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ONE Nuclear Energy LLC

private/Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VIIprivate

Hennessy Capital VII to merge with ONE Nuclear Energy in $1B deal

$1.0BStockDefinitive Proxyhigh confidence

Key takeaways

  • Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII acquires ONE Nuclear Energy LLC — $1.0B aggregate (stock).

Merger Arbeconomics, downside, days

Deal value

$1.0B

stock

Per-share offer

Premium

Days to close

Term fee

ConsiderationStock
AnnouncedApr 24, 2026
Days outstanding84d
Expected close
Termination fee
Reverse term fee
Go-shop period
Fiduciary out
Financing condition
Debt commitment
Insider lock-up

Timelineannounced → close
  1. Announced

    Apr 24, 2026

  2. Preliminary Proxy

  3. Definitive Proxy

  4. Record date

  5. Shareholder vote

  6. Expected close


Vote Mechanicsrecord / mailing / vote
Vote required
Vote date
Record date
Mailing date
Record → vote
Threshold
Min approvalparsed
Shares outstanding
Insider lock-up

Regulatory & ConditionsHSR / EU / CFIUS / MAC

No regulatory or closing-conditions data extracted yet. The merger agreement Exhibit 10.1 contains this in the “Conditions to Closing” and “Regulatory Approvals” articles.


Closing Conditionsapprovals · vote · financing · lockups

No closing-condition data extracted.


Interloper Riskcompeting bids, activist filers

No competing-bidder, activist, or dissident-proxy signals in the database for this target.


Advisors

Acquirer side· Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII

Legal

Sidley Austin LLP

  • · Jeffrey N. Smith
  • · Michael P. Heinz
Jeffrey N. Smith, Michael P. Heinz, Sidley Austin LLP, One South Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60603, Tel: (312) 853-7000

Target side· ONE Nuclear Energy LLC

Legal

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

  • · Jonathan H. Talcott
  • · E. Peter Strand
Jonathan H. Talcott, E. Peter Strand, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, 101 Constitution Avenue, NW Suite 900, Washington, D.C., 20001, Tel: (202) 689-2800

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Sources

Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII (HVII), a Cayman Islands blank-check company, agreed to merge with ONE Nuclear Energy LLC, an independent developer of large-scale energy solutions using natural gas and advanced nuclear small modular reactor technologies. The aggregate consideration is $1.00 billion in stock (the Base Purchase Price) plus up to 13.0 million earnout shares contingent on share price milestones. Following closing and domestication, HVII will be renamed ONE Nuclear Energy Inc. and ONE Nuclear will become its wholly-owned subsidiary.

Item id: 0372fc3c-4c7e-44ab-a614-ea12b768420a · ingested Apr 24, 2026