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S-K 1603(b) Conflicts of Interest
May 11, 2026
SPAC Sponsor, Conflict of Interest [Line Items]  
SPAC, Actual or Potential Material Conflict of Interest, Prospectus Summary [Text Block]

Conflicts of Interest

Under Cayman Islands law, directors and officers owe the following fiduciary duties:

        duty to act in good faith in what the director or officer believes to be in the best interests of the company as a whole;

        duty to exercise powers for the purposes for which those powers were conferred and not for a collateral purpose;

        directors should not improperly fetter the exercise of future discretion;

        duty to exercise powers fairly as between different sections of shareholders;

        duty not to put themselves in a position in which there is a conflict between their duty to the company and their personal interests; and

        duty to exercise independent judgment.

In addition to the above, directors also owe a duty of care which is not fiduciary in nature. This duty has been defined as a requirement to act as a reasonably diligent person having both the general knowledge, skill and experience that may reasonably be expected of a person carrying out the same functions as are carried out by that director in relation to the company and the general knowledge skill and experience of that director.

As set out above, directors have a duty not to put themselves in a position of conflict and this includes a duty not to engage in self-dealing, or to otherwise benefit as a result of their position. However, in some instances what would otherwise be a breach of this duty can be forgiven and/or authorized in advance by the shareholders provided that there is full disclosure by the directors. This can be done by way of permission granted in the memorandum and articles of association or alternatively by shareholder approval at general meetings.

Our management team is responsible for the management of our affairs. As described above and below, each of our officers and directors presently has, and any of them in the future may have additional, fiduciary, contractual or other obligations or duties to one or more other entities pursuant to which such officer or director is or will be required to present a business combination opportunity to such entities. Accordingly, if any of our officers or directors becomes aware of a business combination opportunity which is suitable for one or more entities to which he or she has fiduciary, contractual or other obligations or duties, he or she will honor these obligations and duties to present such business combination opportunity to such entities first, and only present it to us if such entities reject the opportunity and he or she determines to present the opportunity to us (including as described in “Proposed Business — Our Acquisition Process”). These conflicts may not be resolved in our favor and a potential target business may be presented to another entity, prior to its presentation to us. As a result, there may be actual or potential material conflicts of interest between members of our management team on one hand, and purchasers in this offering on the other.

We are not prohibited from pursuing an initial business combination with a company that is affiliated with members of our management team. In the event we seek to complete our initial business combination with a business that is affiliated with members of our management team, we, or a committee of independent and disinterested directors, will obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm that is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, or from an independent registered public accounting firm, that such an initial business combination is fair to our company from a financial point of view.

Members of our management team may participate in the formation of, invest in (on behalf of themselves, their affiliates or its and their clients), or become an officer or director of, any other blank check company prior to completion of our initial business combination. As a result, there may be actual or potential material conflicts of interest between members of our management team on one hand and the investors in this offering on the other hand that may not be resolved in favor of the investors in this offering.

In addition to the above, potential investors should also be aware of the following other potential conflicts of interest between members of our management team on one hand and the investors in this offering on the other hand:

        none of our officers or directors is required to commit his or her full time to our affairs and, accordingly, may have conflicts of interest in allocating his or her time among various business activities.

        in the course of their other business activities, our officers and directors may become aware of investment and business opportunities which may be appropriate for presentation to us as well as the other entities with which they are affiliated. Our management may have conflicts of interest in determining to which entity a particular business opportunity should be presented. Please see “— Directors and Executive Officers” for a description of our management’s other affiliations.

        our initial shareholders, officers and directors will agree to waive their redemption rights with respect to any founder shares and any public shares held by them in connection with the consummation of our initial business combination. Additionally, our initial shareholders, officers and directors will agree to waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to any founder shares held by them if we fail to consummate our initial business combination within the completion window. However, if our initial shareholders or any of our officers, directors or affiliates acquire public shares in or after this offering, they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to such public shares if we fail to consummate our initial business combination within the completion window. If we do not complete our initial business combination within such applicable time period, the proceeds of the sale of the private placement warrants held in the trust account will be used to fund the redemption of our public shares, and the private placement warrants will expire worthless. Except as described herein, (1) pursuant to a letter agreement entered into with us, our initial shareholders, officers and directors will agree not to transfer, assign or sell 90% of the founder shares held by them until the earlier to occur of: (x) six months after completion of our initial business combination; or (y) subsequent to our initial business combination (A) if the closing price of our ordinary shares equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for share sub-divisions, share dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and other similar transactions) for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing any time 150 days after completion of our initial business combination or (B) the date on which we complete a liquidation, merger, share exchange, reorganization or other similar transaction that results in all of our public shareholders having the right to exchange their ordinary shares for cash, securities or other property. For the avoidance of doubt, 10% of the founder shares held by our initial shareholders shall not be subject to such transfer restrictions. Any permitted transferees would be subject to the same restrictions and other agreements of our sponsor with respect to any founder shares, and (2) pursuant to a letter agreement entered into with us, our initial shareholders will agree not to transfer, assign or sell any private placement warrants and the Class A ordinary shares underlying such warrants until 30 days after the completion of our initial business combination. We refer to such transfer restrictions throughout this prospectus as the lock-up. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if we complete a liquidation, merger, share exchange, reorganization or other similar transaction after our initial business combination that results in all of our public shareholders having the right to exchange their ordinary shares for cash, securities or other property, the founder shares will be released from the lock-up. Since our sponsor, members of our management team may directly or indirectly own ordinary shares and warrants following this offering, our officers and directors may have a conflict of interest in determining whether a particular target business is an appropriate business with which to effectuate our initial business combination.

        our key personnel may negotiate employment or consulting agreements with a target business in connection with a particular business combination. These agreements may provide for them to receive compensation following our initial business combination and as a result, may cause them to have conflicts of interest in determining whether to proceed with a particular business combination.

        our key personnel may have a conflict of interest with respect to evaluating a particular business combination if the retention or resignation of any such key personnel was included by a target business as a condition to any agreement with respect to our initial business combination.

        our sponsor and members of our management team will directly or indirectly own our securities following this offering, and accordingly, they may have a conflict of interest in determining whether a particular target business is an appropriate business with which to effectuate our initial business combination. Upon the closing of this offering, our sponsor and certain directors and officers will have invested in us an aggregate of $2,775,000 comprised of the $25,000 purchase price for the founder shares (or approximately $0.0043 per share) and the $2,750,000 purchase price for the private placement warrants (or $1.00 per warrant), assuming no exercise of the underwriter’s over-allotment option. Accordingly, our management team, which owns interests in our sponsor, may be more willing to pursue a business combination with a riskier or less-established target business than would be the case if our sponsor had paid the same per share price for the founder shares as our public shareholders paid for their public shares.

        in the event our sponsor or members of our management team provide loans to us to finance transaction costs, or out-of-pocket reimbursement of expenses, in connection with an intended initial business combination and/or incur expenses on our behalf in connection with an initial business combination, such persons and accordingly, they may have a conflict of interest in determining whether a particular target business is an appropriate business with which to effectuate our initial business combination as such loans may not be repaid and/or such expenses may not be reimbursed unless we consummate such business combination.

        we are not prohibited from pursuing an initial business combination with a company that is affiliated with our sponsor, directors or members of our management team; accordingly, such affiliated person(s) they may have a conflict of interest in determining whether a particular target business is an appropriate business with which to effectuate our initial business combination as such affiliated person(s) would have interests different from our public shareholders and would likely not receive any financial benefit unless we consummated such business combination.

The conflicts described above may not be resolved in our favor.

Below is a table summarizing the entities to which our executive officers and directors currently have fiduciary duties:

Individual(1)

 

Entity

 

Entity’s Business   

 

Affiliation

Matthew J. Norden

 

Iron Dome Acquisition I Manager LLC

 

Sponsor vehicle

 

Managing Member

   

49th Street Ventures LLC

 

Investment vehicle

 

Managing Member

____________

(1)      Each of the entities listed in this table may have competitive interests with our company with respect to the performance by each individual listed in this table of his or her obligations.

In addition, our sponsor or any of its affiliates, or any of their respective clients, may make additional investments in the company in connection with the initial business combination, although our sponsor and its affiliates have no obligation or current intention to do so. If our sponsor or any of its affiliates elects to make additional investments, such proposed investments could influence our sponsor’s motivation to complete an initial business combination.

Further, in order to facilitate our initial business combination, including any related financing, our sponsor may surrender or forfeit, transfer or exchange our founder shares, private placement warrants or any of our other securities, including for no consideration, as well as subject any such securities to earn-outs or other restrictions, or otherwise amend the terms of any such securities or enter into any other arrangements with respect to any such securities.

In the event that we submit our initial business combination to our public shareholders for a vote, our initial shareholders, officers and directors will agree to vote any founder shares and any public shares held by them in favor of our initial business combination, and our officers and directors also will agree to vote public shares purchased by them (if any) during or after this offering (including in open market and privately-negotiated transactions) in favor of our initial business combination (except that any public shares such parties may purchase in compliance with the requirements of Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act would not be voted in favor of approving the business combination transaction), aside from shares they may purchase in compliance with the requirements of Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act, which would not be voted in favor of approving the business combination transaction.

SPAC Officers and Directors [Member]  
SPAC Sponsor, Conflict of Interest [Line Items]  
Conflict of Interest, Description [Text Block] none of our officers or directors is required to commit his or her full time to our affairs and, accordingly, may have conflicts of interest in allocating his or her time among various business activities.
Other Business Activities [Member]  
SPAC Sponsor, Conflict of Interest [Line Items]  
Conflict of Interest, Description [Text Block] in the course of their other business activities, our officers and directors may become aware of investment and business opportunities which may be appropriate for presentation to us as well as the other entities with which they are affiliated. Our management may have conflicts of interest in determining to which entity a particular business opportunity should be presented. Please see “— Directors and Executive Officers” for a description of our management’s other affiliations.
Initial Shareholders [Member]  
SPAC Sponsor, Conflict of Interest [Line Items]  
Conflict of Interest, Description [Text Block] our initial shareholders, officers and directors will agree to waive their redemption rights with respect to any founder shares and any public shares held by them in connection with the consummation of our initial business combination. Additionally, our initial shareholders, officers and directors will agree to waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to any founder shares held by them if we fail to consummate our initial business combination within the completion window. However, if our initial shareholders or any of our officers, directors or affiliates acquire public shares in or after this offering, they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to such public shares if we fail to consummate our initial business combination within the completion window. If we do not complete our initial business combination within such applicable time period, the proceeds of the sale of the private placement warrants held in the trust account will be used to fund the redemption of our public shares, and the private placement warrants will expire worthless. Except as described herein, (1) pursuant to a letter agreement entered into with us, our initial shareholders, officers and directors will agree not to transfer, assign or sell 90% of the founder shares held by them until the earlier to occur of: (x) six months after completion of our initial business combination; or (y) subsequent to our initial business combination (A) if the closing price of our ordinary shares equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for share sub-divisions, share dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and other similar transactions) for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing any time 150 days after completion of our initial business combination or (B) the date on which we complete a liquidation, merger, share exchange, reorganization or other similar transaction that results in all of our public shareholders having the right to exchange their ordinary shares for cash, securities or other property. For the avoidance of doubt, 10% of the founder shares held by our initial shareholders shall not be subject to such transfer restrictions. Any permitted transferees would be subject to the same restrictions and other agreements of our sponsor with respect to any founder shares, and (2) pursuant to a letter agreement entered into with us, our initial shareholders will agree not to transfer, assign or sell any private placement warrants and the Class A ordinary shares underlying such warrants until 30 days after the completion of our initial business combination. We refer to such transfer restrictions throughout this prospectus as the lock-up. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if we complete a liquidation, merger, share exchange, reorganization or other similar transaction after our initial business combination that results in all of our public shareholders having the right to exchange their ordinary shares for cash, securities or other property, the founder shares will be released from the lock-up. Since our sponsor, members of our management team may directly or indirectly own ordinary shares and warrants following this offering, our officers and directors may have a conflict of interest in determining whether a particular target business is an appropriate business with which to effectuate our initial business combination.
Consulting Agreements [Member]  
SPAC Sponsor, Conflict of Interest [Line Items]  
Conflict of Interest, Description [Text Block] our key personnel may negotiate employment or consulting agreements with a target business in connection with a particular business combination. These agreements may provide for them to receive compensation following our initial business combination and as a result, may cause them to have conflicts of interest in determining whether to proceed with a particular business combination.
Initial Business Combination [Member]  
SPAC Sponsor, Conflict of Interest [Line Items]  
Conflict of Interest, Description [Text Block] our key personnel may have a conflict of interest with respect to evaluating a particular business combination if the retention or resignation of any such key personnel was included by a target business as a condition to any agreement with respect to our initial business combination.
Management Team [Member]  
SPAC Sponsor, Conflict of Interest [Line Items]  
Conflict of Interest, Description [Text Block] our sponsor and members of our management team will directly or indirectly own our securities following this offering, and accordingly, they may have a conflict of interest in determining whether a particular target business is an appropriate business with which to effectuate our initial business combination. Upon the closing of this offering, our sponsor and certain directors and officers will have invested in us an aggregate of $2,775,000 comprised of the $25,000 purchase price for the founder shares (or approximately $0.0043 per share) and the $2,750,000 purchase price for the private placement warrants (or $1.00 per warrant), assuming no exercise of the underwriter’s over-allotment option. Accordingly, our management team, which owns interests in our sponsor, may be more willing to pursue a business combination with a riskier or less-established target business than would be the case if our sponsor had paid the same per share price for the founder shares as our public shareholders paid for their public shares.
Management Team Provide Loans [Member]  
SPAC Sponsor, Conflict of Interest [Line Items]  
Conflict of Interest, Description [Text Block] in the event our sponsor or members of our management team provide loans to us to finance transaction costs, or out-of-pocket reimbursement of expenses, in connection with an intended initial business combination and/or incur expenses on our behalf in connection with an initial business combination, such persons and accordingly, they may have a conflict of interest in determining whether a particular target business is an appropriate business with which to effectuate our initial business combination as such loans may not be repaid and/or such expenses may not be reimbursed unless we consummate such business combination.
SPAC Sponsor and its Affiliates [Member]  
SPAC Sponsor, Conflict of Interest [Line Items]  
Conflict of Interest, Description [Text Block] we are not prohibited from pursuing an initial business combination with a company that is affiliated with our sponsor, directors or members of our management team; accordingly, such affiliated person(s) they may have a conflict of interest in determining whether a particular target business is an appropriate business with which to effectuate our initial business combination as such affiliated person(s) would have interests different from our public shareholders and would likely not receive any financial benefit unless we consummated such business combination.