Metropolitan Capital Advisors has dropped its lawsuit against Navios Maritime Holdings after the New York-listed owner announced it was terminating a controversial $50m loan deal.

The termination of the loan comes two weeks after the New York-based investment firm and its counsel Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman commenced a shareholder derivative lawsuit to block the deal, which had sought to bolster the finances of the Angeliki Frangou's bulker owner with a loan from its healthier tanker spinoff, Navios Maritime Acquisition.

LEADERS: Navios chief executive Angeliki Frangou.

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