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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001641172-25-009706"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001857855"
company_name: "Finnovate Acquisition Corp."
filed_at: "2025-05-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T00:31:23.883065+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Finnovate shareholders approve extension to Nov 8, 2025; ~$9M redeemed

## Summary
- Articles Extension Proposal approved with 3,571,244 votes for, 524 against at May 6 meeting.
- Deadline for business combination extended six months to November 8, 2025.
- Holders of 742,834 Class A shares redeemed for ~$12.18 per share, removing ~$9.0M from trust.
- Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles filed with Cayman Registrar on May 8.
- Adjournment Proposal not voted on due to sufficient votes for extension.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001641172-25-009706
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001857855
- company_name: Finnovate Acquisition Corp.
- filed_at: 2025-05-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1857855/000164117225009706/0001641172-25-009706-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1857855/000164117225009706/form8-k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Finnovate Acquisition Corp.: Shareholders approved and Company adopted the Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association to extend the business combination deadline to November 8, 2025 (effective 2025-05-08).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-08
  source text: the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association (the “Articles”) which reflects the extension of the period within which the Company must consummate a business combination for six months until November 8, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1857855/000164117225009706/0001641172-25-009706-index.htm

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