---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-23-025783"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001843370"
company_name: "bleuacacia ltd"
filed_at: "2023-05-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T20:03:47.290868+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# bleuacacia shareholders approve deadline extension; 26M shares redeemed, draining trust to ~$16.3M

## Summary
- Shareholders approved extension of business combination deadline to Aug 22, 2023, with optional monthly extensions up to Feb 22, 2024.
- Shareholders approved elimination of net tangible assets redemption limitation, allowing redemptions without minimum amount.
- Holders of 26,015,981 Class A shares redeemed at ~$10.29/share, totaling ~$267.8M; only 1,584,019 shares remain outstanding.
- Approximately $16.3 million will remain in trust after the redemption is paid.
- Sponsor entered non-redemption agreements with 10 unaffiliated third parties covering 1.5M Class A shares in exchange for 375,000 Class B shares.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-23-025783
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001843370
- company_name: bleuacacia ltd
- filed_at: 2023-05-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 5.03, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1843370/000114036123025783/0001140361-23-025783-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1843370/000114036123025783/brhc20053251_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  bleuacacia ltd: Shareholders approved amendments to extend the business combination deadline to August 22, 2023, with up to six monthly extensions to February 22, 2024, and to eliminate the redemption limitation related to net tangible assets (effective 2023-05-19).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2023-05-19
  source text: On May 19, 2023, bleuacacia held the Shareholder Meeting at which bleuacacia’s shareholders approved proposals to amend bleuacacia’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1843370/000114036123025783/0001140361-23-025783-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  bleuacacia ltd entered into Non-Redemption Agreements with four unaffiliated third parties valued at 600,000 Class A ordinary shares subject to non-redemption (effective 2023-05-17).
  - Action: entry
  - Counterparty: four unaffiliated third parties
  - Value: 600,000 Class A ordinary shares subject to non-redemption
  - Effective: 2023-05-17
  source text: On May 17 and May 19, 2023, bleuacacia ltd (“bleuacacia” or the “Company”) and bleuacacia sponsor LLC, a Cayman Islands limited liability company (the “Sponsor”) entered into non-redemption agreements (the “Non-Redemption Agreements”) with four unaffiliated third parties, pursuant to which such third parties agreed not to redeem (or to validly rescind any redemption requests on) an aggregate of 600,000 Class A ordinary shares of the Company (“Non-Redeemed Shares”) in connection with the Extension Amendment Proposal
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1843370/000114036123025783/0001140361-23-025783-index.htm

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