Company: VMCWF
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-001827
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Company: Valuence Merger Corp. I
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
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our Business Combination or fund future operations.

We
may be exposed to liabilities under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and any determination that we violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act could have a material adverse effect on our business.

We
are subject to the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act, or FCPA, and other laws that prohibit improper payments or offers of payments to foreign
governments and their officials and political parties by U.S. persons and issuers as defined by the statute for the purpose of obtaining
or retaining business. We will have operations, agreements with third parties and make sales in Asia, which may experience corruption.
Our proposed activities in Asia create the risk of unauthorized payments or offers of payments by one of the employees, consultants,
or sales agents of our Company, because these parties are not always subject to our control. It will be our policy to implement safeguards
to discourage these practices by our employees. Also, our existing safeguards and any future improvements may prove to be less than effective,
and the employees, consultants, or sales agents of our Company may engage in conduct for which we might be held responsible. Violations
of the FCPA may result in severe criminal or civil sanctions, and we may be subject to other liabilities, which could negatively affect
our business, operating results and financial condition. In addition, the government may seek to hold our Company liable for successor
liability FCPA violations committed by companies in which we invest or that we acquire.

Our
ability to complete a Business Combination with a U.S. target company may be impacted if such Business Combination is subject to U.S.
foreign investment regulations and review by a U.S. government entity, such as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States
(“CFIUS”), and ultimately prohibited.

Our
Business Combination may be subject to regulatory review and approval requirements by governmental entities, or ultimately prohibited.
For example, CFIUS has authority to review certain direct or indirect foreign investments in U.S. companies. Among other things, CFIUS
is empowered to require certain foreign investors to make mandatory filings, to charge filing fees related to such filings, and to self-initiate
national security reviews of foreign direct and indirect investments in U.S. companies if the parties to that investment choose not to
file voluntarily. If CFIUS determines that an investment subject to its jurisdiction threatens national security, CFIUS has the power
to impose restrictions on the investment or recommend that the President prohibit it or order divestment