SAN DIEGO, Feb. 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Turtle Beach Corporation (NASDAQ: HEAR), a leading audio technology company, has successfully closed its previously announced underwritten public offering of 5,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $1.00 per share (the Offering) and its separate, concurrent, side-by-side private placement of 1,700,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $1.00 per share (the Private Placement). Turtle Beach will receive approximately $6.2 million in net proceeds from the Offering and the Private Placement.
Insiders purchased an aggregate of $3.15 million of common stock in the Offering and the Private Placement. SG VTB Holdings, LLC, Turtle Beach's largest stockholder; Ronald Doornink, Turtle Beach's Chairman of the Board; and Juergen Stark, Turtle Beach's Chief Executive Officer; purchased an aggregate of 1.45 million shares of common stock in the Offering, and SG VTB Holdings, LLC purchased an additional 1.7 million unregistered shares of common stock in the Private Placement.
Turtle Beach will use all net proceeds from the Offering and the Private Placement for working capital and general corporate purposes, including applying such proceeds against the outstanding principal balance of its working capital line of credit with Bank of America (the Line of Credit) as required by the terms of the amendments to the Company's credit documents entered into on February 1, 2016 which, among other things, provide that on or prior to February 5, 2016, Turtle Beach receive net proceeds of not less than $6.0 million of additional capital and apply such proceeds against the Line of Credit.
The securities sold in the Offering described above were offered by the Company pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and became effective on May 16, 2013.
Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. acted as the sole book-running manager, and Lake Street Capital Markets acted as co-manager for the Offering.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell these securities or a solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. Copies of the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus may be obtained from Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., 85 Broad Street, 26(th) Floor, New York, NY 10004, Attn: Syndicate Prospectus Department, by calling (212) 667-8563, by email to EquityProspectus@opco.com or by accessing the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
About Turtle Beach Corporation
Turtle Beach Corporation (http://corp.turtlebeach.com) designs innovative, market-leading audio products for the consumer, healthcare and commercial sectors. Under its award-winning Turtle Beach brand (www.turtlebeach.com), the Company has been the clear market share leader for the past five-plus years with its wide selection of acclaimed gaming headsets for use with Xbox One and PlayStation(R) 4, as well as personal computers and mobile/tablet devices. Under the HyperSound brand (www.hypersound.com), the Company markets pioneering directed audio solutions that have applications in hearing healthcare, digital signage and kiosks and consumer electronics. The Company's shares are traded on the NASDAQ Exchange under the symbol: HEAR.
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