The following constitutes Amendment No. 1 to the Schedule 13D filed by the undersigned (“Amendment No. 1”). This Amendment No. 1 amends the Schedule 13D as specifically set forth herein.
Item 2. | Identity and Background. |
Item 2 is hereby amended to add the following:
In connection with the withdrawal of the Reporting Persons’ consent solicitation, as described in further detail in Item 4 below, the Reporting Persons have terminated that certain Joint Filing and Solicitation Agreement, dated October 26, 2015, and the Reporting Persons other than Lone Star Value Investors, Lone Star Value GP, Lone Star Value Management and Mr. Eberwein are no longer members of a Section 13(d) group and shall cease to be Reporting Persons immediately after the filing of this Amendment No. 1.
The remaining Reporting Persons will continue filing statements on Schedule 13D with respect to their beneficial ownership of securities of the Issuer to the extent required by applicable law. Each of the remaining Reporting Persons is party to the Joint Filing Agreement, as further described in Item 6.
Item 3. | Source and Amount of Funds or Other Consideration. |
Item 3 is hereby amended and restated to read as follows:
The Shares purchased by Lone Star Value Investors and held in the Separately Managed Account were purchased with working capital (which may, at any given time, include margin loans made by brokerage firms in the ordinary course of business) in open market purchases, except as otherwise noted, as set forth in Schedule A, which is incorporated by reference herein. The aggregate purchase price of the 615,000 Shares beneficially owned by Lone Star Value Investors is approximately $4,457,014, including brokerage commissions. The aggregate purchase price of the 30,000 Shares held in the Separately Managed Account is approximately $221,346, including brokerage commissions.
Item 4. | Purpose of Transaction. |
Item 4 is hereby amended to add the following:
On December 2, 2015, Lone Star Value Management (together with its affiliates, “Lone Star Value”) and AMERI (together with its affiliates, “Ameri100” and collectively with Lone Star Value, the “Shareholder Group”) issued a press release commending the commitment of the Issuer’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) to explore strategic alternatives. The Shareholder Group has consistently advocated that the Issuer undertake a full, fair and complete strategic review process to maximize value for stockholders by exploring a sale of the Issuer to the highest bidder, and only commenced the consent solicitation as a last resort after the Board twice rejected a merger proposal from Ameri100 at a significant premium without proper consideration or engaging in discussions with Ameri100.
Now that the Board appears to have heeded the Shareholder Group’s input, the Shareholder Group has decided to withdraw its consent solicitation in order to eliminate distraction and give the Board the opportunity to prove its commitment to maximize value. The Shareholder Group made clear that it intends to carefully monitor the Board’s progress on executing upon its commitment to explore strategic alternatives and is prepared to hold the Board accountable for any failure to deliver, including by taking all actions necessary to reconstitute the Board with directors whose primary goal is maximizing value for stockholders. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 5. | Interest in Securities of the Issuer. |
Items 5(a) – (c) are hereby amended and restated to read as follows:
The aggregate percentage of Shares reported owned by each person named herein is based upon 11,801,307 Shares outstanding as of November 13, 2015, which is the total number of Shares reported outstanding in the Issuer’s Definitive Consent Revocation Statement on Schedule 14A, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 25, 2015.
A. | Lone Star Value Investors |
| (a) | As of the close of business on the date hereof, Lone Star Value Investors beneficially owned 615,000 Shares. |
Percentage: Approximately 5.2%
| (b) | 1. Sole power to vote or direct vote: 615,000 |
| 2. Shared power to vote or direct vote: 0 |
| 3. Sole power to dispose or direct the disposition: 615,000 |
| 4. Shared power to dispose or direct the disposition: 0 |
| (c) | The transactions in the Shares by Lone Star Value Investors since the filing of the Schedule 13D are set forth in Schedule A and are incorporated herein by reference. |
| (a) | Lone Star Value GP, as the general partner of Lone Star Value Investors, may be deemed the beneficial owner of the 615,000 Shares owned by Lone Star Value Investors. |
Percentage: Approximately 5.2%
| (b) | 1. Sole power to vote or direct vote: 615,000 |
| 2. Shared power to vote or direct vote: 0 |
| 3. Sole power to dispose or direct the disposition: 615,000 |
| 4. Shared power to dispose or direct the disposition: 0 |
| (c) | Lone Star Value GP has not entered into any transactions in the Shares since the filing of the Schedule 13D. The transactions in the Shares on behalf of Lone Star Value Investors since the filing of the Schedule 13D are set forth in Schedule A and are incorporated herein by reference. |
C. | Lone Star Value Management |
| (a) | As of the close of business on the date hereof, 30,000 Shares were held in the Separately Managed Account. Lone Star Value Management, as the investment manager of Lone Star Value Investors and the Separately Managed Account, may be deemed the beneficial owner of the (i) 615,000 Shares owned by Lone Star Value Investors and (ii) 30,000 Shares held in the Separately Managed Account. |
Percentage: Approximately 5.5%
| (b) | 1. Sole power to vote or direct vote: 645,000 |
| 2. Shared power to vote or direct vote: 0 |
| 3. Sole power to dispose or direct the disposition: 645,000 |
| 4. Shared power to dispose or direct the disposition: 0 |
| (c) | The transactions in the Shares by Lone Star Value Management through the Separately Managed Account and on behalf of Lone Star Value Investors since the filing of the Schedule 13D are set forth in Schedule A and are incorporated herein by reference. |
| (a) | Mr. Eberwein, as the manager of Lone Star Value GP and sole member of Lone Star Value Management, may be deemed the beneficial owner of the (i) 615,000 Shares owned by Lone Star Value Investors and (ii) 30,000 Shares held in the Separately Managed Account. |
Percentage: Approximately 5.5%
| (b) | 1. Sole power to vote or direct vote: 645,000 |
| 2. Shared power to vote or direct vote: 0 |
| 3. Sole power to dispose or direct the disposition: 645,000 |
| 4. Shared power to dispose or direct the disposition: 0 |
| (c) | Mr. Eberwein has not entered into any transactions in the Shares since the filing of the Schedule 13D. The transactions in the Shares on behalf of Lone Star Value Investors and through the Separately Managed Account since the filing of the Schedule 13D are set forth in Schedule A and are incorporated herein by reference. |
| (a) | As of the close of business on the date hereof, AMERI did not beneficially own any Shares. |
Percentage: 0%
| (b) | 1. Sole power to vote or direct vote: 0 |
| 2. Shared power to vote or direct vote: 0 |
| 3. Sole power to dispose or direct the disposition: 0 |
| 4. Shared power to dispose or direct the disposition: 0 |
| (c) | AMERI has not entered into any transactions in the Shares since the filing of the Schedule 13D. |
| (a) | As of the close of business on the date hereof, Ameri & Partners did not beneficially own any Shares. |
Percentage: 0%
| (b) | 1. Sole power to vote or direct vote: 0 |
| 2. Shared power to vote or direct vote: 0 |
| 3. Sole power to dispose or direct the disposition: 0 |
| 4. Shared power to dispose or direct the disposition: 0 |
| (c) | Ameri & Partners has not entered into any transactions in the Shares since the filing of the Schedule 13D. |
G. | Messrs. Alugas, Bova, Pearse, Rai and Whelan |
| (a) | As of the close of business on the date hereof, none of Messrs. Alugas, Bova, Pearse, Rai and Whelan beneficially owned any Shares. |
Percentage: 0%
| (b) | 1. Sole power to vote or direct vote: 0 |
| 2. Shared power to vote or direct vote: 0 |
| 3. Sole power to dispose or direct the disposition: 0 |
| 4. Shared power to dispose or direct the disposition: 0 |
| (c) | Messrs. Alugas, Bova, Pearse, Rai and Whelan have not entered into any transactions in the Shares since the filing of the Schedule 13D. |
Item 6. | Contracts, Arrangements, Understandings or Relationships With Respect to Securities of the Issuer. |
Item 6 is hereby amended to add the following:
On December 2, 2015, the Reporting Persons terminated that certain Joint Filing and Solicitation Agreement, dated October 26, 2015. A copy of the Termination of Joint Filing and Solicitation Agreement is attached as Exhibit 99.2 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.
On December 2, 2015, the Reporting Persons entered into a Joint Filing Agreement in which the Reporting Persons who will remain Reporting Persons subsequent to this Amendment No. 1 agreed to the joint filing on behalf of each of them of statements on Schedule 13D with respect to the securities of the Issuer to the extent required by applicable law. A copy of this agreement is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.3 and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 7. | Material to be Filed as Exhibits. |
Item 7 is hereby amended to add the following exhibits:
| 99.1 | Press Release, dated December 2, 2015. |
| 99.2 | Termination of Joint Filing and Solicitation Agreement, dated December 2, 2015. |
| 99.3 | Joint Filing Agreement, dated December 2, 2015. |
SIGNATURES
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of his knowledge and belief, each of the undersigned certifies that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.
Dated: December 2, 2015
| Lone Star Value Investors, LP |
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| By: | Lone Star Value Investors GP, LLC General Partner |
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| By: | /s/ Jeffrey E. Eberwein |
| | Name: | Jeffrey E. Eberwein |
| | Title: | Manager |
| Lone Star Value Investors GP, LLC |
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| By: | /s/ Jeffrey E. Eberwein |
| | Name: | Jeffrey E. Eberwein |
| | Title: | Manager |
| Lone Star Value Management, LLC |
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| By: | /s/ Jeffrey E. Eberwein |
| | Name: | Jeffrey E. Eberwein |
| | Title: | Sole Member |
| /s/ Jeffrey E. Eberwein |
| JEFFREY E. EBERWEIN Individually and as attorney-in-fact for Lenny Alugas, Stephen R. Bova, Robert G. Pearse, Dhruwa N. Rai and Timothy Whelan |
| AMERI Holdings, Inc. |
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| By: | /s/ Giri Devanur |
| | Name: | Giri Devanur |
| | Title: | President and Chief Executive Officer |
| Ameri and Partners Inc. |
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| By: | /s/ Giri Devanur |
| | Name: | Giri Devanur |
| | Title: | President and Chief Executive Officer |
SCHEDULE A
Transactions in the Securities of the Issuer Since the Filing of the Schedule 13D
Shares of Common Stock Purchased/(Sold) | Price Per Share ($) | Date of Purchase / Sale |
LONE STAR VALUE INVESTORS, LP
10,000 | 7.7535 | 11/11/2015 |
5,000 | 7.5907 | 11/13/2015 |
LONE STAR VALUE MANAGEMENT, LLC
(Through the Separately Managed Account)