As filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on February 11, 2026.

Registration No. 333-

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

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FORM S-1
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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BHAV ACQUISITION CORP

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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

255 Old New Brunswick Rd., Suite N210
Piscataway, NJ 08854
United States
Telephone: (732) 612-9552

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

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Giri Devanur
Chief Executive Officer
255 Old New Brunswick Rd., Suite N210

Piscataway, NJ 08854
United States
Telephone: (732) 612-9552
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

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Copies to:

Nimish Patel, Esq.
Blake Baron, Esq.
Gabriel Miranda, Esq.
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
437 Madison Ave., 25th Floor
New York, NY 10022
(212) 509-3900

Alexandra Low
Appleby (Cayman) Ltd.
9th Floor, 60 Nexus Way
Camana Bay, Grand Cayman
KY1-1104
(345) 949-4900

Michael Blankenship
Winston & Strawn LLP
800 Capitol St., Suite 2400
Houston, TX 77002-2925
Tel: (713) 651-2600

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Approximate date of commencement of the 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. ☐

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.:

Large accelerated filer	☐	Accelerated filer	☐
Non-accelerated filer	☒	Smaller reporting company	☒
Emerging growth company	☒

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided 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, as amended, 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.

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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 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 FEBRUARY 11, 2026

$100,000,000

BHAV ACQUISITION CORP

10,000,000 Units

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BHAV Acquisition Corp is a newly incorporated blank check company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company and incorporated for the purpose of effecting a merger, amalgamation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share 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 business combination target and we have not, nor has anyone on our behalf, initiated any substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, with any business combination target. Our efforts to identify a prospective initial business combination target will not be limited to a particular industry, sector or geographic region. While we may pursue an initial business combination opportunity in any business, industry or geographic location, we intend to capitalize on the ability of our management team and the individuals that may be appointed as members of our advisory board from time to time (the “board advisors”) to identify, acquire and operate a business or businesses that can benefit from our management team’s established relationships, and sector management and operating experience. In particular, we currently intend to focus on opportunities that capitalize on the experience and ability of our management team, including our Chief Executive Officer, Giri Devanur, and our current sole board advisor, Rajan Singhal, to identify, acquire and operate a business in the advanced and industrial robotics, electric-vehicles (“EVs”), drones and unmanned-aerial-systems (“UAS”) or financial technology (“fintech”) industry.

This is an initial public offering of our securities. Each unit has an offering price of $10.00 and consists of one Class A ordinary share and one-half of one redeemable warrant, as described in more detail in this prospectus. We refer herein to the units sold in this offering as our “public units,” and the components thereof as our “public shares” and “public warrants,” respectively. Each whole public warrant entitles the holder to purchase one Class A ordinary share at a price of $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment as described in this prospectus. Each public warrant will become exercisable 30 days after the completion of our initial business combination, and will expire on the fifth anniversary of the completion of our initial business combination, or earlier upon redemption or liquidation as described in this prospectus. Subject to the terms and conditions described in this prospectus, we may redeem the public warrants for cash once the public warrants become exercisable. No fractional public warrants will be issued upon separation of the units and only whole public warrants will trade. As a result, you must purchase at least two (2) units in order to validly exercise your public warrants. We have also granted the underwriters a 45-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,500,000 units to cover over-allotments, if any.

Our sponsor, BHAV Partners LLC, certain third-party investors (the “third-party investors”), none of which are affiliated with our sponsor, our officers and directors, Maxim Group LLC, the representative of the underwriters (“Maxim”), or any other investor, and certain individuals who are registered persons of Maxim (the “Maxim individuals,” together with the third-party investors the “at-risk capital investors,” and together with the sponsor the “initial shareholders”) have agreed that they will purchase from us an aggregate of 2,000,000 warrants, or 2,075,000 warrants if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full (1,350,000 warrants to be purchased by our sponsor, or 1,425,000 warrants if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full, and 650,000 warrants to be purchased by the at-risk capital investors, whether or not the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised, of which, 200,000 private placement warrants will be purchased by the Maxim individuals and 450,000 private placement warrants will be purchased by the third-party investors), in a private placement that will close simultaneously with the closing of this offering. We refer to these warrants throughout this prospectus as the “private placement warrants.” Each private placement warrant will be purchased at a price of $1.00 per warrant, for a total aggregate purchase price of $2,000,000 (or $2,075,000 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full). Each private placement warrant is exercisable to purchase one Class A ordinary share at a price of $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment, terms and limitations described herein. The private placement warrants will be issued in a private placement that will close simultaneously with the closing of this offering, and will become exercisable 30 days after the completion of our initial business combination, as described in this prospectus. The private placement warrants are identical to the public warrants sold in this offering, subject to certain limited exceptions as described in this prospectus. Our initial shareholders have agreed not to transfer, assign or sell any of the private placement warrants or underlying Class A ordinary shares (with certain exceptions) until 30 days after the initial business combination.

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On September 30, 2025, our sponsor purchased, and we issued to the sponsor, 3,833,333 Class B ordinary shares, or “founder shares,” for an aggregate purchase price of $25,000, or approximately $0.0065 per share, of which up to an aggregate of 500,000 Class B ordinary shares held by our sponsor are subject to forfeiture depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised. Prior to the consummation of this offering, our sponsor will forfeit 650,000 founder shares and the at-risk capital investors will purchase 650,000 founder shares (of which, 200,000 founder shares will be purchased by the Maxim individuals and 450,000 founder shares will be purchased by the third-party investors), for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $4,225, or approximately $0.0065 per share, which will result in our sponsor owning 2,683,333 founder shares if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is not exercised (or 3,183,333 founder shares if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full). The Class B ordinary shares will automatically convert 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 as provided herein and in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. The holders of our Class B ordinary shares will have the exclusive right to vote on the appointment and removal of our directors and our transfer by way of continuation in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands prior to our initial business combination. Because our sponsor acquired the founder shares at a nominal price, our public shareholders will incur an immediate and substantial dilution upon the closing of this offering. The founder shares issued to our initial shareholders will equal 25% of the outstanding ordinary shares upon the completion of the offering. This structure is unlike the structure of other blank check companies, which often provide that the Class B ordinary shares would equal 20% of the outstanding ordinary shares upon the completion of the offering. Further, the 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 anti-dilution rights of our founder shares that may result in an issuance of Class A ordinary shares on a greater than one-to-one basis upon conversion. 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 offered in this offering and related to or in connection with the closing of our initial business combination, the ratio at which 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, on an as-converted basis, 25% of the sum of (i) all Class A 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 Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement warrants issued to the initial shareholders), (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 (iii) minus any redemptions of Class A ordinary shares by public shareholders in connection with an initial business combination or certain amendments to our amended and restated articles of association prior to an initial business combination; provided that such conversion of founder shares will never occur on a less than one-for-one basis. If we decrease the size of the 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 the offering in such amount as to maintain the ownership of founder shares by our initial shareholders, or an as-converted basis, at 25% of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares upon the consummation of this offering. Pursuant to the terms of the underwriting agreement to be entered into by us and Maxim, we will agree to not increase the size of the offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, therefore, no additional founder shares will be issued and, as a result, a purchaser’s equity interest will not be diluted as a result of an increase in the size of the offering pursuant to Rule 462(b).

Our sponsor has agreed to loan up to $500,000 to us to cover organizational, offering-related and post-offering expenses, which is due upon consummation of our initial business combination or on the date of our dissolution deadline. At the closing of this offering, $[•] of the outstanding principal balance of these loans will be deemed to be repaid and settled in connection with the sponsor’s purchase of private placement warrants at a price of $1.00 per private placement warrant (such deemed repayment being attributed to the purchase of [•] private placement warrants), as described elsewhere in this prospectus. Further, upon consummation of this offering, we will begin accruing payments to our sponsor $20,000 per month for office space and administrative and personnel services, which may be paid upon the consummation of our initial business combination or at the time of our dissolution, assuming there is cash available. Additionally, our sponsor, our officers, directors and board advisors 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. Further, 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

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initial business combination. In addition, we may engage Maxim as our financial advisor in connection with our initial business combination and as placement agent in connection with any private placement financing associated with our initial business combination pursuant to which they will be paid customary fees. As a result, there may be actual or potential material conflicts of interest between members of our management team, our sponsor and the Maxim individuals and their respective affiliates on one hand, and purchasers in this offering on the other. See “Prospectus Summary — Sponsor Information,” “Prospectus Summary — The Offering — Founder Shares,” “Summary — The Offering — Transfer Restrictions on Founder Shares,” and “Summary — The Offering — Conversion and Anti-Dilution Rights of Founder Shares,” “Risk Factors — Risks Relating to our Sponsor and Management Team — Our sponsor paid an aggregate of $25,000, or approximately $0.0065 per founder share, and, accordingly, you will experience immediate and substantial dilution upon the purchase of our ordinary shares” and “Risk Factors — Risks Relating to our Sponsor and Management Team — We may engage Maxim as our financial advisor in connection with our initial business combination and as placement agent in connection with any private placement financing associated with our initial business combination. Financial interests in the completion our initial business combination may create conflicts of interest in connection with Maxim’s provisions of such services.”

Certain investors (none of which are affiliated with any member of our management, our sponsor, the at-risk capital investors or any other investor), which we refer to as the “non-managing sponsor investors” throughout this prospectus, and Chaitanya Kumar Setti, our Chief Financial Officer, and Mr. Singhal, our current board advisor, have indirectly acquired, or have expressed an interest to indirectly acquire, as applicable, interests through the purchase of non-managing sponsor membership interests in an aggregate of up to (i) 1,350,000 private placement warrants that will be purchased by our sponsor in a private placement that will close simultaneously with the closing of this offering; and (ii) 1,080,000 founder shares held by the sponsor. See “Prospectus Summary — Sponsor Information” for more information.

None of the holders of non-managing membership interests in our sponsor have expressed to us an interest in purchasing any of the units in this offering and neither us nor Maxim have had discussions with any holders of non-managing membership interests regarding any purchases of units in this offering. If the holders of non-managing membership interests purchase units in the offering, and depending on how many public units are purchased by the holders of non-managing membership interests, 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 holders of non-managing membership interests to negatively impact our ability to meet the listing eligibility requirements for the Nasdaq Global Market, or Nasdaq. In addition, the underwriters have full discretion to allocate the units in this offering to investors and may determine to sell fewer units to the holders of non-managing membership interests, or none at all, and any potential purchases of non-managing sponsor membership interests by such holders is not contingent upon the participation in this offering or vice versa, and in no case would any of the holders of non-managing membership interests be sold more than 9.9% of the units to be sold in this offering. The underwriters will receive the same upfront discounts and commissions on public units purchased by the holders of non-managing membership interests, as it will on the other units sold to the public in this offering. In addition, none of the holders of non-managing membership interests have any obligation to vote any of their public shares in favor of our initial business combination, except for Mr. Setti and Mr. Singhal (provided that any ordinary shares that may be purchased by such individuals in compliance with the requirements of Rule 14e-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), would not be voted in favor of approving such business combination). Nevertheless, regardless of the number of units they purchase, the holders of non-managing membership interests will be incentivized to vote their public shares in favor of a business combination due to their indirect ownership through the sponsor of founder shares and Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement warrants. Additionally, these holders of non-managing membership interests have the potential to realize enhanced economic returns from their investments compared to other investors in this offering.

As more fully discussed in “Management and Advisory Board — 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. The low price that our initial shareholders (directly or indirectly) paid for the founder shares creates an incentive whereby our initial shareholders, executive officers, directors and board advisors 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 18 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 warrants may expire worthless, except to the

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extent they are entitled to 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, upon consummation of this offering, we will begin accruing payments to our sponsor in an amount equal to $20,000 per month for office space, secretarial and administrative support made available to us, as described elsewhere in this prospectus, which may be paid upon the consummation of our initial business combination or at the time of our dissolution, assuming there is cash available Our sponsor has agreed to loan up to $500,000 to us to cover organizational, offering-related and post-offering expenses, which is due upon consummation of our initial business combination or on the date of our dissolution deadline. At the closing of this offering, $[•] of the outstanding principal balance of these loans will be deemed to be repaid and settled in connection with the sponsor’s purchase of private placement warrants at a price of $1.00 per private placement warrant (such deemed repayment being attributed to the purchase of [•] private placement warrants), as described elsewhere in this prospectus. In addition, at the closing of our initial business combination, we may pay our sponsor, or an affiliate of the sponsor, consulting fees for assessing, negotiating and managing the process for consummating an initial business combination. 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. Further, Mr. Setti, our Chief Financial Officer, will receive an indirect interest in an aggregate amount of 75,000 founder shares, our independent directors will receive an indirect interest in an aggregate amount of 75,000 founder shares, or 25,000 each, and our board advisor will receive an indirect interest in an aggregate amount of 10,000 founder shares, in each case through non-managing membership interests in our sponsor as compensation for their services as Chief Financial Officer, directors and board advisor, as applicable, prior to the consummation of this offering. We may appoint additional board advisors in the future prior to our initial business combination, which board advisors would receive the same amount of compensation for their services as Mr. Singhal. 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 the one hand, and purchasers in this offering on the other. See the sections titled “Proposed Business — Sourcing of Potential Business Combination Targets,” “Risk Factors — Risks Relating to our Sponsor and Management Team,” “Management and Advisory Board — Conflicts of Interest” and “Management and Advisory Board — Advisory Board” for more information.

We will provide our public shareholders (excluding our initial shareholders, officers, directors and board advisors to the extent they acquire public shares, either in this offering or in secondary market transactions thereafter) with the opportunity to redeem, regardless of whether they abstain, vote in favor of, or vote against our initial business combination, all or a portion of their Class A ordinary 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 the consummation of our initial business combination, including interest (which interest shall be net of permitted withdrawals) divided by the number of then issued and outstanding Class A ordinary shares that were sold as part of the units in this offering, subject to the limitations described herein. If we are unable to complete our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering or during any extended time that we have to consummate a business combination beyond 18 months as a result of a shareholder vote to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (an “Extension 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 (which interest shall be net of permitted withdrawals and up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses) divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, subject to applicable law and as further described herein. See “Summary — The Offering — Redemption rights for public shareholders upon completion of our initial business combination” and “Summary — The Offering — Redemption of public shares and distribution and liquidation if no initial business combination” 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 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

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combination. See “Summary — The Offering — Limitation on redemption rights of shareholders holding 15% or more of the shares sold in this offering if we hold shareholder vote” for further discussion on certain limitations on redemption rights.

We have until the date that is 18 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 18-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. There are no limitations on the number of times we may seek shareholder approval for an extension or the length of time of any such extension. If we seek shareholder approval for an extension, holders of public shares will be offered an opportunity to redeem their shares, upon the effectiveness of such extension, regardless of whether they abstain, vote in favor of or vote against our initial business combination, 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 18 months from the closing of this offering, during any Extension Period or by such 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 (which interest shall be net of income and franchise taxes payable and up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then issued and outstanding public shares, subject to applicable law as further described herein.

Prior to this offering, there was no public market for our units, Class A ordinary shares or public warrants. We have applied to list our units on Nasdaq under the symbol “BHAVU.” We expect the Class A ordinary shares and public warrants comprising the public units to begin separate trading on the 52nd day following the date of this prospectus unless Maxim, the representative of the underwriters, informs us of its decision to allow earlier separate trading, subject to our filing a Current Report on Form 8-K with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, containing an audited balance sheet reflecting our receipt of the gross proceeds of this offering and issuing a press release announcing when such separate trading will begin.

We cannot guarantee that our securities will be approved for listing. Once the securities comprising the units begin separate trading, we expect that the Class A ordinary shares and public warrants will be traded on Nasdaq under the symbols “BHAV” and “BHAVW,” respectively.

We have not authorized anyone to provide any information or to make any representations other than those contained in this prospectus. We 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 units 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.

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 risks. We are a blank check company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company. Our units offered in this prospectus include shares of a Cayman Islands blank check company instead of the shares of the operating entities with whom we may combine. As a blank check company with no material operations of our own, we seek to complete a business combination with one or more businesses or entities.

We are a blank check company with no subsidiaries and no operations of our own except organizational activities, the preparation of this offering and, following the closing of this offering, searching for a suitable target to consummate an initial business combination. As of the date of this prospectus, we have not made any transfers, dividends or distributions to any person or entity. We do not intend to distribute earnings or settle amounts owed until after the closing of the business combination. We may retain all of our available funds and any future earnings following a business combination to fund the development and growth of our business. As a result, we may not pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.

See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 51 of this prospectus 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.

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Our units offered in this prospectus include shares of a Cayman Islands blank check company instead of the shares of the operating entities with whom we may combine.

	Per Unit		Total
Public offering price	$	10.00	$	100,000,000
Underwriting discounts and commissions(1)	$	0.05	$	500,000
Proceeds, before expenses, to BHAV Acquisition Corp	$	9.95	$	99,500,000

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(1) Includes $0.05 per unit, or $500,000 in the aggregate (or $575,000 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), payable to the underwriters upon the closing of this offering. In addition, the representative of the underwriters or its designees will receive an aggregate of 500,000 Class A ordinary shares (or 575,000 Class A ordinary shares if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), which we refer to herein as the “representative shares,” as compensation in connection with this offering. See also “Underwriting” for a description of compensation and other items of value payable to the underwriters.

Of the proceeds we receive from this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants described in this prospectus, $100,000,000, or $115,000,000 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full ($10.00 per unit), will be deposited into a trust account with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee. Except with respect to interest earned on the funds held in the trust account that may be released to us to pay our income and franchise taxes, if any (collectively, “permitted withdrawals”), the funds held in the trust account will not be released from the trust account until the earliest to occur of: (1) our completion of an initial business combination; (2) the redemption of any public shares properly submitted 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 allow redemption in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of Class A ordinary shares or pre-initial business combination activity; and (3) the redemption of our public shares if we have not completed an initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering or during any Extension Period, subject to applicable law. 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. If we seek shareholder approval to extend beyond the 18-month period in which to complete an initial business combination to a later date, we will offer our public shareholders (excluding our initial shareholders, officers, directors and board advisors to the extent they acquire public shares, either in this offering or in secondary market transactions thereafter) the right to have their public ordinary shares redeemed for a pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest (less permitted withdrawals), as described in greater detail in this prospectus. Compensation paid and securities issued to the sponsor, its affiliates, and promoters as well as the anti-dilution adjustment to the founder shares may result in a material dilution of the purchasers’ equity interest. See sections titled “Dilution” and “Underwriting” for descriptions of compensation and dilution.

The following table illustrates the difference between the public offering price per unit and our net tangible book value per share (“NTBV”), as adjusted to give effect to this offering and assuming the redemption of our public shares at varying levels and the exercise in full and no exercise of the over-allotment option. See the section titled “Dilution” for more information.

As of December 31, 2025
Offering Price of $10.00 per Unit		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 Full Exercise of Over-Allotment Option
$	7.27	$	6.67	$	3.33	$	5.73	$	4.27	$	4.05	$	5.95	$	0.16	$	9.84
	Assuming No Exercise of Over-Allotment Option
$	7.27	$	6.67	$	3.33	$	5.73	$	4.27	$	4.05	$	5.95	$	0.17	$	9.83

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Our sponsor and members of our management team will directly or indirectly own our securities following this offering, and accordingly, they may have a conflict of interest in determining whether a particular target business is an appropriate business with which to effectuate our initial business combination. Additionally, 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. As a result, there may be actual or potential material conflicts of interest between our sponsor and our management team and their respective affiliates on the one hand, and purchasers in this offering on the other. See the sections titled “Proposed Business — Sourcing of Potential Business Combination Targets” and “Management and Advisory Board — Conflicts of Interest” for more information.

The underwriters are offering the units for sale on a firm commitment basis. The underwriters expect to deliver the units to purchasers on or about, 2026.

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.

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

Sole Book-Running Manager

Maxim Group LLC

The date of this prospectus is , 2026

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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY		1
RISK FACTORS		51
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS		95
ENFORCEABILITY OF CIVIL LIABILITIES		96
USE OF PROCEEDS		97
DIVIDEND POLICY		101
DILUTION		102
CAPITALIZATION		104
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS		105
PROPOSED BUSINESS		112
MANAGEMENT AND ADVISORY BOARD		148
PRINCIPAL SHAREHOLDERS		159
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS		162
DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES		165
INCOME TAX CONSIDERATIONS		188
UNDERWRITING		196
LEGAL MATTERS		206
EXPERTS		206
WHERE YOU CAN FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION		206
INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS		F-1

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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

This summary only highlights the more detailed information appearing elsewhere in this prospectus. 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, references to:

• “amended and restated memorandum and articles of association” are to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to be in effect upon completion of this offering, as amended and/or restated from time to time;

• “at-risk capital investors” refers to the third-party investors and the Maxim individuals, collectively;

• “Class A ordinary shares” are to our Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share;

• “Class B ordinary shares” are to our Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share;

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

• “Extension Period” are to any extended time that we have to consummate a business combination by the full amount of time, as described in more detail in this prospectus beyond 18 months as a result of a shareholder vote to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association;

• “founder shares” are to the 3,833,333 Class B ordinary shares initially purchased by our sponsor in a private placement purchase prior to this offering (of which up to 500,000 Class B ordinary shares held by our sponsor are subject to forfeiture, depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised) and the Class A ordinary shares that will be issued upon conversion of the Class B ordinary shares as described herein;

• “initial shareholders” are to the holders of our founder shares prior to this offering, including the sponsor and the at-risk capital investors;

• “letter agreement” refers to the letter agreement between us, our sponsor and our officers, directors and board advisor, the form of which is filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part;

• “management” or our “management team” are to our officers and directors;

• “Maxim” are to Maxim Group LLC, one of the underwriters in this offering;

• “Maxim individuals” refers to certain individuals who are registered persons of Maxim and who are purchasing founder shares and private placement warrants simultaneously with the closing of this offering;

• “non-managing sponsor investors” refers to one or more investors (none of which are affiliated with any member of our management, our sponsor or any other investor) that may purchase non-managing membership interests in the sponsor reflecting an indirect interest in an aggregate of up to (i) 1,050,000 private placement warrants to be purchased by our sponsor, and (ii) 840,000 founder shares held by the sponsor;

• “ordinary shares” are to our Class A ordinary shares and our Class B ordinary shares;

• “permitted withdrawals” are to amounts withdrawn from the trust account to pay our income and franchise taxes, if any, provided that all permitted withdrawals can only be made from interest and not from the principal held in the trust account;

• “private placement warrants” are to the warrants issued to our sponsor or its designees and the at-risk capital investors in a private placement simultaneously with the closing of this offering;

• “public warrants” are to the warrants sold as part of the units in this offering (whether they are subscribed for in this offering or acquired in the open market);

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• “public shares” are to our ordinary shares offered as part of the units in this offering (whether they are subscribed for in this offering or acquired thereafter in the open market);

• “public units” or “units” are to the units sold in this offering (whether they are subscribed for in this offering or acquired thereafter in the open market);

• “representative shares” are to the Class A ordinary shares to be issued to Maxim or its designees as compensation in connection with this offering;

• “subscription agreements” refers to the subscription agreements between us and each of the at-risk capital investors, the form of which is filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part;

• “third-party investors” refers to certain third-party investors (none of which are affiliated with any member of our management, our sponsor or any other investor) who are purchasing founder shares and private placement warrants simultaneously with the closing of this offering;

• “warrants” are to the public warrants and the private placement warrants; and

• “warrant agreement” are to our warrant agreement governing the warrants.

All references in this prospectus to shares of BHAV Acquisition Corp 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 as a matter of Cayman Islands law.

Introduction

We were incorporated on September 29, 2025, as a Cayman Islands exempted company with limited liability. We chose to incorporate in the Cayman Islands due to (i) its tax-neutrality, which allows international transactions to be structured efficiently without an additional layer of tax and (ii) simplicity of establishment and flexibility of administration, including easy migration to another jurisdiction, the existence of statutory procedures for merger or consolidation, and no takeover code or bespoke public company filing requirements.

We were formed for the purpose of entering into a merger, amalgamation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, recapitalization, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities, which we refer to as a “target business.” We do not have any specific business combination under consideration and we have not (nor has anyone on our behalf), directly or indirectly, contacted any prospective target business or had any substantive discussions, formal or otherwise, with respect to such a transaction. Our efforts to identify a prospective target business will not be limited to a particular industry or geographic location. To date, our efforts have been limited to organizational activities as well as activities related to this offering.

Our Management Team and Advisors

Our management team is led by our Chief Executive Officer and director, Giri Devanur, and our Chief Financial Officer and director, Chaitanya Kumar Setti. Our team consists of experienced professionals and senior operating executives. We believe we will benefit from their accomplishments in identifying attractive acquisition opportunities. Further, we believe our management team’s operating and transaction execution experience and relationships with companies will provide us with a number of potential business combination targets. Over the course of their careers, the members of our management team have developed a network of contacts and corporate relationships.

Our management team has experience in target selection, negotiation, transaction structuring, capital raising and merger execution. Members of our management team are not obligated to devote any specific number of hours to our matters but they intend to devote as much of their time as they deem necessary to our affairs until we have completed our initial business combination. The amount of time that any members of our management team will devote in any time period will vary based on whether a target business has been selected for our initial business combination and the current stage of the business combination process. We believe our management team’s operating and transaction experience and relationships with companies will provide us with a number of potential business combination targets.

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We will be further supported by our advisory board that will be comprised of current and former senior executives with significant operating and technical experience in a wide range of sub-sectors and functional areas within our focus industries. These advisors will provide us with access to their expertise and extensive networks from which we intend to source and evaluate targets as well as to assist in the future value creation plans of any business that we acquire.

Our advisory board will initially be comprised of the following advisor:

Rajan Singhal will become a board advisor upon the commencement of trading of our units on Nasdaq. Mr. Singhal has significant experience in information technology industries, and since January 2012 he has served as the Chief Operations Officer of Super Technology Solutions Inc, an information technology consulting services firm, where he runs day-to-day operations relating to revenue and sales growth, expense and margin controls, and periodic financial goals management. In this role, Mr. Singhal also directs short- and long-term budget planning and development to support strategic business goals, as well as establishes performance goals and assess policies for senior management of the company. Mr. Singhal also participates in capital market development, including by assisting in road shows, investor and bank meetings and others. Mr. Singhal has a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering from the National Institute of Technology in India, a LL.B from Garhwal University in India and an MBA in Management Information Systems from the Stockton University of New Jersey. We believe that Mr. Singhal’s extensive operating experience in technology industries and his management experience in various aspects of Super Technology Solutions Inc’s business, ranging from his involvement in company policies, performance goals, budget planning and capital market transactions, makes him well-qualified to serve as a board advisor.

Past performance of our management team and board advisors 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 performance record of our management team as indicative of our future performance. Our officers and directors may have conflicts of interest with other entities to which they owe fiduciary or contractual obligations with respect to initial business combination opportunities. For a list of our officers and directors and entities for which a conflict of interest may or does exist between such persons and the company, as well as the priority and preference that such entity has with respect to performance of obligations and presentation of business opportunities to us, please refer to the table and subsequent explanatory paragraph under “Management and Advisory Board — Conflicts of Interest.” The members of our advisory board will have no fiduciary obligations to present business opportunities to us.

Prior SPAC Experience

Our management team and our sponsor and its affiliates do not have prior experience in organizing special purpose acquisition companies and are not involved in other special purpose acquisition companies. However, our sponsor, directors and officers, or their respective affiliates, may in the future become affiliated with other SPACs that may have acquisition objectives that are similar to ours. See “Risk Factors — Our officers and directors may in the future become affiliated with entities engaged in business activities similar to those intended to be conducted by us and, accordingly, may have conflicts of interest in determining to which entity a particular business opportunity should be presented.”

Sponsor Information

Our sponsor is a Delaware limited liability company, which was formed to invest in us. Although our sponsor is permitted to undertake any activities permitted under the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act and other applicable law, our sponsor’s business is focused on investing in our company and it is not anticipated that our sponsor will undertake any material roles or responsibilities in directing and managing our activities. The sole managing member of the sponsor is Giri Devanur, our Chief Executive Officer and director, who is a U.S. citizen. Mr. Devanur will control the management of our sponsor, including the exercise of voting and investment discretion over the securities of our company held by our sponsor. Of the holders of non-managing membership interests in our sponsor, except for Norocos Opportunities Fund PCC (“Norocos”), which is a non-U.S. entity because it is incorporated in the Republic of Mauritius, none are considered to be a non-U.S. person. None of the holders of non-managing membership interests

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will have any rights to control our sponsor or to vote or dispose of any securities held by our sponsor. Therefore, even if Norocos is a non-U.S. entity, the sponsor will not be considered to be controlled by, or have substantial ties with, a non-U.S. person or entity.

Our sponsor currently owns an aggregate of 3,833,333 founder shares, up to 500,000 of which will be surrendered to us by our sponsor for no consideration after the closing of this offering depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised. Prior to this offering, our sponsor will forfeit 650,000 founder shares and the at-risk capital investors will purchase 650,000 founder shares, which will result in the sponsor owning 2,683,333 founder shares if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is not exercised (or 3,183,333 founder shares if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full).

On October 30, 2025, Norocos, a non-managing sponsor investor, acquired non-managing membership interests in the sponsor representing indirect economic interests in an aggregate of up to (i) 800,000 private placement warrants out of the 1,350,000 private placement warrants (or 1,425,000 private placement warrants if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) that are anticipated to be purchased by our sponsor, in a private placement that will close simultaneously with this offering, which represents approximately 59.26% of such private placement warrants (or approximately 56.14% of such private placement warrants if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full); and (ii) 800,000 founder shares out of the 2,683,333 founder shares held by the sponsor after this offering if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is not exercised (or 3,183,333 founder shares if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), which represents an interest in approximately 29.8% of the founder shares (or approximately 25.1% if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) held by our sponsor. See “Summary — The Offering — Prior issuance of founder shares” and “Summary — The Offering — Private placement warrants.” The remaining non-managing membership interests in our sponsor will be owned by other non-managing sponsor investors, Mr. Setti, our Chief Financial Officer, and Mr. Singhal, our current board advisor, none of whom will have a direct or indirect material interest in our sponsor.

Further, Mr. Setti will receive an indirect interest in an aggregate amount of 75,000 founder shares, our independent directors will receive an indirect interest in an aggregate amount of 75,000 founder shares, or 25,000 each, and our board advisor will receive an indirect interest in an aggregate amount of 10,000 founder shares, in each case through non-managing membership interests in our sponsor as compensation for their services as Chief Financial Officer, directors and board advisor, as applicable. Therefore, of the 2,683,333 founder shares (or 3,183,333 founder shares if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) owned by our sponsor, (i) Mr. Setti, our directors and board advisors will collectively have an indirect interest in an aggregate of 400,000 founder shares and (ii) the non-managing sponsor investors will collectively have an indirect interest in an aggregate of 840,000 founder shares. As a result, other than Mr. Devanur and Norocos, no other investor or holder of non-managing sponsor membership interests has a direct or indirect material interest in the 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
BHAV Partners LLC	Upon the consummation of this offering, we will begin accruing payments in an amount equal to $20,000 per month, which may be paid upon the consummation of our initial business combination or at the time of our dissolution, assuming there is cash available	Office space, administrative and shared personnel support services
BHAV Partners LLC	3,833,333 founder shares, of which up to 500,000 founder shares held by our sponsor are subject to forfeiture if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is not exercised in full(1)(2)(3)	$25,000
BHAV Partners LLC	1,350,000 private placement warrants to be purchased simultaneously with the closing of this offering (or 1,425,000 private placement warrants if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full)(4)(5)	$1,350,000 (or $1,425,000 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full)

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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
BHAV Partners LLC or an affiliate thereof	$500,000(5)	Repayment of loans for organizational, offering-related and other expenses until the consummation of our initial business combination
BHAV Partners LLC or an affiliate thereof	Additional working capital loans, if any	Working capital loans to finance transactions costs in connection with an initial business combination
BHAV Partners LLC and our officers or directors, or affiliates thereof	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
BHAV Partners LLC and our officers, directors or board advisors, or affiliates thereof	Finder’s fees, advisory fees, consulting fees or success fees, if applicable	We may engage our sponsor, officers, directors or board advisors, and/or each of their affiliates, as an advisor or otherwise in order to effectuate our initial business combination.
Holders of Class B ordinary shares	Subject to an anti-dilution adjustment, the number of Class A ordinary shares issuable upon conversion of all Class B ordinary shares will equal, in the aggregate, on an as-converted basis, 25% of the sum of all ordinary shares issued and outstanding upon completion of this initial public offering	N/A

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(1) The founder shares will automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares concurrently with or immediately following the consummation of our initial business combination, and may be converted at any time prior to our initial business combination, at the option of the holder, on a one-for-one basis, subject to adjustment (unless otherwise provided in our initial business combination agreement) for share sub-divisions, 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 (as described herein), are issued or deemed issued in excess of the amounts offered in this offering and related to or in connection with the closing of our initial business combination, the ratio at which 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, on an as-converted basis, 25% of the sum of (i) all Class A 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 Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement warrants and representative shares), (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 (iii) minus any redemptions of Class A ordinary shares by public shareholders in connection with an initial business combination or certain amendments to our amended and restated articles of association prior to an initial business combination; provided that such conversion of founder shares will never occur on a less than one-for-one basis. If we decrease the size of the 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 the offering in such amount as to maintain the ownership of founder shares by our initial shareholders, or an as-converted basis, at 25% of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares upon the consummation of this offering. Pursuant to the terms of the underwriting agreement to be entered into by us and Maxim, we will agree to not increase the size of the offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, therefore, no additional founder shares will be issued and, as a result, a purchaser’s equity interest will not be diluted as a result of an increase in the size of the offering pursuant to Rule 462(b).

(2) Of the Class B ordinary shares, (i) the non-managing sponsor investors will own, indirectly through the purchase of non-managing membership interests of the sponsor, an aggregate of 840,000 Class B ordinary shares held by the sponsor; (ii) Mr. Setti and Mr. Singhal will own, indirectly through the purchase of non-managing membership interests in the sponsor, an aggregate of 240,000 Class B ordinary shares held by the sponsor; and (iii) Mr. Setti, the independent directors and board advisor will own, indirectly through non-managing membership interests in our sponsor, an aggregate of 160,000

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Class B ordinary shares held by the sponsor as compensation for their services as Chief Financial Officer, directors and board advisor, as applicable. Mr. Setti, the non-managing sponsor investors, independent directors and board advisors will have no right to vote the Class B ordinary shares that they hold indirectly through their membership interests in the sponsor.

(3) Prior to the consummation of this offering, the sponsor will forfeit 650,000 founder shares, and the at-risk capital investors will purchase 650,000 founder shares, which will result in the sponsor owning 2,683,333 founder shares if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is not exercised (or 3,183,333 founder shares if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full).

(4) The non-managing sponsor investors, Mr. Setti and Mr. Singhal will acquire, indirectly through the purchase of non-managing membership interests, an interest in an aggregate of 1,350,000 of the private placement warrants that will be purchased by our sponsor, at a price of $1.00 per warrant, in a private placement that will close simultaneously with the closing of this offering.

(5) As of December 31, 2025, our sponsor advanced $124,574 in loans to us. Our sponsor will purchase 1,350,000 private placement warrants (or 1,425,000 private placement warrants if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), in a private placement that will close simultaneously with the closing of this offering, for an aggregate purchase price of $1,350,000 (or $1,425,000 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), $[•] of which will be paid in immediately available funds and up to $[•] will be paid in satisfaction of the principal balance underlying the promissory note issued to the sponsor.

Because our initial shareholders acquired the founder shares at a nominal price, our public shareholders will incur immediate and substantial dilution upon the closing of this offering. Further, the 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 anti-dilution rights of our founder shares that may result in an issuance of Class A ordinary shares on a greater than one-to-one basis upon conversion. Additionally, our public shareholders may experience dilution from the exercise of the 2,000,000 private placement warrants (or 2,075,000 private placement warrants if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) to be purchased in the private placement simultaneously with the closing of this offering. See the sections titled “Risk Factors — Risks Relating to our Sponsor and Management Team — Our sponsor paid an aggregate of $25,000, or approximately $0.0065 per founder share, and, accordingly, you will experience immediate and substantial dilution upon the purchase of our ordinary shares” and “Dilution.” Additionally, we will reimburse our sponsor in an amount equal to $20,000 per month for office space, utilities and secretarial and administrative support made available to us, which shall be paid upon the consummation of our initial business combination or at the time of our liquidation, assuming there is cash available.

The founder 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 deemed issued in excess of the amounts sold 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, on an as-converted basis, 25% of the sum of (i) all Class A 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 Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement warrants and representative shares), plus (ii) all Class A ordinary shares and equity-linked securities issued or deemed issued, in connection with the initial business combination (excluding any shares or equity-linked securities issued, or to be issued, to any seller in the initial business combination) minus (iii) any redemptions of Class A ordinary shares by public shareholders in connection with an initial business combination or certain amendments to our amended and restated articles of association prior to an initial business combination; provided that such conversion of founder shares will never occur on a less than one-for-one basis.

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Pursuant to a letter agreement and written agreements entered with us, as applicable, each of our sponsor, directors, officers, board advisor, at-risk capital investors and Maxim has agreed to restrictions on their ability to transfer, assign or sell the founder shares and private placement warrants (and the underlying Class A ordinary shares), as applicable, as summarized in the table below.

Subject Securities

Expiration Date

Persons Subject to
Restrictions

Exceptions to Transfer
Restrictions

Founder Shares

Earlier of six months after the date of the consummation of an initial business combination; or if the closing price of our Class A ordinary shares equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for share sub-divisions, share dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and other similar transactions) for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing any time 75 days after the completion of our initial business combination.

BHAV Partners LLC

Giri Devanur

Chaitanya Kumar Setti

Thomas Blinten

Piyush Sadana

John Patrick O’Connell

Rajan Singhal

At-risk capital investors

Transfers permitted to (a) (i) our sponsor’s members, (ii) our directors, officers and our sponsor, (iii) any affiliates or family members of our directors, officers, sponsor or sponsor’s members, (iv) any members or partners of our sponsor, our sponsor’s members, or their respective affiliates, or any affiliates of our sponsor, our sponsor’s members, or any employees of such affiliates, or (v) in the case of the at-risk capital investors, to any person, provided that, prior to any transfer of any founder shares by the at-risk capital investors, such person must enter into a written agreement agreeing to be bound by the terms of the subscription agreements entered into with us and the at-risk capital investors; (b) in the case of an individual, by gift to a member of the individual’s immediate family or to a trust, the beneficiary of which is a member of the individual’s immediate family, an affiliate of such person, or to a charitable organization; (c) in the case of an individual, by virtue of laws of descent and distribution upon death of the individual; (d) in the case of an individual, pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order; (e) in the case of a trust by distribution to one or more permissible beneficiaries of such trust; (f) by private sales or in connection with the consummation of a business combination at prices no greater than the price at which the securities were originally purchased; (g) to us for no value for cancellation in connection with the consummation of our initial business combination; (h) in the event of our liquidation prior to our completion of our initial business combination;

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Subject Securities	Expiration Date	Persons Subject to Restrictions	Exceptions to Transfer Restrictions
			(i) by virtue of the laws of the Cayman Islands, by virtue of our sponsor’s operating agreement or other constitutional, organizational or formational documents, as amended, upon dissolution of our sponsor, or by virtue of the constitutional, organization or formational documents of a subsidiary of our sponsor that holds the relevant securities, upon liquidation or dissolution of such subsidiary; or (j) 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 Class A ordinary shares for cash, securities or other property subsequent to our completion of our initial business combination.
Private Placement Warrants (and Underlying Class A Ordinary Shares)	30 days after the completion of our initial business combination	BHAV Partners LLC Giri Devanur Chaitanya Kumar Setti Thomas Blinten Piyush Sadana John Patrick O’Connell Rajan Singhal At-risk capital investors	Same as above
Any units, rights, ordinary shares or any other securities convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, any units, ordinary shares, rights or founder shares	180 days after the effective date of the underwriting agreement	BHAV Partners LLC Giri Devanur Chaitanya Kumar Setti Thomas Blinten Piyush Sadana John Patrick O’Connell Rajan Singhal At-risk capital investors Maxim Group LLC	Maxim in its sole discretion may release any of the securities subject to these lock-up agreements at any time without notice, other than in the case of the officers and directors, which shall be with notice. Our sponsor, officers, directors and board advisor are also subject to separate transfer restrictions on their founder shares and private placement warrants pursuant to the letter agreement described in the immediately preceding paragraphs; such persons may not be released from those transfer restrictions prior to our initial business combination, except to the extent described herein.

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Up to 500,000 of the founder shares held by our sponsor will be forfeited depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised. In addition, in order to facilitate our initial business combination or for any other reason determined by our sponsor in its sole discretion, and our initial shareholders may surrender or forfeit, transfer or exchange our founder shares, private placement warrants 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.

Except in certain limited circumstances, no member of the sponsor (including any holders of non-managing membership interests in our sponsor) may transfer all or any portion of its membership units in the sponsor. We may also issue Class A ordinary shares upon conversion of the founder 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.

Pursuant to the letter agreement entered with us, each of our sponsor and our directors, officers and board advisor has agreed to lock-up restrictions on their ability to transfer, assign or sell the founder shares and private placement warrants (and Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement warrants). Further, the sponsor membership interests (including interests held by any holder of non-managing membership interests in our sponsor) are locked up and not transferable because the letter agreement prohibits indirect transfers. Additionally, pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110(e), the private placement warrants purchased by Maxim, and/or its permitted designees, and the Maxim individuals may not be sold, transferred, assigned, pledged or hypothecated or the subject of any hedging, short sale, derivative, put or call transaction that would result in the economic disposition of the securities by any person for a period of 180 days immediately following the commencement of sales of this offering except to any member participating in the offering and the officers or partners, registered persons or affiliates thereof except as permitted by FINRA Rule 5110(e)(2).

While there is no current intention to do so, we may approve an amendment or waiver of the letter agreement that would allow our sponsor to directly, or members of our sponsor to indirectly, transfer founder shares and private placement warrants or membership interests in our sponsor in a transaction in which the sponsor removes itself as our sponsor before identifying a business combination. As a result, there is a risk that our sponsor and our officers, directors and board advisors may divest their ownership or economic interests in us or in our sponsor, which would likely result in our loss of certain key personnel. Any transferee would be required to agree to the transfer and non-redemption restrictions contained in the letter agreement, and such persons may not be released from those transfer and non-redemption restrictions prior to our initial business combination. There can be no assurance that any replacement sponsor or key personnel will successfully identify a business combination target for us, or, even if one is so identified, successfully complete such business combination.

The securities held by the sponsor are expected to only be distributed directly to the members of the sponsor in connection with or following the consummation of our initial business combination, provided that such members agree to become subject to the applicable transfer restrictions with respect to such securities, including the letter agreement. Indirect transfers of the securities held by the sponsor, such as to another member of the sponsor or their affiliate, a family member or a new member of the sponsor, may be permitted with the prior consent of the managing member of our sponsor, as long as the transferee agrees to comply with the applicable transfer restrictions with respect to such securities to the same extent as the party originally subject to such restrictions. See the section titled “Principal Shareholders — Transfers of Founder Shares and Private Placement Warrants.”

Pursuant to the terms of the subscription agreements entered into between us and each at-risk capital investor, if we solicit approval of our shareholders for (i) the appointment of directors, (ii) an initial business combination or (iii) an extension, in each case, the at-risk capital investor will vote all of their ordinary shares beneficially owned, whether acquired before, in or after this offering, in favor of (x) each of the directors nominated by our board of directors and recommended by our board of directors in the appointment of directors and against any proposals to remove any such members of our board, (y) such initial business combination (including any proposals recommended by our board of directors in connection with such business combination) (except that any ordinary shares that may be purchased in compliance with the requirements of Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act would not be voted in favor of approving such business combination) and (z) such extension. Additionally, the at-risk capital investors have agreed to lock-up restrictions on their ability to transfer, assign or sell the founder shares and private placement warrants and Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement warrants, except that the at-risk capital investors are permitted to transfer any ordinary shares, including any founder shares, private placement warrants and underlying Class A ordinary shares, they hold to any other person provided that each such person, prior to the transfer of any

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such ordinary shares by the at-risk capital investors, must enter into a written agreement agreeing to be bound by the terms of the subscription agreement entered into with us and the at-risk capital investors, including the transfer restrictions and agreement not to exercise redemption rights with respect to any of their ordinary shares set forth in the subscription agreement.

While non-managing sponsor investors will not be a direct party to the letter agreement or subscription agreements discussed above, to the extent membership interests are acquired in the sponsor, such non-managing sponsor investors would be bound by the restrictions set forth above with respect to their allocated founder shares, private placement warrants and the underlying Class A ordinary shares (including the restriction on transfer of their membership interests because the letter agreement prohibits indirect transfers). However, the non-managing sponsor investors would not be subject to transfer restrictions or a lock-up agreement on any public units, public shares or public warrants that they may purchase in this offering or thereafter.

Our Business Strategy and Competitive Strengths

We seek to create compelling shareholder value through the extensive experience and demonstrated success of our management team in investing in, operating and transforming businesses, with a particular combination of competitive advantages such as:

Leadership of an Experienced Management Team and Board of Directors. Our management team has decades of experience in managing, operating, advising and executing on capital raising and mergers and acquisitions transactions for high growth companies. Our Chief Executive Officer, Giri Devanur, is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience of leading management teams and boards of directors of emerging growth companies in technology-focused industries. Mr. Devanur has successfully led two emerging growth companies to become publicly listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market through a traditional initial public offering and a direct listing, which positioned these companies for advanced scaling and growth opportunities, and he also led several capital raise and merger and acquisition transactions for these public companies. Prior to leading such companies to become publicly listed, Mr. Devanur also founded several companies in the information technology and technology industries, which allowed him to have a deep understanding of complex regulatory requirements and standards in such industries. Our Chief Financial Officer, Chaitanya Kumar Setti, also has significant experience in the information technology and technology industries, including digital services, cloud expertise and other information technology-focused services, and he is a member of the board of directors of several private companies within various industries, giving him experience in managing diverse teams and products. For a more complete description of the business experience of the members of our management team, see “Management and Advisory Board — Officers, Directors and Director Nominees.”

Established Deal Sourcing Network. We believe our management team’s strong track record will provide us with access to high quality companies. In addition, we believe we, through our management team, have contacts and sources from which to generate acquisition opportunities and possibly seek complementary follow-on business arrangements. These contacts and sources include family offices and hedge funds, executives of public and private companies, merger and acquisition advisory firms, commercial lenders and investment banks, capital markets desks, lenders, private equity or venture capital investors and other financial intermediaries.

Status as a Publicly Listed Acquisition Company. We believe our structure will make us an attractive business combination partner to prospective target businesses. As a publicly listed company, we will offer a target business an alternative to the traditional initial public offering process. We believe that some target businesses will favor this alternative, which we believe is less expensive, while offering greater certainty of execution, than the traditional initial public offering process. During an initial public offering, there are typically underwriting fees and marketing expenses, which would be costlier than a business combination with us. Furthermore, once a proposed business combination is approved by our shareholders (if applicable) and the transaction is consummated, the target business will have effectively become public, whereas an initial public offering is always subject to the underwriters’ ability to complete the offering, as well as general market conditions that could prevent the offering from occurring. Once public, we believe the target business would have greater access to capital and additional means of creating management incentives that are better aligned with shareholders’ interests than it would as a private company. It can offer further benefits by augmenting a company’s profile among potential new customers and vendors and aid in attracting talented management staffs.

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Rigorous Systematic Process of Identifying Target Companies and Acquiring a Business that will Be Well-Received by the Public Markets. We believe that our management’s merger and acquisitions track record in both private and public markets, combined with public market trading experience, will provide an advantage for identifying, valuing and completing a business combination that will meet our investors’ expectations.

Acquisition Strategies

We will seek to capitalize on the strength of our management team and board advisors. Our team consists of experienced investment banking, financial services and capital market professionals and senior operating executives of companies in multiple industries and disciplines. Collectively, our officers, directors and current board advisor have decades of experience in mergers and acquisitions and operating companies. We believe we will benefit from their accomplishments, and specifically, their current activities, in identifying attractive acquisition opportunities. However, there is no assurance that we will complete a business combination. We believe that we will add value to these businesses primarily by providing them with access to the U.S. capital markets.

Our efforts to identify a prospective initial business combination target will not be limited to a particular industry, sector or geographic region. While we may pursue an initial business combination opportunity in any business, industry or geographic location, we intend to capitalize on the ability of our management team and board advisors to identify, acquire and operate a business or businesses that can benefit from our management team’s establish relationships, sector expertise and active management and operating experience. In particular, we will seek to capitalize on the significant experience and vast network of our management team and board advisors to complete our initial business combination. Although we may pursue our initial business combination in any business, industry or geographic location, we currently intend to focus on opportunities that capitalize on the expertise and ability of our management team, particularly our Chief Executive Officer, to identify, acquire and operate a business in the advanced and industrial robotics, EVs, drones and UAS or fintech industry, which we refer throughout this prospectus collectively as our “focus industries.”

Further, we intend to focus our search for an initial business combination on any private companies within our focus industries that have compelling economics and clear paths to positive operating cash flow, significant assets, and successful management teams that are seeking access to the U.S. public capital markets.

Industry Opportunity

We believe that our management team’s and board advisor’s extensive and diverse experience will help us to effectively evaluate targets across our focus industries. We believe such industries are attractive for several reasons, including, but not limited to:

Large, Growing Target Market. According to Precedence Research, “Advanced Robotics Market Size, Share and Trends 2025 to 2034,” dated April 2025, the global advanced robotics industry is estimated to reach a market size of approximately $53.7 billion in 2025 and it is projected to reach approximately $280 billion by 2034, representing a compound annual growth rate, or CAGR, of approximately 20%. The industrial robotics market, according to Future Market Insights Inc., “Industrial Robotics Market Growth — Trends & Forecast 2025 – 2035,” dated February 2025, is also set to grow significantly, with its market valuation expected to grow from approximately $55 billion in 2025 to approximately $291 billion by 2035, reflecting a CAGR of approximately 18.1%. We believe that this expansion is being driven by the integration of artificial intelligence systems into production processes and the growing adoption by businesses of robotic automation to boost manufacturing efficiency, improve product consistency and maintain operational scalability. Further, according to Future Business Insights, as of September 2025, the drones and UAS market was valued at approximately $13.9 billion in 2024, and it is projected to grow from approximately $17.3 billion in 2025 to approximately $62.3 billion by 2032, reflecting a CAGR of approximately 20.8%. In the commercial drone market, the United States alone had a market share of approximately 31.3% in 2024, and it is projected to reach approximately $14.5 billion by 2030, which we believe will be driven by an increasing demand for drone-enabled delivery and inspection solutions in the United States. Further, as regulatory frameworks in this industry mature, we expect that this industry will continue growing due to increased adoption over several industries and applications for these technologies, such as logistics, infrastructure inspection, agriculture, and emergency-response applications. The EV market is also continuously expanding, and, based on the International Energy Agency’s, or IEA, “Global EV Outlook 2025 — Trends in electric car markets” report, dated July 2025, global EV sales are expected to exceed 20 million units in 2025, an increase of roughly 35% year over year in the first three months of 2025, which represents about one-quarter of cars sold worldwide. Similarly, according to Fortune Business Insights, as of September 2025, the

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global fintech market is projected to reach approximately $394.9 billion in value in 2025, and it is projected to reach approximately $1.13 trillion by 2032, reflecting a CAGR of approximately 16.2%. We believe that the growth in fintech will mainly be due to fintech providers’ increasing use of cloud computing and integration of artificial-intelligence, or AI, and machine learning in its platforms, as well as the increase in consumer’s digital-payments and the proliferation of AI-driven risk-management. As such, as the demand for online and mobile banking and number of digital financial transactions increases, fintech platforms offering payment and transaction processing services become more prevalent, and we believe we will be able to capitalize on this continued consumer interest in such products and services.

Favorable Trends. We believe that the products and services related to our focus industries are positioned to benefit from favorable consumer and investor demand trends. For instance, we believe that the advanced robotics market is being driven by rapid innovation and the growing application of AI automation and machine learning, which is seeking to enable faster, smarter and multifunctional robots for households, healthcare, entertainment and logistics automation. As a result, according to the International Sheet Metal Review, as industries continue to seek efficiency, flexibility, and cost savings, industrial robots will become integral to manufacturing and production processes worldwide. Similarly, the drone and UAS industry demand is being driven mainly by the demand for smaller commercial drones for surveying, air taxis, logistics, surveillance and mapping, as well as recent favorable government legislation towards drones and similar UASs for security-related purposes. In addition, various demographic, technological and geopolitical trends, such as the shift from fossil fuel-based systems to electric-powered alternatives across transportation, buildings and industry, continues to drive consumer demand in the EV industry. According to IEA, global electric car exports surged by 20% in 2024, reaching about 3.2 million electric cars and accounting for almost 20% of global sales, and, given that the United States was the net importer of electric cars in 2024, we believe there is an opportunity to address this continuing consumer demand for EVs in the United States. We also believe that advancements in fintech, especially in AI and cloud-based platforms, will lead to continued adoption by consumers of online payment accounts. As an example, the 2024 Survey and Diary of Consumer Payment Choice from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta stated that 73.5% of consumers in the United States have adopted online payment accounts, such as PayPal, Zelle or Venmo, and that more than half of consumers had been offered to make a purchase using a “buy now, pay later” method in the prior 30 days as of October 2024, and we believe that as the usage of smartphones and tablets continue to grow, such favorable consumer trends may continue to increase.

Broad Universe of Targets. While we may pursue an initial business combination opportunity in any industry, we intend to focus our investment efforts across our focus industries. We believe the anticipated growth in our focus industries and the related sectors will present a substantial number of actionable opportunities with the required scale that fit our acquisition criteria. For instance, according to the industry source Pitchbook, there were over 10,900 companies operating in the robotics and drones industries alone as of February 2026.

High Barriers to Entry. Success in our focus industries is driven by a myriad of global and domestic regulations, government spending and technological breakthroughs. We believe our management team’s experience in these industries provides a significant amount of proprietary domain expertise and know-how in evaluating investment opportunities in difficult-to-navigate industries. Further, our management team has spent considerable time navigating the complex regulatory environment inherent in our focus industries, and its familiarity with the nuances of the regulatory aspect of the industry provides a differentiated competitive advantage.

All of the market data and/or estimates used in this prospectus involve a number of assumptions and limitations, and you are cautioned not to give undue weight to such data and/or estimates. We believe that the information from these third-party sources is reliable; however, we have not independently verified them, and the business and the industries in which we seek to pursue a business combination may be subject to a high degree of risk and uncertainty. We believe that the convergence of these technology-driven sectors present a significant opportunity to identify a business that can leverage our management team’s experience in technology, automation and capital-markets operations to create long-term shareholder value through innovation, scalability, and disciplined growth.

Acquisition Criteria and Strategy

Our management team intends to focus on creating shareholder value by leveraging its experience in the management, operation and financing of businesses to improve the efficiency of operations while implementing strategies to scale revenue organically and/or through acquisitions. In addition to the factors listed above, we have identified the following general criteria and guidelines, which we believe are important in evaluating prospective target businesses. While we intend to use these criteria and guidelines in evaluating prospective businesses, we may decide to deviate from these criteria and guidelines.

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Resilient Business Model. We intend to seek target companies that have a resilient business model. Such companies are better positioned to adapt to changing market conditions and consumer preferences, which could provide a competitive advantage.

Industry Leadership with Sustainable Competitive Advantage. We expect to focus on companies that are or have the potential to become leaders in its verticals. We will look for companies with higher operating efficiency, stronger brand recognition, broader distribution channels or any other characteristic that enable the company to achieve long-term competitive proposition.

Revenue Generating and Scaling and Growth Potential. We will seek to acquire one or more businesses that have existing revenues that can be scaled, with recurring or predictable revenue models, and which have potential for future revenue and earnings growth through a combination of both existing and new product development, increased production capacity, expense reduction and synergistic follow-on acquisitions resulting in increased operating leverage. We expect such businesses to provide promising risk-adjusted return for our shareholders.

Potential for Strong Free Cash Flow Generation and Gross Margins. We will seek to acquire one or more businesses that have the potential to generate strong, stable, and increasing free cash flow, particularly businesses with predictable revenue streams, strong trajectory towards sustainable earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA, and definable low working capital and capital expenditure requirements. We may also seek to prudently leverage this cash flow and strong trajectory to profitability in order to enhance shareholder value.

Technological Moat or High Barrier to Entry. We intend to seek companies that have a defensible position established by proprietary technology that presents a low or manageable risk of technological obsolescence and/or those with a technological advantage that provides a high barrier to entry for new entrants.

Benefit from Being a Public Company and Public Market Readiness. We intend to acquire a business or businesses with organic and inorganic growth potential that have demonstrated technical or commercial readiness to become a publicly traded company, but that requires capital, scale and path to public market access to accelerate its growth such that it can benefit from effectively utilizing access to broader sources of capital and a public profile that are associated with being a publicly traded company.

Platforms that Benefit from “Bolt-On” Acquisitions. We may also target businesses that can serve as scalable platforms with the potential to drive incremental value through strategic “bolt-on” acquisitions. We may seek companies operating in industries where consolidation can enhance competitive positioning, accelerate growth and improve margins. We believe that a public company structure and access to capital markets will further enable these businesses to pursue and execute such acquisitions as part of a broader value creation strategy.

This criteria does not intend 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 sponsor and management team may deem relevant. In the event that we decide to enter into an initial business combination with a target business that does not meet the above criteria and guidelines, we will disclose that the target business does not meet the above criteria in our shareholder communications related to our initial business combination, which, as discussed in this prospectus, would be in the form of proxy solicitation or tender offer materials, as applicable, that we would file with the SEC.

Effecting our Initial Business Combination

We are not presently engaged in, and we will not engage in, any operations for an indefinite period of time following this offering.

We will have up to 18 months from the closing of this offering to consummate an initial business combination. We may also hold a shareholder 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 consummate an initial business combination (as well as to modify the substance or timing of our obligation to redeem 100% of our public shares if we have not consummated an initial business combination within the time periods described herein or with respect to any other material provisions relating to the rights of holders of Class A ordinary shares or pre-initial business combination activity), in which case our public shareholders (excluding our initial shareholders, officers, directors and board advisors to the extent they acquire public shares, either in this offering or in secondary market transactions thereafter) will be offered an opportunity to redeem their public shares upon the effectiveness of such amendments. Our initial shareholders will lose their entire investment in us, except to the extent they are entitled to redeem any public shares they acquire,

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as described in this prospectus, or to receive liquidating distributions on the founder shares from assets outside the trust account, if our initial business combination is not completed within 18 months from the closing of this offering unless we extend the amount of time we have to consummate an initial business combination by obtaining shareholder approval to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. While we do not currently intend to seek such shareholder approval, we may elect to do so in the future. There is no limit on the number of extensions that we may seek. If we do not or are unable to extend the time period to consummate our initial business combination, our sponsor’s investment in our founder shares and our private placement warrants will be worthless.

We have not selected any business combination target and we have not, nor has anyone on our behalf, initiated any substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, with any business combination target. Accordingly, there is no current basis for investors in this offering to evaluate the possible merits or risks of the target business with which we may ultimately complete our initial business combination. To the extent we effect our business combination with a company or business that may be financially unstable or in its early stages of development or growth, we may be affected by numerous risks inherent in such company or business. Although our management team will endeavor to evaluate the risks inherent in a particular target business, we cannot assure you that we will properly ascertain or assess all significant risk factors. In evaluating a prospective target business, we expect to conduct a thorough due diligence review, which may encompass, among other things, meetings with incumbent management and employees, document reviews, interviews of customers and suppliers, inspection of facilities, as applicable, as well as a review of financial, operational, legal and other information that will be made available to us. If we determine to move forward with a particular target, we will proceed to structure and negotiate the terms of the business combination transaction.

Our management will have substantial flexibility in identifying and selecting one or more prospective target businesses, although we will not be permitted to effectuate our initial business combination solely with another blank check company or a similar company with nominal operations.

The time required to select and evaluate a target business and to structure and complete our initial business combination, and the costs associated with this process, are not currently ascertainable with any degree of certainty. Any costs incurred with respect to the identification and evaluation of, and negotiation with, a prospective target business with which our business combination is not ultimately completed will result in our incurring losses and will reduce the funds available to use to complete a business combination with a different target company.

We intend to effectuate our initial business combination using cash from the proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants, our shares, debt or a combination of the foregoing. We may seek to complete our initial business combination with a company or business that may be financially unstable or in its early stages of development or growth, which would subject us to the numerous risks inherent in such companies and businesses.

We do not believe we will need to raise additional funds following this offering in order to meet our anticipated operating expenses. However, if our estimates of the costs of identifying a target business, undertaking due diligence and negotiating an initial business combination are 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 complete our initial business combination or because we become obligated to redeem a significant number of our public shares upon completion of our initial business combination, in which case we may issue additional securities or incur debt in connection with such business combination. In addition, we may target businesses with enterprise values that are greater than we could acquire with the net proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants, and, as a result, if the cash portion of the purchase price exceeds the amount available from the trust account, net of amounts needed to satisfy redemptions by public shareholders, we may be required to seek additional financing to complete such proposed initial business combination. We may also obtain financing prior to the closing of our initial business combination to fund our working capital needs and transaction costs in connection with our search for and completion of our initial business combination. There is no limitation on our ability to raise funds through the issuance of equity or equity-linked securities or through loans, advances or other indebtedness in connection with our initial business combination, including pursuant to any forward purchase agreements or backstop agreements we may enter into following the consummation of this offering. Any such additional financing may cause material dilution to the holders of our public shares. If we are unable to complete our initial business combination because we do not have sufficient funds available to us, we will be forced to cease operations and liquidate the trust account. In addition, following our initial business combination, if cash on hand is insufficient, the post-business combination company may need to obtain additional financing in order to meet its obligations.

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If our initial business combination is paid for using equity or debt, or not all of the funds released from the trust account are used for payment of the consideration in connection with our business combination or used for redemptions of our Class A ordinary shares, 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 the post-transaction company, the payment of principal or interest due on indebtedness incurred in completing our initial business combination, to fund the purchase of other businesses or assets or for working capital.

In the case of an initial business combination funded with assets other than the trust account assets, our tender offer documents or proxy materials disclosing the business combination would disclose the terms of the financing and, only if required by applicable law, we would seek shareholder approval of such financing. There are no prohibitions on our ability to issue securities or incur debt in connection with our initial business combination. We are not currently a party to any arrangement or understanding with any third party with respect to raising any additional funds through the sale of securities, the incurrence of debt or otherwise, except as described under the section titled “Underwriting” below.

We are not prohibited from pursuing an initial business combination with a company that is affiliated (as defined in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association) with our sponsor or our directors, officers or board advisors, or making the acquisition through a joint venture or other form of shared ownership with our sponsor, directors or officers. In the event we seek to complete our initial business combination with a company that is affiliated our sponsor, directors or officers, we, or a committee of independent directors, will obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or another independent entity that commonly renders valuation opinions, stating that the consideration to be paid by us in such an initial business combination is fair to our company from a financial point of view. We are not required to obtain such an opinion in any other context.

Our sponsor and its members, members of our management team our independent directors will directly or indirectly own founder shares and private placement warrants following this offering 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. Further, 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 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.

As a result, the fiduciary duties or contractual obligations of our officers or directors could materially affect our ability to complete our initial business combination.

Potential Additional Financing

To the extent needed, we may seek to raise additional funds through a private offering of debt or equity securities in connection with the completion of our initial business combination (which may include a private placement), and we may effectuate our initial business combination using the proceeds of such offering rather than using the amounts held in the trust account. In addition, we may target businesses larger than we could acquire with the net proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants, and may as a result be required to seek additional financing to complete such proposed initial business combination. Any such additional financing may cause material dilution to the holders of our public shares. In the case of an initial business combination funded with assets other than the trust account assets, our proxy materials or tender offer documents disclosing the initial business combination would disclose the terms of the financing and, only if required by law, we would seek shareholder approval of such financing. There are no prohibitions on our ability to raise funds privately, including pursuant to any private placement, or through loans in connection with our initial business combination. At this time, we are not a party to any arrangement or understanding with any third party with respect to raising any additional funds through the sale of securities or otherwise.

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

Nasdaq rules require that our initial business combination must be with one or more target businesses that together have an aggregate fair market value equal to at least 80% of the balance in the trust account (less any taxes payable on interest earned) at the time of our signing a definitive agreement in connection with our initial business combination. If our board of directors is not able to independently determine the fair market value of the target business or businesses, we will obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or another independent firm that commonly renders valuation opinions for the type of company we are seeking to acquire or an independent accounting firm. We do not intend to purchase multiple businesses in unrelated industries in conjunction with our initial business combination.

We will have until 18 months from the closing of this offering to consummate an initial business combination. If we are unable to consummate an initial business combination within the allotted 18-month time period or during any Extension Period, we will, as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten 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 (which interest shall be net of permitted withdrawals and up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public shareholders’ 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 liquidate and dissolve. 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.

We anticipate structuring our initial business combination so that the post-transaction company in which our public shareholders own shares will own or acquire 100% of the equity interests or assets of the target business or businesses. We may, however, structure our initial business combination such that the post-transaction company owns or acquires less than 100% of such interests or assets of the target business in order to meet certain objectives of the target management team or shareholders or for other reasons, but we will only complete such business combination if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in the target sufficient for it not to be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”). Even if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the voting securities of the target, our shareholders prior to the business 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 ordinary shares in exchange for all of the outstanding capital stock of a target. In this case, we would acquire a 100% controlling interest in the target. However, as a result of the issuance of a substantial number of new shares, our shareholders immediately prior to our initial business 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 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. If 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 target businesses.

Corporate Information

We are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, or 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, or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation and shareholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved. If some investors find our securities less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our securities and the prices of our securities may be more volatile.

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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 30th, and (2) the date on which we have issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities during the prior three-year period. References herein to “emerging growth company” shall 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 (i) the market value of our ordinary shares held by non-affiliates equals or exceeds $250 million as of the end of the prior June 30th or (ii) our annual revenues equaled or exceeded $100 million during such completed fiscal year and the market value of our ordinary shares held by non-affiliates equals or exceeds $700 million as of the end of the prior June 30th.

We are a Cayman Islands exempted company incorporated on September 29, 2025. Our executive offices are located at 255 Old New Brunswick Rd., Suite N210, Piscataway, NJ 08854, United States.

Exempted companies are Cayman Islands companies wishing to conduct business outside the Cayman Islands and, as such, are exempted from complying with certain provisions of the Companies Act.

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THE OFFERING

In making your decision 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” beginning on page 51 of this prospectus.

Securities offered

10,000,000 units, at $10.00 per unit, each unit consisting of one Class A ordinary share and one-half of one redeemable warrant.

Listing of our securities and symbols

We anticipate that the public units will be listed on Nasdaq under the symbol “BHAVU,” and that the Class A ordinary shares and public warrants, once they begin separate trading, will be listed on Nasdaq under the symbols “BHAV” and “BHAVW,” respectively.

Trading commencement and separation of Class A ordinary shares and public warrants

The units will begin trading on or promptly after the date of this prospectus. Each of the Class A ordinary shares and public warrants comprising the units will begin separate trading on the 52nd day following the date of this prospectus unless Maxim informs us of its decision to allow earlier separate trading, subject to our having filed the Current Report on Form 8-K described below and having issued a press release announcing when such separate trading will begin.

Once the Class A ordinary shares and public warrants commence separate trading, holders will have the option to continue to hold units or separate their units into the component pieces. Holders will need to have their brokers contact our transfer agent in order to separate the units into Class A ordinary shares and public warrants.

In no event will the Class A ordinary shares and public warrants be traded separately until we have filed a Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC containing an audited balance sheet reflecting our receipt of the gross proceeds at the closing of this offering. We will file such Current Report on Form 8-K promptly after the closing of this offering, which is anticipated to take place on the second business day after the date the 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 disclose the exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option. We will also include in such Current Report on Form 8-K, or amendment thereto, or in a subsequent Current Report on Form 8-K, information indicating if Maxim has allowed separate trading of the Class A ordinary shares and public warrants prior to the 52nd day after the date of this prospectus.

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Units:
Number outstanding before this offering		0 units
Number outstanding after this offering		10,000,000 units(1)
Ordinary shares:
Number outstanding before this offering		3,833,333 shares(2)
Number to be outstanding after this offering		13,833,333 shares(1)(3)
Warrants:
Number outstanding whole warrants before this offering and the private placement		0 warrants
Number of outstanding whole warrants after this offering and the private placement		7,000,000 warrants(1)(4)
Exercisability		Each whole warrant offered in this offering is exercisable to purchase one Class A ordinary share, subject to adjustment as provided herein, and only whole warrants are exercisable. No fractional warrants will be issued upon separation of the units and only whole warrants will trade. We structured each unit to contain one-half of one redeemable public warrant, with each whole public warrant exercisable for one Class A ordinary share, in order to reduce the dilutive effect of the public warrants upon completion of our initial business combination, which we believe will make us a more attractive business combination partner for target businesses.

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(1) Assumes no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option and the forfeiture of 500,000 founder shares by our sponsor.

(2) Represents 3,833,333 founder shares that are classified as Class B ordinary shares, which shares are convertible into Class A ordinary shares on a one-for-one basis, subject to adjustment as described below, including an aggregate of up to 500,000 founder shares held by our sponsor that are subject to forfeiture if the over-allotment option is not exercised by the underwriters in full.

(3) Comprised of 10,000,000 Class A ordinary shares, 3,333,333 Class B ordinary shares, assuming the forfeiture of an aggregate of 500,000 founder shares held by our sponsor, and 500,000 representative shares. The Class B ordinary shares are convertible into shares of our Class A ordinary shares on a one-for-one basis, subject to adjustment as described below adjacent to the caption “Conversion and anti-dilution rights of founder shares.”

(4) Comprised of 5,000,000 public warrants, 1,350,000 private placement warrants to be sold to the sponsor in a private placement and 650,000 private placement warrants to be sold to the at-risk capital investors in a private placement, of which, 200,000 private placement warrants will be purchased by the Maxim individuals and 450,000 private placement warrants will be purchased by the third-party investors, which assumes no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option.

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Exercise price

$11.50 per share of Class A ordinary share, subject to adjustment as described in this prospectus. In addition, if (x) we issue additional Class A ordinary shares or equity-linked securities for capital raising purposes in connection with the closing of our initial business combination at an issue price or effective issue price of less than $9.20 per Class A ordinary share (with such issue price or effective issue price to be determined in good faith by our board of directors, and in the case of any such issuance to our sponsor or its affiliates, without taking into account any founder shares held by them prior to such issuance) (the “Newly Issued Price”), (y) the aggregate gross proceeds from such issuances represent more than 60% of the total equity proceeds, and interest thereon, available for the funding of our initial business combination on the date of the consummation of our initial business combination (net of redemptions and permitted withdrawals), and (z) the volume weighted average trading price of our Class A ordinary shares during the 20 trading-day period starting on the trading day prior to the day on which we consummate our initial business combination (such price, the “Market Value”) is below $9.20 per share, the exercise price of the warrants will be adjusted (to the nearest cent) to be equal to 115% of the higher of the Market Value and the Newly Issued Price, and the $18.00 per share redemption trigger price will be adjusted (to the nearest cent) to be equal to 180% of the higher of the Market Value and the Newly Issued Price. On the exercise of any warrant, the exercise price will be paid directly to us and not placed in the trust account.

We are not registering the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants (the “warrant shares”) at this time. However, we have agreed that as soon as practicable, but in no event later than 30 business days after the closing of our initial business combination, we will use our commercially reasonable efforts to file with the SEC a registration statement for the registration under the Securities Act of the warrant shares and thereafter use our commercially reasonable efforts to cause the registration statement to become effective and to maintain the effectiveness of such registration statement until the expiration of the warrants. No warrants will be exercisable for cash unless we have an effective and current registration statement covering the issuance of the warrant shares and a current prospectus relating thereto.

If a registration statement covering the issuance of the warrant shares is not effective within 60 business days following the consummation of our initial business combination, warrant holders may, commencing on the 61st business day until such time as there is such an effective registration statement and during any period when we shall have failed to maintain such an effective registration statement, exercise warrants on a cashless basis in accordance with Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act. In this circumstance, each holder would pay the exercise price by surrendering warrants exercisable for the number of Class A ordinary shares equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the product of the number of Class A ordinary shares underlying such warrants and the difference between the exercise price of such warrants and the “fair market value” (defined below) by (y) the fair market value. The “fair market value” means the average reported last sale price of the Class A ordinary shares for the ten trading days ending on the trading day prior to the date of exercise.

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Exercise period

The warrants will become exercisable 30 days after the completion of our initial business combination

The warrants will expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the fifth anniversary of our completion of an initial business combination, or earlier upon redemption. No fractional shares will be issued upon exercise of the warrants, and only whole warrants will trade. If, upon exercise of the warrants, a holder would be entitled to receive a fractional interest in a share, we will, upon exercise, round down to the nearest whole number of Class A ordinary shares to be issued to the warrant holder.

Redemption of warrants

Once the warrants become exercisable, we may redeem the outstanding warrants:

• in whole or in part;

• at a price of $0.01 per warrant;

• upon a minimum of 30 days’ prior written notice of redemption, which we refer to as the 30-day redemption period; and

• if, and only if, the last reported sale price of our Class A ordinary shares equals or exceeds $18.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within a 30-trading day period ending on the third trading day prior to the date on which we send the notice of redemption to the warrant holders.

We will not redeem the warrants unless a registration statement under the Securities Act covering the issuance of the warrant shares underlying the warrants to be so redeemed is then effective and a current prospectus relating to those warrant shares is available throughout the 30-day redemption period, except if the warrants may be exercised on a cashless basis and such cashless exercise is exempt from registration under the Securities Act. If and when the warrants become redeemable by us, we may exercise our redemption right even if we are unable to register or qualify the underlying securities for sale under all applicable state securities laws.

If the foregoing conditions are satisfied and we issue a notice of redemption, each warrant holder may exercise his, her or its warrants prior to the scheduled redemption date. However, the price of the Class A ordinary shares may fall below the $18.00 trigger price (as adjusted) as well as the $11.50 exercise price (as adjusted) after the redemption notice is issued.

The redemption criteria for our warrants have been established at a price which is intended to provide warrant holders a reasonable premium to the initial exercise price and provide a sufficient differential between the then-prevailing share price and the exercise price so that if the share price declines as a result of our redemption call, the redemption will not cause the share price to drop below the exercise price of the warrants.

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If we call the warrants for redemption as described above, our management will have the option to require all holders that wish to exercise warrants to do so on a “cashless basis.” In making such determination, our management will consider, among other factors, our cash position, the number of warrants that are outstanding and the dilutive effect on our shareholders of issuing the maximum number of warrant shares issuable upon exercise of outstanding warrants. In such event, the holder would pay the exercise price by surrendering the warrants for that number of Class A ordinary shares equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the product of the number of warrant shares underlying the warrants to be so exercised, and the difference between the exercise price of the warrants and the fair market value by (y) the fair market value.

No fractional Class A ordinary share will be issued upon redemption. If, upon redemption, a holder would be entitled to receive a fractional interest in a share, we will round down to the nearest whole number of the number of Class A ordinary shares to be issued to the holder.

Prior issuance of founder shares

On September 30, 2025, our sponsor acquired 3,833,333 founder shares for an aggregate purchase price of $25,000, or approximately $0.0065 per share. The per share purchase price of the founder shares was determined by dividing the amount of cash contributed to the company by the aggregate number of founder shares issued. Up to 500,000 founder shares held by our sponsor will be subject to forfeiture by our sponsor depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised so that our initial shareholders will maintain ownership of 25% of our ordinary shares after this offering (assuming they do not purchase any units in this offering and excluding the Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement warrants and representative shares). The number of founder shares issued was determined based on the expectation that the founder shares would represent 25% of the ordinary shares outstanding immediately after this offering (not including the Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement warrants or the representative shares). As such, our initial shareholders will collectively own 25% of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares immediately after this offering (assuming they do not purchase any units in this offering and excluding the Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement warrants and representative shares). Except as provided with regard to the private placement discussed herein, the at-risk capital investors, our sponsor and our officers or directors have not expressed an intention to purchase any units in this offering. Prior to the consummation of this offering, our sponsor will forfeit 650,000 founder shares and the at-risk capital investors will purchase 650,000 founder shares (of which, 200,000 founder shares will be purchased by the Maxim individuals and 450,000 founder shares will be purchased by the third-party investors), for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $4,225, or approximately $0.0065 per share, which will result in our sponsor owning 2,683,333 founder shares if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is not exercised (or 3,183,333 founder shares if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full). We will effect a share dividend or share capitalization prior to this offering should the size of the offering change, in order to maintain such ownership percentage.

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The founder shares are identical to the Class A ordinary shares included in the units being sold in this offering, except that:

• only holders of the founder shares have the right to vote on the appointment and removal of directors and our transfer by way of continuation in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands prior to our initial business combination;

• the founder shares are Class B ordinary shares that 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, on a one-for-one basis, subject to adjustment pursuant to certain anti-dilution rights, as described herein, for no additional consideration;

• the founder shares are subject to certain transfer restrictions, as described in more detail below;

• our sponsor and our officers, directors and board advisor have entered into a letter agreement, pursuant to which they have agreed (A) to waive their redemption rights with respect to their founder shares and public shares in connection with the completion of our initial business combination, (B) to waive their redemption rights with respect to any founder shares and public shares held by them in connection with a shareholder vote to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (1) to modify the substance or timing of our obligation to allow redemption in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering or (2) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of the holders of Class A ordinary shares or pre-initial business combination activity; (C) to waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to their founder shares if we fail to complete our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering or during any Extension Period (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 (D) subject to applicable securities laws, vote any founder shares held by them and any public shares purchased during or after this offering (including in open market and privately negotiated transactions) in favor of our initial business combination (except that any public shares such parties may purchase in compliance with the requirements of Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act would not be voted in favor of approving the business combination transaction). If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination, we will complete our initial business combination only if we obtain the approval of an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law, which requires the affirmative vote of a simple majority of the shareholders, voting together as a single class, who attend and vote at a general meeting of the Company. In such case, our initial shareholders and each member of our management

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team will agree to vote their founder shares and public shares in favor of our initial business combination (except that any public shares such parties may purchase in compliance with the requirements of Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act would not be voted in favor of approving the business combination transaction). A quorum for such meeting will consist of the holders of at least one-third of the then issued and outstanding shares (whether in person or by proxy). As a result, in addition to our initial shareholders’ founder shares, assuming all the representative shares held by Maxim and any of its designees will be voted in favor, we would need only 3,083,334, or 30.83%, of the 10,000,000 public shares sold in this offering (assuming all issued and outstanding shares are voted at the meeting and the underwriters’ over-allotment is not exercised) to be voted in favor of an initial business combination in order to have our initial business combination approved. 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 also require a special resolution, which requires the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the votes cast by the shareholders of the issued shares, voting together as a single class, present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on such matter at a general meeting of the Company;

• the at-risk capital investors have each entered into subscription agreements, pursuant to which they have agreed (A) to waive their redemption rights with respect to their founder shares and public shares in connection with the completion of our initial business combination; (B) to waive their redemption rights with respect to any founder shares and public shares held by them in connection with a shareholder vote to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (1) to modify the substance or timing of our obligation to allow redemption in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering or during any Extension Period (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), or (2) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of the holders of Class A ordinary shares or pre-initial business combination activity, except for any redemption and liquidation rights that the at-risk capital investors may have with respect to any public shares held by them if we liquidate or fail to consummate a business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering; and (C) to waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to their founder shares if we fail to complete our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering or during any Extension Period (although they will be entitled to redemption rights and 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). Further, if we solicit approval of our shareholders for (i) the appointment of directors, (ii) an initial business combination or (iii) an extension, in each case, the at-risk capital investors will vote all of their ordinary shares beneficially owned, including founder shares, whether acquired before, in or after

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this offering, in favor of (x) each of the directors nominated by our board of directors and recommended by our board of directors in the appointment of directors and against any proposals to remove any such members of our board, (y) such initial business combination (including any proposals recommended by our board of directors in connection with such business combination) (except that any ordinary shares that may be purchased in compliance with the requirements of Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act would not be voted in favor of approving such business combination) and (z) such extension;

• the founder shares are entitled to registration rights; and

• because the Maxim individuals are registered persons of Maxim, the founder shares and private placement warrants purchased by such registered persons and Maxim, as applicable, are deemed underwriters’ compensation by and are therefore subject to a lock-up pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110(e)(1) and related restrictions in accordance with FINRA Rule 5110(g).

Further, the non-managing sponsor investors, Mr. Setti and Mr. Singhal have acquired, or have expressed an interest in acquiring, as applicable, non-managing membership interests in our sponsor, representing indirect interests in an aggregate of (i) 1,350,000 private placement warrants out of the 1,350,000 private placement warrants (or 1,425,000 private placement warrants if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) that will be purchased by our sponsor in a private placement that will close at or prior to the consummation of this offering; and (ii) 1,080,000 founder shares out of the 2,683,333 founder shares (or 3,183,333 founder shares if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) held by our sponsor (500,000 of which are subject to forfeiture depending on the extent to which underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised).

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		Mr. Setti and Mr. Singhal (provided that any ordinary shares that may be purchased by such individuals in compliance with the requirements of Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act would not be voted in favor of approving such business combination). Nevertheless, the holders of non-managing membership interests would be incentivized to vote any of their public shares, if any, in favor of a business combination due to their indirect ownership through the sponsor of founder shares. In the event that the holders of non-managing membership interests purchase any units (either in the offering or after) and vote them in favor of our initial business combination, fewer votes from other public shareholders would be required to approve our initial business combination. However, because the holders of non-managing membership interests are not obligated to continue owning any public shares, if any, following the closing of this offering and are not obligated to vote any public shares, if any, in favor of our initial business combination, except for Mr. Setti and Mr. Singhal (provided that any ordinary shares that may be purchased by such individuals in compliance with the requirements of Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act would not be voted in favor of approving such business combination), we cannot assure you as to how such holders of non-managing membership interests will vote on any business combination. Thus, if the holders of non-managing membership interests purchase or otherwise hold a substantial number of our units, then the holders of non-managing membership interests 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 indirect ownership of founder shares as further discussed in this prospectus.
		The interests of the members of the sponsor are denominated in two classes of membership interest units: (i) class A membership units representing indirect economic interests in the private placement warrants and (ii) class B membership units that will represent an indirect economic interest in the founder shares. Pursuant to an agreement of all members of the sponsor, the management and control of the sponsor is vested exclusively with the managing member, Mr. Devanur, without any voting, veto, consent or other participation rights by any non-managing members regardless of their respective ownership. As a result, non-managing sponsor investors and other holders of non-managing membership interests of the sponsor will have no right to control the sponsor or participate in any decision regarding the disposal of any security held by the sponsor, or otherwise, except as required by law, in which case, the affirmative vote of at least 51% of the class B membership units at the time of the vote is required.
Private placement warrants		Our sponsor and the at-risk capital investors have committed, pursuant to written agreements, to purchase an aggregate of 2,000,000 private placement warrants (or 2,075,000 private placement warrants if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) at a price of $1.00 per warrant, $2,000,000 in the aggregate (or $2,075,000 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), in a private placement that will occur simultaneously with the closing of this offering. The private placement warrants will be identical to the public warrants sold in this offering, except as described in this prospectus. Of those private placement warrants, our sponsor has agreed to purchase 1,350,000 private placement warrants (or 1,425,000 private placement warrants if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), and the at-risk capital investors have agreed to purchase 650,000 private placement

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		warrants (whether or not the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised), of which, 200,000 private placement warrants will be purchased by the Maxim individuals and 450,000 private placement warrants will be purchased by the third-party investors. A portion of the purchase price of the private placement warrants will be added to the proceeds from this offering to be held in the trust account such that at the time of closing $100,000,000 (or $115,000,000 if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full) will be held in the trust account. If we do not complete our initial business combination within the time periods described herein, the proceeds from the sale of the private placement warrants held in the trust account will be used to fund the redemption of our public shares (subject to the requirements of applicable law) and the private placement warrants will expire worthless. The private placement warrants to be purchased by Maxim, and/or its permitted designees, and the Maxim individuals are deemed underwriting compensation by FINRA pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110.
		The non-managing sponsor investors, Mr. Setti and Mr. Singhal have acquired, or have expressed an interest in acquiring, as applicable, non-managing membership interests in our sponsor, representing indirect interests in an aggregate of (i) 1,350,000 private placement warrants out of the 1,350,000 private placement warrants (or 1,425,000 private placement warrants if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) that will be purchased by our sponsor in a private placement that will close at or prior to the consummation of this offering; and (ii) 1,080,000 founder shares out of the 2,683,333 founder shares (or 3,183,333 founder shares if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) held by our sponsor (500,000 of which are subject to forfeiture depending on the extent to which underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised). Our sponsor (including any holders of non-managing membership interests in our sponsor) has agreed not to transfer, sell or assign the private placement warrants and the underlying Class A ordinary shares held by it until the consummation of our initial business combination, subject to exceptions as discussed herein. The non-managing sponsor investors, however, will not be subject to transfer restrictions or a lock-up agreements on any Class A ordinary shares underlying public units purchased in this offering, if any.
Transfer restrictions on founder shares		Our sponsor and the at-risk capital investors have agreed (and their permitted transferees will agree, if applicable) not to transfer, assign or sell any of their founder shares until the earlier of (1) six months after the completion of our initial business combination and (2) the date on which we consummate a liquidation, merger, share exchange, reorganization, or other similar transaction after our initial business combination that results in all of our shareholders having the right to exchange their ordinary shares for cash, securities or other property. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the last sale price of our Class A ordinary shares equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for share splits, share capitalizations, rights issuances, subdivisions, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing any time 75 days after the completion of our initial business combination, the founder shares will be released from the lock-up. However, pursuant to the subscription agreements that the at-risk capital investors will enter into with us, they are permitted to transfer any ordinary shares (subject

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		to certain exceptions), including any founder shares, they hold to any other person, provided, however, that each such person, prior to the transfer of any such ordinary shares by the at-risk capital investors, must enter into a written agreement agreeing to be bound by the terms of the subscription agreement entered into with us and the at-risk capital investors, including the transfer restrictions and agreement not to exercise redemption rights with respect to any of their ordinary shares set forth in the subscription agreement.
Conversion and anti-dilution rights of founder shares		The founder shares will automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares concurrently with or immediately following the consummation of our initial business combination, and may be converted at any time prior to our initial business combination, at the option of the holder, on a one-for-one basis, subject to adjustment (unless otherwise provided in our initial business combination agreement) for share sub-divisions, 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 (as described herein), are issued or deemed issued in excess of the amounts offered in this offering and related to or in connection with the closing of our initial business combination, the ratio at which 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, on an as-converted basis, 25% of the sum of (i) all Class A 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 Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement warrants and representative shares), (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 (iii) minus any redemptions of Class A ordinary shares by public shareholders in connection with an initial business combination or certain amendments to our amended and restated articles of association prior to an initial business combination; provided that such conversion of founder shares will never occur on a less than one-for-one basis. The term “equity-linked securities” refers to any debt or equity securities that are convertible, exercisable or exchangeable for 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. Securities could be “deemed issued” for purposes of the conversion rate adjustment if such shares are issuable upon the conversion or exercise of convertible securities, rights or similar securities.
		If we decrease the size of the 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 the offering in such amount as to maintain the ownership of founder shares by our initial shareholders, or an as-converted basis, at 25% of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares upon the consummation of this offering. Pursuant to the terms of the underwriting agreement to be entered into

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		by us and Maxim, we will agree to not increase the size of the offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, therefore, no additional founder shares will be issued and, as a result, a purchaser’s equity interest will not be diluted as a result of an increase in the size of the offering pursuant to Rule 462(b). Additionally, pursuant to the subscription agreements entered into with each of the at-risk capital investors, for so long as the Class A ordinary shares is an equity security, as defined in Rule 13d-1(i) promulgated pursuant to the Exchange Act, (i) we will not effect any conversion of any Class B ordinary shares held by the at-risk capital investors and (ii) each at-risk capital investor will not have the right to exercise any portion of the Class B ordinary shares for shares of Class A ordinary shares, in each case of (i) and (ii) described above, until the consummation of our initial business combination.
Representative shares		We have agreed to issue to Maxim and/or its designees 500,000 Class A ordinary shares (or up to 575,000 Class A ordinary shares if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) upon the consummation of this offering. These representative shares are being registered in the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. Maxim has agreed not to transfer, assign or sell any such representative shares without our prior consent until the completion of our initial business combination. In addition, Maxim has agreed (i) to waive its redemption rights with respect to such representative shares in connection with the completion of our initial business combination and (ii) to waive its rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to such representative shares if we fail to complete our initial business combination within the periods of time as provided in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association.
Appointment of directors; redomestications; voting rights		Prior to our initial business combination, only holders of our founder shares will have the right to vote on the appointment and removal of directors and our transfer by way of continuation in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands. Holders of our Class A ordinary shares will not be entitled to vote on the appointment and removal of directors or our transfer by way of continuation in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands 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 the affirmative vote of at least 90% of the votes cast such shareholders as, being entitled to do so, vote in person, or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at the applicable general meeting, and pursuant to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. 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, holders of our founder 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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Offering proceeds to be held in trust		The Nasdaq listing rules provide that at least 90% of the gross proceeds from this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants be deposited in a trust account. Of the net proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants, $100,000,000, or $115,000,000 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full ($10.00 per unit in either case), will be placed into a U.S.-based trust account with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, acting as trustee. Except as set forth below, the proceeds held in the trust account will not be released until the earlier of the completion of an initial business combination and our redemption of 100% of the outstanding public shares if we have not completed a business combination in the required time period. Therefore, except as set forth below, unless and until an 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 selection of a target business and the negotiation of an agreement to acquire a target business.
		Except with respect to interest earned on the funds held in the trust account that may be released to us for permitted withdrawals, the funds held in the trust account will not be released from the trust account until the earliest to occur of: (A) our completion of an initial business combination; (B) the redemption of any public shares properly submitted in connection with a shareholder vote to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (1) to modify the substance or timing of our obligation to allow redemption in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering or (2) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of Class A ordinary shares or pre-initial business combination activity; and (C) the redemption of our public shares if we have not completed an initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering or during any Extension Period, subject to applicable law. 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. Aside from permitted withdrawals, if any, expenses incurred by us may be paid prior to a business combination only from the net proceeds of this offering not held in the trust account. Additionally, in order to meet our working capital needs following the consummation of this offering if the funds not held in the trust account are insufficient, our sponsor and our officers and directors or their affiliates or designees may, but are not obligated to, loan us funds, from time to time or at any time, in whatever amount they deem reasonable in their sole discretion. Each loan would be evidenced by a promissory note. While the notes may be prepaid at any time we expect that the notes would be paid upon consummation of our initial business combination. 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. In addition, as of the date of this filing, we have issued a promissory note to our sponsor in connection with advances made to date or that will be made in an aggregate principal amount of up $500,000.

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Ability to extend time to complete initial business combination

Pursuant to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, we will have until 18 months from the closing of this offering or until such earlier liquidation date as our board of directors may approve, to complete an initial business combination. However, we may hold a shareholder vote at any time to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association in a manner that would affect the amount of time we will have to consummate an initial business combination (as well as in a manner that would affect the substance or timing of our obligation to redeem 100% of our public shares if we have not consummated an initial business combination within the time periods described herein or with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares or pre-initial business combination activity). As described herein, our initial shareholders, officers, directors and director nominees have agreed that they will not propose any such amendment unless we provide our public shareholders (excluding our sponsor, initial shareholders, officers, directors and board advisors to the extent they acquire public shares, either in this offering or in secondary market transactions thereafter) with the opportunity to redeem their public shares upon the effectiveness of any such amendment at a per share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest earned on the funds held in the trust account (which interest shall be net of permitted withdrawals), divided by the number of then-outstanding public shares, subject to the limitations described herein. There is no limit on the number of extensions we may seek. If we do not or are unable to extend the time period to consummate our initial business combination, our sponsor’s investment in our founder shares and our private placement warrants will be worthless.

Anticipated expenses and funding
sources

Except as described above with respect to the payment of taxes, unless and until we complete our initial business combination, no proceeds held in the trust account will be available for our use. The proceeds held in the trust account will be invested only in U.S. government securities 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 or in an interest bearing or non-interest bearing demand deposit account. We will disclose in each quarterly and annual report filed with the SEC prior to our initial business combination whether the proceeds deposited in the trust account are invested in U.S. government treasury obligations, an interest bearing or non-interest bearing demand deposit account or money market funds or a combination thereof. Based upon current interest rates, we expect the trust account to generate approximately $4.4 million (or $5.06 million if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) of interest annually assuming an interest rate of 4.40% per year; however, we can provide no assurances regarding this amount. Unless and until we complete our initial business combination, we may pay our expenses only from:

• the net proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants not held in the trust account, which will be approximately $750,000 in working capital (whether or not the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised) after the payment of approximately $750,000 in expenses (not including underwriting commissions) relating to this offering; and

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• any additional loans or investments from our sponsor, members of our management team or their affiliates or other third parties, although they are under no obligation to advance 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 an initial business combination.

Potential additional financing

We have not selected any specific business combination target but we may target businesses with enterprise values that are greater than what we could acquire with the net proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants. As a result, if the cash portion of the purchase price exceeds the amount available from the trust account, net of amounts needed to satisfy any redemption by public shareholders, we may be required to seek additional financing to complete such proposed initial business combination. Such additional financing may be in the form of a private investment in a public entity (“PIPE”), which may be in the form of an equity, debt or convertible debt transactions. These financing transactions would be designed to ensure a return on investment to the investor in exchange for assisting us in completing the business combination or providing sufficient liquidity to the post-combination company. 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. Any such issuances of equity securities could dilute the interests of our existing shareholders. These financing transactions may be significantly dilutive to the post-combination company, and represent the type of financing risk that is not associated with traditional initial public offerings. We cannot assure you that financing will be available to us on acceptable terms, if at all. None of our initial shareholders, directors or officers or their affiliates are obligated to provide any such financing to us. To the extent that additional financing proves to be unavailable when needed to complete our initial business combination, we would be compelled to either restructure the transaction or abandon that particular business combination and seek an alternative target business candidate.

In addition, even if we do not need additional financing to complete our initial business combination, we may require such financing to fund the operations or growth of the target business. The failure to secure additional financing could have a material adverse effect on the continued development or growth of the target business. None of our directors, officers or shareholders is required to provide any financing to us in connection with or after our initial business combination.

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. Nasdaq rules require that our initial business combination must be with one or more target businesses that together have an aggregate fair market value equal to at least 80% of the balance in the trust account (less any taxes payable on interest earned) at the time of our signing a definitive agreement in connection with our initial business combination. We do not intend to purchase multiple businesses in unrelated industries in conjunction with our initial business combination.

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		If our board of directors is not able to independently determine the fair market value of the target business or businesses, we will obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or another independent firm that commonly renders valuation opinions for the type of company we are seeking to acquire or an independent accounting firm. 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 outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in the target sufficient for it not to be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act. Even if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the voting securities of the 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 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 target businesses.
Permitted purchases of public shares and public warrants by our affiliates		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 sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates may purchase shares or public warrants in privately negotiated transactions or in the open market either prior to or following the completion of our initial business combination. Additionally, at any time at or prior to our initial business combination, subject to applicable securities laws (including with respect to material nonpublic information), our sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates may enter into transactions with investors and others to provide them with incentives to acquire public shares, vote their public shares in favor of our initial business combination or not redeem their public shares. There is no limit on the number of shares such persons 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 shares or public warrants in such transactions. If they engage in such transactions, they will not make any such purchases when they are in possession of any material nonpublic information not disclosed to the seller or if such purchases are prohibited by Regulation M under the Exchange Act.

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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 comply with such rules. Any such purchases will be reported pursuant to Section 13 and Section 16 of the Exchange Act to the extent such purchasers are subject to such reporting requirements. See “Proposed Business — Permitted Purchases and Other Transactions With Respect to our Securities” for a description of how our sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers, advisors or any of their affiliates will select which shareholders to purchase securities from in any private transaction. Our sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers or any of their affiliates will not make any purchases if the purchases would violate Section 9(a)(2) or Rule 10b-5 of the Exchange Act.

Additionally, in the event our sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates were to purchase shares or public warrants 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 sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers or their affiliates may purchase shares or public warrants from public shareholders outside the redemption process, along with the purpose of such purchases;

• if our sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers or their affiliates were to purchase shares or public warrants 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 sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers or their affiliates would not be voted in favor of approving the business combination transaction;

• our sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers or 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 sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers or their affiliates, along with the purchase price;

• the purpose of the purchases by our sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers or their affiliates;

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• the impact, if any, of the purchases by our sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers or their affiliates on the likelihood that the business combination transaction will be approved;

• the identities of our security holders who sold to our sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers or 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 sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers or their affiliates; and

• the number of our securities for which we have received redemption requests pursuant to our redemption offer.

See “Proposed Business — Permitted Purchases and Other Transactions With Respect to our Securities” for a description of how such persons will determine from which shareholders to seek to acquire securities.

The purpose of any such transaction could be to (1) increase the likelihood of obtaining shareholder approval of the business combination, (2) reduce the number of rights outstanding and/or increase the likelihood of approval on any matters submitted to the rights holders for approval in connection with our initial business combination or (3) satisfy a closing condition in an agreement with a target that requires us to have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash at the closing of our initial business combination, where it appears that such requirement would otherwise not be met. Any such purchases of our securities may result in the completion of our initial business combination that may not otherwise have been possible. In addition, if such purchases are made, the public “float” of our 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. Please see “Risk Factors — If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination, our sponsor, directors, officers, advisors and their affiliates may elect to purchase shares from public shareholders, which may influence a vote on a proposed business combination and reduce the public “float” of our Class A ordinary shares.”

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

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The amount in the trust account is initially anticipated to be $10.00 per public share. There will be no redemption rights upon the completion of our initial business combination with respect to the warrants. Our sponsor and our officers, directors and board advisor have entered into a letter agreement with us, pursuant to which they agreed to waive their redemption rights with respect to their founder shares and any public shares they may acquire during or after this offering in connection with the completion of our initial business combination. Additionally, the at-risk capital investors have entered into subscription agreements with us, pursuant to which they agreed to waive their redemption and liquidation rights with respect to their founder shares, except for redemption and liquidation rights, if any, that the at-risk capital investors may have with respect to any public shares held by him or her if we liquidate or fail to consummate a business combination within the 18-month period for completion of the business combination or our board of directors otherwise resolve to wind up the Company.

Manner of conducting redemptions

We will provide our public shareholders (excluding our sponsor, initial shareholders, officers, directors and board advisors to the extent they acquire public shares, either in this offering or in secondary market transactions thereafter) with the opportunity to redeem, regardless of whether they abstain, vote in favor of, or vote against, our initial business combination, all or a portion of their public shares upon the completion of our initial business combination either (i) in connection with a general meeting called to approve the initial business combination or (ii) without a shareholder vote by means of a tender offer. The decision as to whether 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 the applicable law or stock exchange listing requirement. Under Nasdaq rules, 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 Class A ordinary shares or seek to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association would require shareholder approval. We intend to conduct redemptions without a shareholder vote pursuant to the tender offer rules of the SEC unless shareholder approval is required by the applicable law or stock exchange listing requirement or we choose to seek shareholder approval for business or other legal reasons. So long as we obtain and maintain a listing for our securities on Nasdaq, we will be required to comply with such rules.

If a shareholder vote is not required and we do not decide to hold a shareholder vote for business or other legal 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.

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Upon the public announcement of our initial business combination, if we elect to conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules, we or our sponsor will terminate any plan established in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 to purchase our ordinary shares in the open market, in order to comply with Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act.

In the event we conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules, our offer to redeem will remain open for at least 20 business days, in accordance with Rule 14e-1(a) under the Exchange Act, and we will not be permitted to complete our initial business combination until the expiration of the tender offer period. In addition, if enough shareholders tender their shares so that we are unable to satisfy any applicable closing condition set forth in the definitive agreement related to our initial business combination, we will not consummate such business combination.

If, however, shareholder approval of the transaction is required by law or stock exchange listing requirement, or we decide to obtain shareholder approval for business or other legal 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 ten 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 listing or Exchange Act registration.

If we seek shareholder approval, we will complete our initial business combination only if a simple majority of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares, voting together as a single class, voted in favor of the business combination at the applicable general meeting of the Company. In such case, pursuant to the terms of a letter agreement entered into with us, our sponsor and our officers, directors and board advisor have agreed (and their permitted transferees and any future board advisors will agree) to vote any founder shares held by them and any public shares purchased during or after this offering in favor of our initial business combination (except that any public shares such parties may purchase in compliance with the requirements of Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act would not be voted in favor of approving the proposed business combination). A quorum for such meeting will consist of the holders of at least one-third of the then issued and outstanding shares (whether in person or by proxy) and our initial shareholders will count towards this quorum. We expect that at the time of any shareholder vote relating to our initial business combination, our initial shareholders and their permitted transferees will own 25% of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares entitled to vote thereon (assuming they do not purchase units in this offering and excluding the Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement warrants and representative shares). As a result,

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		in addition to our initial shareholder’s founder shares, assuming all the representative shares held by Maxim and any of its designees will be voted in favor, in order to have our initial business combination approved, we would need only 3,083,334, or 30.83%, of the 10,000,000 public shares sold in this offering to be voted in favor of a transaction (assuming all outstanding shares are voted and the underwriters’ over-allotment is not exercised), or no public shares sold in this offering are needed to vote in favor of a transaction (assuming only a quorum is present at such meeting held to vote on our initial business combination) (in either case, assuming the underwriters’ over-allotment option is not exercised). Each public shareholder (excluding our sponsor, initial shareholders, officers, directors and board advisors to the extent they acquire public shares, either in this offering or in secondary market transactions thereafter) may elect to redeem their public shares irrespective of whether they vote in favor of or vote against, or abstain from voting on, the proposed transaction.
		Our proposed initial business combination may impose a minimum cash requirement for (i) cash consideration to be paid to the target or its owners, (ii) cash for working capital or other general corporate purposes or (iii) the retention of cash to satisfy other conditions. 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 initial business combination exceed the aggregate amount of cash available to us, we will not complete the initial business combination or redeem any shares, and all public shares submitted for redemption will be returned to the holders thereof. 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 net tangible assets or minimum cash requirements.
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 (if any) to our transfer agent prior to the date set forth in the tender offer documents or proxy materials mailed to such holders, or up to two 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.

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Limitation on redemption rights of shareholders holding 15% or more of the shares sold in this offering if we hold 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 will provide that a public shareholder, together with any affiliate of such shareholder or any other person with whom such shareholder is acting in concert or as a “group” (as defined under Section 13 of the Exchange Act), will be restricted from redeeming its shares with respect to more than an aggregate of 15% of the shares sold in 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 sponsor or its affiliates 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 or our sponsor or its affiliates 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. Our sponsor, officers, directors and board advisor have agreed, pursuant to a letter agreement entered into with us, to waive their right to have any founder shares or public shares held by them redeemed in connection with our initial business combination. Unless any of our other affiliates acquires founder shares through a permitted transfer from an initial shareholder, and thereby becomes subject to the letter agreement, no such affiliate is subject to this waiver. However, to the extent any such affiliate acquires public shares in this offering or thereafter through open market purchases, it would be a public shareholder and subject to the 15% limitation in connection with any such redemption right.
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		such amendment is proposed in respect of the consummation of our initial business combination, 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) may be amended if approved by special resolution, under Cayman Islands law.
		Except as specified above with respect to matters requiring a 90% majority, a special resolution requires the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the votes cast by such shareholders, voting together as a single class, who, being entitled to do so, attend and vote at such general meeting in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at the applicable general meeting of the Company. Corresponding provisions of the trust agreement governing the release of funds from our trust account may be amended if approved by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of such shareholders who being entitled to do so, attend and vote at such general meeting in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy. Except in connection with the conversion of Class B ordinary shares into Class A ordinary shares where the holder of such shares have waived any right to receive funds from the trust account, prior to our initial business combination we may not issue additional shares or securities that would entitle the holders thereof to: (a) receive funds from the trust account; or (b) vote as a class with public shareholders on an initial business combination. Our initial shareholders will beneficially own 25% of our ordinary shares upon the closing of this offering (assuming they do not purchase units in this offering and excluding the Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement warrants and representative shares), will participate in any vote to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association and/or trust agreement and will have the discretion to vote in any manner it chooses. Our sponsor and our officers, directors and board advisor have agreed, pursuant to a letter agreement with us, that they will not propose any amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association that would (i) modify the substance or timing of our obligation to allow redemption in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering or (ii) with respect to the other provisions relating to the rights of holders of Class A ordinary shares or pre-business combination activity, unless we provide our public shareholders (excluding our sponsor, initial shareholders, officers, directors and board advisors to the extent they acquire public shares, either in this offering or in secondary market transactions thereafter) with the opportunity to redeem their ordinary shares upon approval of any such amendment at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest (which interest shall be net of permitted withdrawals) divided by the number of then outstanding public shares. Our sponsor and our officers, directors and board advisor have entered into a letter agreement with us, and the at-risk capital investors have entered into subscription agreements with us, pursuant to which, in each case, they have agreed to waive their redemption rights with respect to their founder shares and public shares in connection with the completion of our initial business combination, except that the sponsor and the at-risk capital investors and their permitted transferees will be entitled to redemption rights with respect to any public shares held by them if we fail to consummate a business combination or liquidate within the 18-month period.

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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, all amounts held in the trust account will be released to us, other than funds the trustee will use 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.” We will use the remaining funds to pay all or a portion of the consideration payable to the target or owners of the 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		Pursuant to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, we will have only 18 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 18-month period or during any Extension Period, we will: (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter (and subject to lawfully available funds therefor), redeem the public shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest (which interest shall be net of taxes payable, 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 public shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any), subject to applicable law, and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of our remaining shareholders and our board of directors, liquidate and dissolve, subject in each case to our obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law. There will be no redemption rights or liquidating distributions with respect to the warrants. The warrants will expire worthless if we fail to complete our initial business combination within the 18-month time period or during any Extension Period.
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		being entitled to do so, attend (in person or by proxy) and vote at a general meeting of the Company, or by way of a unanimous written resolution of our shareholders. There is no limit on the number of extensions we may seek. If we seek shareholder approval to extend the initial 18-month period in which to complete an initial business combination to a later date, we will offer our public shareholders (excluding our sponsor, initial shareholders, officers, directors and board advisors to the extent they acquire public shares, either in this offering or in secondary market transactions thereafter) the right to have their public shares redeemed for a pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, as described in greater detail in this prospectus. If we do not or are unable to extend the time period to consummate our initial business combination, our sponsor’s investment in our founder shares and our private placement warrants will be worthless.
		Our sponsor and our officers, directors and board advisor have entered into a letter agreement with us, and the at-risk capital investors have entered into subscription agreements with us, pursuant to which, in each case, they have waived their rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to their founder shares if we fail to complete our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering or during any Extension Period. However, if our sponsor, initial shareholders, directors and/or officers acquire public shares 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 allotted 18-month time frame.
		Our sponsor and our officers, directors and board advisor have agreed, pursuant to a letter agreement with us, that they will not propose any amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association that would (i) modify the substance or timing of our obligation to allow redemption in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering or (ii) with respect to the other provisions relating to the rights of holders of Class A ordinary shares or pre-business combination activity, unless we provide our public shareholders (excluding our sponsor, initial shareholders, officers, directors and board advisors to the extent they acquire public shares, either in this offering or in secondary market transactions thereafter) with the opportunity to redeem their ordinary shares upon effectiveness 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 outstanding public shares.
Limited payments to insiders		There will be no finder’s fees, reimbursements or cash payments made to our sponsor, officers or directors, or our or their affiliates, for services rendered to us prior to or in connection with the completion of our initial business combination, other than the following payments, none of which will be made from the proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants held in the trust account prior to the completion of our initial business combination: • repayment of an aggregate of $500,000 in loans made to us by our sponsor to cover organizational, offering-related and post-offering expenses, payable upon the earlier of the consummation of our initial business combination and the date of our dissolution deadline, assuming there is cash available;

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• payment to our sponsor of a total of $20,000 per month for office space, administrative and support services;

• payment to our sponsor, or an affiliate of the sponsor, of consulting fees for assessing, negotiating and managing the process for consummating an initial business combination;

• reimbursement for any out-of-pocket expenses related to identifying, investigating and completing an initial business combination; and

• repayment of non-interest bearing loans which may be made by our sponsor or an affiliate of our sponsor or certain of our officers and directors to finance transaction costs in connection with an intended initial business combination and non-interest bearing loans which may be made by our sponsor to extend the time period for consummating our initial business combination, the terms of which (other than as described above) have not been determined nor have any written agreements been executed with respect thereto.

These payments may be funded using the net proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants not held in the trust account 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, officers or directors, or our or their affiliates.

Audit Committee

We will establish and maintain an audit committee. Among its responsibilities, the audit committee will 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 promptly take all action necessary to rectify such noncompliance or otherwise to cause compliance with the terms of this offering. For more information, see the section entitled “Management and Advisory Board — Committees of the Board of Directors — Audit Committee.”

Conflicts of Interest

Each of our officers and directors presently has, and in the future any of our directors and our officers may have additional, fiduciary, contractual or other obligations or duties to one or more other entities, including any other special purpose acquisition company with a class of securities registered under the Exchange Act, even before we enter into a definitive agreement regarding our initial business combination or we have failed to complete our initial business combination within the prescribed timeline, pursuant to which such officer or director is or will be required to present acquisition opportunities to such entity. Accordingly, subject to his or her fiduciary duties under Cayman Islands law, if any of our officers or directors becomes aware of an acquisition opportunity which is suitable for an entity to which he or she has then current fiduciary or contractual obligations, he or she may need to honor his or her fiduciary or contractual obligations to present such acquisition opportunity to such entity, and only present it to us if such entity rejects the opportunity, subject to his or her fiduciary duties under Cayman Islands law. Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association will provide that to

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the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, none of the sponsor or any individual serving as a director or an officer (the “Insiders”) 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. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, 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 the Insiders, on the one hand, and us, on the other or (b) the presentation of which would breach an existing legal obligation of one of the Insiders to any other entity. As a result of the foregoing, the fiduciary duties or contractual obligations of our officers or directors could materially affect our ability to complete our initial business combination.

Except to the extent expressly assumed by contract, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Insiders shall have no duty to communicate or offer any such corporate opportunity to us and shall not be liable to us or our shareholders for breach of any fiduciary duty as a shareholder, director and/or officer solely by reason of the fact that such party pursues or acquires such corporate opportunity for itself, himself or herself, directs such corporate opportunity to another person, or does not communicate information regarding such corporate opportunity to us.

Our sponsor and our 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. These conflicts may not be resolved in our favor and a potential target business may be presented to other entities prior to its presentation to us. Any such companies, businesses or investments may present additional conflicts of interest in pursuing an initial business combination target, which could materially affect our ability to complete our initial business combination.

Our sponsor and members of our management team will directly or indirectly own our securities following this offering, and accordingly, they may have a conflict of interest in determining whether a particular target business is an appropriate business with which to effectuate our initial business combination, 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 are entitled to redeem any public shares they acquire, as described in this prospectus, or to receive liquidating distributions from assets outside the trust account. Upon the closing of this offering, assuming the underwriters’ over-allotment option is not exercised, our sponsor will have invested in us an aggregate of $1,375,000, comprised of the $25,000 purchase price for the founder shares (or approximately $0.0065 per share) and the $1,350,000 purchase price for the private placement warrants (or $1.00 per warrant). Accordingly, our management team may be more willing to pursue a business combination with a riskier or less-established target business than would be the case if our sponsor had paid the same per share price for the founder shares as our public shareholders paid

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for their public shares in this offering, as our sponsor and members of our management team would likely not receive any financial benefit unless we consummated such business combination. These interests of our executive officers and directors may affect the consideration paid, terms, conditions and timing relating to a business combination in a way that conflicts with the interests of our public shareholders.

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 are entitled to redeem any public shares they acquire or 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. 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. For example, if two targets are being evaluated by our management team, and one is more stable and has a better risk or stability profile for our public shareholders, but may take a longer time to diligence and go through the business combination process, while the other has a less favorable risk or stability profile for our public shareholders, but would be easier, quicker and more certain to guide through the business combination process, our management team may decide to choose what they believe to be the quicker and more certain path despite its less favorable risk or stability profile for our public shareholders, as our management team would likely not receive any financial benefit unless we consummated a business combination. Additionally, if members of our management team form other special purpose acquisition companies similar to ours or pursue other business or investment ventures during the period in which we are seeking an initial business combination, the interests of our executive officers and directors may affect the consideration paid, terms, conditions and timing relating to the business combinations in a way that conflicts with the interests of our public shareholder.

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 complete our initial business combination.”

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With certain limited exceptions, the founder shares will not be transferable, assignable or salable by our sponsor or any permitted transferees until six months after the completion of our initial business combination. With certain limited exceptions, the private placement warrants (including the Class A ordinary shares underlying such warrants) will not be transferable, assignable or salable by our sponsor or any permitted transferees until 30 days after the completion of our initial business combination. Since our sponsor, executive officers and directors may directly or indirectly own ordinary shares and warrants following this offering, our executive officers and directors 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 because of their financial interest in completing an initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering or by such earlier liquidation date as our board of directors may approve.

In the event our sponsor or members of our management team provide loans to us to finance transaction costs and/or incur expenses on our behalf in connection with an initial business combination, such persons may have a conflict of interest in determining whether a particular target business is an appropriate business with which to effectuate our initial business combination as such loans may not be repaid and/or such expenses may not be reimbursed unless we consummate such business combination.

Similarly, if we agree to pay our sponsor, a member of our management team or a board advisor a finder’s fee, advisory fee, consulting fee or success fee in order to effectuate the completion of our initial business combination, such persons may have a conflict of interest in determining whether a particular target business is an appropriate business with which to effectuate our initial business combination as any such fee may not be paid unless we consummate such business combination.

We are not prohibited from pursuing an initial business combination with a company that is affiliated with our sponsor, officers, directors, board advisors or non-managing sponsor investors, or completing the business combination through a joint venture or other form of shared ownership with our sponsor, officers, directors, board advisors or non-managing sponsor investors; accordingly, such affiliated person(s) may have a conflict of interest in determining whether a particular target business is an appropriate business with which to effectuate our initial business combination as such affiliated person(s) would have interests different from our public shareholders and would likely not receive any financial benefit unless we consummated such business combination. In the event we seek to complete our initial business combination with a company that is affiliated (as defined in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association) with our sponsor (including its members), officers or directors, we, or a committee of independent directors, will obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or another independent entity that commonly renders valuation opinions, stating that the consideration to be paid by us in such an initial business combination is fair to our company from a financial point of view. We are not required to obtain such an opinion in any other context.

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		We may engage Maxim as our financial advisor in connection with our initial business combination and as placement agent in connection with any private placement financing associated with our initial business combination. The terms of any such engagement will be set forth in a separate agreement among us, Maxim, and any other placement agent(s), and will contain terms, conditions and fees (the “Maxim Advisory Fees”) that are customary for investment banks for similar transactions. The Maxim Advisory Fees would likely be conditioned upon the completion of our initial business combination. In addition to the Maxim Advisory Fees, if we retain Maxim as our financial advisor or placement agent in connection with our initial business combination, Maxim and the Maxim individuals will have financial interests in the completion of the initial business combination that may influence the advice that Maxim provides to us, which advice may contribute to our decision on whether to pursue a business combination with any target and impact the terms of any potential business combination. For more information about these financial interests and potential conflicts of interest, see “Risk Factors — We may engage Maxim as our financial advisor in connection with our initial business combination and as placement agent in connection with any private placement financing associated with our initial business combination. Financial interests in the completion our initial business combination may create conflicts of interest in connection with Maxim’s provisions of such services.”
Indemnity		Our sponsor has agreed that it will be liable to us if and to the extent any claims by a vendor for services rendered or products sold to us, or a prospective target business with which we have discussed entering into a transaction agreement, reduce the amount of funds in the trust account to below (i) $10.00 per public share or (ii) such lesser amount per public share held in the trust account as of the date of the liquidation of the trust account due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, in each case net of the interest which may be withdrawn to pay taxes, 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. Moreover, in the event that an executed waiver is deemed to be unenforceable against a third party, our sponsor will not be responsible to the extent of any liability for such third-party claims. We have not independently verified whether our sponsor has sufficient funds to satisfy their indemnity obligations and believe that our sponsor’s only assets are securities of our company. We have not asked our sponsor to reserve for such obligations.

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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.

	December 31, 2025
	Actual			As Adjusted
Balance Sheet Data:
Working capital (deficit)(1)	$	(128,099	)	$	632,904
Total assets(2)	$	133,753		$	100,727,304
Total liabilities(3)	$	156,449		$	94,400
Value of Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption(4)	$	—		$	100,000,000
Shareholders’ equity (deficit)(5)	$	(22,696	)	$	632,904

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(1) The “as adjusted” calculation includes $750,000 of cash held outside the trust account (whether or not the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised), minus $94,400 over-allotment liability and $22,696 of actual shareholder’s deficit as of December 31, 2025.

(2) The “as adjusted” calculation includes $100,000,000 of cash held in the trust account from the proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants, $750,000 of cash held outside the trust account (whether or not the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised), minus $22,696 of actual shareholders’ deficit as of December 31, 2025.

(3) The “as adjusted” amount includes the over-allotment liability, assuming the over-allotment option is not exercised.

(4) The “as adjusted” amount includes all Class A ordinary shares included in the units sold in this offering, assuming the over-allotment option is not exercised, net off the fair value of the public warrants included in the units sold in this offering and the estimated offering costs. The Class A ordinary shares offered to the public contain redemption rights that make them redeemable by our public shareholders (excluding our sponsor, initial shareholders, officers, directors and board advisors to the extent they acquire public shares, either in this offering or in secondary market transactions thereafter). Accordingly, they are classified within temporary equity in accordance with the guidance provided in ASC 480-10-S99-3A and will be subsequently accredited at redemption value.

(5) Excludes 10,000,000 Class A ordinary shares purchased in the public market which are subject to redemption 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 value of Class A ordinary shares that may be redeemed in connection with our initial business combination ($10.00 per share).

Risks

We are a newly 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. For additional information concerning how Rule 419 blank check offerings differ from this offering, see “Proposed Business — Comparison of This Offering to Those of Blank Check Companies Subject to Rule 419.” You should carefully consider these and the other risks set forth in the section of this prospectus entitled “Risk Factors.”

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Summary of Risk Factors

Our business is subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including those highlighted in the section title “Risk Factors,” that represent challenges that we face in connection with the successful implementation of our strategy. 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 adversely affect our ability to effect a business combination, and may have an adverse effect on our business, cash flows, financial condition and results of operations. Such risks include, but are not limited to:

Risks Relating to our Search for, Consummation of, or Inability to Consummate, a Business Combination and Post-Business Combination Risks

• Our public shareholders may not be afforded an opportunity to vote on our proposed business combination, which means we may complete our initial business combination even though a majority of our public shareholders do not support such a combination. See page 51 for additional information.

• If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination, our initial shareholders, officers, directors and board advisor have agreed to vote in favor of such initial business combination, regardless of how our public shareholders vote. See page 51 for additional information.

• Your only opportunity to affect the investment decision regarding a potential business combination will be limited to the exercise of your right to redeem your shares from us for cash, unless we seek shareholder approval of the business combination. See page 52 for additional information.

• The ability of our public shareholders to redeem their shares for cash may make our financial condition unattractive to potential business combination targets, which may make it difficult for us to enter into a business combination with a target. See page 52 for additional information.

• The ability of our public shareholders to exercise redemption rights with respect to a large number of our shares may not allow us to complete the most desirable business combination or optimize our capital structure. See page 52 for additional information.

• The ability of our public shareholders to exercise redemption rights with respect to a large number of our shares could increase the probability that our initial business combination would be unsuccessful and that you would have to wait for liquidation in order to redeem your shares. See page 52 for additional information.

• The requirement that we complete our initial business combination within the prescribed time frame may give potential target businesses leverage over us in negotiating a business combination and may decrease our ability to conduct due diligence on potential business combination targets as we approach our dissolution deadline, which could undermine our ability to complete our initial business combination on terms that would produce value for our shareholders. See page 53 for additional information.

Risks Associated with Acquiring and Operating a Business Outside of the U.S.

• If we effect our initial business combination with a company located outside of the U.S., we would be subject to a variety of additional risks that may negatively impact our business operations and financial results. See page 69 for additional information.

• If we effect a business combination with a company located outside of the United States, the laws applicable to such company will likely govern all of our material agreements and we may not be able to enforce our legal rights. See page 69 for additional information.

• Because of the costs and difficulties inherent in managing cross-border business operations after we acquire it, our results of operations may be negatively impacted following a business combination. See page 69 for additional information.

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Risks Relating to our Sponsor and 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. See page 74 for additional information.

• Since our sponsor, officers and directors, and any other persons who have an interest in our founder shares and/or private placement warrants, including any holders of non-managing membership interests in our sponsor, will lose their entire investment in us, except to the extent they are entitled to redeem any public shares they acquire, as described in this prospectus, or to receive liquidating distributions on the founder shares from assets outside the trust account, if our initial business combination is not completed, a conflict of interest may arise in determining whether a particular business combination target is appropriate for our initial business combination. See page 77 for additional information.

• Our directors may decide not to enforce the indemnification obligations of our sponsor, resulting in a reduction in the amount of funds in the trust account available for distribution to our public shareholders. See page 74 for additional information.

• Our ability to successfully effect our initial business combination and to be successful thereafter will be dependent upon the efforts of our key personnel, some of whom may join us following our initial business combination. The loss of our or a target’s key personnel could negatively impact the operations and profitability of our post-combination business. See page 75 for additional information.

• We may approve an amendment or waiver of the letter agreement that would allow our sponsor to directly, or the members of our sponsor to indirectly, transfer founder shares or membership interests in our sponsor in a transaction in which our sponsor removes itself as our sponsor before identifying an initial business combination, which may deprive us of key personnel. See page 75 for additional information.

• Past performance by our management team and board advisors and their respective affiliates may not be indicative of future performance of an investment in us. See page 74 for additional information.

• We are dependent upon our officers and directors and their departure could adversely affect our ability to operate. See page 74 for additional information.

Risks Relating to Our Securities

• 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. See page 80 for additional information.

• The grant of registration rights to our initial shareholders and holders of our private placement warrants and representative shares may make it more difficult to complete our initial business combination, and the future exercise of such rights may adversely affect the market price of our Class A ordinary shares. See page 81 for additional information.

General Risks Related to Our Business

• We are a newly incorporated company with no operating history and no revenues, and you have no basis on which to evaluate our ability to achieve our business objective. See page 86 for additional information.

• 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.” See page 87 for additional information.

• 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 or warrants, potentially at a loss. See page 80 for additional information.

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RISK FACTORS

An investment in our securities involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider all of the risks described below, together with the other information contained in this prospectus, before making a decision to invest in our 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. Our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a result of specific factors, including the risks described below.

Risks Relating to our Search for, Consummation of, or Inability to Consummate, a Business Combination and Post-Business Combination Risks

Our public shareholders may not be afforded an opportunity to vote on our proposed business combination, which means we may complete our initial business combination even though a majority of our public shareholders do not support such a combination.

We may not hold a shareholder vote to approve our initial business combination unless the business combination would require shareholder approval under applicable Cayman Islands law or the rules of Nasdaq or if we decide to hold a shareholder vote for business or other reasons. Examples of transactions that would not ordinarily require shareholder approval include asset acquisitions and share purchases, while transactions such as direct mergers with our company (other than with a 90% subsidiary of ours) or transactions where we issue more than 20% of our outstanding shares or seek to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association would require shareholder approval. For instance, 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 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 outstanding shares, we would seek shareholder approval of such business combination. Except as required by law or Nasdaq 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 Class A ordinary shares do not approve of the business combination we consummate. See the section entitled “Proposed Business — Effecting our Initial Business Combination — Shareholders May Not Have the Ability to Approve our Initial Business Combination” for additional information.

If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination, our sponsor, officers, directors and board advisor have agreed to vote in favor of such initial business combination, regardless of how our public shareholders vote.

Unlike other blank check companies in which the initial shareholders agree to vote their founder shares in accordance with the majority of the votes cast by the public shareholders in connection with an initial business combination at the applicable general meeting of the Company, our initial shareholders, officers, directors and board advisor have agreed (and their permitted transferees and any future board advisors will agree) to vote any founder shares held by them, as well as any public shares purchased during or after this offering, in favor of our initial business combination (except that any public shares such parties may purchase in compliance with the requirements of Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act would not be voted in favor of approving the business combination transaction). We expect that our initial shareholders and their permitted transferees will own approximately 25% of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares (not including the Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement warrants and the representative shares) at the time of any such shareholder vote. A quorum for such meeting will be present if holders of at least one-third of the issued and outstanding shares entitled to vote at the meeting are represented in person or by proxy. As a result, in addition to our initial shareholder’s founder shares, assuming all the representative shares held by Maxim and any of its designees will be voted in favor, in order to have our initial business combination approved, we would need only 3,083,334, or 30.83%, of the 10,000,000 public shares sold in this offering to be voted in favor of a transaction (assuming all outstanding shares are voted and the underwriters’ over-allotment is not exercised), or no public shares sold in this offering are needed to vote in favor of a transaction (assuming only a quorum is present at such meeting held to vote on our initial business combination) (in either case, assuming the over-allotment option is

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not exercised). Accordingly, if we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination, it is more likely that the necessary shareholder approval will be received than would be the case if such persons agreed to vote their founder shares in accordance with the majority of the votes cast by our public shareholders.

Your only opportunity to affect the investment decision regarding a potential business combination will be limited to the exercise of your right to redeem your shares from us for cash, unless we seek shareholder approval of the business combination.

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. Since our board of directors may complete a 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 approval. Accordingly, if we do not seek shareholder approval, your only opportunity to affect the investment decision regarding a potential business combination may be limited to exercising your redemption rights within the period of time (which will be at least 20 business days) set forth in our tender offer documents mailed to our public shareholders in which we describe our initial business combination.

The ability of our public shareholders to redeem their shares for cash may make our financial condition unattractive to potential business combination targets, which may make it difficult for us to enter into a business combination with a target.

We may seek to enter into a business combination transaction agreement with a minimum cash requirement for (i) cash consideration to be paid to the target or its owners, (ii) cash for working capital or other general corporate purposes or (iii) the retention of cash to satisfy other conditions. If too many public shareholders exercise their redemption rights, we would not be able to meet such closing condition and, as a result, would not be able to proceed with the business combination. Consequently, if accepting all properly submitted redemption requests would not allow us to satisfy a closing condition as described above, we may be forced to seek third party financing which may not be available on terms acceptable to us or at all. As a result, we may 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. Prospective targets will be aware of these risks and, thus, may be reluctant to enter into a business combination transaction with us.

The ability of our public shareholders to exercise redemption rights with respect to a large number of our shares may not allow us to complete the most desirable business combination or optimize our capital structure.

At the time we enter into an agreement for our initial business combination, we will not know how many shareholders may exercise their redemption rights, and therefore we will need to structure the transaction based on our expectations as to the number of shares that will be submitted for redemption. If our initial business combination agreement requires us to use a portion of the cash in the trust account to pay the purchase price, or requires us to have a minimum amount of cash at closing, we will need to reserve a portion of the cash in the trust account to meet such requirements, or arrange for third party financing. In addition, if a larger number of shares are submitted for redemption than we initially expected, we may need to restructure the transaction to reserve a greater portion of the cash in the trust account or arrange for third party financing. Raising additional third party financing may involve dilutive equity issuances or the incurrence of indebtedness at higher than desirable levels. The above considerations may limit our ability to complete the most desirable business combination available to us or optimize our capital structure.

The ability of our public shareholders to exercise redemption rights with respect to a large number of our shares could increase the probability that our initial business combination would be unsuccessful and that you would have to wait for liquidation in order to redeem your shares.

If our initial business combination agreement requires us to use a portion of the cash in the trust account to pay the purchase price, or requires us to have a minimum amount of cash at closing, the probability that our initial business combination would be unsuccessful is increased. If our initial business combination is unsuccessful, you would not receive your pro rata portion of the trust account until we liquidate the trust account. If you are in need of immediate liquidity, you could attempt to sell your shares in the open market; however, at such time our shares may trade at a

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discount to the pro rata amount per share in the trust account. In either situation, you may suffer a material loss on your investment or lose the benefit of funds expected in connection with our redemption until we liquidate or you are able to sell your shares in the open market.

The requirement that we complete our initial business combination within the prescribed time frame or during any Extension Period may give potential target businesses leverage over us in negotiating a business combination and may decrease our ability to conduct due diligence on potential business combination targets as we approach our dissolution deadline, which could undermine our ability to complete our initial business combination on terms that would produce value for our shareholders.

Any potential target business with which we enter into negotiations concerning a business combination will be aware that we must complete our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering or during any Extension Period. Consequently, such target business may obtain leverage over us in negotiating a business combination, knowing that if we do not complete our initial business combination with that particular target business, we may be unable to complete our initial business combination with any target business. This risk will increase as we get closer to the 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.

As the number of special purpose acquisition companies evaluating targets increases, attractive targets may become scarcer and there may be more competition for attractive targets. This could increase the cost of our initial business combination and could even result in our inability to find a target or to consummate an initial business combination.

In recent years, the number of special purpose acquisition companies that have been formed has increased substantially. Many potential targets for special purpose acquisition companies have already entered into an initial business combination, and there are still many special purpose acquisition companies seeking targets for their initial business combination, as well as many such companies currently in registration. As a result, at times, fewer attractive targets may be available, and it may require more time, more effort and more resources to identify a suitable target and to consummate an initial business combination.

In addition, because there are more special purpose acquisition companies seeking to enter into an initial business combination with available targets, the competition for available targets with attractive fundamentals or business models may increase, which could cause target 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.

We may not be able to complete our initial business combination within the prescribed time frame, in which case we would cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up and we would redeem our public shares and liquidate, in which case our public shareholders may only receive $10.00 per share, or less than such amount in certain circumstances, and our warrants will expire worthless.

Pursuant to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, we must complete our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering. We may not be able to find a suitable target business and complete our initial business combination within such time period. Our ability to complete our initial business combination may be negatively impacted by general market conditions, volatility in the capital and debt markets and the other risks described herein. For example, geopolitical instability emanating from the ongoing conflict between Russia and the Ukraine as well as the recent escalation of the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Middle East could limit our ability to complete our initial business combination, including as a result of increased market volatility, decreased market liquidity and third-party financing being unavailable on terms acceptable to us or at all. Additionally, geopolitical stability may negatively impact businesses we may seek to acquire.

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If we are unable to complete an initial business combination within the 18-month period, we may seek an amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to extend the period of time we have to complete an initial business combination beyond 18 months. 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 that such an amendment must be approved by an affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of such shareholders, voting together as a single class, who, being entitled to do so, attend (in person or by proxy) and vote at a general meeting of the Company, or by way of a unanimous written resolution of our shareholders. If we seek shareholder approval to extend the initial 18-month period in which to complete an initial business combination to a later date, we will offer our public shareholders (excluding our sponsor, initial shareholders, officers, directors and board advisors to the extent they acquire public shares, either in this offering or in secondary market transactions thereafter) the right to have their public ordinary shares redeemed for a pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, as described in greater detail in this prospectus.

If we have not completed our initial business combination within such time period or during any Extension Period, we will: (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter (and subject to lawfully available funds therefor), redeem the public shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest (which interest shall be net of permitted withdrawals and up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses) divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any), subject to applicable law, and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of our remaining shareholders and our board of directors, liquidate and dissolve, subject in each case to our obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law. In certain circumstances, our public shareholders may receive less than $10.00 per share on the redemption of their shares. See “Risk Factors — If third parties bring claims against us, the proceeds held in the trust account could be reduced and the per-share redemption amount received by shareholders may be less than $10.00 per share” and other risk factors herein.

We may not be able to complete an initial business combination because such initial business combination may be subject to regulatory review and approval requirements, including foreign investment regulations and review by government entities such as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”), or may be ultimately prohibited.

Our initial business combination may be subject to regulatory review and approval requirements by governmental entities, or ultimately prohibited. For example, CFIUS has authority to review direct or indirect foreign investments in U.S. companies. Among other things, CFIUS is empowered to require certain foreign investors to make mandatory filings, to charge filing fees related to such filings, and to self-initiate national security reviews of foreign direct and indirect investments in U.S. companies if the parties to that investment choose not to file voluntarily. In the case that CFIUS determines an investment to be a threat to national security, CFIUS has the power to unwind or place restrictions on the investment. Whether CFIUS has jurisdiction to review an acquisition or investment transaction depends on — among other factors — the nature and structure of the transaction, including the level of beneficial ownership interest and the nature of any information or governance rights involved.

While our sponsor is a limited liability company formed in Delaware that is not a non-U.S. person and is not controlled by a non-U.S. person, our sponsor could be considered to have substantial ties with a non-U.S. person or entity because it has a non-U.S. non-managing member that holds a material indirect interest in our sponsor. As such, given that investments that result in “control” of a U.S. business by foreign person always are subject to CFIUS jurisdiction, our ability to complete our initial business combination could be impacted by U.S. foreign investment regulations. Additionally, CFIUS’s expanded jurisdiction under the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 and implementing regulations that became effective on February 13, 2020 further includes investments that do not result in control of a U.S. business by a foreign person but afford certain foreign investors certain information or governance rights in a U.S. business that has a nexus to “critical technologies,” “critical infrastructure” and/or “sensitive personal data.”

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If a particular proposed initial 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 to CFIUS review on a voluntary basis, or to proceed with the transaction without submitting to CFIUS and risk CFIUS intervention, before or after closing the transaction. CFIUS may decide to block or delay our proposed initial business combination, impose conditions with respect to such initial business combination or request the President of the United States to order us to divest all or a portion of the U.S. target business of our initial business combination that we acquired without first obtaining CFIUS approval, which may limit the attractiveness of, delay or prevent us from pursuing certain target companies 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 an initial business combination may be limited and we may be adversely affected in terms of competing with other SPACs which do not have any foreign ownership issues. In addition, certain federally licensed businesses may be subject to rules or regulations that limit foreign ownership.

The process of government review, whether by CFIUS or otherwise, could be lengthy. Because we have only a limited time to complete our initial business combination, our failure to obtain any required approvals within the requisite time period may require us to liquidate. If we are unable to consummate our initial business combination within the applicable time period required under our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, including as a result of extended regulatory review of a potential initial business combination, we will (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter (and subject to lawfully available funds therefor), redeem the public shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest earned on the funds held in the trust account (which interest shall be net of permitted withdrawals and up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then-outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidating distributions, if any), subject to applicable law, and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of our remaining shareholders and our board of directors, liquidate and dissolve, subject in each case to our obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law. In such event, our shareholders would miss the opportunity to benefit from an investment in a target company and the appreciation in value of such investment. Additionally, our warrants would be worthless.

If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination, our sponsor, directors, officers, advisors and their affiliates may elect to purchase shares from public shareholders, which may influence a vote on a proposed business combination and reduce the public “float” of our Class A ordinary shares.

If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our initial business combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, our sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates may purchase shares in privately negotiated transactions or in the open market either prior to or following the completion of our initial business combination, although they are under no obligation to do so. See “Proposed Business — Permitted Purchases and Other Transactions With Respect to our Securities” for a description of how such persons will determine which shareholders to seek to acquire shares from. Such a purchase may include a contractual acknowledgement 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 sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates purchase shares in privately negotiated transactions from public shareholders who have already elected to exercise their redemption rights, such selling shareholders would be required to revoke their prior elections to redeem their shares. The price per share paid in any such transaction 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. The purpose of such purchases could be 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 our initial business combination, where it appears that such requirement would otherwise not be met. This may result in the completion of our initial business combination that may not otherwise have been possible.

In addition, if such purchases are made, the public “float” of our Class A ordinary shares and the number of beneficial holders of our securities may be reduced, possibly making it difficult to maintain or obtain the quotation, listing or trading of our securities on a national securities exchange. However, in the event our sponsor, directors,

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officers, advisors or their affiliates were to purchase shares from public shareholders, such purchases would by structured in compliance with the requirements of Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act including, in pertinent part, through adherence to the following:

• the Company’s registration statement/proxy statement filed for its business combination transaction would disclose the possibility that the Company’s sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates may purchase shares from public shareholders outside the redemption process, along with the purpose of such purchases;

• if the Company’s sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates were to purchase shares from public shareholders, they would do so at a price no higher than the price offered through the Company’s redemption process;

• the Company’s registration statement/proxy statement filed for its business combination transaction would include a representation that any of the Company’s securities purchased by the Company’s sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates would not be voted in favor of approving the business combination transaction;

• the Company’s sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates would not possess any redemption rights with respect to the Company’s securities or, if they do acquire and possess redemption rights, they would waive such rights; and

• the Company would disclose in a Current Report on Form 8-K, before the Company’s security holder meeting to approve the business combination transaction, the following material items:

• the amount of the Company’s securities purchased outside of the redemption offer by the Company’s sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates, along with the purchase price;

• the purpose of the purchases by the Company’s sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates;

• the impact, if any, of the purchases by the Company’s sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates on the likelihood that the business combination transaction will be approved;

• the identities of Company security holders who sold to the Company’s sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates (if not purchased on the open market) or the nature of Company security holders (e.g., 5% security holders) who sold to the Company’s sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates; and

• the number of Company securities for which the Company has received redemption requests pursuant to its redemption offer.

If a shareholder fails to receive notice of our offer to redeem our public shares in connection with our initial business combination, or fails to comply with the procedures for tendering its shares, such shares may not be redeemed.

We will comply with the 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. In the event that a shareholder fails to comply with these procedures, its shares may not be redeemed. See “Proposed Business — Business Strategy — Tendering Share Certificates in Connection with a Tender Offer or Redemption Rights.”

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If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination and we do not conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules, and if you or a “group” of shareholders are deemed to hold in excess of 15% of our Class A ordinary shares, you will lose the ability to redeem all such shares in excess of 15% of our Class A ordinary shares.

If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our initial business combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association will 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 seeking redemption rights with respect to more than an aggregate of 15% of the Class A ordinary shares sold in this offering, which we refer to as the “Excess Shares.” However, we would not be restricting our shareholders’ ability to vote all of the Class A ordinary shares (including Excess Shares) for or against our initial business combination. Your inability to redeem the Excess Shares will reduce your influence over our ability to complete our initial business combination and you could suffer a material loss on your investment in us if you sell Excess Shares in open market transactions. Additionally, you will not receive redemption distributions with respect to the Excess Shares if we complete our initial business combination. And as a result, you will continue to hold that number of Class A ordinary shares exceeding 15% and, in order to dispose of such Class A ordinary shares, would be required to sell your Class A ordinary shares in open market transactions, potentially at a loss.

Because of our limited resources and the significant competition for business combination opportunities, it may be more difficult for us to complete our initial business combination. If we 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, and our warrants will expire worthless.

We expect to encounter intense competition from other entities having a business objective similar to ours, including private investors (which may be individuals or investment partnerships), other blank check companies and other entities, domestic and international, competing for the types of businesses we intend to acquire. Many of these individuals and entities are well-established and have extensive experience in identifying and effecting, directly or indirectly, acquisitions of companies operating in or providing services to various industries. Many of these competitors possess greater technical, human and other resources or more local industry knowledge than we do and our financial resources will be relatively limited when contrasted with those of many of these competitors. While we believe there are numerous target businesses we could potentially acquire with the net proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants, our ability to compete with respect to the acquisition of certain target businesses that are sizable will be limited by our available financial resources. This inherent competitive limitation gives others an advantage in pursuing the acquisition of certain target businesses. Furthermore, if we are obligated to pay cash for the Class A ordinary shares redeemed and, in the event we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination, we make purchases of our Class A ordinary shares, potentially reducing the resources available to us for our initial business combination. Any of these obligations may place us at a competitive disadvantage in successfully negotiating a business combination. If we 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 and our warrants will expire worthless. In certain circumstances, our public shareholders may receive less than $10.00 per share on the redemption of their shares. See “Risk Factors — If third parties bring claims against us, the proceeds held in the trust account could be reduced and the per-share redemption amount received by shareholders may be less than $10.00 per share” and other risk factors herein.

Upon the closing of this offering, the funds available to us outside of the trust account may not be sufficient to allow us to operate for at least the next 18 months or during any Extension Period, assuming that our initial business combination is not completed during that time. 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 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 receive only approximately

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$10.00 per share (or less in certain circumstances) on the liquidation of our trust account and our warrants will expire worthless. In certain circumstances, our public shareholders may receive less than $10.00 per share on the redemption of their shares. See “Risk Factors — If third parties bring claims against us, the proceeds held in the trust account could be reduced and the per-share redemption amount received by shareholders may be less than $10.00 per share” and other risk factors herein.

If the net proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants not being held in the trust account are insufficient to fund our working capital requirements, it could limit the amount available to fund our search for a target business or businesses and complete our initial business combination, and we will depend on loans from our sponsor or management team to fund our search, to pay our taxes and to complete our initial business combination.

Of the net proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants, only approximately $750,000, whether or not the underwriters’ exercise their over-allotment option, will be available to us initially outside the trust account to fund our working capital requirements. In the event that our offering expenses exceed our estimate of $750,000 (excluding underwriting commissions), we may fund such excess with funds not to be held in the trust account. In such case, the amount of funds we intend to be held outside the trust account would decrease by a corresponding amount. Conversely, in the event that the offering expenses are less than our estimate of $750,000, the amount of funds we intend to be held outside the trust account would increase by a corresponding amount. If we are required to seek additional capital, we would need to borrow funds from our sponsor, management team or other third parties to operate or may be forced to liquidate. Neither our sponsor, members of our management team nor any of their affiliates is under any obligation to advance funds to us in such circumstances. Any such advances would be repaid only from funds held outside the trust account or from funds released to us upon completion of our initial business combination. If we are unable to complete our initial business combination because we do not have sufficient funds available to us, we will be forced to cease operations and liquidate the trust account. Consequently, our public shareholders may only receive approximately $10.00 per share (or less in certain circumstances) on our redemption of our public shares, and our warrants will expire worthless. In certain circumstances, our public shareholders may receive less than $10.00 per share on the redemption of their shares. See “Risk Factors — If third parties bring claims against us, the proceeds held in the trust account could be reduced and the per-share redemption amount received by shareholders may be less than $10.00 per share” and other risk factors herein.

Subsequent to the completion of our initial business combination, we may be required to take write-downs or write-offs, restructuring and impairment or other charges that could have a significant negative effect on our financial condition, results of operations and our share price, which could cause you to lose some or all of your investment.

Even if we conduct extensive due diligence on a target business with which we combine, we cannot assure you that this diligence will surface all material issues that may be present inside a particular target business, that it would be possible to uncover all material issues through a customary amount of due diligence, or that factors outside of the target business and outside of our control will not later arise. As a result of these factors, we may be forced to later write-down or write-off assets, restructure our operations, or incur impairment or other charges that could result in our reporting losses. Even if our due diligence successfully identifies certain risks, unexpected risks may arise and previously known risks may materialize in a manner not consistent with our preliminary risk analysis. Even though these charges may be non-cash items and not have an immediate impact on our liquidity, the fact that we report charges of this nature could contribute to negative market perceptions about us or our securities. In addition, charges of this nature may cause us to violate net worth or other covenants to which we may be subject as a result of assuming pre-existing debt held by a target business or by virtue of our obtaining post-combination debt financing.

Accordingly, any shareholders who choose to remain shareholders following the business combination could suffer a reduction in the value of their shares. Such shareholders are unlikely to have a remedy for such reduction in value.

The share price of the combined company may decline after our initial business combination below the initial value of the units sold in this offering.

Each unit in this offering, which has an offering price of $10.00, consists of one Class A ordinary share and one-half of one redeemable warrant. Each whole public warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one Class A ordinary share at a price of $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment as provided herein. Of the proceeds we receive

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from this offering and from the sale of the private units described in this prospectus, $100,000,000, or $115,000,000 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full ($10.00 per unit in either case), will be placed in our trust account. We will provide our public shareholders (excluding our sponsor, initial shareholders, officers, directors and board advisors to the extent they acquire public shares, either in this offering or in secondary market transactions thereafter) with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their Class A ordinary shares in connection with the completion of our initial business combination, and potentially upon the occurrence of certain other events prior to our initial business combination. We expect that the pro rata redemption price in any redemption will be approximately $10.00 per public share, without taking into account any interest or other income earned on such funds (less any permitted withdrawals from accrued interest on such account), although the per share redemption price may be less in certain circumstances. As a result, public shareholders who purchase units in this offering can anticipate receiving at least $10.00 per ordinary share (without taking into account interest or income earned on the amounts held in the trust account, less any permitted withdrawals from accrued interest on such account) at the time of redemption for each share that they choose to redeem.

After our initial business combination, there can be no assurance that shareholders would be able to sell their shares for at least $10.00 per share. The target business with which we consummate our initial business combination will likely be subject to many material risks. Since we have not yet identified a target, the exact nature of those risks are unknown at this time. However, if any of those risks materialize, or for other reasons, that target business may not perform as anticipated, and the share price of the combined company may decline as a result. Even if the combined post-business combination company’s financial performance is not less than anticipated, the share price of the combined post-business combination company may decline due to market conditions or other factors. In recent years, the share prices of many companies have fallen following a business combination. As a result, if you continue to hold our shares through our initial business combination without redeeming such shares, we cannot assure you that the sale price following our initial business combination will be greater than either the $10.00 per unit offering price or the anticipated $10.00 redemption price (without taking into account interest or income earned on the amounts held in the trust account, less any permitted withdrawals from accrued interest on such account) of the shares included in the units in this offering.

If we are unable to consummate our initial business combination within 18 months of the closing of this offering or during any Extension Period, our public shareholders may be forced to wait beyond such 18 months or during any Extension Period before redemption from our trust account.

If we are unable to consummate our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering or during any Extension Period, we will distribute the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account (less taxes payable and up to $100,000 of the net interest earned thereon to pay dissolution expenses), pro rata to our public shareholders by way of redemption and cease all operations except for the purposes of winding up of our affairs, as further described herein. Any redemption of public shareholders from the trust account shall be effected automatically by function of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association prior to any voluntary winding up. If we are required to windup, liquidate the trust account and distribute such amount therein, pro rata, to our public shareholders, as part of any liquidation process, such winding up, liquidation and distribution must comply with the applicable provisions of the Companies Act and our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. In that case, investors may be forced to wait beyond the initial 18 months or during any Extension Period before the redemption proceeds of our trust account become available to them and they receive the return of their pro rata portion of the proceeds from our trust account. We have no obligation to return funds to investors prior to the date of our redemption or liquidation unless we consummate our initial business combination prior thereto and only then in cases where investors have sought to redeem their Class A ordinary shares. Only upon our redemption or any liquidation will public shareholders be entitled to distributions if we are unable to complete our initial business combination.

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will offer our public shareholders (excluding our sponsor, initial shareholders, officers, directors and board advisors to the extent they acquire public shares, either in this offering or in secondary market transactions thereafter) the right to have their public ordinary shares redeemed for a pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, as described in greater detail in this prospectus.

We may attempt to complete our initial business combination with a private company about which little information is available, which may result in a business combination with a company that is not as profitable as we suspected, if at all.

In pursuing our acquisition strategy, we may seek to effectuate our initial business combination with a privately held company. Very little public information generally exists about private companies, and we could be required to make our decision on whether to pursue a potential initial business combination on the basis of limited information, which may result in a business combination with a company that is not as profitable as we suspected, if at all.

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

Recent increases in inflation in the United Stated and elsewhere may be leading to increased price volatility in publicly traded securities, including ours, and may lead to other national, regional and international economic disruptions, any of which could make it more difficult for us to consummate a business combination.

Because we are not limited to a particular industry 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’s operations.

Although we are focusing on certain focus industries to complete a business combination, we may seek to complete a business combination with an operating company in any industry or sector. However, we will not, under our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, be permitted to effectuate our initial business combination with another blank check company or similar company with nominal operations. Because we have not yet identified or approached any specific target business with respect to a business combination, there is no basis to evaluate the possible merits or risks of any particular target business’s operations, results of operations, cash flows, liquidity, financial condition or prospects. To the extent we complete our initial business combination, we may be affected by numerous risks inherent in the business operations with which we combine. For example, if we combine with a financially unstable business or an entity lacking an established record of sales or earnings, we may be affected by the risks inherent in the business and operations of a financially unstable entity. Although our officers and directors will endeavor to evaluate the risks inherent in a particular target business, we cannot assure you that we will properly ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors or that we will have adequate time to complete due diligence. Furthermore, some of these risks may be outside of our control and leave us with no ability to control or reduce the chances that those risks will adversely impact a target business. We also cannot assure you that an investment in our units will ultimately prove to be more favorable to investors than a direct investment, if such opportunity were available, in a business combination target. Accordingly, any shareholders who choose to remain shareholders following the business combination could suffer a reduction in the value of their shares. Such shareholders are unlikely to have a remedy for such reduction in value.

Changes in the market for directors and officers liability insurance could make it more difficult and more expensive for us to negotiate and complete an initial business combination.

In recent years, the market for directors’ and officers’ liability insurance for special purpose acquisition companies has changed in ways adverse to us and our management team. 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

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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.

We may seek business combination opportunities with a high degree of complexity that require significant operational improvements to the target business, 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 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 seek acquisition opportunities in industries or sectors that may be outside of our management’s areas of expertise.

We will consider a business combination 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. 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. Accordingly, any shareholders who choose to remain shareholders following our initial business combination could suffer a reduction in the value of their shares. Such shareholders are unlikely to have a remedy for such reduction in value.

Although we have identified general criteria and guidelines that we believe are important in evaluating prospective target businesses, we may enter into our initial business combination with a target that does not meet such criteria and guidelines, and as a result, the target business with which we enter into our initial business combination may not have attributes entirely consistent with our general criteria and guidelines.

Although we have identified general criteria and guidelines for evaluating prospective target businesses, it is possible that a target business with which we enter into our initial business combination will not have all of these positive attributes. If we complete our initial business combination with a target that does not meet some or all of these guidelines, such combination may not be as successful as a combination with a business that does meet all of our general criteria and guidelines. In addition, if we announce a prospective business combination with a target that does not meet our general criteria and guidelines, a greater number of shareholders may exercise their redemption rights, which may make it difficult for us to meet any closing condition with a target business that requires us to have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash. In addition, if shareholder approval of the transaction is required by law, or we decide to obtain shareholder approval for business or other legal reasons, it may be more difficult for us to

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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 receive only approximately $10.00 per share on the liquidation of our trust account and our warrants will expire worthless.

We may seek acquisition opportunities with 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 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 volatile revenues or earnings and difficulties in obtaining and retaining key personnel. 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.

We are generally not required to obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking or from an independent accounting firm, and consequently, you may have no assurance from an independent source that the price we are paying for the business is fair to our company from a financial point of view.

If we enter into a business combination with an entity affiliated with our sponsor or a director or officer, we or a committee of independent directors shall obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or another independent firm that commonly renders valuation opinions for the type of company we are seeking to acquire or from an independent accounting firm that the price we are paying for a target is fair to our company from a financial point of view. Otherwise, we are not required to obtain such opinion. If no opinion is obtained, our shareholders will be relying on the judgment of our board of directors, who will determine fair market value based on standards generally accepted by the financial community. Such standards used will be disclosed in our tender offer documents or proxy solicitation materials, as applicable, related to our initial business combination.

We may reincorporate in or transfer by way of continuation 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 and subject to requisite shareholder approval under the Companies Act, reincorporate in or transfer by way of continuation to the jurisdiction in which the target company or business is located. 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 such taxes. Shareholders may be subject to withholding taxes or other taxes with respect to their ownership of us after the reincorporation.

Resources could be wasted in researching acquisitions that are not completed, which could materially adversely affect subsequent attempts to locate and acquire or merge with another business. If we are unable to complete our initial business combination, our public shareholders may receive only approximately $10.00 per share, or less than such amount in certain circumstances, on the liquidation of our trust account and our warrants will expire worthless.

We anticipate that the investigation of each specific target business and the negotiation, drafting and execution of relevant agreements, disclosure documents and other instruments will require substantial management time and attention and substantial costs for accountants, attorneys and others. If we decide not to complete a specific initial business combination, the costs incurred up to that point for the proposed transaction likely would not be recoverable. Furthermore, if we reach an agreement relating to a specific target business, we may fail to complete our initial business combination for any number of reasons including those beyond our control. Any such event will result in a loss to us of the related costs incurred which could materially adversely affect subsequent attempts to locate and acquire or merge with another business. If we 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 warrants will expire worthless. See “Risk Factors — If third parties bring claims against us, the proceeds held in the trust account could be reduced and the per-share redemption amount received by shareholders may be less than $10.00 per share” and other risk factors.

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We may have limited ability to assess the management of a prospective target business and, as a result, this may affect our initial business combination with a target business whose management may not have the skills, qualifications or abilities to manage a public company.

When evaluating the desirability of effecting our initial business combination with a prospective target business, our ability to assess the target business’s management may be limited due to a lack of time, resources or information. Our assessment of the capabilities of the target’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 remain shareholders following the business combination could suffer a reduction in the value of their shares. Such shareholders are unlikely to have a remedy for such reduction in value.

The officers and directors of an acquisition candidate may resign upon completion of our initial business combination. The departure of a business combination target’s key personnel could negatively impact the operations and profitability of our post-combination business. The role of an acquisition candidates’ key personnel upon the completion of our initial business combination cannot be ascertained at this time. Although we contemplate that certain members of an acquisition candidate’s management team will remain associated with the acquisition candidate following our initial business combination, it is possible that members of the management of an acquisition candidate will not wish to remain in place.

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

In light of the involvement of our sponsor, officers and directors with other entities, we may decide to acquire one or more businesses affiliated with our sponsor, officers and directors. Our officers and directors also serve as officers and board members for other entities, including, without limitation, those described under “Management and Advisory Board — Conflicts of Interest.” Such entities may compete with us for business combination opportunities. Our sponsor, officers and directors are not currently aware of any specific opportunities for us to complete our initial business combination with any entities with which they are affiliated, and there have been no preliminary discussions concerning a business combination with any such entity or entities. Although we will not be specifically focusing on, or targeting, any transaction with any affiliated entities, we would pursue such a transaction if we determined that such affiliated entity met our criteria for a business combination as set forth in “Proposed Business — Effecting our Initial Business Combination — Selection of a Target Business and Structuring of our Initial 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 firm that commonly renders valuation opinions for the type of company we are seeking to acquire or an independent accounting firm, regarding the fairness to our company from a financial point of view of a business combination with one or more domestic or international businesses affiliated with our 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.

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

Although we have no commitments as of the date of this prospectus to issue any notes or other debt securities, or to otherwise incur outstanding debt following this offering, we may choose to incur substantial debt to complete our initial business combination. We have agreed that we will not incur any indebtedness unless we have obtained from the lender a waiver of any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to the monies held in the trust account. As such, no issuance of debt will affect the per-share amount available for redemption from the trust account. Nevertheless, the incurrence of debt could have a variety of negative effects, including:

• default and foreclosure on our assets if our operating revenues after an initial business combination are insufficient to repay our debt obligations;

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• 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.

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 or held only in either (i) 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, (ii) as uninvested cash, or (iii) an interest bearing bank demand deposit account or other accounts at a bank. To mitigate the risk that we might be deemed to be an investment company for purposes of the Investment Company Act, which risk increases the longer we hold investments in the trust account, we may, at any time (and will no later than 18 months from the closing of this offering) instruct the trustee to liquidate the investments held in the trust account and instead to hold the funds in the trust account in cash or in an interest bearing demand deposit account. For more information about the risk of the company being considered to be operating as an unregistered investment company, see “— 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.” While short-term U.S. government treasury obligations currently yield a positive rate of interest, they have briefly yielded negative interest rates in the recent past. 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 and decide to liquidate, 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, $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses and which interest shall be net of permitted withdrawals). 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.

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We may only be able to complete one business combination with the proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants, which will cause us to be solely dependent on a single business which may have a limited number of products or services. This lack of diversification may negatively impact our operations and profitability.

Of the net proceeds not held in trust account from this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants, $750,000 (whether or not the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option) will be available to complete our business combination and pay related fees and expenses.

We may effectuate our initial business combination with a single target business or multiple target businesses simultaneously or within a short period of time. However, we may not be able to effectuate our initial business combination with more than one target business because of various factors, including the existence of complex accounting issues and the requirement that we prepare and file pro forma financial statements with the SEC that present operating results and the financial condition of several target businesses as if they had been operated on a combined basis. By completing our initial business combination with only a single entity our lack of diversification may subject us to numerous economic, competitive and regulatory risks. Further, we would not be able to diversify our operations or benefit from the possible spreading of risks or of setting 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 complete business combinations with multiple prospective targets, which may hinder our ability to complete our initial business combination and give rise to increased costs and risks that could negatively impact our operations and profitability.

If we determine to simultaneously acquire several businesses that are owned by different sellers, we will need for each of such sellers to agree that our purchase of its business is contingent on the simultaneous closings of the other business combinations, which may make it more difficult for us, and delay our ability, to complete our initial business combination. With multiple business combinations, we could also face additional risks, including additional burdens and costs with respect to possible multiple negotiations and due diligence 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.

Our management may not be able to maintain control of a target business after our initial business combination. We cannot provide assurance that, upon loss of control of a target business, new management will possess the skills, qualifications or abilities necessary to profitably operate such business.

We may structure a business combination so that the post-transaction company in which our public shareholders own shares will own less than 100% of the equity interests or assets of a target business, but we will only complete such business combination if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the outstanding voting

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securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in the target sufficient for us not to be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act. We will not consider any transaction that does not meet such criteria. Even if the post-transaction company owns 50% or more of the voting securities of the target, our shareholders prior to the business combination may collectively own a minority interest in the post business combination 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 ordinary shares in exchange for all of the outstanding capital stock of a target. In this case, we would acquire a 100% interest in the target. However, as a result of the issuance of a substantial number of new ordinary shares, our shareholders immediately prior to such transaction could own less than a majority of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares subsequent to such transaction. In addition, other minority shareholders may subsequently combine their holdings resulting in a single person or group obtaining a larger share of the company’s stock than we initially acquired. Accordingly, this may make it more likely that our management will not be able to maintain our control of the target business.

We do not have a specified maximum redemption threshold. The absence of such a redemption threshold may make it possible for us to complete a business combination with which a substantial majority of our shareholders have redeemed their Class A ordinary shares.

Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association will not provide a specified maximum redemption threshold. As a result, we may be able to complete our initial business combination even though a substantial majority of our public shareholders do not agree with the transaction and have redeemed their shares or, if we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination and do not conduct redemptions in connection with our initial business combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, have entered into privately negotiated agreements to sell their shares to our sponsor, initial shareholders, officers, directors, advisors or their affiliates. In the event the aggregate cash consideration we would be required to pay for all Class A ordinary shares that are validly submitted for redemption plus any amount required to satisfy cash conditions pursuant to the terms of the proposed business combination exceed the aggregate amount of cash available to us, we will not complete the business combination.

In order to effectuate an initial business combination, blank check companies have, in the recent past, amended various provisions of their charters and modified governing instruments, including their warrant agreements. We cannot assure you that we will not 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 past, amended various provisions of their charters and modified governing instruments, including their warrant agreements. For example, blank check companies have amended the definition of business combination, increased redemption thresholds and extended the period of time in which it had to consummate a business combination, and, with respect to their warrants, amended their warrant agreements to require the warrants to be exchanged for cash and/or other securities. Amending our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association requires at least a special resolution of our shareholders as a matter of Cayman Islands law. A special resolution as a matter of Cayman Islands law requires the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds (or any higher threshold as specified in a company’s articles of association) of the votes cast by such shareholders, voting together as a single class, as, being entitled to do so, attend (in person or by proxy) and vote on the matter at the applicable general meeting for which notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution as a special resolution has been given or (ii) if so authorized by a company’s articles of association, by a unanimous written resolution of all of the company’s shareholders. Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide that special resolutions must be approved either by an affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of such shareholders, voting together as a single class, who attend and vote at a general meeting of the Company (other than amendments relating to provisions governing the appointment or removal of directors or our transfer by way of continuation outside of the Cayman Islands to another jurisdiction (except where such amendment is proposed in respect of the consummation of our initial business combination), which require the approval of at least 90% of holders of our ordinary shares who, being eligible, attend (in person or by proxy) and vote at a general meeting of the Company), or by a unanimous written resolution of all of our shareholders.

The warrant agreement provides that (a) the terms of the public warrants may be amended without the consent of any holder for the purpose of (i) curing any ambiguity or correct any mistake, including to conform the provisions of the warrant agreement to the description of the terms of the public warrants and the warrant agreement set forth in this prospectus, or defective provision, (ii) removing or reducing the Company’s ability to redeem the public warrants

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and, if applicable, a corresponding amendment to the Company’s ability to redeem the private placement warrants, (iii) to provide for the delivery of the Alternative Issuance (as defined below) or (iv) adding or changing any provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under the warrant agreement as the parties to the warrant agreement may deem necessary or desirable and that the parties deem to not adversely affect the rights of the registered holders of the public warrants under the warrant agreement in any material respect, (b) the terms of the warrants may be amended with the vote or written consent of at least 50% of the then outstanding public warrants and private placement warrants, voting together as a single class, to allow for the warrants to be, or continue to be, as applicable, classified as equity in our financial statements and (c) all other modifications or amendments to our warrant agreement with respect to (i) the public warrants require the vote or written consent of holders of at least 50% of the then outstanding public warrants, and (ii) the private placement warrants require the vote or written consent of holders of at least 50% of the then outstanding private placement warrants.

We cannot assure you that we will not seek to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association or governing instruments, including the warrant agreement, or extend the time to consummate an initial business combination in order to effectuate our initial business combination. To the extent any of such amendments would be deemed to fundamentally change the nature of any of the securities offered through this registration statement, we would register, or seek an exemption from registration for, the affected securities.

Certain 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 an affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of such shareholders who attend and vote at a general meeting, which is a lower amendment threshold than that of some other blank check companies. It may be easier for us, therefore, to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association 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 provide that any of its provisions, including those related to pre-business combination activity (including the requirement to deposit proceeds of this offering and the sale of private placement warrants into the trust account and not release such amounts except in specified circumstances), may be amended if approved by an affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of such shareholders who, being entitled to do so, attend (in person or by proxy) and vote on the matter at a general meeting of the Company, or by way of unanimous written resolution of our shareholders, and corresponding provisions of the trust agreement governing the release of funds from our trust account may be amended if approved by holders of 65% of our ordinary shares (other than amendments relating to provisions governing the appointment or removal of directors or our transfer by way of continuation outside of the Cayman Islands to another jurisdiction (except where such amendment is proposed in respect of the consummation of our initial business combination), which require the approval of at least 90% of holders of our ordinary shares who, being eligible, attend (in person or by proxy) and vote at a general meeting of the Company). Our initial shareholders, who will collectively beneficially own 25% of our ordinary shares upon the closing of this offering (assuming they do not purchase any units in this offering; and excluding the Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement warrants and representative shares), 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. 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 our initial business combination with which you do not agree. In certain circumstances, our shareholders may pursue remedies against us for any breach of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association.

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.

Although we believe that the net proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants will be sufficient to allow us to complete our initial business combination, because we have not yet 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 placement warrants prove to be insufficient, either because of the size of our initial business combination, the depletion of the available net proceeds in search of a target business, the obligation to redeem for cash a significant number of shares from shareholders who elect redemption in connection

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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. We cannot assure you that such financing will be available on acceptable terms, if at all. To the extent that additional financing proves to be unavailable when needed to complete our initial business combination, we would be compelled to either restructure the transaction or abandon that particular business combination and seek an alternative target business candidate. In addition, even if we do not need additional financing to complete our initial business combination, we may require such financing to fund the operations or growth of the target business. The failure to secure additional financing could have a material adverse effect on the continued development or growth of the target business. None of our officers, directors or shareholders is required to provide any financing to us in connection with or after our initial business combination. If we are unable to complete our initial business combination, our public shareholders may only receive approximately $10.00 per share on the liquidation of our trust account, and our warrants will expire worthless. In certain circumstances, our public shareholders may receive less than $10.00 per share on the redemption of their shares. See “Risk Factors — If third parties bring claims against us, the proceeds held in the trust account could be reduced and the per-share redemption amount received by shareholders may be less than $10.00 per share” and other risk factors below.

Our initial business combination and our structure thereafter may not be tax-efficient to our shareholders and public warrant holders. As a result of our business combination, our tax obligations may be more complex, burdensome and uncertain.

Although we will attempt to structure 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 connection with our initial business combination and subject to any requisite shareholder approval, we may structure our business combination in a manner that requires shareholders and/or public warrant holders to recognize gain or income for tax purposes, effect a business combination with a target company in another jurisdiction, or reincorporate in a different jurisdiction (including, but not limited to, the jurisdiction in which the target company or business is located). We do not intend to make any cash distributions to shareholders or public warrant holders to pay taxes in connection with our business combination or thereafter. Accordingly, a shareholder or a right holder may need to satisfy any liability resulting from our initial business combination with cash from its own funds or by selling all or a portion of the shares or public warrants received. In addition, shareholders and public warrant holders may also be subject to additional income, withholding or other taxes with respect to their ownership of us after our initial business combination.

In addition, we may effect a business combination with a target company that has business operations outside of the United States, and possibly, business operations in multiple jurisdictions. If we effect such a business combination, 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 other jurisdictions, we may have a heightened risk related to audits or examinations by U.S. federal, state, local and non-U.S. taxing authorities. This additional complexity and risk could have an adverse effect on our after-tax profitability and financial condition

Because we must furnish our shareholders with target business financial statements, we may lose the ability to complete an otherwise advantageous initial business combination with some prospective target businesses.

The federal proxy rules require that a proxy statement with respect to a vote on a business combination meeting certain financial significance tests include historical and/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 may be required to be prepared in accordance with, or be reconciled to, accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, or U.S. GAAP, or international financing reporting standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, or IFRS, depending on the circumstances and the historical financial statements may be required to be audited in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (U.S.), or PCAOB. These financial statement requirements may limit the pool of potential target businesses we may acquire because some targets may be unable to provide such statements in time for us to disclose such statements in accordance with federal proxy rules and complete our initial business combination within the prescribed time frame.

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Risks Associated with Acquiring and Operating a Business Outside of the U.S.

If we effect our initial business combination with a company located outside of the U.S., we would be subject to a variety of additional risks that may negatively impact our business operations and financial results.

If we effect our initial business combination with a company located outside of the U.S., we would be subject to any special considerations or risks associated with companies operating in the target business’ home jurisdiction, including any of the following:

• rules and regulations or currency redemption or corporate withholding taxes on individuals;

• laws governing the manner in which future business combinations may be effected;

• tariffs and trade barriers;

• regulations related to customs and import/export matters;

• longer payment cycles;

• tax issues, such as tax law changes and variations in tax laws as compared to the U.S.;

• currency fluctuations and exchange controls;

• rates of inflation;

• challenges in collecting accounts receivable;

• cultural and language differences;

• employment regulations;

• crime, strikes, riots, civil disturbances, terrorist attacks and wars; and

• deterioration of political relations with the U.S. which could result in any number of difficulties, both normal course such as above or extraordinary such as sanctions being imposed. We may not be able to adequately address these additional risks. If we were unable to do so, our operations might suffer.

If we effect a business combination with a company located outside of the United States, the laws applicable to such company will likely govern all of our material agreements and we may not be able to enforce our legal rights.

If we effect a business combination with a company located outside of the United States, the laws of the country in which such company operates will govern almost all of the material agreements relating to its operations. We cannot assure you that the target business will be able to enforce any of its material agreements or that remedies will be available in this new jurisdiction. The system of laws and the enforcement of existing laws in such jurisdiction may not be as certain in implementation and interpretation as in the United States. The inability to enforce or obtain a remedy under any of our future agreements could result in a significant loss of business, business opportunities or capital.

Additionally, if we acquire a company located outside of the United States, it is likely that substantially all of our assets would be located outside of the United States and some of our officers and directors might reside outside of the United States. As a result, it may not be possible for investors in the United States to enforce their legal rights, to effect service of process upon our directors or officers or to enforce judgments of United States courts predicated upon civil liabilities and criminal penalties of our directors and officers under Federal securities laws.

Because of the costs and difficulties inherent in managing cross-border business operations after we acquire it, our results of operations may be negatively impacted following a business combination.

Managing a business, operations, personnel or assets in another country is challenging and costly. Management of the target business that we may hire (whether based abroad or in the U.S.) may be inexperienced in cross-border business practices and unaware of significant differences in accounting rules, legal regimes and labor practices. Even with a seasoned and experienced management team, the costs and difficulties inherent in managing cross-border business operations, personnel and assets can be significant (and much higher than in a purely domestic business) and may negatively impact our financial and operational performance.

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Many countries, and especially those in emerging markets, have difficult and unpredictable legal systems and underdeveloped laws and regulations that are unclear and subject to corruption and inexperience, which may adversely impact our results of operations and financial condition.

Our ability to seek and enforce legal protections, including with respect to intellectual property and other property rights, or to defend ourselves with regard to legal actions taken against us in a given country, may be difficult or impossible, which could adversely impact our operations, assets or financial condition.

Rules and regulations in many countries, including some of the emerging markets within the regions we will initially focus, are often ambiguous or open to differing interpretation by responsible individuals and agencies at the municipal, state, regional and federal levels. The attitudes and actions of such individuals and agencies are often difficult to predict and inconsistent.

Delay with respect to the enforcement of particular rules and regulations, including those relating to customs, tax, environmental and labor, could cause serious disruption to operations abroad and negatively impact our results.

After our initial business combination, substantially all of our assets may be located in a foreign country and substantially all of our revenue may be derived from our operations in 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.

The economic, political and social conditions, as well as government policies, of the country in which our operations are located could affect our business. The economies in developing markets we will initially focus on differ from the economies of most developed countries in many respects. Such economic growth has been uneven, both geographically and among various sectors of the economy and such growth may not be sustained in the future. If in the future such country’s economy experiences a downturn or grows at a slower rate than expected, there may be less demand for spending in certain industries. A decrease in demand for spending in certain industries could materially and adversely affect our ability to find an attractive target business with which to consummate our initial business combination and if we effect our initial business combination, the ability of that target business to become profitable.

Exchange rate fluctuations and currency policies may cause a target business’ ability to succeed in the international markets to be diminished.

In the event we acquire a non-U.S. target, all revenues and income would likely be received in a foreign currency and the dollar equivalent of our net assets and distributions, if any, could be adversely affected by reductions in the value of the local currency. The value of the currencies in our target regions fluctuate and are affected by, among other things, changes in political and economic conditions. Any change in the relative value of such currency against our reporting currency may affect the attractiveness of any target business or, following consummation of our initial business combination, our financial condition and results of operations. Additionally, if a currency appreciates in value against the dollar prior to the consummation of our initial business combination, the cost of a target business as measured in dollars will increase, which may make it less likely that we are able to consummate such transaction.

Because our business objective includes the possibility of acquiring one or more operating businesses with primary operations in emerging markets we will focus on, changes in the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the currency of any relevant jurisdiction may affect our ability to achieve such objective. If the U.S. dollar declines in value against the relevant currency, any business combination will be more expensive and therefore more difficult to complete. Furthermore, we may incur costs in connection with conversions between U.S. dollars and the relevant currency, which may make it more difficult to consummate a business combination.

Because foreign law could govern almost all of our material agreements, we may not be able to enforce our rights within such jurisdiction or elsewhere, which could result in a significant loss of business, business opportunities or capital.

Foreign law could govern almost all of our material agreements. The target business may not be able to enforce any of its material agreements or remedies may be unavailable outside of such foreign jurisdiction’s legal system. The system of laws and the enforcement of existing laws and contracts in such jurisdiction may not be as certain in implementation and interpretation as in the U.S. Judiciaries in such jurisdiction may also be relatively inexperienced

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in enforcing corporate and commercial law, leading to a higher than usual degree of uncertainty as to the outcome of any litigation. As a result, the inability to enforce or obtain a remedy under any of our future agreements could result in a significant loss of business and business opportunities.

Corporate governance standards in foreign countries may not be as strict or developed as in the U.S. and such weakness may hide issues and operational practices that are detrimental to a target business.

General corporate governance standards in some countries are weak in that they do not prevent business practices that cause unfavorable related party transactions, over-leveraging, improper accounting, family company interconnectivity and poor management. Local laws often do not go far to prevent improper business practices. Therefore, shareholders may not be treated impartially and equally as a result of poor management practices, asset shifting, conglomerate structures that result in preferential treatment to some parts of the overall company, and cronyism. The lack of transparency and ambiguity in the regulatory process also may result in inadequate credit evaluation and weakness that may precipitate or encourage financial crisis. In our evaluation of a business combination we will have to evaluate the corporate governance of a target and the business environment, and in accordance with U.S. laws for reporting companies take steps to implement practices that will cause compliance with all applicable rules and accounting practices. Notwithstanding these intended efforts, there may be endemic practices and local laws that could add risk to an investment we ultimately make and that result in an adverse effect on our operations and financial results.

Companies in foreign countries may be subject to accounting, auditing, regulatory and financial standards and requirements that differ, in some cases significantly, from those applicable to public companies in the United States, which may make it more difficult or complex to consummate a business combination. In particular, the assets and profits appearing on the financial statements of a foreign company may not reflect its financial position or results of operations in the way they would be reflected had such financial statements been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP and there may be substantially less publicly available information about companies in certain jurisdictions than there is about comparable U.S. companies. Moreover, foreign companies may not be subject to the same degree of regulation as are U.S. companies with respect to such matters as insider trading rules, tender offer regulation, shareholder proxy requirements and the timely disclosure of information.

Legal principles relating to corporate affairs and the validity of corporate procedures, directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities and shareholders’ rights for foreign corporations may differ from those that may apply in the U.S., which may make the consummation of a business combination with a foreign company more difficult. We therefore may have more difficulty in achieving our business objective.

Because a foreign judiciary may determine the scope and enforcement of almost all of our target business’ material agreements under the law of such foreign jurisdiction, we may be unable to enforce our rights inside and outside of such jurisdiction.

The law of a foreign jurisdiction may govern almost all of our target business’ material agreements, some of which may be with governmental agencies in such jurisdiction. We cannot assure you that the target business or businesses will be able to enforce any of their material agreements or that remedies will be available outside of such jurisdiction. The inability to enforce or obtain a remedy under any of our future agreements may have a material adverse impact on our future operations.

A slowdown in economic growth in the markets that our business target operates in may adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, the value of its equity shares and the trading price of our shares following our business combination.

Following the business combination, our results of operations and financial condition may be dependent on, and may be adversely affected by, conditions in financial markets in the global economy, and, particularly in the markets where the business operates. The specific economy could be adversely affected by various factors such as political or regulatory action, including adverse changes in liberalization policies, business corruption, social disturbances, terrorist attacks and other acts of violence or war, natural calamities, interest rates, inflation, commodity and energy prices and various other factors which may adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, value of our equity shares and the trading price of our shares following the business combination.

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Regional hostilities, terrorist attacks, communal disturbances, civil unrest and other acts of violence or war may result in a loss of investor confidence and a decline in the value of our equity shares and trading price of our shares following our business combination.

Terrorist attacks, civil unrest and other acts of violence or war may negatively affect the markets in which we may operate our business following our business combination and also adversely affect the worldwide financial markets. In addition, the countries we will focus on, have from time to time experienced instances of civil unrest and hostilities among or between neighboring countries. Any such hostilities and tensions may result in investor concern about stability in the region, which may adversely affect the value of our equity shares and the trading price of our shares following our business combination. Events of this nature in the future, as well as social and civil unrest, could influence the economy in which our business target operates, and could have an adverse effect on our business, including the value of equity shares and the trading price of our shares following our business combination.

The occurrence of natural disasters may adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations following our business combination.

The occurrence of natural disasters, including hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, fires and pandemic disease may adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations following our business combination. The potential impact of a natural disaster on our results of operations and financial position is speculative, and would depend on numerous factors. The extent and severity of these natural disasters determines their effect on a given economy. Although the long-term effect of diseases such as COVID-19, the H5N1 “avian flu,” or H1N1, the swine flu, cannot currently be predicted, previous occurrences of avian flu and swine flu had an adverse effect on the economies of those countries in which they were most prevalent. An outbreak of a communicable disease in our market could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations following our business combination. We cannot assure you that natural disasters will not occur in the future or that our business, financial condition and results of operations will not be adversely affected.

Any downgrade of credit ratings of the country in which the company we acquire business may adversely affect our ability to raise debt financing following our business combination.

No assurance can be given that any rating organization will not downgrade the credit ratings of the sovereign foreign long-term debt of the country in which our business target operates, which reflect an assessment of the overall financial capacity of the government of such country to pay its obligations and its ability to meet its financial commitments as they become due. Any downgrade could cause interest rates and borrowing costs to rise, which may negatively impact both the perception of credit risk associated with our future variable rate debt and our ability to access the debt markets on favorable terms in the future. This could have an adverse effect on our financial condition following our business combination.

Returns on investment in foreign companies may be decreased by withholding and other taxes.

Our investments will incur tax risk unique to investment in developing economies. Income that might otherwise not be subject to withholding of local income tax under normal international conventions may be subject to withholding of income tax in a developing economy. Additionally, proof of payment of withholding taxes may be required as part of the remittance procedure. Any withholding taxes paid by us on income from our investments in such country may or may not be creditable on our income tax returns. We intend to seek to minimize any withholding tax or local tax otherwise imposed. However, there is no assurance that the foreign tax authorities will recognize application of such treaties to achieve a minimization of such tax. We may also elect to create foreign subsidiaries to effect the business combinations to attempt to limit the potential tax consequences of a 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-combination company.

There have recently been significant changes and proposed changes in recent years to international trade policies and tariffs and treaties 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 has indicated an intention to implement or to consider implementing other new tariffs, or to increase or to consider increasing existing tariffs. In response to the tariffs announced by the U.S., other countries have imposed, and considering imposing and may in the future impose new or increased tariffs on certain exports from the United States. There is current 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, U.S. 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 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 these international matters may not provide guidance as to the future performance of such companies as that historical financial performance might in a more stable economic environment. The business prospects of a particular target for a business combination could change 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 at that time. 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 and threatened tariffs and other potential trade policy changes. As a result, we may deem it costly, impractical or risky to complete a business combination with a particular target or with a target in a particular industry or from a particular country. Consequently, the pool of available 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 a business combination with such a target, the post-business combination company’s operations and financial results might suffer, which may adversely impact the market value of the securities of the post-business combination company.

If relations between the United States and foreign governments deteriorate, it could cause potential target businesses or their goods and services to become less attractive.

The relationship between the United States and foreign governments could be subject to sudden fluctuation and periodic tension. For instance, the United States may announce its intention to impose quotas on certain imports. Such import quotas may adversely affect political relations between the two countries and result in retaliatory countermeasures by the foreign government in industries that may affect our ultimate target business. Changes in political conditions in foreign countries and changes in the state of U.S. relations with such countries are difficult to predict and could adversely affect our operations or cause potential target businesses or their goods and services to become less attractive. Because we are not limited to any specific industry, there is no basis for investors in this offering to evaluate the possible extent of any impact on our ultimate operations if relations are strained between the United States and a foreign country in which we acquire a target business or move our principal manufacturing or service operations.

If our management following our initial business combination is unfamiliar with United States securities laws, they may have to expend time and resources becoming familiar with such laws, which could lead to various regulatory issues.

Following our initial business combination, certain, if not all, members of our management team will likely resign from their positions as officers or directors of the company and the management of the target business at the time of the business combination will become of the management of the post-business combination company. Management of the target business may not be familiar with United States securities laws. If new management is unfamiliar with our laws, they may have to expend time and resources becoming familiar with such laws. This could be expensive and time-consuming and could lead to various regulatory issues, which may adversely affect our operations.

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Risks Relating to our Sponsor and 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 for which he or she may be entitled to substantial compensation and our officers are not obligated to contribute any specific number of hours per week to our affairs. Our independent directors also serve as officers and 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, see “Management and Advisory Board — Officers, Directors and Director Nominees.”

Our directors may decide not to enforce the indemnification obligations of our sponsor, resulting in a reduction in the amount of funds in the trust account available for distribution to our public shareholders.

In the event that the proceeds in the trust account are reduced below the lesser of (i) $10.00 per public share or (ii) such lesser amount per share held in the trust account as of the date of the liquidation of the trust account due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, in each case net of the interest which may be withdrawn to pay taxes, and our sponsor asserts that it is unable to satisfy its obligations or that it has no indemnification obligations related to a particular claim, our independent directors would determine whether to take legal action against our sponsor to enforce its indemnification obligations. While we currently expect that our independent directors would take legal action on our behalf against our sponsor to enforce its indemnification obligations to us, it is possible that our independent directors in exercising their business judgment may choose not to do so in any particular instance. If our independent directors choose not to enforce these indemnification obligations, the amount of funds in the trust account available for distribution to our public shareholders may be reduced below $10.00 per share.

Past performance by our management team and board advisors and their respective affiliates may not be indicative of future performance of an investment in us.

Information regarding performance by, or businesses associated with, our management team and board advisors and their affiliates is presented for informational purposes only. Past performance by our management team and board advisors, including their affiliates’ past performance, is not a guarantee either (i) of success with respect to any business combination we may consummate or (ii) that we will be able to locate a suitable candidate for our initial business combination. You should not rely on the historical record of our management team and board advisors and their affiliates as indicative of our future performance. Additionally, in the course of their respective careers, members of our management team have been involved in businesses and deals that were unsuccessful. None of our officers or directors has had experience operating a blank check company in the past.

We are dependent upon our officers and directors and their departure could adversely affect our ability to operate.

Our operations are dependent upon a relatively small group of individuals and, in particular, Giri Devanur and our other officers and directors. We believe that our success depends on the continued service of our officers and directors, at least until we have completed our initial business combination. In addition, our 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 officers. The unexpected loss of the services of one or more of our directors or officers could have a detrimental effect on us.

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Our ability to successfully effect our initial business combination and to be successful thereafter will be dependent upon the efforts of our key personnel, some of whom may join us following our initial business combination. The loss of our or a target’s key personnel could negatively impact the operations and profitability of our post-combination business.

Our ability to successfully effect our initial business combination is dependent upon the efforts of our key personnel. The role of our key personnel in the target business, however, cannot presently be ascertained. Although some of our key personnel may remain with the target business in senior management 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 who will be engaged by the combined company after our initial business combination, we cannot assure you that our assessment of these individuals will prove to be correct. These individuals may be unfamiliar with the requirements of operating a public company regulated by the SEC, which could cause us to have to expend time and resources helping them become familiar with such requirements.

In addition, the directors and officers of an acquisition candidate may resign upon completion of our initial business combination. The departure of a business combination target’s key personnel could negatively impact the operations and profitability of our post-combination business. The role of an acquisition candidate’s key personnel upon the completion of our initial business combination cannot be ascertained at this time. Although we contemplate that certain members of an acquisition candidate’s management team will remain associated with the acquisition candidate following our initial business combination, it is possible that members of the management of an acquisition candidate will not wish to remain in place. The loss of key personnel could negatively impact the operations and profitability of our post-combination business.

Our key personnel 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 key personnel may be able to remain with the company after the completion of our initial business combination only if they are able to negotiate employment or consulting agreements in connection with the business combination. Such negotiations would take place simultaneously with the negotiation of the business combination and could provide for such individuals to receive compensation in the form of cash payments and/or our securities for services they would render to us after the completion of the business combination. The personal and financial interests of such individuals may influence their motivation in identifying and selecting a target business, subject to his or her fiduciary duties under Cayman Islands law. However, we believe the ability of such individuals to remain with us after the completion of our initial business combination will not be the determining factor in our decision as to whether or not we will proceed with any potential business combination. There is no certainty, however, that any of our key personnel will remain with us after the completion of our initial business combination. We cannot assure you that any of our key personnel will remain in senior management or advisory positions with us. The determination as to whether any of our key personnel will remain with us will be made at the time of our initial business combination.

We may approve an amendment or waiver of the letter agreement that would allow our sponsor to directly, or the members of our sponsor to indirectly, transfer founder shares or membership interests in our sponsor in a transaction in which our sponsor removes itself as our sponsor before identifying an initial business combination, which may deprive us of key personnel.

While there is no current intention to do so, we may approve an amendment or waiver of the letter agreement that would allow our sponsor to directly, or the members of our sponsor to indirectly, transfer founder shares or membership interests in our sponsor in a transaction in which our sponsor removes itself as our sponsor before identifying an initial business combination. As a result, there is a risk that our sponsor and our officers, directors and board advisors who have an ownership interest in our sponsor may divest their ownership or economic interests in us or in our sponsor, which would likely result in our loss of certain key personnel. Any transferee would be required to agree to the transfer and non-redemption restrictions contained in the letter agreement, and such persons may not be released from those transfer and non-redemption restrictions prior to our initial business combination. There can be no assurance that any replacement sponsor or key personnel will successfully identify an initial business combination target for us, or, even if one is so identified, successfully complete such initial business combination.

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Our officers and directors may in the future become affiliated with entities engaged in business activities similar to those intended to be conducted by us and, accordingly, may have conflicts of interest in 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 may in the future become affiliated with entities such as operating companies or investment vehicles that are engaged in making and managing investments in a similar business, although they may not participate in the formation of, or become an officer or director of, any other special purpose acquisition companies with a class of securities registered under the Exchange Act until we have entered into a definitive agreement regarding our initial business combination or we have failed to complete our initial business combination within 18 months after the closing of this offering or during any Extension Period.

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 other entities prior to its presentation to us, subject to his or her fiduciary duties under Cayman Islands law.

For a complete discussion of our officers’ and directors’ business affiliations and the potential conflicts of interest that you should be aware of, see “Management and Advisory Board — Officers, Directors and Director Nominees,” “Management and Advisory Board — Conflicts of Interest” and “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions.”

Our officers, directors, security holders and their respective affiliates may have competitive pecuniary interests that conflict with our interests.

We have not adopted a policy that expressly prohibits our directors, 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. Additionally, we may enter into a business combination with a target business that is affiliated with either of our sponsor, our directors or officers, although we do not intend to do so. Nor do we have a policy that expressly prohibits any such persons from engaging for their own account in business activities of the types conducted by us. Accordingly, such persons or entities may have a conflict between their interests and ours. Any such companies, businesses or investments may present additional conflicts of interest in pursuing an initial business combination target, which could materially affect our ability to complete our initial business combination.

In addition, members of our management team and our board of directors will directly or indirectly own founder shares and/or private placement warrants following this offering, as set forth in “Principal Shareholders,” 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. 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 may be a breach of their fiduciary duties to us as a matter of Cayman Islands law and we or our shareholders might have a claim against such individuals for infringing on our shareholders’ rights. See the section titled “Description of Securities — Certain Differences in Corporate Law — Shareholders’ Suits” for further information on the ability to bring such claims. However, we might not ultimately be successful in any claim we may make against them for such reason.

We may engage Maxim as our financial advisor in connection with our initial business combination and as placement agent in connection with any private placement financing associated with our initial business combination. Financial interests in the completion our initial business combination may create conflicts of interest in connection with Maxim’s provisions of such services.

We may engage Maxim as our financial advisor in connection with our initial business combination and/or as placement agent in connection with any private placement financing associated with our initial business combination. The terms of any such engagement will be set forth in a separate agreement among us, Maxim, and any other

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placement agent(s), and will contain terms, conditions and fees (the “Maxim Advisory Fees”) that are customary for investment banks for similar transactions. Pursuant to any such engagement, the Maxim Advisory Fees would likely be conditioned upon the completion of our initial business combination.

Prior to the consummation of this offering, the Maxim individuals will purchase 200,000 founder shares for an aggregate purchase price of $1,300 and 200,000 private placement warrants for an aggregate purchase price of $200,000. These founder shares and private placement warrants (including the underlying Class A ordinary shares) will be worthless if we do not consummate our initial business combination.

To the extent that the Maxim Advisory Fees being conditioned on the completion of our initial business combination, and the Maxim individuals’ interest in founder shares and private placement warrants (and the underlying Class A ordinary shares), which will expire worthless if we fail to consummate an initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering, Maxim will have financial interests in the completion of the initial business combination that may create conflicts of interest in connection the services described above. If we retain Maxim as our financial advisor or placement agent in connection with our initial business combination, Maxim and the Maxim individuals will have financial interests in the completion of the initial business combination that may influence the advice that Maxim provides to us, which advice may contribute to our decision on whether to pursue a business combination with any target and impact the terms of any potential business combination.

Since our sponsor, initial shareholders, officers, directors and board advisors, and any other persons who have an interest in our founder shares and/or private placement warrants, including any holders of non-managing membership interests in our sponsor, will lose their entire investment in us, except to the extent they are entitled to redeem any public shares they acquire, as described in this prospectus, or to receive liquidating distributions on the founder shares from assets outside the trust account, if our initial business combination is not completed, a conflict of interest may arise in determining whether a particular business combination target is appropriate for our initial business combination.

On September 30, 2025, our sponsor acquired 3,833,333 founder shares for a purchase price of $25,000, or approximately $0.0065 per share. Up to 500,000 Class B ordinary shares held by our sponsor are subject to forfeiture to the extent that the underwriters’ over-allotment option is not exercised in full or in part so that the number of founder shares will equal 25% of the aggregate of our issued and outstanding Class A and Class B ordinary shares after this offering (excluding the Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement warrants and representative shares). Prior to this offering, our sponsor may transfer, directly or indirectly, founder shares, to our three independent director nominees for their board service, for nominal cash consideration. The founder shares will represent 25% of our issued and outstanding shares after this offering (excluding the Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement warrants and representative shares) or approximately 19.3% of our issued and outstanding shares after this offering (including the Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement warrants and the representative shares). The founder shares will be worthless if we do not complete an initial business combination. Prior to the consummation of this offering, our sponsor will forfeit 650,000 founder shares and at-risk capital investors will purchase 650,000 founder shares (of which, 200,000 founder shares will be purchased by the Maxim individuals and 450,000 founder shares will be purchased by the third-party investors), for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $4,225, or approximately $0.0065 per share, which will result in our sponsor owning 2,683,333 founder shares if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is not exercised (or 3,183,333 founder shares if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full). In addition, our sponsor and the at-risk capital investors have committed, pursuant to written agreements, to purchase an aggregate of 2,000,000 private placement warrants (or 2,075,000 private placement warrants if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) at a price of $1.00 per warrant, $2,000,000 in the aggregate (or $2,075,000 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), in a private placement that will occur simultaneously with the closing of this offering. Of those private placement warrants, our sponsor has agreed to purchase 1,350,000 private placement warrants (or 1,425,000 private placement warrants if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), and the at-risk capital investors have agreed to purchase 650,000 private placement warrants (whether or not the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised), of which, 200,000 private placement warrants will be purchased by the Maxim individuals and 450,000 private placement warrants will be purchased by the third-party investors. The private placement warrants will be identical to the public warrants sold in this offering, except as described in this prospectus. Such warrants will also be worthless if we do not complete a business combination.

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Further, the non-managing sponsor investors, Mr. Setti and Mr. Singhal have acquired, or have expressed an interest in acquiring, as applicable, non-managing membership interests in our sponsor, representing indirect interests in an aggregate of (i) 1,350,000 private placement warrants out of the 1,350,000 private placement warrants (or 1,425,000 private placement warrants if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) that will be purchased by our sponsor, in a private placement that will close at or prior to the consummation of this offering; and (ii) 1,080,000 founder shares out of the 2,683,333 founder shares held by our sponsor if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is not exercised (or 3,183,333 founder shares if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) held by our sponsor. The non-managing sponsor investors will not be subject to transfer restrictions or a lock-up agreement on any public shares that they may purchase in this offering or otherwise.

Except in certain limited circumstances, no member of the sponsor (including any holders of non-managing membership interests in our sponsor) may transfer all or any portion of its membership units in the sponsor. The non-managing sponsor investors will not be subject to transfer restrictions or a lock-up agreement on any units, Class A ordinary shares or public warrants that they may purchase in this offering or thereafter. The private placement warrants will be worthless if we do not complete our initial business combination.

The founder shares are identical to the public shares included in the units being sold in this offering except that (i) holders of the founder shares have the right to vote on the election and removal of directors and our transfer by way of continuation in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands prior to our initial business combination, (ii) the founder shares and the private placement warrants are subject to certain transfer restrictions, (iii) our sponsor and our officers, directors and board advisor have entered into a letter agreement with us, pursuant to which they have agreed (A) to waive their redemption rights with respect to their founder shares and public shares in connection with the completion of our initial business combination and (B) to waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to their founder shares if we fail to complete our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering or during any Extension Period (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 (iv) the founder shares are subject to registration rights.

The personal and financial interests of our officers and directors may influence their motivation in identifying and selecting a target business combination, completing an initial business combination and influencing the operation of the business following the initial business combination. This risk may become more acute as the time period during which our initial business combination must be completed nears.

Certain agreements related to this offering may be amended, or their provisions waived, without shareholder approval.

Certain of the agreements related to this offering to which we are a party may be amended, or their provisions waived, without shareholder approval. Such agreements include (i) the underwriting agreement between us and the underwriters, (ii) the letter agreement among us and our sponsor and our officers, directors and board advisor, (iii) the registration rights agreements among us and certain securityholders, (iv) the private placement warrants purchase agreement between us and our sponsor, (v) the subscription agreements between us and the at-risk capital investors, and (vi) the administrative services agreement between us and our sponsor. These agreements contain various provisions that our public shareholders might deem to be material. Amendments or waivers to such agreements would require the consent of the applicable parties thereto and, in certain cases, the consent of the representative of the underwriters. Any such modification, such as an amendment to shorten lock-up restrictions, may benefit our sponsor and our officers, directors and board advisors. Any such amendments may result in the completion of an initial business combination that may not otherwise have been possible and could have an adverse effect on the value of an investment in our securities. For example, although we would not amend lock-up provisions to permit securities held by our sponsor and our officers, directors and board advisors to be freely sold prior to our initial business combination, we may amend such provisions to permit some or all of them to be freely sold after the business combination earlier than they would otherwise be permitted, which may have an adverse effect on the price of our securities.

Our sponsor will control the election of our board of directors until consummation of our initial business combination and will hold a substantial interest in us. As a result, it will elect all of our directors and may exert a substantial influence on actions requiring shareholder vote, potentially in a manner that you do not support.

Upon the closing of this offering, our initial shareholders, including our sponsor, will own 25% of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares (assuming they do not purchase any units in this offering and excluding the Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement warrants and the representative shares). In addition, the founder

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shares, more than a majority of which are held by our sponsor, will entitle our sponsor to elect all of our directors prior to our initial business combination. Holders of our public shares will have no right 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 an affirmative vote of at least 90% of such shareholders who are eligible to vote and attend and vote in a general meeting of our shareholders. As a result, you will not have any influence over the appointment and removal of directors prior to our initial business combination.

Our sponsor and, to our knowledge, the at-risk capital investors, our officers and our directors have not expressed an intention to purchase any units in this offering, other than as disclosed in this prospectus. Factors that would be considered in making such additional purchases would include consideration of the current trading price of our Class A ordinary shares. In addition, as a result of its substantial ownership in our company, our sponsor may exert a substantial influence on other 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 and approval of major corporate transactions. If our sponsor purchases any additional ordinary shares in the aftermarket or in privately negotiated transactions, this would increase its influence over these actions. Accordingly, our sponsor will exert significant influence over actions requiring a shareholder vote at least until the completion of our initial business combination.

Since our sponsor, officers and directors will not be eligible to be reimbursed for their out-of-pocket expenses if our initial business combination is not completed, a conflict of interest may arise in determining whether a particular business combination target is appropriate for our initial business combination.

At the closing of our initial business combination, 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. There is no cap or ceiling on the reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with activities on our behalf. In addition, at the closing of our initial business combination, we may pay our sponsor, or an affiliate of the sponsor, consulting fees for assessing, negotiating and managing the process for consummating an initial business combination. These financial interests of our sponsor, officers and directors may influence their motivation in identifying and selecting a target business combination and completing an initial business combination.

After our initial business combination, it is possible that a majority of the combined company’s 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 the combined company’s directors and officers will reside outside of the United States and all of the combined company’s 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 the combined company’s 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, investors should be aware that there is uncertainty as to whether the courts of the Cayman Islands or any other applicable jurisdiction would recognize and enforce judgements of U.S. courts obtained against us or our directors or officers predicted upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any state in the 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.

Following our initial business combination, any or all of our management could resign from their positions as officers of the Company, and the management of the target business at the time of the business combination will remain in place. Management of the target business may not be familiar with United States securities laws. If new management is unfamiliar with United States securities laws, they may have to expend time and resources becoming familiar with such laws. This process could be expensive and time-consuming and could lead to various regulatory issues which may adversely affect our operations.

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Risks Relating to Our Securities

We may issue our shares to investors in connection with our initial business combination at a price that is less than the prevailing market price of our shares at that time.

In connection with our initial business combination, we may issue shares to investors in private placement transactions (such as PIPE transactions) at a price of $10.00 per share or at a price which approximates the per-share amounts in our trust account at such time. 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.

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 or public warrants, potentially at a loss.

Our public shareholders will be entitled to receive funds from the trust account only upon the earlier to occur of: (i) the completion of our initial business combination, (ii) the redemption of any public shares properly tendered in connection with a shareholder vote to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to (A) modify the substance or timing of our obligation to allow redemption in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of Class A ordinary shares or pre-business combination activity and (iii) the redemption of all of our public shares if we are unable to complete our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering or during any Extension Period, subject to applicable law and as further described herein. In no other circumstances will a public shareholder have any right or interest of any kind in the trust account. Holders of warrants will not have any right to the proceeds held in the trust account with respect to the warrants. Accordingly, to liquidate your investment, you may be forced to sell your public shares or warrants, potentially at a loss.

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 units listed on Nasdaq. We expect that our units will be listed on Nasdaq on or promptly after the date of this prospectus. Following the date our Class A ordinary shares and public warrants are eligible to trade separately, we anticipate that our Class A ordinary shares and public warrants 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 stock price levels. Generally, we must maintain a minimum market value of listed securities (generally $50,000,000) and a minimum number of holders of our securities (generally 400 public holders). 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 public shares price would generally be required to be at least $4.00 per share, the market value of our listed securities would be required to be at least $75,000,000, the market value of our unrestricted publicly held shares would be required to be at least $20,000,000 and we would be required to have a minimum of 400 round lot holders of our securities (with at least 50% of such round lot holders holding securities with a market value of at least $2,500). We cannot assure you that we will 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;

• reduced liquidity for our securities;

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

• a limited amount of news and analyst coverage; and

• a decreased ability to issue additional securities or obtain additional financing in the future.

The National Securities Markets Improvement Act of 1996, which is a federal statute, prevents or preempts the states from regulating the sale of certain securities, which are referred to as “covered securities.” Because we expect that our units and eventually our Class A ordinary shares and public warrants will be listed on Nasdaq, our units, Class A ordinary shares, and public warrants 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.

The grant of registration rights to our initial shareholders and holders of our private placement warrants and representative shares may make it more difficult to complete our initial business combination, and the future exercise of such rights may adversely affect the market price of our Class A ordinary shares.

Pursuant to the registration rights agreements to be entered into concurrently with the issuance and sale of the securities in this offering, our initial shareholders, Maxim and their permitted transferees and holders of representative shares can demand that we register the private placement warrants, the representative shares, the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the private placement warrants and the founder shares. We will bear the cost of registering these securities. The registration and availability of such a significant number of securities for trading in the public market may have an adverse effect on the market price of our Class A ordinary shares. In addition, the existence of the registration rights may make our initial business combination more costly or difficult to conclude. This is because the shareholders of the target business may increase the equity stake they seek in the combined entity or ask for more cash consideration to offset the negative impact on the market price of our Class A ordinary shares that is expected when the ordinary shares owned by our sponsor, holders of our private placement warrants or their respective permitted transferees are registered.

Our sponsor paid an aggregate of $25,000, or approximately $0.0065 per founder share, and, accordingly, you will experience immediate and substantial dilution upon the purchase of our ordinary shares.

The difference between the public offering price per share (allocating all of the unit purchase price to the Class A ordinary shares and none to the public warrants included in the units) and the pro forma net tangible book value per Class A ordinary 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, significantly contributing to this dilution. Upon the closing of this offering, you and the other public shareholders will incur an immediate and substantial dilution of approximately 98.30% (or $9.83 per share, assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option), the difference between the pro forma net tangible book value per share of $0.17 (assuming maximum redemptions) and the deemed offering price of $10.00 per unit. This dilution would increase to the extent that the anti-dilution provisions of the Class B ordinary shares result 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 and would become exacerbated to the extent that public shareholders seek redemptions from the trust. In addition, because of the anti-dilution protection in the founder shares, any equity or equity-linked securities issued or deemed issued in connection with our initial business combination would be disproportionately dilutive to our Class A ordinary shares.

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Our warrants and founder shares may have an adverse effect on the market price of our Class A ordinary shares and make it more difficult to effectuate our initial business combination.

We will be issuing warrants exercisable into up to 5,000,000 of our Class A ordinary shares (or up to 5,750,000 Class A ordinary shares if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) at a price of $11.50 per whole share (subject to adjustments as provided herein), as part of the units offered by this prospectus, and, simultaneously with the closing of this offering, we will be issuing private placement warrants exercisable into an aggregate of 2,000,000 (or 2,075,000 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) Class A ordinary at $11.50 per share in a private placement. Our sponsor holds an aggregate of 3,833,333 founder shares, of which 500,000 are subject to forfeiture depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised, and of which, 650,000 will be forfeited by the sponsor and purchased by the at-risk capital investors prior to this offering. The founder shares are convertible into Class A ordinary shares on a one-for-one basis, subject to adjustment as set forth herein and in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. To the extent we issue Class A ordinary shares to effectuate a business transaction, the potential for the issuance of a substantial number of additional Class A ordinary shares upon exercise of these warrants could make us a less attractive acquisition vehicle to a target business. Any such issuance will increase the number of issued and outstanding Class A ordinary shares and reduce the value of the Class A ordinary shares issued to complete the business transaction. Therefore, our warrants and founder shares may make it more difficult to effectuate a business combination or increase the cost of acquiring the target business.

We may amend the terms of the warrants in a manner that may be adverse to holders of public warrants with the approval by the holders of at least 50% of the then outstanding public warrants.

Our public warrants will be issued in registered form under a warrant agreement between Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as warrant agent, and us. The warrant agreement provides that (a) the terms of the public warrants may be amended without the consent of any holder for the purpose of (i) curing any ambiguity or correct any mistake, including to conform the provisions of the warrant agreement to the description of the terms of the public warrants and the warrant agreement set forth in this prospectus, or defective provision, (ii) removing or reducing the Company’s ability to redeem the public warrants and, if applicable, a corresponding amendment to the Company’s ability to redeem the private placement warrants, (iii) to provide for the delivery of the Alternative Issuance or (iv) adding or changing any provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under the warrant agreement as the parties to the warrant agreement may deem necessary or desirable and that the parties deem to not adversely affect the rights of the registered holders of the public warrants under the warrant agreement in any material respect, (b) the terms of the warrants may be amended with the vote or written consent of at least 50% of the then outstanding public warrants and private placement warrants, voting together as a single class, to allow for the warrants to be or continue to be, as applicable, classified as equity in our financial statements and (c) all other modifications or amendments to our warrant agreement with respect to (i) the public warrants require the vote or written consent of holders of at least 50% of the then outstanding public warrants and (ii) the private placement warrants require the vote or written consent of holders of at least 50% of the then outstanding private placement warrants. Accordingly, we may amend the terms of the public warrants in a manner adverse to a holder of public warrants if holders of at least 50% of the then outstanding public warrants approve of such amendment. Although our ability to amend the terms of the public warrants with the consent of at least 50% of the then outstanding public warrants is unlimited, examples of such amendments could be amendments to, among other things, increase the exercise price of the warrants, shorten the exercise period or decrease the number of ordinary shares purchasable upon exercise of a warrant.

Our warrant agreement will designate the courts of the State of New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York as the sole and exclusive forum for certain types of actions and proceedings that may be initiated by holders of our warrants, which could limit the ability of warrant holders to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with our company.

Our warrant agreement will provide that, subject to applicable law, (i) any action, proceeding or claim against us arising out of or relating in any way to the warrant agreement, including under the Securities Act, will be brought and enforced in the courts of the State of New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and (ii) that we irrevocably submit to such jurisdiction, which jurisdiction shall be the exclusive forum for any such action, proceeding or claim. We will waive any objection to such exclusive jurisdiction and that such courts represent an inconvenient forum.

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Notwithstanding the foregoing, these provisions of the warrant agreement will not apply to suits brought to enforce any liability or duty created by the Exchange Act or any other claim for which the federal district courts of the United States of America are the sole and exclusive forum. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in any of our warrants shall be deemed to have notice of and to have consented to the forum provisions in our warrant agreement. If any action, the subject matter of which is within the scope the forum provisions of the warrant agreement, is filed in a court other than a court of the State of New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (a “foreign action”) in the name of any holder of our warrants, such holder shall be deemed to have consented to: (x) the personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in the State of New York in connection with any action brought in any such court to enforce the forum provisions (an “enforcement action”), and (y) having service of process made upon such warrant holder in any such enforcement action by service upon such warrant holder’s counsel in the foreign action as agent for such warrant holder. This choice-of-forum provision may limit a warrant holder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with our company, which may discourage such lawsuits. Alternatively, if a court were to find this provision of our warrant agreement inapplicable or unenforceable with respect to one or more of the specified types of actions or proceedings, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such matters in other jurisdictions, which could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations and result in a diversion of the time and resources of our management and board of directors.

Our management’s ability to require holders of our public warrants to exercise such public warrants on a cashless basis will cause holders to receive fewer Class A ordinary shares upon their exercise of the public warrants than they would have received had they been able to exercise their public warrants for cash.

If we call our public warrants for redemption after the redemption criteria described elsewhere in this prospectus has been satisfied, our management will have the option to require any holder that wishes to exercise its public warrants (including any public warrants held by our sponsor, officers, directors or their permitted transferees) to do so on a cashless basis. If our management chooses to require holders to exercise their public warrants on a cashless basis, the number of Class A ordinary shares received by a holder upon exercise will be fewer than it would have been had such holder exercised their public warrants for cash. This will have the effect of reducing the potential “upside” of the holder’s investment in us.

We are not registering the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants under the Securities Act or any state securities laws at this time, and such registration may not be in place when an investor desires to exercise warrants, thus precluding such investor from being able to exercise its warrants except on a cashless basis and potentially causing such warrants to expire worthless.

We are not registering the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants under the Securities Act or any state securities laws at this time. In no event will we be required to net cash settle any public warrant, or issue securities or other compensation in exchange for the public warrants in the event that we are unable to register or qualify the shares underlying the public warrants under applicable state securities laws and no exemption is available. If the issuance of the shares upon exercise of the public warrants is not so registered or qualified or exempt from registration or qualification, the holder of such public warrant shall not be entitled to exercise such public warrant and such public warrant may have no value and expire worthless. In such event, holders who acquired their public warrants as part of a purchase of units will have paid the full unit purchase price solely for the Class A ordinary shares included in the units.

However, we have agreed that, as soon as practicable, but in no event later than 30 business days after the closing of our initial business combination, we will use our commercially reasonable efforts to file with the SEC a registration statement covering the issuance, under the Securities Act, of the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants, and we will use our commercially reasonable efforts to cause the same to become effective within 60 business days after the closing of our initial business combination and to maintain the effectiveness of such registration statement and a current prospectus relating thereto until the expiration of the warrants in accordance with the provisions of the warrant agreement. We cannot assure you that we will be able to do so if, for example, any facts or events arise which represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement or prospectus, the financial statements contained or incorporated by reference therein are not current, complete or correct or the SEC issues a stop order. If the shares issuable upon exercise of the public warrants are not registered under the Securities Act in accordance with the above requirements, we will be required to permit holders to exercise their public warrants on a cashless basis. However, no public warrant will be exercisable for cash or on a cashless basis, and

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we will not be obligated to issue any shares to holders seeking to exercise their public warrants, unless the issuance of the shares upon such exercise is registered or qualified under the securities laws of the state of the exercising holder, or an exemption from registration is available. Additionally, if, at the time that a public warrant is exercised, our Class A ordinary shares are not listed on a national securities exchange such that they satisfy the definition of a “covered security” under Section 18(b)(1) of the Securities Act, we may, at our option, require holders of public warrants who exercise their warrants to do so on a cashless basis in accordance with Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act and, in the event we so elect, we will not be required to file or maintain in effect a registration statement, but will use our commercially reasonable efforts to register or qualify the shares under applicable blue sky laws to the extent an exemption is not available. In the event of a cashless exercise pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the number of Class A ordinary shares that you will receive upon cashless exercise of a public warrant will be based on the formula described under “Description of Securities — Warrants — Public Warrants.”

Because each unit contains one-half of one public warrant and only a whole public warrant may be exercised, the units may be worth less than units of other blank check companies.

Each unit contains one-half of one public warrant. Pursuant to the warrant agreement, no fractional public warrants will be issued upon separation of the units, and only whole public warrants will trade. This is different from other offerings similar to ours whose units include one ordinary share and one whole public warrant to purchase one share. We have established the components of the units in this way in order to reduce the dilutive effect of the public warrants upon completion of a business combination since the public warrants will be exercisable in the aggregate for half of the number of shares compared to units that each contain a whole public warrant to purchase one whole share, thus making us, we believe, a more attractive business combination partner for target businesses. Nevertheless, this unit structure may cause our units to be worth less than if they included a public warrant to purchase one whole share.

A provision of our warrant agreement may make it more difficult for us to consummate an initial business combination.

Unlike many blank check companies, if:

(1) we issue additional ordinary shares or equity-linked securities for capital raising purposes in connection with the closing of our initial business combination at a Newly Issued Price of less than $9.20 per ordinary share;

(2) the aggregate gross proceeds from such issuances represent more than 60% of the total equity proceeds, and interest thereon, available for the funding of our initial business combination on the date of the completion of our initial business combination (net of redemptions); and

(3) the Market Value is below $9.20 per share,

then the exercise price of the warrants will be adjusted to be equal to 115% of the higher of the Market Value and the Newly Issued Price, and, in the case of the public warrants only, the $18.00 per share redemption trigger prices described below under “Description of Securities — Warrants — Public Warrants — Redemption of public warrants” will be adjusted (to the nearest cent) to be equal to 180% of the higher of the Market Value and the Newly Issued Price. This may make it more difficult for us to consummate an initial business combination with a target business.

We may redeem your unexpired public warrants prior to their exercise at a time that is disadvantageous to you, thereby making your public warrants worthless.

We have the ability to redeem outstanding warrants at any time after they become exercisable and prior to their expiration, at a price of $0.01 per public warrant if, among other things, the last reported sale price of our Class A ordinary shares equals or exceeds $18.00 per share (as adjusted to the number of shares issuable upon exercise or the exercise price of a public warrant as described under the heading “Description of Securities — Warrants — Public Warrants — Anti-dilution Adjustments”) for any 20 trading days within a 30 trading-day period ending on the third trading day prior to the date on which we send the notice of redemption to the warrant holders. If and when the public warrants become redeemable by us, we may exercise our redemption right even if we are unable to register or qualify the underlying securities for sale under all applicable state securities laws. As a result, we may redeem the public warrants as set forth above even if the holders are otherwise unable to exercise the public warrants. Redemption of the issued and outstanding public warrants could force you to: (1) exercise your public warrants and pay the

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exercise price therefor at a time when it may be disadvantageous for you to do so; (2) sell your public warrants at the then-current market price when you might otherwise wish to hold your public warrants; or (3) accept the nominal redemption price which, at the time the outstanding public warrants are called for redemption, we expect would be substantially less than the market value of your public warrants.

Unlike some other similarly structured blank check companies, our initial shareholders will beneficially own more than 20% of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares.

Upon the closing of this offering, our initial shareholders will beneficially own 25% of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares (not including the Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement warrants or the representative shares). This is different from some other similarly situated blank check companies in which the initial shareholders will only be issued an aggregate of 20% of the total number of shares to be outstanding prior to the initial business combination.

The determination of the offering price of our 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. You may have less assurance, therefore, that the offering price of our units properly reflects the value of such units than you would have in a typical offering of an operating company.

Prior to this offering there has been no public market for any of our securities. The public offering price of the units and the terms of the public warrants were negotiated between us and the underwriters. In determining the size of this offering, management held customary organizational meetings with representatives of the underwriters, both prior to our inception and thereafter, 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 units, including the ordinary shares and public warrants underlying the units, include:

• 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.

There is currently no market for our securities. 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. Furthermore, an active trading market for our securities may never develop or, if developed, it may not be sustained. You may be unable to sell your securities unless a market can be established and sustained.

We may issue additional Class A ordinary shares or preference shares to complete our initial business combination or under an employee incentive plan after completion of our initial business combination.

Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association authorizes 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 preference shares, par value $0.0001 per share. Immediately after this offering, there will be 189,500,000

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and 16,666,667 (assuming in each case that the underwriters have not exercised their over-allotment option) authorized but unissued Class A ordinary shares and Class B ordinary shares, respectively, available for issuance, which amount does not take into account the shares reserved for issuance upon exercise of outstanding warrants or conversion of the Class B ordinary shares. Class B ordinary shares are convertible into Class A ordinary shares, initially at a one-for-one ratio but subject to adjustment as set forth herein. Immediately after this offering, there will be no preference shares issued and outstanding.

We may issue a substantial number of additional Class A ordinary shares, and may issue preference shares, in order to complete our initial business combination or under an employee incentive plan after completion of our initial business combination. We may also issue Class A ordinary shares to redeem the warrants as described in “Description of Securities — Warrants — Public Warrants — Redemption of public warrants.” However, our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide, among other things, that prior to our initial business combination, we may not issue additional ordinary shares that would entitle the holders thereof to (1) receive funds from the trust account or (2) vote as a class with our public shares on any initial business combination. The issuance of additional ordinary shares or preference shares:

• may significantly dilute the equity interest of investors in this offering;

• may subordinate the rights of holders of ordinary shares if preference shares are issued with rights senior to those afforded our ordinary shares;

• could cause a change of control if a substantial number of our ordinary shares is 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 directors and officers;

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

• may adversely affect prevailing market prices for our units, ordinary shares and/or public warrants; and

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

An investment in this offering may result in uncertain U.S. federal income tax consequences.

An investment in this offering may result in uncertain U.S. federal income tax consequences. For instance, because there are no authorities that directly address instruments similar to the units we are issuing in this offering, the allocation an investor makes with respect to the purchase price of a unit between the Class A ordinary share and the one public right to purchase one fifth of one Class A ordinary share included in each unit could be challenged by the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) or courts. In addition, it is unclear whether the redemption rights with respect to our Class A ordinary shares suspend the running of a U.S. Holder’s (as defined in section titled “Income Tax Considerations — Certain U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations — U.S. Holders”) holding period for purposes of determining whether any gain or loss realized by such holder on the sale or exchange of Class A ordinary shares is long-term capital gain or loss and for determining whether any dividend we pay would be considered “qualified dividend income” for U.S. federal income tax purposes. See the section titled “Income Tax Considerations — Certain U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations” for a summary of the material U.S. federal income tax considerations of an investment in our securities. Prospective investors are urged to consult their own tax advisors with respect to these and other tax consequences when acquiring, owning or disposing of our securities.

General Risks Related to Our Business

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

We are a newly incorporated company established under the laws of the Cayman Islands 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. We have no plans, arrangements or understandings with any prospective target business concerning a business combination 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.

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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 December 31, 2025, we had a working capital deficit of $128,099. Further, we have incurred and expect to continue to incur significant costs in pursuit of our financing and 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.” We cannot assure you that our plans to raise capital or to consummate an initial business combination will 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.

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

Since the net proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants are intended to be used to complete an initial business combination with a target business that has not been identified, we may be deemed to be a “blank check” company under the U.S. securities laws. However, because we will have net tangible assets in excess of $5,000,000 upon the successful completion of this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants and will file a Current Report on Form 8-K, including an audited balance sheet demonstrating this fact, we are exempt from rules promulgated by the SEC to protect investors in blank check companies, such as Rule 419. Accordingly, investors will not be afforded the benefits or protections of those rules. Among other things, this means our units will be immediately tradable and we will have a longer period of time to complete our initial business combination than do companies subject to Rule 419. Moreover, if 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, see “Proposed Business — Comparison of This Offering to Those of Blank Check Companies Subject to Rule 419.”

If third parties bring claims against us, the proceeds held in the trust account could be reduced and the per-share redemption amount received by shareholders may be less than $10.00 per public share.

Our placing of funds in the trust account may not protect those funds from third-party claims against us. Although we will seek to have all vendors, service providers (other than our independent auditors), prospective target businesses or other entities with which we do business execute agreements with us waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the trust account for the benefit of our public shareholders, such parties may not execute such agreements, or even if they execute such agreements they may not be prevented from bringing claims against the trust account, including, but not limited to, fraudulent inducement, breach of fiduciary responsibility or other similar claims, as well as claims challenging the enforceability of the waiver, in each case in order to gain advantage with respect to a claim against our assets, including the funds held in the trust account. If any third party refuses to execute an agreement waiving such claims to the monies held in the trust account, our management will perform an analysis of the alternatives available to it and will only enter into an agreement with a third party that has not executed a waiver if management believes that such third party’s engagement would be significantly more beneficial to us than any alternative.

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. 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 share initially held in the trust account, due to claims of such creditors.

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Our sponsor has agreed that it will be liable to us if and to the extent any claims by a vendor for services rendered or products sold to us, or a prospective target business with which we have discussed entering into a transaction agreement, reduce the amount of funds in the trust account to below (i) $10.00 per public share or (ii) such lesser amount per public share held in the trust account as of the date of the liquidation of the trust account due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, in each case net of the interest which may be withdrawn to pay taxes, 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. Moreover, in the event that an executed waiver is deemed to be unenforceable against a third party, our sponsor will not be responsible to the extent of any liability for such third-party claims. We have not independently verified whether our sponsor has sufficient funds to satisfy their indemnity obligations and believe that our sponsor’s only assets are securities of our company. Our sponsor may not have sufficient funds available to satisfy those obligations. We have not asked our sponsor to reserve for such obligations, and therefore, no funds are currently set aside to cover any such 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.

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 all amounts received by our shareholders. In addition, our board of directors may be viewed as having breached its fiduciary duty to our creditors and/or having acted in bad faith, thereby exposing itself and us to claims of punitive damages, by paying public shareholders from the trust account prior to addressing the claims of creditors.

If, before distributing the proceeds in the trust account to our public shareholders, we file a bankruptcy petition or an involuntary bankruptcy petition is filed against us that is not dismissed, the claims of creditors in such proceeding may have priority over the claims of our shareholders and the per-share amount that would otherwise be received by our shareholders in connection with our liquidation may be reduced.

If, before distributing the proceeds in the trust account to our public shareholders, we 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.

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.

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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.

We do not believe that our anticipated principal activities will subject us to the Investment Company Act. The proceeds held in the trust account may be invested by the trustee only in U.S. government treasury bills with a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds investing solely in U.S. Treasuries and meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act. Because the investment of the proceeds will be restricted to these instruments, we believe we will meet the requirements for the exemption provided in Rule 3a-1 promulgated under the Investment Company Act. If we were deemed to be subject to the Investment Company Act, compliance with these additional regulatory burdens would require additional expenses for which we have not allotted funds and may hinder our ability to complete a business combination. If we 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 and our warrants will expire worthless.

There is currently uncertainty concerning the applicability of the Investment Company Act to a special purpose acquisition company, like us, and we may in the future be subject to a claim that we have been operating as an unregistered investment company. Since the assets in our trust account will be securities, there is nevertheless a risk that we could be considered to be operating as an unregistered investment company under the Investment Company Act. In addition, if we do not invest the proceeds as discussed above, we may be deemed to be subject to the Investment Company Act. If we are found to be an investment company under the Investment Company Act, we could be required to materially restructure our activities, wind down our operations, or register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. 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, force us to abandon our efforts to complete an initial business combination or result in our liquidation. If we are unable to complete our initial business combination or are required to liquidate, our public shareholders may receive only approximately $10.00 per share on the liquidation of our trust account and our warrants will expire worthless. As a result, our public shareholders will lose the investment opportunity in a target company and any price appreciation in the combined company. While we do not believe that our anticipated principal activities will subject us to the Investment Company Act, if any facts and circumstances change over time which would materially impact the risk that we may be considered to be operating as an unregistered investment company, we will update our disclosure to reflect such changes.

The longer that the funds in the trust account are held in short-term U.S. government securities or in money market funds invested exclusively in such securities, the greater the risk that we may be considered an unregistered investment company, in which case we may be required to liquidate.

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 may also change from time to time and those changes could have a material adverse effect on our business, investments and results of operations. In addition, a failure to comply with applicable laws or regulations, as interpreted and applied, could have a material adverse effect on our business, including our ability to negotiate and complete our initial business combination, and results of operations.

On January 24, 2024, the SEC adopted the final rules (the “SPAC Final Rules”), relating to, among the others, enhancing disclosures in initial business combination transactions involving SPACs and private operating companies; amending the financial statement requirements applicable to transactions involving shell companies; enhancing disclosure requirements related to projections, including requiring disclosure of all material bases of the projections and all material assumptions underlying the projections; increasing the potential liability of certain participants in proposed initial business combination transactions; and the extent to which SPACs could become subject to regulation

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under the Investment Company Act. The SPAC Final Rules were published in the Federal Register on February 26, 2024, and became effective on July 1, 2024. These rules may materially adversely affect our ability to engage financial and capital market advisors and negotiate and complete our initial business combination within the prescribed timeframe, and may increase the costs and time related thereto.

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.

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 Class A ordinary shares after or in connection with such initial business combination.

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 U.S. Department of the Treasury 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 not expected to apply to redemptions of our Class A ordinary shares, including redemptions related to extension votes, if any, a business combination in which we remain a Cayman Islands exempted company or otherwise (absent any regulations and other additional guidance that may be issued in the future with retroactive effect). Even in the event such a tax was to be imposed, the proceeds placed in the trust account and the interest earned thereon will not be used to pay for possible excise tax.

However, in connection with an initial business combination involving a company organized under the laws of the United States, it is possible that we domesticate and continue as a Delaware corporation prior to certain redemptions and, because our securities are trading on Nasdaq, it is possible that we will be subject to the stock buyback tax with respect to any subsequent redemptions, including redemptions related to extension votes, if any, or in connection with the initial business combination, that are treated as repurchases for this purpose (other than, pursuant to recently issued guidance from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, redemptions in complete liquidation of the company). In all cases, the extent of the stock buyback tax that may be incurred will depend on a number of factors, including the fair market value of our stock redeemed, the extent such redemptions could be treated as dividends and not repurchases, and the content of any regulations and other additional guidance from the U.S. Department of the Treasury that may be issued and applicable to the redemptions. Issuances of stock by a repurchasing corporation in a year in which such corporation repurchases stock may reduce the amount of excise tax imposed with respect to such repurchase. The excise tax is imposed on the repurchasing corporation itself, not the shareholders from which stock is repurchased. The imposition of the excise tax as a result of redemptions in connection with the initial business combination could, however, reduce the amount of cash available to pay redemptions or reduce the cash contribution to the target business in connection with our initial business combination, which could cause the other 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 excise tax.

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

If we are treated as a PFIC for any taxable year (or portion thereof) that is included in the holding period of a U.S. Holder (as defined in the section of this prospectus captioned “Income Tax Considerations — Certain U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations — U.S. Holders”) of our ordinary shares or public warrants (regardless of whether we remain a PFIC for subsequent taxable years), the U.S. Holder may be subject to adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences and may be subject to additional reporting requirements. Our PFIC status for our current and subsequent taxable years may depend upon, among others, the status of an acquired company pursuant to a business combination, the amount of our passive income and assets in the year of the business combination, the amount of passive income and assets of the acquired business and whether we qualify for the PFIC start-up exception (see the section of this prospectus captioned “Income Tax Considerations — Certain U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations — U.S. Holders — Passive Foreign Investment Company Rules”). Depending on the particular circumstances, the application of the start-up exception may be subject to uncertainty, and there cannot be any assurance that we will qualify for the start-up exception. Accordingly, there can be no assurances with respect to our status as a PFIC for our current taxable year or any subsequent taxable year. Our actual PFIC status for any taxable year, moreover, will not be determinable until after the end of such taxable year. If we determine we are a PFIC for any taxable year, we will endeavor upon written request by a U.S. Holder to provide to such U.S. Holder such information as the IRS may require, including a PFIC Annual Information Statement, in order to enable the U.S. Holder to make and maintain a “qualified electing fund” (“QEF”) election with respect to its Class A ordinary shares, but there can be no assurance that we will timely provide such required information, and such election would likely be unavailable with respect to our rights in all cases. 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. We urge U.S. Holders to consult their own tax advisors regarding the possible application of the PFIC rules them in their particular circumstances. For a more detailed explanation of the tax consequences of PFIC classification to U.S. Holders, see “Income Tax Considerations — U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations — U.S. Holders — Passive Foreign Investment Company Rules.”

We face risks related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict and any other conflicts that may arise on a global or regional scale which may adversely affect the business and results of operations of the post-combination entity.

On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation launched an invasion of Ukraine that has had an immediate impact on the global economy resulting in higher energy prices and higher prices for certain raw materials and goods and services which in turn is contributing to higher inflation in the United States and other countries across the globe with significant disruption to financial markets and supply and distribution chains for certain raw materials and goods and services on an unprecedented scale. The impact of the sanctions has also included disruptions to financial markets, an inability to complete financial or banking transactions, restrictions on travel and an inability to service existing or new customers in a timely manner in the affected areas of Europe. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has continued to escalate without any resolution of the invasion foreseeable in the near future with the short and long-term impact on financial and business conditions in Europe remaining highly uncertain.

The U.S. and the European Union responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by imposing various economic sanctions on the Russian Federation to which the Russian Federation has responded in kind. The United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Australia and other countries across the globe have imposed their own sanctions on the Russian Federation. The United States, the European Union and such other countries acting together or separately could impose wider sanctions or take further actions against the Russian Federation if the conflict continues to escalate. Multinational corporations and other corporations and businesses with business and financial ties to the Russian Federation have either reduced or eliminated their ties to the Russian Federation in a manner that often exceeds what is required pursuant to sanctions by these countries.

Further, the Russian Federation’s cyberattacks and other action may impact businesses across the United States, the European Union and other nations across the globe including those without any direct business ties to the Russian Federation.

In addition, the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas that broke out in October 2023 could also disrupt the world economy and increase trade tensions. The conflict could lead to fluctuations in energy prices and affect the macroeconomic policies of the major economies. Economic activities related to this region could also be adversely impacted.

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It is uncertain if the post-combination entity’s business, operation, or financial conditions could be materially impacted in the event of a downturn in the worldwide economy resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict and other conflicts with a global impact.

Holders of Class A ordinary shares will not be entitled to vote on any appointment or removal of directors or vote on any transfer by way of continuation in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands we hold prior to our initial business combination.

Prior to our initial business combination, only holders of our founder shares will have the right to vote on the appointment and removal of directors and our transfer by way of continuation in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands. Holders of our public shares will not be entitled to vote on the appointment or removal of directors or our transfer by way of continuation in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands during such time. Accordingly, as holders of our Class A ordinary shares, our public shareholders will not have any say in the management of our company prior to the consummation of an initial business combination.

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

If we are forced to enter into an insolvent liquidation, any distributions received by shareholders could be viewed as an unlawful payment if it was proved that immediately following the date on which the distribution was made, we were unable to pay our debts as they fall due in the ordinary course of business. As a result, a liquidator could seek to recover some or all amounts received by our shareholders. Furthermore, our directors may be viewed as having breached their fiduciary duties to us or our creditors and/or may have acted in bad faith, and 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 offense and may be liable to a fine and to imprisonment for five years in the Cayman Islands.

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 no later than one year after our first fiscal year end following our listing on Nasdaq. There is no requirement under the Companies Act for us to hold annual general meetings or general meetings to elect directors. Until we hold an annual meeting of shareholders, public shareholders may not be afforded the opportunity to discuss company affairs with management. In addition, as holders of our Class A ordinary shares, our public shareholders will not have the right to vote on the election or removal of directors or our transfer by way of continuation in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands prior to consummation of our initial business combination.

We are an emerging growth company within the meaning of the Securities Act, and if we take advantage of certain exemptions from disclosure requirements available to emerging growth companies, this could make our securities less attractive to investors and may make it more difficult to compare our performance with other public companies.

We are an “emerging growth company” within the meaning of the Securities Act, as modified by the JOBS Act, and we may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that 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 ordinary shares held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the end of any second quarter of a fiscal year, in which case we would no longer be an emerging growth company as of the end of such fiscal year. We cannot predict whether investors will find our securities less

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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 an election to opt out is irrevocable. We have elected not to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, we, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of our financial statements with another public company which is neither an emerging growth company nor an emerging growth company which has opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accountant standards used.

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 an acquisition.

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, 2026. 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 initial business combination may not be in compliance with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act regarding adequacy of its internal controls. The development of the internal controls of any such entity to achieve compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may increase the time and costs necessary to complete any such acquisition.

Because we are incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands, you may face difficulties in protecting your interests, and your ability to protect your rights through the U.S. Federal courts may be limited.

We are an exempted company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands. As a result, it may be difficult for our shareholders to effect service of process within the United States upon our directors or officers, or to enforce judgments obtained in the United States courts against our directors or officers. Our corporate affairs and the rights of shareholders are governed by our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, the Companies Act (as the same may be supplemented or amended from time to time) and the common law of the Cayman Islands. 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 not clearly established as what they would be under statutes or judicial precedent in some jurisdictions in the U.S. In particular, the Cayman Islands has a less developed body of securities laws as compared to the U.S., 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.

Shareholders of Cayman Islands exempted companies like us have no general rights under Cayman Islands law to inspect corporate records (other than the memorandum and articles of association and any special resolutions passed by such companies, and the register of mortgages and charges of such companies) or to obtain copies of lists of shareholders of these companies. Our directors will have discretion under our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association that will become effective upon the effectiveness of this registration statement to determine

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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.

Certain corporate governance practices in the Cayman Islands, which is our home country, differ significantly from requirements for companies incorporated in other jurisdictions such as the United States. Currently, we do not plan to rely on home country practice with respect to any corporate governance matter. However, if we choose to follow home country practice in the future, our shareholders may be afforded less protection than they otherwise would under rules and regulations applicable to U.S. domestic issuers.

As a result of all of the above, our public shareholders may have more difficulty in protecting their interests in the face of actions taken by management, members of our board of directors or controlling shareholders than they would as public shareholders of a company incorporated in the United States. For a discussion of significant differences between the provisions of the Companies Act (As Revised) of the Cayman Islands and the laws applicable to companies incorporated in the United States and their shareholders, see “Description of Securities — Certain Differences in Corporate Law.”

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 will contain provisions that may discourage unsolicited takeover proposals that shareholders may consider to be in their best interests. These provisions include the ability of the board of directors to designate the terms of and issue new series of preference shares, which may make more difficult the removal of management and may discourage transactions that otherwise could involve payment of a premium over prevailing market prices for our securities.

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CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Some statements contained in this prospectus are forward-looking in nature. Our forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our or our management team’s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that 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 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 additional financing to complete our initial business combination;

• our pool of prospective target businesses;

• the ability of our officers and directors to generate a number of potential acquisition opportunities;

• our public securities’ potential liquidity and trading;

• the lack of a market for our securities;

• the use of proceeds not held in the trust account or available to us from interest income on the trust account balance; 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. There can be no assurance that future developments affecting us will 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.

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ENFORCEABILITY OF CIVIL LIABILITIES

We are an exempted company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands. The Cayman Islands has a different body of securities laws as compared to the U.S. and provides less protection to investors. Additionally, Cayman Islands companies may not have standing to sue before the Federal courts of the U.S.

We have been advised by our Cayman Islands legal counsel, Appleby (Cayman) Ltd., that there is uncertainty as to whether the courts of the Cayman Islands would:

• recognize or enforce against us judgments of courts of the United States based on certain civil liability provisions of U.S. securities laws; and

• entertain original actions brought in the Cayman Islands to impose liabilities 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 United States, so far as the liabilities imposed by those provisions are penal in nature.

There is no statutory enforcement in the Cayman Islands of judgments obtained in the United States, although the courts of the Cayman Islands will in certain circumstances recognize and enforce a foreign money judgment of a foreign court of competent jurisdiction, without any re-examination or re-litigation 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:

(a) given by a foreign court of competent jurisdiction;

(b) imposed on the judgment debtor a liability to pay a liquidated sum for which the judgment has been given;

(d) not be in respect of taxes, a fine or a penalty, inconsistent with a Cayman Islands judgment in respect of the same matter;

(e) impeachable on the grounds of fraud; or

(f) 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).

Subject to the above limitations, in appropriate circumstances, a Cayman Islands court may give effect in the Cayman Islands to other kinds of final foreign judgments such as declaratory orders, orders for performance of contracts and injunctions. A Cayman Islands Court may stay enforcement proceedings if concurrent proceedings are being brought elsewhere.

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USE OF PROCEEDS

We are offering 10,000,000 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 placement warrants will be used as set forth in the following table.

	Without Over-Allotment Option			Over-Allotment Option Exercised
Gross proceeds
Gross proceeds from units offered to public(1)	$	100,000,000		$	115,000,000
Gross proceeds from private placement warrants offered to the sponsor and the at-risk capital investors in the private placement	$	2,000,000			2,075,000
Total gross proceeds	$	102,000,000		$	117,075,000

Offering expenses(2)
Underwriting discount and commissions	$	500,000		$	575,000
Legal fees and expenses		225,000			225,000
Accounting fees and expenses		50,000			50,000
SEC/FINRA Expenses		50,000			50,000
Reimbursement to underwriters for expenses		90,000			90,000
Nasdaq listing and filing fees		80,000			80,000
Printing and engraving expenses		20,000			20,000
Miscellaneous(3)		235,000			235,000
Total offering expenses (other than underwriting discount and commissions)	$	750,000		$	750,000
Proceeds after offering expenses	$	100,750,000		$	115,750,000
Held in trust account	$	100,000,000		$	115,000,000
% of public offering size		100.0	%		100.0	%
Not held in trust account(2)	$	750,000		$	750,000

The following table shows the use of approximately $750,000 that we expect to use as working capital during the 12-month period following the closing of this offering, to be paid using net proceeds from this offering not held in the trust account of $750,000. In the event that we incur additional expenses prior to the closing of the initial business combination, we expect that such amounts will be satisfied, if necessary, with loans from our sponsor.(4)

	Amount		% of Total
Legal, accounting, due diligence, travel, and other expenses in connection with any business combination(5)	$	225,000	30.0	%
Legal and accounting fees related to regulatory reporting obligations		175,000	23.3	%
Nasdaq continued listing fees		85,000	11.3	%
Working capital to cover miscellaneous expenses, general corporate purposes, directors’ and officers’ liability insurance, liquidation obligations and reserves		265,000	35.3	%
Total(6)	$	750,000	100.0	%

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(1) Includes amounts payable to public shareholders who properly redeem their shares in connection with our successful completion of our initial business combination.

(2) A portion of the offering expenses will be paid from the proceeds of loans from our sponsor of up to $500,000 as described in this prospectus. As of December 31, 2025, our sponsor advanced $124,574 to us. Our sponsor will purchase 1,350,000 private placement warrants (or 1,425,000 private placement warrants if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), in a private placement that will close simultaneously with the closing of this offering, for an aggregate purchase price of $1,350,000 (or $1,425,000 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), a portion of which will be paid in satisfaction of $[•] of the principal balance underlying the promissory note issued to our sponsor, which amount is included in the $750,000 of expenses to be paid (not including underwriting discount and commissions) relating to this offering. In the event that offering expenses are less than as set forth in this table, any such amounts will be used for post-closing working capital expenses. In the event that the offering expenses are more than as set forth in this table, we may fund such excess with funds not held in the trust account or loans from our sponsor.

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(3) Includes organizational and administrative expenses and may include amounts related to above-listed expenses in the event actual amounts exceed estimates.

(4) The amounts in the table above will be paid from net proceeds from this offering not held in the trust and, if necessary, additional sponsor loans. Our sponsor, however, is not obligated to make additional sponsor loans. These expenses are estimates only. Our actual expenditures for some or all of these items may differ from the estimates set forth herein. 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 as permitted withdrawals. Based on current interest rates, we would expect approximately $4.4 million (or $5.06 million if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) to be available to us from interest earned on the funds held in the trust account over 12 months following the investment of such funds in specified U.S. Government Treasury bills, however, we can provide no assurances regarding this amount. These estimates assume an interest rate of 4.40% per annum based upon current yields of securities in which the trust account may be invested. In addition, in order to finance transaction costs in connection with an intended initial business combination, our sponsor or an affiliate or designees of our sponsor or certain of our officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan us funds as may be required. If we complete our initial business combination, we would repay such loaned amounts out of the proceeds of the trust account released to us. Otherwise, such loans would be repaid only out of funds held outside the trust account. In the event that our 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 to repay such loaned amounts. The terms of such loans by our sponsor, affiliate of our sponsor, or certain of our officers and directors, if any, have not been determined and no written agreements exist with respect to such loans.

(5) Includes estimated amounts that may also be used in connection with our initial business combination to fund a “no shop” provision and commitment fees for financing.

(6) Does not include the services fee of $20,000 per month, which may be paid upon the consummation of our initial business combination or our liquidation, assuming there is cash available.

Of the net proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants, $100,000,000 (or $115,000,000 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) will, upon the consummation of this offering, be invested only in U.S. government treasury bills 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 or in an interest bearing or non-interest bearing demand deposit account. Based on current interest rates, we estimate that the interest earned on the trust account will be approximately $4.4 million (or $5.06 million if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) per year, assuming an interest rate of 4.40% per year, following the investment of such funds in specified U.S. government treasury bills or in specified money market funds. We will not be permitted to withdraw any of the principal or interest held in the trust account except for the withdrawal of interest to pay taxes, if any, the proceeds from this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants will not be released from the trust account until the earliest of (i) the completion of our initial business combination, (ii) the redemption of any public shares properly tendered in connection with a shareholder vote to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to (A) modify the substance or timing of our obligation to allow redemption in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of Class A ordinary shares or pre-business combination activity and (iii) the redemption of all of our public shares if we are unable to complete our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering or during any Extension Period, subject to applicable law.

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 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 from the trust account for general corporate purposes, including for maintenance or expansion of operations of the post-transaction company, 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. There is no limitation on our ability to raise funds privately or through loans in connection with our initial business combination.

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We believe that amounts not held in trust 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 a business combination. However, if our estimate of the costs of undertaking in-depth due diligence and negotiating a 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. If we are required to seek additional capital, we could seek such additional capital through loans or additional investments from our sponsor, members of our management team or their affiliates, but such persons are not under any obligation to advance funds to, or invest in, us.

We will enter into an Administrative Services Agreement pursuant to which we will pay our sponsor a total of $20,000 per month for office space, administrative and support services commencing on the effectiveness of this offering, which may be paid upon consummation of our initial business combination or our liquidation, assuming there is cash available. Upon completion of our initial business combination or our liquidation, we will cease paying these monthly fees.

Prior to the closing of this offering, our sponsor has agreed to loan us up to $500,000 to be used for a portion of the expenses of this offering. As of December 31, 2025, our sponsor advanced $124,574 in loans to us. This note is non-interest bearing, unsecured and due at the earlier of the date on which we consummate our initial business combination or on the date of our dissolution deadline, assuming there is cash available. Our sponsor will purchase 1,350,000 private placement warrants (or 1,425,000 private placement warrants if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), in a private placement that will close simultaneously with the closing of this offering, for an aggregate purchase price of $1,350,000 (or $1,425,000 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), $[•] of which will be paid in immediately available funds and up to $[•] will be paid in satisfaction of the principal balance underlying the promissory note issued to the sponsor.

In addition, in order to finance transaction costs in connection with an intended initial business combination, our sponsor or an affiliate or a designee of our sponsor or certain of our officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan us funds as may be required. If we complete our initial business combination, we would repay such loaned amounts out of the proceeds of the trust account released to us. Otherwise, such loans would be repaid only out of funds held outside the trust account. In the event that our 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 to repay such loaned amounts.

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 sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates may also purchase shares in privately negotiated transactions or in the open market either prior to or following the completion of our initial business combination. See “Proposed Business — Permitted Purchases and Other Transactions With Respect to our Securities” for a description of how such persons will determine which shareholders to seek to acquire shares from. The price per share paid in any such transaction 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. If they engage 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 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 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) the completion of our initial business combination, (ii) the redemption of any public shares properly tendered in connection with a shareholder vote to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to (A) 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 18 months from the closing of this offering or (B) with respect to any other

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provision relating to the rights of holders of Class A ordinary shares or pre-business combination activity and (iii) the redemption of all of our public shares if we are unable to complete our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of this offering or during any Extension Period, 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 sponsor and our officers, directors and board advisor have entered into a letter agreement with us, pursuant to which they have agreed to waive their redemption rights with respect to their founder shares and any public shares they may hold in connection with the completion of our initial business combination. In addition, our sponsor, officers, directors and board advisor have agreed to waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to their founder shares if we fail to complete our initial business combination within the prescribed time frame. However, if our sponsor or any of our officers, directors or affiliates acquires 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 prescribed time frame.

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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. A Cayman Islands company may pay a dividend on its shares out of either profit or the share premium account, provided that in no circumstances may a dividend be paid if following such payment the company would be unable to pay its debts as they fall due in the ordinary course of business. 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 and we will only pay such dividend out of our profits or share premium account (subject to solvency requirements) as permitted under Cayman Islands Law. In addition, 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 the offering, in which case we will effect a capitalization or share dividend or other appropriate mechanism immediately prior to the consummation of the offering in such amount as necessary to maintain the ownership of our initial shareholders prior to this offering at 25% of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares upon the consummation of this offering (excluding the Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement warrants and representative 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 ordinary share, assuming no value is attributed to the public warrants included in the units we are offering pursuant to this prospectus, or the private placement warrants, and the pro forma net tangible book value per ordinary share after this offering constitutes the dilution to investors in this offering. Such calculation does not reflect any dilution associated with the sale and exercise of warrants, including the private placement warrants, which would cause the actual dilution to the public shareholders to be higher, particularly where a cashless exercise is utilized. Net tangible book value per share is determined by dividing our net tangible book value, which is our total tangible assets less total liabilities (including the value of ordinary shares which may be redeemed for cash), by the number of outstanding ordinary shares.

The following table illustrates the difference between the public offering price and our net tangible book value (“NTBV”), as adjusted to give effect to this offering and to redemptions of our public shares at varying levels, assuming the full exercise and no exercise of the over-allotment option.

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, and (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; and (B) assumes the issuance of 10,000,000 Class A ordinary shares (or 11,500,000 Class A ordinary shares if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), 3,833,333 founder shares (of which up to 500,000 founder shares held by our sponsor are assumed to be forfeited in the scenario in which the underwriters’ over-allotment option is not exercised in full) and 500,000 representative shares (or 575,000 representative shares if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full). The issuance of additional ordinary or preference shares may significantly dilute the equity interest of investors in this offering, 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.

As of December 31, 2025
Offering Price of $10.00 per Unit		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 Full Exercise of Over-Allotment Option
$	7.27	$	6.67	$	3.33	$	5.73	$	4.27	$	4.05	$	5.95	$	0.16	$	9.84
	Assuming No Exercise of Over-Allotment Option
$	7.27	$	6.67	$	3.33	$	5.73	$	4.27	$	4.05	$	5.95	$	0.17	$	9.83

For purposes of presenting the “Maximum Redemption” scenario, we have reduced our NTBV after this offering (assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional units) by $100,000,000 because holders of up to approximately 100% of our public shares may redeem their shares for a pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account at a per share redemption price equal to the amount in the trust account as set forth in our tender offer or proxy materials (initially anticipated to be the aggregate amount held in trust two business days prior to the commencement of our tender offer or shareholders meeting, including interest, divided by the number of Class A ordinary shares sold in this offering).

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For each of the redemption scenarios above, the NTBV was calculated as follows:

	No Redemptions				25%				50%				75%				100%
	W/O Over- Allotment		With Over- Allotment		W/O Over- Allotment		With Over- Allotment		W/O Over- Allotment		With Over- Allotment		W/O Over- Allotment		With Over- Allotment		W/O Over- Allotment		With Over- Allotment
Numerator
Net tangible book deficit before this offering	(128,099	)	(128,099	)	(128,099	)	(128,099	)	(128,099	)	(128,099	)	(128,099	)	(128,099	)	(128,099	)	(128,099	)
Net proceeds from this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants	100,750,000		115,750,000		100,750,000		115,750,000		100,750,000		115,750,000		100,750,000		115,750,000		100,750,000		115,750,000
Plus: Offering costs accrued for or paid in advance, excluded from tangible book value	105,403		105,403		105,403		105,403		105,403		105,403		105,403		105,403		105,403		105,403
Less: over-allotment liability	(94,400	)	—		(94,400	)	—		(94,400	)	—		(94,400	)	—		(94,400	)	—
Less: Amounts paid for redemptions	—		—		(25,000,000	)	(28,750,000	)	(50,000,000	)	(57,500,000	)	(75,000,000	)	(86,250,000	)	(100,000,000	)	(115,000,000	)
	100,632,904		115,727,304		75,632,904		86,977,304		50,632,904		58,227,304		25,632,904

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