Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-01-15
Form Type: CORRESP
Source: 0001493152-25-002261
Chunk: 1

Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-01-15
Form: CORRESP
Chunk 1
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2025

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Use of Proceeds, page 89

| Response: | In                                                                                 
 response to the Staff’s comment, the Company has revised the disclosure on page 89 
 of the Registration Statement accordingly.                                         |

Exhibits

| 3. | Please                                                                                       
 file an opinion of counsel in Exhibit 5.1 that does not contain the assumptions on page 2    
 of the opinion, or tell us why counsel believes they are necessary and appropriate. Refer    
 to Section II.B.3.a of Staff Legal Bulletin No. 19. In addition, file a revised opinion that 
 does not assume the jurisdiction whose laws will govern the units.                           |

| Response: | In                                                                                       
 response to the Staff’s comment, we have filed a revised Exhibit 5.1 opinion of counsel. |

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January 15, 2025

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If you have any questions regarding the foregoing or the Registration Statement, please contact the undersigned at (212) 839-5444.

| Very             
 truly yours,     |
| /s/              
 Michael P. Heinz |
| Michael          
 P. Heinz         |

| cc: | Daniel J. Hennessy, Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. 
 VII                                                   |
|     | Jeffrey N. Smith, Sidley Austin LLP                   |
|     | Douglas Ellenoff, Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP      |
|     | Stuart Neuhauser, Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP      |
|     | Simon Raftopoulos, Appleby (Cayman) Ltd.              |
|     | Alexandra Low, Appleby (Cayman) Ltd.                  |