Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-10-23
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001493152-25-019001
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Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-10-23
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 1.01
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 party thereto (“ Registration Rights Holders”), and the Purchaser will use its reasonable best efforts to have
the Resale Registration Statement declared effective as soon as reasonably practicable after the filing thereof. In certain circumstances,
the Registration Rights Holders can demand underwritten offerings and will be entitled to certain customary piggyback registration rights,
in each case subject to certain limitations set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, provided, that the Purchaser is not obligated
to effect more than an aggregate of three (3) underwritten offerings.

The
foregoing description of the form of Registration Rights Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the
form of Registration Rights Agreement, a copy of which is included as Exhibit D to the Business Combination Agreement, filed as Exhibit
2.1 to this Report, and incorporated herein by reference.

Lock-Up
Agreements

In
connection with the Closing, certain of the Purchaser’s shareholders (including Sponsor) and the Company’s Members will enter
into Lock-Up Agreements with the Purchaser substantially in the form attached as Exhibit E to the Business Combination Agreement (each
a “ Lock-up Agreement”). Each Lock-Up Agreement will provide that the securities held by such stockholder of the Purchaser
will be subject to transfer restrictions (subject to certain customary exceptions) for the period commencing on the Closing Date and
ending on the earliest to occur of: (x) the six month anniversary of the Closing Date, (y) such date that the reported last sale price
of the Common Stock equals or exceeds $11.00 per share for any twenty (20) trading days within any thirty (30) consecutive trading day
period commencing after the Closing, and (z) the date after the Closing on which the Purchaser consummates a liquidation, merger, capital
stock exchange, reorganization or other similar transaction with an unaffiliated third party that results in all of the Purchaser’s
shareholders having the right to exchange their shares of Common Stock for cash, securities or other property.

The
foregoing description of the form of Lock-Up Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the form of Lock-Up
Agreement, a copy of which is included as Exhibit B to the Merger Agreement, filed as Exhibit 2.1 to this Report, and incorporated herein
by reference.

Item
7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.