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BKHA

Black Hawk Acquisition Corp
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10-K ITEM 1A · FY2024 → FY2025
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  • We were formed for the purpose of entering into a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, recapitalization, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities, which we refer to as a “target business.” On April 26, 2025, we entered into a Business Combination Agreement with Vesicor Therapeutics, Inc. and BH Merger Sub, Inc., pursuant to which we intend to consummate a business combination (the “Business Combination”), subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
  • Risk Factors” for additional information.
  • Kent Louis Kaufman, our Chief Operating Officer and Director, Jonathan Ginsberg and our Independent Directors, Daniel M.
  • Established Deal Sourcing Network Our management team has historically leveraged its industry relationships and professional network to identify and evaluate potential acquisition opportunities.
  • These relationships include contacts in government, private and public companies, private equity and venture capital funds, investment bankers, attorneys and accountants.
  • Management’s experience and access to this network informed the evaluation and negotiation of the Business Combination with Vesicor.
  • While the Company has entered into a definitive Business Combination Agreement and is focused on consummating the pending Business Combination, we believe that the experience, relationships and transaction sourcing capabilities of our management team may continue to be valuable following the completion of the Business Combination, including in evaluating strategic opportunities and complementary transactions in the future.
  • The closing of our initial public offering occurred on March 22, 2024.
  • Under our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, we were initially required to consummate an initial business combination within 15 months of such closing.
  • On July 8, 2025, our shareholders approved an extension of the date by which we must consummate an initial business combination (the “Extension”), which permits us to extend the Combination Period on a month-by-month basis from June 22, 2025 through December 22, 2026, subject to the deposit of extension payments into the trust account.
  • Under the Extension, we are required to deposit $150,000 into the trust account for each one-month extension of the Combination Period.
  • The extension payments due on December 22, 2025 and January 22, 2026 were funded after their respective due dates.
  • During this period, management determined not to liquidate the Company because it believed that the proposed business combination could be consummated and that liquidation would not be in the best interests of shareholders.
  • As of the issuance date of these financial statements, the required extension payments have been funded and the Company is current under its amended and restated memorandum and articles of association.
  • There can be no assurance that future extension payments will be funded.
  • Beginning on June 22, 2025, our sponsor or its affiliates or designees may extend the time available to consummate an initial business combination by depositing $150,000 for each one-month extension into the trust account.
  • The extension payments are funded pursuant to unsecured convertible promissory notes issued by the Company to the Sponsor.
  • The promissory notes bear interest and are convertible, at the Sponsor’s option, into ordinary shares of the Company (or, following the domestication, shares of common stock of the post-business combination company) at a price of $1.00 per share.
  • The promissory notes are not secured by, and have no recourse to, the funds held in the trust account, and any repayment or conversion will be made solely from funds held outside of the trust account.
  • The Sponsor is not obligated to fund any extension payments.
  • In connection with the Extension, holders of a significant portion of our public shares exercised their redemption rights, and following such redemptions, approximately $22.7 million remained on deposit in the trust account (before payment of taxes and deferred underwriting commissions).
  • If we are unable to consummate an initial business combination by December 22, 2026, or such earlier date as may apply if the extension is not continued, we will redeem the remaining outstanding public shares for a pro rata portion of the funds held in the trust account, subject to applicable law, and thereafter seek to liquidate and dissolve.
  • Any redemption amount would be based on the funds then held in the trust account, including interest earned thereon (less amounts released to pay taxes and up to $100,000 of interest to pay liquidation and dissolution expenses), and we cannot assure you that sufficient funds will be available for distribution in the event claims of creditors take priority over the claims of our public shareholders.
  • However, in the event our sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates were to purchase shares from public shareholders, such purchases would be structured in compliance with the requirements of Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act including, in pertinent part, through adherence to the following: ● the Company’s registration statement/proxy statement filed for its business combination transaction would disclose the possibility that the Company’s sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates may purchase shares from public shareholders outside the redemption process, along with the purpose of such purchases; ● if the Company’s sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates were to purchase shares from public shareholders, they would do so at a price no higher than the price offered through the Company’s redemption process; ● the Company’s registration statement/proxy statement filed for its business combination transaction would include a representation that any of the Company’s securities purchased by the Company’s sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates would not be voted in favor of approving the business combination transaction; ● the Company’s sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates would not possess any redemption rights with respect to the Company’s securities or, if they do acquire and possess redemption rights, they would waive such rights; and ● the Company would disclose in its Form 8-K, before to the Company’s security holder meeting to approve the business combination transaction, the following material items: ○ the amount of the Company’s securities purchased outside of the redemption offer by the Company’s sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates, along with the purchase price; ○ the purpose of the purchases by the Company’s sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates; ○ the impact, if any, of the purchases by the Company’s sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates on the likelihood that the business combination transaction will be approved; ○ the identities of Company security holders who sold to the Company’s sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates (if not purchased on the open market) or the nature of Company security holders ( e.g ., 5% security holders) who sold to the Company’s sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates; and ○ the number of Company securities for which the Company has received redemption requests pursuant to its redemption offer.
  • Redemption rights for public shareholders upon completion of our initial business combination In connection with the consummation of our initial business combination, holders of our public ordinary shares will be provided with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their public shares for cash.
  • The per-share redemption price will be equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account as of two business days prior to the consummation of the initial business combination, including interest earned on the funds held in the trust account and not previously released to pay taxes, divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, subject to the limitations described herein and applicable law.
  • In connection with the Extension approved by our shareholders on July 8, 2025, a significant number of public shareholders exercised their redemption rights, and following such redemptions, approximately $22.7 million remained on deposit in the trust account (before payment of taxes and deferred underwriting commissions).
  • As a result, the redemption price payable to public shareholders in connection with the completion of our initial business combination will depend on, among other things, the amount remaining in the trust account at the time of such redemption and the number of public shares then outstanding, and may differ materially from redemption prices payable in prior redemption events.
  • Redemption of public shares and liquidation if no initial business combination Our sponsor, officers and directors have agreed that we will have 15 months from the closing of our initial public offering to complete our initial business combination.
  • If we anticipate that we may not be able to consummate our initial business combination within such 15-month period, the time available to complete a business combination may be extended for up to an aggregate of 18 or 21 months from the closing of our initial public offering, as applicable, in accordance with the terms of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association and the trust agreement, without submitting such extensions to our shareholders for approval or offering redemption rights in connection therewith.
  • If we are unable to complete our initial business combination within such applicable time period, we will: (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem the public shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest earned thereon (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses, which interest shall be net of taxes payable), divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any), subject to applicable law, and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of our remaining shareholders and our board of directors, liquidate and dissolve, subject in each case to our obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law.
  • There will be no redemption rights or liquidating distributions with respect to our public rights or private placement rights, which will expire worthless if we fail to complete our initial business combination within the applicable time period.
  • Our sponsor, officers and directors have entered into a letter agreement with us, pursuant to which they have waived their rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to their founder shares if we fail to complete our initial business combination within 15 months from the closing of our initial public offering (or up to an aggregate of 18 or 21 months from the closing of our initial public offering, as applicable, if the time period to consummate a business combination is extended in accordance with our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association and the trust agreement).
  • However, if our sponsor or any of our officers or directors acquire public shares following our initial public offering, they will be entitled to receive liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to such public shares if we fail to complete our initial business combination within the applicable time period.
  • Our sponsor, officers and directors have agreed, pursuant to a written letter agreement with us, that they will not propose any amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association that would (i) modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide redemption rights in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 15 months from the closing of our initial public offering (or up to an aggregate of 21 months from the closing of our initial public offering, as applicable, if the time period to consummate a business combination is extended in accordance with our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association and the trust agreement) or (ii) with respect to the other provisions relating to shareholders’ rights or pre-business combination activity, unless we provide our public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem their ordinary shares upon approval of any such amendment at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest (which interest shall be net of taxes payable) divided by the number of then outstanding public shares.
  • However, if those funds are not sufficient to cover the costs and expenses associated with implementing our plan of dissolution, to the extent that there is interest accrued in the trust account not required to pay taxes, we may request the trustee to release to us an additional amount of such accrued interest to pay those costs and expenses.
  • If we were to expend all of the net proceeds from our initial public offering and the sale of the private placement units, other than the proceeds deposited in the trust account, and without taking into account interest, if any, earned on the trust account, the per-share redemption amount received by shareholders upon our dissolution would be approximately $10.05 per public share, subject to increase as a result of interest earned on the trust account and any amounts deposited into the trust account in connection with extensions of the period of time to consummate a business combination.
  • Accordingly, we cannot assure you that the actual per-share redemption amount received by shareholders will not be substantially less than the amount then held in the trust account per public share.
  • Although we will seek to have all vendors, service providers (other than our independent auditors), prospective target businesses and other entities with which we do business execute agreements with us waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the trust account for the benefit of our public shareholders, there is no guarantee that such entities will execute such agreements, or that even if executed, such agreements would be enforceable or prevent such entities from bringing claims against the trust account, including, but not limited to, claims of fraudulent inducement, breach of fiduciary duty or other similar claims, or claims challenging the enforceability of such waivers, in each case in order to gain an advantage with respect to a claim against our assets, including the funds held in the trust account.
  • If any third party refuses to execute an agreement waiving such claims to the monies held in the trust account, our management will perform an analysis of the alternatives available to it and will only enter into an agreement with such third party if management believes that the engagement of such third party would be significantly more beneficial to us than any available alternative.

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Gone since FY2024

  • We were formed for the purpose of entering into a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, recapitalization, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities, which we refer to as a “target business.” We do not have any specific business combination under consideration and we have not (nor has anyone on our behalf), directly or indirectly, contacted any prospective target business or had any substantive discussions, formal or otherwise, with respect to such a transaction.
  • Our efforts to identify a prospective target business will not be limited to a particular industry or geographic location.
  • Kent Louis Kaufman, our Chief Operating Officer and Director, Jonathan Ginsberg and our Independent Directors, Brandon Miller, Daniel M.
  • Brandon Miller, our director, has been serving as a member of the board of directors of Yotta Acquisition Corporation (Nasdaq: YOTA) since April 2022 and Quetta Acquisition Corporation (Nasdaq: QETA) since August 2023.
  • Miller has been the managing partner at Aspect Property Management LLC, a property management company in Connecticut, since January 2015.
  • Before joining Aspect Property Management LLC, Mr.
  • Miller spent a decade in the consulting industry at Matté & Company, a private and public sector consulting company from January 2005 to January 2015, where he offered executive recruiting, strategic planning, leadership, and corporate consulting services.
  • Miller was a corporate controller at Corporate Dining Solutions, a corporate catering company, from 2003 to 2005.
  • Miller is presently a certified manager of community associations (“CMCA”) and an association management specialist (“AMS”).
  • Miller received his bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Bridgeport in 1986 and studied mechanical engineering at North Carolina State University from 1980 to 1983.
  • Established Deal Sourcing Network We believe our management team’s strong track record will provide us with access to high quality companies.
  • In addition, we believe we, through our management team, have contacts and sources from which to generate acquisition opportunities and possibly seek complementary follow-on business arrangements.
  • These contacts and sources include those in government, private and public companies, private equity and venture capital funds, investment bankers, attorneys and accountants.
  • We will have until 15 months from the closing of this offering to consummate an initial business combination.
  • However, if we anticipate that we may not be able to consummate our initial business combination within 15 months, we may extend the period of time to consummate a business combination (for up to 18 or 21 months, as applicable to complete a business combination) without submitting such proposed extensions to our shareholders for approval or offering our public shareholders redemption rights in connection therewith.
  • Pursuant to the terms of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association and the trust agreement to be entered into between us and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company on the date of this prospectus, in order to extend the time available for us to consummate our initial business combination, our sponsor or its affiliates or designees, upon ten days advance notice prior to the applicable deadline, must deposit into the trust account $690,000, or up to $793,500 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full or prior to the date of the applicable deadline, for each extension ($0.10 per public share in either case, up to an aggregate of $1,380,000 or $1,587,000 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full).
  • Any such payments would be made in the form of a loan.
  • Any such loans will be non-interest bearing and payable upon the consummation of our initial business combination.
  • If we complete our initial business combination, we would repay such loaned amounts out of the proceeds of the trust account released to us.
  • If we do not complete a business combination, we will not repay such loans.
  • Furthermore, the letter agreement with our initial shareholders contains a provision pursuant to which our sponsor has agreed to waive its right to be repaid for such loans out of the funds held in the trust account in the event that we do not complete a business combination.
  • Our Sponsor and its affiliates or designees are not obligated to fund the trust account to extend the time for us to complete our initial business combination.
  • If we are unable to consummate an initial business combination within such time period, we will redeem 100% of our issued and outstanding public shares for a pro rata portion of the funds held in the trust account, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account including interest earned on the funds held in the trust account and not previously released to us to pay our taxes (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay liquidation and dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, subject to applicable law and as further described herein, and then seek to liquidate and dissolve.
  • We expect the pro rata redemption price to be approximately $10.05 per Class A ordinary share (regardless of whether or not the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option), without taking into account any interest earned on such funds.
  • However, we cannot assure you that we will in fact be able to distribute such amounts as a result of claims of creditors which may take priority over the claims of our public shareholders.
  • However, in the event our sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates were to purchase shares from public shareholders, such purchases would by structured in compliance with the requirements of Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act including, in pertinent part, through adherence to the following: ● the Company’s registration statement/proxy statement filed for its business combination transaction would disclose the possibility that the Company’s sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates may purchase shares from public shareholders outside the redemption process, along with the purpose of such purchases; ● if the Company’s sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates were to purchase shares from public shareholders, they would do so at a price no higher than the price offered through the Company’s redemption process; ● the Company’s registration statement/proxy statement filed for its business combination transaction would include a representation that any of the Company’s securities purchased by the Company’s sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates would not be voted in favor of approving the business combination transaction; ● the Company’s sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates would not possess any redemption rights with respect to the Company’s securities or, if they do acquire and possess redemption rights, they would waive such rights; and ● the Company would disclose in its Form 8-K, before to the Company’s security holder meeting to approve the business combination transaction, the following material items: ○ the amount of the Company’s securities purchased outside of the redemption offer by the Company’s sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates, along with the purchase price; ○ the purpose of the purchases by the Company’s sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates; ○ the impact, if any, of the purchases by the Company’s sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates on the likelihood that the business combination transaction will be approved; ○ the identities of Company security holders who sold to the Company’s sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates (if not purchased on the open market) or the nature of Company security holders ( e.g ., 5% security holders) who sold to the Company’s sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates; and ○ the number of Company securities for which the Company has received redemption requests pursuant to its redemption offer.
  • Redemption rights for public shareholders upon completion of our initial business combination We will provide our public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their ordinary shares upon the completion of our initial business combination at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account as of two business days prior to the consummation of the initial business combination, including interest (which interest shall be net of taxes payable) divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, subject to the limitations described herein.
  • The amount in the trust account is initially anticipated to be approximately $10.00 per public share (subject to increase of up to an additional $0.10 per public share in the event that our sponsor elects to extend the period of time to consummate a business combination, as described in more detail in this prospectus).
  • Redemption of public shares and liquidation if no initial business combination Our sponsor, officers and directors have agreed that we will have only 15 months from the closing of this offering (or up to 18 or 21 months, as applicable from the closing of this offering if we extend the period of time to consummate a business combination by the full amount of time) to complete our initial business combination.
  • If we are unable to complete our initial business combination within such 15-month period (or up to 18 or 21 months, as applicable from the closing of this offering if we extend the period of time to consummate a business combination by the full amount of time), we will: (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem the public shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses (which interest shall be net of taxes payable) divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any), subject to applicable law, and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of our remaining shareholders and our Board of Directors, liquidate and dissolve, subject in each case to our obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law.
  • There will be no redemption rights or liquidating distributions with respect to our public rights or private placement rights, which will expire worthless if we fail to complete our initial business combination within the 15-month time period (or up to 18 or 21 months, as applicable from the closing of this offering if we extend the period of time to consummate a business combination by the full amount of time).
  • Our sponsor, officers and directors have entered into a letter agreement with us, pursuant to which they have waived their rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to their founder shares if we fail to complete our initial business combination within 15 months from the closing of this offering (or up to 18 or 21 months, as applicable from the closing of this offering if we extend the period of time to consummate a business combination by the full amount of time).
  • However, if our sponsor acquires public shares after this offering, they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to such public shares if we fail to complete our initial business combination within the allotted 15-month time period (or up to 18 or 21 months, as applicable from the closing of this offering if we extend the period of time to consummate a business combination by the full amount of time).
  • Our sponsor, officers and directors have agreed, pursuant to a written letter agreement with us, that they will not propose any amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association that would (i) modify the substance or timing of our obligation to allow redemption in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 15 months from the closing of this offering (or up to 21 months from the closing of this offering if we extend the period of time to consummate a business combination by the full amount of time) or (ii) with respect to the other provisions relating to shareholders’ rights or pre-business combination activity, unless we provide our public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem their ordinary shares upon approval of any such amendment at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest (which interest shall be net of taxes payable) divided by the number of then outstanding public shares.
  • However, if those funds are not sufficient to cover the costs and expenses associated with implementing our plan of dissolution, to the extent that there is any interest accrued in the trust account not required to pay taxes, we may request the trustee to release to us an additional amount of such accrued interest to pay those costs and expenses.
  • If we were to expend all of the net proceeds of this offering and the sale of the private placement units, other than the proceeds deposited in the trust account, and without taking into account interest, if any, earned on the trust account, the per-share redemption amount received by shareholders upon our dissolution would be approximately $10.05 (subject to increase of up to an additional $0.10 per public share in the event that our sponsor elects to extend the period of time to consummate a business combination, as described in more detail in this prospectus).
  • We cannot assure you that the actual per-share redemption amount received by shareholders will not be substantially less than $10.05 per public share.
  • Although we will seek to have all vendors, service providers (other than our independent auditors), prospective target businesses or other entities with which we do business execute agreements with us waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the trust account for the benefit of our public shareholders, there is no guarantee that they will execute such agreements or even if they execute such agreements that they would be prevented from bringing claims against the trust account including but not limited to fraudulent inducement, breach of fiduciary responsibility or other similar claims, as well as claims challenging the enforceability of the waiver, in each case in order to gain an advantage with respect to a claim against our assets, including the funds held in the trust account.
  • If any third party refuses to execute an agreement waiving such claims to the monies held in the trust account, our management will perform an analysis of the alternatives available to it and will only enter into an agreement with a third party that has not executed a waiver if management believes that such third party’s engagement would be significantly more beneficial to us than any alternative.
  • Examples of possible instances where we may engage a third party that refuses to execute a waiver include the engagement of a third party consultant whose particular expertise or skills are believed by management to be significantly superior to those of other consultants that would agree to execute a waiver or in cases where management is unable to find a service provider willing to execute a waiver.

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