Company: APACU
Filing Date: 2025-09-09
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001829126-25-007247
Chunk: 31

Company: StoneBridge Acquisition II Corp
Filing Date: 2025-09-09
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 31
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, as the number of SPACs evaluating targets increases, attractive targets may become scarcer and there may be more competition for attractive targets or such attractive targets may not be interested in consummating a business combination with a SPAC due to a negative public perception of mergers involving SPACs. This could increase the cost of our initial business combination and could even result in our inability to find a target or to consummate an initial business combination. See “Effecting Our Initial Business Combination—Competition” for additional details.

<div align='center'>Sourcing of Potential Business Combination Targets</div>

We believe that the operational and transactional experience of our management team and the relationships they have developed as a result of such experience, will provide us with a substantial number of potential business combination targets. These individuals have developed a broad network of contacts and corporate relationships around the world. This network has grown through sourcing, acquiring and financing businesses and maintaining relationships with sellers, financing sources and target management teams. Our management team members have significant experience in executing transactions under varying economic and financial market conditions. We believe that these networks of contacts and relationships and this experience will provide us with important sources of investment opportunities. In addition, we anticipate that target business candidates may be brought to our attention from various unaffiliated sources, including investment market participants, private equity funds and large business enterprises seeking to divest noncore assets or divisions.

We are not prohibited from pursuing an initial business combination with a business combination target that is affiliated with our sponsor or our officers or directors (or their respective affiliates or related entities) or making the acquisition through a joint venture or other form of shared ownership with our sponsor or our officers or directors (or their respective affiliates or related entities). In connection with our initial business combination (including in the event that we seek to complete our initial business combination with a target that is affiliated (as defined in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association) with our sponsor or our officers or directors (or their respective affiliates or related entities)), we, or a committee of independent directors, will obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or another independent firm that commonly renders valuation opinions for the type of company we are seeking to acquire or from an independent accounting firm that our initial business combination is fair to our company from a financial point of view.

As more fully discussed in “Management — Conflicts of Interest,” our officers and directors currently have certain relevant fiduciary duties or contractual obligations that may take priority over their duties to us. Each of our officers