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Organization and Business Operations
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Organization and Business Operations  
Organization and Business Operations

Note 1 — Organization and Business Operations

Blue Water Acquisition Corp. III (the “Company”) is a blank check company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company on November 1, 2024. The Company was incorporated for the purpose of effecting a merger, amalgamation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses (the “Business Combination”). The Company has not selected any specific Business Combination target, and the Company has not, nor has anyone on its behalf, engaged in any substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, with any Business Combination target with respect to an initial Business Combination with the Company.

As of December 31, 2025, the Company has not commenced any operations. All activity for the period from November 1, 2024 (inception) through December 31, 2025 relates to the Company’s formation and its initial public offering (the “Initial Public Offering”), as discussed in Note 3, and subsequent to the Initial Public Offering, identifying a target company for a Business Combination. The Company will not generate any operating revenues until after the completion of its initial Business Combination, at the earliest. The Company may generate non-operating income in the form of interest income on cash and cash equivalents and dividend income from marketable securities purchased from the proceeds derived from the Initial Public Offering. The Company has selected December 31 as its fiscal year end.

On June 11, 2025, the Company consummated the Initial Public Offering of 25,300,000 units (the “Units” and, with respect to the Class A ordinary shares included in the Units, the “Public Shares”), which includes the full exercise by the underwriters of their over-allotment option in the amount of 3,300,000 Units, at $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $253,000,000. Each Unit consists of one Class A ordinary share and one-half of one redeemable warrant (each, a “Public Warrant”).

Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company consummated the sale of 683,000 units (the “Private Placement Units” and, with respect to the Class A ordinary shares included in the Private Placement Units, the “Private Placement Shares”) at a price of $10.00 per Private Placement Unit, in a private placement to the Company’s prior sponsor, Blue Water Acquisition III LLC (the “Prior Sponsor”), and BTIG, LLC (“BTIG”), the representative of the underwriters in the Initial Public Offering, generating gross proceeds of $6,830,000. Each Private Placement Unit consists of one Class A ordinary share and one-half of one redeemable warrant (the “Private Placement Warrants” and together with the Public Warrants, the “Warrants”). Each whole Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one Class A ordinary share at a price of $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment.

Transaction costs amounted to $14,420,089, consisting of $5,060,000 of cash underwriting fee, $8,855,000 of deferred underwriting fee, and $505,089 of other offering costs.

The Company’s management has broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of the Initial Public Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Units, although substantially all of the net proceeds are intended to be generally applied toward consummating a Business Combination (less deferred underwriting commissions).

Following the closing of the Initial Public Offering, on June 11, 2025, an amount of $253,000,000 ($10.00 per Unit) from the net proceeds of the sale of the Units and the sale of the Private Placement Units, was placed in the trust account (the “Trust Account”), with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee. Except with respect to interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account that may be released to the Company to pay its taxes, if any, the proceeds from the Initial Public Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Units will not be released from the Trust Account until the earliest of (i) the completion of the Company’s initial Business Combination, (ii) the redemption of the Company’s Public Shares if the Company is unable to complete the initial Business Combination within 24 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering or by such earlier liquidation date as the Company’s board of directors may approve (the “Completion Window”), subject to applicable law, or (iii) the redemption of the Company’s Public Shares properly submitted in connection with a shareholder vote to amend the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to (A) modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to allow redemption in connection with the initial Business Combination or to redeem 100% of the Company’s Public Shares if the Company has not consummated an initial Business Combination within the Completion Window or (B) with respect to any other material provisions relating to shareholders’ rights or pre-initial Business Combination activity. The proceeds deposited in the Trust Account could become subject to the claims of the Company’s creditors, if any, which could have priority over the claims of the Company’s public shareholders.

The Company will provide the Company’s public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their Public Shares, regardless of whether they abstain, vote for, or vote against, the initial Business Combination upon completion of the initial Business Combination either (i) in connection with a general meeting called to approve the initial Business Combination or (ii) without a shareholder vote by means of a tender offer. The decision as to whether the Company will seek shareholder approval of a proposed initial Business Combination or conduct a tender offer will be made by the Company, solely in its discretion. The public shareholders will be entitled to redeem their shares at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account calculated as of two business days prior to the consummation of the initial Business Combination, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account (less taxes payable (but without deduction for any excise or similar tax that may be due or payable)), divided by the number of then outstanding Public Shares, subject to the limitations. The amount in the Trust Account is initially anticipated to be $10.00 per Public Share. The ordinary shares subject to redemption will be recorded at redemption value and classified as temporary equity upon the completion of the Initial Public Offering, in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 480, “Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity.”

The Company will have only the duration of the Completion Window to complete the initial Business Combination. However, if the Company is unable to complete its initial Business Combination within the Completion Window, the Company will as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem the Public Shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account (net of amounts withdrawn to pay the Company’s taxes (but without deduction for any excise or similar tax that may be due or payable) and up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding Public Shares, which redemption will constitute full and complete payment for the Public Shares and completely extinguish public shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidation or other distributions, if any), subject to the Company’s obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and subject to the other requirements of applicable law.

The Business Combination must be with one or more target businesses that together have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the net balance in the Trust Account (as defined below) (excluding the amount of deferred underwriting discounts held and taxes payable on the income earned on the Trust Account) at the time of the signing of an agreement to enter into a Business Combination. However, the Company will only complete a Business Combination if the post-Business Combination company owns or acquires 50% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in the target sufficient for it not to be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”). There is no assurance that the Company will be able to successfully effect a Business Combination.

On July 28, 2025, the Company announced that, on or about July 31, 2025, the holders of the Company’s Units may elect to separately trade the Class A ordinary shares and warrants included in the Units.

On November 25, 2025, the Company, the Prior Sponsor and Yorkville BW Acquisition Sponsor, LLC (the “New Sponsor”) entered into a Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”). Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, on November 25, 2025, the New Sponsor (i) purchased from the Prior Sponsor (a) 6,325,000 Class B Ordinary Shares and (b) 430,000 Private Placement Units (together with the 6,325,000 Class B Ordinary Shares, the “Acquired Securities”), for an aggregate purchase price of $7,200,000 and (ii) upon closing, became the sponsor of the Company (together, the “Purchase”). Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the non-managing sponsor investors of the Prior Sponsor have no further rights, claims or interests in or to any securities of the Company (other than any Public Units, Public Shares or Public Warrants they may hold).

As a condition to consummation of the Purchase, all of the then-existing members of the board of directors (the “Prior Board”) and all then-existing officers of the Company resigned, and the New Sponsor designated (i) a new board of directors, which was elected immediately prior to the closing of the Purchase by the Prior Sponsor as the then-sole holder of the Class B Ordinary Shares in accordance with the terms of the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, and (ii) a new management team, which was appointed immediately prior to the closing of the Purchase by the Prior Board, effective as of the closing of the Purchase. Except as otherwise specified or where the context requires otherwise, references in this Annual Report to “the board of directors” (the “Board”), “our directors,” “our officers,” or “management” shall refer to the board of directors, officers, and management team designated by the New Sponsor and serving following the closing of the Purchase, and all references to the “Sponsor” refer to the “New Sponsor.”

Pursuant to the terms of the Purchase Agreement, the New Sponsor (i) executed a joinder agreement to become a party to the Registration Rights Agreement, dated June 9, 2025 (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), among the Company, the Prior Sponsor, BTIG, and the other parties thereto and (ii) entered into a side letter agreement with the Company (the “New Insider Letter”) providing for, among other things, voting obligations and certain transfer restrictions. All parties to the letter agreement dated June 9, 2025, by and among the Company, the Prior Sponsor and each of the then directors and officers of the Company (the “Prior Insider Letter”), executed a waiver to certain requirements of the Prior Insider Letter such that the New Sponsor need not execute a joinder or become a party to the Prior Insider Letter. Upon the closing of the Purchase, the Prior Insider Letter was terminated.

Pursuant to the terms of the New Insider Letter, the New Sponsor, and our current directors and officers agreed to (i) waive their redemption rights with respect to their Founder Shares and Public Shares in connection with the completion of the proposed Business Combination; (ii) waive their redemption rights with respect to their Founder Shares and Public Shares in connection with a shareholder vote to approve an amendment to the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association; (iii) waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to their Founder Shares if the Company fails to complete an initial Business Combination within the Completion Window, although they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to any Public Shares they hold if the Company fails to complete the initial Business Combination within the Completion Window and to liquidating distributions from assets outside the Trust Account; (iv) vote any Founder Shares or other shares acquired by them in favor of the proposed Business Combination, except that the New Sponsor and our current directors and officers shall not vote any Class A Ordinary Shares that they purchase after the Company publicly announces its intention to engage in such proposed Business Combination for or against such proposed Business Combination; (v) not redeem any Class A Ordinary Shares owned by them in connection with shareholder approval of a proposed Business Combination; and (vi) not sell or tender any Ordinary Shares in the event the Company seeks to consummate a proposed Business Combination by engaging in a tender offer. Additionally, the New Sponsor agreed that it would not directly or indirectly, enter into any agreement or arrangement to, or actually sell or transfer any of the Acquired Securities, with such sale or transfer to occur prior to the closing of the Company’s initial Business Combination, subject to certain exceptions.

The New Sponsor agreed that it will be liable to the Company if and to the extent any claims by a third party for services rendered or products sold to the Company, or a prospective target business with which the Company has entered into a written letter of intent, confidentiality or other similar agreement or Business Combination agreement, reduce the amount of funds in the Trust Account to below the lesser of (i) $10.00 per Public Share and (ii) the actual amount per Public Share held in the Trust Account as of the date of the liquidation of the Trust Account, if less than $10.00 per share due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, less taxes payable (but without deduction for any excise or similar tax that may be due or payable), provided that such liability will not apply to any claims by a third party or prospective target business who executed a waiver of any and all rights to the monies held in the Trust Account (whether or not such waiver is enforceable) nor will it apply to any claims under the Company’s indemnity of the underwriters of the Initial Public Offering against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). However, the Company has not asked the New Sponsor to reserve for such indemnification obligations, nor has the Company independently verified whether the New Sponsor has sufficient funds to satisfy its indemnity obligations and the Company believes that the Sponsor’s only assets are securities of the Company. Therefore, the Company cannot assure that the New Sponsor would be able to satisfy those obligations.

Liquidity, Capital Resources and Going Concern

As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company had $0 of cash and cash equivalents and working capital deficiency of $109,004 and $48,541, respectively.

The Company’s liquidity needs through December 31, 2025 had been satisfied through a payment from the Prior Sponsor of $25,000 for Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (“founder shares”) (see Note 6), the Initial Public Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Units. Additionally, the Company drew on an unsecured promissory note to pay certain offering costs, which was paid in full in connection with the consummation of the Initial Public Offering.

The Company has incurred and expects to continue to incur significant costs in pursuit of its financing and acquisition plans. The Company lacks the financial resources it needs to sustain operations for a reasonable period of time, which is considered to be one year from the issuance date of the financial statements. Although no formal agreement exists, the New Sponsor may extend Working Capital Loans (defined in Note 6) as needed. The Company cannot assure that its plans to consummate an initial Business Combination will be successful.

These factors, among others, raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern one year from the date these financial statements are issued. These financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.