| | |
CUSIP No. Y20676 105 | | Page 7 of 11 |
The following constitutes Amendment No. 3 to the Schedule 13D filed by Capital Maritime & Trading Corp. (“Capital Maritime”), Crude Carriers Investments Corp. (“CCIC”), Capital GP L.L.C. (“Capital GP”), Miltadis E. Marinakis and Evangelos M. Marinakis on March 29, 2019 (the “Schedule 13D”), as amended by amendments thereto filed on May 29, 2019 and March 10, 2020.
Item 1. Security and Issuer.
The Schedule 13D relates to shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of Diamond S Shipping Inc. (the “Issuer”), a corporation organized under the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, with principal executive offices at 33 Benedict Place, Greenwich, CT 06830.
Item 4. Purpose of Transaction.
The information previously provided in response to Item 4 is hereby supplemented with the following:
The Merger Agreement
On March 30, 2021, Diamond S Shipping Inc., a Republic of the Marshall Islands corporation (“DSSI”), International Seaways, Inc., a Republic of the Marshall Islands corporation (“INSW”), and Dispatch Transaction Sub, Inc., a Republic of the Marshall Islands corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Seaways (“Merger Sub”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), pursuant to which DSSI and INSW have agreed, subject to the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement, to effect a stock-for-stock merger of their respective businesses whereby Merger Sub will merge with and into DSSI, resulting in DSSI surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of INSW (the “Merger”). Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement, at the effective time of the Merger (the “Effective Time”), each common share of DSSI (the “Diamond S Common Shares”) issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (excluding Diamond S Common Shares owned by DSSI, INSW, Merger Sub or any of their respective direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries) will be converted into the right to receive 0.55375 of a share common stock of INSW (“INSW Common Stock”).
The Voting and Support Agreement
Concurrently with the execution and delivery of the Merger Agreement, Capital Maritime, CCIC and Capital GP (collectively, the “Capital Shareholders”) entered into a voting and support agreement (the “DSSI Voting and Support Agreement”) with INSW, pursuant to which the Capital Shareholders agreed, among other things, until the Expiration Time (as defined below) to vote all shares of INSW Common Stock beneficially owned by such shareholders (i) in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement, (ii) against any alternative transaction involving DSSI other than the Merger, (iii) against any action, proposal or agreement that would reasonably be expected to hinder, delay, interfere with or adversely affect the timely consummation of certain transactions, including the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and the Termination Agreement (as described below), (iv) against any amendment to DSSI’s articles of incorporation or bylaws and (v) against any change in a majority of the board of directors of DSSI. In addition, the Capital Shareholders agreed, prior to the earliest to occur of (a) the Effective Time, (b) such date and time as the Merger Agreement shall be terminated pursuant to and in accordance with its terms, (c) the termination of the Voting and Support Agreement by mutual written consent of the parties thereto, or (d) the extension of the Outside Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement) without the prior written consent of the Capital Shareholders (the “Expiration Time”), not to transfer any shares of DSSI, except for certain permitted transfers.
The Management Agreements Termination Agreement
Concurrently with the execution and delivery of the Merger Agreement, DSSI entered into a Termination Agreement with Capital Ship Management Corp. (“CSM”), an affiliate of the Reporting Persons (the “Termination Agreement”), dated as of March 30, 2021, whereby, upon the completion of certain events and obligations, including consummation of the Merger, the following managerial agreements will be terminated: (i) Commercial Management Agreement, dated as of March 27, 2019, by and between DSSI and CSM; (ii)