---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-24-050541"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KACLF"
cik: "0001865468"
company_name: "Kairous Acquisition Corp. Ltd"
filed_at: "2024-12-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T02:06:09.959108+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.9
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kairous Acquisition Corp. receives Nasdaq delisting notice for failing to complete business combination by deadline

## Summary
- Received Nasdaq notice on Dec 16, 2024 for non-compliance with IM-5101-2 due to failure to complete initial business combination within 36 months of IPO (Dec 13, 2021).
- Company will not appeal; trading on Nasdaq will be suspended at opening of business on Dec 23, 2024.
- Company expects securities to commence trading on OTC market on Dec 23, 2024.
- Securities affected: ordinary shares (KACL), units (KACLU), warrants (KACLW), rights (KACLR).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-24-050541
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KACLF
- cik: 0001865468
- company_name: Kairous Acquisition Corp. Ltd
- filed_at: 2024-12-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.9
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1865468/000149315224050541/0001493152-24-050541-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1865468/000149315224050541/form8-k.htm

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## Key facts
- Listing & Compliance Notices
  Kairous Acquisition Corp. Ltd received a nasdaq delisting notice notice regarding other (rules IM-5101-2).
  - Exchange: nasdaq
  - Notice: delisting notice
  - Rules: IM-5101-2
  source text: December 16, 2024 from the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”), stating that the Company did not comply with Nasdaq Interpretive Material IM-5101-2, and that its securities are now subject to delisting. The Company’s registration statement, filed in connection with the Company’s IPO, became effective on December 13, 2021. Pursuant to IM-5101-2, the Company, a special purpose acquisition company, must complete one or more business combinations within 36 months of the effectiveness of its IPO registration statement. Since the Company did not complete its initial business combination by December 1
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1865468/000149315224050541/0001493152-24-050541-index.htm

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