Company: MKLY
Filing Date: 2025-06-30
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001213900-25-059789
Chunk: 197

Company: McKinley Acquisition Corp
Filing Date: 2025-06-30
Form: S-1
Chunk 197
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 the top accounting firms entrée into wealth management. Mr. Beard is actively involved in industry and philanthropic initiatives. He serves as Northeast Ohio Corporate Chair for the Arthritis Foundation, Secretary for the Financial Services Institute (FSI) Marketing Council, and is a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee for the Bank Insurance & Securities Association (BISA). In recognition of his leadership, he was named to Investment News Hot List 2023 and received the Wealth Solutions Report Pathfinder Award as one of the top Black leaders in wealth management. Mr. Beard holds a Bachelor of Arts in Finance from Kent State University. We believe that Mr.Beard’s experience in acquisition strategy, comprehensive planning processes for acquisitions, investment distribution and business advisory work, make him well qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors. Number and Terms of Office of Officers and Directors Our board of directors will consist of five members and will be divided into three classes with only one class of directors being appointed in each year, and with each class (except for those directors appointed prior to our first annual general meeting) serving a three -yearterm. Prior to the closing of our initial business combination, only holders of our Class B ordinary shares will be entitled to vote on the appointment and removal of directors or continuing the company in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands (including any special resolution required to amend our constitutional documents or to adopt new constitutional documents, in each case, as a result of our approving a transfer by way of continuation in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands). Holders of our public shares will not be entitled to vote on such matters during such time. These provisions of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association relating to these rights of holders of Class B ordinary shares may be amended by a special resolution passed by the affirmative vote of at least 90% (or, where such amendment is proposed in respect of the consummation of our initial business combination, two -thirds) of the votes cast by holders of ordinary shares as, being entitled to do so, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at the applicable general meeting of the company, voting together as a single class. In accordance with Nasdaq corporate governance requirements, we are not required to hold an annual general meeting until one year after our first fiscal year end following our listing on Nasdaq. The term of office of the first class of directors, which will consist of Mr. [•] will expire at our first annual general meeting. The term of office of the second