Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-01-13
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001493152-25-001958
Chunk: 131

Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-01-13
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 131
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’s management team.

While we may pursue an acquisition opportunity in any business, industry, sector or geographical location, we intend to focus on industries that complement our management team’s background, and to capitalize on the ability of our management team to identify and acquire a business, focusing on the industrial technology and energy transition sectors. We will seek to acquire one or more businesses with an expected aggregate enterprise value of $500 million or greater.

Since 2014, our management team has announced, completed, or otherwise served as an advisor to 13 different business combinations with early- to late-stage industrial products and services companies, industrial technology and energy transition companies on six continents. Our management team is one of the most experienced SPAC sponsors and is a leader in the SPAC asset class. Our track record of bringing growth companies to the public markets is summarized below — including initial public offering (“IPO”) year, SPAC size, and business combination target:

| ● | Hennessy                                                                                                                              
 I (2014): SPAC (Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. (“Hennessy I”)), Target (Blue Bird Corp. (“Blue Bird”)).                           
 Hennessy I’s initial public offering closed January 16, 2014 at approximately $115 million. There was no extension                    
 of the SPAC term and there were approximately 64.8% redemptions in connection with the business combination. Hennessy I’s             
 business combination with School Bus Holdings, Inc. to form Blue Bird closed on February 24, 2015. Blue Bird a leading school         
 bus original equipment manufacturer (“OEM”) in North America, including the leader for alternative fuels vehicles, which              
 now represent approximately 50% of Blue Bird’s unit volumes and which is the fastest-growing segment of the market, and the           
 leader in electric bus sales among all major OEMs. Shares of Blue Bird common stock trade on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol 
 “BLBD”, and the price of the common stock has ranged from $7.14 to $59.40 following the consummation of the business                  
 combination, with a closing price of $41.73 on January 10, 2025;                                                                      |

| ● | Hennessy                                                                                                                              
 II (2015): SPAC (Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. II (“Hennessy II”)), Target (Daseke, Inc. (“Daseke”)).                            
 Hennessy II’s initial public offering closed July 22, 2015 at