UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
FORM
6-K
REPORT
OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO
RULE
13A-16 OR 15D-16 UNDER THE SECURITIES
EXCHANGE
ACT OF 1934
For the
month of January 2010
Commission
File Number: 001-33179
AEGEAN
MARINE PETROLEUM NETWORK INC.
(Translation
of registrant’s name into English)
42
Hatzikyriakou Avenue
Piraeus,
Athens 185 38
Greece
(Address
of principal executive offices)
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under
cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
Form 20-F
[ X ] Form 40-F [
]
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by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted
by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1): ________.
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furnish a report or other document that the registrant foreign private issuer
must furnish and make public under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the
registrant is incorporated, domiciled or legally organized (the registrant’s
“home country”), or under the rules of the home country exchange on which the
registrant’s securities are traded, as long as the report or other document is
not a press release, is not required to be and has not been distributed to the
registrant’s security holders, and, if discussing a material event, has already
been the subject of a Form 6-K submission or other Commission filing on
EDGAR.
INFORMATION
CONTAINED IN THIS FORM 6-K REPORT
Attached
as Exhibit 1 is a copy of the press release of Aegean Marine Petroleum Network
Inc. (the “Company”), dated January 19, 2010, announcing an underwritten public
offering of 3,906,000 common shares.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has
duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized.
AEGEAN
MARINE PETROLEUM NETWORK INC.
(registrant)
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Dated: January
19, 2010
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By: /s/ E. Nikolas Tavlarios
E. Nikolas
Tavlarios
|
|
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Name:
E. Nikolas Tavlarios
Title: President
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Exhibit
1
Investor
Relations:
Leon
Berman, Principal
The IGB
Group
(212)
477-8438
Aegean
Marine Petroleum Network Inc. Announces Proposed Public
Offering
of Common Stock
PIRAEUS,
Greece, January 19, 2010 – Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. (NYSE: ANW) (the
“Company”), an international marine fuel logistics company that markets and
physically supplies refined marine fuel and lubricants to ships in port and at
sea, today announced that it intends to offer, subject to market and other
conditions, 3,906,000 shares of its common stock in an underwritten public
offering under an effective shelf registration statement on file with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Goldman, Sachs & Co. and
Jefferies & Company, Inc. will serve as joint book-running managers and
BB&T Capital Markets, Dahlman Rose & Company, Clarkson Johnson Rice,
Lazard Capital Markets, and Stephens Inc. will serve as co-managers for the
offering. The underwriters will have a 30-day option to purchase up
to an additional 585,900 shares of common stock offered by the
Company.
The
Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to fund certain
corporate acquisitions and for general corporate purposes.
This
press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of any
offer to buy the common stock, nor shall there be any such offer or solicitation
or any sale of the common stock in any jurisdiction in which such offer,
solicitation or sale would be unlawful. The proposed offering will be made only
by means of a prospectus and related prospectus supplement, which, when
available, may be obtained by visiting the Securities and Exchange Commission’s
website at www.sec.gov or by contacting Goldman, Sachs & Co. (Attention:
Prospectus Department), 85 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004; telephone:
(212) 902-1171; facsimile: (917) 343-8000; email: prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com)
or Jefferies & Company, Inc. (Attention: Stephen M Ficara), 520 Madison
Avenue, 12th Floor, Syndicate Middle Office, New York, NY 10022;
telephone: (212) 284-3418; email: Sficara@Jefferies.com.
About
Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc.
Aegean
Marine Petroleum Network Inc. is an international marine fuel logistics company
that markets and physically supplies refined marine fuel and lubricants to ships
in port and at sea. The Company procures product from various sources (such as
refineries, oil producers, and traders) and resells it to a diverse group of
customers across all major commercial shipping sectors and leading cruise lines.
Currently, Aegean has a global presence in 14 markets, including Vancouver,
Montreal, Mexico, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, West Africa, Gibraltar, U.K.,
Northern Europe, Piraeus, Patras, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and
Morocco.
Cautionary
Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Matters
discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements. The
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides safe harbor
protections for forward-looking statements in order to encourage companies to
provide prospective information about their business. Forward-looking statements
include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future
events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements, which
are other than statements of historical facts.
The
Company desires to take advantage of the safe harbor provisions of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is including this cautionary
statement in connection with this safe harbor legislation. The words "believe,"
"intend," "anticipate," "estimate," "project," "forecast," "plan," "potential,"
"may," "should," "expect" and similar expressions identify forward-looking
statements. The forward-looking statements in this press release are based upon
various assumptions, many of which are based, in turn, upon further assumptions,
including without limitation, our management's examination of historical
operating trends, data contained in our records and other data available from
third parties. Although we believe that these assumptions were reasonable when
made, because these assumptions are inherently subject to significant
uncertainties and contingencies which are difficult or impossible to predict and
are beyond our control, we cannot assure you that we will achieve or accomplish
these expectations, beliefs or projections. We undertake no
obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise.
In
addition to these important factors, other important factors that, in our view,
could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the
forward-looking statements include our ability to manage growth, our ability to
maintain our business in light of our proposed business and location expansion,
our ability to obtain double hull secondhand bunkering tankers, the outcome of
legal, tax or regulatory proceedings to which we may become a party, adverse
conditions in the shipping or the marine fuel supply industries, our ability to
retain our key suppliers and key customers, material disruptions in the
availability or supply of crude oil or refined petroleum products, changes in
the market price of petroleum, including the volatility of spot pricing,
increased levels of competition, compliance or lack of compliance with various
environmental and other applicable laws and regulations, our ability to collect
accounts receivable, changes in the political, economic or regulatory conditions
in the markets in which we operate, and the world in general, our failure to
hedge certain financial risks associated with our business, our ability to
maintain our current tax treatments and our failure to comply with restrictions
in our credit agreements and other factors. Please see our filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission for a more complete discussion of these and
other risks and uncertainties.
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