Global Lights Acquisition Corp
Cash in trust
$72.6M
$72,557,133
Trust per share
$10.52
Redemption value
IPO
Nov 2023
$69.0M raised
Combination deadline
—
Not disclosed
Filings on record
72
Latest Jul 14, 2025
Overview
Global Lights Acquisition Corp is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Cayman Islands and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001897971. It completed its initial public offering in Nov 2023, raising $69.0M in gross proceeds. The vehicle is sponsored by Carbon Neutral through Carbon Neutral Holdings Inc. The mandate targets technology, energy transition, industrials. Deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
“we intend to focus our search on a target that provides solutions promoting sustainable development and focuses on environmentally sound infrastructure and industrial applications that eliminate or mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, and/or enhance resilience to climate change.”
Reading the filings
Arithmetic on what Global Lights Acquisition Corp has disclosed, written the way a desk would read it. These are observations, not a rating. Nothing here scores the vehicle or implies a view on it.
Trust versus the $10 unit
The trust holds $10.52 per public share, 5.2% above the $10.00 the units were sold at. That spread is accrued interest on the trust and, where the charter provides for it, sponsor contributions paid in to buy more time. It is the floor a public shareholder can redeem at, not a valuation of the business.
Extension history
Shareholders have already approved 1 extension. Each one opened a redemption window, so the public float and the trust are almost certainly smaller than at IPO, and each typically came with a sponsor contribution that lifts trust per share. A vehicle on its second or third extension is one where the sponsor is paying to keep the search alive.
Rights, not warrants
Each unit carried one right per unit, convertible into one-sixth (1/6) of a share. A right converts automatically on closing rather than needing to be exercised at a strike, so it is dilution that arrives whatever the share price does — unlike a warrant, which only bites if the stock works. For a holder redeeming at the trust it is worth nothing either way; for one staying in, it is a certain claim rather than an option.
Underwriting
Chardan led the offering. It has been named on 38 SPAC IPOs, book-running 34 of them, and 51.7% of its resolved vehicles closed a deal. The syndicate has no control over whether a sponsor finds a target, but the quality of the book at pricing shapes who ends up holding the units.
Filings per month since the first one. A vehicle that has gone quiet with a deadline ahead is a different proposition from one that is still working.
72 filings in all. 5 in the last three months, against a busiest month of 22.
News on Global Lights Acquisition Corp
Last 90 daysNothing in the last 90 days that names this vehicle. We attribute a story only when the release carries the ticker or the registered name, so an empty section means no press release or wire story matched — not that nothing was published. The filings below are the primary record either way.
SEC filing history
Free tier: filings older than 24 hours- 25-NSE
Notification of delisting
Accession 0001354457-25-000662
- SCHEDULE 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001072613-25-000453
- SCHEDULE 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001140361-25-024993
- SCHEDULE 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001172661-25-002117
- SCHEDULE 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0000950170-25-069738
- UPLOAD
SEC staff comment letter
Accession 0000000000-25-003663
- UPLOAD
SEC staff comment letter
Accession 0000000000-25-002310
- SCHEDULE 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001604488-25-000070
- SCHEDULE 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001326389-25-000113
- SCHEDULE 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001172661-25-001010
- SCHEDULE 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001085146-25-001229
- SCHEDULE 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0000950170-25-019443
- SCHEDULE 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001140361-25-002646
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001104659-25-005597
- 8-K
Regulation FD disclosure
Items 7.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001104659-25-005595
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement
Items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01 · Accession 0001104659-25-000319
- UPLOAD
SEC staff comment letter
Accession 0000000000-24-014042
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001104659-24-121879
- 8-K
Regulation FD disclosure
Items 7.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001104659-24-121878
- 8-K
Submission of matters to a vote of security holders; Other events
Items 5.07, 8.01 · Accession 0001104659-24-121015
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001326389-24-000165
- SC 13G/A
KARPUS INVESTMENT MGT / GLOBAL LIGHTS ACQUISITION CORP - SCHEDULE 13G/A(#1)
Accession 0001072613-24-000855
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001410578-24-001930
- DEF 14A
Definitive proxy statement
Accession 0001104659-24-114738
- PRE 14A
PRE 14A
Accession 0001104659-24-109849
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001410578-24-001275
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement
Items 1.01, 2.03, 3.02, 9.01 · Accession 0001104659-24-087281
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001410578-24-000863
- 10-K
Annual report
Accession 0001410578-24-000465
- NT 10-K
Late annual report notification
Accession 0001104659-24-041809
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Global Lights Acquisition Corp: questions answered
What is Global Lights Acquisition Corp?
Global Lights Acquisition Corp is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Cayman Islands and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001897971. It completed its initial public offering in Nov 2023, raising $69.0M in gross proceeds. The vehicle is sponsored by Carbon Neutral through Carbon Neutral Holdings Inc. The mandate targets technology, energy transition, industrials. Deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
How much does Global Lights Acquisition Corp hold in trust?
Approximately $72,557,133, or about $10.52 per public share, as at the most recent filing on record. Trust balances move: shareholders redeem at extension votes and at the combination vote, and sponsors pay contributions in to extend. Treat the figure as a point-in-time disclosure, not a running balance.
When must Global Lights Acquisition Corp complete a merger?
No combination deadline appears in the filings we have indexed. The date is stated in the charter and repeated in each quarterly report; where our parser could not establish it with confidence we leave it blank rather than infer one.
What happens if Global Lights Acquisition Corp does not find a target in time?
The charter requires the vehicle to redeem 100% of the public shares and return the trust, pro rata, to public shareholders. That is the mechanism working as designed rather than a default. Founder shares and warrants are worthless in that outcome, which is why the sponsor's incentive is to get a deal done or to buy more time. Across the market, deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
Can I redeem shares in Global Lights Acquisition Corp, and at what price?
Public shareholders may elect to redeem in connection with a combination vote and at each extension vote, at the pro-rata trust value on the relevant record date, most recently disclosed at about $10.52 per share. Redemption is a right attached to the public shares only; warrants and rights carry no claim on the trust. The mechanics and the deadline for electing are set out in the proxy statement for the vote in question.
Is the trust value the same as the share price for Global Lights Acquisition Corp?
No. Trust per share is a disclosed, contractual figure: what a redeeming holder receives. The market price is whatever the shares change hands at, which can sit above the trust when a deal is well received or below it when the market doubts one will close. We do not have a current quote for this vehicle, so no spread is shown.
Who sponsors Global Lights Acquisition Corp, and what is their track record?
Carbon Neutral Holdings Inc is the sponsor entity, part of the Carbon Neutral franchise. This is the only vehicle we have attributed to that sponsor.
Which banks underwrote the Global Lights Acquisition Corp IPO?
Chardan, B. Riley Securities. Chardan and B. Riley Securities were credited as book-running managers on the cover. Syndicate membership and role are read from the prospectus cover and the underwriting section.
Is Global Lights Acquisition Corp a good investment?
That is not a question this site answers. Global Lights Acquisition Corp is covered here as reference data: what the company filed, when it filed it, and what the numbers in those filings say. The Edge, FOMO and Potential scores on this page are derived measures with a published formula, not ratings of investment merit: they describe the setup, and every component is shown so you can take them apart. We publish no price targets and no recommendations, and nothing here should be read as advice. The figures are a starting point for your own work, and each one carries the accession number of the filing it came from.
Where does this Global Lights Acquisition Corp data come from?
Filings Global Lights Acquisition Corp submitted to the SEC under CIK 0001897971: the registration statement and final prospectus for the structure, quarterly and annual reports for the trust, current reports and proxy statements for deals, votes and extensions. Trust economics are taken from the registrant's own XBRL tags rather than parsed from prose, which is why they are exact. Every filing in the history above is listed with its accession number, which identifies the document uniquely on EDGAR; Pro accounts open it directly from the row.
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Last reconciled Oct 19, 2026
Every figure on this page is read from documents the registrants filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, principally the IPO prospectus (Form 424B4), quarterly and annual reports, current reports and proxy statements, the registrant's own XBRL tags for trust economics. Nothing is sourced from press coverage, from the companies themselves, or from a third-party aggregator. Where a filing does not disclose something, the field is left blank rather than estimated.
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