemption would be returned to the holders thereof.

Tendering share certificates in connection with a tender offer or redemption rights

We may require our public shareholders seeking to exercise their redemption rights, whether they are record holders or hold their shares in “street name,” to either tender their certificates to our

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transfer agent prior to the date set forth in the tender offer documents or proxy materials mailed to such holders, or up to two (2) business days prior to the vote on the proposal to approve our initial business combination in the event we distribute proxy materials, or to deliver their shares to the transfer agent electronically using The Depository Trust Company’s DWAC (Deposit/Withdrawal At Custodian) System, at the holder’s option, rather than simply voting against the initial business combination. The tender offer or proxy materials, as applicable, that we will furnish to holders of our public shares in connection with our initial business combination will indicate whether we are requiring public shareholders to satisfy such delivery requirements.

Limitation on redemption rights of shareholders holding more than 15% of the public shares sold in this offering if we hold a shareholder vote

Notwithstanding the foregoing redemption rights, 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 public shares sold in this offering, without our prior consent. We believe the restriction described above will discourage shareholders from accumulating large blocks of shares, and subsequent attempts by such holders to use their ability to redeem their shares as a means to force us or our management to purchase their shares at a significant premium to the then-current market price or on other undesirable terms. Absent this provision, a public shareholder holding more than an aggregate of 15% of the shares sold in this offering could threaten to exercise its redemption rights against a business combination if such holder’s shares are not purchased by us, our sponsor or our management at a premium to the

then-current

market price or on other undesirable terms. By limiting our shareholders’ ability to redeem to no more than 15% of the shares sold in this offering, 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, particularly in connection with a business 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 all shares held by those shareholders that hold more than 15% of the shares sold in this offering) for or against our initial business combination.

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Redemption rights in connection with proposed amendments to our charter documents

Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association will provide that amendments to any its provisions relating to our

pre-initial

business combination activity and related shareholder rights, as well as any other provision of the amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, may be amended if approved by holders of a majority of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares, which attend and vote at a shareholder meeting of the company, subject to applicable stock exchange rules. If an amendment to any such provision is approved by the requisite shareholder vote, then the corresponding provisions of the trust agreement governing the release of funds from our trust account may be amended.

After the completion of this offering, and prior to the consummation of our initial business combination, we may not issue any additional shares that would entitle the holders thereof to receive funds from the trust account or vote on an initial business combination, on any

pre-business

combination activity or on any amendment to the provisions of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association relating to our

pre-initial

business combination activity and related shareholders’ rights.

Our sponsor, executive officers and directors (and any of their permitted transferees), who will beneficially own approximately 21.8% of our outstanding ordinary shares upon the closing of this offering (assuming they do not purchase public units in this offering and that the underwriters do not exercise their over-allotment option), may participate in any vote to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association and will have the discretion to vote in any manner they choose;

provided, that

, each of them has agreed (and their permitted transferees will agree), pursuant to a written agreement with us, that they will not propose any amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association that would affect the substance or timing of our obligation to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering unless we provide our public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem their public shares upon approval of any such amendment at a

per-share

Our initial shareholders will enter into agreements with us pursuant to which they will agree to waive their redemption rights with respect to their founder shares, private placement shares and any Class A ordinary shares issuable upon conversion thereof in connection with any amendment to the provisions of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association relating to our

pre-initial

business combination activity and related shareholders’ rights.

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Release of funds in trust account on closing of our initial business combination

On the completion of our initial business combination, the funds held in the trust account will be used to pay amounts due to any public shareholders who exercise their redemption rights as described above under “

Redemption rights for public shareholders upon completion of our initial business combination

,” to pay all or a portion of the consideration payable to the acquisition target or owners of the acquisition target of our initial business combination and to pay other expenses associated with our initial business combination. If our initial business combination is paid for using equity or debt securities, or not all of the funds released from the trust account are used for payment of the consideration in connection with our initial business combination, we may apply the balance of the cash released to us from the trust account for general corporate purposes, including for maintenance or expansion of operations of post-transaction businesses, the payment of principal or interest due on indebtedness incurred in completing our initial business combination, to fund the purchase of other companies or for working capital.

Redemption of public shares and distribution and liquidation if no initial business combination

We will have only 24 months from the closing of this offering to complete our initial business combination. If we are unable to complete our initial business combination within such period, we will: (1) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up; (2) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten (10) business days thereafter, redeem the outstanding public shares, at a

per-share

price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses and which interest shall be net of permitted withdrawals), divided by the number of then issued and outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidating distributions, if any), subject to applicable law; and (3) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of our remaining shareholders and our board of directors, dissolve and liquidate, subject in each case to our obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law.

We may, however, raise funds through the issuance of

equity-linked

securities or through loans, advances or other indebtedness in connection with our initial business combination, including pursuant to forward purchase agreements or backstop arrangements we may enter into following consummation of this offering, in order to, among other reasons, satisfy such minimum cash requirements.

Our initial shareholders have entered into agreements with us, pursuant to which they have waived their rights to liquidating

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distributions from the trust account with respect to their founder shares, private investor shares and private placement shares if we fail to complete our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering. However, if our initial shareholders or management team acquire public shares in or after this offering, they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to such public shares if we fail to complete our initial business combination within the

24-month

time frame.

Conflicts of Interest

Each of our officers and directors presently has, and any of them in the future may have additional, fiduciary, contractual or other obligations or duties to one or more other entities pursuant to which such officer or director is or will be required to present a business combination opportunity to such entities. Accordingly, if any of our officers or directors becomes aware of a business combination opportunity which is suitable for an entity to which he or she has then current fiduciary or contractual obligations, he or she will honor his or her fiduciary or contractual obligations to present such business combination opportunity to such other entity, subject to their fiduciary duties under Cayman Islands law. Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide that, to the fullest extent permitted by law: (i) no individual serving as a director or an officer, among other persons, 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 (a) may be a corporate opportunity for any director or officer, on the one hand, and us, on the other or (b) the

presentation of which would breach an existing legal obligation of a director or officer to any other entity. 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.

Our sponsor, officers or directors may sponsor or form other special purpose acquisition companies similar to ours or may pursue other business or investment ventures during the period in which we are seeking an initial business combination. As a result, our sponsor, officers and directors could have conflicts of interest in determining whether to present business combination opportunities to us or to any other special purpose acquisition company with which they may become involved. Any such companies, businesses or investments may present additional conflicts of interest in pursuing an initial business combination target. As the number of special purpose acquisition companies increases, the competition for available targets with attractive business models and strong financial presence intensifies, which could cause targets companies to demand improved acquisition terms. This could affect our ability to find and consummate an initial business combination or negotiate favorable to us provisions.

See “

Risk Factors — We may engage in our initial business combination with one or more target businesses that have

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relationships with entities that may be affiliated with

our

sponsor, executive officers or directors, which may raise potential conflicts of interest.

” and “—

As the number of special purpose

acquisition companies evaluating targets increases, and other issued SPAC entities may come to market with superior terms for the acquisition

targets,

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.”

However, we do not believe that any such potential conflicts would materially affect our ability to complete our initial business combination.

Our executive officers and our directors may have interests that differ from you in connection with the business combination, including the fact that they may lose their entire investment in us if our initial business combination is not completed, except to the extent they receive liquidating distributions from assets outside the trust account, 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.

Additionally, the personal and financial interests of our directors and executive officers may influence their motivation in timely identifying and pursuing an initial business combination or completing our initial business combination. In the event we do not consummate a business combination within the completion window, and unless the time for us to consummate a business combination has been extended, the founder shares, private investor shares and the private placement units will expire worthless, which could create an incentive our officers and directors to complete a transaction even if the company selects an acquisition target that subsequently declines in value and is unprofitable for public investors. The different timelines of competing business combinations could cause our directors and executive officers to prioritize a different business combination over finding a suitable acquisition target for our business combination. Consequently, our directors’ and executive 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, which could negatively impact the timing for a business combination.

In addition to the above, our officers and directors are not required to commit any specified amount of time to our affairs, and, accordingly, may have conflicts of interest in allocating management time among various business activities, including selecting a business combination target and monitoring the related due diligence.

See “

Risk Factors —

Our 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

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complete

our

initial business combination.

”

Indemnity

Our sponsor has agreed that it will be liable to us, if and to the extent any claims by any third party for services rendered or products sold to us, or a prospective target business with which we have entered into an acquisition agreement, reduce the amounts in the trust account to below $10.00 per share (whether or not the underwriter’s over-allotment option is exercised in full), except as to any claims by a third party who executed a waiver of any and all rights to seek access to the trust account and except as to any claims under our indemnity of the underwriters of this 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, our sponsor will not be responsible to the extent of any liability for such third-party claims. We have not independently verified whether our sponsor has sufficient funds to satisfy their indemnity obligations. We believe, however, the likelihood of our sponsor having to indemnify the trust account is limited because we will endeavor to have all third-party vendors and prospective target businesses as well as other entities execute agreements with us waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to monies held in the trust account.

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SUMMARY FINANCIAL DATA

The following table summarizes the relevant financial data for our business and should be read with our financial statements, which are included in this prospectus. We have not had any significant operations to date, so only balance sheet data is presented.


	July 21, 2025
	Actual		As Adjusted
Balance Sheet Data:
Working capital	$	5,668	$	1,066,468	(1)
Total assets	$	125,000	$	221,525,000	(2)
Total liabilities	$	119,332	$	458,532	(3)
Value of Class A ordinary shares subject to redemption	$	—	$	220,000,000	(4)
Shareholders’ equity	$	5,668	$	1,066,468	(5)

(1)	The “as adjusted” calculation equals the actual working capital of $5, 66 8, plus $1,400,000 held outside the trust account less $339,200 for the overallotment liability.

(2)	The “as adjusted” calculation equals the actual total assets of $125,000 plus $220,000,000 cash held in trust from the proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private investor shares and the private placement units, plus the $1,400,000 held outside the trust account.

(3)

The “as adjusted” calculation equals the “as adjusted” total liabilities, plus $339,200 for the overallotment liability. The $339,200 over-allotment liability represents the value of the

45-day

over-allotment option granted to the underwriters and

non-managing

investors to purchase up to 3,300,000 and 19,982 units

respectively

at the initial offering price, less the underwriting commissions. This over-allotment option is considered a freestanding financial instrument, indexed on the contingently redeemable shares, and is accounted for as a liability in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification 480, Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity.

(4)	Equals 22,000,000 public shares at $10 per share.

(5)

Excludes 22,000,000 public shares purchased in the public market which are subject to conversion in connection with our initial business combination. The “as adjusted” calculation equals the “as adjusted” total assets, less the “as adjusted” total liabilities, less the “as adjusted” value of Class A ordinary shares which may be redeemed in connection with our initial business combination ($10.00 per share).

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CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Certain statements contained in this prospectus, which reflect our current views with respect to future events and financial performance, and any other statements of a future or forward-looking nature, constitute “forward-looking statements” for the purpose of the federal securities laws. Our forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our or our management’s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer 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-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this prospectus may include, for example, statements about:

•

our ability to complete our initial business combination;

•

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

•

our executive 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;

•

our potential ability to obtain the required funds to complete our offering and working capital expenses;

•

our potential ability to obtain additional financing to complete our initial business combination;

•

our pool of prospective target businesses, including their industry and geographic location;

•

the ability of our executive officers and directors to generate a number of potential investment opportunities;

•

failure to list or delisting of our securities from Nasdaq or an inability to have our securities listed on Nasdaq following a business combination;

•

our public securities’ potential liquidity and trading;

•

the lack of a market for our securities; or

•

our financial performance following this offering.

The forward-looking statements contained in this prospectus are based on our current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effects on us. Future developments affecting us may 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, those factors described under the heading “

Risk Factors.

”

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.

In addition, statements that contain “we believe” and similar statements reflect our beliefs and opinions on the relevant subject. These statements are based on information available to us as of the date of this prospectus. Although we believe that this information provides a reasonable basis for these statements, this information may be limited or incomplete. Our statements should not be read to indicate that we have conducted an exhaustive inquiry into, or review of, all relevant information. These statements are inherently uncertain, and investors are cautioned not to unduly rely on these statements.

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RISKS

We are a recently incorporated company that has conducted no operations and has generated no revenues. Until we complete our initial business combination, we will have no operations and will generate no operating revenues. In making your decision whether to invest in our securities, you should take into account not only the background of our management team, but also the special risks we face as a blank check company. This offering is not being conducted in compliance with Rule 419 promulgated under the Securities Act. Accordingly, you will not be entitled to protections normally afforded to investors in Rule 419 blank check offerings. Please see “

Proposed Business — Comparison of This Offering to Those of Blank Check Companies Subject to Rule 419

” for additional information concerning how Rule 419 blank check offerings differ from this offering. You should carefully consider these and the other risks set forth in the section entitled “Risk Factors” in this prospectus.

Summary of Risk Factors

An investment in our securities involves a high degree of risk. The occurrence of one or more of the events or circumstances described in the section titled “Risk Factors,” alone or in combination with other events or circumstances, may materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results. In that event, the trading price of our securities could decline, and you could lose all or part of your investment. Such risks include, but are not limited to:

•

We are a blank check company with no operating history and no revenues, and you have no basis on which to evaluate our ability to achieve our business objective.

•

Our public shareholders may not be afforded an opportunity to vote on our proposed business combination, and even if we hold a vote, our initial shareholders will participate in such vote, which means we may consummate our initial business combination even though a majority of our public shareholders do not support such a combination.

•

If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination, our initial shareholders have agreed to vote their Class B ordinary shares and private placement shares, which constitutes approximately 30.7% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares following this offering (assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option), in favor of such initial business combination, regardless of how our public shareholders vote. If any of the

non-managing

investors purchase public units, our initial shareholders will beneficially own a greater amount of the 31,741,483 ordinary shares of the company that will be issued and outstanding shares following this offering (assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option) than 30.7%, and although the

non-managing

investors have not committed to vote any public shares that they may acquire in favor of a business combination, they may do so because of their ownership of the private investor shares and private placement units, regardless of how other public shareholders vote.

•

Your only opportunity to effect your investment decision regarding a potential business combination may be limited to the exercise of your right to redeem your shares from us for cash.

•

The requirement that we complete our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering may give potential target businesses leverage over us in negotiating our initial business combination which could undermine our ability to consummate our initial business combination on terms that would produce value for our shareholders.

•

We may not be able to consummate our initial business combination within the required time period, in which case we would cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up and we would redeem our public shares and liquidate.

•

As the number of SPACs evaluating targets increases, and other issued SPAC entities may come to market with superior terms for the acquisition targets, attractive targets may become scarcer and there

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may be more competition for attractive targets. potentially increasing the cost of, or impairing our ability to consummate, our initial business combination.

•

If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination pursuant to a proxy solicitation, our sponsor, directors, executive officers, and their affiliates may elect to purchase shares from other shareholders, in which case they may influence a vote in favor of a proposed business combination that you do not support.

•

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 are unable to complete our initial business combination, our public shareholders may only receive approximately $10.00 per share, or less in certain circumstances, on our redemption of their shares, and our rights will expire worthless.

•

None of the

non-managing

investors have expressed an interest to purchase public units in this offering, but if they do so, although it may not affect our ability to meet Nasdaq listing requirements or maintain such listing, it may reduce the trading volume, volatility and liquidity for our public shares, if the

non-managing

investors choose post offering not to trade any public shares that they acquire in the offering or otherwise, and it may adversely affect the trading price of our public shares.

•

If the net proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private investor shares and private placement units not being held in the trust account are insufficient to allow us to operate for at least the next 24 months from the closing of this offering, we may be unable to complete our initial business combination, and we will depend on loans from our sponsor or management team to fund our search and to complete our initial business combination.

•

If third parties bring claims against the company, the proceeds held in trust could be reduced and the

per-share

redemption price received by shareholders may be less than $10.00 per share.

•

The grant of registration rights to our initial shareholders, including the

non-managing

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 public shares.

•

Because we are not limited to any particular business or specific geographic location or any specific target businesses with which to pursue our initial business combination, you will be unable to ascertain the merits or risks of any particular target business’ operations.

•

We may seek acquisition opportunities outside the A&D, cybersecurity, encryption and quantum technologies, satellite and drone technologies for commercial and defense applications, and semiconductor “system on a chip” (SOC) industry, which may be outside of our management’s areas of expertise.

•

We may only be able to complete one business combination with the proceeds of this offering, and the sale of the private investor shares and private placement units, 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.

•

Our initial shareholders will control a substantial interest in us and thus may influence certain actions requiring a shareholder vote.

•

Redeeming shareholders may be unable to sell their securities when they wish to in the event that the proposed business combination is not approved.

•

We are likely to be treated as a passive foreign investment company (“PFIC”), which could result in adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences to U.S. investors.

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If we are unable to consummate our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering, our public shareholders may be forced to wait beyond such period before redemption from our trust account.

•

If our initial business combination involves a company organized under the laws of the United States (or any subdivision thereof), a U.S. federal excise tax could be imposed on us in connection with any redemptions of our public shares after or in connection with such initial business combination.

•

An investment in our securities, and certain subsequent transactions with respect to our securities, may result in uncertain or adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences for an investor.

•

Transactions in connection with or in anticipation of our initial business combination and our structure thereafter may not be

tax-efficient

to our shareholders and rights holders. As a result of our initial business combination, our tax obligations may be more complex, burdensome and uncertain.

•

The other risks and uncertainties discussed in “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this prospectus.

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RISK FACTORS

An investment in our securities involves a high degree of risk. You should consider carefully all of the risks described below, together with the other information contained in this prospectus, before making a decision to invest in our public units. If any 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 Search for, and Consummation of or Inability to Consummate, a Business Combination

Our public shareholders may not be afforded an opportunity to vote on our proposed business combination, and even if we hold a vote, holders of our founder shares, private investor shares and private placement shares will participate in such vote, which means we may consummate our initial business combination even though a majority of our public shareholders do not support such a combination.

We may choose not hold a shareholder vote to approve our initial business combination unless the business combination would require shareholder approval under applicable law or stock exchange rules or if we decide to hold a shareholder vote for business or other reasons. For instance, the Nasdaq rules currently allow us to engage in a tender offer in lieu of a shareholder meeting, but would still require us to obtain shareholder approval if we were seeking to issue more than 20% of our issued and outstanding shares to a target business as consideration in any business combination. Therefore, if we were structuring a business combination that required us to issue more than 20% of our issued and outstanding shares, we would seek shareholder approval of such business combination. However, except as required by applicable law or stock exchange rules, 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 consummate our initial business combination even if holders of a majority of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares do not approve of the business combination we consummate. Please see the section entitled “

Proposed Business

—

Initial Business Combination—Shareholders may not have the ability to approve our initial business combination

” for additional information. 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.

non-managing

We expect that our initial shareholders and their permitted transferees, will beneficially own approximately 30.7% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares at the time of any such shareholder vote (assuming none of the initial shareholders purchases any public units in this offering). Our initial shareholders and management team also may from time to time purchase public units or public shares prior to our initial business combination. If the

non-managing

investors purchase public units in this offering and assuming none of them will trade such public units after the closing, or they subsequently acquire public units in open-market trades, the initial shareholders will beneficially own more than 30.7% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares at the time of

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any shareholder vote (assuming no exercise of the over-allotment option by the underwriters). Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provides that, if we seek shareholder approval of an initial business combination, such initial business combination will be approved if we receive an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law and our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, which requires the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the votes cast by such shareholders as, being entitled to do so, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at the applicable general meeting of the company. Our initial shareholders (and their permitted transferees) will agree, pursuant to the terms of the agreements to be entered into with us, to vote their founder shares, private investor shares and private placement shares in favor of our initial business combination, but not any public shares that the

non-managing

investors may purchase in this offering or after the closing on the open market. As a result, in addition to the Class B ordinary shares and private placement shares held by our initial shareholders, we would need approximately 11,757,181 public shares, or approximately 53.44% of the 22,000,000 public shares sold in this offering to be voted in favor of a transaction (assuming all issued and outstanding shares are voted, the

over-allotment

option is not exercised and 1,410,624 founder shares are forfeited) in order to have such initial business combination approved.

None of the

non-managing

investors have currently expressed to us an interest in purchasing any of the public units in this offering and neither us nor the representatives have had discussions with any

non-managing

investors regarding any purchases of public units in this offering. However, we expect that some or all of the

non-managing

investors than the amount for which the

non-managing

investors may express an interest. Furthermore, we would not expect any of the

non-managing

investors to express an interest to purchase more than 9.9% of the public units to be sold in this offering. There can be no assurance that the

non-managing

investors will acquire any public units, either directly or indirectly, in this offering, or as to the amount of the public units the

non-managing

investors. If the

non-managing

investors purchase public units in the offering, and depending on how many public units are purchased by the

non-managing

investors to negatively impact our ability to meet Nasdaq listing eligibility requirements. The underwriters will receive the same upfront discounts and commissions on public units purchased by the

non-managing

investors in the offering, if any, as it will on the other public units sold to the public in this offering. In addition, although the

non-managing

investors have agreed to vote their private investor shares and private placement shares in favor of an initial business combination, none of the

non-managing

investors has any obligation to vote any public shares which they may hold in favor of our initial business combination. Nevertheless, regardless of the number of public units they may purchase, the

non-managing

investors will be public shareholders at the time our shareholders vote on our initial business combination, and, if they are public shareholders, we cannot assure you as to how such

non-managing

investors will vote on any business combination. Additionally, these

non-managing

investors have the potential to realize enhanced economic returns from their investments compared to other investors in this offering. If the

non-managing

investors that purchase public units otherwise hold a substantial number of our public units, then the

non-managing

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of their ownership of private investor shares and private placement shares. Such ownership may create an incentive for the

non-managing

investors and public shareholders, please see “—

Our management team, the

non-managing

investors and our sponsor may not fully align with the economic interests of public shareholders.

Assuming that only the holders of

one-third

of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares, representing a quorum under our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, vote their ordinary shares at a general meeting of the company, we will not need any public shares in addition to our founder shares to be voted in favor of an initial business combination in order to approve an initial business combination. However, if our initial business combination is structured as a statutory merger or consolidation with another company under Cayman Islands law, the approval of our initial business combination will require a special resolution, which requires the affirmative vote of at least

two-thirds

of the votes cast by such shareholders as, being entitled to do so, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at the applicable general meeting of the company. Accordingly, if we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination, the agreement by our initial shareholders to vote their founder shares, private investor shares and private placement shares in favor of our initial business combination will increase the likelihood that an ordinary resolution will be passed, being the requisite shareholder approval for such initial business combination.

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 from us 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 one or more target businesses. Because our board of directors may consummate our initial business combination without seeking shareholder approval, public shareholders may not have the right or opportunity to vote on the business combination, unless we seek such shareholder vote. Accordingly, 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.

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 our initial business combination with a target.

We may enter into a 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 may not be able to meet such closing condition, and as a result, would not be able to proceed with such business combination. Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association will require us to provide all of our public shareholders with an opportunity to redeem all of their shares in connection with the consummation of any initial business combination.

Furthermore, this dilution would increase to the extent that the anti-dilution provision of the Class B ordinary shares results in the issuance of Class A ordinary shares on a greater than

one-to-one

basis upon conversion of the Class B ordinary shares at the time of our initial business combination. The effect of this dilution will be greater for shareholders who do not redeem. In addition, the amount of the deferred underwriting compensation payable to the underwriters will not be adjusted for any shares that are redeemed in connection with an initial business combination. We may not be able to generate sufficient value from the completion of our

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initial business combination in order to overcome the dilutive impact of these and other factors, and, accordingly, you may incur a net loss on your investment. Please see “

— The nominal purchase price paid by our sponsor for the founder shares and paid by the

non-managing

investors for the private investor shares, in addition to the sale of private placement units to the sponsor and the

non-managing

investors, may result in significant dilution to the implied value of your public shares upon the consummation of our initial business combination

.” The above considerations may limit our ability to complete the most desirable business combination available to us or optimize our capital structure.

The requirement that we maintain a minimum net worth or retain a certain amount of cash could increase the probability that our business combination would be unsuccessful and that you would have to wait for liquidation in order to redeem your shares.

If, pursuant to the terms of our proposed business combination, we are required to maintain a minimum net worth or retain a certain amount of cash in trust in order to consummate the business combination and regardless of whether we proceed with redemptions under the tender or proxy rules, the probability that our business combination would be unsuccessful is increased. If our business combination is unsuccessful, you would not receive your pro rata portion of the trust account until we liquidate. If you are in need of immediate liquidity, you could attempt to sell your shares on the open market; however, at such time our shares may trade at a discount to the pro rata amount per share in our 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 on the open market.

The requirement that we complete our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering may give potential target businesses leverage over us in negotiating our initial business combination and may limit the amount of time we have to conduct due diligence on potential business combination targets as we approach our dissolution deadline, which could undermine our ability to consummate our initial business combination on terms that would produce value for our shareholders.

Any potential target business with which we enter into negotiations concerning our initial business combination will be aware that we must consummate our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering. Consequently, such target businesses may obtain leverage over us in negotiating our initial 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 timeframe 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. The length of time it may take us to complete our diligence and negotiate a business combination may reduce the amount of time available for us to ultimately complete an initial business combination should such diligence or negotiations not lead to a consummated initial business combination.

We must complete our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering. We may not be able to find a suitable target business and consummate our initial business combination within such time period. Our ability to complete our initial business combination may be negatively impacted by general market conditions, political considerations, volatility in the capital and debt markets, other social and geopolitical events, and the other risks described herein, including, but not limited to, the war between Russia and Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas conflict. Additionally, the outbreak of unforeseen occurrence of natural disasters, such as the recent

COVID-19

pandemic, may negatively impact businesses we may seek to acquire and may make it harder for us to find a suitable target business and consummate our initial business combination.

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If we are unable to consummate our initial business combination within the required time period (or any extended period of time that we may have to consummate an initial business combination as a result of an amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association), we will: (1) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up; (2) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten (10) business days thereafter, redeem the outstanding public shares, at a

per-share

Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association will 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. In either such case, our public shareholders may receive only $10.00 per public share, or less than $10.00 per public share, on the redemption of their shares.

See

“

Risk Factors — Risks Relating to our Search for, and Consummation of or Inability to Consummate, a Business

Combination

—

If third parties bring claims against the company, the proceeds held in trust could be reduced and the

per-share

redemption price received by shareholders may be less than $10.00 per share

.”

Our search for a business combination, and any target business with which we ultimately consummate a business combination, may be materially adversely affected by the recent and ongoing military action between Russia and Ukraine.

On February 24, 2022, Russian military forces launched a military action in Ukraine, and sustained conflict and disruption in the region is likely. Although the length, impact and outcome of the ongoing military conflict in Ukraine is highly unpredictable, this conflict could lead to significant market and other disruptions, including significant volatility in commodity prices and supply of energy resources, instability in financial markets, supply chain interruptions, political and social instability, changes in consumer or purchaser preferences as well as increase in cyberattacks and espionage. Russia’s recognition of two separatist republics in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine and subsequent military action against Ukraine have led to an unprecedented expansion of sanction programs imposed by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland, Japan and other countries against Russia, Belarus, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the

so-called

Donetsk People’s Republic and the

so-called

Luhansk People’s Republic.

The situation is rapidly evolving as a result of the conflict in Ukraine, and the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and other countries may implement additional sanctions, export controls or other measures against Russia, Belarus and other countries, regions, officials, individuals or industries in the respective territories. Such sanctions and other measures, as well as the existing and potential further responses from Russia or other countries to such sanctions, tensions and military actions, could adversely affect the global economy and financial markets and could adversely affect our ability to search for a business combination or finance such business combination, and the business, financial condition and results of operations of any target business with which we ultimately consummate a business combination may be materially adversely affected.

Military or other conflicts in Ukraine, the Middle East and Southwest Asia 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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Military or other conflicts in Ukraine, the Middle East, Southwest Asia 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, and to other company or industry-specific, national, regional or international economic disruptions and economic uncertainty, any of which could make it more difficult for us to identify a business combination target and consummate an initial business combination on acceptable commercial terms, or at all.

Our search for and ability to complete a business combination, and any target business with which we ultimately complete a business combination, may be adversely affected by general market conditions, political considerations, pandemics, volatility in the capital and debt markets and other social and geopolitical events.

Our search for and ability to complete a business combination is subject to macroeconomic and geopolitical risks, including the emergence or continuation of widespread health emergencies or pandemics (similar to the recent

COVID-19

pandemic), cyberattacks or campaigns, the current or anticipated impact of climate change, extreme weather events or natural disasters, military conflict, civil unrest, terrorism or other similar events, which could adversely affect business and economic conditions in the U.S. and abroad. The business of any potential target business with which we consummate a business combination could be materially and adversely affected by these types of events. Furthermore, we may be unable to complete a business combination as a result of these macroeconomic, geopolitical or other events, including if these events restrict travel, or limit the ability to have meetings with potential investors or the acquisition target’s personnel, vendors and services providers are unavailable to negotiate and consummate a transaction in a timely manner. The extent to which one of these types of events could impact our search for a business combination will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted. In addition, various conflicts, such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and conflicts in the Middle East, could result in regional instability and adversely impact commodity and other financial markets as well as economic conditions. These events could create inflationary pressure or otherwise effect the global economy, all of which could negatively impact our ability to complete a business combination or otherwise affect target businesses.

If any macroeconomic, geopolitical or other matters of global concern cause disruptions to the business environment for an extended period of time, our ability to consummate a business combination, or the operations of a target business with which we ultimately consummate a business combination, may be materially adversely affected. Additionally, our ability to complete a business combination transaction may depend on the ability to raise sufficient equity and debt financing, and any of these or similar events could adversely impact our or the acquisition target’s ability to do so due to, among other things, increased market volatility, decreased market liquidity and the availability of third-party financing on terms acceptable to us or at all.

Macro-economic turbulence and instability relating to recent and ongoing global conflicts and other drivers of uncertainty may adversely affect our business, investments and results of operations and our ability to successfully consummate a business combination.

A deterioration in economic conditions and related drivers of global uncertainty and change, such as reduced business activity, high unemployment, rising interest rates, housing prices, and energy prices (including the price of gasoline), increased consumer indebtedness, lack of available credit, the rate of inflation, and consumer perceptions of the economy, as well as other factors, such as terrorist attacks, protests, looting, and other forms of civil unrest, cyberattacks and data breaches, public health emergencies (such as the

COVID-19

pandemic and other epidemics), extreme weather conditions and climate change, significant changes in the political environment, political instability, armed conflict (such as the ongoing military conflict between Ukraine and Russia and the military conflict in Israel and Gaza) and/or public policy, including increased state, local or federal taxation, could adversely affect our financial condition, the financial condition of prospective target companies for our initial business combination, or the financial condition of the combined company even if we successfully consummate a business combination, as well as our ability to locate a commercially viable target company for our business combination in the first instance.

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Recent increases in inflation in the United States and elsewhere could make it more difficult for us to complete our initial business combination.

Recent increases in inflation in the United States and elsewhere may lead to increased price volatility for publicly traded securities, including ours, or other national, regional or international economic disruptions, any of which could make it more difficult for us to complete our initial business combination.

As the number of special purpose acquisition companies evaluating targets increases, and other issued SPAC entities may come to market with superior terms for the acquisition targets, 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 companies preparing for an initial public offering. 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.

If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination pursuant to a proxy solicitation (meaning we would not conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules), our sponsor, directors, executive officers, or any of their affiliates are permitted to purchase ordinary shares in privately negotiated transactions or on the open market either prior to or following the consummation of our initial business combination. Any such purchase would be required to include a contractual acknowledgement that the selling shareholder, although he may still be the record holder of the shares being sold, would, upon consummation of such sale, no longer be the beneficial owner of such shares and would agree not to exercise the redemption rights applicable to such shares. In the event that our sponsor, directors, executive officers, or any of their affiliates purchase public shares in privately negotiated transactions from public shareholders who have already elected to exercise their redemption rights, any such selling shareholders would be required to revoke their prior elections to redeem their public shares prior to the consummation of the transaction.

The purpose of such purchases could be to (1) increase the likelihood of obtaining shareholder approval of the initial business combination or (2) 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 the business combination, where it appears that such requirement would otherwise not be met. This may result in the consummation of an initial business combination that may not otherwise have been possible.

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.

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We will comply with the tender offer rules or proxy 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 tender offer or proxy materials, as applicable, such shareholder may not become aware of the opportunity to redeem its shares. In addition, the tender offer documents or proxy 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 tender or redeem public shares. For example, we may require our public shareholders seeking to exercise their redemption rights, whether they are record holders or hold their shares in “street name,” to either tender their certificates to our transfer agent prior to the date set forth in the tender offer or proxy materials documents mailed to such holders, or up to two business days prior to the vote on the proposal to approve the initial business combination in the event we distribute proxy materials, or to deliver their shares to the transfer agent electronically. In the event that a shareholder fails to comply with these procedures, its shares may not be redeemed. Please see “

Proposed Business—Redemption Rights

.”

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 are unable to complete our initial business combination, our public shareholders may receive only approximately $10.00 per share, or less in certain circumstances, on our redemption of their shares.

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 will be numerous target businesses we could potentially acquire with the net proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private share, our ability to compete with respect to the acquisition of certain target businesses that are sizable will be limited by our available financial resources. Our sponsor, any of its affiliates or any of their respective clients may make additional investments in us, although our sponsor and its affiliates have no obligation or other duty to do so.

This inherent competitive limitation gives others an advantage in pursuing the acquisition of certain target businesses. Furthermore, in the event we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination and we are obligated to pay cash for public shares that are redeemed, it will potentially reduce the resources available to us for our initial business combination. 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 and completing a business combination. If we are unable to complete our initial business combination, our public shareholders may receive only approximately $10.00 per share, or less in certain circumstances, on the liquidation of our trust account.

Please see “

Risk Factors — Risks Relating to our Search for, and Consummation of or Inability to Consummate, a Business Combination

—

If third parties bring claims against the company, the proceeds held in trust could be reduced and the

per-share

redemption price received by shareholders may be less than $10.00 per share.

” and other risk factors herein.

We will require public shareholders who wish to redeem their public shares in connection with a proposed business combination to comply with specific requirements for redemption that may make it more difficult for them to exercise their redemption rights prior to the deadline for exercising their rights.

We will require our public shareholders seeking to exercise their redemption rights, whether they are record holders or hold their shares in “street name,” to either tender their certificates to our transfer agent prior to the expiration date set forth in the tender offer documents mailed to such holders, or in the event we distribute proxy materials, up to two business days prior to the vote on the proposal to approve the business combination, or to

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deliver their shares to the transfer agent electronically using The Depository Trust Company’s DWAC (Deposit/Withdrawal At Custodian) System, at the holder’s option. In order to obtain a physical share certificate, a shareholder’s broker and/or clearing broker, The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) and our transfer agent will need to act to facilitate this request. It is our understanding that shareholders should generally allot at least two weeks to obtain physical certificates from the transfer agent. However, because we do not have any control over this process or over the brokers or DTC, it may take significantly longer than two weeks to obtain a physical share certificate. While we have been advised that it takes a short time to deliver shares through the DWAC System, this may not be the case. Under our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, we are required to provide at least 7 days advance notice of any shareholder meeting, which would be the minimum amount of time a shareholder would have to determine whether to exercise redemption rights. Accordingly, if it takes longer than we anticipate for shareholders to deliver their shares, shareholders who wish to redeem may be unable to meet the deadline for exercising their redemption rights and thus may be unable to redeem their shares. In the event that a shareholder fails to comply with the various procedures that must be complied with in order to validly tender or redeem public shares, its shares may not be redeemed.

Additionally, despite our compliance with the proxy rules or tender offer rules, as applicable, shareholders may not become aware of the opportunity to redeem their shares.

If we seek shareholder approval of our business combination pursuant to a proxy solicitation (meaning we would 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 the issued and outstanding public shares sold in this offering, you will lose the ability to redeem all such shares in excess of 15% of the issued and outstanding public shares sold in this offering.

If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination pursuant to a proxy solicitation (meaning we would not conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules), our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association will provide that a public shareholder, individually or 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), would be restricted from seeking redemption rights with respect to an aggregate of more than 15% of the public shares sold in this offering. Your inability to redeem an aggregate of more than 15% of the public shares sold in this offering will reduce your influence over our ability to consummate our initial business combination and you could suffer a material loss on your investment in us if you sell such excess shares in open market transactions. As a result, you will continue to hold that number of shares exceeding 15% and, in order to dispose of such shares, you would be required to sell your shares in open market transaction, potentially at a loss.

The funds available to us outside of the trust account may not be sufficient to allow us to operate for at least the next 24 months from the closing of this offering, assuming that our initial business combination is not consummated during that time. Of the net proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private investor shares and private placement units, only approximately $1,400,000 (or $1,507,000, if the underwriters exercise the

over-allotment

option in full), will be available to us initially outside the trust account to fund our working capital requirements. Of the funds available to us, we could use a portion of the funds available to 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 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 are unable to fund such down payments or “no shop” provisions, our ability to close a

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contemplated transaction could be impaired. Furthermore, 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 unable to complete our initial business combination, our public shareholders may only receive $10.00 per share (whether or not the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) or potentially less than $10.00 per share on our redemption.

We may issue notes or other debt securities, or otherwise incur substantial debt, to complete our initial business combination, which may adversely affect our financial condition and thus negatively impact the value of our shareholders’ investment in us.

Although we have no other commitments as of the date of this prospectus to issue any notes or other debt securities, or to otherwise incur outstanding debt, we may choose to incur substantial debt to complete initial business combination. Furthermore, we may issue a substantial number of additional ordinary or preferred shares to complete our initial business combination or under an employee incentive plan upon or after consummation of our initial business combination. We and our officers and directors 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 any 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 our 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 security is payable on demand;

•

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

•

our inability to pay dividends on our 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 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.

Our directors may decide not to enforce indemnification obligations against 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 $10.00 per share (whether or not the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) and our sponsor asserts that it is unable to satisfy obligations or that it has no indemnification obligations related to a particular claim, our independent directors

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would determine on our behalf 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 may choose not to do so. If our independent directors choose not to enforce these indemnification obligations on our behalf, the amount of funds in the trust account available for distribution to our public shareholders may be reduced below $10.00 per share.

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, adoption of a specific form of corporate structure and reporting, record keeping, voting, proxy and disclosure requirements and other rules and regulations.

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 consummate our initial business combination.

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 intend to spend a considerable amount of time actively managing the assets in the trust account for the primary purpose of achieving investment returns. 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 held as cash, including in demand deposit accounts at a bank, or invested in U.S. “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 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. This offering is not intended for persons who are seeking a return on investments in government securities or investment securities. The trust account is intended as a holding place for funds pending the earliest to occur of: (i) the completion of our initial business combination; (ii) the redemption of any public shares properly submitted in connection with the implementation by the directors of, following a shareholder vote, an amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A) to modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide for the redemption of our public shares in connection with an initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we have not consummated our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering or (B) with respect to any other provisions relating to shareholders’ rights or

pre-initial

business combination activity; or (iii) absent an initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering, our return of the funds held in the trust account to our public shareholders as part of our redemption of the public

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shares. If we do not invest the proceeds as discussed above, we may be deemed to be subject to the Investment Company Act.

Further, under the subjective test of a “investment company” pursuant to Section 3(a)(1)(A) of the Investment Company Act, even if the funds deposited in the trust account were invested in the assets discussed above, such assets, other than cash, are “securities” for purposes of the Investment Company Act and, therefore, there is a risk that we could be deemed an investment company and subject to the Investment Company Act.

We are aware of litigation claiming that certain SPACs should be considered to be investment companies. Although we believe that these claims were without merit, we cannot guarantee that we will not be deemed to be an investment company and thus 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 an initial business combination or may result in our winding down our operations and our liquidation. If we are unable to complete our initial business combination, our public shareholders may receive only approximately $10.00 per share on the liquidation of our trust account and our public shareholders would also lose the possibility of an investment opportunity in a target company as well as any potential price appreciation in the combined company following a business combination.

If our circumstances change over time, we will update our disclosure to reflect how such changes impact the risk that we may be considered to be operating as an unregistered investment company.

To mitigate the risk that we might be deemed to be an investment company for purposes of the Investment Company Act, we may, at any time, instruct the trustee to liquidate the securities held in the trust account and instead to hold the funds in the trust account in cash until the earlier of the consummation of our initial business combination or our liquidation. As a result, following the liquidation of securities in the trust account, the interest earned on the funds held in the trust account may be materially reduced, which would reduce the dollar amount our public shareholders would receive upon any redemption or liquidation of the company.

We intend to initially hold the funds in the trust account as cash, including in demand deposit accounts at a bank, or in U.S. government treasury obligations with a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds investing solely in U.S. government treasury obligations and meeting certain conditions under Rule

2a-7

under the Investment Company Act. U.S. government treasury obligations are considered “securities” for purposes of the Investment Company Act, while cash is not. As noted above, one of the factors the SEC identified as relevant to the determination of whether a SPAC which holds securities could potentially be deemed an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act is the SPAC’s duration. To mitigate the risk of us being deemed to be an unregistered investment company (including under the subjective test of Section 3(a)(1)(A) of the Investment Company Act) and thus subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act, we may, at any time, instruct Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the trustee with respect to the trust account, to liquidate the U.S. government treasury obligations or money market funds held in the trust account and thereafter to hold all funds in the trust account in cash until the earlier of consummation of our initial business combination or liquidation of the company. Following such liquidation, the rate of interest we receive on the funds held in the trust account may be materially decreased. However, interest previously earned on the funds held in the trust account still may be released to us for permitted withdrawals and certain other expenses as permitted. As a result, any decision to liquidate the securities held in the trust account and thereafter to hold all funds in the trust account in cash would reduce the dollar amount our public shareholders would receive upon any redemption or liquidation of the company.

In addition, we may still be deemed to be an investment company. The longer that the funds in the trust account are held in short-term U.S. government treasury obligations or in money market funds invested exclusively in such securities, the greater the risk that we may be deemed to be an unregistered investment company, in which case we may be required to liquidate. If our facts and circumstances change over time, we

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will update our disclosure to reflect how those changes impact the risk that we may be considered to be operating as an unregistered investment company. As disclosed above, we may determine, in our discretion, to liquidate the securities held in the trust account at any time and instead hold all funds in the trust account in an interest bearing demand deposit account or as cash or cash items at a bank, which could further reduce the dollar amount our public shareholders would receive upon any redemption or liquidation of the company as compared to what they would have received had the investments not been so liquidated. Were we to liquidate the company, and our securityholders would lose the investment opportunity associated with an investment in the acquisition target with which we could have consummated an initial business combination. In addition, upon moving the funds from the trust account to a deposit account, we will maintain the cash items in bank accounts which, at times, may exceed federally insured limits as guaranteed by the FDIC. While we intend to place our deposits in high-quality banks, only a small portion of the funds in our trust account will be guaranteed by the FDIC.

Our shareholders may be held liable for claims by third parties against us to the extent of distributions received by them.

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 to a fine of approximately $18,000 and to imprisonment for five years in the Cayman Islands.

If third parties bring claims against the company, the proceeds held in trust could be reduced and the

per-share

redemption price received by shareholders may be less than $10.00 per share.

The company’s placing of funds in trust may not protect those funds from third party claims against the company. Although the company will seek to have all vendors and service providers the company engages and prospective target businesses the company negotiates with execute agreements with the company waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the trust account for the benefit of the company’s public shareholders, they may not execute such agreements. Furthermore, even if such entities execute such agreements with the company, they may seek recourse against the trust account. A court may not uphold the validity of such agreements. Accordingly, the proceeds held in trust could be subject to claims which could take priority over those of the company’s public shareholders. If the company is unable to complete a business combination and distribute the proceeds held in trust to the company’s public shareholders, the sponsor has agreed (subject to certain exceptions described in Exhibit 10.1 to this registration statement) that it will be liable to ensure that the proceeds in the trust account are not reduced below $10.00 per share by the claims of target businesses or claims of vendors or other entities that are owed money by the company for services rendered or contracted for or products sold to the company. However, it may not be able to meet such obligation. Therefore, the

per-share

distribution from the trust account may be less than $10.00, plus interest, due to such claims.

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 account for any reason.

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Upon redemption of our public shares, if we are unable to complete our initial business combination within the prescribed timeframe, 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 10 years following redemption. Accordingly, the

per-share

redemption amount received by public shareholders could be less than the $10.00 per public share initially held in the trust account, due to claims of such creditors. Pursuant to the letter agreement the form of which is filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part, our 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 (except for the company’s independent registered public accounting firm), or a prospective target business with which we have entered into a written letter of intent, confidentiality or other similar agreement or business combination agreement, reduce the amount of funds in the trust account to below the lesser of (i) $10.00 per public share and (ii) the actual amount per public share held in the trust account as of the date of the liquidation of the trust account, if less than $10.00 per public share due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, less permitted withdrawals, provided that such liability will not apply to any claims by a third party or prospective target business who executed a waiver of any and all rights to the monies held in the trust account (whether or not such waiver is enforceable) nor will it apply to any claims under our indemnity of the underwriters of this offering against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act. 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.

Unlike some other similarly structured blank check companies, our sponsor will receive additional Class A ordinary shares if we issue shares to consummate an initial business combination.

The founder shares and private investment shares will automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares at the time of our initial business combination (with such conversion taking place immediately prior to, simultaneously with, or immediately following the time of our initial business combination, as may be determined by our directors), or earlier at the option of the holder, on a

one-for-one

basis, subject to adjustment for share subdivisions, share dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like and subject to further adjustment as provided herein. In the case that additional Class A ordinary shares or equity-linked securities convertible or exercisable for Class A ordinary shares are issued or deemed issued in excess of the amounts sold in this offering and related to the closing of the initial business combination, the ratio at which founder shares and private investment shares will convert into Class A ordinary shares will be adjusted so that the number of Class A ordinary shares issuable upon conversion of all founder shares and private investment shares will equal, in the aggregate, on an

as-converted

basis, 30% of (i) the total number of all ordinary shares outstanding upon the completion of this offering (including any Class A ordinary shares issued pursuant to the underwriters’ over-allotment option and excluding the Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement units issued to the sponsor and the

non-managing

investors), plus (ii) all Class A ordinary shares and equity-linked securities issued or deemed issued, in connection with the closing of the initial business combination (excluding any shares or equity-linked securities issued, or to be issued, to any seller in the initial business combination and any private placement-equivalent units and their underlying securities issued to our sponsor or any of its affiliates or to our officers or directors upon conversion of working capital loans); provided that such conversion of founder shares will never occur on a less than

one-for-one

basis.

The grant of registration rights to our initial shareholders, including the

non-managing

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 public shares.

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Pursuant to agreements to be entered into on the date of this prospectus, our initial shareholders,

non-managing

investors and their respective permitted transferees, can demand that we register for resale an aggregate of 7,850,229 founder shares (assuming the exercise in full of the over-allotment option by the underwriters), 2,964,203 private investor shares (assuming the exercise in full of the over-allotment option by the underwriters), 357,657 private placement shares (assuming the exercise in full of the over-allotment option by the underwriters), 35,765 shares issued upon the conversion of the private placement rights upon the consummation of our initial business combination (assuming the exercise in full of the over-allotment option by the underwriters) and underlying securities and securities issued upon conversion of working capital loans, if any. 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 public 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 public shares that is expected when the securities owned by our initial shareholders or their respective permitted transferees, are registered.

Although we intend to focus on A&D, cybersecurity, encryption and quantum technologies, satellite and drone technologies for commercial and defense applications, and semiconductor “system on a chip” (SOC) industry, we may pursue acquisition opportunities in any geographic region and in any business industry or sector. Except for the limitations that a target business has a fair market value of at least 80% of the value of the trust account (less permitted withdrawals) and that we are not permitted to effectuate our initial business combination with another blank check company or similar company with nominal operations, we will have virtually unrestricted flexibility in identifying and selecting a prospective acquisition candidate. Because we have not yet identified or approached any specific target business with respect to our initial 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 consummate 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 may not properly ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors or we may not 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 chances that those risks will adversely impact a target business. An investment in our public units may not ultimately prove to be more favorable to investors than a direct investment, if such opportunity were available, in an acquisition target.

The requirement that the acquisition target(s) that we acquire must collectively have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the balance of the funds in the trust account (less any taxes payable on interest earned) at the time of the execution of a definitive agreement for our initial business combination may limit the type and number of companies with which we may complete such a business combination.

Pursuant to the Nasdaq listing rules, the target business or businesses that we acquire must collectively have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the balance of the funds in the trust account (less any taxes payable on interest earned) at the time of the execution of a definitive agreement for our initial business combination. This restriction may limit the type and number of companies with which we may complete an initial business combination. If we are unable to locate a target business or businesses that satisfy this fair market value test, we may be forced to liquidate and you will only be entitled to receive your pro rata portion of the funds in the trust account. The Nasdaq listing rules require that such initial business combination must be approved by a majority of the company’s independent directors.

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We will consider a business combination outside the A&D, cybersecurity, encryption and quantum technologies, satellite and drone technologies for commercial and defense applications, and semiconductor “system on a chip” (SOC) industry, which may be outside of our management’s areas of expertise, if a business combination candidate 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 may not adequately ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors. We also cannot assure you that an investment in our ordinary shares will not ultimately prove to be less favorable to investors in this offering 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 prospectus 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 relevant to such acquisition. Accordingly, any shareholder who chooses to remain a shareholder following our initial business combination could suffer a reduction in the value of their securities. Such shareholders are unlikely to have a remedy for such reduction in value unless they are able to successfully claim that the reduction was due to the breach by our officers or directors of a duty of care or other fiduciary duty owed to them, or if they are able to successfully bring a private claim under securities laws that the proxy solicitation or tender offer materials, as applicable, relating to the business combination contained an actionable material misstatement or material omission.

Although we 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 specific 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 consummate 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 our initial 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 law or the Nasdaq rules, or we decide to obtain shareholder approval for business or other legal 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 are unable to complete our initial business combination, our public shareholders may only receive $10.00 per share (whether or not the underwriters’ over- allotment option is exercised in full) or potentially less than $10.00 per share on our redemption.

We may seek acquisition opportunities with an early-stage company, a financially unstable business or an entity lacking an established record of revenue or earnings.

To the extent we complete our initial business combination with an early-stage company, a financially unstable business or an entity lacking an established record of sales or earnings, we may be affected by numerous risks inherent in the operations of the business with which we combine. These risks include investing in a business without a proven business model and with limited historical financial data, volatile revenues or earnings, intense competition and difficulties in obtaining and retaining executive officers and directors.

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Although our officers and directors will endeavor to evaluate the risks inherent in a particular target business, we may not be able to properly ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors and we may not 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 chances that those risks will adversely impact a target business.

Unless we consummate 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 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. Our board of directors will have significant discretion in choosing the standard used to establish the fair market value of the target acquisition. Such standards used will be disclosed in our tender offer documents or proxy solicitation materials, as applicable, related to our initial business combination.

Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association will authorize the issuance of up to 200,000,000 Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share, 20,000,000 Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share, and 1,000,000 preferred shares, par value $0.0001 per share. Immediately after this offering, there will be 177,662,325 authorized but unissued Class A ordinary shares and 10,596,192 authorized but unissued Class B ordinary shares (assuming that the underwriters have not exercised their over-allotment option and 1,410,624 Class B ordinary shares have been forfeited, as further described in this prospectus) available for issuance which amount does not take into account shares issuable upon conversion of the Class B ordinary shares, if any. The Class B ordinary shares are automatically convertible into Class A ordinary shares at the time of our initial business combination or earlier at the option of the holder on a

one-for-one

basis, subject to adjustment pursuant to certain anti-dilution rights, as described herein and in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. Immediately after this offering, there will be no preferred shares issued and outstanding.

The post-business combination company may issue a substantial number of additional Class A ordinary shares or preferred shares to complete its initial business combination or under an employee incentive plan after completion of an initial business combination. The post-business combination company may also issue Class A ordinary shares upon conversion of the Class B ordinary shares at a ratio greater than

one-to-one

at the time of our initial business combination as a result of the anti-dilution provisions as set forth herein. However, our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association will provide, among other things, that prior to the completion of 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 as a class with our public shares (a) on our initial business combination or on any other proposal presented to shareholders prior to or in connection with the completion of an initial business combination or (b) to approve an amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to (x) extend the time we have to consummate a business combination beyond 24 months from the closing of this offering or (y) amend the foregoing provisions. 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 preferred shares:

•

may significantly dilute the equity interest of investors in this offering, which dilution would increase if the anti-dilution provisions in the Class B ordinary shares resulted in the issuance of Class A ordinary shares on a greater than

one-to-one

basis upon conversion of the Class B ordinary shares;

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may subordinate the rights of holders of Class A ordinary shares if preferred shares are issued with rights senior to those afforded to 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, the post-business combination company’s ability to use its net operating loss carry forwards, if any, and could result in the resignation or removal of the post-business combination company’s officers and directors;

•

may have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control of the post-business combination company by diluting the share ownership or voting rights of a person seeking to obtain control of the post-business combination company; and

•

may adversely affect prevailing market prices for our public shares.

For more information on additional financing that we may raise in connection with our business combination and risks related thereto,

also see “Risk Factors

— Risks Relating to the Post-Business Combination Company —The post-business combination company may issue shares to investors in connection with our initial business combination at a price which is less than $10.00 or the prevailing market price of our shares at that time, which could dilute the interests of our existing shareholders and add costs

” and “

Risk Factors — Risks Relating to our

Search for, and Consummation of or Inability to Consummate, a Business Combination — We may issue notes or other debt securities, or otherwise incur substantial debt, to complete our initial business combination, which may adversely affect our financial condition and thus negatively impact the value of our shareholders’ investment in us

.”

Resources could be wasted in researching acquisitions that are not consummated, which could materially adversely affect subsequent attempts to locate and acquire or merge with another business. If we do not complete our initial business combination within the required time period, our public shareholders may receive only approximately $10.00 per public share, or less in certain circumstances, on the liquidation of our trust account.

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 consummate 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 are unable to complete our initial business combination, our public shareholders may only receive $10.00 per share (whether or not the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) or potentially less than $10.00 per share on our redemption, and our warrants will expire worthless.

We may engage in our initial business combination with one or more target businesses that have relationships with entities that may be affiliated with our sponsor, executive officers or directors, which may raise potential conflicts of interest.

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 light of the involvement of our sponsor, executive officers, directors, and each of their affiliates, with other entities, we may decide to acquire one or more businesses affiliated with our sponsor, executive officers or directors, or any of their affiliates. Our directors also serve as executive officers and board members for other entities. Our sponsor, executive officers and directors are not currently aware of any specific opportunities for us to consummate our initial business combination with any entities with which they are affiliated, and there have been no discussions concerning a business combination with any such entity or entities. Although we will not be specifically focusing

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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 for our initial business combination as set forth in “

Proposed

Business—Initial Business Combination—Selection of a Target Business and Structuring of a

Business Combination

” and such transaction was approved by a majority of our disinterested directors. Despite our agreement to obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or another independent entity regarding the fairness to our shareholders from a financial point of view of a business combination with one or more domestic or international businesses affiliated with our executive officers, directors or existing holders, 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. Our directors have a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of our shareholders, whether or not a conflict of interest may exist.

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.

Since our sponsor, officers and directors, any other holder of our founder shares, private investor shares and private placement units, including the

non-managing

investors, will lose their entire investment in us if our initial business combination is not consummated (other than with respect to public shares they may acquire during or after this offering), and our executive officers and directors have significant financial interests in our sponsor, a conflict of interest may arise in determining whether a particular acquisition target is appropriate for our initial business combination.

non-managing

investors would represent 30.7% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares upon the completion of this offering. The founder shares and the private investor shares will be worthless if we do not complete an initial business combination. Drs. Katz and Dinu, who are husband and wife, have a financial interest in an affiliate of our sponsor, the management company known as GigManagement, LLC, that is providing us with office space and general and administrative services. Drs. Katz and Dinu are also managing members of GigManagement, LLC. See “—

Certain Relationships and Related Party

Transactions

.” The personal and financial interests of our sponsor, as well as our executive officers and directors with a significant financial interest in our sponsor, 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 end of the completion window nears, which is the deadline for our completion of an initial business combination.

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The gross proceeds after this offering, the sale of private investor shares and private placement units that we may use to complete our initial business combination will provide us with $220,000,000 (or $253,000,000 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full).

We may effectuate our initial business combination with a single target business or multiple target businesses simultaneously. 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 consummating our initial business combination with only a single entity, our lack of diversification may subject us to numerous economic, competitive and regulatory risks. 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.

We may attempt to simultaneously consummate business combinations with multiple prospective targets, which may hinder our ability to consummate 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 the 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 investigations (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 consummate our initial business combination with a private company about which little information is available, which may result in our initial business combination with a company that is not as profitable as we suspected, or at all.

In pursuing our acquisition strategy, we may seek to effectuate our initial business combination with a privately held company. By definition, very little public information 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 our initial business combination with a company that is not as profitable as we suspected, or at all.

Unlike some blank check companies, we do not have a specified maximum redemption threshold. The absence of such a redemption threshold may make it easier for us to consummate our initial business combination with which a substantial majority of our shareholders do not agree.

Since we have no specified percentage threshold for redemption contained in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, our structure is different in this respect from the structure that has been

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used by many blank check companies. Historically, blank check companies would not be able to consummate an initial business combination if the holders of such company’s public shares voted against a proposed business combination and elected to redeem more than a specified maximum percentage of the shares sold in such company’s IPO, which percentage threshold was typically between 19.99% and 39.99%. As a result, many blank check companies were unable to complete a business combination because the amount of shares voted by their public shareholders electing redemption exceeded the maximum redemption threshold pursuant to which such company could proceed with its initial business combination. As a result, we may be able to consummate 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 business combination pursuant to the tender offer, have entered into privately negotiated agreements to sell their shares to us or our sponsor, executive officers, directors, or their affiliates. If too many public shareholders exercise their redemption rights so that we cannot satisfy any net worth or cash requirements, we would not proceed with the redemption of our public shares and the related business combination, and instead may search for an alternate business combination.

Provisions of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association that relate to our

pre-business

combination activity (and corresponding provisions of the agreement governing the release of funds from our trust account) may be amended with the approval of holders of at least a majority of our issued and outstanding shares. It may be easier for us, therefore, to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association and the trust agreement to facilitate the completion of an initial business combination that some of our shareholders may not support.

Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association will provide that any of its provisions related to

pre-business

combination activity (including the requirement to deposit proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private investor shares and private placement units 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 shareholder 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, which are represented in person or by proxy and are voted at a general meeting;

provided

that the provisions of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association governing the appointment of directors prior to our initial business combination and our continuation in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands prior to our initial business combination may only be amended by a special resolution passed by a majority of at least 90% (or, where such amendment is proposed in respect of the consummation of our initial business combination, two-thirds) of our ordinary shares voting at the applicable general meeting. Our initial shareholders, and their permitted transferees, if any, who will collectively beneficially own, on an

as-converted

basis, 30.7% of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares upon the closing of this offering (assuming they do not purchase any shares in this offering and that no

over-allotment

option is exercised by the underwriters), will participate in any vote to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association and will have the discretion to vote in any manner they choose. If any of the

non-managing

investors have not committed to vote any public shares that they may acquire in any manner, they may do so because of their ownership of the private investor shares and private placement units, regardless of how other public shareholders vote. 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.

If an amendment to any such provision is approved by the requisite shareholder vote, then the corresponding provisions of the trust agreement governing the release of funds from our trust account may be amended.

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Subsequent to this offering and prior to the consummation of our initial business combination, we may not issue additional securities that can vote on amendments to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. Our sponsor, executive officers and directors (and their permitted transferees) will collectively beneficially own approximately 21.8% of our outstanding ordinary shares upon the closing of this offering (assuming they do not purchase any public units in this offering and that the underwriters do not exercise their over-allotment option), and they may 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;

provided, that

, each of them has agreed (and any of their permitted transferees will agree), pursuant to a written agreement with us, that they will not propose any amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association that would affect the substance or timing of our obligation to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering unless we provide our public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem their public 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 (which interest shall be net of permitted withdrawals), divided by the number of then issued and outstanding public shares. Our shareholders are not parties to, or third-party beneficiaries of, this agreement and, as a result, will not have the ability to pursue remedies against our sponsor, executive officers, directors or director nominees for any breach of this agreement. As a result, in the event of a breach, our shareholders would need to pursue a shareholder derivative action, subject to applicable law.

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 are unable to complete our initial business combination, our public shareholders may only receive $10.00 per share (whether or not the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) or potentially less than $10.00 per share on our redemption.

Although we believe that the net proceeds of this offering and the sale of the founder shares, including the interest earned on the proceeds held in the trust account that may be available to us for our initial business combination, will be sufficient to allow us to consummate our initial business combination, because we have not yet identified any prospective target business we cannot ascertain the capital requirements for any particular transaction. If the net proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private investor shares and private placement units 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 repurchase for cash a significant number of shares from shareholders who elect redemption 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 combination. Financing may not be available on acceptable terms, if at all. To the extent that additional financing proves to be unavailable when needed to consummate our initial business combination, we would be compelled to either restructure the transaction or abandon that particular initial business combination and seek an alternative target business candidate. If we are unable to complete our initial business combination, our public shareholders may only receive $10.00 per share (whether or not the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) or potentially less than $10.00 per share on our redemption. In addition, even if we do not need additional financing to consummate 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.

Our initial shareholders will control a substantial interest in us and thus may influence certain actions requiring a shareholder vote.

Upon consummation of our offering, our initial shareholders will own approximately 30.7% of the issued and outstanding shares (assuming that they do not purchase any public units in this offering and that the underwriters do not exercise their over-allotment option). None of our sponsor, executive officers, directors, or

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any of their affiliates has indicated any intention to purchase public units in this offering or any public units or public shares from persons on the open market or in private transactions. Similarly, none of the

non-managing

investors have currently expressed to us an interest in purchasing any of the public units in this offering and neither us nor the representatives have had discussions with any

non-managing

investors regarding any purchases of public units in this offering. However, we expect that some or all of the

non-managing

investors than the amount for which the

non-managing

investors may express an interest. Furthermore, we would not expect any of the

non-managing

investors to express an interest to purchase more than 9.9% of the public units to be sold in this offering. There can be no assurance that the

non-managing

investors will acquire any public units, either directly or indirectly, in this offering, or as to the amount of the public units the

non-managing

investors. If any of the

non-managing

In addition, our sponsor, executive officers, directors, or any of their affiliates could determine in the future to make additional purchases on the open market or in private transactions, to the extent permitted by law, in order to influence the vote or magnitude of the number of shareholders seeking to tender their shares to us. Factors that would be considered in making such additional purchases would include consideration of the current trading price of our public shares. Accordingly, the initial shareholders may exert a substantial influence on actions requiring a shareholder vote, potentially in a manner that you do not support, including amendments to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association.

If our initial shareholders purchase any public shares in this offering or if our initial shareholders purchase any additional public shares in the aftermarket or in privately negotiated transactions, this would increase their control. Accordingly, our initial shareholders 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 of our sponsor. In connection with any vote for a proposed business combination our sponsor, executive officers and directors have agreed to vote all their shares held by them immediately before this offering, as well as any public shares acquired in this offering or in the aftermarket in favor of such proposed business combination.

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 United States 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/or pro forma financial statement disclosure in periodic reports. We will include the same financial statement disclosure in connection with our tender offer documents, whether or not they are required under the tender offer rules. These financial statements must be prepared in accordance with, or be reconciled to, United States generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), or International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, and the historical financial statements must 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 consummate our initial business combination within our

24-month

time frame.

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Redeeming shareholders may be unable to sell their securities when they wish to in the event that the proposed business combination is not approved.

We will require public shareholders who wish to redeem their public shares in connection with any proposed business combination to comply with the delivery requirements discussed above for redemption. If such proposed business combination is not consummated, we will promptly return such certificates to the tendering public shareholders. Accordingly, investors who attempted to redeem their shares in such a circumstance will be unable to sell their securities after the failed acquisition until we have returned their securities to them. The market price for our public shares may decline during this time and you may not be able to sell your securities when you wish to, even while other shareholders that did not seek redemption may be able to sell their securities.

Our management team, the

non-managing

investors and our sponsor may not fully align with the economic interests of public shareholders.

Like most special purpose acquisition companies, our structure may not fully align the economic interests of our sponsor and those persons, including certain of our officers and directors, who have interests in our sponsor with the economic interests of our public shareholders. Upon the closing of this offering, assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option and the forfeiture of 1,023,943 founder shares, our sponsor will have invested in us an aggregate of $952,000 comprised of the $25,000 purchase price for the 6,826,286 founder shares which it holds and $927,000 purchase price for the 95,200 private placement units which it would hold. Assuming a trading price of $10.00 per share upon consummation of our initial business combination, the 6,826,286 founder shares held by the sponsor would have an aggregate implied value of $68,262,860, and the 95,200 private placement shares that would be held by the sponsor would have an aggregate implied value of $952,000, for an aggregated implied value of all such shares held by our sponsor of $69,214,860. Even if the trading price of our public shares was as low as $0.0037 per share, the value of the founder shares would be equal to the sponsor’s aggregate investment in us for such shares. Furthermore, if the trading price of our public shares was as low as $0.1376 per share, the value of the aggregated shares of our sponsor (the founder shares and the private placement shares combined) would be equal to the sponsor’s total aggregated investment in us.

Similarly, upon closing of this offering, assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option and the forfeiture of 386,681 private investor shares, the

non-managing

investors will have invested $2,430,006 in us in the aggregate for the purchase of 2,577,522 private investor shares at a purchase price of $0.023254 per private investor share and 242,475 private placement units at a purchase price of $9.7374 per private placement unit. Assuming the trading price of $10.00 per share upon consummation of our initial business combination, the 2,577,522 private placement shares held by the

non-managing

investors would have an aggregate implied value of $25,775,220, and the 242,475 private placement shares would have an aggregate implied value of $2,424,750, for an aggregated implied value of all such shares held by the

non-managing

investors of $28,199,970. Even if the trading price of our public shares was as low as $0.862 per share, the value of the combined private investor shares and private placement shares collectively held by the

non-managing

investors would be equal to the aggregate investment of the

non-managing

investors in us.

As a result, so long as we complete an initial business combination, our sponsor and

non-managing

investors are likely to be able to recoup their investment in us and make a substantial profit on that investment, even if our public shares lose significant value. Accordingly, our sponsor, the

non-managing

investors and members of our management team who own interests in our sponsor may have incentives to pursue and consummate an initial business combination quickly, with a risky or not well established target business, and/or on transaction terms favorable to the equityholders of the target business, rather than continue to seek a more favorable business combination transaction that could result in an improved outcome for our public shareholders or liquidate and return all of the cash in the trust to the public shareholders. For the foregoing reasons, you should

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consider our sponsor’s, the

non-managing

investors’ and our management team’s financial incentive to complete an initial business combination when evaluating whether to invest in this offering and/or redeem your shares prior to or in connection with an initial business combination. The

non-managing

investors will share in any appreciation of the private placement shares if we successfully complete a business combination. Accordingly,

non-managing

investors’ interests in the private placement shares owned by them may provide them with an incentive to vote any public shares they own in favor of a business combination, and make a substantial profit on such interests, even if the business combination is with a target that ultimately declines in value and is not profitable for other public shareholders.

If we are unable to consummate our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering (or any extended period of time that we may have to consummate an initial business combination as a result of an amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association), we will: (1) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up; (2) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten (10) business days thereafter, redeem the outstanding public shares, at a

per-share

If we are required to liquidate prior to distributing the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account (net of permitted withdrawals, and less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses) pro rata to our public shareholders, then such winding up, liquidation and distribution must comply with the applicable provisions of Cayman law. In that case, investors may be forced to wait beyond 24 months from the closing of this 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. Except as otherwise described herein, we have no obligation to return funds to investors prior to the date of any redemption required as a result of our failure to consummate our initial business combination within the period described above or our liquidation, unless we consummate our initial business combination prior thereto and only then in cases where investors have sought to redeem their public shares. Only upon any such redemption of public shares as we are required to effect or any liquidation will public shareholders be entitled to distributions if we are unable to complete our initial business combination.

We may be unable to consummate an initial business combination if a target business requires that we have a certain amount of cash at closing, in which case public shareholders may have to remain shareholders of our company and wait until our redemption of the public shares to receive a pro rata share of the trust account or attempt to sell their shares on the open market.

If the number of our public shareholders electing to exercise their redemption rights has the effect of reducing the amount of money available to us to consummate an initial business combination below such minimum amount required by the target business and we are not able to locate an alternative source of funding, we will not be able to consummate such initial business combination and we may not be able to locate another suitable target within the applicable time period, if at all. In that case, public shareholders may have to remain shareholders of our company and wait the full 24 months from the closing of this offering, in order to be able to receive a portion of the trust account, or attempt to sell their shares on the open market prior to such time, in

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which case they may receive less than they would have in a liquidation of the trust account. If you are in need of immediate liquidity, you could attempt to sell your shares on 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 your exercise of redemption rights until we liquidate or you are able to sell your shares on the open market.

Our sponsor may decide not to extend the term we have to consummate our initial business combination, in which case we would cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up and we would redeem our public shares and liquidate.

We will have until 24 months from the closing of this offering to consummate our initial business combination. Our shareholders will not be entitled to vote or redeem their shares in connection with any such extension. However, our shareholders will be entitled to vote and redeem their shares in connection with a general meeting held to approve an initial business combination or in a tender offer undertaken in connection with an initial business combination if we propose such a business combination during any extension period. If we are unable to consummate our initial business combination within the applicable time period, we will, as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than five business days thereafter, redeem the public shares for a pro rata portion of the funds held in the trust account and 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 each case to possible claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law.

If we anticipate that we may be unable to consummate our initial business combination within the

24-month

period, we may seek shareholder approval to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to extend the date by which we must consummate our initial business combination. If we seek shareholder approval for an extension and the related amendments are implemented by the directors, holders of public shares will be offered an opportunity to redeem their shares at a per share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest earned thereon (less permitted withdrawals), divided by the number of then issued and outstanding public shares, subject to applicable law. However, we may decide not to seek to extend the date by which we must consummate our initial business combination. If we do not seek to extend the date by which we must consummate our initial business combination, and we are unable to consummate our initial business combination within the applicable time period, we will, as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem the public shares for a pro rata portion of the funds held in the trust account, subject to our obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law.

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.

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, we may not be able to properly ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors until we complete our business combination. If we are not able 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

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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.

We may not hold an annual meeting of shareholders until after the consummation of our initial business combination.

In accordance with Nasdaq corporate governance requirements, we are not required to hold an annual meeting until one year after the first full fiscal year that the company is in existence. As an exempted company, there is no requirement under the Companies Act for us to hold annual or shareholder meetings to elect directors. Until we hold an annual meeting of shareholders, public shareholders may not be afforded the opportunity to elect directors and to discuss company affairs with management.

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. We may seek to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association or governing instruments 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. For example, blank check companies have amended the definition of business combination, increased redemption thresholds, and extended the time to consummate a business combination. Amending our amended and restated memorandum 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 shareholder meeting of the company. 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 implement, following the approval of the shareholders, 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 public shares the right to have their shares redeemed or repurchased 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 24 months from the closing of this offering or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of our public shares. To the extent any of such amendments would be deemed to fundamentally change the nature of the securities offered hereby, we would register, or seek an exemption from registration for, the affected securities. We cannot assure you that we will not seek to amend our charter or governing instruments or extend the time to consummate an initial business combination in order to effectuate our initial business combination.

If, after we distribute the proceeds in the trust account to our public shareholders, we file a bankruptcy petition or an involuntary bankruptcy petition is filed against us that is not dismissed, a bankruptcy 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 file a bankruptcy petition or an involuntary bankruptcy petition is filed against us that is not dismissed, any distributions received by shareholders could be viewed under applicable debtor/creditor and/or bankruptcy laws as either a “preferential transfer” or a “fraudulent conveyance.” As a result, a bankruptcy court 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.

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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 file a bankruptcy petition or an involuntary bankruptcy petition is filed against us that is not dismissed, the proceeds held in the trust account could be subject to applicable bankruptcy 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.

Holders of Class A ordinary shares will not be entitled to vote on any appointment of directors we hold prior to the completion of our initial business combination and will also not be able to vote on our continuation in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands prior to our initial business combination.

Prior to the completion of our initial business combination, only holders of our founder shares and private investor 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 election of directors during such time. Accordingly, you may not have any say in the management of our company prior to the consummation of an initial business combination.

Further, prior to the closing of our initial business combination, transferring the company by way of continuation in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands would only require the approval of our board of directors.

The provisions of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association governing the appointment of directors prior to our initial business combination and our continuation in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands prior to our initial business combination may only be amended by a special resolution passed by a majority of at least 90% (or, where such amendment is proposed in respect of the consummation of our initial business combination, two-thirds) of our ordinary shares voting at the applicable general meeting.

We may not be able to complete a 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.

Our sponsor is a Cayman Islands exempted company. Our sponsor currently owns 7,850,229 founder shares (of which, 1,023,943 are subject to forfeiture if the underwriters do not exercise their over-allotment option). Our sponsor is governed by a board of directors consisting of two directors, Avi S. Katz and Raluca Dinu, who are U.S. citizens. As such, Drs. Katz and Dinu have voting and investment discretion with respect to the securities held of record by the sponsor and may be deemed to have shared beneficial ownership of the securities held directly by the sponsor. The sponsor is not “controlled” (as defined in 31 CFR 800.208) by a foreign person, such that the sponsor’s involvement in any business combination would be a “covered transaction” (as defined in 31 CFR 800.213). However, it is possible that

non-U.S.

persons could be involved in our business combination, which may increase the risk that our business combination becomes subject to regulatory review, including review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”), and that restrictions, limitations or conditions will be imposed by CFIUS. If our business combination with a U.S. business is subject to CFIUS review, the scope of which was expanded by FIRRMA, to include certain

non-passive,

non-controlling

investments in sensitive U.S. businesses and certain acquisitions of real estate even with no underlying U.S. business. FIRRMA, and subsequent implementing regulations that are now in force, also subjects certain categories of investments to mandatory filings. If our potential business combination with a U.S. business falls within CFIUS’s jurisdiction, we may determine that we are required to make a mandatory filing or that we will submit a voluntary notice to CFIUS, or to proceed with a business combination without notifying CFIUS and risk

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CFIUS intervention, before or after closing a business combination. CFIUS may decide to block or delay our business combination, impose conditions to mitigate national security concerns with respect to such business combination or order us to divest all or a portion of a U.S. business of the combined company without first obtaining CFIUS clearance, which may limit the attractiveness of or prevent us from pursuing certain initial business combination opportunities that we believe would otherwise be beneficial to us and our shareholders. As a result, the pool of potential targets with which we could complete a business combination may be limited and we may be adversely affected in terms of competing with other special purpose acquisition companies which do not have similar foreign ownership issues. A failure to notify CFIUS of a transaction where such notification was required or otherwise warranted based on the national security considerations presented by an investment target may expose our sponsor and/or the combined company to legal penalties, costs, and/or other adverse reputational and financial effects, thus potentially diminishing the value of the combined company. In addition, CFIUS is actively pursuing transactions that were not notified to it and may ask questions regarding, or impose restrictions or mitigation on, a business combination post-closing.

Moreover, the process of government review, whether by the CFIUS or otherwise, could be lengthy and we have limited time to complete our business combination. If we cannot complete a business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering because the transaction is still under review or because our business combination is ultimately prohibited by CFIUS or another U.S. government entity, we may be required to liquidate. If we liquidate, shareholders of record may only receive their pro rata portion of funds available in the trust account. This will also cause you to lose the investment opportunity in a target company and the chance of realizing future gains on your investment through any price appreciation in the combined company.

We may engage one or more of our underwriters or one of their respective affiliates to provide additional services to us after this offering, which may include acting as M&A 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 a 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 this offering, including, for example, in connection with the sourcing and consummation of an initial business combination.

We may engage one or more of our underwriters or one of their respective affiliates to provide additional services to us after this offering, including, for example, identifying potential targets, providing M&A advisory services, acting as a placement agent in a private offering or arranging debt financing transactions. We may pay such underwriter or its affiliate fair and reasonable fees or other compensation that would be determined at that time in an arm’s length negotiation;

provided

that no agreement will be entered into with any of the underwriters or their respective affiliates and no fees or other compensation for such services will be paid to any of the underwriters or their respective affiliates prior to the date that is 60 days from the date of this prospectus, unless the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) determines that such payment would not be deemed underwriters’ compensation in connection with this offering. The underwriters are also entitled to receive deferred underwriting commissions that are conditioned on the completion of an initial business combination. The underwriters’ or their respective affiliates’ financial interests tied to the consummation of a business combination transaction may give rise to potential conflicts of interest in providing any such additional services to us, including potential conflicts of interest in connection with the sourcing, valuation and consummation of an initial business combination.

Changes in international trade policies, tariffs and treaties affecting imports and exports may have a material adverse effect on our search for an initial business combination target or the performance or business prospects of a post-business combination company.

There have recently been significant changes to international trade policies and tariffs affecting imports and exports. Any significant increases in tariffs on goods or materials or other changes in trade policy could negatively affect our search for a target and/or our ability to complete our initial business combination.

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Recently, the U.S. has implemented a range of new tariffs and increases to existing tariffs. In response to the tariffs announced by the U.S., other countries have imposed, are considering imposing, and may in the future impose new or increased tariffs on certain exports from the United States. There is currently significant uncertainty about the future relationship between the United States and other countries with respect to trade policies, taxes, government regulations and tariffs. and we cannot predict whether, and to what extent, current tariffs will continue or trade policies will change in the future.

Tariffs, or the threat of tariffs or increased tariffs, could have a significant negative impact on certain businesses (either due to domestic businesses’ reliance on imported goods or dependence on access to foreign markets, or foreign businesses’ reliance on sales into the United States). In addition, retaliatory tariffs could have a significant negative impact on foreign businesses that rely on imports from the United States, and domestic businesses that rely on exporting goods internationally. These tariffs and threats of tariffs and other potential trade policy changes could negatively affect the attractiveness of certain initial business combination targets, or lead to material adverse effects on a post-business combination company. Among other things, historical financial performance of companies affected by trade policies and/or tariffs may not provide useful guidance as to the future performance of such companies, because future financial performance of those companies may be materially affected by new U.S. tariffs or foreign retaliatory tariffs, or other changes to trade policies. The business prospects of a particular target for a business combination could change even after we enter into a business combination agreement, as a result of tariffs or the threat of tariffs that may have a material impact on that target’s business, and it may be costly or impractical for us to terminate that business combination agreement. These factors could affect our selection of a business combination target.

We may not be able to adequately address the risks presented by these tariffs or other potential trade policy changes. As a result, we may deem it costly, impractical or risky to complete an initial business combination with a particular target or with a target in a particular industry or from a particular country. Consequently, the pool of potential target companies may be reduced, which could impair our ability to identify a suitable target and to complete an initial business combination. If we complete an initial business combination with such a target, the post-business combination company’s operations and financial results could be adversely affected as a result of tariffs or changes to trade policies, which may cause the market value of the securities of the post-business combination company to decline.

Risks Relating to the Post-Business Combination Company

Subsequent to our consummation of our initial business combination, we may be required to take write-downs or write-offs, or we may be subject to 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 public shares, which could cause you to lose some or all of your investment.

Even if we conduct thorough due diligence on a target business with which we combine, this diligence may not surface all material issues that may be present inside a particular target business. Factors outside of the target business and outside of our control may, at any time, 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 unless they are able to successfully claim that the reduction was due to the breach by our officers or directors of a duty of care or other fiduciary duty owed to them, or if they are able to successfully

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bring a private claim under securities laws that the proxy solicitation or tender offer materials, as applicable, relating to the business combination contained an actionable material misstatement or material omission.

Our management team and our shareholders may not be able to maintain control of a target business after our initial business combination.

We may structure our initial business combination to acquire less than 100% of the equity interests or assets of a target business, but we will only consummate such business combination if we become the majority shareholder of the target (or control the target through contractual arrangements in limited circumstances for regulatory compliance purposes) or are otherwise not required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act. Even though we may own a majority interest in the target, our shareholders prior to the business combination may collectively own a minority interest in the post-transaction company, depending on valuations ascribed to the target and us in the business 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 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 such transaction could own less than a majority of our outstanding 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 stock than we initially acquired. Accordingly, this may make it more likely that we will not be able to maintain our control of the post-transaction company.

Transactions in connection with or in anticipation of our initial business combination and our structure thereafter may not be

tax-efficient

to our shareholders. As a result of our initial business combination, our tax obligations may be more complex, burdensome and uncertain.

Although we will attempt to structure transactions in connection with our initial business combination in a

tax-efficient

manner, 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. For example, in anticipation of or as a result of our initial business combination, we may enter into one or more transactions that require shareholders to recognize gain or income for tax purposes or otherwise increase their tax burden without prior notice to or approval from our shareholders. We do not intend to make any cash distributions to shareholders to pay taxes in connection with our business combination or thereafter. Accordingly, a shareholder may be required to satisfy any liability resulting from any such transactions with cash from its own funds or by selling all or a portion of such holder’s shares.

Furthermore, we will likely effect a business combination with a target company that has business operations outside of the Cayman Islands and, possibly, business operations in multiple jurisdictions, and we may reincorporate in a different jurisdiction in connection therewith (including, but not limited to, the jurisdiction in which the target company or business is located). For example, in anticipation of engaging in a business combination with certain target companies, we may unilaterally convert into a U.S. company without notice pursuant to our amended and restated memorandum and articles, even if such a business combination ultimately is not achieved. If we effect any such transaction, including such a conversion, we could be subject to significant income, withholding and other tax obligations in a number of jurisdictions with respect to income, operations and subsidiaries related to those jurisdictions. Due to the complexity of tax obligations and filings in many jurisdictions, we may have a heightened risk related to audits or examinations by taxing authorities. This additional complexity and risk could have an adverse effect on our

after-tax

profitability and financial condition. In addition, shareholders may be subject to additional income, withholding or other taxes with respect to their ownership of us after any such transaction.

After our initial business combination, substantially all of our assets may be located in a foreign country and substantially all of our revenue will be derived from our operations in such country. Accordingly, our results of operations and prospects will be subject, to a significant extent, to the economic, political and legal 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.

The post-business combination company may issue shares to investors in connection with our initial business combination at a price which is less than $10.00 or the prevailing market price of our shares at that time, which could dilute the interests of our existing shareholders and add costs.

In connection with our initial business combination, the post-business combination company may issue shares to investors in private placement transactions

(so-called

PIPE transactions) in order to complete an initial business combination and provide sufficient liquidity and capital to the post-business combination entity. The price of the shares so issued in connection with an initial business combination may b

less, and potentially significantly less, than $10.00 per share or the market price for our shares at such time. Any such issuances of equity securities at a price that is less than $10.00 or the prevailing market price of our shares at that time could be structured to ensure a return on investment to the investors and could dilute the interests of our existing shareholders in a manner that would not ordinarily occur in a traditional initial public offering and could result in both a reduction in the trading price of our shares to the price at which the post-business combination company issues such equity securities and fluctuations in the net tangible book value per share of the combined company’s securities following the completion of our initial business combination. The post-business combination company may also provide price protection or other incentives, or issue convertible securities such as preferred equity or convertible debt, and the exercise or conversion price of those securities may be fixed or adjustable, and may be less, and potentially significantly less, than $10.00 per share or the market price for our shares at such time. Such issuances could also result in additional transaction costs related to our initial business combination compared to a traditional initial public offering, including the placement fees associated with the engagement of a placement agent in connection with PIPE transactions.

Risks Relating to Acquiring and Operating a Business in Foreign Countries

If we effect our initial business combination with a company located outside of the United States, we would be subject to a variety of additional risks that may adversely affect us.

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 a 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:

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costs and difficulties inherent in managing cross-border business operations;

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rules and regulations regarding currency redemption;

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complex corporate withholding taxes on individuals;

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laws governing the manner in which future business combinations may be effected;

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exchange listing and/or delisting requirements;

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tariffs and trade barriers;

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regulations related to customs and import/export matters;

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local or regional economic policies and market conditions;

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unexpected changes in regulatory requirements;

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challenges in managing and staffing international operations;

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longer payment cycles;

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tax issues, such as tax law changes and variations in tax laws as compared to the United States;

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currency fluctuations and exchange controls;

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rates of inflation;

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challenges in collecting accounts receivable;

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cultural and language differences;

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employment regulations;

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underdeveloped or unpredictable legal or regulatory systems;

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corruption;

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protection of intellectual property;

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social unrest, crime, strikes, riots and civil disturbances;

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regime changes and political upheaval;

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terrorist attacks, natural disasters, widespread health emergencies and wars; and

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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 initial business combination, our operations might suffer, either of which may adversely impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Risks Relating to Our Management Team

Our 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 officers and directors are not required to, and will not, commit their full time to our affairs, which may result in a conflict of interest in allocating their time between our operations and our search for a business combination and their other businesses. We do not intend to have any full-time employees prior to the completion of our initial business combination. Each of our officers is engaged in several other business endeavors, including but not limited to new and existing

Private-to-Public

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number of hours per week to our affairs. In particular, certain of our officers and directors provide services to affiliates of our sponsor. In particular, certain of our officers and directors serve as officers or directors of UpHealth, Inc. and QT Imaging Holdings, Inc. Our independent directors also serve as officers or board members for other entities. If our 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 officers’ and directors’ other business affairs, please see the section of this prospectus entitled “

Management—Directors and Officers

.”

Our ability to successfully effect our initial business combination and to be successful thereafter will be largely dependent upon the efforts of our executive officers and directors, some of whom may join the post-transaction company following our initial business combination. The loss of our executive officers or directors could negatively impact the operations and profitability of our business.

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 executive officers and directors, at least until we have consummated 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 management 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. Additionally, we do not intend to have any full-time employees prior to the consummation of our initial business combination.

The role of such persons in the target business following a business combination, however, cannot presently be ascertained. Although some of such persons may remain with the post-transaction company in senior management 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, our assessment of these individuals may not 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.

We may have a limited ability to assess the management of a prospective target business and, as a result, may effect 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’ management may be limited due to a lack of time, resources or information. Our assessment of the capabilities of the target’s management, therefore, may prove to be incorrect and such management may lack the skills, qualifications or abilities we suspected. Should the target’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 shareholders who choose to retain their securities following our initial business combination could suffer a reduction in the value of their securities. Such shareholders are unlikely to have a remedy for such reduction in value unless they are able to successfully claim that the reduction was due to the breach by our officers or directors of a duty of care or other fiduciary duty owed to them, or if they are able to successfully bring a private claim under securities laws that the proxy solicitation or tender offer materials, as applicable, relating to the business combination contained an actionable material misstatement or material omission.

Certain of our officers and directors are now, and all of them may in the future become, affiliated with entities engaged in business activities similar to those intended to be conducted by us, including other blank check

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companies, and, accordingly, may have conflicts of interest in allocating their time and determining to which entity a particular business opportunity should be presented.

Following the completion of this offering and until we consummate our initial business combination, we intend to engage in the business of identifying and combining with one or more businesses. Our sponsor and officers and directors are, and may in the future become, affiliated with entities that are engaged in a similar business. In addition, our sponsor, officers and directors may participate in the formation of, or become an officer or director of, any other blank check company prior to completion of our initial business combination. As a result, our sponsor, officers or directors could have conflicts of interest in determining whether to present business combination opportunities to us or to any other blank check company, or operating company, with which they may become involved. Any of such companies may present additional conflicts of interest in pursuing an acquisition target.

Our officers and directors also may become aware of business opportunities which may be appropriate for presentation to us and the other entities to which they owe certain fiduciary or contractual duties.

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. Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association will provide 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 our company and such opportunity is one we are legally and contractually permitted to undertake and would otherwise be reasonable for us to pursue.

For a complete discussion of our officers’ and directors’ business affiliations and the potential conflicts of interest that you should be aware of, please see the sections of this prospectus entitled “

Management—Directors

and Officers

,” “

Management—Conflicts of Interest

” and “

Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions

.”

Management’s flexibility in identifying and selecting a prospective acquisition candidate, along with our management’s financial interest in consummating our initial business combination, may lead management to enter into an acquisition agreement that is not in the best interest of our shareholders.

Subject to the requirement that our initial business combination must be with one or more target businesses or assets having an aggregate fair market value of at least 80% of the value of the trust account (less any taxes, if any, payable on interest earned) at the time of the agreement to enter into such initial business combination, we will have virtually unrestricted flexibility in identifying and selecting a prospective acquisition candidate. Investors will be relying on management’s ability to identify business combinations, evaluate their merits, conduct or monitor diligence and conduct negotiations. Management’s flexibility in identifying and selecting a prospective acquisition candidate, along with management’s financial interest in consummating our initial business combination, may lead management to enter into an acquisition agreement that is not in the best interest of our shareholders.

Our executive officers and directors may negotiate employment or consulting agreements with a target business in connection with a particular business combination. 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 executive officers and directors may be able to remain with the post-transaction company after the consummation 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

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in the form of cash payments and/or our securities for services they would render to us after the consummation of the business combination. The personal and financial interests of such individuals may influence their motivation in identifying and selecting a target business. Moreover, there is no certainty that any of our executive officers or directors will remain with the post-transaction company after the consummation of our initial business combination. Our executive officers and directors may not remain in senior management or advisory positions with the post-transaction company. The determination as to whether any of our executive officers and directors will remain with the post-transaction company will be made at the time of our initial business combination.

The officers and directors of an acquisition candidate may resign upon consummation of our initial business combination. The loss of an acquisition target’s key personnel could negatively impact the operations and profitability of our post-combination business.

The role of an acquisition target’s key personnel upon the consummation 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 post-transaction company following our initial business combination, it is possible that some members of the management team of an acquisition candidate will not wish to remain in place.

Past performance by our management team may not be indicative of future performance of an investment in the company.

Information regarding performance by, or businesses associated with, our management team and their affiliates, including GIG1, GIG2, GIG3, GIG4 and GIG5, is presented for informational purposes only. Past performance by our management team, including with respect to GIG1, GIG2, GIG3, GIG4, and GIG5, is not a guarantee either (i) that we will be able to identify a suitable candidate for our initial business combination or (ii) of success with respect to any business combination we may consummate. You should not rely on the historical record of our management team’s performance as indicative of our future performance of an investment in the company or the returns the company will, or is likely to, generate going forward.

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. 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. Individual members of our management team and board of directors also may become involved in litigation, investigations or other proceedings involving claims or allegations related to or as a result of their personal conduct, either in their capacity as a corporate officer or director or otherwise, and may be personally named in such actions and potentially subject to personal liability. Any such liability may or may not be covered by insurance and/or indemnification, depending on the facts and circumstances. The defense or prosecution of these matters could be time-consuming. 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.

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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The market for directors and officers liability insurance for special purpose acquisition companies has changed in ways adverse to us and our management team. 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. These trends may continue into the future.

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.

Our letter agreement with our sponsor, officers and directors may be amended without shareholder approval.

Our letter agreement with our sponsor, officers and directors contains provisions relating to transfer restrictions of our founder shares, indemnification of the trust account, waiver of redemption rights and participation in liquidating distributions from the trust account. The letter agreement may be amended without shareholder approval with our written consent as well as the written consent of the sponsor and our directors and officers to the extent they are the subject of any change, amendment, modification or waiver to the letter agreement. The written consent of D. Boral Capital LLC as the representative of the underwriters (the “Representative”) will also be required for an amendment of a provision of the letter agreement that subjects the sponsor and our directors and officers to certain of the restrictions included in the underwriting agreement and pursuant to which the sponsor and our officers and directors agree that, for a period of 180 days from the date of this prospectus, they will not, without the prior written consent of the Representative, offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, Class A ordinary shares or any other securities convertible into, or exercisable, or exchangeable for, Class A ordinary shares (for more information, also see “

Underwriting—Contractual Transfer Restrictions

”). While we do not expect our board to approve any amendment to the letter agreement prior to our initial business combination, it may be possible that our board, in exercising its business judgment and subject to its fiduciary duties, chooses to approve one or more amendments to the letter agreement. Any such amendments to the letter agreement would not require approval from our shareholders and may have an adverse effect on the value of an investment in our securities.

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.

In particular, there is uncertainty as to whether the courts of the Cayman Islands or any other applicable jurisdictions would recognize and enforce judgments of U.S. courts obtained against us or our directors or officers predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any state in the

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United States or entertain original actions brought in the Cayman Islands or any other applicable jurisdiction’s courts against us or our directors or officers predicated upon the securities laws of the United States or any state in the United States. For a more detailed discussion, see the section of this prospectus captioned “

Description of Securities — Certain Differences in Corporate Law

.”

Risks Relating to Our Securities

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 $10.00 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 permitted withdrawals (less, in the case we are unable to complete our initial business combination, of up to $100,000 of interest). 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 $10.00 per share.

You will not have any rights or interests in funds from the trust account, except under certain limited circumstances. To liquidate your investment, therefore, you may be forced to sell your public shares, potentially at a loss.

Our public shareholders shall be entitled to receive funds from the trust account only (i) in the event of a redemption to public shareholders prior to any winding up in the event we do not consummate our initial business combination or our liquidation, (ii) if they redeem their shares in connection with an initial business combination that we consummate or, (iii) if they redeem their shares 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 redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering, or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to our

pre-business

combination activity and related shareholders’ rights. In no other circumstances will a shareholder have any right or interest of any kind to the funds in the trust account. Accordingly, to liquidate your investment, you may be forced to sell your securities, potentially at a loss.

Nasdaq 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 have applied to have our public units listed on Nasdaq. We expect that our public units will be listed on Nasdaq on or promptly after the date of this prospectus. Following the date our public shares and public rights are eligible to trade separately, we anticipate that our public shares and public rights will be separately listed on Nasdaq. We cannot guarantee that our securities will be approved for listing on Nasdaq. Although after giving effect to this offering, we expect to meet, on a pro forma basis, the minimum initial listing standards set forth in the Nasdaq listing standards, we cannot assure you that our securities will be, or will continue to be, listed on Nasdaq in the future or prior to our initial business combination. In order to continue listing our securities on Nasdaq prior to our initial business combination, we must maintain certain financial, distribution and share price levels. Generally, following our initial public offering, we must maintain an average market value of listed

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securities (generally $50,000,000) and a minimum number of holders of our securities (generally 300 public shareholders). Additionally, in connection with our initial business combination, we will be required to demonstrate compliance with Nasdaq’s initial listing requirements, which are more rigorous than Nasdaq’s continued listing requirements, in order to continue to maintain the listing of our securities on Nasdaq. For instance, unless we decide to list on a different Nasdaq tier, such as the Nasdaq Capital Market which has different initial listing requirements, our share price would generally be required to be at least $4.00 per share and we would be required to have a minimum of 400 round lot holders of our securities. We may not be able to meet those initial listing requirements at that time.

If Nasdaq 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;

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reduced liquidity for our securities;

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a determination that our public shares is a “penny stock” which will require brokers trading in our public 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;

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a limited amount of news and analyst coverage; and

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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 we expect that our public units and eventually our public shares and public rights will be listed on Nasdaq, our public units, public shares, and public rights will be covered securities. Although the states are preempted from regulating the sale of our 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 Nasdaq, our securities would not be covered securities and we would be subject to regulation in each state in which we offer our securities, including in connection with our initial business combination.

You will not be entitled to protections normally afforded to investors of many other blank check companies.

Since the net proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private placement units 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, 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 have a longer period of time to complete our initial business combination than do companies subject to Rule 419. Moreover, if this 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.”

Purchases of public shares on the open market or in privately negotiated transactions by our sponsor, directors, executive officers, or their affiliates may make it difficult for us to maintain the listing of our public shares on Nasdaq following the consummation of an initial business combination.

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If our sponsor, directors, executive officers, or their affiliates purchase public shares on the open market or in privately negotiated transactions, the public “float” of our public shares and the number of beneficial holders of our securities would both be reduced, possibly making it difficult to maintain the listing or trading of our securities on Nasdaq following consummation of the initial business combination. Additionally, at any time at or prior to the completion of our initial business combination, subject to applicable securities laws (including with respect to material nonpublic information), our initial shareholders, directors, executive officers, or their affiliates may enter into transactions with investors and others to provide them with incentives to acquire public shares or not redeem their public shares. Such a purchase may include a contractual acknowledgment that such shareholder, although still the record holder of our shares is no longer the beneficial owner thereof and therefore agrees not to exercise its redemption rights. In the event that our initial shareholders, directors, officers, and their affiliates purchase shares in privately negotiated transactions from public shareholders who have already elected to exercise their redemption rights or submitted a proxy to vote against our initial business combination, such selling shareholders would be required to revoke their prior elections to redeem their shares and any proxy to vote against our initial 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. It is intended that, if Rule

10b-18

would apply to purchases by our initial shareholders, directors, officers, and their affiliates, then such purchases will comply with Rule

10b-18

under the Exchange Act, to the extent it applies, which provides a safe harbor for purchases made under certain conditions, including with respect to timing, pricing and volume of purchases.

There is no limit on the number of shares our initial shareholders, directors, officers, or their affiliates may purchase in such transactions, subject to compliance with applicable law and Nasdaq rules. 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 held in the trust account will be used to purchase public shares in such transactions. Such persons will be subject to restrictions in 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.

The purpose of any such purchases of shares could be to (i) increase the likelihood of obtaining shareholder approval of the business combination or (ii) to 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 the business combination, where it appears that such requirement would otherwise not be met. Any such transactions may result in the completion of our business combination that may not otherwise have been possible.

In addition, if such purchases are made, the public “float” of our securities 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 initial shareholders, directors, officers, and/or their affiliates anticipate that they may identify the shareholders with whom our initial shareholders, directors, officers, or their affiliates may pursue privately negotiated purchases by either the shareholders contacting us directly or by our receipt of redemption requests submitted by shareholders (holding public shares) following our mailing of proxy materials in connection with our initial business combination. To the extent that our initial shareholders, directors, officers, or their affiliates enter into a private purchase, they would identify and contact only potential selling shareholders who have expressed their election to redeem their shares for a pro rata share of the trust account or vote against our initial business combination, whether or not such shareholder has already submitted a proxy with respect to our initial business combination but only if such shares have not already been voted at the general meeting related to our initial business combination. Our initial shareholders, directors, officers, their affiliates will select which shareholders to purchase shares from based on the negotiated price and number of shares and any other factors that they may deem relevant, and will only purchase shares if such purchases comply with Regulation M under the Exchange Act and the other federal securities laws.

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Any purchases by our initial shareholders, directors, officers, and/or their affiliates who are affiliated purchasers under Rule

10b-18

under the Exchange Act will only be made to the extent such purchases are able to be made in compliance with Rule

10b-18,

which is a safe harbor from liability for manipulation under Section 9(a)(2) and Rule

10b-5

of the Exchange Act. Rule

10b-18

has certain technical requirements that must be complied with in order for the safe harbor to be available to the purchaser. Our initial shareholders, directors, officers, and/or their affiliates will be subject to restrictions in making purchases of ordinary shares if the purchases would violate Section 9(a)(2) or Rule

10b-5

of the Exchange Act. 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.

Additionally, in the event our initial shareholders, directors, officers, or their affiliates were to purchase public shares from public shareholders, such purchases would be structured in compliance with the requirements of Rule

14e-5

under the Exchange Act including, in pertinent part, through adherence to the following:

•

Our registration statement/proxy statement filed for our business combination transaction would disclose the possibility that our initial shareholders, directors, officers, and their affiliates may purchase public shares from public shareholders outside the redemption process, along with the purpose of such purchases;

•

if our initial shareholders, directors, officers, and their affiliates were to purchase public shares from public shareholders, they would do so at a price no higher than the price offered through our redemption process;

•

our registration statement/proxy statement filed for our business combination transaction would include a representation that any of our securities purchased by our initial shareholders, directors, officers, and their affiliates would not be voted in favor of approving the business combination transaction;

•

our initial shareholders, directors, officers, and their affiliates would not possess any redemption rights with respect to our securities or, if they do acquire and possess redemption rights, they would waive such rights; and

•

we would disclose in a Form

8-K,

before our security holder meeting to approve the business combination transaction, the following material items:

•

the amount of our securities purchased outside of the redemption offer by our initial shareholders, directors, officers, and their affiliates, along with the purchase price;

•

the purpose of the purchases by our initial shareholders, directors, officers, and their affiliates;

•

the impact, if any, of the purchases by our initial shareholders, directors, officers, and their affiliates on the likelihood that the business combination transaction will be approved;

•

the identities of our security holders who sold to our initial shareholders, directors, officers, and their affiliates (if not purchased on the open market) or the nature of our security holders (e.g., 5% security holders) who sold to our initial shareholders, directors, officers, and their affiliates; and

•

the number of our securities for which we have received redemption requests pursuant to our redemption offer.

Since only holders of our founder shares and private investor shares will have the right to vote on the appointment of directors prior to our initial business combination, Nasdaq may consider us to be a “controlled company” within the meaning of Nasdaq’s rules and, as a result, we may qualify for exemptions from certain corporate governance requirements that would otherwise provide protection to shareholders of other companies.

After completion of this offering, only holders of our founder shares and private investor shares will have the right to vote on the appointment of directors. As a result, Nasdaq may consider us to be a “controlled company” within the meaning of Nasdaq’s corporate governance standards. Under Nasdaq corporate governance

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standards, a company of which more than 50% of the voting power for the election of directors is held by an individual, a 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 Nasdaq rules;

•

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 independent director oversight of our director nominations.

We do not intend to utilize these exemptions and intend to comply with the corporate governance requirements of Nasdaq, 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 Nasdaq’s corporate governance requirements.

Because our sponsor paid an aggregate of $25,000, or $0.00318 per founder share (assuming the full exercise of the over-allotment option), and, concurrent with the consummation of this offering, the

non-managing

investors will purchase 2,964,203 private investor shares at a purchase price of $0.023254 per private investor share, and our sponsor and the

non-managing

investors will purchase 337,675 private placement units at a purchase price of $9.7374 per private placement unit, you will experience immediate and substantial dilution from the purchase of our public shares.

The difference between the public offering price per share and the pro forma net tangible book value per public share after this offering constitutes the dilution to you and the other investors in this offering. Our sponsor acquired the founder shares at a nominal price of $0.00318 per founder share, and concurrent with the consummation of this offering, the

non-managing

investors will purchase 2,964,203 private investor shares at a purchase price of $0.023254 per private investor share, and our sponsor and the

non-managing

investors will purchase 337,675 private placement units at a purchase price of $9.7374 per private placement unit, contributing to this dilution. Upon closing of this offering, and assuming that the underwriters do not exercise the

over-allotment

option, you and the other public shareholders will incur an immediate and substantial dilution of approximately 98.9% or $9.89 per share (the difference between the pro forma net tangible book value of $0.11 per share and the initial offering price of $10.00 per share). This dilution would increase to the extent that the anti-dilution provisions of the founder shares result in the issuance of Class A ordinary shares on a greater than

one-to-one

basis upon conversion of the founder shares at the time of our initial business combination and would become exacerbated to the extent that public shareholders seek redemptions from the trust for their public shares. In addition, because of the anti-dilution protection in the founder shares, any equity or equity-linked securities issued in connection with our initial business combination would be disproportionately dilutive to our Class A ordinary shares. Moreover, although we are of the view that our sponsor, directors and officers paid fair value for the founder shares, there is no assurance that a taxing authority would agree with us, and if a taxing authority were to successfully assert otherwise, we may be subject to material withholding and other tax liabilities that could adversely affect our financial condition.

None of the

non-managing

investors choose

post-offering

not to trade any public shares that they acquire in the offering or otherwise, and it may adversely affect the trading price of our public shares.

None of the

non-managing

investors have currently expressed to us an interest in purchasing any of the public units in this offering and neither us nor the representatives have had discussions with any

non-managing

investors regarding any purchases of public units in this offering. However, we expect that some or all of the

non-managing

investors may seek to purchase public units in the offering, but if they do indicate an interest in

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doing so, that a smaller amount of the public units in this offering will be offered by the underwriters to the

non-managing

investors than the amount for which the

non-managing

investors may express an interest. Furthermore, we would not expect any of the

non-managing

investors to express an interest to purchase more than 9.9% of the public units to be sold in this offering. There can be no assurance that the

non-managing

investors will acquire any public units, either directly or indirectly, in this offering, or as to the amount of the public units the

non-managing

investors. If the

non-managing

investors purchase public units in the offering, and depending on how many public units are purchased by the

non-managing

We do not expect any potential purchases of units by the

non-managing

investors to negatively impact our ability to meet Nasdaq listing eligibility requirements. However, Nasdaq’s initial listing eligibility requirements for special purpose acquisition companies provide that we must have at least 300 round lot holders upon the completion of the offering, and that in order to maintain the listing on Nasdaq, that we must have at least 300 public shareholders. To the extent that the

non-managing

investors purchase substantially all of the public units in this offering, then unless there are a sufficient number of other purchasers of public units in this offering to satisfy the Nasdaq listing eligibility requirements, we will not be successful in listing on Nasdaq, and if we are able to list on Nasdaq, but the

non-managing

investors continue to hold the shares included in the public units that they acquire in this offering, whereas other purchasers do not do so and the trading volume, volatility or liquidity are effected by the public units not having been more widely offered, then it is possible that we will not be able to maintain the number of public shareholders required by Nasdaq to continue to list on Nasdaq.

The underwriters will receive the same upfront discounts and commissions on public units purchased by the

non-managing

investors in the offering, if any, as it will on the other public units sold to the public in this offering. In addition, although the

non-managing

investors have agreed to vote their private investor shares and private placement shares in favor of an initial business combination, none of the

non-managing

investors has any obligation to vote any public shares which they may hold in favor of our initial business combination. Nevertheless, regardless of the number of public units they may purchase, the

non-managing

investors will be incentivized to vote their public shares in favor of a business combination due to their ownership of private investor shares and private placement units. In the event that the

non-managing

investors will be public shareholders at the time our shareholders vote on our initial business combination, and, if they are public shareholders, we cannot assure you as to how such

non-managing

investors will vote on any business combination. Additionally, these

non-managing

investors have the potential to realize enhanced economic returns from their investments compared to other investors in this offering. If the

non-managing

investors that purchase public units otherwise hold a substantial number of our public units, then the

non-managing

investors will potentially have different interests than our other public shareholders in approving our initial business combination and otherwise exercising their rights as public shareholders because of their ownership of private investor shares and private placement units. Such ownership may create an incentive for the

non-managing

investors to vote any public shares they own in favor of a business combination and make a substantial profit on their private investor shares and private placement units, even if the business combination is with a target that ultimately declines in value and is not profitable for other public shareholders.

The nominal purchase price paid by our sponsor for the founder shares and paid by the

non-managing

investors for the private investor shares, in addition to the sale of private placement units to the sponsor and the

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non-managing

investors, may result in significant dilution to the implied value of your public shares upon the consummation of our initial business combination.

non-affiliated

investors to which our sponsor assigns this subscription) has also committed to purchase 95,200 private placement units (including if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), at a price of $9.7374 per unit, for an aggregate purchase price of $927,000 in a private placement that will close simultaneously with the closing of this offering.

Separately, the

non-managing

investors have committed to purchase an aggregate of (a) 2,964,203 Class B ordinary shares (of which up to 386,681 Class B ordinary shares remain subject to forfeiture depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised during this offering) at a purchase price per Class B ordinary share of $0.023254, and (b) an aggregate of 242,475 private placement units (or up to 262,457 private placement units if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) at a price of $9.7374 per private placement unit, for an aggregate purchase price of $2,430,006 (or $2,624,578 if the underwriters’

over-allotment

option is exercised in full) in a private placement that will close simultaneously with the completion of this offering.

As a result, the value of your public shares may be significantly diluted upon the consummation of our initial business combination, when the founder shares and private investor shares are converted into public shares. For example, the following table shows the dilutive effect of the founder shares, private investor shares and private placement shares on the implied value of the public shares upon the consummation of our initial business combination, assuming that our equity value at that time is $220,000,000, which is the amount in cash we would have for our initial business combination in the trust account, assuming the underwriters’ over-allotment option is not exercised, no interest is earned on the funds held in the trust account, and no public shares are redeemed in connection with our initial business combination, and without taking into account any other potential impacts on our valuation at such time, such as the trading price of our public shares, the business combination transaction costs, any equity issued or cash paid to the target’s equityholders or other third parties, or the target’s business itself, including its assets, liabilities, management and prospects. At such valuation, our shares would have an implied value of $6.93 per share upon consummation of our initial business combination, which would be a 30.7% decrease as compared to the initial implied value per public share of $10.00 (the price per unit in this offering, assuming no value is ascribed to the public rights).


Public shares		22,000,000
Founder shares (1)		6,826,286
Private investor shares (2)		2,577,522
Private placement shares underlying private placement units (3)		337,675

Total shares		31,741,483

Total funds in trust available for initial business combination	$	220,000,000
Initial implied value per public share (4)	$	10.00
Implied value per share upon consummation of initial business combination (5)	$	6.93

(1)	Assumes that the over-allotment option has not been exercised and an aggregate of 1,023,943 founder shares have been forfeited by our sponsor as a result thereof.

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(2)	Assumes that the over-allotment option has not been exercised and an aggregate of 386,681 private investor shares have been forfeited by the non-managing investors as a result thereof.

(3)

Assumes that the over-allotment option has not been exercised and the total of 337,675 private placement shares underlying 337,675 private placement units are outstanding, consisting of 95,200 private placement shares held by the sponsor and 242,475 private placement shares held by the

non-managing

investors, and assuming further that no private placement rights have been exercised.

(4)	While the public shareholders’ investment is in both the public shares and the public rights, for purposes of this table the full investment amount is ascribed to the public shares only.

(5)	All founder shares and private investor shares would automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares upon completion of our initial business combination or earlier at the option of the holder.

This dilution would increase to the extent that the anti-dilution provisions of the founder shares and private investor shares result in the issuance of Class A ordinary shares on a greater than

one-to-one

basis upon conversion of the founder shares and private investor shares at the time of our initial business combination and would become exacerbated to the extent that public shareholders seek redemptions from the trust for their public shares. In addition, because of the anti-dilution protection in the founder shares and private investor shares, any equity or equity-linked securities issued in connection with our initial business combination would be disproportionately dilutive to our Class A ordinary shares.

The grant of registration rights to our initial shareholders 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 ordinary shares.

Pursuant to an agreement to be entered into concurrently with the issuance and sale of the securities in this offering, holders of the founder shares, private placement units and any units that may be issued upon conversion of working capital loans may demand that we register such units and/or underlying securities. 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 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 ordinary shares that is expected when the founder shares, private placement units and any units that may be issued upon conversion of working capital loans are registered.

We may amend the terms of the rights in a manner that may be adverse to holders with the approval by the holders of at least a majority of the then outstanding rights.

Our rights will be issued in registered form under a rights agreement between Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as rights agent, and us. The rights agreement provides that the terms of the rights may be amended without the consent of any holder to cure any ambiguity or correct any defective provision. The rights agreement requires the approval by the holders of at least a majority of the then outstanding rights in order to make any change that adversely affects the interests of the holders of the rights.

Our rights may have an adverse effect on the market price of our ordinary shares and make it more difficult to complete our initial business combination.

We will be issuing rights as part of the units sold in this offering entitling the holders to receive an aggregate of up to 2,200,000 ordinary shares (or up to 2,530,000 ordinary shares if the over-allotment option is exercised in full). Simultaneously with the closing of this offering, we will be issuing as part of the private placement units rights entitling the holders to receive an aggregate of 33,767 ordinary shares (or 35,765 ordinary shares if the over-allotment option is exercised in full).

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To the extent we issue ordinary shares to complete a business combination, the potential for the issuance of a substantial number of additional ordinary shares upon conversion of the rights could make us a less attractive acquisition vehicle to a target business. Any such issuance will increase the number of issued and outstanding ordinary shares and reduce the value of the ordinary shares issued to complete the business combination. Therefore, our rights may make it more difficult to complete a business combination or increase the cost of acquiring the target business.

If we are deemed to be an investment company for purposes of the Investment Company Act, we could be forced to liquidate and investors in our company would not be able to participate in any benefits of owning stock in an operating business, including the potential appreciation of our stock following a business combination and our rights would expire worthless.

As indicated above, we have 24 months from the closing of this offering to consummate an initial business combination. It is possible that a claim in the future could be made that we have been operating as an unregistered investment company. It is also possible that the investment of funds from this offering and private placement of units during our life as a blank check company, and the earning and use of interest from such investment, both of which will likely continue until we consummate an initial business combination, could increase the likelihood of us being found to have been operating as an unregistered investment company more than if we sought to potentially mitigate this risk by holding such funds as cash. Furthermore, the longer the funds are 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 meeting certain conditions under

Rule 2a-7 promulgated

under the Investment Company Act which invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations, the greater the risk could be that we are considered an investment company. If we are deemed to be an investment company for purposes of the Investment Company Act and found to have been operating as an unregistered investment company, it could cause us to liquidate. If we are forced to liquidate, investors in our company would not be able to participate in any benefits of owning stock in an operating business, including the potential appreciation of our stock following a business combination and our rights would expire worthless.

Our rights agreement will designate the courts of the State of New York located in the County 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 rights, as applicable, which could limit the ability of rights holders to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with our company.

Our rights 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 rights agreement, including under the Securities Act, will be brought and enforced in the courts of the State of New York located in the County of New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, (ii) 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. With respect to any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, we note, however, that there is uncertainty as to whether a court would enforce this provision and that investors cannot waive compliance with the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder. Section 22 of the Securities Act creates concurrent jurisdiction for state and federal courts over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, these provisions of the rights 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 rights, as applicable, shall be deemed to have notice of and to have consented to the forum provisions in our rights agreement. If any action, the subject matter of which is within the scope the

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forum provisions of the rights agreement, as applicable, is filed in a court other than a court of the State of New York located in the County 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 rights, as applicable, 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, and (y) having service of process made upon such right holder in any such action brought in such court to enforce the forum provisions by service upon such right holder’s counsel in the foreign action as agent for such right holder.

This

choice-of-forum provision

may limit a right 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. Right holders who are unable to bring their claims in the judicial forum of their choosing may be required to incur additional costs in pursuit of actions which are subject to our

choice-of-forum provisions.

Alternatively, if a court were to find this provision of our rights 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.

The determination of the offering price of our public units and the size of this offering is more arbitrary than the pricing of securities and size of an offering of an operating company in a particular industry.

Prior to this offering there has been no public market for any of our securities. The public offering price of the public units and the terms of the rights were negotiated between us and the underwriters. In determining the size of this offering, management held customary organizational meetings with the Representative, with respect to the state of capital markets, generally, and the amount the underwriters believed they reasonably could raise on our behalf. Factors considered in determining the size of this offering, prices and terms of the public units, including the public shares and public rights:

•

the history and prospects of companies whose principal business is the acquisition of other companies;

•

prior offerings of those companies;

•

our prospects for acquiring an operating business at attractive values;

•

a review of

debt-to-equity

ratios in leveraged transactions;

•

our capital structure;

•

an assessment of our management and their experience in identifying operating companies;

•

general conditions of the securities markets at the time of this offering; and

•

other factors as were deemed relevant.

Although these factors were considered, the determination of our offering price is more arbitrary than the pricing of securities of an operating company in a particular industry since we have no historical operations or financial results.

There is currently no market for our securities and a market for our securities may not develop, which would adversely affect the liquidity and price of our securities.

Although we have applied to list our securities on Nasdaq, as of the date of this prospectus there is currently no market for our securities. Prospective shareholders therefore have no access to information about prior market history on which to base their investment decision. Following this offering, the price of our securities may vary significantly due to one or more potential business combinations and general market or economic conditions. Once listed on Nasdaq, an active trading market for our securities may never develop or, if developed, it may not be sustained. Additionally, if our securities become delisted from Nasdaq for any reason, and are quoted on the

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OTCID Basic Market, the Pink Limited Market or the Expert Limited Market systems for quotations of equity securities not listed on a national exchange, the liquidity and price of our securities may be more limited than if our securities were listed on Nasdaq or another national exchange. You may be unable to sell your securities unless a market can be established and sustained.

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 $10.00 per share or which approximates the

per-share

amounts in our trust account at such time, which is generally approximately $10.00. 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.

An investment in our securities, and certain subsequent transactions with respect to our securities, may result in uncertain or adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences for an investor.

An investment in our securities, and certain subsequent transactions with respect to our securities, may result in uncertain or adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences for an investor. For instance, because there is no authority that directly addresses the U.S. federal income tax implications of instruments similar to the public units we are issuing in this offering, the allocation an investor makes of the purchase price of a public unit between the public share and the public rights included in each unit could be challenged by the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) or the courts. Furthermore, the U.S. federal income tax consequences of a cashless exercise of public rights is unclear under current law. Additionally, it is unclear whether the redemption rights with respect to our public shares suspend the running of a U.S. Holder’s (as defined in the section captioned “Taxation—Material United States Federal Income Tax Considerations—U.S. Holders” below) holding period for purposes of determining whether any gain or loss realized by such holder on the sale or exchange of public shares is long-term capital gain or loss and for determining whether any dividend we pay would be eligible for favorable U.S. federal income tax treatment. See “Taxation—Material United States Federal Income Tax Considerations” below for a summary of the principal U.S. federal income tax consequences of an investment in our securities. Each prospective investor is urged to consult with and rely solely upon its own tax advisors with respect to these and other tax consequences when purchasing, holding or disposing of our securities.

Whether a redemption of public shares will be treated as a sale of such public shares for U.S. federal income tax purposes will depend on a shareholder’s specific facts.

The U.S. federal income tax treatment of a redemption of public shares will depend on whether the redemption qualifies as a sale of such public shares under Section 302(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), which will depend largely on the total number of our shares treated as held by the shareholder electing to redeem public shares (including any shares constructively owned by the holder as a result of owning private placement rights or public rights or otherwise) relative to all of our shares outstanding both before and after the redemption. If such redemption is not treated as a sale of public shares for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the redemption will instead be treated as a corporate distribution of cash from us. For more information about the U.S. federal income tax treatment of the redemption of public shares, see the sections entitled “

Taxation—Material United States Federal Income Tax Considerations—U.S. Holders—Redemption or Repurchase of public Shares

” or “

Taxation—Material United States Federal Income Tax

Considerations—Non-U.S.

Holders

,” as applicable.

We are likely to be treated as a passive foreign investment company (“PFIC”), which could result in adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences to U.S. investors.

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If we are treated as a PFIC for any taxable year in which a U.S. Holder holds our Class A ordinary shares or rights (regardless of whether we remain a PFIC for subsequent taxable years), such U.S. Holder may be subject to certain 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, among other things, the timing of our business combination, the amount of our passive income and assets in the year of the business combination, whether we combine with a U.S. or

non-U.S.

target company, and the amount of passive income and assets of the acquired business. Our actual PFIC status for our current taxable year or any subsequent taxable year will not be determinable until after the end of such taxable year. However, we anticipate that we are likely to be treated as a PFIC in our current taxable year.

If we determine we are a PFIC for any taxable year, upon written request by a U.S. Holder, we will endeavor to provide to such U.S. Holder such information as the IRS may require, including a PFIC annual information statement, in order to enable such U.S. Holder to make and maintain a “qualified electing fund” (“QEF”) election with respect to its Class A ordinary shares, but there is no assurance that we will timely provide such required information. Furthermore, a U.S. Holder may not make a QEF election with respect to its rights to acquire our Class A ordinary shares. The rules dealing with PFICs and with the QEF election are very complex and are affected by various factors in addition to those described in this prospectus. Accordingly, U.S. investors are strongly urged to consult with and rely solely upon their own tax advisors regarding the application of the PFIC rules to them in their particular circumstances.

For a more detailed discussion of the PFIC rules and the related tax considerations for U.S. Holders, see the section of this prospectus captioned “Taxation—Material United States Federal Income Tax Considerations—U.S. Holders—Passive Foreign Investment Company Rules.”

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 provides for, among other things, a new 1% U.S. federal excise tax on certain repurchases (including redemptions) of stock by publicly traded U.S. corporations after December 31, 2022 (the “stock buyback tax”), subject to certain exceptions. If applicable, the amount of the stock buyback tax is generally 1% of the aggregate fair market value of any stock repurchased by the corporation during a taxable year, net of the aggregate fair market value of certain new stock issuances by the repurchasing corporation during the same taxable year. The Biden administration has proposed increasing the stock buyback tax rate from 1% to 4%; however, it is unclear whether such a change will be enacted and, if enacted, how soon it could take effect. In addition, the U.S. Treasury Department and IRS have released preliminary guidance that would potentially cause a

non-U.S.

corporation’s U.S. subsidiaries to be subject to the stock buyback tax with respect to any share repurchases made by the

non-U.S.

corporation under certain circumstances.

As an entity incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company, the stock buyback tax is currently not expected to apply to redemptions of our public shares (absent any regulations or other additional guidance that may be issued in the future). However, in connection with an initial business combination involving a company organized under the laws of the United States (or any subdivision thereof), it is possible that we domesticate and continue as a Delaware corporation prior to certain redemptions. Because we expect that, following such a domestication, our securities would continue to trade on Nasdaq, in such a case we could be subject to the stock buyback tax with respect to any subsequent redemptions (including redemptions in connection with the initial business combination) that are treated as repurchases for this purpose. In all cases, whether and to what extent we would be subject to the stock buyback tax will depend on a number of factors, including (i) the structure of the initial business combination, including the extent to which the initial business combination involves a U.S. corporation and the extent to which we issue shares in the initial business combination or otherwise during the same taxable year that are eligible to offset any redemptions or other repurchases, (ii) the fair market value of the shares redeemed and (iii) the extent such redemptions could be treated as dividends and not as repurchases. The

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applicability of the stock buyback tax to us could be further affected by the content of any regulations, clarifications or other additional guidance from the U.S. Treasury Department that may be issued and applicable to the redemptions.

Any stock buyback tax that becomes payable as a result of any redemptions of our public shares (or other shares into which such public shares may be converted) in connection with our initial business combination or otherwise would be payable by us and not by the redeeming holder. To the extent such taxes are applicable, the amount of cash available to pay redemptions or to transfer to the target business in connection with our initial business combination may be reduced, which could result in our inability to meet conditions in the agreement relating to our initial business combination related to a minimum cash requirement, if any, or otherwise result in the shareholders of the combined company (including any of our shareholders who do not exercise their redemption rights in connection with the initial business combination) to economically bear the impact of such stock buyback tax.

General Risk Factors

We are a blank check 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 blank check company with no operating results, and we will not commence operations until obtaining funding through this offering. 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. To date, our efforts have been limited to organizational activities as well as activities related to this offering. We have not selected any specific business combination target and may be unable to complete our initial business combination. If we fail to complete our initial business combination, we will never generate any operating revenues.

We are an “emerging growth company” and we cannot be certain if the reduced disclosure requirements applicable to emerging growth companies will make our securities less attractive to investors.

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 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 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 public 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 January 1. 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 attractive 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.

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 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 election to opt out is irrevocable. We have elected

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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 a comparison of our financial statements with another public company, unless it is an emerging growth company that has not 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.

non-affiliates

equals or exceeds $220 million as of the prior June 30, and (2) our annual revenues equaled or exceeded $100 million during such completed fiscal year or the market value of our ordinary shares held by

non-affiliates

equals or 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.

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 and the rights of shareholders will be 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 the common law of the Cayman Islands. We will also be 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, Cayman Islands companies may not have standing to initiate a shareholders derivative action in a Federal court of the United States. For a more detailed discussion of the principal differences between the provisions of the Companies Act applicable to us and, for example, the laws applicable to companies incorporated in the United States and their shareholders, see the section of this prospectus captioned “

Description of Securities — Certain Differences in Corporate Law

.”

Shareholders of Cayman Islands exempted companies like the company have no general rights under Cayman Islands law to inspect corporate records or to obtain copies of the register of members of these companies. Our directors have discretion under our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to determine whether or not, and under what conditions, our corporate records may be inspected by our shareholders, but are not obliged to make them available to our shareholders. This may make it more difficult for you to obtain the information needed to establish any facts necessary for a shareholder motion or to solicit proxies from other shareholders in connection with a proxy contest.

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

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liability provisions of the federal securities laws of the United States or any state; 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 recognize and enforce a foreign money judgment of a foreign court of competent jurisdiction without retrial 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 for a liquidated sum, and must not be in respect of taxes or a fine or penalty, inconsistent with a Cayman Islands judgment in respect of 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 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.

Compliance obligations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may make it more difficult for us to effectuate our initial business combination, require substantial financial and management resources, and increase the time and costs of completing a business combination.

Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that we evaluate and report on our system of internal controls beginning with our Annual Report on Form

10-K

for the year ending December 31, 2025. Only in the event we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer or an accelerated filer will we be required to comply with the independent registered public accounting firm attestation requirement on our internal control over financial reporting. Further, for as long as we remain an emerging growth company, we will not be required to comply with the independent registered public accounting firm attestation requirement on our internal control over financial reporting. The fact that we are 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 company with which we seek to complete our 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 business combination.

Provisions in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association may inhibit a takeover of us, which could limit the price investors might be willing to pay in the future for our ordinary shares and could entrench management.

Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association contain provisions that may discourage unsolicited takeover proposals that shareholders may consider to be in their best interests. These provisions include a staggered board of directors and the ability of the board of directors to designate the terms of and issue new series of preferred shares, which may make the removal of management more difficult and may discourage transactions that otherwise could involve payment of a premium over prevailing market prices for our securities.

Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide that the courts of the Cayman Islands will be the exclusive forums for certain disputes between us and our shareholders, which could limit our shareholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for complaints against us or our directors, officers or employees.

Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide that unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the courts of the Cayman Islands shall have exclusive jurisdiction

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over any claim or dispute arising out of or in connection with our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association or otherwise related in any way to each shareholder’s shareholding in us, including but not limited to (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf, (ii) any action asserting a claim of breach of any fiduciary or other duty owed by any of our current or former director, officer or other employee to us or our shareholders, (iii) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the Companies Act or our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, or (iv) any action asserting a claim against us governed by the internal affairs doctrine (as such concept is recognized under the laws of the United States of America) and that each shareholder irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Cayman Islands over all such claims or disputes. The forum selection provision in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association will not apply to actions or suits brought to enforce any liability or duty created by the Securities Act, Exchange Act or any claim for which the federal district courts of the United States of America are, as a matter of the laws of the United States of America, the sole and exclusive forum for determination of such a claim.

Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association also provide that, without prejudice to any other rights or remedies that we may have, each of our shareholders acknowledges that damages alone would not be an adequate remedy for any breach of the selection of the courts of the Cayman Islands as exclusive forum and that accordingly we shall be entitled, without proof of special damages, to the remedies of injunction, specific performance or other equitable relief for any threatened or actual breach of the selection of the courts of the Cayman Islands as exclusive forum.

This choice of forum provision may increase a shareholder’s cost and limit the shareholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or our directors, officers or other employees, which may discourage lawsuits against us and our directors, officers and other employees. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any of our shares or other securities, whether by transfer, sale, operation of law or otherwise, shall be deemed to have notice of and have irrevocably agreed and consented to these provisions. There is uncertainty as to whether a court would enforce such provisions, and the enforceability of similar choice of forum provisions in other companies’ charter documents has been challenged in legal proceedings. It is possible that a court could find this type of provisions to be inapplicable or unenforceable, and if a court were to find this provision in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to be inapplicable or unenforceable in an action, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving the dispute in other jurisdictions, which could have adverse effect on our business and financial performance.

Our independent registered public accounting firm’s report contains an explanatory paragraph that expresses substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a “going concern.”

As of July 21, 2025, we had $125,000 in cash and working capital of $5,668. Further, we expect to incur significant costs in pursuit of our acquisition plans. Management’s plans to address this need for capital through this offering are discussed in the section of this prospectus titled “

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

.” Our plans to raise capital and to consummate our initial business combination may not be successful. These factors, among others, raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. The financial statements contained elsewhere in this prospectus do not include any adjustments that might result from our inability to consummate this offering or our inability to continue as a going concern.

Changes in laws or regulations, or a failure to comply with any laws and regulations, may adversely affect our business, investments and results of operations.

We are subject to laws and regulations enacted by national, regional and local governments. In particular, we will be required to comply with certain SEC and other legal requirements. 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 also may change from time to time and those changes could have a material

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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 and results of operations.

We are subject to changing law and regulations regarding regulatory matters, corporate governance and public disclosure that have increased 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 new and changing laws and regulations have resulted in and are likely to continue 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 and our business may be harmed.

Changes to laws or regulations or in how such laws or regulations are interpreted or applied, or a failure to comply with any laws, regulations, interpretations or applications may adversely affect our business, including our ability to negotiate and complete our initial business combination.

We are subject to laws and regulations, and interpretations and applications of such laws and regulations, of national, regional, state and local governments and applicable

non-U.S.

jurisdictions. In particular, we are required to comply with certain SEC and potentially other legal and regulatory requirements, and our consummation of an initial business combination may be contingent upon our ability to comply with certain laws, regulations, interpretations and applications and any post-business combination company may be subject to additional laws, regulations, interpretations and applications. Compliance with, and monitoring of, the foregoing 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, including our ability to negotiate and complete an initial business combination. 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.

On January 24, 2024, the SEC issued final rules (the “2024 SPAC Rules”), which became effective on July 1, 2024, that formally adopted some of the SEC’s proposed rules for SPACs that were released on March 30, 2022. The 2024 SPAC Rules, among other items, impose additional disclosure requirements in initial public offerings by SPACs and business combination transactions involving SPACs and private operating companies; amend the financial statement requirements applicable to business combination transactions involving such companies; update and expand guidance regarding the general use of projections in SEC filings, as well as when projections are disclosed in connection with proposed business combination transactions; increase the potential liability of certain participants in proposed business combination transactions; and could impact the extent to which SPACs could become subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The 2024 SPAC Rules may materially adversely affect our business, including our ability to negotiate and complete, and the costs associated with, our initial business combination, and results of operations.

We may reincorporate in another jurisdiction in connection with our initial business combination and such reincorporation may result in taxes imposed on shareholders.

We may, in connection with our initial business combination, reincorporate in the jurisdiction in which the target company or business is located or in another jurisdiction. The transaction may require a shareholder to

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recognize taxable income in the jurisdiction in which the shareholder 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 to pay such taxes. Shareholders may be subject to withholding taxes or other taxes with respect to their ownership of us after the reincorporation.

Our initial business combination or reincorporation may result in taxes imposed on shareholders.

We may, subject to requisite shareholder approval under the Companies Act, effect a business combination with a target company in another jurisdiction, reincorporate in the jurisdiction in which the target company or business is located, or reincorporate in another jurisdiction. The transaction may require a shareholder to recognize taxable income in the jurisdiction in which the shareholder 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 to pay taxes attributable to such income. Shareholders may be subject to withholding taxes or other taxes with respect to their ownership of us after the reincorporation.

Neither the underwriters nor any of their affiliates have an obligation to provide us with potential investment opportunities or to devote any specified amount of time or support to our company’s business.

Neither the underwriters nor any of their affiliates have any legal or contractual obligation to seek on our behalf or to present to us investment opportunities that might be suitable for our business, and may allocate any such opportunities at their discretion to us or other parties. We have no investment management, advisory, consulting or other agreement in place with the underwriters or any of its affiliates that obligates them to undertake efforts on our behalf or that govern the manner in which they will allocate investment opportunities. Even if the underwriters or one of their affiliates refer an opportunity to us, no assurance can be given that such opportunity will result in an acquisition agreement or our initial business combination.

We intend to offer each public shareholder the option to vote in favor of the proposed business combination and still seek redemption of such shareholders’ public shares.

In connection with any meeting held to approve an initial business combination, we will offer each public shareholder (but not our sponsor, executive officers and directors) the right to have his, her or its public shares redeemed for cash (subject to the limitations described elsewhere in this prospectus) regardless of whether such shareholder votes for or against such proposed business combination or votes at all. This is different than other similarly structured blank check companies where shareholders are offered the right to redeem their shares only when they vote against a proposed business combination. This threshold and the ability to seek redemption while voting in favor of a proposed business combination may make it more likely that we will consummate our initial business combination.

Because of our structure, other companies may have a competitive advantage and we may not be able to consummate an attractive business combination.

We expect to encounter intense competition from entities other than blank check companies having a business objective similar to ours, including private equity groups, venture capital funds, leveraged buyout funds and operating businesses competing for acquisitions. Many of these entities are well established and have extensive experience in identifying and effecting business combinations directly or through affiliates. Many of these competitors possess greater technical, human and other resources than we do and our financial resources will be relatively limited when contrasted with those of many of these competitors. Therefore, our ability to compete in acquiring certain sizable target businesses may be limited by our available financial resources. This inherent competitive limitation gives others an advantage in pursuing the acquisition of certain target businesses. Furthermore, seeking shareholder approval of our initial business combination may delay the consummation of a transaction. Any of the foregoing may place us at a competitive disadvantage in successfully negotiating our initial business combination.

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In addition, we do not intend to hold an annual meeting of shareholders to elect new directors prior to the completion of our business combination. Unless we hold an annual meeting, all of the current directors will continue in office until at least the completion of the business combination. If there is an annual meeting, the entire board of directors will be considered for election, however our initial shareholders, because of their ownership position, will have considerable influence regarding the outcome. Accordingly, our initial shareholders will continue to exert control at least until the completion of our business combination.

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 may deal. Sophisticated and deliberate attacks on, or security breaches in, our systems or infrastructure, or the systems or infrastructure of third parties or the cloud, could lead to corruption or misappropriation of our assets, proprietary information and sensitive or confidential data. As an early-stage company without significant investments in data security protection, we may not be sufficiently protected against such occurrences. We may not have 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 adverse consequences on our business and lead to financial loss.

We may face risks related to companies in the A&D, cybersecurity, encryption and quantum technologies, satellite and drone technologies for commercial and defense applications, and semiconductor “system on a chip” (SOC) industry.

Business combinations with companies in the A&D, cybersecurity, encryption and quantum technologies, satellite and drone technologies for commercial and defense applications, and semiconductor “system on a chip” (SOC) industry entail special considerations and risks. If we are successful in completing a business combination with such a target business, we may be subject to, and possibly adversely affected by, the following risks:

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an inability to compete effectively in a highly competitive environment with many incumbents having substantially greater resources;

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an inability to manage rapid change, increasing consumer expectations and growth;

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an inability to build strong brand identity and improve subscriber or customer satisfaction and loyalty;

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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;

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an inability to deal with our subscribers’ or customers’ privacy concerns;

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an inability to attract and retain subscribers or customers;

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an inability to license or enforce intellectual property rights on which our business may depend;

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any significant disruption in our computer systems or those of third parties that we would utilize in our operations;

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an inability by us, or a refusal by third parties, to license intellectual property to us upon acceptable terms;

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potential liability for negligence, copyright, or trademark infringement or other claims based on the nature and content of materials that we may distribute;

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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;

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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;

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an inability to obtain necessary hardware, software and operational support; and

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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 the A&D, cybersecurity, encryption and quantum technologies, satellite and drone technologies for commercial and defense applications, and semiconductor “system on a chip” (SOC) industry. Accordingly, if we acquire a target business in another industry, we will be subject to risks attendant with the specific industry in which the target business we acquire operates, which may or may not be different than those risks listed above.

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USE OF PROCEEDS

We are offering 22,000,000 units at an offering price of $10.00 per unit. We estimate that the net proceeds of this offering together with the funds we will receive from the sale of the private investor shares and private placement units will be used as set forth in the following table.


	Without Over- Allotment Option		Over-Allotment Option Exercised
Gross proceeds
Offering (1)	$	220,000,000	$	253,000,000
Sale of private placement units and private investor shares (2)		3,357,006		3,551,578

Total gross proceeds	$	223,357,006	$	256,551,578

Offering expenses (3)
Underwriting discount and commissions (4) (5)	$	1,000,000	$	1,025,000
Legal fees and expenses		350,000		350,000
Printing		30,000		30,000
Accounting fees and expenses		110,000		110,000
FINRA filing fee		38,299		38,299
SEC registration fee		42,608		42,608
Nasdaq listing fee		85,000		85,000
Miscellaneous expenses (6)		301,099		363,671

Total offering expenses		1,957,006		2,044,578

Total offering expenses (excluding underwriting discount and commissions)	$	957,006	$	1,019,578

Net proceeds of the offering and private placement
Held in the trust (7)	$	220,000,000	$	253,000,000
Not held in the trust account		1,400,000		1,507,000

Total net proceeds	$	221,400,000	$	254,507,000

Use of cash not held in the trust account
Legal, accounting and other third-party expenses related to business combination (8)	$	125,000	$	232,000
SEC filing and other legal and accounting fees related to regulatory reporting obligations		160,000		160,000
Office space and other administrative expenses ($30,000 per month for up to 24 months)		720,000		720,000
D&O insurance		250,000		250,000
Payments to Chief Financial Officer ($10,000 per month) (9)		120,000		120,000
Working capital to cover miscellaneous expense and general corporate purposes		25,000		25,000

Total	$	1,400,000	$	1,507,000

(1)	Includes amounts payable to public shareholders who properly redeem their shares in connection with our successful completion of our initial business combination.

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(2)

Includes $3,357,006 (or $3,551,578 if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option) from the sale of (i) 95,200 private placement units to the sponsor at a price of $9.7374 per private placement unit, and (ii)(A) 2,964,203 private investor shares (of which 386,681 private investor shares remain subject to forfeiture depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) at a price of $0.023254 per share, and (B) 242,475 private placement units (or 262,457 private placement units if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option) to the

non-managing

investors at a price of $9.7374 per private placement unit.

(3)

A portion of the offering expenses will be paid from the proceeds of a loan from our sponsor of up to $100,000 as described in this prospectus. This loan will be repaid upon completion of this offering as part of the estimated $957,006 (or $1,019,578 if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option) of offering proceeds that has been allocated for the payment of offering expenses (other than underwriting discounts and commissions) and amounts not to be held in the trust account. These expenses are estimates only. In the event that offering expenses are less than set forth in this table, any such amounts will be used for post-closing working capital expenses. In the event that offering expenses are more than as set forth in this table, they will be repaid using a portion of the $1,400,000 offering proceeds (or $1,507,000 if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option) not held in the trust account and set aside for post-closing working capital expenses.

(4)	If the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised, the underwriting discount applicable to each unit sold pursuant to the over-allotment option will be approximately $0.0405. No discounts or commissions will be paid with respect to the purchase of the private placement units.

(5)	Includes a $250,000 referral fee to be paid by the underwriters to United First Partners LLC.

(6)	Includes organizational and administrative expenses and may include amounts related to above-listed expenses in the event actual amounts exceed estimates.

(7)

Upon completion of an initial business combination, this amount (plus accrued interest, but minus permitted withdrawals), less amounts released to the trustee to pay redeeming shareholders, will be released to us and can be used to pay all or a portion of the purchase price of the business or businesses with which our initial business combination occurs or for general corporate purposes, including payment of principal or interest on indebtedness incurred in connection with our initial business combination, to fund the purchases of other companies, or for working capital.

(8)

These expenses are estimates only. Our actual expenditures for some or all of these items may differ from the estimates set forth in this prospectus. For example, we may incur greater legal and accounting expenses than our current estimates in connection with negotiating and structuring a business combination based upon the level of complexity of such business combination. In the event we identify an acquisition target in a specific industry subject to specific regulations, we may incur additional expenses associated with legal due diligence and the engagement of special legal counsel. In addition, our staffing needs may vary and as a result, we may engage a number of consultants to assist with legal and financial due diligence. We do not anticipate any change in our intended use of proceeds, other than fluctuations among the current categories of allocated expenses, which fluctuations, to the extent they exceed current estimates for any specific category of expenses, would not be available for our expenses. The amount in the table above does not include interest available to us from the trust account.

(9)	Reflects first year of payments.

Nasdaq rules provide that at least 90% of the gross proceeds from this offering and the sale of the private placement units be deposited in a trust account. Of the gross proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private placement units described in this prospectus, $220,000,000 ($10.00 per unit), or $253,000,000 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full ($10.00 per unit), will be placed in a segregated trust account located in the United States maintained by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee, and will be invested only in U.S. government treasury bills, notes and bonds 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 and which invest solely in U.S. Treasuries. Except for (x) permitted withdrawals, and (y) up to $100,000 to pay dissolution expenses, as discussed below, none of the funds held in the trust account will be released from the trust account until the earlier of: (1) the completion of our initial business combination within the required time

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period; (2) our redemption of 100% of the outstanding public shares if we have not completed an initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering; and (3) 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 redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within the required time period or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to our

pre-business

combination activity and related shareholders’ rights.

The net proceeds held in the trust account may be used as consideration to pay the sellers of a target business with which we ultimately complete our initial business combination. If our initial business combination is paid for using shares or debt securities, or not all of the funds released from the trust account are used for payment of the purchase price in connection with our business combination, we may apply the cash released from the trust account that is not applied to the purchase price for general corporate purposes, including for maintenance or expansion of operations of acquired businesses, the payment of principal or interest due on indebtedness incurred in consummating the initial business combination, to fund the purchase of other companies or for working capital. We believe that amounts not held in trust along with permitted withdrawals will be sufficient to pay the costs and expenses to which such proceeds are allocated. This belief is based on the fact that while we may begin preliminary due diligence of a target business in connection with an indication of interest, we intend to undertake

in-depth

due diligence, depending on the circumstances of the relevant prospective acquisition, only after we have negotiated and signed a letter of intent or other preliminary agreement that addresses the terms of our initial business combination. However, if our estimate of the costs of undertaking

in-depth

due diligence and negotiating our initial business combination is less than the actual amount necessary to do so, we may be required to raise additional capital, the amount, availability and cost of which is currently unascertainable. In this event, we could seek such additional capital through loans or additional investments from members of our sponsor or an affiliate of our sponsor or our executive officers and directors, but such members of our management team are not under any obligation to advance funds to, or invest in, us.

Commencing on the date that our securities are first listed on Nasdaq, we have agreed to pay GigManagement, LLC, an affiliate of our sponsor, a monthly fee of $30,000 for office space, utilities and secretarial and administrative services. Upon completion of our initial business combination or our liquidation, we will cease paying these monthly fees.

In addition, in order to finance transaction costs in connection with an intended initial business combination, our sponsor, executive officers, directors or their affiliates may, but are not obligated to, loan us funds as may be required. If we consummate our initial business combination, we would repay such loaned amounts. In the event that the initial business combination does not close, we may use a portion of the offering proceeds held outside the trust account to repay such loaned amounts but no proceeds from our trust account would be used to repay such loaned amounts. Up to $1,500,000 of such loans may be convertible into units of the post business combination entity at a price of $10.00 per unit at the option of the lender. The units and their underlying securities would be identical to the private placement units. Except as set forth above, the terms of such loans, if any, have not been determined and no written agreements exist with respect to such loans. Prior to the completion of our initial business combination, we do not expect to seek loans from parties other than our sponsor or an affiliate of our sponsor 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 too many public shareholders exercise their redemption rights so that we cannot satisfy any net worth or cash requirements, we would not proceed with the redemption of our public shares or the business combination and instead may search for an alternate business combination.

If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our business combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, our sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates may purchase shares in privately negotiated transactions either prior to or following the completion of our initial business combination. There is no limit on the number of shares our sponsor, directors,

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officers, advisors or their affiliates may purchase in such transactions, subject to compliance with applicable law and Nasdaq rules. 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. Such persons will be subject to restrictions in 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.

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.

A public shareholder will be entitled to receive funds from the trust account only upon the earlier to occur of: (i) our consummation of our initial business combination, and then only in connection with those public shares that such shareholder properly elected to redeem, subject to the limitations described herein, (ii) the redemption of our public shares if we are unable to consummate our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering or, if our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association are amended to so provide, (iii) the redemption of our public shares 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 redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering (or any extended period of time that we may have to consummate an initial business combination as a result of an amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association), or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to shareholders’ rights or

pre-business

combination activity, subject to applicable law. In no other circumstances will a public shareholder have any right or interest of any kind to or in the trust account.

Our initial shareholders will each enter into agreements with us, pursuant to which they will agree: (1) to waive their redemption rights with respect to their founder shares, private investor shares and private placement shares held by them in connection with the consummation of our initial business combination or a tender offer conducted prior to a business combination or in connection with it; and (2) to waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to their founder shares, private investor shares and private placement shares if we fail to complete our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering, although they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to any public shares they hold if we fail to complete our initial business combination within the prescribed time frame; and (3) to waive their redemption rights with respect to their founder shares and private placement shares in connection with a shareholder vote to approve an amendment to our company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association that would modify the substance or timing of our company’s obligation to redeem 100% of our company’s public shares if our company does not timely complete the initial business combination or with respect to any other provision relating to shareholders’ rights or

pre-business

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DIVIDEND POLICY

We have not paid any cash dividends on our ordinary shares to date and do not intend to pay cash dividends prior to the completion of our initial 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. The payment of any cash dividends subsequent to our initial business combination will be within the discretion of our board of directors at such time. Our board of directors is not currently contemplating and does not anticipate declaring any share dividends in the foreseeable future, except if we increase the size of this offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, in which case we will effect a share dividend immediately prior to the consummation of the offering in such amount as to maintain the collective ownership of our sponsor’s ownership through its ownership of the founder shares, together with the private investor shares, at least at 30% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares upon the consummation of this offering (assuming no purchase in this offering and not taking into account ownership of the private placement shares). Further, if we incur any indebtedness in connection with our initial business combination, our ability to declare dividends may be limited by restrictive covenants we may agree to in connection therewith.

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DILUTION

The difference between the public offering price per unit and the net tangible book value (“NTBV”) per Class A ordinary share after this offering constitutes the dilution to investors in this offering. NTBV per share is determined by dividing our NTBV, which is our total tangible assets less total liabilities (including the value of Class A ordinary shares that may be redeemed for cash), by the number of outstanding Class A ordinary shares.

The below calculations (A) assume that (i) no ordinary shares are issued to shareholders of a potential business combination target as consideration or issuable by a post-business combination company, for instance under an equity or employee share purchase plan, (ii) no ordinary shares and convertible equity or debt securities are issued in connection with additional financing that we may seek in connection with an initial business combination, (iii) no working capital loans are converted into private placement units, as further described in this prospectus and (iv) no value is attributed to the rights, and (B) assume the issuance of 22,000,000 Class A ordinary shares (or 25,300,000 Class A ordinary shares if the over-allotment option is exercised in full), 2,964,203 Class B ordinary shares (up to 1,410,624 of which are assumed to be forfeited in the scenario in which the over-allotment option is not exercised in full) to our initial shareholders, and 337,675 private placement shares (or 357,657 private placement shares if the over-allotment option is exercised in full) to our initial shareholders. Such calculation does not reflect any dilution associated with the sale and exercise of rights, including the private placement units, which would cause the actual dilution to the public shareholders to be higher. Further, we may need to issue additional securities as we intend to seek an initial business combination with a target company with an enterprise value greater than the net proceeds of the offering and the sale of private placement units and the issuance of the issuance of additional ordinary or preferred shares may significantly dilute the equity interest of public shareholders, which dilution would even further increase if the anti-dilution provisions in the Class B ordinary shares resulted in the issuance of Class A ordinary shares on a greater than

one-to-one

basis upon conversion of the Class B ordinary shares.

The following table illustrates the difference between the public offering price and our NTBV, as adjusted to give effect to this offering and assuming redemption of our public shares at varying levels and the full exercise and no exercise of the over-allotment option:

The following table illustrates the difference between the public offering price per unit and our NTBV per share, as adjusted to give effect to this offering and assuming redemption of our public shares at varying levels and the full exercise and no exercise of the over-allotment option:


As of July 21, 2025
Offering Price of $10.00	25% of Maximum Redemption				50% of Maximum Redemption				75% of Maximum Redemption				Maximum Redemption
NTBV	NTBV		Difference between NTBV and Offering Price		NTBV		Difference between NTBV and Offering Price		NTBV		Difference between NTBV and Offering Price		NTBV		Difference between NTBV and Offering Price
Assuming No Exercise of Over-Allotment Option
$6.96	$	6.33	$	3.67	$	5.35	$	4.65	$	3.68	$	6.32	$	0.11	$	9.89
Assuming Full Exercise of Over-Allotment Option
$6.98	$	6.34	$	3.66	$	5.37	$	4.63	$	3.70	$	6.30	$	0.14	$	9.86

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For each of the redemption scenarios above, the NTBV was calculated as follows:


	No Redemption						25% of Maximum Redemption						50% of Maximum Redemption						75% of Maximum Redemption						Maximum Redemption
	Without Over- Allotment			With Over- Allotment			Without Over- Allotment			With Over- Allotment			Without Over- Allotment			With Over- Allotment			Without Over- Allotment			With Over- Allotment			Without Over- Allotment			With Over- Allotment
Public offering price	$	10.00		$	10.00		$	10.00		$	10.00		$	10.00		$	10.00		$	10.00		$	10.00		$	10.00		$	10.00

Net tangible book value before this offering		0.00			0.00			0.00			0.00			0.00			0.00			0.00			0.00			0.00			0.00
Increase attributable to public shareholders		6.96			6.98			6.33			6.34			5.35			5.37			3.68			3.70			0.11			0.14

Pro forms net tangible book value after this offering		6.96			6.98			6.33			6.34			5.35			5.37			3.68			3.70			0.11			0.14

Dilution to public shareholders	$	3.04		$	3.02		$	3.67		$	3.66		$	4.65		$	4.63		$	6.32		$	6.30		$	9.89		$	9.86

Percentage of dilution to public shareholders		30.40	%		30.20	%		36.70	%		36.60	%		46.50	%		46.30	%		63.20	%		63.00	%		98.90	%		98.60	%

Numerator:
Net tangible book value before this offering	$	5,668		$	5,668		$	5,668		$	5,668		$	5,668		$	5,668		$	5,668		$	5,668		$	5,668		$	5,668
Net proceeds from this offering and the sale of the private placement units (1)		221,400,000			254,507,000			221,400,000			254,507,000			221,400,000			254,507,000			221,400,000			254,507,000			221,400,000			254,507,000
Plus: Offering costs accrued for or paid in advance, excluded from tangible book value		—			—			—			—			—			—			—			—			—			—
Less: Over-allotment liability		(339,200	)		—			(339,200	)		—			(339,200	)		—			(339,200	)		—			(339,200	)		—
Less: Amounts paid for redemptions (2)		—			—			(55,000,000	)		(63,250,000	)		(110,000,000	)		(126,500,000	)		(165,000,000	)		(189,750,000	)		(220,000,000	)		(253,000,000	)

Total	$	221,066,468		$	254,512,668		$	166,066,468		$	191,262,668		$	111,066,468		$	128,012,668		$	56,066,468		$	64,762,668		$	1,066,468		$	1,512,668

Denominator:
Ordinary shares outstanding prior to this offering		7,850,229			7,850,229			7,850,229			7,850,229			7,850,229			7,850,229			7,850,229			7,850,229			7,850,229			7,850,229
Ordinary shares forfeited if over-allotment is not exercised		(1,023,943	)		—			(1,023,943	)		—			(1,023,943	)		—			(1,023,943	)		—			(1,023,943	)		—
Ordinary shares offered		22,000,000			25,300,000			22,000,000			25,300,000			22,000,000			25,300,000			22,000,000			25,300,000			22,000,000			25,300,000
Private placement and private investor shares		3,301,878			3,321,860			3,301,878			3,321,860			3,301,878			3,321,860			3,301,878			3,321,860			3,301,878			3,321,860
Ordinary shares forfeited from private investor shares if over-allotment is not exercised		(386,681	)		—			(386,681	)		—			(386,681	)		—			(386,681	)		—			(386,681	)		—
Less: ordinary shares redeemed		—			—			(5,500,000	)		(6,325,000	)		(11,000,000	)		(12,650,000	)		(16,500,000	)		(18,975,000	)		(22,000,000	)		(25,300,000	)

Total		31,741,483			36,472,089			26,241,483			30,147,089			20,741,483			23,822,089			15,241,483			17,497,089			9,741,483			11,172,089

(1)	Expenses applied against gross proceeds include offering expenses of approximately $957,006 (or $1,019,578 if the underwriters exercise the over-allotment option in full). See “ Use of Proceeds. ”

(2)

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 initial shareholders, directors, executive officers, advisors or their affiliates may purchase public shares or public rights in privately negotiated transactions or in the open market either prior to or following the completion of our initial business combination. In the event of any such purchases of our shares prior to the completion of our initial business combination, the number of ordinary shares subject to redemption will be reduced by the amount of any such purchases, increasing the pro forma net tangible book value per share. See “

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CAPITALIZATION

The following table sets forth our capitalization as of July 21, 2025 and as adjusted to give effect to the sale of our public units offered by this prospectus and the sale of the private investor shares and private placement shares in the private placement, the application of the estimated net proceeds derived from the sale of such securities, and the issuance of the private investor shares and private placement shares:


	As of July 21, 2025
	Actual			As Adjusted (2)(3)
Promissory note to related party (1)	$	100,000		$	—
Over-allotment liability		—			339,200

Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share, subject to redemption, no shares subject to possible redemption, actual; 22,000,000 shares subject to redemption, as adjusted		—			220,000,000

Shareholders’ equity:
Preferred shares, par value $0.0001 per share, 1,000,000 authorized; none issued or outstanding, actual and adjusted		—			—
Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share, 200,000,000 shares authorized, no shares issued and outstanding, actual; 337,675 shares issued and outstanding, as adjusted		—			34
Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share, 20,000,000 shares authorized, actual and as adjusted; 7,850,229 shares issued and outstanding, actual; 9,403,808 shares issued and outstanding, as adjusted (4)		785			940
Additional paid-in capital		24,215			1,084,826
Accumulated deficit		(19,332	)		(19,332	)

Total shareholders’ equity	$	5,668		$	1,066,468

Total capitalization	$	105,668		$	221,405,668

(1)	Our sponsor has loaned us an aggregate of $100,000 as of July 21, 2025 to be used for a portion of the expenses of the offering.

(2)

Includes $927,000 we will receive from the sale of the 95,200 private placement units to our sponsor at $9.7374 per private placement unit. Also includes $2,430,006 we will receive from the sale of 2,964,203 private investor shares and 242,475 private placement units to the

non-managing

investors. Assumes the forfeiture of 1,410,624 Class B ordinary shares that are subject to forfeiture depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ option to purchase additional public units is exercised.

(3)

Upon the completion of our initial business combination, we will provide our public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem their public shares, regardless of whether they abstain, vote for, or against, or our initial business combination, for cash at a per share price equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account calculated as of two business days prior to the consummation of our initial business combination, including interest earned on the funds held in the trust account (net of permitted withdrawals), divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, subject to any limitations (including, but not limited to, cash requirements) created by the terms of the proposed business combination.

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(4)	Actual share amount is prior to any forfeiture of founder shares by our sponsor and as adjusted assumes the forfeiture of 1,410,624 Class B ordinary shares that are subject to forfeiture depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares is exercised.

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION

AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Overview

We are a newly organized

Private-to-Public

Equity (PPE) company, also known as a blank check company or special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), incorporated in the Cayman Islands and formed by an affiliate of the serial SPAC issuer GigCapital Global, for the purpose of acquiring, engaging in a share exchange, share reconstruction and amalgamation with, purchasing all or substantially all of the assets of, or engaging in any other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. We have not selected any specific business combination target. To date, our efforts have been limited to organizational activities as well as activities related to this offering. Our efforts to identify a prospective target business will not be limited to a particular industry or geographic region, although we intend to focus on companies in A&D, cybersecurity, encryption and quantum technologies, satellite and drone technologies for commercial and defense applications, and semiconductor “system on a chip” (SOC) industries. Our sponsor and its principals may from time to time become aware of potential business opportunities, one or more of which we may desire to pursue, for a business combination, but from the date of our incorporation through the date of this prospectus, there have been no substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, between any of our officers, directors, promoters and other affiliates on our behalf and any of their contacts or relationships regarding a potential initial business combination with our company. Additionally, we have not engaged or retained any agent or other representative to identify or locate any suitable acquisition candidate for us.

We will seek to capitalize on the significant experience and contacts of our management team to complete our initial business combination. GigCapital8 is our eighth SPAC affiliated with GigCapital Global, with five of the other seven having completed business combinations; GIG1, which successfully completed its business combination with Kaleyra S.p.A., following which it was renamed as Kaleyra, Inc. (NYSE American: KLR) in November 2019 (and since that time, Kaleyra uplisted to NYSE), and Kaleyra, Inc. was then acquired in November 2023 by Tata Communications in a $320 million cash deal; GIG2, which successfully completed its business combination with UpHealth Holding, Inc. and Cloudbreak Health, LLC, following which it was renamed as UpHealth, Inc. (OTC Expert Market: UPHL) in June 2021, and UpHealth, Inc. sold its subsidiaries Innovations Group Incorporated in June 2023 to Belmar Pharma Solutions in a $58 million cash deal, and Cloudbreak Health in March 2024 to an affiliate of GTCR, LLC in a $180 million cash deal; GIG3, which successfully completed its business combination with Lightning Systems, Inc. (doing business as Lightning eMotors), following which it was renamed as Lightning eMotors, Inc. (OTC Expert Market: ZEVY) in May 2021; GIG4, which successfully completed its business combination with BigBear.ai Holdings, LLC, following which it was renamed as BigBear.ai Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BBAI) in December 2021; and GIG5, which successfully completed its business combination with QT Imaging, Inc., following which it was renamed as QT Imaging Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: QTIH) in March 2024.

We believe our management team’s distinctive background and record of acquisition and operational success could have a significant impact on target businesses. Although we may pursue our initial business combination in any business, industry or geographic location, we currently intend to focus on opportunities to capitalize on the ability of our management team, particularly our executive officers, to identify, acquire and operate a business in the A&D, cybersecurity, encryption and quantum technologies, AI and ML, satellite and drone technologies for commercial and defense applications, and semiconductor “system on a chip” (SOC) industries.

Based on few megatrends in the world, we believe that our new SPAC is timely and relevant to support enhancement of public capital investments in growing and commercializing innovative small and

middle-cap

exceptional technology companies.

For one, urban population is expected to increase from today’s 53% to 70% by 2050. Based on United Nations data, overall growth of the world’s population will add close to 2.5 billion people to urban areas by

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2050.

The number of new mega-cities will increase rapidly, particularly in developing countries, requiring massive investments in smart and sustainable city infrastructures. These trends will be further emphasized and challenged by the ongoing demographic shift and new population age structure. In addition, climate change and consequent environmental and social impacts are some of the world’s greatest concerns. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement are driving the agenda and world’s efforts toward a green economy and sustainable solutions.

Consumer sensitivity to sustainable-marketed products grew substantially in the last 5 years, representing today more than 50% of total Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) market growth.

Capital allocation in funds embracing Environmental, Social and Governance principles reached record numbers in the last few years.

Another megatrend is that data has become many enterprises’ most valuable asset. Digital transformation, built on cloud-based platforms and enabled with new technologies, including AI, the internet of things (IoT), mobile and robotics, offer companies across all industries new opportunities to drive new business models, with the scalability, flexibility, agility, and dynamism heretofore infeasible. These transformations, in turn, are powering the movements to address the other megatrends. The focus of global growth has been shifting. Developing countries, particularly in Asia Pacific and Latin America, are starting to bring their economies to the forefront of interlinked global trade and investment flows. The emerging markets are not only transitioning to more consumption-oriented economies, but also starting to export capital and innovation. Enterprises that are prepared and able to adapt and capitalize on the evolving global competitive landscape will be the winners of the 21st century. Our focus will be on companies with sustainable business and solid corporate governance that may have high impact on the world’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and are determined to better society and the environment.

We intend to effectuate our initial business combination using cash from the proceeds of this offering, our common equity or any preferred equity that we may create in accordance with the terms of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, debt, or a combination of cash, common or preferred equity and debt.

The issuance of additional ordinary shares or the creation of one or more classes of preferred shares during our initial business combination:

•

may significantly dilute the equity interest of investors in this offering who would not have

pre-emption

rights in respect of any such issue;

•

may subordinate the rights of holders of ordinary shares if the rights, preferences, designations and limitations attaching to the preferred shares are senior to those afforded our ordinary shares;

•

could cause a change in control if a substantial number of 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; and

•

may adversely affect prevailing market prices for our public shares.

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

•

default and foreclosure on our assets if our operating revenues after our initial business combination are insufficient to repay our debt obligations;

1	Report of the UN Economist Network for the UN 75th Anniversary—Sept. 2020.

2	UN Framework Convention on Climate Change-FCC/CP/2-15/L.9/Rev1.

3	New York University, Stern School of Business, Center for Sustainable Business. Research on 2015-2020 IRI Purchasing Data Reveals Sustainability Drives Growth, Survives the Pandemic, July 2020.

4	Blackrock -Sustainability: The tectonic shift transforming investing, Feb. 2020.

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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 any document governing such debt contains covenants restricting our ability to obtain such financing while the debt security is outstanding;

•

our inability to pay dividends on our ordinary shares;

•

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

•

As indicated in the accompanying financial statements as of July 21, 2025, we had $125,000 in cash and working capital of $5,668. Further, we expect to incur significant costs in the pursuit of our acquisition plans. We cannot assure you that our plans to raise capital or to complete our initial business combination will be successful. These factors, among others, raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.

Results of Operations and Known Trends or Future Events

We have neither engaged in any operations nor generated any revenues to date. Our only activities since inception have been organizational activities and those necessary to prepare for this offering. Following this offering, we will not generate any operating revenues until after completion of our initial business combination. We will generate

non-operating

income in the form of interest income on cash and cash equivalents after this offering. 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 financial statements. After this offering, we expect to incur increased expenses as a result of being a public company (for legal, financial reporting, accounting and auditing compliance), as well as for due diligence expenses. We expect our expenses to increase substantially after the closing of this offering.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Our liquidity needs have been satisfied to date through receipt of $125,000 from the sale of the founder shares and a related party loan of $100,000. We estimate that the net proceeds from (1) the sale of the public units in this offering, after deducting net offering expenses of approximately $1,957,006, which includes underwriting discounts and commissions of $1,000,000 (including a $250,000 referral fee to be paid by the underwriters to United First Partners LLC) (or in the event that the underwriters exercise the over-allotment option in full, expenses of approximately $2,044,578, which includes underwriting discounts and commissions of $1,025,000), (2) the sale of the private placement units to our sponsor (or

non-affiliated

investors to which our sponsor assigns the subscription for such private placement units) for a purchase price of $927,000, and (3) the sale of the private placement units and the private investor shares to the

non-managing

investors for a purchase price of $2,430,006 (or $2,624,578 in the event that the underwriters exercise the over-allotment option in full), will be $221,400,000 (or $254,507,000 if the over-allotment option is exercised in full), of which $220,000,000

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(or $253,000,000 if the over-allotment option is exercised in full) will be held in the trust account. The remaining estimated $1,400,000 (or $1,507,000 if the over-allotment option is exercised in full), plus an additional $125,000 that we already have, will not be held in the trust account.

We intend to use substantially all of the funds held in the trust account (less permitted withdrawals), including any amounts representing interest earned on the trust account (which interest shall be net of taxes permitted withdrawals by us), to acquire a target business or businesses and to pay our expenses relating thereto.

We may withdraw interest to pay our taxes, if any. We expect the interest earned on the amount in the trust account 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.

We believe that, upon consummation of this offering, the estimated $1,400,000 (or $1,507,000 if the over-allotment option is exercised in full) of cash not held in the trust account along with permitted withdrawals will be sufficient to allow us to operate for at least the next 24 months from the closing of this offering, assuming that a business combination is not consummated during that time. Over this time period, we will be using these funds 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. We anticipate that we will incur the following approximate expenses to be paid from the $1,400,000 (or $1,507,000 if the over-allotment option is exercised in full) not held in the trust account:

•

$125,000 of expenses for the legal, accounting and other third-party expenses attendant to the structuring and negotiating of our initial business combination (or $232,000 if the over-allotment option is exercised in full);

•

$160,000 of expenses for SEC filing and other legal and accounting fees related to regulatory reporting obligations;

•

$720,000 (equal to $30,000 per month for up to 24 months) for office space and administrative fees;

•

$250,000 for directors and officers insurance;

•

$120,000 (equal to $10,000 per month for up to 12 months) for payments to our Chief Financial Officer; and

•

$25,000 for working capital to cover miscellaneous expense and general corporate purposes.

If our estimates of the costs of undertaking

in-depth

due diligence and negotiating our initial business combination is less than the actual amount necessary to do so, we may have insufficient funds available to operate our business prior to our initial business combination. Moreover, we may need to obtain additional financing either to consummate our initial business combination or because we become obligated to redeem a significant number of our public shares upon consummation of our initial business combination, in which case we may issue additional securities or incur debt in connection with such business combination. Subject to compliance with applicable securities laws, we would only consummate such financing simultaneously with the consummation of our initial business combination. Following our initial business combination, if cash on hand is insufficient, we may need to obtain additional financing in order to meet our obligations.

As of July 21, 2025, we had $125,000 in cash and working capital of $5,668. We have incurred and expect to continue to incur significant costs in pursuit of our acquisition plans. Our plans to raise capital and to consummate our initial business combination may not be successful. These factors among others raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.

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Controls and Procedures

We are not currently required 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, 2025. Only in the event that we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer or an accelerated filer and no longer an emerging growth company would we be required to comply with the independent registered public accounting firm attestation requirement. 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.

Prior to the closing of this offering, we have not completed an assessment, nor has our independent registered public accounting firm tested our systems, of 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 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 operation of a target business, we may incur significant expense in meeting our public reporting responsibilities, particularly in the areas of designing, enhancing, or remediating internal and disclosure controls. Doing so effectively also may 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.

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Prior to the initial investment of $25,000 by our sponsor, the company had no assets, tangible or intangible. In connection with this offering, up to 1,023,943 founder shares are subject to forfeiture depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised during this offering.

On July 18, 2025, we also entered into a promissory note with our sponsor with a principal amount of $100,000, all of which remained outstanding as of July 21, 2025, to be used for the payment of expenses related to this offering. The promissory note is non-interest bearing, unsecured and is due on the earlier of (i) December 31, 2025 or (ii) the date on which we consummate this offering.

Dr. Katz, our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, formed our sponsor, which 100% is owned equally by Drs. Katz and Dinu, who are husband and wife, and have the sole financial and voting interest in our sponsor that entitles them to participate in any economic return that the sponsor receives for its investment in the company. Accordingly, Drs. Katz and Dinu will benefit from the transaction to the extent of their interest in our sponsor.

Drs. Katz and Dinu also formed a limited liability company named GigManagement, LLC, of which 50% is owned by each of Drs. Katz and Dinu. Drs. Katz and Dinu are also managing members of GigManagement, LLC. We are obligated, pursuant to an Administrative Services Agreement, commencing on the date of this prospectus, to pay GigManagement, LLC a monthly fee of $30,000 per month for office space and general and administrative services until the consummation of an initial business combination. In conjunction with our services agreement with GigManagement, LLC, we have rights that permit us to use the trademark

“Private-to-Public

Equity (PPE).”

Our sponsor, officers and directors, or any of their respective affiliates, will be reimbursed for any

out-of-pocket

expenses incurred in connection with activities on our behalf such as identifying potential target businesses and performing due diligence on suitable business combinations. Our board of directors may also approve the payment of advisory fees to directors in connection with such activities, including board committee service and extraordinary administrative and analytical services. Our audit committee will review on a quarterly basis all payments that were made to our sponsor, officers, directors or our or any of 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.

We do not believe we will need to raise additional funds following this offering in order to meet the expenditures required for operating our business. However, in order to finance transaction costs in connection with an intended initial business combination, our sponsor, executive officers, directors, or their affiliates may, but are not obligated to, loan us funds as may be required. 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. Such loans would be evidenced by promissory notes.

Pursuant to a registration rights agreement we will enter into an agreement with each of our initial shareholders on or prior to the closing of this offering, we may be required to register certain securities for sale under the Securities Act. These holders are entitled under the registration rights agreement to make up to three demands that we register certain of our securities held by them under the Securities Act and to have the securities covered thereby registered for resale pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act. In addition, these holders have the right to include their securities in any other registration statement filed by us. However, the registration rights agreement provides that we will not permit any registration statement filed under the Securities Act to become effective until the securities covered thereby are released from their respective

lock-up

restrictions, as described herein. We will bear the costs and expenses of filing any such registration statements. See “

Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions

.”

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

The amounts in the trust account, will be invested in United States government treasury bills, bonds or notes having a maturity of 185 days or less, or in money market funds meeting the applicable conditions under Rule

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promulgated under the Investment Company Act and that invest solely in U.S. treasuries. 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 the date of this prospectus, 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 prospectus, as we have conducted no operations to date.

JOBS Act

On April 5, 2012, the JOBS Act was signed into law. 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 are electing to delay the adoption of new or revised accounting standards, and as a result, we may not comply with new or revised accounting standards on the relevant dates on which adoption of such standards is required for

non-emerging

growth companies. As a result, our financial statements may not be comparable to companies that comply with new or revised accounting pronouncements as of public company effective dates.

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 independent registered public accounting firm’s attestation report on our system of internal controls over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404, (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, including but not limited to reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements, 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, (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 Chief Executive Officer’s compensation to median employee compensation. These exemptions will apply for a period of five years following the completion of this offering or until we are no longer an “emerging growth company,” whichever is earlier.

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PROPOSED BUSINESS

General

We are a newly organized

Private-to-Public

Equity (PPE) company, also known as a blank check company or special purpose acquisition company, formed by an affiliate of the serial SPAC issuer GigCapital Global, and incorporated in the Cayman Islands on June 30, 2025 for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization or other similar business combination with one or more businesses, which we refer to throughout this prospectus as our initial business combination. We have not selected any specific business combination target and we have not, nor has anyone on our behalf, engaged in any substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, with any business combination target with respect to an initial business combination with us. To date, our efforts have been limited to organizational activities as well as activities related to this offering. Our sponsor and its principals may from time to time become aware of potential business opportunities, one or more of which we may desire to pursue, for a business combination, but from the date of our incorporation through the date of this prospectus, there have been no substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, between any of our officers, directors, promoters and other affiliates on our behalf and any of their contacts or relationships regarding a potential initial business combination with our company. Additionally, we have not engaged or retained any agent or other representative to identify or locate any suitable acquisition candidate for us.

While we may pursue an acquisition opportunity in any business, industry, sector or geographical location, we intend to focus on industries that complement our management team’s background, and to capitalize on the ability of our management team to identify and acquire a business, focusing on the A&D services, cybersecurity and secured communications and quantum-based command and control systems, and AI and ML industries.

Our management team believes there is a backlog of companies that are interested in becoming public companies. We believe that because this backlog is substantial, there may be a number of attractive companies that will not be able to list via a traditional IPO in the near-term, and therefore may opt to pursue a listing via a SPAC instead. Moreover, we believe current market conditions are causing middle-market financial sponsors and venture capital firms to consider alternative methods for providing liquidity to their limited partners.

Business Strategy

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management team believes that the global A&D economy has significant market growth potential, related to the development and use of innovative technologies. Over the last decade, there has been a steady increase in the demand for space-based services and applications for both the private sector as well as various government agencies. Over the last few years, rising geopolitical tensions plus ever growing commercial applications in a variety of fields of use, have driven the increased demand for unmanned aerial vehicles (“UMV”) systems and other drone technologies.

We expect to distinguish ourselves with our ability to:

•

Tap into our vast international network of relationships to develop a distinctive pipeline of acquisition opportunities.

hedge-funds,

•

Revitalize the acquisition target and generate value for shareholders after the business combination.

Given our management’s experience, we are confident that our officers and directors will be able to drive value after the combination. By implementing strategies that have proven successful in the past, they intend to focus on accelerating revenue growth, improving profit margins and fostering a results-driven culture.

•

Show a proven record of successful completions of business combinations

•

GIG1 — a

Private-to-Public

one-tenth

•

GIG2 — a

Private-to-Public

one-twentieth

(1/20) of one share of GIG2 common stock, generating aggregate proceeds of about $173 million. On June 8, 2021, GIG2 successfully completed its business combination with each of UpHealth Holdings, Inc. and Cloudbreak Health, LLC, and the Company changed its name to UpHealth, Inc. and was listed on the NYSE under the new ticker symbol “UPH”, where it remained listed until 2024 when it was delisted from the NYSE and commenced trading on the OTC Pink, and subsequently on the OTC Expert Market, under the new ticker symbol “UPHL.”

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UpHealth, Inc. closed down certain of its subsidiaries sold subsidiaries Innovations Group Incorporated to Belmar Pharma Solutions in June 2023 and Cloudbreak Health to an affiliate of GTCR, LLC in March 2024.

•

GIG3 — a

Private-to-Public

•

GigCapital4, Inc. (“GIG4”), a

Private-to-Public

one-third

(1/3) of one (1) warrant to purchase one share of GIG4 common stock, generating aggregate proceeds of about $359 million. GIG4 listed on Nasdaq under the symbol “GIG.” On December 9, 2021, GIG4 successfully completed its business combination with BigBear.ai Holdings, LLC, following which it was renamed as BigBear.ai Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BBAI).

•

GigCapital5, Inc. (“GIG5”), a

Private-to-Public

•

GigInternational1, Inc. (“GIW”), a

Private-to-Public

one-half

•

GigCapital7 Corp. (“GIG7”), a

Private-to-Public

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business combination or of success with respect to any business combination we may consummate. The principals of the company and our management team have a significant number of relationships across numerous innovative industries. The operational background of the GigCapital Global team provides significant touchpoints across relevant industries. They have developed a meaningful pipeline of high potential, mutually interested U.S. and foreign acquisition targets from extensive screening with previous GigCapital PPE platforms. Our management team’s expertise in data-driven identification, evaluation and engagement with potential targets will facilitate and efficient

de-SPAC

Private-to-Public

Equity (PPE) companies prior to the completion of our initial business combination.

Management Team

We believe our management team’s knowledge, decades of experience and relationships across various industries can effect a positive transformation or augmentation of an existing business model through implementing proven business strategies within A&D services, cybersecurity and secured communications and quantum-based command and control systems, and AI and ML. Our team is well positioned to originate attractive investment opportunities and has a history of executing various business transactions in multiple geographies and under varying economic and financial market conditions.

all-encompassing

. For more information, please refer to

“Risk Factors

—

Risks Related to Management Team.”

Executive Officers and Directors

Dr.

Avi

S. Katz

co-founded

start-ups,

and publicly traded

middle-cap

private-to-public

equity (PPE) entities, also known as special-purpose-acquisition-company (SPAC). Dr. Katz

co-founded

GIG7 with Dr. Dinu, and Dr. Katz has served as the Chief

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Executive Officer and the Chairman of the Board since the inception of GIG7 in May 2024. GIG7 completed its initial public offering in August 2024, raising $200 million. It is listed on Nasdaq and trades under the ticker symbol “GIG.” In September 2017 he founded GIG1, a company formed for the purpose of acquiring a company in the TMT industry. GIG1 completed its initial public offering in December 2017, in which it sold 14,375,000 units at price of $10.00 per unit, with each unit consisting of one share of GIG1 common stock, three-fourths (3/4) of one warrant to purchase one share of GIG1 common stock and one right to receive

one-tenth

Private-to-Public

one-twentieth

(1/20) of one share of GIG2 common stock, generating aggregate proceeds of about $173 million. On June 8, 2021, GIG2 completed its business combination with each of UpHealth Holdings, Inc. and Cloudbreak Health, LLC, and the Company changed its name to UpHealth, Inc. and was listed on the NYSE under the new ticker symbol “UPH”, where it remained listed until 2024 when it was delisted from the NYSE and commenced trading on the OTC Pink, and subsequently on the OTC Expert Market, under the new ticker symbol “UPHL.” Dr. Katz initially served as the Chief Executive Officer of GIG2 until August 2019, when Dr. Dinu substituted for him in that position. He also served as the Executive Chairman and Secretary of GIG2 since inception until the closing of the business combination in June 2021, when Dr. Katz was appointed as the

Co-Chairman

co-founded

GIG3, a

Private-to-Public

Co-Chairman

of the board of directors of Lightning eMotors and served in that position until October 2021 when he did not stand for reelection to the board of directors. In December 2020, Drs. Katz and Dinu

co-founded

GIG4, a

Private-to-Public

one-third

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Executive Chairman of GIG4 from its inception until the closing of the business combination with BigBear.ai on December 9, 2021, and since then and until March 2024, has continued to serve as a member of the board of directors of BigBear.ai. In February 2021, Drs. Katz and Dinu

co-founded

GigInternational1, Inc. a

Private-to-Public

Equity (PPE) company formed for the purpose of acquiring a company in the TMT, A&D, mobility and semiconductor industries with a particular emphasis on the EMEA market. GigInternational1 completed its initial public offering in May 2021, in which it sold 20,900,000 units at a per unit price of $10.00, with each unit consisting of one share of GigInternational1 common stock and

one-half

Private-to-Public

(PPE) company in 2017, Dr. Katz dedicated 10 years to incept and bootstrap, develop and manage GigPeak, originally known as GigOptix, Inc. He served as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of GigOptix / GigPeak from its inception in 2007 until its sale in April 2017 to IDT for $250 million in cash. While Dr. Katz was at GigPeak’s helm, the company completed 10 M&A deals. From 2003 to 2005, Dr. Katz was the chief executive officer, president, and a member of the board of directors of Intransa, Inc. From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Katz was the chief executive officer, president and a member of the board of directors of Equator Technologies. Prior to it, Dr. Katz held several leadership positions over the span of his career within the TMT industry since serving as member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories between 1988 and 1994, and made numerous angel investments in high-tech companies around the world, being a serial entrepreneur. He holds many U.S. and international patents, authored and

co-authored

Dr.

Raluca Dinu

start-ups,

middle-cap

co-founded

GIG7 in May 2024, a

Private-to-Public

co-founded

GigInternational1, Inc., a

Private-to-Public

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interest in GigManagement, LLC, and has served as a managing member of GigManagement, LLC since its inception. From April 2017 to May 2019, Dr. Dinu was the Vice President and General Manager of Optical Interconnects Division of IDT (Nasdaq: IDTI). Prior to that, she held several executive-level positions at GigPeak, Inc. (NYSE MKT: GIG) including Executive Vice President and Chief Operation Officer from April 2016 until it was acquired by IDT in April 2017, and before that, as its Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing from August 2015 to April 2016, and as its Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing from December 2014 to August 2015. From February 2014 to September 2017, Dr. Dinu was a member of the board of directors of

Brazil-Photonics,

Executive-M.B.A.

Christine M. Marshall

Nominees for our Board of Directors

Admiral (Ret.) David

Ben-Bashat

will serve as our independent director upon the completion of this offering. V. Admiral (Ret.)

Ben-Bashat

was the Commander in Chief of the Israeli Navy, retiring in 2008 after serving more than 38 years. Throughout his service in the Israeli Navi, V. Admiral (Ret.)

Ben-Bashat

served as Israel’s Defense attaché and the Head of the Israeli Ministry of Defense Mission in Singapore. As the Commander in Chief of the Israeli Navy, V. Admiral (Ret.)

Ben-Bashat

Ben-Bashat’s

Ben-Bashat

established a consulting firm that specializes in Defense, Homeland Security (HLS) and Cyber domains. V. Admiral (Ret.)

Ben-Bashat

and the firm’s professionals team specialize in analyzing security risks and identifying design security technology

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solutions for national and critical assets engaged with governments and international technology companies. The firm also advises on the development of national economic usage of EEZ waters. Since 2021, he has served as active board member for GaitMetrics, a Singapore based AI company that provides innovative, cutting-edge security and monitoring solutions for security markets. GaitMetrics technologies empower organizations with AI technology,

non-intrusive

radio tools for human detection, and synergistic and integrated human identification and monitoring systems. In parallel to his business operations, V. Admiral (Ret.)

Ben-Bashat

serves as the Chairman of the Israel Navy Veterans Association. V. Admiral (Ret.)

Ben-Bashat

holds a B.A. in Economics and an MBA from Haifa University and is a graduate of the USA Naval War College for senior officers in Newport, Rhode Island.

Rear Admiral (Ret.) Omri Dagul

will serve as our independent director upon the completion of this offering. Over several decades, R. Admiral (Ret.) Omri has shared his vast maritime experience with Global Shipping and Port Companies in Israel and abroad. Since 2007, he has been the Owner and CEO of Dockport Ltd, a Consultancy and Project Management company. In his role as Executive VP Ray Shipping Ltd, which he has held since 2007, R. Admiral (Ret.) Omri is responsible for the extensive technical and management activities of its worldwide fleet. His emphasis was on the design and production of a Car Carrier fleet. This included all management and supervision of ships’ construction in many global shipyards. At the same time, until 2010, R. Admiral (Ret.) Omri was also Consultant to several Defense companies including Elbit Systems, Asia Global Technologies, Lockheed Martine and General Dynamics. Prior to 2007, he served for 32 years in the Israel Navy in a variety of technical and engineering positions, after graduating the Israeli Naval Academy in 1977. R. Admiral (Ret.) Omri retired from the Navy with the rank of Rear Admiral and his last position was as the Head of Materiel Command. R. Admiral (Ret.) Omri holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Technion, Haifa, Israel and a M.Sc. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Raanan I. Horowitz

will serve as our independent director upon the completion of this offering. Mr. Horowitz currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Defense Analysis, an American

non-profit

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School of Business (1993) at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. He was also awarded a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (1991) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering (1981) from

Tel-Aviv

University in Israel.

Ambassador Adrian Zuckerman

will serve as our independent director upon the completion of this offering. Ambassador Zuckerman was the United States Ambassador to Romania from 2019 to 2021. Under his leadership Romania signed a

ten-year

defense cooperation agreement with the United States that provided financial, military and strategic support and cooperation. He also advanced and helped structure an intergovernmental agreement between the US and Romania for the $8 billion refurbishment of the Cernavoda nuclear plant which included refurbishing one operating reactor and building two additional nuclear reactors. To help finance this project, the Ambassador negotiated a $7 billion financing agreement with the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM). The Cernavoda project was the largest-ever joint project between the United States and Romania. He was the recipient of the Star of Romania, Order of Grand Cross. Ambassador Zuckerman has worked as an Of Counsel to DLA Piper LLP (US) from 2021 to date, bringing his unique skills as a lawyer and former government official to advise multinational corporations on legal, regulatory and governmental affairs as they expand into emerging markets in Eastern Europe and around the world. Before being named as the United States Ambassador to Romania, he was a partner at Seyfath Shaw LLP from 2013 to 2019. Ambassador Zuckerman is also a member of the advisory board of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue University. He holds an undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a law degree from the New York Law School.

Luis Machuca

e-Commerce

until 2001. Before eFusion, Mr. Machuca served as Executive Vice President of the NEC Computer Services Division of Packard

Bell-NEC

Bryan Timm

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June 2017, Chief Operating Officer from May 2008 to June 2017, and Chief Financial Officer from 1997 to May 2008. Prior to 1997, he held financial positions for Oregon Steel Mills, Inc. (NYSE: OS) and at KPMG as part of the Audit practice. Mr. Timm holds a B.S. degree from the University of Idaho and is a Certified Public Accountant (lapsed) in the state of Oregon.

James Greene

will serve as our independent director upon completion of this offering. Mr. Greene served as a director of Umpqua Bank (Nasdaq: UMPQ) until its acquisition in March 2023, and serves as a director of QT Imaging Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: QTIH) since March 2024, and UpHealth, Inc. (OTC Expert Market: UPHL) since December 2023. He is a founder and Managing Partner of Sky D Ventures, LLC, a private equity and advisory services company serving the financial services and FinTech global market. Prior to Sky D Ventures, Mr. Greene was a general partner with an incubator of

start-ups

start-up

company, as managing director at Capgemini, and as global head of financial services at TeleTech.

Investment Criteria

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Companies that embrace today’s digital transformation and intelligent automation.

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Companies that will benefit from a public listing.

We will focus on partners looking to move to the next level through a public business combination and

roll-up

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Companies that will benefit from our industry expertise and relationships.

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Our management also demonstrated the speed, certainty and efficiency in executing prior deals, which is highly desirable to quality business partners.

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Companies that are market-leading participants

. We will seek an acquisition target that has an established business and market position. While we will focus on the aerospace and defense services, cybersecurity and secured communications and quantum-based command and control systems, and AI and ML, we will not seek a target that

is pre-revenue or

in early stages of development with unproven technologies.

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Companies with strong management.

and hands-on board

Our Acquisition Process

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Inception

. This phase usually lasts up to approx.

2-3

months and entails incorporating a SPAC and bringing on a

Private-to-Public

(PPE) management team that includes A&D experts, entrepreneurs and executive operators. During this phase, a blank check company also secures a sponsorship team composed of industry veterans in the A&D sector, family offices, institutional buyers, private equity firms, and hedge funds. In launching an initial public offering, the SPAC management pays the most attention to forming an IPO book to ensure a solid balance of fundamental equity investors.

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Searching

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Engagement

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Closing

Large accelerated filer

Accelerated filer

Non-accelerated filer

Smaller reporting company

Emerging growth company

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