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accession: "0001140361-24-003440"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001845368"
company_name: "HCM Acquisition Corp"
filed_at: "2024-01-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T20:11:30.257620+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# HCM Acquisition extends business combination deadline to Feb 25, 2024; 2.46M shares redeemed

## Summary
- Shareholders approved extension of business combination deadline from Jan 25 to Feb 25, 2024, with option for two additional one-month extensions to Apr 25, 2024.
- 2,460,044 Class A ordinary shares were redeemed in connection with the Extraordinary Meeting.
- Proposals passed unanimously with 13,508,683 votes for, representing 95.52% of outstanding shares.
- Second Amended and Restated Investment Management Trust Agreement executed to reflect the extension.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-24-003440
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001845368
- company_name: HCM Acquisition Corp
- filed_at: 2024-01-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 5.07, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1845368/000114036124003440/0001140361-24-003440-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1845368/000114036124003440/ny20013234x7_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-24-003440.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  HCM Acquisition Corp: Amended articles of association to extend deadline for initial business combination from January 25, 2024 to February 25, 2024, with option for up to two additional monthly extensions to April 25, 2024 (effective 2024-01-23).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2024-01-23
  source text: The Extension Amendment changed the date by which HCM must consummate an initial business combination from January 25, 2024 to February 25, 2024, with the option to elect to extend the date to consummate a business combination on a monthly basis for up to two times by an additional month each time after February 25, 2024, without another shareholder vote, upon two days’ advance notice prior to the applicable deadline, for a total of up to three months to April 25, 2024, unless the closing of a business combination shall have occurred.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1845368/000114036124003440/0001140361-24-003440-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  HCM Acquisition Corp amended Second Amended and Restated Investment Management Trust Agreement with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company (effective 2024-01-19).
  - Action: amendment
  - Counterparty: Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company
  - Effective: 2024-01-19
  source text: HCM Acquisition Corp (“HCM”) and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company entered into a Second Amended and Restated Investment Management Trust Agreement (the “Amended IMTA”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1845368/000114036124003440/0001140361-24-003440-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  HCM Acquisition Corp shareholders approved Approve the Extension Amendment at the 2024-01-18 meeting.
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-01-18
  source text: A proposal by special resolution, by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of at least two-thirds (2/3) of HCM’s Ordinary Shares entitled to vote and which are present at the Extraordinary Meeting, to approve the Extension Amendment. 13,508,683 0 0
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1845368/000114036124003440/0001140361-24-003440-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  HCM Acquisition Corp shareholders approved Approve the Amended IMTA at the 2024-01-18 meeting.
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-01-18
  source text: A proposal to approve, by the affirmative vote of at least sixty-five percent (65%) of the outstanding Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares, voting together as a single class, the Amended IMTA. 13,508,683 0 0
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1845368/000114036124003440/0001140361-24-003440-index.htm

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