---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-270492"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AERT"
cik: "0001853044"
company_name: "Aeries Technology, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-11-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-08T22:43:11.155052+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# WWAC shareholders approve business combination with Aeries Technology; closing expected Nov 6

## Summary
- 99.87% of votes cast (81.71% of outstanding shares) approved the business combination.
- Shareholders elected to redeem 3,699,291 Class A shares; non-redemption agreements reversed 1,549,587 redemptions.
- Combined company to be named Aeries Technology, Inc.; to trade on Nasdaq as AERT and AERTW starting Nov 7, 2023.
- Closing of the business combination anticipated on or about November 6, 2023.
- Post-closing board includes Sudhir Panikassery, Daniel Webb, Venu Kumar, Alok Kochhar, Biswajit Dasgupta, Nina Shapiro, Ramesh Venkataraman.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-270492
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AERT
- cik: 0001853044
- company_name: Aeries Technology, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-11-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1853044/000119312523270492/0001193125-23-270492-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1853044/000119312523270492/d584147d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Aeries Technology, Inc. shareholders approved Governing Documents Proposal A - amendment to change authorized capital stock at the 2023-11-02 meeting.
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-11-02
  source text: Governing Documents Proposal A was approved, having received "for" votes from at least a majority of the votes cast by the holders of the WWAC Ordinary Shares represented in person or by proxy and entitled to vote at the Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1853044/000119312523270492/0001193125-23-270492-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Aeries Technology, Inc. shareholders approved Charter Proposal - approval of amendment and restatement of Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association at the 2023-11-02 meeting.
  - Proposal: charter amendment
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-11-02
  source text: The Charter Proposal was approved, having received "for" votes from a majority of at least two-thirds of votes cast by the holders of the WWAC Ordinary Shares represented in person or by proxy and entitled to vote at the Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1853044/000119312523270492/0001193125-23-270492-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Aeries Technology, Inc. shareholders approved Business Combination Proposal - to approve and adopt the Business Combination Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby at the 2023-11-02 meeting.
  - Proposal: merger approval
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-11-02
  source text: The Business Combination Proposal was approved, having received "for" votes from at least a majority of the votes cast by the holders of the WWAC Ordinary Shares represented in person or by proxy and entitled to vote at the Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1853044/000119312523270492/0001193125-23-270492-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Aeries Technology, Inc. shareholders approved Governing Documents Proposal C - certain other changes in connection with replacement of memorandum and articles, including name change and perpetual existence at the 2023-11-02 meeting.
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-11-02
  source text: Proposal No. For Against Abstentions 5. 8
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1853044/000119312523270492/0001193125-23-270492-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Aeries Technology, Inc. shareholders approved Governing Documents Proposal B - amendment to provide voting rights provisions related to ATI Class V ordinary share at the 2023-11-02 meeting.
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-11-02
  source text: Governing Documents Proposal B was approved, having received "for" votes from at least a majority of the votes cast by the holders of the WWAC Ordinary Shares represented in person or by proxy and entitled to vote at the Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1853044/000119312523270492/0001193125-23-270492-index.htm

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