Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-001741
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Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
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 to be less favorable to investors than a direct investment, if an
opportunity were available, in an initial business combination candidate. In the event HVII elects to pursue a business combination outside
of the areas of its management’s expertise, its management’s expertise may not be directly applicable to its evaluation or
operation, and the information contained in this Report regarding the areas of its management’s expertise would not be relevant
to an understanding of the business that HVII elects to acquire. As a result, HVII’s management may not be able to adequately ascertain
or assess all of the significant risk factors. Accordingly, any public shareholders who choose to remain shareholders following HVII’s
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.

HVII
may seek business combination opportunities with a high degree of complexity that require significant operational improvements, which
could delay or prevent it from achieving its desired results.

HVII
may seek business combination opportunities with large, highly complex companies that it believes would benefit from operational improvements.
While HVII intends to implement such improvements, to the extent that its efforts are delayed or it is unable to achieve the desired
improvements, the business combination may not be as successful as anticipated.

To
the extent HVII completes its initial business combination with a large complex business or entity with a complex operating structure,
it may also be affected by numerous risks inherent in the operations of the business with which it combines, which could delay or prevent
HVII from implementing its strategy. Although HVII’s management team will endeavor to evaluate the risks inherent in a particular
target business and its operations, HVII may not be able to properly ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors until it
completes its business combination. If HVII is not able to achieve its desired operational improvements, or the improvements take longer
to implement than anticipated, it may not achieve the gains that it anticipates. Furthermore, some of these risks and complexities may
be outside of HVII’s control and leave it 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.

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Although
HVII has identified general criteria and guidelines that it believes are important in evaluating prospective target businesses, it may
enter into its initial business combination with a target that does not meet such criteria