Gesher Acquisition Corp. II (GSHR) is a Cayman Islands blank check company that completed its IPO on March 24, 2025, raising $143.75M gross proceeds from 14,375,000 Public Units at $10.00. Net of underwriting discounts paid ($2.875M), $144.18M was placed into a grantor trust account invested in a U.S. Treasury money market fund. As of December 31, 2025, the trust holds $148.72M ($10.35 per public share), reflecting $4.54M of accrued interest income for the year. The company has a mandatory liquidation deadline of December 24, 2026 if no Business Combination is consummated, and management has disclosed substantial doubt about going concern based on that deadline. Under the liquidation lens, the recovery analysis is structurally bifurcated. The trust account ($148.72M, 100% recoverable as cash-equivalent money market fund) is contractually ring-fenced for public shareholders at $10.35/share redemption value; Founder Share and Private Placement Share holders have waived claims on trust assets in a no-deal scenario. Against this, the deferred underwriting fee ($5.03M) is a face-value liability payable only upon Business Combination closing — it does not extinguish on liquidation and does not reduce the trust. Creditor claims could attach to trust proceeds under Cayman law, per the filing's own disclosure. Outside the trust, liquid assets are $1.09M cash plus $0.10M prepaid/other, against current liabilities of $0.41M (accrued offering costs $80K, accrued expenses $331K), yielding working capital of approximately $0.77M. Total GAAP liabilities are $5.44M, dominated by the $5.03M deferred fee that only triggers on deal close. Permanent equity is negative $4.24M due to the ASC 480 reclassification of redeemable shares to temporary equity and accretion charges of $15.15M. The MFFAIS liquidation value estimate of $1.78M approximates the outside-trust working capital net of current liabilities, consistent with sponsor/insider equity recovery only. Public shareholder recovery is effectively the trust balance less any creditor priority claims and dissolution expenses (capped at $100K per the filing). No Business Combination target has been identified as of the filing date. CFO Sagi Dagan resigned effective December 31, 2025; Caroline Fu assumed the role January 1, 2026. The filing notes that the deferred underwriting fee ($5.03M) is discussed extensively in MD&A and notes but is tagged under the company-specific XBRL tag gshru:DeferredUnderwritingFeeNonCurrent rather than a standard us-gaap liability tag, which could affect automated liability extraction.
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