secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Southport Acquisition Corp. II (PORT)
CIK:        0002148436
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-10-05T20:30:08+00:00
Accession:  0001185185-26-004580
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.90
Item codes: 1.01, 3.02, 5.02, 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

Southport Acquisition Corp. II closes $210 million IPO and $7.7 million private placement
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- Southport Acquisition Corp. II closed its IPO of 21,000,000 units at $10.00 per unit on Oct. 2, 2026, generating $210,000,000 including 1,000,000 over-allotment units.
- Private placement sold 770,000 units at $10.00 each for $7,700,000: Southport Acquisition Sponsor II LLC bought 500,000 and Cohen & Company Capital Markets bought 270,000.
- $212,100,000 from the IPO and private placement was placed in a trust with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company; funds are held pending an initial business combination within 24 months.
- Effective Oct. 1, 2026, directors Jared Stone, Matthew Hansen, David Winfield, Cathleen Schriner-Gates, John Aslanian and Robert Katz joined the board; Jeb Spencer is CEO and chairman.
- Amended and restated memorandum and articles were filed with the Cayman Islands effective Sept. 30, 2026; units trade on NYSE under PORT.U, with PORT and PORT.W for shares and warrants.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2148436/000118518526004580/0001185185-26-004580-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2148436/000118518526004580/southacq28k100226.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001185185-26-004580

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