Company: MKLY
Filing Date: 2025-06-30
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001213900-25-059789
Chunk: 11

Company: McKinley Acquisition Corp
Filing Date: 2025-06-30
Form: S-1
Chunk 11
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 group, which includes our management team and board of directors (collectively, our “Founders”), brings a multi -decadetrack record of building and scaling successful public and private enterprises. Our Founders have held senior leadership positions across prominent buy -sideand sell -sidefinancial institutions, and bring complementary experience from founding and leading capital markets advisory firms. Their collective expertise spans public market transactions, private equity, M&A, financial restructuring, and operational optimization. Leveraging our team’s deep network of industry relationships and access to high -qualityproprietary deal flow, we intend to identify a business combination target where our capital, strategic resources, and public company experience can accelerate growth, institutionalize operations, and drive long -termshareholder value. Investment Thesis Our investment strategy is guided by the thematic expertise and strategic insight of our management team and advisory board, with a specific focus on progressive industries — those experiencing accelerated innovation, structural change, and capital -intensivegrowth. We define progressive industries as segments within broader sectors that are being reshaped by technology, evolving consumer behavior, or regulatory transformation. These include, but are not limited to, financial technology (fintech), mobility (transporttech), agricultural technology (agtech), clean technology (cleantech), space technology (spacetech), and advanced artificial intelligence. 2 Table of Contents We intend to pursue a business combination with a company operating in one or more of these forward -lookingsectors that we believe can benefit meaningfully from access to U.S. public capital markets. Our ideal target profile includes high -growthbusinesses that are: •Are at an inflection point with tangible accelerate growth, increase proﬁtability, and/or enhance capital efﬁciency all of which drives long -term3 -5xmultiple expansion, •Seeking capital that reduces WACC by 150 -320bps to scale operations, or expand product lines, to accelerate TAM expansion, market penetration and margin improvement, •Evaluating strategic acquisitions to accelerate growth in adjacent markets as well as cross -sellingopportunities (i.e. roll -uppotential), utilizing public stock as an acquisition currency for accretive M&A, and •Foreign -basedand looking to expand their U.S. presence with cross border expansion potential and minimal regulatory trade headwinds, as well as expand their investor base. We believe the most compelling opportunities will be with companies seeking more than just capital — they will be seeking a strategic partner to help unlock their next phase of growth. In addition