Company: VMCWF
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-001827
Chunk: 222

Company: Valuence Merger Corp. I
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 222
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 skills, qualifications or abilities necessary to manage a public company,
the operations and profitability of the post-combination business may be negatively impacted. 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.

The
officers and directors of an acquisition candidate may resign upon completion of our initial Business Combination. The departure of a
target’s key personnel could negatively impact the operations and profitability of our post-combination business. The role of an
acquisition candidates’ key personnel upon the completion of our initial Business Combination cannot be ascertained at this time.
Although we contemplate that certain members of an acquisition candidate’s management team will remain associated with the acquisition
candidate following our initial Business Combination, it is possible that members of the management of an acquisition candidate will
not wish to remain in place.

If
we effect our initial Business Combination with a company with operations or opportunities outside of the United States, we would be
subject to a variety of additional risks that may negatively impact our operations.

If
we effect our initial Business Combination with a company with operations or opportunities outside of the United States, we would be
subject to any special considerations or risks associated with companies operating in an international setting, including any of the
following:

    ●
    costs
    and difficulties inherent in managing cross-border business operations;

    ●
    rules
    and regulations regarding currency redemption;

    ●
    complex
    corporate withholding taxes on individuals;

    ●
    laws
    governing the manner in which future business combinations may be effected;

    ●
    tariffs
    and trade barriers;

    ●
    regulations
    related to customs and import/export matters;

    ●
    longer
    payment cycles;

    ●
    tax
    issues, such as tax law changes and variations in tax laws as compared to the United States;

    ●
    currency
    fluctuations and exchange controls;

    ●
    rates
    of inflation;

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    ●
    challenges
    in collecting accounts receivable;

    ●
    cultural
    and language differences;

    ●
    employment
    regulations;

    ●
    crime,
    strikes, riots, civil disturbances, terrorist attacks and wars; and

    ●
    deterioration
    of political relations with the United States.

We
may not be able to adequately address these additional risks. If we were unable to do so