Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-01-13
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001493152-25-001958
Chunk: 141

Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-01-13
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 141
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. Previously, she founded StealthForce, (the gig economy          
 of real estate; a resource and project management platform for CRE), which was exited in          
 early 2019. Prior to StealthForce, she was Deputy to the Head of Global Real Estate Asset         
 Management at Partners Group AG ($40 billion AUM), and earlier employee 13 at The Gerson          
 Lehrman Group, which was the world’s first institutional expert network. Ms. Sharma               
 earned her Bachelor of Arts at Harvard and Master of Business Administration at Wharton,          
 and spent over a decade in real estate development and investment.                                |

Director nominees Grant R. Allen, Brian Bonner, Anna Brunelle, Javier Saade and Poonam Sharma received founders’ equity prior to the initial public offering of Hennessy VII, in line with equity received by outside directors for similar entities. All of our directors, director nominees and officers are individual investors in our sponsor.

Capital Markets Experience

The Hennessy Capital team believes it has substantial capital markets expertise which will make us an attractive business combination partner to target businesses. As examples of this, the Hennessy Capital team has completed SPAC business combinations with a combined total enterprise value of $6.7 billion (at the time of the business combination), completed ten SPAC IPOs for a total of approximately $2.4 billion and raised over $900 million of PIPE and backstop capital to support its business combinations with footprints across six continents.

In June 2024, Hennessy VI announced its business combination with Namib Minerals, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2025. The transaction implies a pro forma combined enterprise value for Namib Minerals of approximately $602 million and is expected to provide up to approximately $75 million of net proceeds to support the rapid growth of the company.

Our Established Network of Third-Party Advisors

We intend to utilize what our management team believes is an accomplished and proven network of third-party advisors and relationships to assist with target company origination and evaluation, due diligence and implementation of value creation programs and activities following our initial business combination. With respect to target identification, the Hennessy Capital team has identified, in total, over 1,500 potential targets since 2014 for prior Hennessy SPACs. Our origination activities are a core competency that we believe allow us to select value-maximizing opportunities for our shareholders, consistent with our investment strategy. Once a letter of intent is signed with a target, our team of advisors and