Every material Form 8-K Emmis Acquisition Corp. has filed with the SEC since October 02, 2025, read and summarized by AI: what happened, the key figures, whether it reads positive or negative for shareholders, and how big a deal it is (impact 1-5). Newest first; each brief links to its own page and to the filing on SEC.gov.
Emmis Acquisition Corp. appointed Kenneth C. Greenberg as a Class II director on September 25, 2026, and named him chairman of the Compensation Committee, with additional seats on the Audit and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. Seth Farbman was removed from all three of those committees but remains a Class I director. The filing describes board committee changes and a standard indemnification agreement, with no financial results or guidance included.
Kenneth C. Greenberg appointed Class II director on September 25, 2026; he is age 70 and the filing says he qualifies as independent under Nasdaq and Rule 10A-3 standards.
Greenberg chairs the Compensation Committee and also sits on the Audit and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees.
Seth Farbman removed from the Audit, Compensation, and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees on September 25, 2026; he continues as a Class I director.
Emmis Capital Sponsor LLC transferred 11,667 Class B ordinary shares to Greenberg in connection with his appointment.
Emmis Acquisition Corp., a blank check company, said its units will stop trading on October 22, 2025, and the Class A ordinary shares and rights will trade separately on the Nasdaq Global Market as EMIS and EMISR. The separation is mandatory and automatic, so holders take no action, but each right converts to one-tenth of a share only at the completion of an initial business combination, and 10 rights are needed for one share.
Effective October 22, 2025, units stop trading and shares and rights trade separately.
Class A ordinary shares will trade as EMIS and rights as EMISR on the Nasdaq Global Market.
Each right entitles the holder to one-tenth of a Class A share upon completion of an initial business combination.
Units bought after market close on October 15, 2025 may not settle before the separation date.
On September 26, 2025, blank check company Emmis Acquisition Corp. closed its initial public offering of 11.5 million units at $10.00 each, raising $115 million in gross proceeds, including the full exercise of the underwriters' over-allotment option. The full $115 million was placed in a U.S.-based trust account held for a future business combination, which the company has not yet identified. If the company does not complete a business combination within 18 months, it will redeem all public shares, so shareholders depend on that outcome.
11,500,000 units sold at $10.00 each, including 1,500,000 from the full over-allotment exercise, for $115 million in gross proceeds
367,500 private placement units sold at $10.00 each for $3.675 million: 310,000 to sponsor Emmis Capital Sponsor LLC and 57,500 to I-Bankers Securities Inc.
$115 million held in a trust account maintained by Equiniti Trust Company LLC, acting as trustee
Company has until 18 months from the IPO closing to complete a business combination, or redeem 100% of public shares
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