Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001493152-25-029121
Chunk: 475

Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form: S-4
Chunk 475
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 to the conditions of which, such investors will agree to participate in the PIPE Investment;

WHEREAS, in connection with the consummation of the Transactions, simultaneously with the Closing, the Sponsor, the Purchaser and the other parties thereto will enter into an Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement (the “ A&R Registration Rights Agreement”) in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit D, with such changes thereto as may be agreed in writing by the Purchaser and the Company;

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WHEREAS, in connection with the consummation of the Transactions, simultaneously with the Closing, (i) the Sponsor and the Company Equityholders will enter into a lock-up Agreement (the “ Lock-Up Agreement”) in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit E, with such changes thereto as may be agreed in writing by the Purchaser and the Company;

WHEREAS, the Parties intend that, for U.S. federal, and applicable state and local, income tax purposes, (i) the Domestication shall be treated as a “reorganization” described in Section 368(a)(1)(F) of the Code and the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder, (ii) the Sponsor Share Conversion shall be treated as a “reorganization” described in Section 368(a)(1)(E) of the Code and the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder, and (iii) the Merger qualifies as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code and the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder (each an “ Intended Tax Treatment,” and collectively, the “ Intended Tax Treatments”), and that this Agreement be, and hereby is, adopted as a “plan of reorganization” for the purposes of Sections 354, 361 and 368 of the Code and Treasury Regulations Sections 1.368-2(g) and 1.368-3(a);

WHEREAS, the Directors of the Company have unanimously, pursuant to and in accordance with the Company LLC Agreement: (a) determined that it is in the best interests of the Company and the Members of the Company, and declared it advisable, for the Company to enter into this Agreement and the Ancillary Documents and consummate the Merger and the other Transactions; and (b) approved this Agreement, the Ancillary Documents and the Transactions on the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement;

WHEREAS, the board of directors of the Purchaser has unanimously: (a) determined that the Merger is