This Amendment No. 18 amends and supplements the Schedule 13D filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on April 8, 2010, by Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. (“Navios Holdings”), Amadeus Maritime S.A. and Ms. Angeliki Frangou (the “Original Schedule 13D”), as previously amended and supplemented by Amendment No. 1 filed on April 26, 2010, Amendment No. 2 filed on April 29, 2010, Amendment No. 3 filed on April 30, 2010, Amendment No. 4 filed on May 5, 2010, Amendment No. 5 filed on May 26, 2010, Amendment No. 6 filed on August 6, 2010, Amendment No. 7 filed on September 15, 2010, Amendment No. 8 filed on July 20, 2011, Amendment No. 9 filed on March 27, 2013, Amendment No.10 filed on March 30, 2015, Amendment No. 11 filed on September 27, 2016, Amendment No. 12 filed on November 21, 2017, Amendment No. 13 filed on December 13, 2018, Amendment No. 14 filed on March 8, 2019, Amendment No. 15 filed on May 24, 2019, Amendment No. 16 filed on September 5, 2019, and Amendment No. 17 filed on September 7, 2021 relating to shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), of Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation (the “Issuer”). This amendment to the Original Schedule 13D constitutes an exit filing with respect to the Original Schedule 13D.
Item 4. Purpose of the Transaction.
Item 4 is hereby supplemented by adding the following:
On August 25, 2021, the Issuer, Navios Maritime Partners LP (“NMM”) and Navios Acquisition Merger Sub. Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of NMM (“Merger Sub”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”). Pursuant to, and subject to the terms and conditions of, the Merger Agreement, on October 15, 2021, Merger Sub merged with and into the Issuer (the “Merger”), and each outstanding share of Common Stock (other than the shares of Common Stock held by NMM, the Issuer and their respective subsidiaries) was converted into 0.1275 of a common unit of NMM.
In the Merger, the 4,865,147 shares of Common Stock that had been beneficially owned by Navios Holdings and its wholly owned subsidiary Alpha Merit Corporation (“Alpha”) were converted into a total of 620,306 common units of NMM.
Item 5. Interest in Securities of the Issuer.
By virtue of the Merger, as of October 15, 2021, Navios Holdings and Alpha no longer beneficially own shares of Common Stock. As a result, this amendment to the Original Schedule 13D constitutes an exit filing with respect to the Original Schedule 13D.
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