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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-120279"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DSAC"
cik: "0002082149"
company_name: "Daedalus Special Acquisition Corp."
filed_at: "2025-12-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:33:56.950855+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Daedalus Special Acquisition Corp. closes upsized $250M IPO on Nasdaq

## Summary
- Sold 25M units at $10 each, including 2.5M from partial exercise of over-allotment; gross proceeds $250M.
- Units (DSACU) consist of one Class A ordinary share and one-fourth warrant; warrants exercisable at $11.50.
- Units began trading on Nasdaq Global Market on Dec. 9, 2025; ordinary shares (DSAC) and warrants (DSACW) will trade later.
- Simultaneous private placement of 685,000 units at $10 each to sponsor and BTIG, raising $6.85M.
- Total $250M (incl. $8.75M deferred underwriting fees) deposited in trust for public shareholders.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-120279
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DSAC
- cik: 0002082149
- company_name: Daedalus Special Acquisition Corp.
- filed_at: 2025-12-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 3.02, 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2082149/000121390025120279/0001213900-25-120279-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2082149/000121390025120279/ea0269098-8k_daedalus.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-120279.txt

## Key facts
- Equity Issuances
  Daedalus Special Acquisition Corp. issued 685,000 units of unit to the Sponsor and BTIG for $10.00 per Private Unit, generating total proceeds of $6,850,000.
  - Security: unit
  - Shares: 685,000 units
  - Purchaser: the Sponsor and BTIG
  - Consideration: $10.00 per Private Unit, generating total proceeds of $6,850,000
  source text: Simultaneously with the closing of the IPO, the Company consummated a private placement (the “Private Placement”) of an aggregate of 685,000 units (the “Private Units”) to the Sponsor and BTIG, at a price of $10.00 per Private Unit, generating total proceeds of $6,850,000.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2082149/000121390025120279/0001213900-25-120279-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  Daedalus Special Acquisition Corp.: Adopted Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association in connection with the IPO (effective 2025-12-08).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-12-08
  source text: On December 8, 2025, and in connection with the IPO, the Company adopted its Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2082149/000121390025120279/0001213900-25-120279-index.htm

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