UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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AVENTURA HOLDINGS, INC.
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(Name of Registrant As Specified In Its Charter)
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AVENTURA HOLDINGS, INC.
2650 BISCAYNE BOULEVARD
1ST FLOOR
MIAMI, FLORIDA 33137
NOTICE OF SHAREHOLDER ACTION BY WRITTEN CONSENT
TO ALL SHAREHOLDERS OF AVENTURA HOLDINGS, INC.:
The purpose of this letter is to inform you that holders of shares representing
a majority of our voting power have given our board of directors the authority
to withdraw our election to be regulated as a business development company under
the Investment Company Act of 1940 by filing Form N-54C with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. We would not file the Form N-54C before May 15, 2006, and
our board may elect not to file the Form N-54C.
WE ARE NOT ASKING YOU FOR A PROXY AND YOU ARE REQUESTED NOT TO SEND US A PROXY.
Because the written consent of holders of a majority of our voting power
satisfies all applicable shareholder voting requirements, we are not asking you
for a proxy; please do not send us one.
The accompanying information statement is for information purposes only. Please
read it carefully.
April 24, 2006
By Order of the Board of Directors
/s/CRAIG A. WALTZER
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Craig A. Waltzer, Chairman
AVENTURA HOLDINGS, INC.
2650 BISCAYNE BOULEVARD
1ST FLOOR
MIAMI, FLORIDA 33137
INFORMATION STATEMENT
APRIL 24, 2006
WE ARE NOT ASKING YOU FOR A PROXY AND
YOU ARE REQUESTED NOT TO SEND US A PROXY.
This information statement is being mailed on or about April 24, 2006, to the
shareholders of record of Aventura Holdings, Inc. at the close of business on
April 24, 2006. This information statement is being sent to you for information
purposes only. No action is requested or required on your part. This information
statement constitutes notice to our shareholders of corporate action by
shareholders without a meeting, as required by the Florida Law. Section
607.0704 of the Florida Revised Statutes (the "Florida Law") provides that the
written consent of the holders of the outstanding shares of common stock, having
not less than the minimum number of votes which would be necessary to authorize
or take such action at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon
were present and voted, may be substituted for such a meeting. In order to
eliminate the costs and management time involved in obtaining proxies and in
order to effect the Proposals as early as possible in order to accomplish the
purposes of the Company as hereafter described, the Board of Directors of the
Company voted to utilize, and did in fact obtain, the written consent of the
holder of a majority in interest of the common stock of the Company, approving
each of the Proposals.
Pursuant to Section 607.0704 of the Florida Revised Statutes, the Company is
required to provide prompt notice of the taking of the corporate action without
a meeting to the stockholders of record who have not consented in writing to
such action. This Information Statement is intended to provide such notice.
Under Florida Law, no dissenters' or appraisal rights are afforded to the
Company's stockholders as a result of the approval of the Proposals.
This information statement is being furnished to you to inform you that holders
of shares representing a majority of the voting power of shares of our common
stock have adopted, by written consent, resolutions authorizing us to terminate
our status as a business development company ("BDC") under the Investment
Company Act of 1940 by filing a Form N-54C with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "SEC").
We will bear the expenses relating to this information statement, including
expenses in connection with preparing and mailing this information statement and
all documents that now accompany or may in the future supplement it. We
contemplate that brokerage houses, custodians, nominees, and fiduciaries will
forward this information statement to the beneficial owners of our common stock
held of record by these persons and we will reimburse them for their reasonable
expenses incurred in this process.
Only one information statement is being delivered to multiple shareholders
sharing an address, unless we have received contrary instructions from one or
more of the shareholders. We will undertake to deliver promptly upon written or
oral request a separate copy of the information statement to a shareholder at a
shared address to which a single copy of the information statement was
delivered. You may make a written or oral request by sending a written
notification to our principal executive offices stating your name, your shared
address, and the address to which we should direct the additional copy of the
information statement or by calling our principal executive offices. If multiple
shareholders sharing an address have received one copy of this information
statement and would prefer us to mail each shareholder a separate copy of future
mailings, you may send notification to or call our principal executive offices.
Additionally, if current shareholders with a shared address received multiple
copies of this information statement and would prefer us to mail one copy of
future mailings to shareholders at the shared address, notification of that
request may also be made by mail or telephone call to our principal executive
offices.
VOTING SECURITIES
As of the close of business on April 24, 2006, the Company had 5,000,000,000
shares of common stock authorized, of which 2,944,657,813 shares were
outstanding. Each outstanding share of common stock is entitled to one vote per
share.
Section 58 of the Investment Company Act requires that we obtain the vote of a
majority of our outstanding voting securities before withdrawing our election to
be regulated as a BDC. Under Section 607.0704 of the Florida Revised Statutes
(the "Florida Law") and our organizational documents, we are entitled to obtain
that approval by written consent. We have obtained written consent approving our
ceasing to be a BDC from a shareholder holding approximately 68% of the voting
power of our common stock.
DISSENTERS' RIGHT OF APPRAISAL
Under Florida law our articles of incorporation and bylaws, no shareholder has
any right to dissent to our terminating our status as a BDC under the Investment
Company Act, and no shareholder is entitled to appraisal of or payment for their
shares of our stock.
REASONS FOR CEASING TO BE A BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
On March 15, 2005, the Company filed with the SEC a Form N-54 stating that we
were electing to be regulated as a BDC under the Investment Company Act.
Our status as a BDC would have allowed us to raise the additional capital
necessary to implement this as part of our business plan, in that business
development companies are permitted to issue in any 12-month period, without
registration under the Securities Act, shares with an aggregate offering price
of up to $5,000,000. With this in mind, on April 22, 2005 we filed a Form 1-E
under the Securities Act notifying the SEC of our intent to sell under this
exemption up to $5,000,000 of our common stock; on March 24, 2006, we filed Form
2-E with the SEC reporting share issuance activity under 1-E and the termination
of our offering.
In April and July, 2005, the SEC notified us that they considered the Company
not to be in compliance with various reporting and capital structure
requirements of the Investment Company Act. Furthermore SEC staff indicated and
current management agrees that the Company is not an appropriate candidate to be
a BDC.
Our board determined it would no longer be feasible to operate as a BDC and that
the appropriate course of action would be to withdraw our election to be
regulated as a BDC under the Investment Company Act of 1940 by filing a Form
N-54C with the SEC. By written consent, shareholders owning shares representing
a majority of our voting power authorized us to take this action.
EFFECT ON OUR SHAREHOLDERS
Our ceasing to be a BDC would result in our shareholders losing certain
protections, including the following:
- We would no longer be subject to the requirement that we maintain a ratio
of assets to senior securities (such as senior debt or preferred stock) of
at least 200%.
- We would no longer be prohibited from protecting any director or officer
against any liability to the Company or our shareholders arising from
willful malfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence, or reckless disregard of
the duties involved in the conduct of that person's office.
- We would no longer be required to provide and maintain a bond issued by a
reputable fidelity insurance company to protect us against larceny and
embezzlement.
- We would no longer be required to ensure that a majority of our directors
are persons who are not "interested persons," as that term is defined in
section 56 of the Investment Company Act, and certain persons that would be
prevented from serving on our board if were a BDC (such as investment
bankers) would be able to serve on our board.
- We would no longer be subject to provisions of the Investment Company Act
regulating transactions between BDCs and certain affiliates.
- We would no longer be subject to provisions of the Investment Company Act
restricting our ability to issue warrants and options.
- We would be able to change the nature of our business and fundamental
investment policies without having to obtain the approval of our
shareholders.
EFFECT ON OUR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND TAX STATUS
Our withdrawing our election to be regulated as a BDC would result in a
significant change in our method of accounting. BDC financial statement
presentation and accounting uses the value method of accounting used by
investment companies, which allows BDCs to recognize income and value their
investments at market value as opposed to historical cost. Operating companies
use either the fair-value or historical-cost methods of accounting for financial
statement presentation and accounting for securities held, depending on how the
investment is classified and how long the company intends to hold the
investment. Changing our method of accounting could reduce the market value of
our investments in privately held companies by eliminating our ability to report
an increase in value of our holdings as they occur. Also, as an operating
company, we would have to consolidate our financial statements with
subsidiaries, thus eliminating the portfolio company reporting benefits
available to BDCs.
We do not believe that withdrawing our election to be treated as a BDC would
have any impact on our federal income tax status, because we never elected to be
treated as a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of the Internal
Revenue Code. (Electing to be treated as a regulated investment company under
Subchapter M generally allows a qualified investment company to avoid paying
corporate level federal income tax on income it distributes to its
shareholders.) Instead, we have always been subject to corporate level federal
income tax on our income (without regard to any distributions it makes to its
shareholders) as a "regular" corporation under Subchapter C of the Code.
INTEREST OF CERTAIN PERSONS IN MATTERS TO BE ACTED UPON
Except in their capacity as shareholders, none of our officers, directors, or
any of their respective affiliates has any interest in our ceasing to be a BDC.
WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION
We are subject to the information and reporting requirements of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and in accordance with the Securities Exchange
Act, we file periodic reports, documents, and other information with the SEC
relating to our business, financial statements, and other matters. These reports
and other information may be inspected and are available for copying at the
offices of the SEC, 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20549. Our SEC
filings are also available to the public on the SEC's website at
http://www.sec.gov.
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As we have obtained the requisite shareholder vote for our ceasing to be a BDC,
WE ARE NOT ASKING YOU FOR A PROXY AND YOU ARE REQUESTED NOT TO SEND US A PROXY.
This information statement is for informational purposes only. Please read this
information statement carefully.