Vine Hill Capital Investment Corp. II
For the period ended Jun 30, 2026. Filed Aug 12, 2026.
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Jun 30, 2026 · Filed Aug 12, 2026
What changed in Management’s Discussion and Analysis?
Read the current filingPrevious report: 10-Q
Period ended 2026-03-31; filed 2026-05-14.
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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of OperationsCurrent report: 10-Q
Period ended 2026-06-30; filed 2026-08-12.
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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of OperationsThe baseline is this issuer’s latest earlier reporting period of the same form that was filed before the current report. A previous 10-Q is a different quarter, not a year-over-year comparison. Amendments are excluded.
Compared 38 previous paragraphs and 38 current paragraphs.
29 unchanged; 8 reworded; 0 added; 1 removed; 0 previous and 1 current paragraphs rearranged.
Tables are not compared: 14 previous and 13 current tables excluded. Dates, whitespace, punctuation and numbering changes are ignored; changes to financial figures remain significant.
A changed paragraph is not evidence that risk increased or decreased. An unchanged paragraph does not establish that risk stayed the same.
Removed paragraphs (1)
Previous report
We expect our primary liquidity requirements during that period to include approximately $560,000 for legal, accounting, due diligence, travel and other expenses in connection with any business combinations; $175,000 for legal and accounting fees related to regulatory reporting requirements; $180,000 for office space, utilities and secretarial and administrative support; $396,000 for payments to officers; $250,000 for directors and officers insurance liability; and approximately $100,000 for working capital to cover other miscellaneous expenses (including continued listing fees). These amounts are estimates and may differ materially from our actual expenses.
Reworded paragraphs (8)
Previous wording
We are a newly incorporated blank check company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company on August 18, 2025 for the purpose of effecting a merger, amalgamation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses, which we refer to throughout this Quarterly Report as our Initial Business Combination. We have not selected any specific business combination target and we have not, nor has anyone on our behalf, engaged in any substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, with any business combination target with respect to an Initial Business Combination with us. We intend to effectuate our Initial Business Combination using cash from the proceeds of the Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Warrants and the proceeds of the sale of our securities in connection with our Initial Business Combination (pursuant to any the forward purchase agreements, backstop or similar agreements we may enter into following the consummation of the Offering or otherwise), our shares, debt or a combination of cash, equity and debt.
Current wording
We are a newly incorporated blank check company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company on August 18, 2025 for the purpose of effecting a merger, amalgamation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses, which we refer to throughout this Quarterly Report as our Initial Business Combination. We have not selected any specific business combination target and we have not, nor has anyone on our behalf, engaged in any substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, with any business combination target with respect to an Initial Business Combination with us until after our Public Offering on December 19, 2025. We intend to effectuate our Initial Business Combination using cash from the proceeds of the Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Warrants and the proceeds of the sale of our securities in connection with our Initial Business Combination (pursuant to any the forward purchase agreements, backstop or similar agreements we may enter into following the consummation of the Offering or otherwise), our shares, debt or a combination of cash, equity and debt.
Previous wording
As of March 31, 2026, we had approximately $2,344,000 of cash and cash equivalents. We expect to incur significant costs in the pursuit of our acquisition and financing plans. We cannot assure you that our plans to raise capital or to complete our Initial Business Combination will be successful.
Current wording
As of June 30, 2026, we had approximately $2,038,000 of cash and cash equivalents and had working capital of approximately $1,918,000 (which includes a liability for approximately $213,000 of compensation that is deferred for payment until the closing of a business combination). We expect to incur significant costs in the pursuit of our acquisition and financing plans. We cannot assure you that our plans to raise capital or to complete our Initial Business Combination will be successful.
Previous wording
The net proceeds from the Offering, together with certain of the proceeds from the Private Placement, totaling $230,000,000 in the aggregate, were placed in a trust account (the “Trust Account”) with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company established for the benefit of the Company’s public shareholders and the underwriter of the Offering. Except for the withdrawal of interest earned on the amounts in the Trust Account to fund the Company’s taxes, or upon the redemption by public shareholders of Class A ordinary shares in connection with certain amendments to the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, none of the funds held in the Trust Account will be released until the completion of the Company’s Initial Business Combination or the redemption by the Company of 100% of the outstanding Class A ordinary shares issued by the Company in the Offering if the Company does not consummate an Initial Business Combination within 24 months after the closing of the Offering.
Current wording
The net proceeds from the Offering, together with certain of the proceeds from the Private Placement, totaling $230,000,000 in the aggregate, were placed in a trust account (the “Trust Account”) with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company established for the benefit of the Company’s public shareholders and the underwriter of the Offering. Except for the withdrawal of interest earned on the amounts in the Trust Account to fund the Company’s taxes, or upon the redemption by public shareholders of Class A ordinary shares in connection with certain amendments to the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, none of the funds held in the Trust Account will be released until the completion of the Company’s Initial Business Combination or the redemption by the Company of 100% of the outstanding Class A ordinary shares issued by the Company in the Offering if the Company does not consummate an Initial Business Combination within 24 months after the closing of the Offering (December 19, 2027).
Previous wording
We have neither engaged in any operations nor generated any revenues to date. Our only activities since inception have been organizational activities and those necessary to prepare for the Offering. Following the Offering, we will not generate any operating revenues until after completion of our Initial Business Combination. We will generate non-operating income in the form of interest or dividend income on cash and cash equivalents after the Offering. The operating costs incurred in the three months ended March 31, 2026 consist of approximately $243,000 of aggregate management compensation (approximately $99,000 of which is deferred as to payment) and Sponsor fees as well as approximately $194,000 of costs primarily associated with professional fees, insurance, listing, trust and regulator fees associated with our status as a public reporting company. Since the Offering on December 19, 2025 we are incurring increased expenses as a result of being a public company (for legal, financial reporting, accounting and auditing compliance), as well as for expenses related to efforts to identify and evaluate target businesses and due diligence expenses. We expect our expenses to increase substantially since the closing of the Offering.
Current wording
Loss from operations- The operating costs incurred in the three and six months ended June 30, 2026 totaled approximately $427,000 and $864,000, respectively. Operating costs include approximately $243,000 and $486,000, respectively, of aggregate management compensation (approximately $99,000 and $198,000, respectively, of which is deferred as to payment) and Sponsor fees which are paid currently. Additionally, operating costs include approximately $97,000 and $237,000, respectively, of costs primarily associated with professional fees, insurance, listing, trust and regulator fees associated with our status as a public reporting company and approximately $87,000 and $141,000, respectively of costs associated with our search for a business combination target. Since the Offering on December 19, 2025, we are incurring increased expenses as a result of being a public company (for legal, financial reporting, accounting and auditing compliance), as well as for expenses related to efforts to identify and evaluate target businesses and due diligence expenses. We expect our expenses to increase substantially since the closing of the Offering.
Previous wording
Other income for the three months ended March 31, 2026 totaled approximately $2,052,000 consisting primarily of interest income on the Trust Account.
Current wording
*Other income -*Other income for the three and six months ended June 30, 2026 totaled approximately $2,073,000 and $4,125,000, respectively, consisting primarily of interest income on the Trust Account.
Previous wording
Our liquidity needs have been satisfied through September 30, 2025 through receipt of $25,000 from the sale of the Founder Shares and approximately $25,000 drawn down on an up to $300,000 in loans that were available from our Sponsor under an unsecured promissory note as well as from deferral of certain fees until closing of our Offering. On December 19, 2025 we closed the Offering and the underwriters fully exercised its overallotment option. In connection with the closing, the approximately $175,000 drawn down under the unsecured promissory note (including $150,000 borrowed subsequent to September 30, 2025) was repaid in full. The net proceeds from the sale of the units in the Offering, including the underwriters’ full exercise of its 3,000,000 unit over-allotment option, and the sale of the Private Placement Warrants for an aggregate purchase price of $5,500,000, after deducting offering expenses of approximately $10,663,000 including $563,000 in Company costs and underwriting commissions and expenses of $4,650,000 (excluding deferred underwriting commissions incurred of $8,050,000) as well as $2,600,000 credit by the underwriters toward expenses, were approximately $232,900,000, including reimbursement from the underwriters. $230,000,000 was deposited in the Trust Account, which includes the deferred underwriting commissions described above. The funds in the Trust Account will be (i) invested only in cash or U.S. government treasury bills with a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds that meet certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and that invest only in direct U.S. government obligations and/or (ii) deposited in an interest-bearing demand deposit account at a U.S.-chartered commercial bank with consolidated assets of $100 billion or more.
Current wording
Our liquidity needs have been satisfied through receipt of $25,000 from the sale of the Founder Shares and approximately $175,000 drawn down on an up to $300,000 in loans that were available from our Sponsor under an unsecured promissory note as well as from deferral of certain fees until closing of our Offering. On December 19, 2025 we closed the Offering and the underwriters fully exercised its overallotment option. In connection with the closing, the approximately $175,000 drawn down under the unsecured promissory note was repaid in full. The net proceeds from the sale of the units in the Offering, including the underwriters’ full exercise of its 3,000,000 unit over-allotment option, and the sale of the Private Placement Warrants for an aggregate purchase price of $5,500,000, after deducting offering expenses of approximately $10,663,000 including $563,000 in Company costs and underwriting commissions and expenses of $4,650,000 (excluding deferred underwriting commissions incurred of $8,050,000) as well as $2,600,000 credit by the underwriters toward expenses, were approximately $232,900,000, including reimbursement from the underwriters. $230,000,000 was deposited in the Trust Account, which includes the deferred underwriting commissions described above. The funds in the Trust Account will be (i) invested only in cash or U.S. government treasury bills with a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds that meet certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and that invest only in direct U.S. government obligations and/or (ii) deposited in an interest-bearing demand deposit account at a U.S.-chartered commercial bank with consolidated assets of $100 billion or more.
Previous wording
In December 2025, the Company closed on the Offering of its Units and the simultaneous sale of Private Placement Warrants resulting in an increase in its liquidity. As of March 31, 2026, the Company had cash and cash equivalents balance of approximately $2,344,000. The Company has incurred and expects to continue to incur significant costs in pursuit of its financing and acquisition plans. In connection with the Company’s assessment of going concern considerations in accordance with ASU 2014-15, “Disclosures of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern”, as of March 31, 2026, management has determined that the Company has sufficient funds for the working capital needs of the Company until a minimum of one year from the date of issuance of these financial statements. The Company cannot assure that its plans to consummate an Initial Business Combination will be successful.
Current wording
In December 2025, the Company closed on the Offering of its Units and the simultaneous sale of Private Placement Warrants resulting in an increase in its liquidity. As of June 30, 2026, the Company had cash and cash equivalents balance of approximately $2,038,000. The Company has incurred and expects to continue to incur significant costs in pursuit of its financing and acquisition plans. In connection with the Company’s assessment of going concern considerations in accordance with ASU 2014-15, “Disclosures of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern,” as of June 30, 2026, management has determined that the Company has sufficient funds for the working capital needs of the Company until a minimum of one year from the date of issuance of these financial statements. The Company cannot assure that its plans to consummate an Initial Business Combination will be successful.
Previous wording
As of March 31, 2026, we did not have any long-term debt, capital lease obligations, operating lease obligations or long-term liabilities. In connection with our Offering, we entered into the Administrative Support Agreement with an affiliate of our Sponsor pursuant to which the Company pays such affiliate $15,000 per month for office space, utilities and secretarial and administrative support.
Current wording
As of June 30, 2026, we did not have any long-term debt, capital lease obligations, operating lease obligations or long-term liabilities. In connection with our Offering, commencing on December 18, 2025, the date our securities were first listed on Nasdaq, we entered into the Administrative Support Agreement with an affiliate of our Sponsor pursuant to which the Company pays such affiliate $15,000 per month for office space, utilities and secretarial and administrative support.
Rearranged current paragraphs (1)
Current report — wording carried from elsewhere
We have neither engaged in any operations nor generated any revenues to date. Our only activities since inception have been organizational activities and those necessary to prepare for the Offering. Following the Offering, we will not generate any operating revenues until after completion of our Initial Business Combination. We will generate non-operating income in the form of interest or dividend income on cash and cash equivalents after the Offering.