Company: MKLY
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001213900-25-067524
Chunk: 162

Company: McKinley Acquisition Corp
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 162
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 Islands. Our purpose is to effect a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or other similar business combination with one or more operating businesses (which we refer to throughout this prospectus as our “initial business combination”). We have not identified any specific business combination target, and neither we nor anyone on our behalf has engaged in any substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, with any potential target. While our search will not be limited to a particular industry, geography, or stage of corporate development, we intend to focus on identifying and acquiring one or more businesses with a total enterprise value between $500 million and $2 billion that are well -positionedfor long -termgrowth and value creation. Our strategy is to partner with a company that demonstrates strong fundamentals, proven leadership, and a differentiated market position — with the potential to benefit from enhanced capital access, strategic guidance, and public market readiness. We are particularly focused on businesses with resilient operating models, scalable platforms, and the potential to lead in their respective sectors. Our sponsor 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. 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