NEW YORK — Quartet Merger Corp. (“Quartet”) QTETU announced that its stockholders approved the merger between Quartet and privately-held Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd (“Pangaea”).
About Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd.:
Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd. (“Pangaea” or the “Company”) provides logistics services to a broad base of industrial customers who require the transportation of a wide variety of dry bulk cargoes, including grains, pig iron, hot briquetted iron, bauxite, alumina, cement clinker, dolomite, and limestone. The Company addresses the transportation needs of its customers with a comprehensive set of services and activities, including cargo loading, cargo discharge, vessel chartering, and voyage planning. Learn more at www.pangaeals.com.
About Quartet Merger Corp.:
Quartet was incorporated in Delaware on April 19, 2013 as a blank check company whose objective is to effect a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition or other similar business combination with an operating business. On November 1, 2013, Quartet consummated its initial public offering (“IPO”) of 8,400,000 units, each unit consisting of one share of common stock and one right to automatically receive one-tenth of one share of common stock upon consummation of an Initial Business Combination. The units were sold at an offering price of $10.00 per unit, generating gross proceeds of $84,000,000. On November 5, 2013, Quartet consummated the sale of an additional 1,260,000 units that were subject to the underwriters’ over-allotment option, for aggregate additional proceeds of $12,600,000. Simultaneously with each of the consummation of the IPO and the exercise of the over-allotment option, Quartet consummated a private placement of an aggregate of 608,125 units to its Sponsors and EarlyBirdCapital, Inc., the representative of the underwriters of its IPO, and their respective designees. The private units were sold at an offering price of $10.00 per unit, generating gross proceeds of $6,081,250. Of the net proceeds from Quartet’s IPO (including the exercise of the over-allotment option), $92,410,500, plus $6,081,250 received from the Private Placement for an aggregate of $98,491,750, was placed in a trust account. As of June 30, 2014, Quartet held approximately $98,500,000 in a trust account maintained by an independent trustee, which will be released upon the consummation of the transaction with Pangaea.