---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-102783"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CEPT"
cik: "0002034269"
company_name: "Cantor Equity Partners II, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-10-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T02:02:02.140509+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Securitize to go public via SPAC merger with Cantor Equity Partners II at $1.25B valuation

## Summary
- Pre-money equity value of $1.25B; existing shareholders (BlackRock, ARK Invest, Morgan Stanley) rolling 100% of interests.
- Upsized $225M committed common stock PIPE led by Arche, Borderless Capital, Hanwha, InterVest, and ParaFi Capital.
- Combined company to be named Securitize Corp., expected to trade on Nasdaq under ticker SECZ; CEPT contributes ~$244M trust cash.
- Securitize plans to tokenize its own equity, an industry first for a public company; transaction expected to close H1 2026.
- Securitize platform tokenized over $4B in assets; partners include BlackRock, Apollo, Hamilton Lane, KKR, VanEck.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-102783
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CEPT
- cik: 0002034269
- company_name: Cantor Equity Partners II, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-10-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2034269/000121390025102783/0001213900-25-102783-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2034269/000121390025102783/ea0262720-8k425_cantor2.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-102783.txt

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