SPAC Overview
Timeline Progress
- Registration2006-05-12 Filed S1
- IPO2006-08-25 IPO, search begins
- Definitive Agreement2008-03-18 Agreement for merger
- Completed2008-08-15 Merger Completed
About
Marathon Acquisition Corp. is a blank-check company formed to acquire one or more currently unidentified operating businesses through a business combination. It has no particular industry focus and intends to seek growth opportunities in the United States and Western Europe.
Geographic Focus
United States, Western Europe
The terms and the filing trail behind Marathon Acquisition Corp.
What the sponsor registered, what the deal actually priced at, and every 8-K that moved it — unit structure, sponsor promote, and the dated lifecycle events, each linked to its filing.
- Unit structure as registered and as priced — price, warrant coverage, rights, trust per unit
- Sponsor promote: founder shares and percentage, private-placement warrants, trust deposit
- The full 8-K lifecycle timeline, each event linked to its filing
- Price history across the unit, share and warrant tickers
- Follow it, and see it change on your watchlist
SPAC Team
Leadership
Extended Team Information
The team is led by Michael S. Gross, an experienced private-equity, distressed-debt and mezzanine-lending investor, founder and former senior partner of Apollo Management and former chairman, CEO and founder of Apollo Investment Corporation. Its directors include Adam Aron, a former Vail Resorts and Norwegian Cruise Line executive; Irwin D. Simon, founder, president and CEO of The Hain Celestial Group; and Robert Sheft, an entrepreneur and former CEO of Simply Floored and RMA Home Services.