---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-102048"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001858912"
company_name: "Gardiner Healthcare Acquisitions Corp."
filed_at: "2023-09-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T12:33:13.300359+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Gardiner Healthcare ups sponsor loan to $2.5M, extends maturity to Dec 27, 2023

## Summary
- Fourth Amended & Restated Promissory Note increased principal from $1.5M to up to $2.5M, non-interest bearing.
- Maturity extended to December 27, 2023; may be further extended if stockholders approve charter amendment.
- Loan from sponsor Gardiner Healthcare Holdings, LLC; proceeds for working capital and business combination costs.
- Note replaces Third Amended & Restated Promissory Note dated Dec 7, 2022; Payee waived claims against trust account.
- Drawdowns minimum $10,000; total not to exceed $2.5M; due earlier of maturity date or business combination close.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-102048
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001858912
- company_name: Gardiner Healthcare Acquisitions Corp.
- filed_at: 2023-09-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1858912/000110465923102048/0001104659-23-102048-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1858912/000110465923102048/tm2326142d2_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-102048.txt

## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  Gardiner Healthcare Acquisitions Corp. amended loan of increased to $2,500,000 with Gardiner Healthcare Holdings, LLC at non-interest bearing maturing December 27, 2023 (or such later extension date permitted by the Certificate of Incorporation).
  - Instrument: loan
  - Principal: increased to $2,500,000
  - Counterparty: Gardiner Healthcare Holdings, LLC
  - Rate: non-interest bearing
  - Maturity: December 27, 2023 (or such later extension date permitted by the Certificate of Incorporation)
  - Event: amendment
  source text: On September 18, 2023, Gardiner Healthcare Acquisitions Corp. (the “ Company ”) issued a Fourth Amended and Restated Promissory Note (the “ Promissory Note ”), in the principal amount of up to $2,500,000, to Gardiner Healthcare Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “ Lender ”), one of the Company’s sponsors. The Promissory Note amends, restates, replaces and supersedes that certain Third Amended and Restated Promissory Note dated December 7, 2022, as amended, in the principal amount of up to $1,500,000, executed by the Company in favor of the Lender (the “ Existing Note ”). Pursuant to the Promissory Note, the Lender and the Company agreed to increase the aggregate principal amount and extend the maturity date of the Existing Note.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1858912/000110465923102048/0001104659-23-102048-index.htm

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