ROI Acquisition to Amend Business Combination Agreement and Plan of Merger

ROI Acquisition Corp. ROIQ ROIQW ROIQU (ROI) announced today that it intends to enter into an Amendment (the "Amendment") to the Business Combination Agreement and Plan of Merger (the "Merger Agreement"), dated as of January 31, 2013, by and among ROI, ROI Merger Sub Corp., ROI Merger Sub LLC and EveryWare Global, Inc. The Amendment will provide for certain changes to the closing conditions contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement and Plan of Merger such as (i) the removal of a condition that the shares of common stock to be issued by ROI pursuant to the Merger Agreement shall have been approved for listing on the NASDAQ Capital Market and (ii) the addition of a condition to closing that the holders of at least 65% of the outstanding public warrants approve an amendment (in addition to the amendments proposed in ROI's definitive proxy statement dated April 29, 2013) to ROI's Warrant Agreement to (a) reduce by 50% the number of shares of ROI's common stock for which all outstanding warrants (including all warrants held by ROI's sponsor) are exercisable (from one share to one-half share), with the warrant price being See full press release