---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001829126-26-006011"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HCAC"
cik: "0002079013"
company_name: "Hall Chadwick Acquisition Corp"
filed_at: "2026-06-03T20:25:32+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T20:51:38.624313+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hall Chadwick Acquisition Corp enters $400M merger with REEcycle, a rare earth recycler

## Summary
- Purchase price $400M; REEcycle stockholders to receive shares of Domesticated HCAC Common Stock at Exchange Ratio based on $10.00 per share.
- Milestone earnout: up to 5M additional shares if REEcycle achieves 50 metric tonnes/year mixed rare earth oxide production; plus 1.25M deferred shares.
- Up to 8.75M Additional Shares (advisor shares) to be issued pre- and post-Closing.
- HCAC to domesticate as Delaware corporation; Merger Sub merges into REEcycle; combined company to list on Nasdaq/NYSE.
- Transaction subject to approval by HCAC and REEcycle shareholders; proxy statement/registration statement on Form S-4 to be filed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001829126-26-006011
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HCAC
- cik: 0002079013
- company_name: Hall Chadwick Acquisition Corp
- filed_at: 2026-06-03T20:25:32+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2079013/000182912626006011/0001829126-26-006011-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2079013/000182912626006011/hallchadwickacq_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Hall Chadwick Acquisition Corp entered into Business Combination Agreement with REEcycle Holdings, Inc. valued at Entry into a Business Combination Agreement for HCAC to domesticate as a Delaware corporation and me (effective 2026-05-31).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: merger
  - Counterparty: REEcycle Holdings, Inc.
  - Value: Entry into a Business Combination Agreement for HCAC to domesticate as a Delaware corporation and me
  - Effective: 2026-05-31
  source text: On May 31, 2026, Hall Chadwick Acquisition Corp, a Cayman Islands exempted company limited by shares, with registration number 421976 (“ HCAC ”), entered into a Business Combination Agreement (the “ Business Combination Agreement ”) with HCAC Star Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of HCAC (“ Merger Sub ”), and REEcycle Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ REEcycle ”), a rare earth elements recycling company focused on the recovery of rare earths from end-of-life magnets using innovative hydrometallurgical technique to produce market-grade rare earth oxides and salts that can feed directly into magnet alloy manufacturing.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2079013/000182912626006011/0001829126-26-006011-index.htm

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