Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-001741
Chunk: 55

Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 55
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 may be reduced, which may make it difficult to maintain or obtain the quotation, listing, or trading
of HVII’s securities on a national securities exchange. Any such purchases will be reported pursuant to Section 13 and Section
16 of the Exchange Act to the extent such purchasers are subject to such reporting requirements. Additionally, in the event HVII’s
management team, sponsor or any of their respective affiliates were to purchase public shares or share rights 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:

  HVII’s                                                                                           
  registration statement/proxy statement filed for HVII’s business combination transaction         
  would disclose the possibility that HVII’s management team, sponsor or any of their              
  respective affiliates may purchase public shares or share rights from public shareholders        
  outside the redemption process, along with the purpose of such purchases;                        
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the section of this Report entitled “ Business - Permitted Purchases of HVII’s Securities

HVII
may not be able to complete an initial business combination since 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.

HVII’s
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