# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0002025401
**File Stem:** 0001213900-26-056579
**Filing Date:** 2026-5
**Character Count:** 6133
**Document Hash:** 9d8e0c9ebba6513bb87e0929907734d4
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001213900-26-056579.hdr.sgml**: 20260514

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001213900-26-056579

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 12

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20260508

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20260514

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20260514

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Fifth Era Acquisition Corp I
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0002025401
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** BLANK CHECKS [6770]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 05 Real Estate & Construction
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** E9
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-42539
- **FILM NUMBER:** 26978518

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 4545 PARADISE DRIVE
- **CITY:** TIBURON
- **STATE:** CA
- **ZIP:** 94920
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 4159944320

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 4545 PARADISE DRIVE
- **CITY:** TIBURON
- **STATE:** CA
- **ZIP:** 94920

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**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

**FORM 8-K**

**CURRENT REPORT**

**PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)**

**OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934**

**Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 8, 2026**

**Fifth Era Acquisition Corp I**

**(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)**

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| **Cayman Islands** | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;**001-42539** | **36-5108801** |
| **(State or other jurisdiction**<br> **of incorporation)** | **(Commission File Number)** | **(IRS Employer**<br> **Identification No.)** |

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**PO Box 1093 Boundary Hall**

**Cricket Square** **, Grand Cayman**

**KY1-1102** **, Cayman Islands**

**(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)**

**Registrant's telephone number, including area code: +1 (345) 814-5726**

**Not Applicable**

**(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)**

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

☐ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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| **Title of each class** | **Trading Symbol(s)** | **Name of each exchange on which registered** |
| Units, each consisting of one Class A ordinary share and one right | **FERAU** | The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC |
| Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share | **FERA** | The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC |
| Rights, each right entitling the holder to receive one-tenth (1/10) of one Class A ordinary share upon the consummation of the initial business combination | **FERAR** | The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC |

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☒

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

**Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers.**

**(a) Resignation of Chief Financial Officer.**

On May 8, 2026, Christopher Linn informed the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Fifth Era Acquisition Corp I, a Cayman Islands corporation (the "Company"), of his resignation as the Company's Chief Financial Officer. The Board accepted Mr. Linn's resignation effective immediately.

Mr. Linn's resignation was not the result of any disagreement with the Company regarding its operations, policies or practices, including any matter relating to the Company's financial reporting or accounting practices.

**(b) Appointment of New Chief Financial Officer.**

On May 8, 2026, the Board appointed Christopher Nelson as the Company's Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Nelson, age 29, has supported the Company's accounting, finance and reporting functions since the Company's IPO and performed similar functions for the management team's prior SPAC from 2021 to 2024.

Mr. Nelson previously served as an Investment Associate, then as Head of Research and later as Director of Finance at Fifth Era Partners, formerly Blockchain Coinvestors, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage blockchain and artificial intelligence investments, where he had significant responsibility for investment research, evaluation of prospective investments, financial planning and firm operations, beginning in 2021. Prior to joining Fifth Era Partners, Mr. Nelson consulted on executive and board compensation at Mercer, a Marsh McLennan company, beginning in 2019. Mr. Nelson received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.

**SIGNATURE**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|
|  | **FIFTH ERA ACQUISITION CORP I** | **FIFTH ERA ACQUISITION CORP I** | **FIFTH ERA ACQUISITION CORP I** |
| Date: May 14, 2026 | By: | /s/ Mitchell Mechigian | /s/ Mitchell Mechigian |
|  |  | Name: | Mitchell Mechigian |
|  |  | Title: | Chief Executive Officer |

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