Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2025

Summary of significant accounting policies

Note 2 — Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying unaudited condensed con

soli

dated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and in accordance with the instructions to Form

10-Q

and Article 8 of Regulation

S-X

of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). Certain information or footnote disclosures normally included in condensed financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP have been condensed or omitted, pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC for interim financial reporting. Accordingly, they do not include all the information and footnotes necessary for a complete presentation of financial position, results of operations, or cash flows. In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include all adjustments, consisting of a normal recurring nature, which are necessary for a fair presentation of the financial position, operating results and cash flows for the periods presented.

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s Annual Report on

Form 10-K

as filed with the SEC on March 31, 2025. The interim results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the year ending December 31, 2025 or for any future periods.

Principles of Consolidation

On June 2, 2025, the Merger Subs were incorporated/formed.

The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

Emerging Growth Company Status

As an emerging growth company, the Company may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in its periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a

non-binding

advisory vote on executive compensation and shareholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.

Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to

non-emerging

growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has elected not to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, the Company, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements with another public company which is neither an emerging growth company nor an emerging growth company which has opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accounting standards used.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

The Company considers all short-term investments with an original maturity of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents. The Company had $426,052 and $2,412,564 in cash and no cash equivalents as of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.

Marketable Securities and Cash Held in Trust Account

The Company classifies its U.S. Treasury and equivalent securities as

held-to-maturity

in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 320 “Investments - Debt and Equity Securities.”

Held-to-maturity

securities are those securities which the Company has the ability and intent to hold until maturity.

Held-to-maturity

treasury securities are recorded at amortized cost on the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets and adjusted for the amortization or accretion of premiums or discounts. At June 30, 2025, $302,369,000 was invested in U.S. Treasury Securities and $816

was held in cash. At December 31, 2024

, $296,133,481 was invested in U.S. Treasury Securities and $2,216 was invested in money market funds.

To fund working capital, the Company has permitted withdrawals available up to an annual limit of $1,000,000.

These permitted withdrawals are limited to only the interest available that has been earned in excess of the initial deposit at the Initial Public Offering. During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company had withdrawn $1,000,000 in interest for working capital purposes, and as of June 30, 2025, the Company had no further amounts available for permitted withdrawals until May 6, 2025, which was the 1-year anniversary of the Initial Public Offering. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, the Company did not withdraw any amounts from the Trust Account for working capital purposes. As of June 30, 2025 the Company had

$1,000,000

available for permitted withdraws for the period from May 6, 2025 until May 6, 2026, which is the 2-year anniversary of the Initial Public Offering.

Offering Costs

The Company complies with the requirements of the ASC

340-10-S99

and SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin Topic 5A, “Expenses of Offering.” Deferred offering costs consist principally of professional and registration fees that are related to the Initial Public Offering. Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) ASC

470-20,

“Debt with Conversion and Other Options,” addresses the allocation of proceeds from the issuance of convertible debt into its equity and debt components. The Company applies this guidance to allocate Initial Public Offering proceeds from the Units between Class A ordinary shares and warrants, using the residual method by allocating Initial Public Offering proceeds first to assigned value of the warrants and then to the Class A ordinary shares. Offering costs allocated to the Public Shares were charged to temporary equity, and offering costs allocated to the Private Placement Units and Public Warrants (as defined in Note 3) were charged to shareholders’ (deficit) equity.

Transaction costs amounted to $14,560,986, consisting of $5,750,000 of upfront discount to the underwriters, $10,062,500 of deferred underwriting fees, and $557,236 of other offering costs, offset by a reimbursement from the underwriters of $1,808,750.

Financial Instruments

The fair value of the Company’s assets and liabilities, which qualify as financial instruments under the FASB ASC 820, “Fair Value Measurement,” approximates the carrying amounts represented in the condensed consolidated balance sheets, primarily due to their short-term nature.

Fair Value Measurements

Fair value is defined as the price that would be received for sale of an asset or paid for transfer of a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the me

asureme

nt date. GAAP establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in measuring fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurements). These tiers include:

•

Level 1, defined as observable inputs such as quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical instruments in active markets;

•

Level 2, defined as inputs other than quoted prices in active markets that are either directly or indirectly observable such as quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets or quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active; and

•

Level 3, defined as unobservable inputs in which little or no market data exists, therefore requiring an entity to develop its own assumptions, such as valuations derived from valuation techniques in which one or more significant inputs or significant value drivers are unobservable. In some circumstances, the inputs used to measure fair value might be categorized within different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In those instances, the fair value measurement is categorized in its entirety in the fair value hierarchy based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of the condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires the Company’s management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the condensed consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of expenses during the reporting period.

Making estimates requires management to exercise significant judgement. It is at least reasonably possible that the estimate of the effect of a condition, situation or set of circumstances that existed at the date of the condensed consolidated financial statements, which management considered in formulating its estimate, could change in the near term due to one or more future confirming events. Accordingly, the actual results could differ significantly from those estimates.

Net Income Per Ordinary Share

The Company complies with accounting and disclosure r

equ

irements of ASC 260, “Earnings Per Share.” The Company has two classes of shares, which are referred to as Class A ordinary shares and Class B ordinary shares. Income and losses are shared pro rata between the two classes of shares. Net income per ordinary share is calculated by dividing the net income by the weighted average ordinary shares outstanding for the respective period. Diluted net income per share attributable to ordinary shareholders adjusts the basic net income per share attributable to ordinary shareholders and the weighted-average ordinary shares outstanding for the potentially dilutive impact of outstanding warrants. However, because the warrants are anti-dilutive, diluted income per ordinary share is the same as basic income per ordinary share for the periods presented.

With respect to the accretion of Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption and consistent with ASC Topic

480-10-S99-3A,

the Company treated accretion in the same manner as a dividend paid to the shareholders in the calculation of the net income per ordinary share.

The following table reflects the calculation of basic and diluted net income per ordinary share:


	For the Three Months Ended June 30,								For the Six Months Ended June 30,
	2025				2024				2025				2024
	Redeemable		Non-Redeemable Class A		Redeemable		Non- Redeemable Class A		Redeemable		Non- Redeemable Class A		Redeemable		Non- Redeemable Class A
	Class A		And Class B		Class A		And Class B		Class A		And Class B		Class A		And Class B
Basic net income per share:
Numerator:
Allocation of net income	$	660,571	$	181,801	$	1,388,502	$	574,225	$	2,788,943	$	767,566	$	1,093,272	$	845,363

Denominator:
Weighted-average shares outstanding		28,750,000		7,912,500		17,569,444		7,265,972		28,750,000		7,912,500		8,736,188		6,755,180
Basic income per share		0.02		0.02		0.08		0.08		0.10		0.10		0.13		0.13
Diluted net income per share:
Numerator:
Allocation of net income	$	660,571	$	181,801	$	1,368,414	$	594,313	$	2,788,943	$	767,566	$	1,080,626	$	858,009

Denominator:
Weighted-average shares outstanding		28,750,000		7,912,500		17,569,444		7,630,556		28,750,000		7,912,500		8,736,188		6,936,464
Diluted income per share	$	0.02	$	0.02	$	0.08	$	0.08	$	0.10	$	0.10	$	0.13	$	0.12

Income Taxes

The Company accounts for income taxes under ASC Topic 740, “Income Taxes,” which requires an asset and liability approach to financial accounting and reporting for income taxes. Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are computed for differences between the financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities that will result in future taxable or deductible amounts, based on enacted tax laws and rates applicable to the periods in which the differences are expected to affect taxable income. Valuation allowances are established, when necessary, to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized.

ASC Topic 740 prescribes a recognition threshold and a measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. For those benefits to be recognized, a tax position must be more likely than not to be sustained upon examination by taxing authorities. The Company’s management determined that the Cayman Islands is the Company’s major tax jurisdiction. The Company recognizes accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense. As of June 30, 2025

and December 31, 2024, there were no unrecognized tax benefits and no amounts accrued for interest and penalties. The Company is currently not aware of any issues under review that could result in significant payments, accruals or material deviation from its position.

The Company is considered to be an exempted Cayman Islands company with no connection to any other taxable jurisdiction and is presently not subject to income taxes or income tax filing requirements in the Cayman Islands or the United States. As such, the Company’s tax provision was zero for the periods presented.

Class A Ordinary Shares Subject to Redemption

The Public Shares contain a redemption feature which allows for the redemption of such Public Shares in connection with the Company’s liquidation, or if there is a shareholder vote or tender offer in connection with the Company’s initial Business Combination. In accordance with ASC

480-10-S99,

the Company classifies Public Shares subject to possible redemption outside of permanent equity as the redemption provisions are not solely within the control of the Company. The Public Shares sold as part of the Units in the Initial Public Offering were issued with other freestanding instruments (i.e., Public Warrants), and as such, the initial carrying value of Public Shares classified as temporary equity are the allocated proceeds determined in accordance with ASC

470-20.The

Company recognizes changes in redemption value immediately as they occur and will adjust the carrying value of redeemable shares to equal the redemption value at the end of each reporting period. Immediately upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company recognized the accretion from initial book value to redemption amount value. The change in the carrying value of redeemable shares will result in charges against additional

paid-in

capital (to the extent available) and accumulated deficit. Accordingly, at June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption are presented at redemption value as temporary equity, outside of the shareholders’ (deficit) equity section of the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets.

At June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Class A ordinary shares subject to redemption reflected in the condensed consolidated balance sheets are reconciled in the following table:


Gross proceeds	$	287,500,000
Less:
Proceeds allocated to Public Warrants		(1,437,500	)
Public Shares issuance costs		(14,474,543	)
Plus:
Accretion of carrying value to redemption value		24,534,690

Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption, December 31, 2024		296,122,647
Plus:
Accretion of carrying value to redemption value		2,997,592

Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption, March 31, 2025		299,120,239
Plus:
Accretion of carrying value to redemption value		2,181,033

Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption, June 30, 2025	$	301,301,272

Warrant Instruments

The Company will account for the Public Warrants and Private Warrants (as defined in Note 4) issued in connection with the Initial Public Offering and the private placement in accordance with the guidance contained in FASB ASC Topic 815, “Derivatives and Hedging.” Accordingly, the Company evaluated and classified the warrant instruments under equity treatment at their assigned values.

Recent Accounting Standards

Management does not believe that any recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting pronouncements, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements.

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