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The briefFriday, 28 August 2026Updated 23:59 GMT

What changed on 28 August 2026

Also on the diary

11 dated events this weekWhat to do about them
  • ALCYF Redemption deadline Fri 28 Aug · broker cutoff Wed 26 Aug
  • DRDB Outside date Mon 31 Aug · long-stop
  • VACI Redemption deadline Mon 31 Aug · broker cutoff Thu 27 Aug
  • ALCYF Extension vote Tue 1 Sept · broker cutoff Fri 28 Aug
  • IPEX Redemption deadline Tue 1 Sept · broker cutoff Fri 28 Aug
  • LCCC Combination deadline Tue 1 Sept · long-stop

… and 5 more on the calendar.

A long-stop is the charter’s outside date for completing a combination. It pays nothing: the trust comes back only if no deal closes by then.

Deals


Pasqal completes its listing through Bleichroeder Acquisition II

Bleichroeder Acquisition II completed its merger with Pasqal, an Information Technology company, at a headline value of $2B.

The agreement was announced on Saturday 28 February, and shareholders voted on Tuesday 25 August.

A $200M PIPE is recorded alongside the deal, though no filing we hold states it, and the combined company is to trade as PSQL.

BBCQ dossier The deal 0001213900-26-053425opens on sec.gov in a new tab0001213900-26-023841opens on sec.gov in a new tab0001213900-26-023839opens on sec.gov in a new tab

In the filings


10-Q filed 2026-08-28 — the auditors raised going-concern doubt

vs prior 10-Q 2025-11-19: going-concern doubt APPEARED.

Why it matters: Investors must note that the redemption deadline is now November 2, 2026, but the company has only 52,239 public shares remaining, meaning the trust account holds minimal capital relative to the original offering. The company faces a severe liquidity crisis, with only $15,000 in operating cash and a working capital deficiency of $3,139,0….

The auditor’s going-concern sentence appeared in this filing and was not in the last one. A SPAC has to say it may not survive twelve months once its own deadline falls inside the auditor’s horizon — it is about the calendar, not the bank account, and the cash above is still there.

Both columns are filed figures, compared against the 10-Q of Wednesday 19 November. Cash behind each share is those two figures divided.

CCTSF dossier 0001493152-26-040661opens on sec.gov in a new tab

PRE 14A filed 2026-08-28 — Cayson Acquisition Corp filed a preliminary proxy statement for an extraordinary general meeting to vote on extending the business combination deadli…

Why it matters: Investors must decide whether to redeem shares at the current trust value before the meeting or retain them to vote on the extension, which alters the timeline for potential liquidation and changes the capital structure through insider loans.

CAPN dossier 0001493152-26-040575opens on sec.gov in a new tab

DEFA14A filed 2026-08-28 — Andretti Acquisition Corp. II filed a Form 8-K and DEFA14A on August 28, 2026, announcing the adjournment of its Special Meeting to September 8, 2026…

Why it matters: Investors must note the revised redemption deadline of September 3, 2026, and the adjourned meeting date of September 8, 2026, as these are the critical dates for exercising redemption rights or withdrawing requests before the extension vote occurs.

POLE dossier 0001213900-26-095187opens on sec.gov in a new tab

Redemptions


Nothing to report. No new SEC-sourced redemption results were captured in this window.

New coverage


From the wire

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How this brief is made


  • Composed deterministically from stored primary-sourced rows — no LLM, no live fetching of facts, $0 per run.
  • Trust NAV accreted at the 3-mo T-bill par yield 4.00% (treasury.gov, 2026-09-10); accreted values are ESTIMATES and labeled as such.
  • Broker action dates count ~2 real NYSE trading days before the deadline (weekends and market holidays excluded) — still verify with your broker, whose cutoff may be earlier.
  • 43 filings were scanned for this window.
  • Items tagged "coverage" are database-ingestion events (a row was captured), not market events — the underlying facts may predate the window.
  • Dated events are summarised on this page and never turned into an instruction. An outside date is the contractual long-stop: it pays nothing, and the trust comes back only if no combination closes. Where the record holds no dated redemption event either way, the page says so instead of assuming one.

Every figure on this page is taken from a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and links to it. Estimates are labelled as estimates. Prices are last trades, not quotes. This is information, not investment advice.

This is a dated edition — the record of one day, kept at its own address. Editions are retained for 60 days.

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