CUSIP No. Y8162K121
1.	Names of Reporting Persons. Monarch Alternative Capital LP
2.	Check the Appropriate Box if a Member of a Group (See Instructions) (a)   ☐ (b)   ý
3.	SEC Use Only
4.	Source of Funds (See Instructions) N/A
5.	Check if Disclosure of Legal Proceedings Is Required Pursuant to Items 2(d) or 2(e)   
6.	Citizenship or Place of Organization Delaware
NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON WITH		7.	Sole Voting Power 0
		8.	Shared Voting Power 11,486,004
		9.	Sole Dispositive Power 0
		10.	Shared Dispositive Power 11,486,004
11.	Aggregate Amount Beneficially Owned by Each Reporting Person 11,486,004
12.	Check if the Aggregate Amount in Row (11) Excludes Certain Shares (See Instructions)     ☐
13.	Percent of Class Represented by Amount in Row (11) 5.25%
14.	Type of Reporting Person (See Instructions) PN

CUSIP No. Y8162K121
1.	Names of Reporting Persons. MDRA GP LP
2.	Check the Appropriate Box if a Member of a Group (See Instructions) (a)   ☐ (b)   ý
3.	SEC Use Only
4.	Source of Funds (See Instructions) N/A
5.	Check if Disclosure of Legal Proceedings Is Required Pursuant to Items 2(d) or 2(e)   
6.	Citizenship or Place of Organization Delaware
NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON WITH		7.	Sole Voting Power 0
		8.	Shared Voting Power 11,486,004
		9.	Sole Dispositive Power 0
		10.	Shared Dispositive Power 11,486,004
11.	Aggregate Amount Beneficially Owned by Each Reporting Person 11,486,004
12.	Check if the Aggregate Amount in Row (11) Excludes Certain Shares (See Instructions)     ☐
13.	Percent of Class Represented by Amount in Row (11) 5.25%
14.	Type of Reporting Person (See Instructions) PN

CUSIP No. Y8162K121
1.	Names of Reporting Persons. Monarch GP LLC
2.	Check the Appropriate Box if a Member of a Group (See Instructions) (a)    (b)   ý
3.	SEC Use Only
4.	Source of Funds (See Instructions) N/A
5.	Check if Disclosure of Legal Proceedings Is Required Pursuant to Items 2(d) or 2(e)   
6.	Citizenship or Place of Organization Delaware
NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON WITH		7.	Sole Voting Power 0
		8.	Shared Voting Power 11,486,004
		9.	Sole Dispositive Power 0
		10.	Shared Dispositive Power 11,486,004
11.	Aggregate Amount Beneficially Owned by Each Reporting Person 11,486,004
12.	Check if the Aggregate Amount in Row (11) Excludes Certain Shares (See Instructions)   
13.	Percent of Class Represented by Amount in Row (11) 5.25%
14.	Type of Reporting Person (See Instructions) OO

 

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This Amendment No. 4 to Schedule 13D, dated May 20, 2015 (this “Amendment No. 4”) amends the Schedule 13D originally filed on August 5, 2013 (the “Original 13D”) by Monarch Alternative Capital LP (“MAC”), Monarch Debt Recovery Master Fund Ltd (“MDRMF”), MDRA GP LP (“MDRA GP”) and Monarch GP LLC (“GP LLC” and together with MAC, MDRMF, and MDRA GP, the “Original Monarch Filers”), as amended by Amendment No. 1, dated October 9, 2013, Amendment No. 2, dated June 17, 2014 and Amendment No. 3, dated January 16, 2015.  This Amendment No. 4 is being filed on behalf of the Original Monarch Filers.  This Amendment No. 4 relates to the common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), of Star Bulk Carriers Corp., a Marshall Islands corporation (the “Company”).   MAC is the investment advisor to a variety of funds (any such funds, as applicable, collectively the “Monarch Funds”).  The  Original Monarch Filers are filing this Amendment No. 4 to report the change in their beneficial ownership of Common Stock due to an increase in the number of Common Stock outstanding and a recent purchase of Common Stock in a registered public offering.

Item 3.   Source and Amount of Funds or Other Consideration

Item 3 is hereby amended and supplemented as follows:

On May 18, 2015, the Monarch Funds collectively expended an aggregate of $6,000,000 of their own investment capital in a registered public offering by the Company in which the applicable Monarch Funds purchased 1,875,000 shares of Common Stock.

Item 5.   Interest in Securities of the Issuer

Item 5 is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:

(a)   Each of MAC, MDRA GP, and GP LLC indirectly beneficially own 11,486,004 shares of Common Stock. Such shares represent 5.25% of the 218,934,541 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of May 18, 2015. The percentages used herein and in the rest of this Amendment No. 4 are calculated based upon a number of outstanding shares consisting of 218,934,541  shares of Common Stock as reported in the Company’s prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(5) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 15, 2015.  None of the individual Monarch Funds owns a number of shares of Common Stock representing more than 5% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock.

 (b)   MAC, MDRA GP and GP LLC share voting and dispositive power over the 11,486,004 shares of Common Stock held directly by the Monarch Funds with each Monarch Fund directly holding such shares.

 (c)   Not applicable.

 (d)   Not applicable.

(e)     Not applicable.

Item 6.   Contracts, Arrangements, Understandings or Relationships With Respect to Securities of the Issuer

Item 6 is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph at the end thereof:

In connection with the registered public offering of the Company described in Item 3 above, Monarch Alternative Solutions Master Fund Ltd, MCP Holdings Master LP (Series III-A), ¹ Monarch Capital Master Partners III LP, Monarch Debt Recovery Master Fund Ltd, Monarch Opportunities Master Fund Ltd  and P Monarch Recovery Ltd. entered into a customary lock-up agreement (the “Lock-Up Agreement”) with the representatives of the underwriters in such offering, restricting certain dispositions of shares of Common Stock for a duration of 60 days from the date of that certain placement agency agreement, dated May 13, 2015, subject to certain exceptions, including, but not limited to, transfers to certain affiliates and being permitted to pledge their shares of Common Stock as collateral or security for foreign exchange swaps and custody agreements and to make transfers of pledged shares of Common Stock as a result of foreclosure thereupon.

 

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The foregoing summary of the Lock-Up Agreement does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the full text of the form of Lock-Up Agreement, appended to that certain placement agency agreement, which was filed as an Exhibit 1.1 to Form 6-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by the Company on May 19, 2015 and is incorporated herein by reference.

MAC, MDRA GP and GP LLC have entered into an agreement (the “Joint Filing Agreement”) with respect to the joint filing of this statement and any amendment or amendments hereto, pursuant to Rule 13d-1(k)(1) promulgated under the Exchange Act.

The description of the Joint Filing Agreement contained in this Amendment No. 4 is qualified in its entirety by reference to Exhibit 99.4 hereto.

Item 7.   Material to be Filed as Exhibits.

99.4	Joint Filing Agreement, dated as of May 20, 2015, by and among Monarch Alternative Capital LP, MDRA GP LP and Monarch GP LLC.

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SIGNATURES

After reasonable inquiry and to the best of each of the undersigned’s knowledge and belief, each of the undersigned, severally and not jointly, certifies that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

Dated:  May 20, 2015

 

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Monarch GP LLC