Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Vine Hill Capital Funding Corp. (Nasdaq: VCIC) (the “Company” or “Vine Hill”), a particular objective acquisition firm, in the present day introduced that the bodily place of its extraordinary normal assembly to be held on March 27, 2026 (the “Extraordinary General Meeting”), for the aim of, amongst different issues, contemplating and voting upon a proposal to approve, by odd decision, the proposed enterprise mixture (the “Business Combination” and the opposite transactions contemplated by the Enterprise Mixture Settlement amongst CoinShares Worldwide Restricted (“CoinShares”), Vine Hill, Odysseus Holdings Restricted (“Odysseus Holdings”) and the opposite events thereto (collectively, the “Transactions”)) amongst Vine Hill, CoinShares and Odysseus Holdings, has been modified to the places of work of Paul Hastings LLP, 515 South Flower Avenue, twenty fifth Flooring, Los Angeles, California 90071. The Extraordinary Basic Assembly can even proceed to be held just about at https://www.cstproxy.com/vinehillcapital/2026. There isn’t a change to the beforehand introduced time and date of the Extraordinary Basic Assembly. The time and date of the Extraordinary Basic Assembly is 10:00 a.m., Japanese Time (or 7:00 a.m., Pacific Time), on March 27, 2026.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Basic
This press launch is being issued in respect of the proposed Enterprise Mixture amongst Vine Hill, CoinShares and Odysseus Holdings. The data contained herein doesn’t purport to be all-inclusive and none of Vine Hill, CoinShares, Odysseus Holdings or their respective associates makes any illustration or guarantee, categorical or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness or reliability of the data contained on this press launch.
Extra Data and The place to Discover It
In reference to the Transactions, CoinShares and Odysseus Holdings have filed a Registration Assertion on Type F-4 (as amended and supplemented sometimes, the “Registration Statement”) with the Securities and Alternate Fee (the “SEC”), which features a proxy assertion of Vine Hill and a prospectus of Odysseus Holdings referring to the provide of the securities to be issued to Vine Hill’s securityholders in reference to the completion of the Enterprise Mixture (the “Proxy Statement/Prospectus”). The definitive proxy assertion was filed with the SEC on March 16, 2026 and has been mailed to Vine Hill shareholders as of March 2, 2026, the file date established for voting on the Transactions and different issues as described within the Proxy Assertion/Prospectus. Vine Hill, CoinShares and/or Odysseus Holdings can even file different paperwork relating to the Transactions with the SEC. This press launch doesn’t comprise the entire info that must be thought-about in regards to the Transactions and isn’t supposed to kind the idea of any funding resolution or every other resolution in respect of the Transactions. BEFORE MAKING ANY VOTING OR INVESTMENT DECISION, SHAREHOLDERS OF VINE HILL AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES ARE URGED TO READ THE PRELIMINARY PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS, AND AMENDMENTS THERETO, AND, WHEN AVAILABLE, THE DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS AND ALL OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED OR THAT WILL BE FILED WITH THE SEC IN CONNECTION WITH VINE HILL’S SOLICITATION OF PROXIES FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF ITS SHAREHOLDERS TO BE HELD TO APPROVE THE TRANSACTIONS AND OTHER MATTERS AS DESCRIBED IN THE PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS BECAUSE THESE DOCUMENTS WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT VINE HILL, COINSHARES, ODYSSEUS HOLDINGS AND THE TRANSACTIONS. Traders and safety holders are additionally capable of acquire copies of the Registration Assertion and the Proxy Assertion/Prospectus and all different paperwork filed or that can be filed with the SEC by Vine Hill, CoinShares and/or Odysseus Holdings, with out cost, as soon as out there, on the SEC’s web site at www.sec.gov or by directing a request to: Vine Hill Capital Funding Corp., 500 E Broward Blvd, Suite 900, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33394, or upon written request to CoinShares or Odysseus Holdings at c/o CoinShares Worldwide Restricted, 2nd Flooring, 2 Hill Avenue, JE2 4UA St Helier Jersey, Channel Islands.
NEITHER THE SEC NOR ANY STATE SECURITIES REGULATORY AGENCY HAS APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED THE TRANSACTIONS DESCRIBED HEREIN, PASSED UPON THE MERITS OR FAIRNESS OF THE TRANSACTIONS OR ANY RELATED TRANSACTIONS OR PASSED UPON THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THE DISCLOSURE IN THIS PRESS RELEASE. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY CONSTITUTES A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
Individuals within the Solicitation
Vine Hill, CoinShares, Odysseus Holdings and their respective administrators, govt officers, sure of their shareholders and different members of administration and workers could also be deemed underneath SEC guidelines to be members within the solicitation of proxies from Vine Hill’s shareholders in reference to the Transactions. You could find details about Vine Hill’s, CoinShares and Odysseus Holdings’ administrators, govt officers, sure of their shareholders and different members of administration and workers and their curiosity in Vine Hill, CoinShares and Odysseus Holdings might be discovered within the sections entitled “The Business Combination Proposal — Certain Interests of Vine Hill’s Directors and Officers and Others in the Business Combination” “Certain Interests of Odysseus Holdings’ Director(s) and Officers and Others in the Business Combination,” “Information about CoinShares — Human Capital,” and “Executive Compensation of CoinShares” of the Proxy Assertion/Prospectus dated March 16, 2026, which is on the market freed from cost on the SEC’s web site at www.sec.gov and on the following URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/information/2025396/000121390026028308/ea0280297-02.htm.
No Provide or Solicitation
The data contained on this press launch is for informational functions solely and isn’t a proxy assertion or solicitation of a proxy, consent or authorization with respect to any securities or in respect of the Transactions and shall not represent a suggestion to promote or alternate, or a solicitation of a suggestion to purchase or alternate the securities of Vine Hill, CoinShares or Odysseus Holdings, or any commodity or instrument or associated by-product, nor shall there be any sale of any such securities in any state or jurisdiction through which such provide, solicitation, sale or alternate could be illegal previous to registration or qualification underneath the securities legal guidelines of such state or jurisdiction. No provide of securities shall be made besides by the use of a prospectus assembly the necessities of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or an exemption therefrom. Traders ought to seek the advice of with their counsel as to the relevant necessities for a purchaser to avail itself of any exemption underneath the Securities Act.
Ahead-Wanting Statements
This press launch contains “forward-looking statements” with respect to Vine Hill, CoinShares and/or Odysseus Holdings throughout the that means of the federal securities legal guidelines. These forward-looking statements embrace all statements apart from statements of historic truth, together with, with out limitation, the timing of, and the satisfaction of closing situations to, completion of the Transaction. The expectations, estimates and projections of the companies of CoinShares and Vine Hill could differ from their precise outcomes and consequently, you shouldn’t depend on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future occasions. In some instances, you possibly can determine forward-looking statements by terminology akin to “according to estimates”, “anticipates”, “assumes”, “believes”, “could”, “estimates”, “expects”, “forecasts”, “intends”, “is of the opinion”, “may”, “plans”, “potential”, “predicts”, “projects”, “targets”, “to the knowledge of”, “should”, “will”, “would”, or the negatives of those phrases, variations of them or comparable terminology, though not all forward-looking statements comprise such figuring out phrases. Such forward-looking statements are topic to dangers, uncertainties, and different components which can adversely have an effect on CoinShares’ and Odysseus Holdings’ capability to implement and obtain their plans and goals set out in such forward-looking statements and which can trigger precise outcomes, efficiency or achievements to be materially completely different from future outcomes, efficiency or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are primarily based on quite a few assumptions relating to CoinShares’ and Odysseus Holdings’ current and future insurance policies and plans and the atmosphere through which CoinShares and Odysseus Holdings will function sooner or later. Many precise occasions or circumstances are exterior of the management of CoinShares, Odysseus Holdings or Vine Hill. Moreover, sure forward-looking statements are primarily based on assumptions or future occasions which can not show to be correct, and no reliance by any means must be positioned on any forward-looking statements on this press launch. Components which will trigger such variations embrace, however aren’t restricted to: (1) the Transactions not being accomplished in a well timed method or in any respect, which can adversely have an effect on the worth of Vine Hill’s and/or CoinShares’ securities; (2) the Transactions not being accomplished by Vine Hill’s enterprise mixture deadline; (3) failure by the events to fulfill the situations to the consummation of the Transactions, together with the approval of Vine Hill’s and CoinShares’ shareholders and acquiring the requisite Acts of the Royal Courtroom of Jersey; (4) failure to appreciate the anticipated advantages of the Transactions, which can be affected by, amongst different issues, competitors, the flexibility of CoinShares and Odysseus Holdings to develop and handle development profitably, construct or preserve relationships with prospects and retain administration and key workers, capital expenditures, necessities for added capital and timing of future money move offered by working actions and the demand for digital property, together with cryptocurrencies and blockchain-related different investments, together with these provided by, or underlying these provided by, CoinShares and Odysseus Holdings; (5) the extent of redemptions by Vine Hill’s public shareholders which can scale back the quantity of funds out there for CoinShares and Odysseus Holdings to execute on their enterprise methods and will make it tough to acquire or preserve the itemizing or buying and selling of Odysseus Holdings odd shares on a serious securities alternate; (6) failure of Odysseus Holdings to acquire or preserve the itemizing of its securities on any securities alternate after the closing; (7) prices associated to the Transactions and on account of Odysseus Holdings changing into a public firm that could be larger than at present anticipated; (8) adjustments in enterprise, market, monetary, political and regulatory situations; (9) volatility and fast fluctuations available in the market costs of digital property, together with cryptocurrencies and blockchain-related different investments, together with these provided by, or underlying these provided by, CoinShares and/or Odysseus Holdings; (10) failure of CoinShares’ and/or Odysseus Holdings’ digital asset funding merchandise to trace their respective goal benchmarks; (11) regulatory or different developments that negatively impression demand for the services offered by CoinShares and/or Odysseus Holdings; (12) the result of any occasion, change or different circumstance that would give rise to the shortcoming to consummate the Enterprise Mixture; (13) the result of any authorized proceedings that could be instituted towards Vine Hill, CoinShares, Odysseus Holdings and/or any of their respective associates or others; (14) adjustments to the proposed construction of the Enterprise Mixture that could be required or acceptable on account of relevant legal guidelines or laws; (15) the chance that the Enterprise Mixture disrupts present plans and operations of Vine Hill and/or CoinShares on account of the announcement and consummation of the Enterprise Mixture; (16) remedy of digital property, together with cryptocurrencies and blockchain-related different investments, together with these provided by, or underlying these provided by, CoinShares and/or Odysseus Holdings, for U.S. and overseas tax functions; (17) challenges in implementing CoinShares and/or Odysseus Holdings’ marketing strategy on account of operational challenges, vital competitors and regulation; (18) being thought-about to be a “shell company” or “former shell company” by the securities alternate on which Odysseus Holdings odd shares can be listed or by the SEC, which can impression the flexibility to record Odysseus Holdings odd shares and limit reliance on sure guidelines or varieties in reference to the providing, sale or resale of Odysseus Holdings’ securities; (19) buying and selling worth and quantity of Odysseus Holdings odd shares could also be risky following the Transactions and an energetic buying and selling market could not develop; (20) Odysseus Holdings’ shareholders could expertise dilution sooner or later as a result of train of a major variety of present warrants and any future issuances of fairness securities of Odysseus Holdings; (21) buyers could expertise rapid and materials dilution upon the closing on account of the Vine Hill Class B odd shares held by Vine Hill Capital Sponsor I LLC, for the reason that worth of the Odysseus Holdings odd shares obtained by Vine Hill Capital Sponsor I LLC in alternate for such Vine Hill Class B odd shares is more likely to be considerably larger than the nominal worth paid for them, even when the buying and selling worth of Odysseus Holdings odd shares at such time is considerably lower than the worth per share paid by buyers; (22) conflicts of curiosity which will come up from funding and transaction alternatives involving Odysseus Holdings, CoinShares, their respective associates and different buyers and purchasers; (23) digital asset buying and selling venues could expertise better fraud, safety failures or regulatory or operational issues than buying and selling venues for extra established asset lessons; (24) dangers referring to the custody of CoinShares’ and Odysseus Holdings’ digital property, together with the loss or destruction of personal keys required to entry its digital property and cyberattacks or different information loss referring to its digital property, which may trigger CoinShares or Odysseus Holdings, as relevant, to lose some or all of its digital property; (25) a safety breach, cyber-attack or different occasion the place unauthorized events acquire entry to CoinShares’ or Odysseus Holdings’ digital property, on account of which CoinShares or Odysseus Holdings could lose some or all of their digital property quickly or completely and their monetary situation and outcomes of operations might be materially adversely affected; (26) the emergence or development of different digital property, together with these with vital non-public or public sector backing, together with by governments, consortiums or monetary establishments, may have a unfavourable impression on the worth of digital property and adversely have an effect on CoinShares’ and/or Odysseus Holdings’ enterprise; (27) potential regulatory adjustments reclassifying sure digital property as securities may result in the CoinShares’ and/or Odysseus Holdings’ classification as an “investment company” underneath the Funding Firm Act of 1940 and will adversely have an effect on the market worth of CoinShares’ and/or Odysseus Holdings’ digital property and the market worth of CoinShares or Odysseus Holdings listed securities; and (28) different dangers and uncertainties included in (x) the “Risk Factors” sections of the Vine Hill Annual Report on Type 10-Ok and (y) different paperwork filed or to be filed with or furnished or to be furnished to the SEC by Odysseus Holdings, CoinShares and/or Vine Hill. The foregoing record of things will not be unique. You shouldn’t place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which communicate solely as of the date made. None of Vine Hill, CoinShares or Odysseus Holdings undertakes or accepts any obligation or enterprise to launch publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to mirror any change of their expectations or any change in occasions, situations, or circumstances on which any such assertion relies, besides as required by regulation. Previous efficiency by Vine Hill’s, CoinShares’ or Odysseus Holdings’ administration groups and their respective associates will not be a assure of future efficiency. Subsequently, you shouldn’t place undue reliance on the historic file of the efficiency of Vine Hill’s, CoinShares’ or Odysseus Holdings’ administration groups or companies related to them as indicative of future efficiency of an funding or the returns that Vine Hill, CoinShares or Odysseus Holdings will, or are more likely to, generate going ahead.