---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-26-005768"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "COLA"
cik: "0002028201"
company_name: "Columbus Acquisition Corp/Cayman Islands"
filed_at: "2026-01-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T09:37:49.109778+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Columbus Acquisition Corp shareholders approve extension to Jan 2027; ~3.45M shares redeemed

## Summary
- Shareholders approved charter amendment to extend business combination deadline from Jan 22, 2026 to Jan 22, 2027, with up to 12 monthly extensions.
- Trust agreement amended to require liquidation per new timeline if no combination completed.
- 3,449,851 ordinary shares redeemed, leaving 4,494,439 shares outstanding (2,550,149 public).
- Vote: 5,164,299 FOR, 1,188,717 AGAINST on both charter and trust amendments (81% of votes cast in favor).
- Company has until January 22, 2027 to complete a business combination before trust liquidation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-26-005768
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: COLA
- cik: 0002028201
- company_name: Columbus Acquisition Corp/Cayman Islands
- filed_at: 2026-01-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 5.03, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2028201/000121390026005768/0001213900-26-005768-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2028201/000121390026005768/ea0273397-8k_columbus.htm

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## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: a55c762a07ab191a076e5cc0c29a8e0d6ebbff27
  claim: Columbus Acquisition Corp/Cayman Islands: Shareholders approved deleting the existing Charter and substituting the Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, extending the business combination deadline to January 22, 2027 with monthly extension options (effective 2026-01-22).
  evidence_excerpt: At the Extraordinary General Meeting, the shareholders of the Company approved the proposal (the “Charter Amendment Proposal”) that the Company’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association (the “Charter”), which provided that the Company has until January 22, 2026 to complete a business combination, be deleted in their entirety and the substitution in their place of the Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association (the “Amended Charter”) to provide that the Company has until January 22, 2026 to complete a business combination, and may elect to extend the period to consummate a business combination up to twelve times, each by an additional one-month extension (the “Monthly Extension”), for a total of up to twelve months to January 22, 2027.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2028201/000121390026005768/0001213900-26-005768-index.htm
- claim_id: ac3811584af5d3684cb3a4b3f0ae783a1e81aa64
  claim: Columbus Acquisition Corp/Cayman Islands amended Investment Management Trust Agreement with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company valued at amendment to the Trust Agreement (effective 2026-01-16).
  evidence_excerpt: On January 16, 2026, Columbus Acquisition Corp, a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company”) held an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders (the “Extraordinary General Meeting”), where the shareholders of the Company approved, among the other things, to amend the Investment Management Trust Agreement dated January 22, 2025 (the “Trust Agreement”), by and between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, a New York limited purpose trust company (the “Trustee”) to provide that the Trustee must commence liquidation of the Company’s trust account (the “Trust Account”) by the prescribed timeline as provided in the Company’s Amended Charter (as defined below).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2028201/000121390026005768/0001213900-26-005768-index.htm

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