0001140361-23-017428.txt : 20230410 0001140361-23-017428.hdr.sgml : 20230410 20230410090024 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001140361-23-017428 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 15-12G PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20230410 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20230410 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20230410 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: AgroFresh Solutions, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001592016 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: AGRICULTURE CHEMICALS [2870] IRS NUMBER: 464007249 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 15-12G SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-36316 FILM NUMBER: 23809786 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 100 S. INDEPENDENCE MALL WEST CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19106 BUSINESS PHONE: 215-592-3687 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 100 S. INDEPENDENCE MALL WEST CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19106 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Boulevard Acquisition Corp. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20131114 15-12G 1 brhc10051101_15-12g.htm 15-12G
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
FORM 15
 
CERTIFICATION AND NOTICE OF TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION UNDER
 
SECTION 12(g) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 OR SUSPENSION OF
 
DUTY TO FILE REPORTS UNDER SECTIONS 13 AND 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES
 
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934.
 
Commission File Number: 001-36316
 
AgroFresh Solutions, Inc.*
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
One Washington Square
510-530 Walnut Street, Suite 1350
Philadelphia, PA 19106
(267) 317-9139
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
 
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share
(Title of each class of securities covered by this Form)
 
(Titles of all other classes of securities for which a duty to file reports under Section 13(a) or 15(d) remains)
 
Please place an X in the box(es) to designate the appropriate rule provision(s) relied upon to terminate or suspend the duty to file reports:
  Rule 12g-4(a)(1)
☒
  Rule 12g-4(a)(2)
☐
  Rule 12h-3(b)(1)(i)
☒
  Rule 12h-3(b)(1)(ii)
☐
  Rule 15d-6
☐
  Rule 15d-22(b)
☐
 
Approximate number of holders of record as of the certification or notice date:          One (1)*          
 
* On March 31, 2023, AgroFresh Solutions, Inc. (the “Company”), Project Cloud Holdings, LLC (“Parent”) and Project Cloud Merger Sub, Inc. (“Merger Sub”) completed the transactions contemplated by that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of November 21, 2022 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Company, Parent and Merger Sub. Parent and Merger Sub are affiliates of investment funds managed by Paine Schwartz Partners, LLC (“Paine Schwartz”). Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, Merger Sub merged with and into the Company (the “Merger”), with the Company surviving the Merger as a subsidiary of Parent. Prior to the completion of the Merger, Paine Schwartz and its affiliates collectively owned approximately 39% of the voting power of the issued and outstanding shares of Company common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Company common stock”). As a result of the Merger, investment funds managed by Paine Schwartz became the indirect owners of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Company common stock that Paine Schwartz did not already own.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, AgroFresh Solutions, Inc. has caused this certification/notice to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned duly authorized person.
 
Date:
April 10, 2023 By: /s/ Thomas Ermi          
      Name: Thomas Ermi
      Title: Executive Vice President, Secretary and
        General Counsel