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): July 6, 2026
MERIDIAN3 INDUSTRIALS ACQUISITION CORP
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Cayman Islands | [●] | N/A | ||
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) | (IRS Employer Identification No.) |
1330 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 23A
New York, NY 10019
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (212) 653-0982
Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
| Title of each class | Trading Symbol(s) |
Name of each exchange on which registered | ||
| Units, each consisting of one Class A ordinary share, $0.0001 par value, and one-half of one redeemable warrant | MIACU | The Nasdaq Global Market | ||
| Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share | MIAC | The Nasdaq Global Market | ||
| Warrants, each whole warrant exercisable for one Class A ordinary share at an exercise price of $11.50 per share | MIACW | The Nasdaq Global Market |
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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).
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Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On July 1, 2026, Meridian3 Industrials Acquisition Corp (the “Company”) consummated its initial public offering (“IPO”) of 20,125,000 units (the “Units”). Each Unit consists of one Class A ordinary share of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class A Ordinary Shares”), and one-half of one redeemable warrant of the Company (each whole warrant, a “Warrant”), with each Warrant entitling the holder thereof to purchase one Class A Ordinary Share for $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment, beginning 30 days after the completion of the Company’s initial business combination. The Units were sold at a price of $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds to the Company of $201,250,000.
In connection with the IPO, the Company entered into the following agreements, forms of which were previously filed as exhibits to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-296506) for the IPO, initially filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on June 4, 2026 (the “Registration Statement”):
| · | An Underwriting Agreement, dated July 1, 2026, by and between the Company and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. ("Cantor"), as the sole underwriter, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit 1.1 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference. |
| · | A Warrant Agreement, dated July 1, 2026, by and between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company (“Continental”), as warrant agent, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit 4.4 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference. |
| · | A Letter Agreement, dated July 1, 2026, by and among the Company, its executive officers, its directors and a senior advisor as well as Meridian3 Partners Sponsor LLC, the Company’s sponsor (the “Sponsor”), a copy of which is attached as Exhibit 10.1 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference. |
| · | An Investment Management Trust Agreement, dated July 1, 2026, by and between the Company and Continental, as trustee, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit 10.2 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference. |
| · | A Registration Rights Agreement, dated July 1, 2026, by and among the Company, the Sponsor, Cantor and the holders signatory thereto, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit 10.3 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference. |
| · | A Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreement, dated July 1, 2026, by and between the Company and the Sponsor (the “Sponsor Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreement”), a copy of which is attached as Exhibit 10.4 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference. |
| · | A Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreement, dated July 1, 2026, by and between the Company and Cantor (the “Cantor Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreement” and together with the Sponsor Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreement, the “Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreements”), a copy of which is attached as Exhibit 10.5 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference. |
| · | An Administrative Services and Indemnification Agreement, dated July 1, 2026, by and between the Company and the Sponsor, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit 10.9 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference. |
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The material terms of such agreements are fully described in the Company’s final prospectus, dated July 1, 2026, as filed with the Commission on July 1, 2026 (the “Prospectus”) and are incorporated herein by reference.
Item 3.02. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.
On July 6, 2026, simultaneously with the closing of the IPO, pursuant to the Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreements, the Company completed the private sale of an aggregate of 5,500,000 warrants (the “Private Placement Warrants”) to the Sponsor and Cantor at a purchase price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant, generating gross proceeds to the Company of $5,500,000. Of the 5,500,000 Private Placement Warrants, the Sponsor purchased 3,750,000 Private Placement Warrants and Cantor purchased 1,750,000 Private Placement Warrants. The Private Placement Warrants are identical to the Warrants included as part of the Units sold in the IPO, except that the Private Placement Warrants (i) will not be redeemable by the Company, (ii) may not (including the Class A Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of the Private Placement Warrants), subject to certain limited exceptions, be transferred, assigned or sold until 30 days after the completion of the Company’s initial business combination, (iii) may be exercised by the holders on a cashless basis, (iv) are entitled to registration rights, and (v) with respect to the Private Placement Warrants held by Cantor and/or their designees, will not be exercisable more than five years after the commencement of sales in the IPO. The Private Placement Warrants will be worthless if the Company does not complete an initial business combination. The material terms of the Private Placement Warrants are fully described in the Prospectus and are incorporated herein by reference. No underwriting discounts or commissions were paid with respect to the sale of the Private Placement Warrants. The issuance of the Private Placement Warrants was made pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
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Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On July 1, 2026, in connection with the IPO, Professor Dr Sir Ralf Speth KBE FREng FRS, Dr. John Llewellyn, Steven G. Osgood, Hideyuki Nakashima, and Steven Robert Armstrong were appointed to the board of directors of the Company. Each of Dr. John Llewellyn, Steven G. Osgood, Hideyuki Nakashima, and Steven Robert Armstrong are independent directors. Effective July 1, 2026, Steven G. Osgood, Dr. John Llewellyn, and Hideyuki Nakashima were appointed to the Board’s Audit Committee and Steven Robert Armstrong, Steven G. Osgood, and Dr. John Llewellyn were appointed to the Board’s Compensation Committee, with Steven G. Osgood and Dr. John Llewellyn serving as chair of the Audit Committee and chair of the Compensation Committee, respectively.
On July 1, 2026, in connection with their appointments to the Board, each of the members of the Board entered into the Letter Agreement as well as an indemnity agreement with the Company in the form previously filed as Exhibit 10.1 and 10.6 to the Registration Statement, respectively.
Other than the foregoing, none of the directors are party to any arrangement or understanding with any person pursuant to which they were appointed as directors, nor are they party to any transactions required to be disclosed under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K involving the Company.
The foregoing descriptions of the Letter Agreement and the form of indemnity agreement do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entireties by reference to the Letter Agreement and form of indemnity agreement, copies of which are attached as Exhibit 10.1 hereto and Exhibit 10.9 to the Registration Statement, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.
Item 5.03. Amendments to Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.
On July 1, 2026, in connection with the IPO, the Company adopted its Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association (the “Amended Articles”), effective the same day. The terms of the Amended Articles are set forth in the Registration Statement and are incorporated herein by reference. A copy of the Amended Articles is attached as Exhibit 3.2 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.
Item 8.01. Other Events.
A total of $201,250,000 of the net proceeds from the IPO (which amount includes up to $8,575,000 of the underwriters’ deferred commission) and the sale of the Private Placement Warrants was placed in a U.S.-based trust account maintained by Continental, acting as trustee. Except with respect to interest earned on the funds held in the trust account that may be released to the Company for permitted withdrawals and up to $100,000 of interest to pay liquidation expenses, the funds held in the trust account will not be released from the trust account until the earliest of (i) the completion of the Company’s initial business combination, (ii) the redemption of the Class A Ordinary Shares included in the Units sold in the IPO (the “public shares”) if the Company is unable to complete its initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of the IPO, subject to applicable law or (iii) the redemption of any of the public shares properly submitted in connection with a shareholder vote to amend the Company’s Amended Articles (A) to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to allow redemption in connection with its initial business combination or to redeem 100% of its public shares if it has not consummated an initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of the IPO or (B) with respect to any other material provisions relating to shareholders’ rights or pre-initial business combination activity.
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On July 1, 2026, the Company issued a press release announcing the pricing of the IPO, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
On July 6, 2026, the Company issued a press release announcing the closing of the IPO, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit 99.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
EXHIBIT INDEX
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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.
| MERIDIAN3 INDUSTRIALS ACQUISITION CORP | |||
| By: | /s/ Jeffrey H. Foster | ||
| Name: | Jeffrey H. Foster | ||
| Title: | Chief Financial Officer | ||
| Dated: July 6, 2026 | |||
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