Harvest One Announces Closing of $25 Million Financing Related to Acquisition of ACMPR Licensed Medical Cannabis Producer and Swiss Medical Cannabis-Based Health Products Company
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – Feb. 22, 2017) –
Harvest One Capital Inc. (NEX:WON.H) (“Harvest One” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced private placement (the “Offering”), disclosed in news releases of the Company dated January 17, 2017, and January 27, 2017, through a syndicate of agents led by Mackie Research Capital Corporation (the “Lead Agent”) and including Canaccord Genuity Corp., Eight Capital and GMP Securities L.P. (the “Agents”). Pursuant to the Offering, the Company issued 33,334,000 subscription receipts (the “Subscription Receipts”) at a price of $0.75 per Subscription Receipt (the “Purchase Price”), including 4,000,000 Subscription Receipts issued pursuant to the full exercise of the Agents’ Option (as defined herein), for aggregate gross proceeds of $25,000,500. The Offering was completed in connection with the previously announced acquisition by the Company from MMJ PhytoTech Limited (“MMJ”) of 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of United Greeneries Holdings Ltd. and Satipharm AG, both wholly owned subsidiaries of MMJ (the “Acquisition”).
Pursuant to an agency agreement dated February 22, 2017, among the Agents, MMJ and the Company (the “Agency Agreement”), the Agents agreed to act as exclusive agents to the Company to arrange for the sale of up to 29,334,000 Subscription Receipts for aggregate gross proceeds of up to $22,000,500 on a “best efforts” private placement basis. The Agency Agreement also provided the Agents with an option to purchase up to an additional 4,000,000 Subscription Receipts for additional gross proceeds of $3,000,000 (the “Agents’ Option”). The Agents exercised the Agents’ Option in full, resulting in the sale of 33,334,000 Subscription Receipts for aggregate gross proceeds of $25,000,500 under the Offering.
The gross proceeds of the Offering less (i) 50% of the Agents’ Fee (as defined herein), and (ii) the reasonable fees and disbursements of the Agents’ legal counsel and other reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of the Agents, including applicable taxes (the “Escrowed Funds”) have been delivered into escrow on behalf of the purchasers of Subscription Receipts, to be held by a third party subscription receipt agent (the “Subscription Receipt Agent”) from the date hereof until the date on which the Escrow Release Conditions (as defined herein) are satisfied (the “Escrow Release Date”) pursuant to a subscription receipt agreement dated February 22, 2017 among Computershare Trust Company of Canada, the Company, the Lead Agent and MMJ (the “Subscription Receipt Agreement”).
Pursuant to the Subscription Receipt Agreement, each Subscription Receipt shall be automatically exchanged, without any further action by the holder thereof and for no additional consideration, for one unit (a “Unit”) of the Company, upon the satisfaction of the Escrow Release Conditions. Each Unit shall consist of one common share in the capital of the Company (a “Unit Share”) and one-half of one common share purchase warrant (each whole warrant, a “Warrant”). Each Warrant entitles the holder thereof to acquire one common share (a “Warrant Share”, and together with the Units, Unit Shares, and Warrants, the “Underlying Securities”) for an exercise price of $1.00 per Warrant Share for a period of 36 months from the issuance of such Warrant.
For their services in connection with the Offering, the Agents received a cash commission (the “Agents’ Fee”), paid out of the gross proceeds of the Offering, equal to 6.0% of the aggregate gross proceeds of the Offering, including the Agents’ Option, 50% of which was paid to the Agents on closing. The balance of the Agents’ Fee has been deposited into escrow with the Subscription Receipt Agent and shall be payable by the Company to the Agents upon the satisfaction of the Escrow Release Conditions. Additionally, the Agents will be granted compensation options that will entitle the Agents to acquire that number of Units equal to 6.0% of the number of Subscription Receipt issued pursuant to the Offering, including the Agents’ Option, at an exercise price of $0.75 per Unit at any time on or prior to the date that is 36 months from the Escrow Release Date.
The following are conditions precedent (the “Escrow Release Conditions”) to the conversion of the Subscription Receipts: (i) receipt of all necessary regulatory and shareholder approvals for Acquisition including approval of the TSX Venture Exchange (“TSXV”); (ii) the consolidation of the common shares of the Company on the basis of 1 new share for each 1.79 common shares outstanding having been made effective (the “Consolidation”); (iii) United Greeneries Holdings Ltd. having entered into a formal lease agreement in respect of certain aboriginal lands adjacent to its Duncan facility, on terms satisfactory to the Lead Agent acting reasonably; (iv) the distribution of the Underlying Securities being exempt from applicable prospectus and registration requirements of applicable securities laws; (v) subject to the restrictions applicable to a control distributions and applicable TSXV rules and policies, the Underlying Securities issuable upon conversion of the Subscription Receipts will not be subject to any restrictions on trading pursuant to applicable Canadian securities laws; and (vi) receipt of notice by the Subscription Receipt Agent from the Corporation, MMJ and the Lead Agent, confirming that all conditions to the Acquisition have been satisfied, other than release of the Escrowed Funds, and that the Acquisition shall be completed forthwith upon release of the Escrowed Funds.
If the Escrow Release Conditions are not satisfied on or before 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on the date which is one hundred twenty (120) days following the date hereof (the “Escrow Deadline”) or if the Company, before the Escrow Deadline, has provided notice to the Lead Agent that the Escrow Release Conditions will not be satisfied, the Subscription Receipts will immediately become null, void and of no further force or effect and, within the timeframe set forth in the Subscription Receipt Agreement, the Escrowed Funds will be returned to the holders of Subscription Receipts in an amount per Subscription Receipt equal to: (i) the Purchase Price; and (ii) a pro rata share of income (including interest or gains), if any, actually received by the Subscription Receipt Agent on the Escrowed Funds to the date such funds are returned to or on behalf of holders of Subscription Receipts. To ensure that each holder of Subscription Receipts receives an amount equal to the aggregate Purchase Price for such Subscription Receipts plus its pro rata share of income, if any, actually received by the Subscription Receipt Agent on the Escrowed Funds, MMJ shall contribute such amounts as are necessary to satisfy any shortfall and such funds shall be delivered to the holders of Subscription Receipts on a pro rata basis within the timeframe set forth in the Subscription Receipt Agreement.
The Acquisition is subject to a number of conditions precedent, including TSXV approval, and is anticipated to close by March 31, 2017.
The Company will use the net proceeds of the Offering to complete the Acquisition, and for general working capital purposes.
The Underlying Securities issuable upon conversion of the Subscription Receipts will be issued in reliance upon the business combination and reorganization exemption in section 2.11 of National Instrument 45-106 of the Canadian Securities Administrators. As a result, subject to restrictions relating to control distributions and applicable TSXV approvals, the Underlying Securities are expected to be freely tradable in Canada immediately upon closing of the Acquisition and satisfaction of the Escrow Release Conditions.
Unless otherwise expressed, all references herein to securities issuable in the Offering and corresponding subscription prices are made on a post-Consolidation basis.
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