VACI redemption deadline
The window to hand Viking Acquisition Corp I shares back for cash closed on 31 August 2026. This page keeps the full dated record of how it got there.
The company still holds $10.06 a share in trust, but that cash can no longer be claimed by you — the deadline below is history, not an option. What a closed window means →
The vote has cleared and the deal is heading to close. Closing is not a date holders act on — the chance to take the cash was the vote — and no closing date is on file with us. The outside date we hold is 31 January 2027 — a contractual long-stop for closing, not a date you can claim cash on. What an outside date is →
The company's own long-stop: if no deal closes by this date it must extend again, or return the trust and shut down.
A contractual long-stop between the SPAC and its target — it gives you no right to cash.
As last filed. Still held by the company — no longer claimable by you.
The full timeline
5 dated milestonesEvery dated step from the day it listed to the next date you may have to act on, each with the filing that states it.
- 31 October 2025IPOpassed
$230M raised into trust
- 16 April 2026Deal announcedpassed
Combination with NorthStar Earth & Space Inc.
This is the date the floor went. After it, handing the shares back for cash was no longer an option.
On the NorthStar Earth & Space Inc. combination
How the deadline mechanism works
The thirty-second version, for anyone who has never traded a SPAC.
A SPAC’s charter gives it a fixed time to buy a business. Before that time runs out it must either close a deal, ask shareholders to extend the date, or return the trust cash and shut down. At every vote, holders who would rather have their cash than wait can hand their shares back — that election is the deadline this page tracks.
The published date is not the one that matters in practice: your broker needs the instruction roughly two business days earlier, because brokers batch instructions to the transfer agent. Missing the broker cutoff forfeits the right even though the official deadline has not yet arrived — broker cutoffs vs official deadlines, explained.
In plain English
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.
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.