Axar Acquisition Corp.
Cash in trust
$251.0K
$251,000
Trust per share
$10.13
Redemption value
IPO
Oct 2014
$235.2M raised
Combination deadline
—
Not disclosed
Filings on record
100
Latest Oct 13, 2017
Overview
Axar Acquisition Corp. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001615892. It completed its initial public offering in Oct 2014, raising $235.2M in gross proceeds. The vehicle is sponsored by Axar through AR Capital, LLC. The mandate targets generalist. Deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
“we intend to pursue or do not have the financial capacity or mandate to engage in a business combination transaction having the fair market value required for our initial business combination.”
Reading the filings
Arithmetic on what Axar Acquisition Corp. has disclosed, written the way a desk would read it. These are observations, not a rating. Nothing here scores the vehicle or implies a view on it.
Trust versus the $10 unit
The trust holds $10.13 per public share, 1.3% above the $10.00 the units were sold at. That spread is accrued interest on the trust and, where the charter provides for it, sponsor contributions paid in to buy more time. It is the floor a public shareholder can redeem at, not a valuation of the business.
Sponsor promote
The sponsor's founder block is 900,000 shares against 1,893,915 public shares, or 32.2% of the combined count, acquired before the IPO at nominal cost. That promote is the structural dilution every public shareholder carries into a combination, and it is why the economics of a de-SPAC differ so sharply from a conventional IPO.
Underwriting
Citigroup led the offering. It has been named on 123 SPAC IPOs, book-running 87 of them, and 12.4% of its resolved vehicles closed a deal. The syndicate has no control over whether a sponsor finds a target, but the quality of the book at pricing shapes who ends up holding the units.
SEC filing history
Free tier: filings older than 24 hours- 15-12B
Deregistration of securities
Accession 0001144204-17-052326
- 25-NSE
Notification of delisting
Accession 0001354457-17-000196
- 25-NSE
Notification of delisting
Accession 0001354457-17-000190
- 25-NSE
Notification of delisting
Accession 0001354457-17-000189
- 8-K
Notice of delisting or failure to satisfy a listing rule
Item 3.01 · Accession 0001144204-17-049464
- 8-K
Other events
Items 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001144204-17-048679
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001144204-17-041129
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001144204-17-025201
- 10-K
Annual report
Accession 0001144204-17-014369
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0000902664-17-001161
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0000948046-17-000014
- SC 13G/A
SC 13G/A
Accession 0001062993-17-000590
- SC 13D/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (activist)
Accession 0000905148-17-000130
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001144204-17-004863
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001144204-17-004827
- 8-K
Submission of matters to a vote of security holders
Items 5.03, 5.07, 9.01 · Accession 0001144204-16-139366
- DEF 14A
Definitive proxy statement
Accession 0001144204-16-137340
- 8-K
Current report
Items 4.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001144204-16-134568
- PRE 14A
PRE 14A
Accession 0001144204-16-134287
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001144204-16-132608
- SC 13D
Beneficial ownership report (activist)
Accession 0000905148-16-001969
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001144204-16-128060
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement; Submission of matters to a vote of security holders; Other events
Items 1.01, 3.03, 5.01, 5.02, 5.03, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001144204-16-128037
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001144204-16-127902
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001144204-16-127901
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001144204-16-127900
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001144204-16-127899
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001144204-16-127898
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001144204-16-127897
- DEFA14A
Additional proxy soliciting material
Accession 0001144204-16-125588
Axar Acquisition Corp.: questions answered
What is Axar Acquisition Corp.?
Axar Acquisition Corp. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001615892. It completed its initial public offering in Oct 2014, raising $235.2M in gross proceeds. The vehicle is sponsored by Axar through AR Capital, LLC. The mandate targets generalist. Deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
How much does Axar Acquisition Corp. hold in trust?
Approximately $251,000, or about $10.13 per public share, as at the most recent filing on record. Trust balances move: shareholders redeem at extension votes and at the combination vote, and sponsors pay contributions in to extend. Treat the figure as a point-in-time disclosure, not a running balance.
When must Axar Acquisition Corp. complete a merger?
No combination deadline appears in the filings we have indexed. The date is stated in the charter and repeated in each quarterly report; where our parser could not establish it with confidence we leave it blank rather than infer one.
What happens if Axar Acquisition Corp. does not find a target in time?
The charter requires the vehicle to redeem 100% of the public shares and return the trust, pro rata, to public shareholders. That is the mechanism working as designed rather than a default. Founder shares and warrants are worthless in that outcome, which is why the sponsor's incentive is to get a deal done or to buy more time. Across the market, deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
Can I redeem shares in Axar Acquisition Corp., and at what price?
Public shareholders may elect to redeem in connection with a combination vote and at each extension vote, at the pro-rata trust value on the relevant record date, most recently disclosed at about $10.13 per share. Redemption is a right attached to the public shares only; warrants and rights carry no claim on the trust. The mechanics and the deadline for electing are set out in the proxy statement for the vote in question.
Is the trust value the same as the share price for Axar Acquisition Corp.?
No. Trust per share is a disclosed, contractual figure: what a redeeming holder receives. The market price is whatever the shares change hands at, which can sit above the trust when a deal is well received or below it when the market doubts one will close. We do not have a current quote for this vehicle, so no spread is shown.
How much dilution do Axar Acquisition Corp.'s founder shares and warrants create?
The founder block is 900,000 shares against 1,893,915 public shares, so roughly 32.2% of the combined count sits with the sponsor at nominal cost. Both are disclosed in the prospectus and both survive into the combined company, which is why a de-SPAC at $10 is not economically the same as an IPO at $10.
Who sponsors Axar Acquisition Corp., and what is their track record?
AR Capital, LLC is the sponsor entity, part of the Axar franchise. This is the only vehicle we have attributed to that sponsor.
Which banks underwrote the Axar Acquisition Corp. IPO?
Citigroup, Ladenburg Thalmann. Syndicate membership and role are read from the prospectus cover and the underwriting section.
Is Axar Acquisition Corp. a good investment?
That is not a question this site answers. Axar Acquisition Corp. is covered here as reference data: what the company filed, when it filed it, and what the numbers in those filings say. The Edge, FOMO and Potential scores on this page are derived measures with a published formula, not ratings of investment merit: they describe the setup, and every component is shown so you can take them apart. We publish no price targets and no recommendations, and nothing here should be read as advice. The figures are a starting point for your own work, and each one carries the accession number of the filing it came from.
Where does this Axar Acquisition Corp. data come from?
Filings Axar Acquisition Corp. submitted to the SEC under CIK 0001615892: the registration statement and final prospectus for the structure, quarterly and annual reports for the trust, current reports and proxy statements for deals, votes and extensions. Trust economics are taken from the registrant's own XBRL tags rather than parsed from prose, which is why they are exact. Every filing in the history above is listed with its accession number, which identifies the document uniquely on EDGAR; Pro accounts open it directly from the row.
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Last reconciled Sep 4, 2026
Every figure on this page is read from documents the registrants filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, principally the IPO prospectus (Form 424B4), quarterly and annual reports, current reports and proxy statements, the registrant's own XBRL tags for trust economics. Nothing is sourced from press coverage, from the companies themselves, or from a third-party aggregator. Where a filing does not disclose something, the field is left blank rather than estimated.
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