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Leisure Acquisition Corp.

LACQ · Nasdaq

Trust settledEnsysce Biosciences, Inc. · Finished

NO ACTION REQUIRED

Nothing left to do

The purchase completed and the shares became shares in the company it bought. There is no deadline left to miss.

No price history on file yet — daily closes accumulate from the market data feed.

Trust settled · There is no line to draw here. This vehicle has finished: the cash was paid back or spent closing the deal, so the last filed figure describes an account that no longer exists and would be a floor under nothing.

SpacBrain’s read

Trust settled

The deal closed — SPAC shares became the target's shares, so there is no trust left to redeem (nobody missed a window; holders who wanted cash elected it at the vote).


In plain terms

What it is
A SPAC, listed on Nasdaq in December 2017.
What it's doing now
It agreed to buy Ensysce Biosciences, Inc.. That purchase completed, and it stopped being a SPAC — the shares became shares in the business it bought.
What you should know
This SPAC has finished. The purchase completed, and the shares became shares in the company it bought — anyone who wanted the cash instead asked for it at the vote, so there is no cash left here to claim and no deadline left to miss.

At a glance

Where it stands
Closed (deSPAC)
The business it bought
Ensysce Biosciences, Inc. — Biosciences Ensysce Biosciences San Diego, CA is a clinical-stage biotech company using its proprietary technology platforms to develop safer prescription drugs.
Industry
the deal record does not name the target's industry yet
Deal value
not stated in the filings we hold
Price vs cash at settlement
no live price on file
Cash in trust when it settled
not yet extracted into a snapshot — the filings below may state it
the last trust total filed while this was still a SPAC — the account has since been paid out or used to close the deal
IPO
1 December 2017
size not on file
Headquarters
7946 IVANHOE AVENUE, LA JOLLA, CA, 92037
registered in Delaware
Lead underwriter
not extracted from the prospectus yet
Key officers
GOWER BOB G (Director) · Morrison James William (Director) · Chang William H (Director)
Listed securities
LACQ common
Cash held per sharenot filed for this window

This vehicle has finished, so there is no window to file a cash-per-share figure for and none will follow. No estimate is shown in its place.

Next date that mattersno dated event on file

Nothing dated is on file. That is an absence in the record, not a statement that nothing is coming.

Yield to redemption

Nothing left to redeem — no yield to compute.

This SPAC has finished — its trust was paid back or used to close the deal, so there is nothing left to redeem and no yield to compute. A yield to redemption is a claim that you can hand these shares back for the trust cash. That account is closed, so this page will not print a number here.


What happened to the cash

The reasoning behind the verdict above, in the order the filings establish it.

  1. The deal closed — SPAC shares became the target's shares, so there is no trust left to redeem (nobody missed a window; holders who wanted cash elected it at the vote).

What has happened, and what is coming

5 dated milestones

Every dated step from the day it listed to the next date you may have to act on. Where you have to do something, the day your broker needs the instruction is marked too.

  1. 26 March 2020Extension votepassed0001213900-20-005315opens on sec.gov in a new tab
  2. 24 November 2020Extension votepassed0001213900-20-034831opens on sec.gov in a new tab
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  1. 1 December 2017IPOpassed

    IPO size not on file

  2. 26 November 2019Extension votepassed0001213900-19-021284opens on sec.gov in a new tab

The deal

terms as filed

What it is buying, on what terms, and how much of the combined company new shares take from you.

  • closed

    What Ensysce Biosciences, Inc. does — read from ensysce.com on 26 August 2026

    Ensysce Biosciences is a biotech company committed to stemming the prescription drug abuse epidemic. They utilize innovative chemistry platforms, including TAAP™ for preventing drug abuse and MPAR® for preventing drug overdose, applied to oral prescription drugs. The company has received FDA 'Fast Track' and 'Breakthrough Therapy' designations.

    BiotechnologyPain TherapeuticsDrug Abuse Prevention
    Deal structureSEC-primary — BCA 8-K / S-4 / DEFM14A
    PIPE
    ≈ $63M · unsourced
    Break fee
    $5M

    PIPE terms — instrument, coupon, conversion price and any reset floor — are not sourced for this deal. The size above is itself unsourced — a stored figure no filing we hold states — so neither the size nor the terms should be read as cited.


The score

deterministic, from filed fields

LACQ is not in the scored universe, so no score is shown. A withheld score is a fact about the record, not a verdict about the company.

Asymmetric return scoreNeither a price nor a cash-per-share figure is on file for this vehicle, and the score is a ratio between the two. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.

The score is only published for names that carry both a price and a filed cash-per-share figure — 292 of the tracked fleet today. The rest keep an empty dial rather than a modelled one, and fill in by themselves as the fields land.

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The company

from SEC filings
Read the full profile

Leisure Acquisition Corp. was a blank-check company whose common stock traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker LACQ. The company priced its initial public offering on December 1, 2017, pursuant to a 424B prospectus filed under SEC file number 333-221330, which belonged to an S-1 registration statement filed November 3, 2017. The registrant self-described as a blank-check company in that prospectus, and the SEC assigned it SIC industry code 2834 (Pharmaceutical Preparations) and CIK 0001716947. The vehicle completed a business combination and no longer files, with the change in shell company status established by an 8-K filed July 7, 2021. EDGAR now files this CIK under the name Ensysce Biosciences, Inc.


Material findings

from the full read of every filing

Every document this company files gets read whole — body and exhibits. These are the ones the read flagged as material, newest first, each citing its filing.

  • The $0.7 million of cash on the June 30 balance sheet is not the company's current position — the approximately $31 million arrived in August, after the period being reported, which is why the release states the two separately. The second $38.6 million tranche is conditional on clinical milestones and is a ceiling, not committed capital.

  • Two rounds of warrant-inducement repricing, from $23.51 and $15.90 down to $7.05, are on the record as the company's method of converting existing warrants into cash, and it carries both a Nasdaq compliance risk and a going-concern question. The financial statements are not in the portion read here.

  • The parent's stockholder vote happens after closing, not before, so Ensysce holders do not approve the transaction itself — what they vote on is the matters that make the preferred stock convertible. The consideration is preferred stock rather than common, which is how the deal closes without that vote, and the financing is a closing condition in its own right.

  • Raising the plan reserve from 121,457 to 721,457 shares, then layering a 5% annual evergreen on top, expands management equity at a company whose entire authorised pool was previously a fraction of that - a sign the share count is small and shrinking through prior reverse splits. The 19.99% Exchange Cap on the Purchase Agreement is the remaining brake on financing dilution, and a registration statement for resale of those shares has already been filed.

  • A $100 investment worth nine cents is a 99.9% loss, which is the plainest possible measure of what happened to LACQ holders after the combination. The forty-five-day re-vote obligation means the purchasers can compel repeated meetings until the 19.99% cap is lifted, so the dilution is a question of when, not whether. Against consecutive multi-million-dollar losses and no trust to fall back on, the equity is effectively an option on a financing that dilutes it.

  • A dated meeting is what a holder needs: earlier versions of this proxy statement carried no date, so no redemption deadline could be computed from them. The registered amount has not moved across six amendments, so the 18,000,000-share ceiling — which already includes the maximum issuable in respect of the Newly Issued Ensysce Convertible Notes — is settled. The $2,733,485 offering price remains a Rule 457(f)(2) construct: Ensysce is private with an accumulated deficit, so it is one-third of aggregate par value, rounded up to $.01 a share.

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  • Five amendments in, neither the registered share count nor the offering price has moved, so nothing in the fee table records a change of terms across the whole sequence. The $2,733,485 is a Rule 457(f)(2) construct rather than a valuation: Ensysce is private, no market exists for its securities and it has an accumulated deficit, so the price is one-third of the aggregate par value of the stock to be exchanged, rounded up to $.01 per share. The special meeting remains in person at LACQ's own offices on a date and at a time left blank.

  • The reference price is the vehicle's own $10.00 rather than a market quote: at $10.00 per LACQ share, the total Merger Consideration of 17,336,655 shares would have a value of $173,336,550, computed on Ensysce's shares outstanding at April 7, 2021 and expressly excluding shares underlying Ensysce options and warrants and shares issuable on the Newly Issued Ensysce Convertible Notes. Those exclusions sit inside the registered 18,000,000, so the headline consideration understates the issuance. The meeting's date and time are blank.

  • Three amendments in, the registered share count and the offering price are exactly as first filed, so nothing in the fee table records a change of terms. The $2,733,485 is a Rule 457(f)(2) construct: Ensysce is private, no market exists for its securities and it has an accumulated deficit, so the price is one-third of the aggregate par value of the stock to be exchanged, rounded up to $.01 per share. The special meeting remains an in-person meeting at LACQ's own offices on a date and at a time both left blank.

  • The registered amount has not moved from the original filing, so the 18,000,000-share dilution ceiling has held. The offering price is a Rule 457(f)(2) construct rather than a valuation: Ensysce is private, no market exists for its securities and it has an accumulated deficit, so the price is one-third of the aggregate par value of the stock to be exchanged, rounded up to $.01 per share because the arithmetic gives less than a cent. The special meeting is still to be held in person at LACQ's offices on a date and at a time both left blank.

  • 18,000,000 shares is the ceiling on issuance and it already includes the maximum shares issuable in respect of the Newly Issued Ensysce Convertible Notes, so that convertible overhang sits inside the figure rather than on top of it. The $2,733,485 offering price is a Rule 457(f)(2) construct — Ensysce is private, no market exists for its securities and it has an accumulated deficit — computed as one-third of the aggregate par value of the stock to be exchanged and rounded up to $.01 per share. The special meeting date and time are blank.

  • The fee is computed under Rule 457(f)(2) because Ensysce is private, no market exists for its securities and it has an accumulated deficit — so the price is one-third of the aggregate par value of the Ensysce common stock to be exchanged, which works out below $0.01 per share and is rounded up to $0.01 for the filing fee. That is a book-value formality rather than a valuation of the target. The special meeting is to be held in person at LACQ's own offices at 250 West 57th Street on a date and at a time both left blank.

  • The fee table prices the deal in two very unequal tranches: $10.40 per share for 22,876,251 common shares but only $0.19 per share for a further 19,253,926 common shares, plus $0.89 per warrant on 10,000,000 warrants, for a maximum transaction value of $250,471,256.34 and a fee of $32,511.17. The redemption mechanics are spelled out in capitals: a holder must elect redemption and tender shares to the transfer agent, by certificate or through DTC's DWAC system, at least two business days before the vote, and gets nothing back if the combination is not completed.

  • This is the audited record of the same closing the December 5 8-K reported, and every figure agrees with it — which is the point of reading both: an audited balance sheet that confirms rather than corrects leaves the $200,000,000 trust and the roughly $7,000,000 deferred underwriting discount as settled facts for this vehicle. The purchaser list is repeated without the defined sponsor terms, so the December 5 filing remains the better source on who bought the warrants.

  • Trust is $200,000,000 against 20,000,000 public units, and its composition is stated: $196,000,000 of IPO proceeds including about $7,000,000 of deferred underwriting discount, plus $4,000,000 of the private placement money. The deferred discount is a claim ahead of holders at closing. Two sponsors plus an outside fund, HG Vora, and members of management share the at-risk warrant capital, rather than one sponsor carrying it. The clock is 24 months from December 5, 2017.


Filings

live EDGAR feed

Everything this company has filed with the SEC recently, newest first, each with a plain summary of what changed and why it matters.

  • What changed: Ensysce Biosciences, Inc. filed an 8-K on August 25, 2026, reporting three distinct regulatory developments: (1) Nasdaq notified the Company that it currently complies with the $2.5 million stockholders' equity requirement (Rule 5550(b)(1)) but must evidence this compliance in its next periodic report or face delisting; (2) Nasdaq granted an additional 180 calendar days, until February 22, 2027, to regain compliance with the Minimum Price Listing Requirement ($1.00 bid price), following a prior notice of non-compliance; and (3) Nasdaq determined that the acquisition of Cy Biopharma, Inc. constitutes a Change of Control under Rule 5110(a), requiring the post-transaction company to satisfy initial listing criteria and complete the initial listing process before shareholder approval of preferred stock conversion, with failure resulting in trading suspension. Why it matters: The filing confirms Ensysce has temporarily resolved its equity deficiency but remains under strict scrutiny for both financial metrics and share price, with a hard deadline of February 22, 2027, for price compliance. The 'Change of Control' designation from the Cy Biopharma acquisition triggers rigorous initial listing requirements rather than standard continued listing standards, creating a significant procedural hurdle and risk of trading suspension if the initial listing application is not approved. For investors tracking LACQ (Leisure Acquisition Corp.), while the SPAC is closed, these events define the operational and regulatory stability of the merged entity's successor, Ensysce.

  • What changed: Ensysce Biosciences, Inc. filed an 8-K on August 24, 2026, reporting that it acquired Cy Biopharma, Inc. on August 5, 2026, and entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement to issue Series C Preferred Stock for approximately $43 million in two tranches. The Initial Closing of the first tranche occurred on August 7, 2026, raising more than $21 million in gross proceeds; the second tranche is contingent on a clinical trial milestone that has not yet been achieved. As of the filing date, Ensysce believes it holds at least $2.5 million in stockholders' equity, satisfying Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(b)(1), and at least $5 million in stockholders' equity, making it eligible for a second 180-day grace period under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A) to regain compliance with the $1.00 bid price requirement (Rule 5550(a)(1)). A formal request for this grace period was submitted to Nasdaq on August 24, 2026, and the company awaits confirmation. Why it matters: The filing confirms partial completion of a financing deal ($21 million raised vs. $43 million target) dependent on future clinical milestones, which impacts liquidity and valuation. Crucially, it details the company's specific financial assertions regarding stockholders' equity levels to justify eligibility for a second extension period from Nasdaq, directly affecting the risk of delisting and the timeline for regulatory compliance resolution.

  • What changed: The 10-Q filed under Commission file number 001-38306 is that of Ensysce Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENSC) for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, with 19,456,794 shares outstanding as of August 12, 2026. The forward-looking section names the risk that the common stock will be delisted from Nasdaq if compliance is not maintained, the company's ability to continue as a going concern for the next twelve months, and the dilutive effect of recent financing transactions. Why it matters: Two rounds of warrant-inducement repricing, from $23.51 and $15.90 down to $7.05, are on the record as the company's method of converting existing warrants into cash, and it carries both a Nasdaq compliance risk and a going-concern question. The financial statements are not in the portion read here.

    going-concern doubtnothing moved · 1 with no prior record of ours
    Going-concern doubt
    stated · unchanged

    The clause …“Company will be able to obtain such funds. These matters, among others, raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. While the Company believes in the viability of its strategy to ultimately”…

    Read from stored SEC filing text by a regex — no model is involved — and each side links to the filing it came from. “Not previously extracted” is a statement about our record, not about the company: the clause may be present in wording we do not match.

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  • What changed: Ensysce Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENSC) furnished a press release dated August 13, 2026 reporting second quarter 2026 results. Why it matters: The $0.7 million of cash on the June 30 balance sheet is not the company's current position — the approximately $31 million arrived in August, after the period being reported, which is why the release states the two separately. The second $38.6 million tranche is conditional on clinical milestones and is a ceiling, not committed capital.

  • What changed: Ensysce Biosciences filed an 8-K/A amending a prior report, noting a $50,000 payment to Tungsten Partners LLC and including a Certificate of Correction to the Series C Non-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock Certificate of Designation. Why it matters: This is a post-close amendment reflecting minor administrative corrections to the preferred stock designation and a small payment, with no changes to the original 8-K's other disclosures.

  • What changed: Ensysce Biosciences, Inc. filed as Exhibit 2.1 the Agreement and Plan of Merger dated August 5, 2026 among itself as Parent, PHRMA Merger Sub I, Inc., PHRMA Merger Sub II, LLC and Cy Biopharma, Inc. First Merger Sub merges into Cy Biopharma, which becomes a wholly owned subsidiary, and immediately afterwards Cy Biopharma merges into Second Merger Sub, with the two steps intended as an integrated transaction under Revenue Ruling 2001-46 qualifying as a reorganization under Section 368(a) of the Code. The consideration to Cy Biopharma stockholders is Parent Preferred Stock Payment Shares. Why it matters: The parent's stockholder vote happens after closing, not before, so Ensysce holders do not approve the transaction itself — what they vote on is the matters that make the preferred stock convertible. The consideration is preferred stock rather than common, which is how the deal closes without that vote, and the financing is a closing condition in its own right.

  • What changed: Ensysce Biosciences, Inc., the Leisure Acquisition Corp. successor, reported that on July 10, 2026 it received a resignation notice from Jeffrey Millard, who served as Chief Operating Officer, dated and effective the same day. No reason for the departure, successor arrangement or severance term is disclosed, and the only exhibit is the inline XBRL cover page. The report is signed by President and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Lynn Kirkpatrick. Why it matters: A single officer resignation carries no trust, redemption or deadline consequence at a company whose SPAC closed years ago, and the filing discloses no disagreement. The detail worth logging is the effect on an already thin executive bench: a small clinical-stage de-SPAC losing its COO with immediate effect and no named replacement concentrates operating responsibility on the CEO, which raises key-person risk at a company that still depends on financing rather than revenue.

  • going-concern doubtnothing moved · 1 with no prior record of ours
    Going-concern doubt
    stated · unchanged

    The clause …“Company will be able to obtain such funds. These matters, among others, raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. While the Company believes in the viability of its strategy to ultimately”…

    Read from stored SEC filing text by a regex — no model is involved — and each side links to the filing it came from. “Not previously extracted” is a statement about our record, not about the company: the clause may be present in wording we do not match.


The record

The reference detail — how the shares were structured at listing, how thinly they trade, and where the company is registered.

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Unit structure

Cash in trust at IPOnot extracted from the prospectus

from 424B3 0001493152-24-006835

Trading & liquidity

Average daily volume (20d)no volume reported on the bars we hold
Average daily $ volumeneeds both volume and a live price
Range over the bars heldnot enough price history
Total cash in trustthe trust total is not in the last XBRL stamp

Company profile

Industry (SIC)Pharmaceutical Preparations (2834)
Registered inDelaware
Exchange · CIKNasdaq · 0001716947

All filings on EDGARopens on sec.gov in a new tab

Directors & officers


Institutional holders

from SC 13G/13D

Funds that have declared a stake above 5%. Heavy ownership by arbitrage funds usually means heavy cash-outs at the next vote.

Show the declared stakes

17 filers with a stake on file · 0 re-affirmed in the last 12 months. A stake with no amendment since is the filer’s last word on it, not proof it is still held — and percentages filed in different years are percentages of different floats, because this vehicle’s share count collapses at every redemption.

One line per filer, not per reporting person: a joint schedule names the management company, its funds and often the individual who controls them, and all of them report the same shares. Click a name for that filer’s whole footprint across every SPAC it has declared a stake in.


Sources on file

harvested pages, kept in full

Every public page we have read about this company, stored in full so a source can never go missing.


In plain English

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Every piece of jargon this page could have used, and what it actually means.

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No floor / floorlessthe cash guarantee is gone — the price is unprotected

A SPAC's downside protection is not the cash in trust; it is your right to demand that cash. Once the redemption window closes, the cash stays with the company and the share can trade anywhere.

Redemption deadlinethe last day to hand shares back for cash

Set by the filing that calls the meeting. Tender after it and the company is under no obligation to pay you the trust value.

Broker action datethe day your broker needs the instruction — earlier than the official date

Brokers batch redemption instructions to the transfer agent, so the practical cutoff is roughly two business days before the published deadline. This is the date that actually costs people the floor.

Cash in trust / trust per sharethe cash the company is holding for each public share

Filed quarterly in the 10-Q's XBRL. It earns interest between filings, so the figure on a given day is slightly higher than the last filed one — where we show that we label it an estimate.

Trust discountbuying below the cash held for you

Only meaningful while a redemption right exists. On a floorless name the same arithmetic is not a discount, it is the market pricing distress, and this product will not call it a yield.

Dilutionhow much of the company new shares take from you

Sponsor promote, PIPE shares, warrants and rights all issue stock that did not pay $10 for it. The headline deal value is before that; the effective value is after.

Pro-forma equitywhat the company is valued at once the deal closes

The combined company's equity value assuming the announced terms and the redemptions that have actually happened.

ARShow much upside you get per unit of downside

SpacBrain's asymmetric-return score. It is deterministic — the same inputs always produce the same number — and it is capped, not zeroed, when the floor is gone.

De-SPACthe day the SPAC becomes the real company

The shares stop being a claim on a pot of cash and start being equity in an operating business. Roughly 80% of recent de-SPACs traded below $10 within a year.

Outside datethe contractual long-stop for closing the deal

A deadline between the SPAC and its target, not between the SPAC and you. It confers no right to cash, which is exactly why it must never be counted as a redemption window.

Accession numberthe SEC's unique id for one filing

Every figure on this page carries the accession of the filing that states it, so you can open the primary document rather than trust us.

Accreted NAV (estimate)the last filed cash figure, plus the interest it should have earned since

A model, not a filing: last filed value compounded at the 3-month T-bill for the days elapsed. Always shown in italic with the word estimate, and never printed beside a filed number without it.


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Data provenance & audit trail3 internal entries

Written by SpacBrain’s data agents whenever a figure is captured, corrected or flagged, and kept verbatim so every number on this page can be traced back to the filing that states it. This is a running log, not the current record: an early entry may be superseded by a later correction — the panels above always hold the current values.

LACQ — company record
UNIVERSE-IPO-INDEX2026-08-17

admitted from EDGAR's QUARTERLY FORM INDEX, walked without any SIC filter. The SIC 6770 census could not reach this registrant: EDGAR reassigns a shell's SIC the day it stops being one, and this CIK now files under 2834 (Pharmaceutical Preparations). The screen found it by filing SHAPE instead — S-1 2017-11-03 → 8-A12B 2017-11-28 → 424B4 2017-12-01 — which nothing rewrites. Admission rule: src/lib/universe-admit.ts. SIC 2834 + self-described blank check in 424B4 0001144204-17-061973; 424B 0001144204-17-061973 priced 2017-12-01 under S-1 0001144204-17-056172 (file 333-221330, an offering for cash); common ticker LACQ off 10-Q 0001213900-20-011276 (2020-05-07); lifecycle ACTIVE. The pricing prospectus was filed under SEC file number 333-221330, which belongs to S-1 0001144204-17-056172 (2017-11-03) — a registration of shares sold for CASH, which is what makes it an IPO rather than merger consideration. Blank-check status from the registrant's own first-person sentence in that prospectus (EDGAR full-text search, 424B4 2017-12-01). Ending PROVEN, not inferred: CLOSED per 8-K 0001493152-21-016378 (2021-07-07) — 8-K item 5.06 "Change in Shell Company Status" (EDGAR item index, items: 1.01,2.01,3.03,4.01,5.01,5.02,5.03,5.06,9.01). EDGAR now files this CIK as "Ensysce Biosciences, Inc." — the SPAC's own name is kept here and the successor is the target. ipoSizeM and deadline left NULL: gross-proceeds prose conflates the over-allotment with the offering, and a charter deadline belonging to a vehicle that has ended is a date nobody can act on. ipoDate is the 424B pricing date.

Deal — Ensysce Biosciences, Inc.
UNTAGGED

[CLOSED-RENAME] EDGAR CIK 0001716947 records "Leisure Acquisition Corp." ending 2021-06-30; the registrant continues as "Ensysce Biosciences, Inc.". The rename is the SEC's own record of what the vehicle became, keyed by CIK. Closed 2021-06-30. No deal value is set — a rename says what was acquired, never for how much. No date column is set: Deal has announcedAt, voteDate and expectedCloseAt and nowhere to record an actual close, so the SEC's date is kept here until that column exists. [DEAL-STRUCTURE-MINED] pipeSizeM=62.5, terminationFeeM=5.25 from primary filings (0001493152-21-005991).

PIPE2026-08-29

pipeBasis set to UNSOURCED: the size came from the research seed / an earlier record and no filing we hold states it — surfaces now label it "unsourced"; an LLM re-read to FILED replaces this when credits allow