Meshflow Acquisition Corp. (MESH) is a Cayman Islands blank check SPAC that completed its IPO on December 11, 2025, raising $345.0M gross proceeds from 34.5M Class A ordinary shares at $10.00/unit. The Q1 2026 10-Q covers the three months ended March 31, 2026, the company's first full operating quarter post-IPO. Under a liquidation lens, recovery to equity is structurally negative and that outcome is expected given the SPAC architecture. The dominant asset is $348.8M held in Trust Account (Level 1, money market funds invested in U.S. T-Bills with maturities of 185 days or less), which receives a 100% haircut under the liquidation lens because those proceeds are legally restricted and designated entirely for redemption of the 34.5M Class A public shares at $10.11/share as of March 31, 2026 — not available to satisfy general creditors or provide residual value to founder shareholders. Outside the Trust, total liquid assets are $0.91M cash plus $0.19M in prepaid expenses (negligible recovery), totaling approximately $1.1M in current assets. Against these outside-trust assets sit $156K in current liabilities (accrued expenses $36K, accrued offering costs $75K, and $45K due to Sponsor for administrative fees) plus the structurally critical $14.7M deferred underwriting fee payable — a long-term liability that is senior to equity and survives only upon a successful Business Combination but remains on the balance sheet at face value. Applying the liquidation lens: outside-trust net assets are approximately negative $13.8M, matching the reported shareholders' deficit of ($13.75M). The MFFAIS CLV/LLV/OLV of $1.67M represents the Trust Account interest earned in excess of the redemption value, which is itself a distorted metric for a SPAC — the true equity residual in wind-down is the outside-trust working capital surplus of approximately $0.90M less the $14.7M deferred underwriting fee obligation, producing a net deficit of approximately ($13.8M) before any dissolution costs. Since December 31, 2025, the Trust Account increased by $3.05M (Q1 interest income) and was simultaneously accreted to the temporary equity redemption balance; operating cash burn outside Trust was $248K for the quarter. The 24-month Completion Window from December 11, 2025 expires December 11, 2027. No Working Capital Loans outstanding. The deferred underwriting fee ($14.7M) is disclosed in the filing but tagged only under the custom XBRL tag meshu:DeferredUnderwritingFeePayable, not a standard us-gaap tag, which limits systematic screening of this critical liability.
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