Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001493152-25-029121
Chunk: 8

Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form: S-4
Chunk 8
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 the adoption of the Business Combination Proposal and the Business Combination. As of the record date, the Sponsor and HVII’s officers and directors beneficially own an aggregate of approximately 6,833,333 HVII ordinary shares. As a result, in addition to the HVII ordinary shares voted by the Sponsor and HVII’s officers and directors, HVII would need (i) 6,178,334, or 32.52%, of the 19,000,000 HVII Class A Ordinary Shares sold in HVII’s initial public offering (the “IPO”) to be voted in favor of the Business Combination Proposal, the Stock Issuance Proposal, the Incentive Plan Proposal and the Director Election Proposal and (ii) 10,515,556, or 55.3%, of the 19,000,000 HVII Public Shares (as defined below) sold in the IPO to be voted in favor of the Organizational Documents Proposal in order to have the Business Combination approved, assuming all outstanding shares are voted and the parties to the letter agreement do not acquire any additional HVII Ordinary Shares. Assuming that only the holders of one-half of its issued and outstanding HVII Ordinary Shares, representing a quorum under the HVII’s organizational documents vote their HVII Ordinary Shares at the extraordinary general meeting, and also assuming that the parties to the letter agreement do not acquire any additional HVII Ordinary Shares (i) HVII would not need any additional HVII Class A Ordinary Shares to be voted in favor of the Business Combination Proposal, the Stock Issuance Proposal, the Incentive Plan Proposal and the Director Election Proposal in order to approve the Business Combination but (ii) HVII would need 1,841,112, or 9.7%, of the 19,000,000 HVII Class A Ordinary Shares sold in the IPO to be voted in favor of the Organizational Documents Proposal in order to have the Business Combination approved.

After careful consideration, the board of directors of HVII (the “HVII Board”) has unanimously approved the Business Combination Agreement and the Transactions, and the HVII Board has determined that the Transactions are in the best interests of HVII and its shareholders. The HVII Board recommends that you vote “FOR” each of the Proposals described in the accompanying proxy statement/prospectus.

Potential Conflicts of Interest and Compensation of the Sponsor and its affiliates in connection with the Business Combination

When you consider the HVII Board’s recommendation of these Proposals, you should keep