Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp. V Announces the Separate Trading of its Class A Ordinary Shares and Redeemable Warrants Commencing October 4, 2021

WESTBURY, N.Y., Oct. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp. V (NYSE: KCGI.U) (the "Company") announced that, commencing October 4, 2021, holders of the units sold in the Company's initial public offering of 27,600,000 units, completed on August 17, 2021, may elect to separately trade the Class A ordinary shares and redeemable warrants included in the units.  Those units not separated will continue to trade on the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") under the symbol "KCGI.U," and the Class A ordinary shares and redeemable warrants that are separated will trade on the NYSE under the symbols "KCGI" and "KCGI.WS," respectively.  No fractional warrants will be issued upon separation of the units and only whole warrants will trade.  Holders of units will need to have their brokers contact Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the Company's transfer agent, in order to separate the units into Class A ordinary shares and warrants.

The units were initially offered by the Company in an underwritten offering.  UBS Securities LLC and Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated acted as joint book running managers for the offering, Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated acted as lead manager and Drexel Hamilton, LLC and EarlyBirdCapital, Inc. acted as co-managers.  Registration statement relating to the units and the underlying securities became effective on August 12, 2021.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the securities of the Company, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.  The offering was made only by means of a prospectus, copies of which may be obtained by contacting UBS Securities LLC, Attn: Prospectus Department, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019, telephone: (888) 827-7275 or email: [email protected]; and Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, Attn: Syndicate Department, One South Street, 15th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21202, or by email: [email protected] or by telephone: (855) 300-7136.

About Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp. V
The Company is a newly organized blank check company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses.

For more information, please contact
Dan Huber
Chief Financial Officer
[email protected]
(703) 674-6514

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