Company: WLACW
Filing Date: 2025-10-16
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001493152-25-018214
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Company: Willow Lane Acquisition Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-10-16
Form: 425
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Filed by Willow Lane Acquisition Corp.

pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act of 1933

and deemed filed pursuant to Rule 14a-12

under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Subject Company: Willow Lane Acquisition Corp.

Commission File No. 001-42400

Boost Run Holdings, LLC

Date: October 15, 2025

As previously disclosed, on September 15, 2025, Willow Lane Acquisition Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company (“Willow Lane”), entered into a Business Combination Agreement (the “Business Combination Agreement”) with (i) Boost Run Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Pubco”), (ii) Benchmark Merger Sub I Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pubco, (iii) Benchmark Merger Sub II LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pubco, (iv) Boost Run Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Boost Run”), (v) George Peng, solely in the capacity as the representative from and after the Effective Time (as defined in the Business Combination Agreement) for Willow Lane shareholders as of immediately prior to the Effective Time and their successors and assigns (other than the holders of Boost Run’s issued and outstanding membership interests (the “Sellers”)) in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Business Combination Agreement, and (vi) Andrew Karos, solely in the capacity as the representative from and after the Effective Time for the Sellers as of immediately prior to the Effective Time (and their successors and assigns) in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Business Combination Agreement for a proposed business combination (the “Business Combination”).

The following email is being circulated by Willow Lane to certain analysts, investors and others, beginning on October 15, 2025.

From: investors@willowac.com

Knowing that you closely follow the AI Cloud Infrastructure sector, we wanted to make sure you were aware that on September 16th, 2025, Boost Run, a bare metal NeoCloud provider, announced a business combination agreement with special purpose acquisition company Willow Lane Acquisition Corp. [Nasdaq: WLAC].

Boost Run was founded in 2023. Founder and CEO Andrew Karos previously co-founded algorithmic trading firm Blue Fire Capital in 2007, expanding operations globally across multiple data centers and reaching $500 million in revenues. Blue Fire Capital was acquired by Galaxy Digital [Nasdaq: GLXY] in 2020. Following the acquisition Kar