Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation Announces Successful Completion of Warrant Program

PIRAEUS, Greece, Sept 02, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/

Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation ("Navios Acquisition") (NYSE: NNA, NNA.WS, NNA.U) is pleased to announce the successful completion of its warrant program (the "Warrant Program"). Under the Warrant Program, holders of publicly traded warrants ("Public Warrants") had the opportunity to exercise the Public Warrants on enhanced terms through Friday, August 27, 2010.

Under the Warrant Program, 19,262,006 Public Warrants (76.13% of the Public Warrants outstanding) were exercised, of which 19,246,056 Public Warrants were exercised cashlessly and 15,950 Public Warrants were exercised by payment of the $5.65 cash exercise price.

As a result of the successful completion of the Warrant Program, Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. ("Navios Holdings") and Angeliki Frangou exercised 13,835,000 of the privately issued warrants (the "Private Warrants"). In addition, the remaining 90,000 Private Warrants have also been exercised, 75,000 of which were exercised on a cashless basis.

As a result, the following corporate actions were completed:

• $90,118 of gross cash proceeds were raised from the exercise of the Public Warrants;

• $78,252,500 of gross cash proceeds were raised from the exercise of the Private Warrants; and

• 18,412,053 new shares of common stock were issued.

As of September 1, 2010, Navios Acquisition had outstanding 40,015,654 shares of common stock and 6,037,994 Public Warrants. No other warrants are outstanding, as all Private Warrants have been exercised.

About Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation

Navios Acquisition is an owner and operator of tanker vessels focusing in the transportation of petroleum products (clean and dirty) and bulk liquid chemicals. For more information about Navios Acquisition, please visit our website: http://www.navios-acquisition.com.

Source: Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation