Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-001741
Chunk: 137

Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 9
Chunk 137
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Item
9A. Controls and Procedures.

Evaluation
of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Disclosure
controls are procedures that are designed with the objective of ensuring that information required to be disclosed in HVII’s reports
filed under the Exchange Act, such as this Report, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time period specified in
the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls are also designed with the objective of ensuring that such information is accumulated
and communicated to HVII’s management, including the chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as appropriate to allow
timely decisions regarding required disclosure. HVII’s management evaluated, with the participation of the current chief executive
officer and chief financial officer (the “ Certifying Officers”), the effectiveness of HVII’s disclosure controls and
procedures as of December 31, 2024, pursuant to Rule 13a-15(b) under the Exchange Act. Based upon that evaluation, the Certifying Officers
concluded that, as of December 31, 2024, HVII’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective.

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HVII
does not expect that its disclosure controls and procedures will prevent all errors and all instances of fraud. Disclosure controls and
procedures, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the
disclosure controls and procedures are met. Further, the design of disclosure controls and procedures must reflect the fact that there
are resource constraints, and the benefits must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all disclosure
controls and procedures, no evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures can provide absolute assurance that HVII has detected all
its control deficiencies and instances of fraud, if any. The design of disclosure controls and procedures also is based partly on certain
assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated
goals under all potential future conditions.

Management’s
Report on Internal Controls over Financial Reporting

This
Report on Form 10-K does not include a report of management’s assessment regarding internal control over financial reporting or
an attestation report of HVII’s independent registered public accounting firm due to a transition period established by rules of
the SEC for newly public companies.

Changes
in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There
were no changes in HVII’s internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15