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(Incorporated in the Cayman Islands)
We are a newly organized blank check company. We have not chosen a sector or a geographic region as a focus for our search for a target company. We may pursue an initial business combination in any business or industry but expect to focus on a target in an industry where we believe our management team’s expertise will provide us with a competitive advantage.
Håkan Wohlin serves as our CEO. Mr. Wohlin is the founder and managing partner of KingsRock, where he has worked since 2016. He brings over three decades of global experience in financial services, with deep expertise in capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and complex capital solutions. His career has spanned origination, underwriting, distribution, and special situations across all industries and continents. Before founding KingsRock, Mr. Wohlin spent 13 years at Deutsche Bank from 2002 to 2015 including as global head of debt origination. Earlier in his career, he was Deutsche Bank’s Head of European Capital Markets Origination.
Mr. Wohlin began his career on Wall Street in energy trading before moving into the financial analytics and structured transaction group (FAST) and subsequently into capital markets at Bear Stearns & Co. He started in the early 1990s at Bear Stearns & Co and worked there until the late 1990s in capital markets, covering U.S. Energy, Financials and Industrials, based in New York. Between 1999 and 2002. he was EVP. Business and Corporate Development at Corechange, a software company, based in New York and Boston.
Louis Jaffe serves as our chairman. Mr. Jaffe has served as the co-founder and managing partner of KingsRock since 2020 and as chairman of the board of directors of Viking I since July 2025. He brings over three decades of experience in global financial markets, with a focus on fixed income, structured solutions, and macro investing. From 2015 to 2019, Mr. Jaffe was co-founder and president of Montrock48 Capital, an alternative asset manager specializing in discretionary global macro strategies.
Before Montrock48 Capital, Mr. Jaffe spent 24 years at Deutsche Bank, where he held several senior leadership roles. From 2008 to 2015, he led Deutsche Bank’s Institutional Client Group Debt Americas. Earlier, he served as Head of the Integrated Credit Sales Group. Mr. Jaffe was a member of multiple executive committees at Deutsche Bank, including the North America Corporate Banking and Securities Executive Committee, the Institutional Client Group Global Executive Committee, and the Global Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities Executive Committee. In 1991, he began his career at Bankers Trust as part of the credit derivatives group, continuing through its acquisition by Deutsche Bank in 1999.
(Viking Acquisition Corp. II priced its SPAC IPO on July 1, 2026, in sync with the terms in its prospectus: 20 million units at $10.00 each to raise $200 million. Each unit consists of one share of stock and one-third of one warrant. Initial Filing: Viking Acquisition Corp. II filed its S-1 for its SPAC IPO on June 11, 2026, and disclosed the terms – as described above.)
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