Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001493152-25-029121
Chunk: 683

Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form: S-4
Chunk 683
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 the following form, in addition to any other applicable legends:

“THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE ARE SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER SET FORTH IN A LOCK-UP AGREEMENT, DATED AS OF [•], 2025, BY AND AMONG THE ISSUER OF SUCH SECURITIES (THE “ISSUER”) AND THE ISSUER’S SECURITY HOLDER NAMED THEREIN, AS AMENDED. A COPY OF SUCH LOCK-UP AGREEMENT WILL BE FURNISHED WITHOUT CHARGE BY THE ISSUER TO THE HOLDER HEREOF UPON WRITTEN REQUEST.”

(d) For the avoidance of any doubt, Holder shall retain all of its rights as a stockholder of the Company during the Lock-Up Period, including the right to vote any Restricted Securities.

| 2. | Miscellaneous. |

(a) Binding Effect; Assignment. This Agreement and all of the provisions hereof shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Parties and their respective permitted successors and assigns. This Agreement and all obligations of Holder are personal to Holder and may not be transferred or delegated by Holder at any time, except to a Permitted Transferee. The Company may freely assign any or all of its rights under this Agreement, in whole or in part, to any successor entity (whether by merger, consolidation, equity sale, asset sale or otherwise) without obtaining the consent or approval of Holder.

(b) Third Parties. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall create any rights in, or be deemed to have been executed for the benefit of, any person or entity that is not a Party or a successor or permitted assign of such a Party.

(c) Governing Law; Jurisdiction. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware. Without prejudice to the ability of any Party to enforce this Agreement in any other proper jurisdiction, each of the Parties irrevocably and unconditionally submits and attorns to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Delaware to determine all issues, whether at law or in equity, arising from this Agreement. To the extent permitted by applicable Law, each Party:

| (i)  | irrevocably                                                                                                                       
 waives any objection, including any claim of inconvenient forum, that it may now or in the future have to the venue of any legal  
 proceeding arising out of or relating to this agreement in the courts of that State, or that the subject matter of this agreement 
 may not be