Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001493152-25-029121
Chunk: 427

Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form: S-4
Chunk 427
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 placement shares and Share Rights underlying such Private Placement Units and any Private Placement Units that may be issued upon conversion of the Working Capital Loans will have registration rights to require the Company to register a sale of any of the Company’s securities held by them and any other securities of the Company acquired by them prior to the consummation of its Business Combination. The holders of these securities are entitled to make up to three demands, excluding short form demands, that the Company registers such securities. In addition, the holders have certain piggyback registration rights with respect to registration statements filed subsequent to the completion of a Business Combination. The Company will bear the expenses incurred in connection with the filing of any such registration statements.

Underwriting Agreement

The Underwriters had a 45-day option from the date of the Initial Public Offering to purchase up to an additional 2,625,000Units to cover over-allotments, if any. On January 21, 2025, the Underwriters partially exercised their over-allotment option in the amount of 1,500,000Units and forfeited the remaining unexercised balance of 1,125,000Units.

The Underwriters were entitled to a cash underwriting discount of $ 0.20per Unit, or $ 3,800,000in the aggregate, paid to the Underwriters in cash at the closing of the Initial Public Offering. Additionally, the Underwriters are entitled to a deferred underwriting discount of up to $ 0.40per Unit, or up to $ 7,600,000in the aggregate (subject to reduction based on the funds remaining in the Trust Account after giving effect to the public shares that are redeemed in connection with the Company’s Business Combination), payable to the Underwriters for deferred underwriting commissions on amounts remaining in the Trust Account after all redemptions by public shareholders have been met. The deferred underwriting discount will become payable to the Underwriters from the amounts held in the Trust Account solely in the event the Company completes its Business Combination.

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HENNESSY CAPITAL INVESTMENT CORP. VII

NOTES TO CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2025

(UNAUDITED)

Deferred Legal Fees

As of September 30, 2025, the Company had a total deferred legal fee of $ 1,185,000, of which $ 585,000was related to general matters and $ 600,000was related to the Initial Public Offering