Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001493152-25-029121
Chunk: 614

Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form: S-4
Chunk 614
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 addition to any vote of the holders of shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation required by any non-waivable provision of applicable law or this Certificate (including any Preferred Stock Designation), the affirmative vote of the holders of 66.67% of the voting power of the outstanding shares of Common Stock entitled to vote thereon shall be required to amend or repeal, or to adopt any provision inconsistent with, this Article IX.

<div align='center'>ARTICLE X

EXCLUSIVE FORUM</div>

Section 10.1 Forum.

(a) Claims Arising Under State Law. Subject to Section 10.1(b), to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law and absent the Corporation’s express written consent to an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware shall be the sole and exclusive forum for any stockholder (including any beneficial owner thereof) to bring (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Corporation; (ii) any action or proceeding asserting a claim of, or a claim based on, a breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any current or former director, officer, or other employee of the Corporation to the Corporation or the Corporation’s stockholders; (iii) any action or proceeding asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL, this Certificate, or the Bylaws (including, without limitation, with respect to the interpretation, validity, or enforceability of any provision hereof or thereof); or (iv) any action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine.

(b) Claims Arising Under Federal Law. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law and absent the Corporation’s express written consent to an alternative forum, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware shall be the sole and exclusive forum for resolving any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

Section 10.2 Consent to Jurisdiction. If any action the subject matter of which is within the scope of Section 10.1is filed in a court other than in accordance therewith (a “ Foreign Action”) in the name of any stockholder (or a beneficial owner thereof), such stockholder or beneficial owner, as applicable, shall be deemed to have consented to (a) the personal jurisdiction of the state located within the State of Delaware in connection with any action brought in any such court to enforce Section 10.1(a)or