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S-K 1603, SPAC Sponsor; Conflicts of Interest
Jul. 09, 2026
SPAC Sponsor, its Affiliates and Promoters [Line Items]  
SPAC Sponsor [Table Text Block]
Our Sponsor
Our sponsor is a Cayman Islands limited liability company, which was formed to invest in us. Although our sponsor is permitted to undertake any activities permitted under its
limited liability company
agreement and the Limited Liabilities Companies Act, as revised, and other applicable law, our sponsor’s business is focused on investing in our company. The manager of the sponsor is Bet on America II HoldCo LLC, a Cayman Islands limited liability company, that Benjamin A. Friedman, our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and a member of our board of directors, controls. In this capacity, Mr. Friedman controls the management of our sponsor, including the exercise of voting and investment discretion over the securities of our company held by our sponsor. The sponsor
non-managing
members have expressed an interest to purchase
non-managing
membership interests in our sponsor, reflecting interests in an aggregate of 80,000 of the 201,500 private placement units to be purchased by our sponsor at a price of $10.00 per private placement unit ($800,000 in the aggregate), in private placements that will close simultaneously with the closing of this offering. Subject to the sponsor non-managing members purchasing, through the sponsor, the private placement units allocated to them simultaneously with the closing of this offering, the sponsor will issue membership interests at a nominal purchase price to the sponsor non-managing members reflecting their interest in an aggregate of 1,454,546 founder shares held by the sponsor. In addition, subject to the consummation of the Private Placement, our sponsor will distribute 363,636 founder shares for a nominal purchase price to the Private Placement Investor. The sponsor non-managing members will have no right to vote the founder shares, private placement units or securities underlying the private placement units that they hold indirectly through their membership interests in the sponsor. See “
Summary — The Offering —  Private placement units
.” Other than our management team, none of the other members of our sponsor will participate in our company’s activities. Because (i) none of the sponsor
non-managing
members or our independent directors will hold voting interests in our sponsor nor have any rights to control our sponsor or to vote or dispose of any securities held by our sponsor, (ii) each of the sponsor
non-managing
members is an institutional investor that is able to bear the complete risk of loss of the proposed investment in our sponsor, and (iii) no individual sponsor
non-managing
member or independent director would indirectly own a significant percentage of any of the securities held by our sponsor, none of the sponsor
non-managing
members or independent directors will have a direct or indirect material economic interest in our sponsor.
Certain of our officers and directors hold approximately 74% of the outstanding Class A membership interests and approximately 60% of the outstanding Class B membership in our Sponsor. The remaining membership interests in the Sponsor are held by certain sponsor non-managing members, each of which owns less than 20% of the Class A outstanding membership interests or Class B outstanding membership interests in our Sponsor.
 
The following table sets forth the payments to be received by our sponsor and its affiliates from us prior to or in connection with the completion of our initial business combination and the securities issued and to be issued by us to our sponsor or its affiliates:
 
Entity /

Individual
  
Amount of Compensation to be Received

or Securities Issued or to

be Issued
  
Consideration Paid or to be Paid
Bet on America II Sponsor LLC
  
$13,333 per month, commencing on the first date on which our securities are listed on Nasdaq
  
Office space, administrative and shared personnel support services
  
5,980,714
(1)
(3)
Class B Ordinary Shares
  
$25,000
  
201,500 private placement units (whether or not the over-allotment option is exercised)
  
$2,015,000 (whether or not the over-allotment option is exercised)
  
Up to $300,000
  
Repayment of loans made to us to cover offering related and organizational expenses
  
Reimbursement for any out-of-pocket expenses related to identifying, investigating and completing an initial business combination
  
Expenses incurred in connection with identifying, investigating and completing an initial business combination
  
Up to $2,500,000 in working capital loans, which loans may be convertible into private placement units of the post-business combination entity at the price of $10.00 per unit
(2)
  
Working capital loans to finance transaction costs in connection with an initial business combination
Brian D. Friedman
  
30,000 Class B Ordinary Shares
(4)
  
Service as Chairman of the Board
Dean Friedman
  
30,000 Class B Ordinary Shares
(4)
  
Service as director
Jason Kahan
  
30,000 Class B Ordinary Shares
(4)
  
Service as independent director
Jared Berlin
  
30,000 Class B Ordinary Shares
(4)
  
Service as independent director
Jonathan Sassover
  
30,000 Class B Ordinary Shares
(4)
  
Service as independent director
Seth Schorr .
  
30,000 Class B Ordinary Shares
(4)
  
Service as independent director
 
(1)
The Class B ordinary shares and the Class A ordinary shares issuable in connection with the conversion of the Class B ordinary shares may result in material dilution to our public shareholders due to the nominal price of $0.004 per share at which our sponsor purchased the Class B ordinary shares and/or the anti-dilution rights of our Class B ordinary shares that may result in an issuance of Class A ordinary shares on a greater than one-to-one basis upon conversion. Our sponsor, directors and officers and their affiliates may receive additional compensation and/or may be issued additional securities in connection with an initial business combination, including securities that may result in material dilution to public shareholders. See “
Risk
Factors
Risks
Relating
to
our
Sponsor
and
Management
Team
The
nominal
purchase
price
paid by
our
sponsor
for
the
founder
shares
and
the
purchase
price
paid
by
our
sponsor
for
the
private
placement units may significantly dilute the implied value of your public shares in the event we consummate an initial business combination, and our sponsor is likely to make a substantial profit on its investment in us in the event we consummate an initial business combination, even if the business combination causes the trading price of our ordinary shares to decline materially
” on page 78, “—
Risks Relating to our Securities — We may issue additional ordinary shares or preference shares to complete our initial business combination or
 
 
under an employee incentive plan after completion of our initial business combination. We may also issue
Class A ordinary shares upon the conversion of the Class B ordinary shares at a ratio greater than one-to-one at the time of our initial business combination as a result of the anti-dilution provisions contained in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. Any such issuances would dilute the interest of our shareholders and likely present other risks” on page 89, “— Our sponsor paid an aggregate of $25,000, or approximately $0.004 per founder share, and, accordingly, you will experience immediate and substantial dilution from the purchase of our Class B ordinary shares” on page 90 and “— Unlike many other similarly structured blank check companies, our sponsor will receive additional Class A ordinary shares if we issue shares to consummate an initial business combination” on page 90.
(2)
After the completion of this offering, our board of directors may approve additional working capital loans for the purpose of funding working capital, which loans may be converted into our private placement units, shares or rights. The Class A ordinary shares issuable in connection with the vesting of the private placement rights, as well as any Class A ordinary shares issued in connection with conversion of working capital loans into additional private placement units (as described in this prospectus), may result in material dilution to our public shareholders. See “
Description of Securities — Private placement units
” on page 190; see also “
Risk Factors — Risks Relating to our Sponsor and Management Team — The nominal purchase price paid by our sponsor for the founder shares, the purchase price paid by our sponsor for the private placement
units
may
significantly dilute
the
implied
value
of
your
public
shares
in
the
event
we
consummate an
initial business
combination,
and
our
sponsor
is
likely
to
make
a
substantial profit
on
its
investment
in
us in the event we consummate an initial business combination, even if the business combination causes the trading price of our ordinary shares to decline materially
” on page 78, “—
Risks Relating to our
Securities
We
may
issue
additional
ordinary
shares
or
preference
shares
to
complete
our
initial
business combination or under an employee incentive plan after completion of our initial business combination. We may also issue Class A ordinary shares upon the conversion of the Class B ordinary shares at a ratio greater than one-to-one at the time of our initial business combination as a result of the anti-dilution provisions contained in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. Any such issuances would dilute the interest of our shareholders and likely present other risks
” on page 89, “—
Our sponsor paid an aggregate of $25,000, or approximately $0.004 per founder share, and, accordingly, you will experience immediate and substantial dilution from the purchase of our Class B ordinary shares
” on page 90 and “—
Unlike many other similarly structured blank check companies, our sponsor will receive additional Class A ordinary shares if we issue shares to consummate an initial business combination
” on page 90.
(3)
If we increase or decrease the size of this offering we will effect a capitalization or share repurchase or redemption or other appropriate mechanism, as applicable, with respect to our Class B ordinary shares immediately prior to the consummation of the offering in such amount so that the number of Class A ordinary shares issuable upon conversion of all Class B ordinary shares will equal, in the aggregate, on an as-converted basis, 30% of the total number of all ordinary shares outstanding upon completion of this offering (excluding the private shares). Our public shareholders may incur material dilution due to such anti-dilution adjustments that result in the issuance of Class A ordinary shares on a greater than one-to-one basis upon conversion or additional Class B ordinary shares.
(4)
These shares are held directly by certain of our officers and directors. The directors and officers will have the ability to vote and dispose of the shares, subject to applicable transfer restrictions.
Because our sponsor acquired the founder shares at a nominal price, our public shareholders will incur immediate and substantial dilution upon the closing of this offering. See the section titled
“Risk Factors — Risks Relating to our Sponsor and Management Team — The nominal purchase price paid by our sponsor for the founder shares and the purchase price paid by our sponsor for the private placement units may result in significant dilution to the implied value of your public shares upon the consummation of our initial business combination
.”
The founder shares will automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares at the time of our initial business combination, or at any time prior thereto at the option of the holder thereof, on a
one-for-one
basis, subject to adjustment as provided herein. In the case that additional Class A ordinary shares, or equity-linked securities, are issued or deemed issued in excess of the amounts sold in this offering and related to the closing of our initial business combination, the ratio at which Class B ordinary shares shall convert into Class A ordinary shares will be adjusted (unless the holders of a majority of the outstanding Class B ordinary shares agree to waive such
anti-dilution
adjustment with respect to any such issuance or deemed issuance) so that the number of Class A ordinary shares issuable upon conversion of all Class B ordinary shares will equal, in the aggregate, on an
as-converted
basis, 30% of the total number of all ordinary shares outstanding upon completion of this offering plus all Class A ordinary shares and
equity-linked
securities issued or deemed issued in connection with our initial business combination, excluding any Class A ordinary shares, subject to vesting and any other restrictions, issued or deemed issued to (i) our sponsor (or its members or affiliates) in connection with the consummation of this offering, (ii) any seller in the initial business combination, (iii) any Class A ordinary shares issued to our sponsor (or its members or affiliates) upon conversion of working capital loans and (iv) any Class A ordinary shares included in the private placement units. If we increase or decrease the size of this offering we will effect a capitalization or share repurchase or redemption or other appropriate mechanism, as applicable, with respect to our Class B ordinary shares immediately prior to the consummation of the offering in such amount so that the number of Class A ordinary shares issuable upon conversion of all Class B ordinary shares will equal, in the aggregate, on an as-converted basis, 30% of the total number of all ordinary shares outstanding upon completion of this offering (excluding the private shares). Our public shareholders may incur material dilution due to such
anti-dilution
adjustments that result in the issuance of Class A ordinary shares on a greater than
one-to-one
basis upon conversion or additional Class B ordinary shares.
In addition, in order to facilitate our initial business combination, our sponsor may surrender or forfeit, transfer or exchange our founder shares, private placement units (or component securities) 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.
While there is no current intention to do so, and the members of our management team and sponsor have not done so with any previously formed special purpose acquisition companies, we may approve an amendment or waiver of the letter agreement that would allow the sponsor to directly, or members of our sponsor to indirectly, transfer founder shares and private placement units (including component securities as well as any securities underlying those component securities) or membership interests in our sponsor in a transaction in which the sponsor removes itself as our sponsor before identifying a business combination. As a result, there is a risk that our sponsor and our officers and directors may divest their ownership or economic interests in us or in our sponsor. There can be no assurance that any replacement sponsor or key personnel will successfully identify a business combination target for us, or, even if one is so identified, successfully complete such business combination.
If we raise additional funds through equity or convertible debt issuances, our public shareholders may suffer significant dilution. This dilution would increase to the extent that the anti-dilution provision of the founder shares result in the issuance of Class A ordinary shares on a greater than
one-to-one
basis upon conversion of the founder shares at the time of our initial business combination or additional Class B ordinary shares.
 
Pursuant to a letter agreement to be entered with us, our sponsor and each of our directors and officers and the Private Placement Investor will agree to restrictions on their ability to transfer, assign, or sell the founder shares and private placement units (including component securities as well as any securities underlying those component securities) as summarized in the table below.
 
Subject Securities
  
Expiration Date
  
Persons Subject to
Restrictions
  
Exceptions to Transfer
Restrictions
Founder Shares
  
180 days after the completion of our initial business combination
  
Bet on America II Sponsor LLC, the Private Placement Investor, Benjamin A. Friedman, Brian D. Friedman, Dean Friedman, Jason Kahan, Jared Berlin, Jonathan Sassover and Seth Schorr
  
Transfers permitted
(i) to any officer, director, or employee of the Company, including to a family member or affiliate of such officer, director, or employee; (ii) by private sales or transfers, in each case, made in connection with the consummation of our initial business combination at prices no greater than the price at which the securities were originally purchased;
(iii) in the event of our liquidation prior to the completion of our initial business combination; (iv) by virtue of the laws of the Cayman Islands or our sponsor’s limited liability company agreement upon liquidation and dissolution of our sponsor; and (v) in the event of our completion of a liquidation, merger, share exchange, reorganization or other similar transaction which results in all of our public shareholders having the right to exchange their Class A ordinary shares for cash, securities or
 other
 
Subject Securities
  
Expiration Date
  
Persons Subject to
Restrictions
  
Exceptions to Transfer
Restrictions
        
property subsequent to the completion of our initial business combination
Private Placement Units
  
30 days after the completion of our initial business combination
  
Bet on America II Sponsor LLC and the Private Placement Investor
  
Same as above
Any units, ordinary shares or any other securities convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, any units, ordinary shares or founder shares
  
180 days after the date of this prospectus
  
Same as above
  
The representative in its sole discretion may release any of the securities subject to these lock-up agreements at any time without notice, other than in the case of the officers and directors, which shall be with notice. Our sponsor, officers and directors and the Private Placement Investor are also subject to separate transfer restrictions on their founder shares and private placement units pursuant to the letter agreement described in the immediately preceding paragraphs
In addition, pursuant to such letter agreement, for the benefit of D. Boral, we, our sponsor and our officers and directors and the Private Placement Investor will agree not to offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, charge or grant any option to purchase or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, without the prior written consent of D. Boral for a period of 180 days after the date of this prospectus, any units, rights, ordinary shares or any other securities convertible into, or exercisable, or exchangeable for, ordinary shares or enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of any units, ordinary shares, or any securities convertible into, or exercisable, or exchangeable for, ordinary shares owned, whether any such transaction is to be settled by delivery of such securities, in cash or otherwise; provided, however, that we may (1) issue and sell the private placement units; (2) issue and sell the additional units to cover our underwriters’ over-allotment option (if any); (3) register with the SEC pursuant to an agreement to be entered into concurrently with the issuance and sale of the securities in this offering, the resale of the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the rights and upon conversion of the founder shares; and (4) issue securities in connection with our initial business combination. However, the foregoing restriction shall not apply to the forfeiture of any founder shares pursuant to their terms. D. Boral in its sole discretion may release any of the securities subject to these
lock-up
agreements, subject to any applicable notice requirements.
 
The founder shares and the private placement units, as applicable, held by the sponsor will only be distributed to the members of the sponsor (including the sponsor
non-managing
members) after consummation of our initial business combination, at which time such sponsor
non-managing
members would become subject to the applicable transfer restrictions with respect to such securities.
SPAC Sponsor, Controlling Persons [Table Text Block] The manager of the sponsor is Bet on America II HoldCo LLC, a Cayman Islands limited liability company, that Benjamin A. Friedman, our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and a member of our board of directors, controls. In this capacity, Mr. Friedman controls the management of our sponsor, including the exercise of voting and investment discretion over the securities of our company held by our sponsor.
SPAC Sponsor, Direct and Indirect Material Interest Holders [Table Text Block] none of the sponsor
non-managing
members or independent directors will have a direct or indirect material economic interest in our sponsor.
SPAC Sponsor, Agreement Arrangement or Understanding on the Redemption of Outstanding Securities [Text Block]
Pursuant to a letter agreement to be entered with us, our sponsor and each of our directors and officers and the Private Placement Investor will agree to restrictions on their ability to transfer, assign, or sell the founder shares and private placement units (including component securities as well as any securities underlying those component securities) as summarized in the table below.
 
Subject Securities
  
Expiration Date
  
Persons Subject to
Restrictions
  
Exceptions to Transfer
Restrictions
Founder Shares
  
180 days after the completion of our initial business combination
  
Bet on America II Sponsor LLC, the Private Placement Investor, Benjamin A. Friedman, Brian D. Friedman, Dean Friedman, Jason Kahan, Jared Berlin, Jonathan Sassover and Seth Schorr
  
Transfers permitted
(i) to any officer, director, or employee of the Company, including to a family member or affiliate of such officer, director, or employee; (ii) by private sales or transfers, in each case, made in connection with the consummation of our initial business combination at prices no greater than the price at which the securities were originally purchased;
(iii) in the event of our liquidation prior to the completion of our initial business combination; (iv) by virtue of the laws of the Cayman Islands or our sponsor’s limited liability company agreement upon liquidation and dissolution of our sponsor; and (v) in the event of our completion of a liquidation, merger, share exchange, reorganization or other similar transaction which results in all of our public shareholders having the right to exchange their Class A ordinary shares for cash, securities or
 other
 
Subject Securities
  
Expiration Date
  
Persons Subject to
Restrictions
  
Exceptions to Transfer
Restrictions
        
property subsequent to the completion of our initial business combination
Private Placement Units
  
30 days after the completion of our initial business combination
  
Bet on America II Sponsor LLC and the Private Placement Investor
  
Same as above
Any units, ordinary shares or any other securities convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, any units, ordinary shares or founder shares
  
180 days after the date of this prospectus
  
Same as above
  
The representative in its sole discretion may release any of the securities subject to these lock-up agreements at any time without notice, other than in the case of the officers and directors, which shall be with notice. Our sponsor, officers and directors and the Private Placement Investor are also subject to separate transfer restrictions on their founder shares and private placement units pursuant to the letter agreement described in the immediately preceding paragraphs
Fiduciary Duties to Other Companies, SPAC Officers and Directors [Table Text Block]
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
Benjamin A. Friedman
  
Friedman Capital
  
Investments
  
Managing Director
Brian D. Friedman
  
Foxhall Partners
  
Community Organization
  
Trustee
  
Foxhall Partners
  
Investments
  
Managing Partner
  
Friedman Capital
  
Investments
  
Partner
  
KeysourceUSA
  
Investments
  
Director
  
Adams Morgan Youth Leadership Academy
  
Community Organization
  
Director
  
EBD Blukey, L.L.C.
  
Water Treatment Services
  
Dean Friedman
  
Friedman Capital
  
Investments
  
Managing Partner
Jason Kahan
  
Lightfield Partners
  
Investments
  
Partner
  
CERO Energy
  
Renewable Energy
  
Strategic Advisor
Jared Berlin
  
Thames Capital Management
  
Investments
  
Partner
Jonathan Sassover
  
The Pine Street Group
  
Investments
  
Managing Partner and Co-Founder
  
PSHUH, LLC
  
Investments
  
Managing Partner and Co-Founder
  
Prime Providers
  
Home and Community Services
  
Co-Chairman and
Co-Founder
  
VTP Holdings
  
Investments
  
Director
Seth Schorr
  
Fifth Street Gaming
  
Gaming and Hospitality
  
CEO
  
Downtown Grand Hotel & Casino
  
Hotel and Casino
  
Chairman
  
GMA Consulting
  
Gaming and Hospitality
  
Founding Partner
  
Evenplay
  
Virtual Sports Betting
  
Co-founder
  
BettorView
  
Sports Betting
  
Co-founder and chairman
  
JefeBet
  
Multimedia and Entertainment
  
Founder
  
Dunbar
  
Property Services
  
CEO and founder
 
(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.