Company: VMCWF
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-001827
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Company: Valuence Merger Corp. I
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
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will properly ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors or that we will have adequate time to complete due diligence. Furthermore,
some of these risks may be outside of our control and leave us with no ability to control or reduce the chances that those risks will
adversely impact a target business. We also cannot assure you that an investment in our securities will ultimately prove to be more favorable
to investors than a direct investment, if such opportunity were available, in a target. Accordingly, any shareholders who choose to remain
shareholders following the Business Combination could suffer a reduction in the value of their shares. Such shareholders are unlikely
to have a remedy for such reduction in value unless they are able to successfully claim that the reduction was due to the breach by our
officers or directors of a duty of care or other fiduciary duty owed to them, or if they are able to successfully bring a private claim
under securities laws that the tender offer materials or proxy statement relating to the Business Combination contained an actionable
material misstatement or material omission.

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We
may seek acquisition opportunities in industries or sectors that may be outside of our management’s areas of expertise.

We
will consider a Business Combination outside of our management’s areas of expertise if a Business Combination candidate is presented
to us and we determine that such candidate offers an attractive acquisition opportunity for our Company. In the event we elect to pursue
an acquisition outside of the areas of our management’s expertise, our management’s expertise may not be directly applicable
to its evaluation or operation, and the information contained in this Annual Report regarding the areas of our management’s expertise
would not be relevant to an understanding of the business that we elect to acquire. As a result, our management may not be able to adequately
ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors. Accordingly, any shareholders who choose to remain shareholders following our
initial Business Combination could suffer a reduction in the value of their shares. Such shareholders are unlikely to have a remedy for
such reduction in value.

We
may seek acquisition opportunities with a financially unstable business or an entity lacking an established record of revenue or earnings.

To
the extent we complete our initial Business Combination with a financially unstable business or an entity lacking an established record
of sales or earnings, we may be affected by numerous risks inherent in the operations of the business with which we combine. These risks
include volatile revenues or earnings and difficulties in obtaining and retaining key personnel. Although our officers and directors
will endeavor to evaluate the risks inherent in