Chart Acquisition Corp.
Cash in trust
$29.8M
$29,769,639
Trust per share
$10.00
Redemption value
IPO
Dec 2012
$75.0M raised
Combination deadline
—
Not disclosed
Filings on record
200
Latest Feb 16, 2016
Business combination
- Target
- Not disclosed in an indexed filing
- Announced
- Jan 5, 2015
- Closed
- Aug 7, 2015
Overview
Chart Acquisition Corp. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Delaware and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001527349. It completed its initial public offering in Dec 2012, raising $75.0M in gross proceeds. The vehicle is sponsored by Chart through Chart Acquisition Group LLC. The mandate targets business services. Business combination closed; the company trades under a new ticker.
“we intend to focus on identifying business combination candidates in the provision and/or outsourcing of government services industry, we will consider a business combination outside of the provision and/or outsourcing of government services industry if a business combination candidate is presented to us and we determine that such candidate offers an attractive investment opportunity for our compa”
Reading the filings
Arithmetic on what Chart 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 $10.00 per public share, effectively the $10.00 the units were sold at, so little or no interest has accrued to the account yet.
Extension history
Shareholders have already approved 5 extensions. Each one opened a redemption window, so the public float and the trust are almost certainly smaller than at IPO, and each typically came with a sponsor contribution that lifts trust per share. A vehicle on its second or third extension is one where the sponsor is paying to keep the search alive.
Sponsor promote
The sponsor's founder block is 281,250 shares against 1,619,054 public shares, or 14.8% 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
Deutsche Bank led the offering. It has been named on 83 SPAC IPOs, book-running 19 of them, and 65.4% 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.
Filings per month since the first one. A vehicle that has gone quiet with a deadline ahead is a different proposition from one that is still working.
200 filings in all. 4 in the last three months, against a busiest month of 26.
News on Chart Acquisition Corp.
Last 90 daysNothing in the last 90 days that names this vehicle. We attribute a story only when the release carries the ticker or the registered name, so an empty section means no press release or wire story matched — not that nothing was published. The filings below are the primary record either way.
SEC filing history
Free tier: filings older than 24 hours- SC 13G/A
SC 13G/A
Accession 0001062993-16-007904
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0000948046-16-000114
- SC 13G/A
SC 13G/A
Accession 0001193125-16-447088
- SC 13G/A
SC 13G/A
Accession 0001193125-16-447066
- 15-12B
Deregistration of securities
Accession 0001213900-15-005819
- 8-K
Submission of matters to a vote of security holders; Other events
Items 5.07, 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001213900-15-005633
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001140361-15-029366
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001011438-15-000227
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001140361-15-029086
- DEFM14A
Definitive merger proxy statement
Accession 0001213900-15-005283
- UPLOAD
SEC staff comment letter
Accession 0000000000-15-036052
- UPLOAD
SEC staff comment letter
Accession 0000000000-15-033649
- 8-K
Other events
Items 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001213900-15-004616
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001213900-15-004617
- SC TO-T/A
AMENDMENT NO.3 TO FORM SC TO-T
Accession 0001213900-15-004611
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001209191-15-054879
- SC TO-T/A
AMENDMENT TO FORM SC TO-T
Accession 0001213900-15-004506
- UPLOAD
SEC staff comment letter
Accession 0000000000-15-031572
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement; Submission of matters to a vote of security holders; Other events
Items 1.01, 5.03, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001213900-15-004447
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001213900-15-004448
- SC TO-T/A
AMENDMENT TO FORM SC TO-T
Accession 0001213900-15-004409
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement
Items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01 · Accession 0001213900-15-004373
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001213900-15-004374
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001085146-15-001369
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement
Items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01 · Accession 0001213900-15-004256
- DEF 14A
Definitive proxy statement
Accession 0001213900-15-004153
- SC 14D9
SOLICITATION/RECOMMENDATION STATEMENT
Accession 0001213900-15-004119
- 3/A
FORM 3/A SUBMISSION
Accession 0001209191-15-044776
- 3/A
FORM 3/A SUBMISSION
Accession 0001209191-15-044775
- SC TO-T
SC TO-T filing
Accession 0001213900-15-003718
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Chart Acquisition Corp.: questions answered
What is Chart Acquisition Corp.?
Chart Acquisition Corp. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Delaware and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001527349. It completed its initial public offering in Dec 2012, raising $75.0M in gross proceeds. The vehicle is sponsored by Chart through Chart Acquisition Group LLC. The mandate targets business services. Business combination closed; the company trades under a new ticker.
How much does Chart Acquisition Corp. hold in trust?
Approximately $29,769,639, or about $10.00 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 Chart 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 Chart 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 Chart 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 $10.00 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 Chart 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 Chart Acquisition Corp.'s founder shares and warrants create?
The founder block is 281,250 shares against 1,619,054 public shares, so roughly 14.8% 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 Chart Acquisition Corp., and what is their track record?
Chart Acquisition Group LLC is the sponsor entity, part of the Chart franchise. This is the only vehicle we have attributed to that sponsor.
Which banks underwrote the Chart Acquisition Corp. IPO?
Deutsche Bank, Cowen, Mitsubishi UFJ. Syndicate membership and role are read from the prospectus cover and the underwriting section.
Is Chart Acquisition Corp. a good investment?
That is not a question this site answers. Chart 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 Chart Acquisition Corp. data come from?
Filings Chart Acquisition Corp. submitted to the SEC under CIK 0001527349: 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 Oct 19, 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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