Company: MKLY
Filing Date: 2025-08-11
Form Type: 8-A12B
Source: 0001213900-25-074237
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Company: McKinley Acquisition Corp
Filing Date: 2025-08-11
Form: 8-A12B
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 Description of Registrant’s Securities to be Registered. |

The securities to be registered hereby are units,
Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share, and rights to receive one-tenth (1/10th) of one Class A ordinary share of McKinley
Acquisition Corporation (the “Registrant”). A description of the units, Class A ordinary shares and rights to be registered
hereunder is contained in the section entitled “Description of Securities” in the Prospectus included in the Registrant’s
Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-288439) initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 30,
2025, as amended from time to time (the “Registration Statement”). This information is incorporated herein by reference. Any
form of prospectus or prospectus supplement to the Registration Statement that includes such descriptions and that is filed subsequently
to the Registration Statement is hereby also incorporated by reference herein.

| Item 2. | Exhibits. |

Under the Instructions as to Exhibits with respect
to Form 8-A, no exhibits are required to be filed because no other securities of the Registrant are registered on The Nasdaq Stock Market,
LLC and the securities registered hereby are not being registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended.

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SIGNATURE</div>

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 12 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereto duly authorized.

| Date:  August 11, 2025 | MCKINLEY ACQUISITION CORPORATION |                         |
|:-----------------------|:---------------------------------|:------------------------|
|                        | By:                              | /s/ Peter Wright        |
|                        | Name:                            | Peter Wright            |
|                        | Title:                           | Chief Executive Officer |

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