Pono Capital Four (NASDAQ: PONOU) closes $120M SPAC IPO and funds trust
Pono Capital Four, Inc. completed its initial public offering of 12,000,000 units at $10.00 per unit, raising $120,000,000. Each unit includes one Class A ordinary share and one right to receive one-fifth of a Class A share after a business combination.
At the same time, the sponsor Mehana Ventures LLC and an institutional investor bought 190,000 private units for $1,900,000. In total, $120,000,000, including up to $2,500,000 of deferred underwriting commissions, was placed in a trust account for the benefit of public shareholders.
The audited balance sheet as of March 16, 2026 shows total assets of $120,626,136, with $120,000,000 held in the trust and $619,425 in cash. All 12,000,000 Class A shares issued in the IPO are classified as redeemable at an initial value of $10.00 per share, consistent with the SPAC’s structure and 18‑month completion window for a business combination.
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Item 8.01. Other Events.
As previously disclosed, on March 16, 2026, Pono Capital Four, Inc., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company”) consummated its initial public offering (“IPO”), which consisted of 12,000,000 units (the “Units”). Each Unit consists of one Class A ordinary share, $0.0001 par value (“Class A Ordinary Share”) and one right to receive one-fifth of one Class A Ordinary Share of the Company (each, a “Share Right”). The Units were sold at an offering price of $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $120,000,000.
Simultaneously with the closing of the IPO, the Company consummated a private placement (the “Private Placement”) of an aggregate of 190,000 units (the “Private Units”) to Mehana Ventures LLC (the “Sponsor”) and a certain institutional investor (the “Private Placement Investor”), at a price of $10.00 per Private Unit, generating total proceeds of $1,900,000. Each Private Unit consists of one Class A Ordinary Share and one Share Right. Of those 190,000 Private Units, the Sponsor purchased 160,000 Private Units and the Private Placement Investor purchased 30,000 Private Units.
As of March 16, 2026, a total of $120,000,000 of the net proceeds from the IPO and the Private Placement, which amount included up to $2,500,000 in deferred underwriting commissions, was deposited in a trust account established for the benefit of the Company’s public shareholders. An audited balance sheet as of March 16, 2026, reflecting receipt of the proceeds upon consummation of the IPO and the Private Placement is included as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K..
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
| Exhibit No. | Description | |
| 99.1 | Balance Sheet as of March 16, 2026. | |
| 104 | The cover page from this Current Report on Form 8-K, formatted in Inline XBRL |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Dated: March 23, 2026 | ||
| Pono Capital Four, Inc. | ||
| By: | /s/ Dustin Shindo | |
| Name: | Dustin Shindo | |
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer | |
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Exhibit 99.1
Pono Capital Four, Inc.
INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENT
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| Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm | F-2 |
| Balance Sheet as of March 16, 2026 | F-3 |
| Notes to Financial Statement | F-4 |
F-1
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of
Pono Capital Four, Inc.:
Opinion on the Financial Statement
We have audited the accompanying balance sheet of Pono Capital Four, Inc. (the “Company”) as of March 16, 2026, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statement”). In our opinion, the financial statement presents fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of March 16, 2026, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Basis for Opinion
This financial statement is the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statement based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (the “PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statement is free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audit, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
Our audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statement, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statement. Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statement. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
/s/ WithumSmith+Brown, PC
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2026.
New York, New York
March 23, 2026
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Pono Capital Four, Inc.
BALANCE SHEET
March 16, 2026
| Assets: | ||||
| Current assets | ||||
| Cash | $ | 619,425 | ||
| Prepaid expenses | 6,711 | |||
| Total current assets | 626,136 | |||
| Cash held in Trust Account | 120,000,000 | |||
| Total Assets | $ | 120,626,136 | ||
| Liabilities, Class A Ordinary Shares Subject to Redemption, and Shareholders’ Deficit: | ||||
| Current liabilities | ||||
| Over-allotment liability | $ | 135,000 | ||
| Total current liabilities | 135,000 | |||
| Deferred underwriting commissions | 2,500,000 | |||
| Total Liabilities | 2,635,000 | |||
| Commitments and Contingencies (Note 7) | ||||
| Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption, $0.0001 par value; 12,000,000 shares issued and outstanding at redemption value of $10.00 per share | 120,000,000 | |||
| Shareholders’ Deficit | ||||
| Preference shares, $0.0001 par value; 1,000,000 shares authorized; none issued or outstanding | — | |||
| Class A ordinary shares, $0.0001 par value; 200,000,000 shares authorized; 205,000 shares issued and outstanding (excluding 12,000,000 shares subject to possible redemption) | 21 | |||
| Class B ordinary shares, $0.0001 par value; 20,000,000 shares authorized; 5,914,286 shares issued and outstanding(1)(2) | 591 | |||
| Additional paid-in capital | — | |||
| Accumulated deficit | (2,009,476 | ) | ||
| Total Shareholders’ Deficit | (2,008,864 | ) | ||
| Total Liabilities, Class A Ordinary Shares Subject to Redemption, and Shareholders’ Deficit | $ | 120,626,136 | ||
| (1) | On January 22, 2026, through a share dividend, the Company issued an additional 1,232,143 founder shares to our sponsor, resulting in our sponsor holding an aggregate of 7,392,857 founder shares. The Company’s stockholders currently hold 5,914,286 founder shares after the Company forfeited 1,478,571 founder shares in connection with pricing of the offering. All share amounts and related information have been retroactively restated to reflect the share dividend (Note 6). |
| (2) | Includes up to 771,429 Class B ordinary shares subject to forfeiture if the over-allotment option is not exercised in full or in part by the underwriter (Note 6). |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statement.
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Pono Capital Four, Inc.
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENT
March 16, 2026
Note 1 — Organization and Business Operations
Pono Capital Four, Inc. (the “Company”) is a blank check company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company on January 2, 2026. The Company was incorporated for the purpose of effecting a merger, amalgamation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities (the “Business Combination”).
As of March 16, 2026, the Company has not commenced any operations. All activity for the period from January 2, 2026 (inception) through March 16, 2026, relates to the Company’s formation and the initial public offering (the “Initial Public Offering”), as defined below. The Company will not generate any operating revenues until after the completion of its initial Business Combination, at the earliest. The Company will generate non-operating income in the form of interest income from the proceeds derived from the Initial Public Offering. The Company has selected December 31 as its fiscal year end. The Company’s Sponsor is Mehana Ventures LLC (the “Sponsor”).
On March 16, 2026, the Company consummated the Initial Public Offering of 12,000,000 units at $10.00 per unit (the “Public Units”), generating proceeds of $120,000,000. Each Public Unit consists of one Class A ordinary share (each, a “Public Share”) and one right to receive one-fifth (1/5th) of one Class A ordinary share upon the consummation of an initial Business Combination (each, a “Public Right”).
Simultaneously with the consummation of the Initial Public Offering, the Company consummated the sale of an aggregate of 190,000 private placement units (the “Private Placement Units”) to the Sponsor and one institutional investor (the “Private Placement Investor”), at a price of $10.00 per unit, or $1,900,000 in the aggregate, in a private placement that will close simultaneously with the Initial Public Offering (Note 4). Each Private Placement Unit consists of one Class A ordinary share (each, a “Private Placement Share”) and right to receive one-fifth (1/5) of a Class A ordinary share upon the consummation of an initial Business Combination (each, a “Private Placement Right”).
Transaction costs amounted to $3,954,546, consisting of $650,000 of net upfront underwriting discounts ($2,400,000 of upfront underwriting discounts less $1,750,000 reimbursement from the underwriters), $2,500,000 of deferred underwriting fee, and $804,506 of other offering costs.
The Company’s Business Combination must be with one or more target businesses that together have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the net balance in the Trust Account (as defined below) (excluding the amount of deferred underwriting discounts, if any, and taxes payable on the income earned on the Trust Account) at the time of the signing an agreement to enter into a Business Combination. However, the Company will only complete a Business Combination if the post-Business Combination company owns or acquires 50% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in the target sufficient for it not to be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”). There is no assurance that the Company will be able to successfully effect a Business Combination.
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Upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering, $120,000,000 of the proceeds from the Initial Public Offering was deposited into the Trust Account (the “Trust Account”) and is invested only in U.S. government treasury obligations with a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act which invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations; the holding of these assets in this form is intended to be temporary and for the sole purpose of facilitating the intended Business Combination. To mitigate the risk that might be deemed to be an investment company for purposes of the Investment Company Act, which risk increases the longer that the Company holds investments in the Trust Account, the Company may, at any time (based on management team’s ongoing assessment of all factors related to the potential status under the Investment Company Act), 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 at a bank. Except for the withdrawal of interest to pay taxes, other than excise taxes, if any, and up to $100,000 to pay dissolution expenses, as applicable, if any, the proceeds from the Initial Public Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Units will not be released from the Trust Account until the earliest of (i) the completion of the initial Business Combination, (ii) the redemption of the Company’s public shares if the Company is unable to complete the initial Business Combination within 18 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering, or by such earlier liquidation date as the board of directors may approve (the “Completion Window”), subject to applicable law, or (iii) the redemption of the Company’s public shares properly submitted in connection with a shareholder vote to amend the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to (A) modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to allow redemption in connection with the initial Business Combination or to redeem 100% of the Company’s public shares if the Company has not consummated an initial Business Combination within the Completion Window or (B) with respect to any other material provisions relating to shareholders’ rights or pre-initial Business Combination activity. The proceeds deposited in the Trust Account could become subject to the claims of the Company’s creditors, if any, which could have priority over the claims of the Company’s public shareholders.
The Company will provide the Company’s public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their public shares upon the completion of the initial Business Combination either (i) in connection with a general meeting called to approve the initial Business Combination or (ii) without a shareholder vote by means of a tender offer. The decision as to whether the Company will seek shareholder approval of a proposed initial Business Combination or conduct a tender offer will be made by the Company, solely in its discretion. The public shareholders will be entitled to redeem their shares at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account calculated as of two business days prior to the consummation of the initial Business Combination, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account (less taxes, if any, payable and up to $100,000 of interest income to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, subject to the limitations. The amount in the Trust Account is initially anticipated to be $10.00 per public share. The ordinary shares subject to redemption will be recorded at redemption value and classified as temporary equity upon the completion of the Initial Public Offering, in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 480, “Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity.”
The Company will have only the duration of the Completion Window to complete the initial Business Combination. However, if the Company is unable to complete its initial Business Combination within the Completion Window, the Company will as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem the public shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account (less taxes payable, if any, and up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will constitute full and complete payment for the public shares and completely extinguish public shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidation or other distributions, if any), subject to the Company’s obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and subject to the other requirements of applicable law.
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The Sponsor, officers and directors have entered into a letter agreement with the Company, pursuant to which they will agree to (i) waive their redemption rights with respect to their founder shares, private placement shares, and public shares in connection with the completion of the initial Business Combination or an earlier redemption in connection with the commencement of the procedures to consummate the initial Business Combination if the Company determines it is desirable to facilitate the completion of the initial Business Combination; (ii) waive their redemption rights with respect to their founder shares, private placement shares, and public shares in connection with a shareholder vote to approve an amendment to the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association; (iii) waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to their founder shares or private placement shares if the Company fails to complete the initial Business Combination within the Completion Window, although they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to any public shares they hold if the Company fails to complete the initial Business Combination within the Completion Window and to liquidating distributions from assets outside the Trust Account; and (iv) vote any founder shares and private placement shares held by them and any public shares purchased during or after the Initial Public Offering (including in open market and privately-negotiated transactions) in favor of the initial Business Combination.
The Company’s Sponsor has agreed that it will be liable to the Company if and to the extent any claims by a third party for services rendered or products sold to the Company, or a prospective target business with which the Company has entered into a written letter of intent, confidentiality or other similar agreement or Business Combination agreement, reduce the amount of funds in the Trust Account to below the lesser of (i) $10.00 per public share and (ii) the actual amount per public share held in the Trust Account as of the date of the liquidation of the Trust Account, if less than $10.00 per share due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, less taxes payable and up to $100,000 of dissolution expenses, provided that such liability will not apply to any claims by a third party or prospective target business who executed a waiver of any and all rights to the monies held in the Trust Account (whether or not such waiver is enforceable) nor will it apply to any claims under the Company’s indemnity of the underwriters of the Initial Public Offering against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). However, the Company has not asked the Sponsor to reserve for such indemnification obligations, nor has the Company independently verified whether the Sponsor has sufficient funds to satisfy its indemnity obligations and the Company believes that the Sponsor’s only assets are securities of the Company. Therefore, the Company cannot assure that the Sponsor would be able to satisfy those obligations.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of March 16, 2026, the Company has $619,425 of cash and working capital of $491,136. Further, the Company has incurred and expects to continue to incur significant costs in pursuit of its financing and acquisition plans. In connection with the Company’s assessment of going concern considerations in accordance with ASC 205-40, “Presentation of Financial Statements — Going Concern”, as of March 16, 2026, the Company has sufficient liquidity to meet its working capital needs until a minimum of one year from the date of issuance of this financial statement. The Company cannot assure that its plans to raise capital or consummate an initial Business Combination will be successful.
Note 2 — Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying financial statement is presented in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).
Emerging Growth Company Status
The Company is an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act, as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”), and it may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in its periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and shareholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.
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Further, Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Exchange Act) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has elected not to opt out of such extended transition period, which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, the Company, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of the Company’s financial statements with another public company which is neither an emerging growth company nor an emerging growth company which has opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accounting standards used..
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires the Company’s management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of expenses during the reporting period.
Making estimates requires management to exercise significant judgement. It is at least reasonably possible that the estimate of the effect of a condition, situation or set of circumstances that existed at the date of the financial statement, which management considered in formulating its estimate, could change in the near term due to one or more future confirming events. Accordingly, the actual results could differ significantly from those estimates.
Cash and Cash Equivalents
The Company considers all short-term investments with an original maturity of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents. The Company had $619,425 of cash and no cash equivalents as of March 16, 2026.
Cash Held in Trust Account
As of March 16, 2026, the assets held in Trust Account, amounting to $120,000,000, were held in cash.
Concentration of Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist of a cash account in a financial institution, which, at times, may exceed the Federal Depository Insurance Coverage of $250,000. The Company has not experienced losses on this account and management believes the Company is not exposed to significant risks on such account.
Offering Costs Associated with the Initial Public Offering
The Company complies with the requirements of the ASC 340-10-S99 and SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin Topic 5A, “Expenses of Offering.” Deferred offering costs consist principally of professional and registration fees that are related to the Initial Public Offering. Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) ASC 470-20, “Debt with Conversion and Other Options,” addresses the allocation of proceeds from the issuance of convertible debt into its equity and debt components. The Company applies this guidance to allocate Initial Public Offering proceeds from the Units between Class A ordinary shares and Share Rights, using the residual method by allocating Initial Public Offering proceeds first to assigned value of the rights and then to the Class A ordinary shares. Offering costs allocated to the Public Shares were charged to temporary equity and offering costs allocated to Share Rights included in the public and private placement units, as well as the ordinary shares included in the Private Placements, were charged to shareholder’s deficit as the Share Rights included in the public and private placement units after management’s evaluation will be accounted for under equity treatment.
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Fair Value of Financial Instruments
The fair value of the Company’s assets and liabilities, which qualify as financial instruments under FASB ASC 820, “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures,” approximate the carrying amounts represented in the balance sheet, primarily due to their short-term nature.
Fair value is defined as the price that would be received for sale of an asset or paid to transfer of a liability, in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in measuring fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurements). These tiers include:
| ● | Level 1, defined as observable inputs such as quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical instruments in active markets; | |
| ● | Level 2, defined as inputs other than quoted prices in active markets that are either directly or indirectly observable such as quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets or quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active; and | |
| ● | Level 3, defined as unobservable inputs in which little or no market data exists, therefore requiring an entity to develop its own assumptions, such as valuations derived from valuation techniques in which one or more significant inputs or significant value drivers are unobservable. |
Income Taxes
The Company accounts for income taxes under ASC Topic 740, “Income Taxes,” which requires an asset and liability approach to financial accounting and reporting for income taxes. Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are computed for differences between the financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities that will result in future taxable or deductible amounts, based on enacted tax laws and rates applicable to the periods in which the differences are expected to affect taxable income. Valuation allowances are established, when necessary, to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized.
ASC Topic 740 prescribes a recognition threshold and a measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. For those benefits to be recognized, a tax position must be more likely than not to be sustained upon examination by taxing authorities. The Company’s management determined that the Cayman Islands is the Company’s major tax jurisdiction. The Company recognizes accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense. As of March 16, 2026, there were no unrecognized tax benefits and no amounts accrued for interest and penalties. The Company is currently not aware of any issues under review that could result in significant payments, accruals or material deviation from its position.
The Company is considered to be a Cayman Islands exempted company with no connection to any other taxable jurisdiction and is presently not subject to income taxes or income tax filing requirements in the Cayman Islands or the United States. As such, the Company’s tax provision was zero for the period presented.
Derivative Financial Instruments
The Company evaluates its financial instruments to determine if such instruments are derivatives or contain features that qualify as embedded derivatives in accordance with ASC Topic 815, “Derivatives and Hedging”. For derivative financial instruments that are accounted for as liabilities, the derivative instrument is initially recorded at its fair value on the grant date and is then re-valued at each reporting date, with changes in the fair value reported in the statement of operations. The classification of derivative instruments, including whether such instruments should be recorded as liabilities or as equity, is evaluated at the end of each reporting period. Derivative liabilities are classified in the balance sheet as current or non-current based on whether or not net cash settlement or conversion of the instrument could be required within 12 months of the balance sheet date.
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Class A Ordinary Shares Subject to Possible Redemption
The Public Shares contain a redemption feature which allows for the redemption of such Public Shares in connection with the Company’s liquidation, or if there is a shareholder vote or tender offer in connection with the Company’s initial Business Combination. In accordance with ASC 480-10-S99, the Company classifies Public Shares subject to possible redemption outside of permanent equity as the redemption provisions are not solely within the control of the Company. The Company recognizes changes in redemption value immediately as they occur and will adjust the carrying value of redeemable shares to equal the redemption value at the end of each reporting period. Immediately upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company recognized the accretion from initial book value to redemption value. The change in the carrying value of redeemable shares will result in charges against additional paid-in capital (to the extent available) and accumulated deficit. Accordingly, as of March 16, 2026, Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption are presented at redemption value as temporary equity, outside of the shareholders’ deficit section of the Company’s balance sheet. As of March 16, 2026, the Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption reflected in the balance sheet are reconciled in the following table:
| Gross proceeds from Initial Public Offering | $ | 120,000,000 | ||
| Less: | ||||
| Proceeds allocated to Public Rights | (3,583,166 | ) | ||
| Proceeds allocated to over-allotment option liability | (135,000 | ) | ||
| Offering costs allocated to Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption | (3,701,465 | ) | ||
| Plus: | ||||
| Accretion of Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption | 7,419,631 | |||
| Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption at March 16, 2026 | $ | 120,000,000 |
Share Rights
The Company accounts for Public Rights and Private Placement Rights issued in connection with the Initial Public Offering and the private placement in accordance with the guidance contained in FASB ASC Topic 815, “Derivatives and Hedging”. Accordingly, the Company evaluated and will classify the rights under equity treatment at its assigned value once determine upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-07, “Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures” (“ASU 2023-07”). The amendments in this ASU require disclosures, on an annual and interim basis, of significant segment expenses that are regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker (“CODM”), as well as the aggregate amount of other segment items included in the reported measure of segment profit or loss. The ASU requires that a public entity disclose the title and position of the CODM and an explanation of how the CODM uses the reported measure(s) of segment profit or loss in assessing segment performance and deciding how to allocate resources. Public entities will be required to provide all annual disclosures currently required by Topic 280 in interim periods, and entities with a single reportable segment are required to provide all the disclosures required by the amendments in this ASU and existing segment disclosures in Topic 280. The ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted. The Company adopted ASU 2023-07 on January 2, 2026, the date of its incorporation.
In December 2023, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2023-09, “Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures” (“ASU 2023-09”), which provides for additional disclosures primarily related to the income tax rate reconciliations and income taxes paid. ASU 2023-09 requires entities to annually disclose the income tax rate reconciliation using both amounts and percentages, considering several categories of reconciling items, including state and local income taxes, foreign tax effects, tax credits and nontaxable or nondeductible items, among others. Disclosure of the reconciling items is subject to a quantitative threshold and disaggregation by nature and jurisdiction. ASU 2023-09 also requires entities to disclose net income taxes paid or received to federal, state and foreign jurisdictions, as well as by individual jurisdiction, subject to a five percent quantitative threshold. ASU 2023-09 may be adopted on a prospective or retrospective basis and is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024 with early adoption permitted. The Company has assessed the impact of ASU 2023-09 and determined there is no material impact on its financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
Management does not believe that any other recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting pronouncements, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on the Company’s financial statement.
Note 3 — Initial Public Offering
Pursuant to the Initial Public Offering on March 16, 2026, the Company sold 12,000,000 Public Units at a purchase price of $10.00 per Public Unit. Each Public Unit that the Company is offering has a price of $10.00 and consists of one Class A ordinary share and right to receive one-fifth (1/5) of a Class A ordinary share upon the consummation of an initial Business Combination. Each five rights entitle the holder thereof to receive one Class A ordinary share at the closing of an initial Business Combination. The Company will not issue fractional Class A ordinary shares. As a result, holders must hold rights in multiples of five in order to receive shares for all of their rights upon closing of an initial Business Combination.
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Note 4 — Private Placement
Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Sponsor and the Private Placement Investor purchased an aggregate of 190,000 Private Placement Units at a price of $10.00 per Private Placement Unit, or $1,900,000 in the aggregate in a private placement. The Private Placement Investor purchased from us an aggregate of 30,000 Private Placement Units at $10.00 per unit for an aggregate purchase price of $300,000. Subject to the consummation of the private placement, the sponsor distributed 363,636 founder shares for a nominal purchase price to the Private Placement Investor. Each Unit consists of one Share and one right to receive one fifth (1/5) of a Class A ordinary share upon the consummation of an initial Business Combination (known as the “Share Rights” included in the Private Placement Units as “Private Placement Rights”). The Private Placement Units are identical to the Units sold in the Initial Public Offering, subject to certain limited exceptions.
If the initial Business Combination is not completed within the Completion Window, the proceeds from the sale of the Private Placement Units held in the Trust Account will be used to fund the redemption of the Public Shares (subject to the requirements of applicable law).
The Sponsor, officers and directors entered into a letter agreement with the Company, pursuant to which they agreed to (i) waive their redemption rights with respect to their founder shares, private placement shares, and public shares in connection with the completion of the initial Business Combination or an earlier redemption in connection with the commencement of the procedures to consummate the initial Business Combination if the Company determines it is desirable to facilitate the completion of the initial Business Combination; (ii) waive their redemption rights with respect to their founder shares, private placement shares, and public shares in connection with a shareholder vote to approve an amendment to the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association; (iii) waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to their founder shares or private placement shares if the Company fails to complete the initial Business Combination within the Completion Window, although they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to any public shares they hold if the Company fails to complete the initial Business Combination within the Completion Window and to liquidating distributions from assets outside the Trust Account; and (iv) vote any founder shares and private placement shares held by them and any public shares purchased during or after the Initial Public Offering (including in open market and privately-negotiated transactions) in favor of the initial Business Combination.
Note 5 — Segment Information
ASC Topic 280, “Segment Reporting”, establishes standards for companies to report, in their financial statements, information about operating segments, products, services, geographic areas, and major customers. Operating segments are defined as components of an enterprise that engage in business activities from which it may recognize revenues and incur expenses, and for which separate financial information is available that is regularly evaluated by the Company’s CODM, or group, in deciding how to allocate resources and assess performance.
The Company’s CODM has been identified as the Chief Financial Officer, who reviews the operating results for the Company as a whole to make decisions about allocating resources and assessing financial performance. Accordingly, management has determined that the Company only has one reportable segment.
The CODM assesses performance for the single segment and decides how to allocate resources based on liquidity metrics reported on the balance sheet as total assets. When evaluating the Company’s performance and making key decisions regarding resource allocation, the CODM reviews several key metrics included total assets, which include the following:
| March 16, 2026 | ||||
| Cash | $ | 619.425 | ||
| Cash held in Trust Account | $ | 120,000,000 | ||
The CODM reviews cash held in Trust Account to measure and monitor shareholder value and determine the most effective strategy of investment with the Trust Account funds while maintaining compliance with the Trust Agreement.
Note 6 — Related Party Transactions
Founder Shares
On January 6, 2026, the Sponsor paid $25,000 to purchase 6,160,714 Class B ordinary shares (also referred to as “Founder Shares”) from the Company. On January 22, 2026, the Company issued a dividend of approximately 0.2 founder shares for every issued and outstanding founder share, or an aggregate of 1,232,143 founder shares, resulting in our initial stockholders holding an aggregate of 7,392,857 founder shares. The Company’s initial stockholders currently hold 5,914,286 founder shares (up to 771,429 of which are subject to forfeiture depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised) after the Company forfeited 1,478,571 founder shares in connection with pricing of the offering. The aggregate purchase price for the founder shares was $25,000, or approximately $.003 per share.
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As used herein, unless the context otherwise requires, “Founder Shares” shall be deemed to include the Public Shares issuable upon conversion thereof. The Founder Shares are identical to the Public Shares included in the Units being sold in the Initial Public Offering except that the Founder Shares automatically convert into Public Shares at the time of the initial Business Combination (with such conversion taking place immediately prior to, simultaneously with, or immediately following the time of the initial Business Combination, as may be determined by the directors of the Company) or earlier at the option of the holder and are subject to certain transfer restrictions, as described in more detail below. The sponsor has agreed to forfeit up to an aggregate of 771,429 Founder Shares to the extent that the over-allotment option is not exercised in full by the underwriters so that the Founder Shares will represent approximately 20% of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares after the Initial Public Offering. If the Company increases or decreases the size of the offering, the Company will effect a share capitalization or share surrender, as applicable, immediately prior to the consummation of the Initial Public Offering in such amount as to maintain the Founder Share ownership of the Company’s shareholders prior to the Initial Public Offering at 30% of the Company’s issued and outstanding ordinary shares upon the consummation of the Initial Public Offering. The Sponsor will not be entitled to redemption rights with respect to any Founder Shares and any Public Shares held by the Sponsor in connection with the completion of the initial Business Combination. If the initial Business Combination is not completed within 18 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Sponsor will not be entitled to rights to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to any Founder Shares held by it.
The Company’s initial shareholders agreed not to transfer, assign or sell any of their respective founder shares and Private Units until the date that is (i) in the case of the founder shares, the earlier of (A) six months after the date of the consummation of an initial Business Combination or (B) subsequent to an initial Business Combination, the date on which consummation of a liquidation, merger, stock or share exchange or other similar transaction after an initial Business Combination which results in all of the shareholders having the right to exchange their Class A ordinary shares for cash, securities or other property, and (ii) in the case of the Private Units or any securities underlying the Private Units, until 30 days after the completion of an initial Business Combination. Any permitted transferees will be subject to the lock-up.
Promissory Note — Related Party
The Company and the Sponsor entered into a promissory note (the “Promissory Note”), whereby the Sponsor agreed to loan the Company an aggregate of up to $300,000 to cover expenses related to the Initial Public Offering. The Promissory Note was non-interest bearing and payable on the earlier of (i) the closing of the Initial Public Offering or (ii) the date which the Company determines not to proceed with the Initial Public Offering. As of March 16, 2026, the Company had borrowed $300,000 under the Promissory Note. On March 16, 2026, these loans were cancelled in exchange for 30,000 private placement units as part of the private placement offering. The Note is no longer available.
Administrative Services Agreement
Commencing on the effective date of the Initial Public Offering, the Company entered into an agreement with the Sponsor or an affiliate to pay an aggregate of $10,000 per month for office space, utilities, and secretarial and administrative support. These monthly fees will cease upon the completion of the initial Business Combination or the liquidation of the Company.
Related Party Loans
In order to finance transaction costs in connection with an intended initial Business Combination, the Sponsor or an affiliate of the Sponsor or certain of our officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan the Company funds as may be required on a non-interest basis (the “Working Capital Loans”). If we complete an initial Business Combination, the Company would repay such loaned amounts. In the event that the initial Business Combination does not close, the Company may use amounts held outside the Trust Account to repay such loaned amounts but no proceeds from the Trust Account would be used for such repayment. Up to $1,500,000 of such loans may be convertible into units of the post business combination entity at a price of $10.00 per unit at the option of the lender. Such units would be identical to the Private Units. Except as set forth above, the terms of such loans, if any, have not been determined and no written agreements exist with respect to such loans. As of March 16, 2026, no such Working Capital Loans were outstanding.
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Note 7 — Commitments and Contingencies
Risks and Uncertainties
United States and global markets are experiencing volatility and disruption following the geopolitical instability resulting from the ongoing wars between Russia and Ukraine and between Israel and Hamas, Iran and its proxies in certain of the neighboring countries in the Middle East. In response to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (“NATO”) deployed additional military forces to eastern Europe, and the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union and other countries have announced various sanctions and restrictive actions against Russia, Belarus and related individuals and entities, including the removal of certain financial institutions from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (“SWIFT”) payment system. Certain countries, including the United States, have also provided and may continue to provide military aid or other assistance to Ukraine and to Israel, increasing geopolitical tensions among a number of nations. The ongoing wars between Russia and Ukraine and between Israel and Hamas, Iran and its proxies in certain of the neighboring countries in the Middle East and the resulting measures that have been taken, and could be taken in the future, by NATO, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Israel and its neighboring states and other countries have created global security concerns that could have a lasting impact on regional and global economies. Although the length and impact of the ongoing conflicts are highly unpredictable, they could lead to market disruptions, including significant volatility in commodity prices, credit and capital markets, as well as supply chain interruptions and increased cyber-attacks against U.S. companies. Additionally, any resulting sanctions could adversely affect the global economy and financial markets and lead to instability and lack of liquidity in capital markets.
Any of the above mentioned factors, or any other negative impact on the global economy, capital markets or other geopolitical conditions resulting from the ongoing wars between Russian and Ukraine, Israel and Hamas, Iran and its proxies in certain of the neighboring countries in the Middle East and subsequent sanctions or related actions, could adversely affect the Company’s search for an initial Business Combination and any target business with which the Company may ultimately consummate an initial Business Combination.
Registration Rights
The holders of Founder Shares, Private Placement Units (and their underlying securities) and Units that may be issued upon conversion of working capital loans (and their underlying securities), if any, and any Class A ordinary shares issuable upon conversion of the founder shares and any Class A ordinary shares held by the initial shareholders at the completion of the Initial Public Offering or acquired prior to or in connection with the initial Business Combination, will be entitled to registration rights pursuant to a registration rights agreement to be signed prior to or on the effective date of the registration statement for the Initial Public Offering. These holders will be entitled to make up to three demands, excluding short form demands, and have piggyback registration rights. In addition, these holders have certain “piggy-back” registration rights with respect to registration statements filed subsequent to the completion of the initial Business Combination. The Company will bear the expenses incurred in connection with the filing of any such registration statements.
Underwriting Agreement
The Company granted the underwriters a 45-day option from the date of the Initial Public Offering to purchase up to an additional 1,800,000 units to cover over-allotments, if any.
The underwriters were paid a cash underwriting discount of 2.0% of the gross proceeds of the units offered in the Initial Public Offering, or $2,400,000 in the aggregate, payable to the underwriter upon the closing of this offering. The underwriters agreed to reimburse the Company at the closing of the Initial Public Offering for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses and fees (including for the avoidance of doubt, a portion of the upfront underwriting commissions payable in connection with the closing of the Initial Public Offering) incurred by the Company in connection with the Initial Public Offering. On March 16, 2026, as part of the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company received reimbursement from the underwriters of $1,750,000.
Additionally, the underwriter will be entitled to a deferred underwriting fee consisting of 7% of the remaining funds in the trust account after redemptions of public shares plus $600,000 in deferred underwriting compensation, provided that the total deferred underwriting fee shall not exceed $2,500,000. The deferred fee will become payable to the underwriter from the amounts held in the Trust Account based on the percentage of funds remaining in the Trust Account after redemptions of public shares, solely in the event that the Company completes a Business Combination, subject to the terms of the underwriting agreement.
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Representative Shares
The Company issued 15,000 ordinary shares to D. Boral Capiral and/or its designees (the “Representative Shares”) at the consummation of the Initial Public Offering. The Company accounts for the Representative Shares as an offering cost of the Initial Public Offering, resulting in a charge directly to shareholders’ deficit. D. Boral Capital (and any of its designees to whom the Representative Shares are issued) agreed not to transfer, assign or sell any such shares without the Company’s prior consent until the completion of an initial Business Combination. In addition, the Representative Shares were deemed to be underwriting compensation by FINRA pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 and will, accordingly, be subject to certain transfer restrictions or a period of 180 days beginning on the date of commencement of sales of the Units in the Initial Public Offering. Furthermore, Clear Street agreed (and any of its designees to whom the Representative Shares are issued agreed) (i) to waive its redemption rights (or right to participate in any tender offer) with respect to such shares in connection with the completion of the Company’s initial Business Combination and (ii) to waive its rights to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to such shares if the Company fails to complete an initial Business Combination within the Combination Period.
Note 8 — Shareholders’ Deficit
Preference Shares — The Company is authorized to issue a total of 1,000,000 preference shares at par value of $0.0001 each. At March 16, 2026, there were no preference shares issued or outstanding.
Class A Ordinary Shares — The Company is authorized to issue a total of 200,000,000 Class A ordinary shares at par value of $0.0001 each. At March 16, 2026, 205,000 shares of Class A ordinary shares were issued and outstanding, excluding 12,000,000 shares subject to possible redemption.
Class B Ordinary Shares — The Company is authorized to issue a total of 20,000,000 Class B ordinary shares at par value of $0.0001 each. On January 6, 2026, the Company issued 6,160,714 Class B ordinary shares to the Sponsor for $25,000. On January 22, 2026, the Company issued a dividend of approximately 0.2 founder shares for every issued and outstanding founder share, or an aggregate of 1,232,143 founder shares, resulting in our initial stockholders holding an aggregate of 7,392,857 founder shares. The Company’s initial stockholders currently hold 5,914,286 founder shares (up to 771,429 of which are subject to forfeiture depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised) after the Company forfeited 1,478,571 founder shares in connection with pricing of the offering. All share amounts and related information have been retroactively restated to reflect the share capitalization. At March 16, 2026, there were 5,914,286 Class B ordinary shares issued and outstanding
The founder shares will automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares (which such Class A ordinary shares delivered upon conversion will not have any redemption rights or be entitled to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account if the Company fails to consummate an initial Business Combination) concurrently with or immediately following the consummation of an 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 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, 25% of the sum of (i) the total number of all Class A ordinary shares outstanding upon the completion of this offering (including any Class A ordinary shares issued pursuant to the underwriter’s over-allotment option and excluding the Class A ordinary shares comprising part of the Private Units and the Class A ordinary shares underlying the Private Placement Warrants issued to the Sponsor), plus (ii) all Class A ordinary shares and equity-linked securities issued or deemed issued, in connection with the closing of the initial Business Combination (excluding any shares or equity-linked securities issued, or to be issued, to any seller in the initial Business Combination and any private placement-equivalent units issued to our Sponsor or any of its affiliates or to the Company’s officers or directors upon conversion of Working Capital Loans) minus (iii) any redemptions of Class A ordinary shares by public shareholders in connection with an initial Business Combination and any Class A ordinary shares redeemed by public shareholders in connection with any amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association made prior to the consummation of the initial business combination (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 the completion window or (B) with respect to any other material provisions relating to the rights of holders of Class A ordinary shares or pre-business combination activity; provided that such conversion of founder shares will never occur on a less than one-for-one basis.
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Except as set forth herein, holders of record of the Company’s Class A ordinary shares and Class B ordinary shares are entitled to one vote for each share held on all matters to be voted on by shareholders. Unless specified in the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association or as required by the Companies Act or stock exchange rules, a special resolution under Cayman Islands law and the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, which requires the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the votes cast by such shareholders voting as a single class as, being entitled to do so, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at the applicable general meeting of the Company is generally required to approve any matter voted on by the Company’s shareholders. Approval of certain actions require a special resolution under Cayman Islands law, which (except as specified below) requires the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the votes cast by such shareholders as, being entitled to do so, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at the applicable general meeting, and pursuant to the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, such actions include amending the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association and approving a statutory merger or consolidation with another company. There is no cumulative voting with respect to the appointment of directors, meaning, following the Company’s initial Business Combination, the holders of more than 50% of the Company’s ordinary shares voted for the appointment of directors can elect all of the directors. Prior to the consummation of an initial Business Combination, only holders of the Company’s Class B ordinary shares will (i) have the right to vote on the appointment and removal of directors and (ii) be entitled to vote on continuing the Company in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands (including any special resolution required to amend our constitutional documents or to adopt new constitutional documents, in each case, as a result of approving a transfer by way of continuation in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands). Holders of the Company’s Class A ordinary shares will not be entitled to vote on these matters during such time. These provisions of the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association may only be amended if approved by a special resolution passed by the affirmative vote of at least 90% (or, where such amendment is proposed in respect of the consummation of an 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.
Rights
Except in cases where the Company is not the surviving Company in a Business Combination, each holder of a Share Right will automatically receive one fifth (1/5) of one Class A ordinary share upon consummation of the initial Business Combination, even if the holder of a public right redeemed all Class A ordinary shares held by it in connection with the initial Business Combination or an amendment to the amended and restated memorandum and articles of association with respect to the pre-business combination activities. In the event the Company will not be the surviving company upon completion of the initial Business Combination, each holder of a right will be required to affirmatively convert its rights in order to receive the one fifth (1/5) of one Class A ordinary share underlying each right upon consummation of the Business Combination. No additional consideration will be required to be paid by a holder of rights in order to receive its additional shares of Class A ordinary share upon consummation of an initial Business Combination. The shares issuable upon exchange of the rights will be freely tradable (except to the extent held by affiliates of the Company). If the Company enters into a definitive agreement for a Business Combination in which it will not be the surviving entity, the definitive agreement will provide for the holders of rights to receive the same per share consideration the holders of the Class A ordinary shares will receive in the transaction on an as-converted into Class A ordinary share basis.
The Company will not issue fractional shares in connection with an exchange of rights. Fractional shares will either be rounded down to the nearest whole share or otherwise addressed in accordance with the applicable provisions of Cayman Islands Law. As a result, holders must hold rights in multiples of eight in order to receive shares for all of their rights upon closing of a Business Combination. If the Company is unable to complete an initial Business Combination within the required time period and the Company liquidates the funds held in the Trust Account, holders of rights will not receive any of such funds with respect to their rights, nor will they receive any distribution from the assets held outside of the Trust Account with respect to such rights, and the rights will expire worthless. Further, there are no contractual penalties for failure to deliver securities to the holders of the rights upon consummation of an initial Business Combination. Additionally, in no event will the Company be required to net cash settle the rights. Accordingly, the rights may expire worthless.
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Note 9 — Fair Value Measurements
The fair value of the Company’s financial assets and liabilities reflects Management’s estimate of amounts that the Company would have received in connection with the sale of the assets or paid in connection with the transfer of the liabilities in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. In connection with measuring the fair value of its assets and liabilities, the Company seeks to maximize the use of observable inputs (market data obtained from independent sources) and to minimize the use of unobservable inputs (internal assumptions about how market participants would price assets and liabilities). The following fair value hierarchy is used to classify assets and liabilities based on the observable inputs and unobservable inputs used in order to value the assets and liabilities:
| Level 1: | Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. An active market for an asset or liability is a market in which transactions for the asset or liability occur with sufficient frequency and volume to provide pricing information on an ongoing basis. |
| Level 2: | Observable inputs other than Level 1 inputs. Examples of Level 2 inputs include quoted prices in active markets for similar assets or liabilities and quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in markets that are not active. |
| Level 3: | Unobservable inputs based on assessment of the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. |
The over-allotment option was accounted for as a liability in accordance with ASC 815-40 and was presented within liabilities on the balance sheet. The over-allotment liability is measured at fair value at inception and on a recurring basis, with changes in fair value presented within change in fair value of over-allotment liability in the statement of operations. The fair value of the over-allotment option is $135,000, or $0.075 per option unit.
The Company used a Black-Scholes model to value the over-allotment option. The over-allotment option liability was classified within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy at the measurement date due to the use of unobservable inputs inherent in pricing models are assumptions related to expected share-price volatility, expected life and risk-free interest rate. The Company estimates the volatility of its ordinary shares based on historical volatility that matches the expected remaining life of the option. The risk-free interest rate is based on the U.S. Constant Maturity Treasury rates on the grant date for a maturity similar to the expected remaining life of the option. The expected life of the option is assumed to be equivalent to their remaining contractual term.
| March 16 , 2026 | ||||
| Risk-free interest rate | 3.71 | % | ||
| Time to Expiration | 0.111 | |||
| Volatility | 4.80 | % | ||
| Exercise price | $ | 10.00 | ||
The fair value of the Public Rights issued in the Initial Public Offering is $3,583,166, or $0.298 per Public Right. The Public Rights were valued using an iterative analysis based on market comparable. The valuation was based on a peer group selection of comparable special purpose acquisition companies who were pre-business combination, included one right to redeem one-fifth of one Class A ordinary share as part of their units that were publicly trading, had consummated their initial public offerings within six months of the valuation date. Utilizing this criteria a right price of $0.254, reflective of the 75th percentile peer group range, was selected. An implied right price of $0.431 was determined through a backsolve approach, and after taking the weighted average of the two right prices determined the fair value of a Public Right was $0.298.
Note 10 — Subsequent Events
The Company evaluated subsequent events and transactions that occurred after the balance sheet date through March 23, 2026, the date that the financial statement was available to be issued. Based upon this review, the Company did not identify any subsequent events that would have required adjustment or disclosure in the financial statement.
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