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MACRO METALS LIMITED Capital/Financing Update 2019

May 29, 2019

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KOGI IRON LIMITED ACN 001 894 033

ENTITLEMENT ISSUE PROSPECTUS

For a non-renounceable entitlement issue of one (1) New Option for every five (5) Shares held by those Shareholders registered at the Record Date at an issue price of $0.01 per Option to raise up to $1,323,289 ( Offer ).

The Offer is fully underwritten by Patersons Securities Limited ( Underwriter ). Refer to section 8.4.1 for details regarding the terms of the Underwriting Agreement.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

This document is important and should be read in its entirety. If after reading this Prospectus you have any questions about the securities being offered under this Prospectus or any other matter, then you should consult your stockbroker, accountant or other professional adviser.

The Options offered by this Prospectus should be considered as speculative.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. CORPORATE DIRECTORY .............................................................................................. 1
2. TIMETABLE ..................................................................................................................... 2
3. IMPORTANT NOTES ....................................................................................................... 3
4. DETAILS OF THE OFFER .................................................................................................. 5
5. PURPOSE AND EFFECT OF THE OFFER ......................................................................... 11
6. RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES ATTACHING TO SECURITIES ................................................. 14
7. RISK FACTORS ............................................................................................................ 19
8. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ...................................................................................... 25
9. DIRECTORS’ AUTHORISATION .................................................................................... 37
10. GLOSSARY .................................................................................................................. 38

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1. CORPORATE DIRECTORY

Directors

Registered Office

Don Carroll (Non Executive Chairman) Martin Wood (Managing Director) Greg Boulton AM (Non Executive Director) David Turvey (Non Executive Director) Peter Huljich (Non Executive Director)

Suite 23 4 Ventnor Avenue West Perth WA 6005

Telephone: +61 8 9200 3456 Facsimile: +61 8 9200 3455

Company Secretary

Kevin Hart

Email: [email protected] Website: www.kogiiron.com

Share Registry*

Solicitors

Link Market Services Limited Level 12, QV1 Building 250 St Georges Terrace Perth WA 6000 Telephone: +61 1300 554 474 Facsimile: +61 2 9287 0303

Steinepreis Paganin Lawyers and Consultants Level 4, The Read Buildings 16 Milligan Street Perth WA 6000

Auditor*

Underwriter and Lead Manager

BDO Audit (WA) Pty Ltd 38 Station Street Subiaco WA 6008

Patersons Securities Limited Level 23, Exchange Tower 2 The Esplanade Perth WA 6000

*This entity is included for information purposes only. It has not been involved in the preparation of this Prospectus and has not consented to being named in this Prospectus.

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2. TIMETABLE

Trading Halt 27 May 2019
Rights issue announced 29 May 2019
Lodgement of Prospectus with the ASIC 29 May 2019
Lodgement of Prospectus & Appendix 3B with ASX 30 May 2019
(pre-open)
Notice sent to Shareholders 31 May 2019
Ex date 3 June 2019
Record Date for determining Entitlements 5:00pm (WST) 4 June 2019
Prospectus despatched to Shareholders & Company 7 June 2019
announces despatch has been completed
Closing Date* 24 June 2019
New Options quoted on a deferred settlement basis 25 June 2019
ASX notified of under subscriptions 27 June 2019
New Options issued 28 June 2019
Trading of New Options commences 1 July 2019
  • The Directors may extend the Closing Date by giving at least 3 Business Days’ notice to ASX prior to the Closing Date. As such the date the New Options are expected to commence trading on ASX may vary.

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3. IMPORTANT NOTES

Shareholders should read this document in its entirety and, if in doubt, should consult their professional advisors.

This Prospectus is dated 29 May 2019 and was lodged with the ASIC on that date. The ASIC and its officers take no responsibility for the contents of this Prospectus or the merits of the investment to which this Prospectus relates.

No New Options may be issued on the basis of this Prospectus later than 13 months after the date of this Prospectus.

No person is authorised to give information or to make any representation in connection with this Prospectus, which is not contained in the Prospectus. Any information or representation not so contained may not be relied on as having been authorised by the Company in connection with this Prospectus.

It is important that investors read this Prospectus in its entirety and seek professional advice where necessary. The New Options the subject of this Prospectus should be considered highly speculative.

Applications for New Options offered pursuant to this Prospectus can only be submitted on an original Entitlement and Acceptance Form.

This Prospectus is a transaction specific prospectus for an offer of continuously quoted securities (as defined in the Corporations Act) and has been prepared in accordance with section 713 of the Corporations Act. It does not contain the same level of disclosure as an initial public offering prospectus. In making representations in this Prospectus regard has been had to the fact that the Company is a disclosing entity for the purposes of the Corporations Act and certain matters may reasonably be expected to be known to investors and professional advisers whom potential investors may consult.

3.1

Risk factors

Potential investors should be aware that subscribing for New Options in the Company involves a number of risks. The key risk factors of which investors should be aware are set out in section 7 of this Prospectus. These risks together with other general risks applicable to all investments in listed securities not specifically referred to, may affect the value of the New Options in the future. Accordingly, an investment in the Company should be considered highly speculative. Investors should consider consulting their professional advisers before deciding whether to apply for Options pursuant to this Prospectus.

3.2

Forward-looking statements

This Prospectus contains forward-looking statements which are identified by words such as ‘may’, ‘could’, ‘believes’, ‘estimates’, ‘targets’, ‘expects’, or ‘intends’ and other similar words that involve risks and uncertainties.

These statements are based on an assessment of present economic and operating conditions, and on a number of assumptions regarding future events and actions that, as at the date of this Prospectus, are expected to take place.

Such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, many of which are beyond the control of our Company, the Directors and our management.

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The Directors cannot and do not give any assurance that the results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in this Prospectus will actually occur and investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.

The Directors have no intention to update or revise forward-looking statements, or to publish prospective financial information in the future, regardless of whether new information, future events or any other factors affect the information contained in this prospectus, except where required by law.

These forward looking statements are subject to various risk factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from the results expressed or anticipated in these statements. These risk factors are set out in section 7 of this Prospectus.

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4. DETAILS OF THE OFFER

4.1 The Offer

The Offer is being made as a non-renounceable entitlement issue of one (1) New Option for every five (5) Shares held by Shareholders registered at the Record Date at an issue price of $0.01 per New Option. Fractional entitlements will be rounded up to the nearest whole number.

The New Options offered under this Prospectus will form a new class of securities of the Company, and will be quoted, have an exercise price of $0.10 each and will be exercisable at any time on or before 5.00pm (WST) on 31 December 2021.

Based on the capital structure of the Company as at the date of this Prospectus, a maximum of 132,328,948 New Options will be issued pursuant to this Offer to raise up to $1,323,289.

As at the date of this Prospectus the Company has no Options on issue.

All of the New Options offered under this Prospectus will be issued on the terms and conditions set out in section 6.1 of this Prospectus.

All of the Shares issued upon the future exercise of the New Options offered under this Prospectus will rank equally with the Shares on issue at the date of this Prospectus. Please refer to section 6 for further information regarding the rights and liabilities attaching to the Shares.

The purpose of the Offer and the intended use of funds raised are set out in section 5.1 of this Prospectus.

4.2 Minimum subscription

There is no minimum subscription.

4.3

Underwriting

The Offer is fully underwritten by the Underwriter. Refer to section 8.4.1 of this Prospectus for details of the terms of the Underwriting Agreement.

The Underwriter will be issued 10,000,000 New Options by the Company in part consideration for the services provided by the Underwriter to the Company relating to the Offer.

Martin Wood, David Turvey and Peter Huljich, each a Director of the Company, or their respective nominees, have entered into agreements with the Underwriter to part sub-underwrite the Offer.

Martin Wood and David Turvey will sub-underwrite the Offer up to $27,500 each (2,750,000 New Options each) and Peter Huljich will sub-underwrite the Offer up to $41,250 (4,125,000 New Options).

Pursuant to the terms of the sub-underwriting, the Underwriter shall pay each subunderwriter a fee of 3% (excluding GST) of the sub-underwriter’s respective subunderwritten value.

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4.4 Acceptance

Your acceptance of the Offer must be made on the Entitlement and Acceptance Form accompanying this Prospectus. Your acceptance must not exceed your Entitlement as shown on that form. If it does, your acceptance will be deemed to be for the maximum Entitlement.

You may participate in the Offer as follows:

  • (a) if you wish to accept your full Entitlement, complete the Entitlement and Acceptance Form;

  • (b) if you only wish to accept part of your Entitlement, fill in the number of New Options you wish to accept in the space provided on the Entitlement and Acceptance Form; and

  • (c) if you do not wish to accept all or part of your Entitlement, you are not obliged to do anything.

4.5 Payment

Payment by cheque/bank draft

All cheques must be drawn on an Australian bank or bank draft made payable in Australian currency to “ Kogi Iron Limited ” and crossed “Not Negotiable”.

Your completed Entitlement and Acceptance Form and cheque must reach the Company’s share registry no later than 5:00 pm WST on the Closing Date.

4.6 Payment by BPAY®

For payment by BPAY®, please follow the instructions on the Entitlement and Acceptance Form. You can only make a payment via BPAY® if you are the holder of an account with an Australian financial institution that supports BPAY® transactions. Please note that should you choose to pay by BPAY®:

  • (a) you do not need to submit the Entitlement and Acceptance Form but are taken to have made the declarations on that Entitlement and Acceptance Form; and

  • (b) if you do not pay for your Entitlement in full, you are deemed to have taken up your Entitlement in respect of such whole number of New Options which is covered in full by your application monies.

It is your responsibility to ensure that your BPAY® payment is received by the share registry by no later than 3:00 pm (WST) on the Closing Date. You should be aware that your financial institution may implement earlier cut-off times with regards to electronic payment and you should therefore take this into consideration when making payment. Any application monies received for more than your final allocation of New Options (only where the amount is $1.00 or greater) will be refunded. No interest will be paid on any application monies received or refunded.

The Offer is non-renounceable. Accordingly, a Shareholder may not sell or transfer all or part of their Entitlement.

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4.7 Effect on control of the Company

None of the sub-underwriting arrangements with Directors set out in Section 4.3 will result in any Director holding a relevant interest in more than 5% of the Company’s shares on issue.

The Underwriter presently is neither a shareholder of the Company or a related party of the Company for the purpose of the Corporations Act.

The extent to which Shares are issued upon the future exercise of the New Options offered under this Prospectus pursuant to the underwriting will increase the Underwriter’s voting power in the Company (which as at the date of this Prospectus, is nil).

The Underwriter will receive 10,000,000 New Options as part of the fees payable by the Company to the Underwriter for corporate advisory services rendered in relation to the Offer.

The Underwriter’s present relevant interest and changes under several scenarios are set out in the table below. As the Company’s Options (which shall include the New Options) do not confer voting rights, the table below assumes that all New Options issued to the Underwriter have been duly exercised.

Event Shares held by
Underwriter
Voting power of
Underwriter
Date of Prospectus Nil Nil
Completion
of
Entitlement
Issue

Fully subscribed
10,000,000 1.2%

75% subscribed
43,082,237 5.4%

50% subscribed
76,164,474 9.5%

25% subscribed
109,246,711 13.6%

The number of Shares held by the Underwriter and its voting power in the table above show the potential effect of the underwriting of the Offer, following exercise of all New Options issued to the Underwriter. However, it is unlikely that no shareholders, other than the Underwriter, will take up entitlements under the Offer. The underwriting obligation and therefore potential voting power of the Underwriters will reduce by a corresponding amount for the amount of entitlements under the Offer taken up by Shareholders. Furthermore, the voting power of the Underwriter will also be reduced to the extent that sub-underwriters subscribe for any Shortfall.

In addition, Shareholders should note that if they do not participate in the Offer, their holdings, upon the future exercise of the New Options, would be diluted by approximately 16.67% (as compared to their holdings and number of Shares on issue as at the date of the Prospectus). Examples of how the dilution may impact Shareholders is set out in the table below:

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Holder Holding as at
Record date
% at Record
Date
Entitlements
under the Offer
Holdings if Offer
not taken Up
% post
Offer
Shareholder 1 10,000,000 1.51% 2,000,000 10,000,000 1.24%
Shareholder 2 5,000,000 0.76% 1,000,000 5,000,000 0.62%
Shareholder 3 1,500,000 0.23% 300,000 1,500,000 0.19%
Shareholder 4 400,000 0.06% 80,000 400,000 0.05%
Shareholder 5 50,000 0.01% 10,000 50,000 0.01%

Note:

The dilutionary effect shown in the table above is the maximum percentage on the assumption that all New Options issued under the Offer are exercised and that those Entitlements not accepted are placed by the Directors as Shortfall. In the event all Entitlements are not accepted and some or all of the resulting Shortfall was not subsequently placed, the dilution effect for each Shareholder not accepting their Entitlement would be a lesser percentage.

4.8

Shortfall

Any Entitlement not taken up pursuant to the Offer will form the Shortfall.

There is no Shortfall offer made pursuant to this Prospectus. Subject to the Underwriting Agreement, the Directors reserve the right to issue Shortfall Options, in conjunction with the Underwriter, for up to three months following the Closing Date. Accordingly, do not apply for Shortfall Options.

The issue price for each Shortfall Option to be placed by the Directors (in conjunction with the Underwriter) shall be $0.01, being the price at which New Options have been offered under the Offer.

4.9

ASX listing

Application for Official Quotation of the New Options offered pursuant to this Prospectus will be made in accordance with the timetable set out at the commencement of this Prospectus.

The New Options will only be admitted to Official Quotation by the ASX if the conditions for quotation of new class of securities are satisfied (which includes, amongst other things, there being a minimum of 100,000 New Options on issue, with at least 50 holders holding a marketable parcel).

If ASX does not grant Official Quotation of the New Options offered pursuant to this Prospectus before the expiration of 3 months after the date of issue of the Prospectus, (or such period as varied by the ASIC), the Company will not issue any New Options and will repay all application monies for the New Options within the time prescribed under the Corporations Act, without interest.

The fact that ASX may grant Official Quotation to the New Options is not to be taken in any way as an indication of the merits of the Company or the Options now offered for subscription.

4.10 Allotment

New Options issued pursuant to the Offer will be allotted in accordance with the ASX Listing Rules and timetable set out at the commencement of this Prospectus.

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Where the number of New Options issued is less than the number applied for, or where no allotment is made surplus application monies will be refunded without any interest to the Applicant as soon as practicable after the closing date of the Offer.

Pending the allotment and issue of the New Options or payment of refunds pursuant to this Prospectus, all application monies will be held by the Company in trust for the Applicants in a separate bank account as required by the Corporations Act. The Company, however, will be entitled to retain all interest that accrues on the bank account and each Applicant waives the right to claim interest.

Holding statements for New Options issued under the Offer will be mailed in accordance with the ASX Listing Rules and timetable set out at the commencement of this Prospectus. Shortfall Options will be allotted on a progressive basis following the Closing Date and holding statements for Shortfall Options will be mailed as soon as practicable after their issue.

4.11 Overseas shareholders

This Offer does not, and is not intended to, constitute an offer in any place or jurisdiction in which, or to any person to whom, it would not be lawful to make such an offer or to issue this Prospectus.

It is not practicable for the Company to comply with the securities laws of overseas jurisdictions having regard to the number of overseas Shareholders, the number and value of New Options these Shareholders would be offered and the cost of complying with regulatory requirements in each relevant jurisdiction. Accordingly, the Offer is not being extended and New Options will not be issued to Shareholders with a registered address which is outside Australia or New Zealand.

New Zealand

The New Options are not being offered to the public within New Zealand other than to existing Shareholders of the Company with registered addresses in New Zealand to whom the offer of New Options is being made in reliance on the transitional provisions of the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 (New Zealand) and the Financial Markets Conduct (Incidental Offers) Exemption Notice 2016 (New Zealand).

This Prospectus has been prepared in compliance with Australian law and has not been registered, filed with or approved by any New Zealand regulatory authority. This document is not a product disclosure statement under New Zealand law and is not required to, and may not, contain all the information that a product disclosure statement under New Zealand law is required to contain.

Nominees and custodians

Nominees and custodians may not submit an Entitlement and Acceptance Form on behalf of any Shareholder resident outside Australia and New Zealand without the prior consent of the Company, taking into account relevant securities law restrictions. Return of a duly completed Entitlement and Acceptance Form will be taken by the Company to constitute a representation that there has been no breach of those regulations.

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4.12 Enquiries

Any questions concerning the Offer should be directed to Kevin Hart, Company Secretary, on +61 8 9316 9100.

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5. PURPOSE AND EFFECT OF THE OFFER

5.1 Purpose of the Offer

The purpose of the Offer is to raise up to $1,323,289.

The funds raised from the Offer are planned to be used in accordance with the table set out below:

Item Proceeds of the Offer Full
Subscription
($)
%
1 Expenses of the Offer1 186,617 14%
2 Workingcapital
- Perth office costs 67,490 5%
- Director and CEO fees from 1 July2019 195,000 15%
- Other Corporate costs 240,524 18%
- Nigerian costs 100,955 8%
- Payment of other creditors 150,404 11%
- Other workingcapital 382,299 29%
Total 1,323,289 100%

Note:

Refer to section 8.8 of this Prospectus for further details relating to the estimated expenses of the Offer.

The above table is a statement of current intentions as of the date of this Prospectus. As with any budget, intervening events (including exploration success or failure) and new circumstances have the potential to affect the manner in which the funds are ultimately applied. The Board reserves the right to alter the way funds are applied on this basis.

5.2

Effect of the Offer

The principal effect of the Offer, assuming all New Options offered under the Prospectus are issued, will be to:

  • (a) increase the cash reserves by $1,136,672 (after deducting the estimated expenses of the Offer) immediately after completion of the Offer; and

  • (b) increase the number of Options on issue from nil as at the date of this Prospectus to 142,328,948 New Options.

5.3

Pro-forma balance sheet

The unaudited balance sheet as at 31 March 2019 and the unaudited pro-forma balance sheet as at 31 March 2019 shown below have been prepared on the basis of the accounting policies normally adopted by the Company and reflect the changes to its financial position.

The pro-forma balance sheet has been prepared assuming all New Options offered under the Prospectus are issued.

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The pro-forma balance sheet has been prepared to provide investors with information on the assets and liabilities of the Company and pro-forma assets and liabilities of the Company as noted below. The historical and pro-forma financial information is presented in an abbreviated form, insofar as it does not include all of the disclosures required by Australian Accounting Standards applicable to annual financial statements.

UNAUDITED
31 March 2019
$
PROFORMA
31 March 2019
$
CURRENT ASSETS
Cash 432,277 1,568,949
Other current assets 30,141 30,141
TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS 462,418 1,599,090
NON-CURRENT ASSETS
Property, plant and
equipment
1,107 1,107
TOTAL NON-CURRENT ASSETS 1,107 1,107
TOTAL ASSETS 463,525 1,600,197
CURRENT LIABILITIES
Creditors and borrowings 952,608 952,608
TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES 952,608 952,608
TOTAL LIABILITIES 952,608 952,608
NET ASSETS (LIABILITIES) (489,083) 647,589
EQUITY
Share capital 67,877,300 67,877,300
Options Reserve - 1,140,172
Other Reserves 1,571,564 1,571,564
Retained loss (69,937,947) (69,937,947)
TOTAL EQUITY (489,083) 647,589

5.4 Effect on capital structure

The effect of the Offer on the capital structure of the Company, assuming all Options offered under the Prospectus are issued, is set out below.

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Shares

Number
Shares currently on issue 661,644,742
Shares offered pursuant to the Offer Nil
Total Shares on issue after completion of the Offer 661,644,742

Options

Number
Options currently on issue Nil
New Options offered pursuant to the Offer
(Quoted exercisable at $0.10 on or before 31 December
2021)(approximately)
132,328,948
New Options to be issued to the Underwriter as part of the
fees payable for this service
10,000,000
Total Options on issue after completion of the Offer 142,328,948

The capital structure on a fully diluted basis as at the date of this Prospectus is 661,644,742 Shares and on completion of the Offer (assuming all Entitlements are accepted, and all New Options are exercised) would be 803,973,690 Shares.

No Shares or Options on issue are subject to escrow restrictions, either voluntary or ASX imposed.

5.5 Details of substantial holders

Based on publicly available information as at 28 May 2019, those persons which (together with their associates) have a relevant interest in 5% or more of the Shares on issue are set out below:

Shareholder Shares %
Timothy Owen Lebbon 59,668,446 9.17%

The Offer will have no effect on the number of Shares held by this substantial shareholder as only New Options are being issued.

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6. RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES ATTACHING TO SECURITIES

6.1 New Options

(a) Entitlement

Each New Option entitles the holder to subscribe for one Share upon exercise of the Option.

(b) Exercise Price

Subject to paragraph (i), the amount payable upon exercise of each New Option will be $0.10 ( Exercise Price ).

(c) Expiry Date

Each New Option will expire at 5:00 pm (WST) on 31 December 2021 ( Expiry Date ). An Option not exercised before the Expiry Date will automatically lapse on the Expiry Date.

(d) Exercise Period

The Options are exercisable at any time on or prior to the Expiry Date ( Exercise Period ).

(e) Notice of Exercise

The New Options may be exercised during the Exercise Period by notice in writing to the Company in the manner specified on the Option certificate ( Notice of Exercise ) and payment of the Exercise Price for each New Option being exercised in Australian currency by electronic funds transfer or other means of payment acceptable to the Company.

(f) Exercise Date

A Notice of Exercise is only effective on and from the later of the date of receipt of the Notice of Exercise and the date of receipt of the payment of the Exercise Price for each New Option being exercised in cleared funds ( Exercise Date ).

(g) Timing of issue of Shares on exercise

Within 15 Business Days after the Exercise Date, the Company will:

  • (i) issue the number of Shares required under these terms and conditions in respect of the number of New Options specified in the Notice of Exercise and for which cleared funds have been received by the Company;

  • (ii) if required, give ASX a notice that complies with section 708A(5)(e) of the Corporations Act, or, if the Company is unable to issue such a notice, lodge with ASIC a prospectus prepared in accordance with the Corporations Act and do all such things necessary to satisfy section 708A(11) of the Corporations Act to ensure that an offer for sale of the Shares does not require disclosure to investors; and

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  • (iii) if admitted to the official list of ASX at the time, apply for official quotation on ASX of Shares issued pursuant to the exercise of the New Options.

If a notice delivered under (g)(ii) for any reason is not effective to ensure that an offer for sale of the Shares does not require disclosure to investors, the Company must, no later than 20 Business Days after becoming aware of such notice being ineffective, lodge with ASIC a prospectus prepared in accordance with the Corporations Act and do all such things necessary to satisfy section 708A(11) of the Corporations Act to ensure that an offer for sale of the Shares does not require disclosure to investors.

(h) Shares issued on exercise

Shares issued on exercise of the New Options rank equally with the then issued shares of the Company.

(i)

Reconstruction of capital

If at any time the issued capital of the Company is reconstructed, all rights of an Optionholder are to be changed in a manner consistent with the Corporations Act and the ASX Listing Rules at the time of the reconstruction.

(j) Participation in new issues

There are no participation rights or entitlements inherent in the New Options and holders will not be entitled to participate in new issues of capital offered to Shareholders during the currency of the New Options without exercising the New Options.

(k) Change in exercise price

A New Option does not confer the right to a change in Exercise Price or a change in the number of underlying securities over which the Option can be exercised.

(l) Transferability

The New Options are transferable subject to any restriction or escrow arrangements imposed by ASX or under applicable Australian securities laws.

(m) Quotation

The Company will seek to Official Quotation of the New Options, subject to the satisfying the quotation conditions of the ASX Listing Rules.

6.2

Shares

The following is a summary of the more significant rights and liabilities attaching to Shares being the underlying securities of the New Options to be issued pursuant to this Prospectus. This summary is not exhaustive and does not constitute a definitive statement of the rights and liabilities of Shareholders. To obtain such a statement, persons should seek independent legal advice.

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Full details of the rights and liabilities attaching to Shares are set out in the Constitution, a copy of which is available for inspection at the Company’s registered office during normal business hours.

(a) General meetings

Shareholders are entitled to be present in person, or by proxy, attorney or representative to attend and vote at general meetings of the Company.

Shareholders may requisition meetings in accordance with section 249D of the Corporations Act and the Constitution of the Company.

(b) Voting rights

Subject to any rights or restrictions for the time being attached to any class or classes of shares, at general meetings of shareholders or classes of shareholders:

  • (i) each Shareholder entitled to vote may vote in person or by proxy, attorney or representative;

  • (i) on a show of hands, every person present who is a Shareholder or a proxy, attorney or representative of a Shareholder has one vote; and

  • (ii) on a poll, every person present who is a Shareholder or a proxy, attorney or representative of a Shareholder shall, in respect of each fully paid Share held by him, or in respect of which he is appointed a proxy, attorney or representative, have one vote for each Share held, but in respect of partly paid shares shall have such number of votes as bears the same proportion to the total of such Shares registered in the Shareholder’s name as the amount paid (not credited) bears to the total amounts paid and payable (excluding amounts credited).

(c) Dividend rights

Subject to the rights of any preference Shareholders and to the rights of the holders of any shares created or raised under any special arrangement as to dividend, the Directors may from time to time declare a dividend to be paid to the Shareholders entitled to the dividend which shall be payable on all Shares according to the proportion that the amount paid (not credited) is of the total amounts paid and payable (excluding amounts credited) in respect of such Shares.

The Directors may from time to time pay to the Shareholders any interim dividends as they may determine. No dividend shall carry interest as against the Company. The Directors may set aside out of the profits of the Company any amounts that they may determine as reserves, to be applied at the discretion of the Directors, for any purpose for which the profits of the Company may be properly applied.

Subject to the ASX Listing Rules and the Corporations Act, the Company may, by resolution of the Directors, implement a dividend reinvestment plan on such terms and conditions as the Directors think fit and which provides for any dividend which the Directors may declare from time to time payable on Shares which are participating Shares in the dividend reinvestment plan, less any amount which the Company shall either

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pursuant to the Constitution or any law be entitled or obliged to retain, be applied by the Company to the payment of the subscription price of Shares.

(d) Winding-up

If the Company is wound up, the liquidator may, with the authority of a special resolution, divide among the Shareholders in kind the whole or any part of the property of the Company, and may for that purpose set such value as he considers fair upon any property to be so divided, and may determine how the division is to be carried out as between the Shareholders or different classes of Shareholders.

The liquidator may, with the authority of a special resolution, vest the whole or any part of any such property in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of the contributories as the liquidator thinks fit, but so that no Shareholder is compelled to accept any shares or other securities in respect of which there is any liability.

(e)

Shareholder liability

As the Shares issued will be fully paid shares, they will not be subject to any calls for money by the Directors and will therefore not become liable for forfeiture.

(f) Transfer of shares

Generally, shares in the Company are freely transferable, subject to formal requirements, the registration of the transfer not resulting in a contravention of or failure to observe the provisions of a law of Australia and the transfer not being in breach of the Corporations Act and the ASX Listing Rules.

(g) Future increase in capital

The allotment and issue of any new Shares is under the control of the Directors of the Company. Subject to restrictions on the issue or grant of Securities contained in the ASX Listing Rules, the Constitution and the Corporations Act (and without affecting any special right previously conferred on the holder of an existing share or class of shares), the Directors may issue Shares as they shall, in their absolute discretion, determine.

(h)

Variation of rights

Under section 246B of the Corporations Act, the Company may, with the sanction of a special resolution passed at a meeting of Shareholders vary or abrogate the rights attaching to shares.

If at any time the share capital is divided into different classes of shares, the rights attached to any class (unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class), whether or not the Company is being wound up, may be varied or abrogated with the consent in writing of the holders of three quarters of the issued shares of that class, or if authorised by a special resolution passed at a separate meeting of the holders of the shares of that class.

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(i) Alteration of constitution

In accordance with the Corporations Act, the Constitution can only be amended by a special resolution passed by at least three quarters of Shareholders present and voting at the general meeting. In addition, at least 28 days written notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution as a special resolution must be given.

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7. RISK FACTORS

7.1 Introduction

The New Options offered under this Prospectus are considered highly speculative. An investment in the Company is not risk free and the Directors strongly recommend potential investors to consider the risk factors described below, together with information contained elsewhere in this Prospectus and to consult their professional advisers before deciding whether to apply for Shares pursuant to this Prospectus.

There are specific risks which relate directly to the Company’s business. In addition, there are other general risks, many of which are largely beyond the control of the Company and the Directors. The risks identified in this section, or other risk factors, may have a material impact on the financial performance of the Company and the market price of the Shares.

The following is not intended to be an exhaustive list of the risk factors to which the Company is exposed.

7.2 Company specific

(a) Potential for significant dilution

Upon implementation of the Offer, assuming all Entitlements are accepted and all New Options are exercised prior to the Expiry Date the number of Shares in the Company will increase from 661,644,742 currently on issue to 803,973,690. This means that each Share will represent a significantly lower proportion of the ownership of the Company.

It is not possible to predict what the value of the Company or a Share will be following the completion of the Offer being implemented and the Directors do not make any representation as to such matters.

The last trading price of Shares on ASX prior to the prospectus being lodged of $0.077 is not a reliable indicator as to the potential trading price of Shares after implementation of the Offer.

(b) Future Capital Requirements and Going Concern Risk

The Company’s activities will require substantial expenditures. There can be no guarantees that the funds raised through the Offer will be sufficient to successfully achieve all the objectives of the Company’s overall business strategy. If the Company is unable to use debt or equity to fund activities after the substantial exhaustion of the net proceeds of the Offer there can be no assurances that the Company will have sufficient capital resources for that purpose, or other purposes, or that it will be able to obtain additional resources on terms acceptable to the Company or at all. Any additional equity financing may be dilutive to shareholders and any debt financing if available may involve restrictive covenants, which limit the Company’s activities and business strategy.

Shareholders should note that the last audited Financial Report of the Company, being for the year ended 30 June 2018, has been prepared on a going concern basis. The audit report to the annual financial statements for 30 June 2018, lodged with ASX on 25 October 2018, included a “Material uncertainty related to going concern”, without

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qualification, in respect of the going concern disclosures included in Note 27(a)(i) to the financial statements.

The ability of the Company to continue as a going concern and to meet planned and committed expenditure requirements is subject to the Company successfully exploiting the investments and exploration projects owned by the Company and/or the raising of further equity and/or loan capital. Should the Company not be successful in obtaining adequate funding or cash inflows are not as planned, there is material uncertainty as to the ability of the Company to continue as a going concern and to realise its assets and extinguish liabilities as they arise. The Company’s failure to raise capital, if and when needed, could delay or suspend the Company’s business strategy and could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s activities.

(c)

Exploration and Evaluation Risks

By its nature, the business of mineral exploration, mine development, mine production and ore processing undertaken by the Company at its exploration projects or future projects, contain risks. The success of the Company depends on the delineation of economically minable reserves and resources, access to required development capital, favourable commodity prices, securing and maintaining title to the Company’s exploration tenements and obtaining all consents and approvals necessary for the conduct of its exploration activities.

Exploration on the Company’s existing exploration tenements may be unsuccessful, resulting in a reduction of the value of those tenements, diminution in the cash reserves of the Company and possible relinquishment of the exploration tenements.

7.3 Industry specific

(a) Commodity Price Volatility and Exchange Rate Risks

To the extent the Company in the future is involved in mineral production, the revenue it will derive through the sale of commodities exposes the potential income of the Company to commodity price and exchange rate risks. Commodity prices fluctuate and are affected by many factors beyond the control of the Company. Such factors include supply and demand fluctuations for iron ore, technological advancements, forward selling activities and other macro-economic factors.

Furthermore, international prices of various commodities are denominated in United States dollars, whereas the income and expenditure of the Company are and will be taken into account in Australian currency, exposing the Company to the fluctuations and volatility of the rate of exchange between the United States dollar and the Australian dollar as determined in international market

(b) Resource Estimates

Resource estimates are expressions of judgment based on knowledge, experience, and industry practice. Estimates which were valid when originally calculated may alter significantly when new information or techniques become available. In addition, by their very nature, resource estimates are imprecise and depend to some extent on interpretations, which may prove to be inaccurate.

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As further information becomes available through additional fieldwork and analysis, the estimates are likely to change. This may result in alterations to development and mining plans which may, in turn, adversely affect the Company’s operations.

(c) Environmental Risks

The operations and activities of the Company are subject to State and Federal laws and regulation concerning the environment. As with most exploration projects and mining operations, the Company’s activities are expected to have an impact on the environment, particularly if advanced exploration or mine development proceeds. The Company conducts its activities in compliance with all environmental laws. The Company is not aware of any non–compliance at this point in time.

(d) Title Risks

Interests in tenements in Nigeria are governed by the local legislation and are evidenced by the granting of licences or leases. Each licence or lease is for a specific term and carries with it annual expenditure and reporting commitments, as well as other conditions requiring compliance. Consequently, the Company could lose title to or its interest in tenements if licence conditions are not met or if insufficient funds are available to meet expenditure commitments.

(e) Sovereign Risk

The Company’s Nigerian project is subject to the risks associated with operating in a foreign country. This risks may include economic, social or political instability or change, hyperinflation, currency non-convertibility or instability and changes of law affecting foreign ownership, government participation, taxation, working conditions, rates of exchange, exchange control, exploration licensing, repatriation of income or return of capital, environmental protection, mine safety, labour relations as well as government control over mineral properties or government regulations that require the employment of local staff or contractors or require other benefits to be provided to local residents.

(f)

Regulatory Risks

The Company’s exploration and any future development activities are subject to extensive laws and regulations relating to numerous matters including resource licence consent, conditions including environmental compliance and rehabilitation, taxation, employee relations, health and worker safety, waste disposal, protection of the environment, native title and heritage matters, protection of endangered and protected species and other matters. The Company requires permits from regulatory authorities to authorise the Company’s operations. These permits relate to exploration, development, production and rehabilitation activities.

Obtaining necessary permits can be a time consuming process and there is a risk that Company will not obtain these permits on acceptable terms, in a timely manner or at all. The costs and delays associated with obtaining necessary permits and complying with these permits and applicable laws and regulations could materially delay or restrict the Company from proceeding with the development of a project or the operation or further development of a mine. Any failure to comply with applicable laws and regulations or permits, even if inadvertent, could

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result in material fines, penalties or other liabilities. In extreme cases, failure could result in suspension of the Company’s activities or forfeiture of one or more of the tenements.

(g) Legislative Changes and Government Policy Risk

Changes in government regulations and policies may adversely affect the financial performance of the Company. The Company's capacity to explore and in the future mine, in particular the Company' ability to explore and mine any reserves, may be affected by changes in government policy, which are beyond the control of the Company.

(h) Joint Venture Parties, Agents and Contractors

The Directors are unable to predict the risk of financial failure or default by a participant in any joint venture to which the Company is or may become a party or the insolvency or managerial failure by any of the contractors used by the Company in any of its activities or the insolvency or other managerial failure by any of the other service providers used by the Company for any activity.

(i) Occupational Health and Safety Risk

The Company is committed to providing a healthy and safe environment for its personnel, contractors and visitors. Mining and exploration activities have inherent risks and hazards. The Company provides appropriate instructions, equipment, preventative measures, first aid information, and training to all stakeholders through its occupational, health and safety management systems.

(j) Potential Acquisitions

As part of its business strategy, the Company may make acquisitions of or significant investments in companies, products, technologies, or resource projects. Any such future transactions would be accompanied by the risks commonly associated with making acquisitions of companies, products, technologies, or resource projects.

(k) Force Majeure

The Company’s projects now or in the future may be adversely affected by risks outside the control of the Company including labour unrest, civil disorder, war, subversive activities or sabotage, fires, floods, explosions or other catastrophes, epidemics or quarantine restrictions.

7.4 General risks

(a) Economic

General economic conditions, movements in interest and inflation rates and currency exchange rates may have an adverse effect on the Company’s exploration, development and production activities, as well as on its ability to fund those activities.

Share market conditions may affect the value of the Company’s quoted securities regardless of the Company’s operating performance. Share market conditions are affected by many factors such as:

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  • general economic outlook;

  • introduction of tax reform or other new legislation;

  • interest rates and inflation rates;

  • changes in investor sentiment toward particular market sectors;

  • the demand for, and supply of, capital; and

  • terrorism or other hostilities.

(b)

Market conditions

The market price of securities can fall as well as rise and may be subject to varied and unpredictable influences on the market for equities in general and resource exploration stocks in particular. Neither the Company nor the Directors warrant the future performance of the Company or any return on an investment in the Company.

(c)

Dividends

Any future determination as to the payment of dividends by the Company will be at the discretion of the Directors and will depend on the financial condition of the Company, future capital requirements and general business and other factors considered relevant by the Directors. No assurance in relation to the payment of dividends or franking credits attaching to dividends can be given by the Company.

(d)

Security Investments

Applicants should be aware that there are risks associated with any securities investment. Securities listed on the stock market, and in particular, securities of mining and exploration companies have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have often been unrelated to the operating performances of such companies. These factors may materially affect the market prices of the securities regardless of the Company’s performance.

Mineral exploration and mining are speculative activities that may be hampered by circumstances beyond the control of the Company. Profitability depends on successful exploration and/or acquisition of reserves, design, and construction of efficient processing facilities, competent operation and management and proficient financial management.

Exploration in itself is a speculative endeavour, while mining operations can be hampered by force majeure circumstances and cost overruns for unforeseen events.

(e)

Reliance on key personnel

The Company is dependent on its management and technical personnel, the loss of whose services could materially and adversely affect the Company and impede the achievements of its business objectives.

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There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to attract or retain sufficiently qualified personnel on a timely basis or retain its key management personnel.

7.5 Speculative investment

The above list of risk factors ought not to be taken as exhaustive of the risks faced by the Company or by investors in the Company. The above factors, and others not specifically referred to above, may in the future materially affect the financial performance of the Company and the value of the New Options offered under this Prospectus

Therefore, the New Options be issued pursuant to this Prospectus carry no guarantee with respect to the payment of dividends, returns of capital or the market value of those New Options.

Potential investors should consider that the investment in the Company is speculative and should consult their professional advisers before deciding whether to apply for New Options pursuant to this Prospectus.

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8. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

8.1 Litigation

As at the date of this Prospectus, the Company is not involved in any legal proceedings and the Directors are not aware of any legal proceedings pending or threatened against the Company.

8.2

Continuous disclosure obligations

The Company is a “disclosing entity” (as defined in section 111AC of the Corporations Act) for the purposes of section 713 of the Corporations Act and, as such, is subject to regular reporting and disclosure obligations. Specifically, like all listed companies, the Company is required to continuously disclose any information it has to the market which a reasonable person would expect to have a material effect on the price or the value of the Company’s securities.

This Prospectus is a “transaction specific prospectus”. In general terms a “transaction specific prospectus” is only required to contain information in relation to the effect of the issue of securities on a company and the rights attaching to the securities. It is not necessary to include general information in relation to all of the assets and liabilities, financial position, profits and losses or prospects of the issuing company.

This Prospectus is intended to be read in conjunction with the publicly available information in relation to the Company which has been notified to ASX and does not include all of the information that would be included in a prospectus for an initial public offering of securities in an entity that is not already listed on a stock exchange. Investors should therefore have regard to the other publicly available information in relation to the Company before making a decision whether or not to invest.

Having taken such precautions and having made such enquires as are reasonable, the Company believes that it has complied with the general and specific requirements of ASX as applicable from time to time throughout the 3 months before the issue of this Prospectus which required the Company to notify ASX of information about specified events or matters as they arise for the purpose of ASX making that information available to the stock market conducted by ASX.

Information that is already in the public domain has not been reported in this Prospectus other than that which is considered necessary to make this Prospectus complete.

The Company, as a disclosing entity under the Corporations Act states that:

  • (a) it is subject to regular reporting and disclosure obligations;

  • (b) copies of documents lodged with the ASIC in relation to the Company (not being documents referred to in section 1274(2)(a) of the Corporations Act) may be obtained from, or inspected at, the offices of the ASIC; and

  • (c) it will provide a copy of each of the following documents, free of charge, to any person on request between the date of issue of this Prospectus and the Closing Date:

  • (i) the annual financial report most recently lodged by the Company with the ASIC;

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  • (ii) any half-year financial report lodged by the Company with the ASIC after the lodgement of the annual financial report referred to in (i) and before the lodgement of this Prospectus with the ASIC; and

  • (iii) any continuous disclosure documents given by the Company to ASX in accordance with the ASX Listing Rules as referred to in section 674(1) of the Corporations Act after the lodgement of the annual financial report referred to in (i) and before the lodgement of this Prospectus with the ASIC.

Copies of all documents lodged with the ASIC in relation to the Company can be inspected at the registered office of the Company during normal office hours.

Details of documents lodged by the Company with ASX since the date of lodgement of the Company’s latest annual financial report and before the lodgement of this Prospectus with the ASIC are set out in the table below.

Date Description of Announcement
29/05/2019 Capital Raising
24/05/2019 Trading Halt
20/05/2019 Remuneration & Nomination Committee Established
13/05/2019 Response to ASX Appendix 5B Query
07/05/2019 Final Director's Interest Notice
07/05/2019 Initial Director’s Interest Notice
07/05/2019 Initial Director’s Interest Notice
07/05/2019 Kogi Refreshes Board of Directors for next phase of growth
30/04/2019 Quarterly Activities Report and Appendix 5B
11/04/2019 Change of Director’s Interest Notice
08/04/2019 Response to ASx Price and Volume Query
02/04/2019 Kogi Iron Announce next steps in DFS Completion
13/03/2019 Half Year Accounts
12/02/2019 Investor Update
07/02/2019 Appendix 3B and Section 708A Notice
01/02/2019 Reinstatement to Official Quotation
01/02/2019 Response to Appendix 5B Query
01/02/2019 Capital Raising
31/01/2019 Kogi pursuing a long term strategic offtake partnership
31/01/2019 Suspension from Official Quotation
29/01/2019 Investor Presentation
25/01/2019 Trading Halt
24/01/2019 Quarterly Activities Report and Appendix 5B
22/01/2019 Kogi Successfully Reapplies for Exploration Licence
16/01/2019 Response to ASX Price Query

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Date Description of Announcement
16/01/2019 Fastmarkets MB Completes Market Study
15/01/2019 Trading Halt
13/12/2018 Audit and Governance Committee Established
11/12/2018 Final Director’s Interest Notice
11/12/2018 Ian Burston Retires as Chairman
04/12/2018 Update to Shareholders
28/11/2018 AGM Presentation – amended
28/11/2018 Final Director’s Interest Notice
28/11/2018 Initial Director’s Interest Notice
28/11/2018 Director Appointment
27/11/2018 Results of Meeting
27/11/2018 AGM Presentation
20/11/2018 Kogi Appoints Special Advisor
30/10/2018 Quarterly Activities Report and Appendix 5B
25/10/2018 Notice of Annual General Meeting/Proxy Form
25/10/2018 Appendix 4G
25/10/2018 Corporate Governance Statement
25/10/2018 2018 Annual Report

ASX maintains files containing publicly available information for all listed companies. The Company’s file is available for inspection at ASX during normal office hours.

The announcements are also available through the Company’s website www/kogiiron.com.

8.3 Market price of shares

The Company is a disclosing entity for the purposes of the Corporations Act and its Shares are enhanced disclosure securities quoted on ASX.

The highest, lowest and last market sale prices of the Shares on ASX during the three months immediately preceding the date of lodgement of this Prospectus with the ASIC and the respective dates of those sales were:

Highest $0.125 8 April 2019
Lowest $0.065 21 March 2019
Last $0.077 29 May 2019

8.4 Material contracts

The following are summaries of the significant terms of the material agreements which relate to the business of the Company.

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8.4.1 Underwriting Agreement

By an agreement between the Underwriter and the Company dated on or about 28 May 2019 ( Underwriting Agreement ), the Underwriter has agreed to fully underwrite the Offer for up to 132,328,948 New Options.

Pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement the Company has agreed to pay the Underwriter (or its nominee):

  • (a) ( Underwriting Fee ): 5% of the gross amount underwritten by the Underwriter (being approximately $66,164). All sub-underwriting fees will be paid by the Underwriter from this fee;

  • (b) ( Issue Management Fee ): 2% of the total gross amount raised under the Offer (being approximately $26,466);

  • (c) ( Corporate Advisory Fee ): $10,000 payable monthly in advance commencing 1 June 2019 for a period of 6 months.

The Underwriter is also entitled to be reimbursed for out-of-pocket expenses incidental to the Offer.

In the event that the Company terminates the Underwriting Agreement without cause, the Underwriter will be entitled to a termination fee of $25,000 and the reimbursement of any incurred or accrued expenses up to the date of termination.

In addition to the fees payable pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, the Company will also pay the Underwriter a fee of $25,000 (payable 50% on commencement of the Prospectus preparation and 50% on completion of the Offer), and issue to the Underwriter 10,000,000 Options (exercisable at $0.10 on or before 31 December 2021).

The obligation of the Underwriter to underwrite the Offer is subject to certain events of termination. The Underwriter may terminate its obligations under the Underwriting Agreement if:

  • (a) ( Indices fall ): at any time, either of the Standard & Poors or ASX Small Resources or Small Ordinaries Index is at a level that is 10% or more below its respective level as at the close of business on the Business Day prior to the date of the Underwriting Agreement; or

  • (b) ( Share Price ): the Shares of the Company that trade on the ASX under the ASX code of “KFE” close on any day during the Offer period at a price that is lower than the 20% discount to the 5 day VWAP at the time the Prospectus is lodged.; or

  • (c) ( No Official Quotation ): Official quotation of the New Options issued under the Offer has not been granted by the date specified in the timetable by which the company is required to notify ASX of any shortfall or, having been granted, is subsequently withdrawn, withheld or qualified; or

  • (d) ( Supplementary prospectus ):

  • (i) the Underwriter, having elected not to exercise its right to terminate its obligations under the Underwriting Agreement as a result of an occurrence as described in the “Adverse Chage”

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paragraph below, forms the view on reasonable grounds that a supplementary or replacement prospectus should be lodged with ASIC for any of the reasons referred to in section 719 of the Corporations Act and the Company fails to lodge a supplementary or replacement prospectus in such form and content and within such time as the Underwriter may reasonably require; or

  • (ii) the Company lodges a supplementary or replacement prospectus without the prior written agreement of the Underwriter; or

  • (e) ( Non-compliance with disclosure requirements ): it transpires that this Prospectus does not contain all the information required by the Corporations Act; or

  • (f) ( Misleading Prospectus ): it transpires that there is a material statement in this Prospectus that is misleading or deceptive or likely to mislead or deceive, or that there is an omission from the Prospectus (having regard to the provisions of section 713 of the Corporations Act) or if any statement in the Prospectus becomes or misleading or deceptive or likely to mislead or deceive or if the issue of the Prospectus is or becomes misleading or deceptive or likely to mislead or deceive; or

  • (g) ( Restriction on allotment ): the Company is prevented from allotting the New Options under the Offer within the time required by the Underwriting Agreement, the Corporations Act, the ASX Listing Rules, any statute, regulation or order of a court of competent jurisdiction by ASIC, ASX or any court of competent jurisdiction or any governmental or semi-governmental agency or authority; or

  • (h) ( Withdrawal of consent to Prospectus ): any person (other than the Underwriter) who has previously consented to the inclusion of its, his or her name in the Prospectus or to be named in the Prospectus, withdraws that consent; or

  • (i) ( ASIC application ): an application is made by ASIC for an order under section 1324B or any other provision of the Corporations Act in relation to this Prospectus, by the Shortfall Notice Deadline Date (or such other date agreed in writing between the parties) has arrived, and that application has not been dismissed or withdrawn; or

  • (j) ( Takeovers Panel ): the Takeovers Panel makes a declaration that circumstances in relation to the affairs of the Company are unacceptable circumstances under Pt 6.10 of the Corporations Act; or

  • (k) ( Hostilities ): there is an outbreak of hostilities or a material escalation of hostilities (whether or not war has been declared) after the date of this agreement involving one or more of Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, or the Peoples Republic of China or Colombia, Chile or any member of the European Union, or a terrorist act is perpetrated on any of those countries or any diplomatic, military, commercial or political establishment of any of those countries anywhere in the world;

  • (l) ( Authorisation ) any authorisation which is material to anything referred to in this Prospectus is repealed, revoked or terminated or expires, or is modified or amended in a manner unacceptable to the Underwriter; or

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  • (m) ( Indictable offence ): a director or senior manager of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is charged with an indictable offence;

  • (n) ( Termination Events ): subject always to the Material Adverse Effect qualification described below, any of the following events occurs:

  • (i) ( Default ): default or breach by the Company under the Underwriting Agreement of any terms, condition, covenant or undertaking;

  • (ii) ( Incorrect or untrue representation ): any representation, warranty or undertaking given by the Company in the Underwriting Agreement is or becomes untrue or incorrect;

  • (iii) ( Contravention of Constitution or Act ): a contravention by the Company or any of its subsidiaries of any provision of its constitution, the Corporations Act, the ASX Listing Rules or any other applicable legislation or any policy or requirement of ASIC or ASX;

  • (iv) ( Adverse change ): an event occurs which gives rise to a Material Adverse Effect or any adverse change or any development including a prospective adverse change after the date of the Underwriting Agreement in the assets, liabilities, financial position, trading results, profits, forecasts, losses, prospects, business or operations of the Company or any of its subsidiaries including, without limitation, if any forecast in the Prospectus becomes incapable of being met or in the Underwriter's reasonable opinion, unlikely to be met in the projected time;

  • (v) ( Error in Due Diligence Results ): it transpires that any of the due diligence results or any part of the verification material was false, misleading or deceptive or that there was an omission from them;

  • (vi) ( Significant change ): a "new circumstance" as referred to in section 719(1) of the Corporations Act arises that is materially adverse from the point of view of an investor;

  • (vii) ( Public statements ): without the prior approval of the Underwriter a public statement is made by the Company in relation to the Offer, the issue of Shares under the Offer or the Prospectus;

  • (viii) ( Misleading information ): any information supplied at any time by the Company or any person on its behalf to the Underwriter in respect of any aspect of the Offer or the issue of Shares under the Offer or the affairs of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or becomes misleading or deceptive or likely to mislead or deceive;

  • (ix) ( Official Quotation qualified ): the Official Quotation is qualified or conditional;

  • (x) ( Change in Act or policy ): there is introduced, or there is a public announcement of a proposal to introduce, into the Parliament of Australia or any of its States or Territories any Act or prospective Act or budget or the Reserve Bank of Australia or any Commonwealth or State authority adopts or announces a

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proposal to adopt any new, or any major change in, existing, monetary, taxation, exchange or fiscal policy;

  • (xi) ( Prescribed Occurrence ): a Prescribed Occurrence (as definedin the Underwriting Agreement) occurs;

  • (xii) ( Suspension of debt payments ): the Company suspends payment of its debts generally;

  • (xiii) ( Event of Insolvency ): an event of insolvency occurs in respect of the Company or any of its subsidiaries;

  • (xiv) ( Judgment against a Relevant Company ): a judgment in an amount exceeding $50,000 is obtained against the Company or any of its subsidiaries and is not set aside or satisfied within 7 days;

  • (xv) ( Litigation ): litigation, arbitration, administrative or industrial proceedings are after the date of the Underwriting Agreement commenced or threatened against the Company or any of its subsidiaries, other than any claims foreshadowed in the Prospectus;

  • (xvi) ( Board and senior management composition ): there is a change in the composition of the Board or a change in the senior management of the Company before completion of the Offer without the prior written consent of the Underwriter;

  • (xvii) ( Change in shareholdings ): there is a material change in the major or controlling shareholdings of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or a takeover offer or scheme of arrangement pursuant to Chapter 5 or 6 of the Corporations Act is publicly announced in relation to the Company or any of its subsidiaries;

  • (xviii) ( Timetable ): there is a delay in any specified date in the timetable set out in the Underwriting Agreement which is greater than 3 Business Days, without the written consent of the Underwriter (such consent not to be unreasonably witheld or delayed);

  • (xix) ( Force Majeure ): a force majeure affecting the Company's business or any obligation under the Underwriting Agreement lasting in excess of 7 days occurs;

  • (xx) ( Certain resolutions passed ): the Company or any of its subsidiaries passes or takes any steps to pass a resolution under section 254N, section 257A or section 260B of the Corporations Act or a resolution to amend its constitution without the prior written consent of the Underwriter;

  • (xxi) ( Capital Structure ): the Company or any of its subsidiaries alters its capital structure in any manner not contemplated by this Prospectus;

  • (xxii) ( Investigation ): any person is appointed under any legislation in respect of companies to investigate the affairs of the Company and any of its subsidiaries; or

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  • (xxiii) ( Market Conditions ): a suspension or material limitation in trading generally on ASX occurs or any material adverse change or disruption occurs in the existing financial markets, political or economic conditions of Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States of America or other international financial markets.

The Underwriter may not exercise its rights under termination event(s) above unless, in the reasonable opinion of the Underwriter reached in good faith, the occurrence of a termination event has or is likely to have, or two or more termination events together have or are likely to have a Material Adverse Effect or could give rise to a liability of the Underwriter under the Corporations Act or otherwise.

The Underwriting Agreement also contains a number of indemnities, representations and warranties from the Company to the Underwriter that are considered standard for an agreement of this type.

8.5 Interests of Directors

Other than as set out in this Prospectus, no Director or proposed Director holds, or has held within the 2 years preceding lodgement of this Prospectus with the ASIC, any interest in:

  • (a) the formation or promotion of the Company;

  • (b) any property acquired or proposed to be acquired by the Company in connection with:

  • (i) its formation or promotion; or

  • (ii) the Offer; or

  • (c) the Offer,

and no amounts have been paid or agreed to be paid and no benefits have been given or agreed to be given to a Director or proposed Director:

  • (a) as an inducement to become, or to qualify as, a Director; or

  • (b) for services provided in connection with:

  • (i) the formation or promotion of the Company; or

  • (ii) the Offer.

Security holdings

The relevant interest of each of the Directors in the securities of the Company as at the date of this Prospectus, together with their respective Entitlement, is set out in the table below.

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Director Shares Entitlement $
Don Carroll 6,095,7902 1,219,158 12,192
Martin Wood1 Nil Nil Nil
Greg Boulton 428,0563 85,611 856
David Turvey1 Nil Nil Nil
Peter Huljich1 Nil Nil Nil

Note:

  1. Each of Martin Wood, David Turvey and Peter Huljich have agreed to part subunderwrite the Offer. Refer to Section 4.3 for further details.

  2. Don Carroll’s relevant interest in Shares are as follows: 1,518,013 Shares held directly and 4,577,777 Shares held indirectly in the name of DA and LM Carroll Superannuation Fund.

  3. Greg Boulton’s relevant interest in Shares are as follows: 428,056 Shares held indirectly in the name of Greg Boulton Family Superannuation Fund.

The Board recommends all Shareholders take up their Entitlement and advises that both Mr Carroll and Mr Boulton intend to take up their respective Entitlements.

Remuneration

The remuneration of an executive Director is decided by the Board, without the affected executive Director participating in that decision-making process. The total maximum remuneration of non-executive Directors is initially set by the Constitution and subsequent variation is by ordinary resolution of Shareholders in general meeting in accordance with the Constitution, the Corporations Act and the ASX Listing Rules, as applicable. The determination of non-executive Directors’ remuneration within that maximum will be made by the Board having regard to the inputs and value to the Company of the respective contributions by each non-executive Director. The current amount has been set at an amount not to exceed $500,000 per annum.

A Director may be paid fees or other amounts (ie non-cash performance incentives such as Options, subject to any necessary Shareholder approval) as the other Directors determine where a Director performs special duties or otherwise performs services outside the scope of the ordinary duties of a Director. In addition, Directors are also entitled to be paid reasonable travelling, hotel and other expenses incurred by them respectively in or about the performance of their duties as Directors.

The following table shows the total (and proposed) annual remuneration paid to both executive and non-executive directors.

Director 2018 Financial Year 2019 Financial Year
Don Carroll $60,000 $82,137
Martin Wood $180,353 $375,000
Greg Boulton $Nil $35,342
David Turvey $Nil $8,877
Peter Huljich $Nil $8,877

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8.6 Interests of experts and advisers

Other than as set out below or elsewhere in this Prospectus, no:

  • (a) person named in this Prospectus as performing a function in a professional, advisory or other capacity in connection with the preparation or distribution of this Prospectus;

  • (b) promoter of the Company; or

  • (c) underwriter (but not a sub-underwriter) to the issue or a financial services licensee named in this Prospectus as a financial services licensee involved in the issue,

holds, or has held within the 2 years preceding lodgement of this Prospectus with the ASIC, any interest in:

  • (d) the formation or promotion of the Company;

  • (e) any property acquired or proposed to be acquired by the Company in connection with:

  • (i) its formation or promotion; or

  • (ii) the Offer; or

  • (f) the Offer,

and no amounts have been paid or agreed to be paid and no benefits have been given or agreed to be given to any of these persons for services provided in connection with:

  • (g) the formation or promotion of the Company; or

  • (h) the Offer.

Patersons Securities Limited will be paid an underwriting fee of 5% of the gross amount underwritten together with a management fee of 2% of the gross amount raised in respect of this Offer. Patersons Securities Limited will also be paid a cash fee of $25,000 for services provided to the Company. During the 24 months preceding lodgement of this Prospectus with the ASIC, Patersons Securities Limited has not been paid any fees by the Company.

Steinepreis Paganin has acted as the solicitors to the Company in relation to the Offer. The Company estimates it will pay Steinepreis Paganin $15,000 (excluding GST and disbursements) for these services. During the 24 months preceding lodgement of this Prospectus with the ASIC, Steinepreis Paganin has been paid fees totalling $92,284 (excluding GST and disbursements) for legal services provided to the Company.

8.7 Consents

Chapter 6D of the Corporations Act imposes a liability regime on the Company (as the offeror of the Securities), the Directors, the persons named in the Prospectus with their consent as Proposed Directors, any underwriters, persons named in the Prospectus with their consent having made a statement in the Prospectus and persons involved in a contravention in relation to the Prospectus, with regard to misleading and deceptive statements made in the Prospectus,

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Although the Company bears primary responsibility for the Prospectus, the other parties involved in the preparation of the Prospectus can also be responsible for certain statements made in it.

Each of the parties referred to in this section:

  • (a) does not make, or purport to make, any statement in this Prospectus other than those referred to in this section;

  • (b) in light of the above, only to the maximum extent permitted by law, expressly disclaim and take no responsibility for any part of this Prospectus other than a reference to its name and a statement included in this Prospectus with the consent of that party as specified in this section;

  • (c) Patersons Securities Limited has given its written consent to being named as underwriter to the Offer in this Prospectus, in the form and context in which it is named;

  • (d) Patersons Securities Limited (including its related entities) is not a Shareholder of the Company and currently has no relevant interest in any of the Company’s securities;

  • (e) Steinepreis Paganin has given its written consent to being named as the solicitors to the Company in this Prospectus. Steinepreis Paganin has not withdrawn its consent prior to the lodgement of this Prospectus with the ASIC.

8.8 Expenses of the offer

In the event that all Entitlements are accepted, the total expenses of the Offer are estimated to be approximately $186,617 (excluding GST) and are expected to be applied towards the items set out in the table below:

ASIC fees
ASX fees
Underwriting, corporate, management and selling fees
Legal fees
Company Secretary fees
Share registry fees
Printing and distribution
Miscellaneous
Total
$
3,206
6,584
117,630
15,000
14,600
13,877
10,720
5,000
186,617

8.9 Electronic prospectus

If you have received this Prospectus as an electronic Prospectus, please ensure that you have received the entire Prospectus accompanied by the Entitlement and Application Form. If you have not, please phone the Company on +61 8 9200 3456 and the Company will send you, for free, either a hard copy or a further electronic copy of the Prospectus, or both. Alternatively, you may obtain a copy of this Prospectus from the Company’s website at www.kogiiron.com.

The Company reserves the right not to accept an Entitlement and Application Form from a person if it has reason to believe that when that person was given access to the electronic Entitlement and Application Form, it was not provided

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together with the electronic Prospectus and any relevant supplementary or replacement prospectus or any of those documents were incomplete or altered.

8.10 Financial forecasts

The Directors have considered the matters set out in ASIC Regulatory Guide 170 and believe that they do not have a reasonable basis to forecast future earnings on the basis that the operations of the Company are inherently uncertain. Accordingly, any forecast or projection information would contain such a broad range of potential outcomes and possibilities that it is not possible to prepare a reliable best estimate forecast or projection.

8.11 Clearing House Electronic Sub-Register System (CHESS) and Issuer Sponsorship

The Company will not be issuing option certificates. The Company is a participant in CHESS, for those investors who have, or wish to have, a sponsoring stockbroker. Investors who do not wish to participate through CHESS will be issuer sponsored by the Company. Because the sub-registers are electronic, ownership of securities can be transferred without having to rely upon paper documentation.

Electronic registers mean that the Company will not be issuing certificates to investors. Instead, investors will be provided with a statement (similar to a bank account statement) that sets out the number of New Options allotted to them under this Prospectus. The notice will also advise holders of their Holder Identification Number or Security Holder Reference Number and explain, for future reference, the sale and purchase procedures under CHESS and issuer sponsorship.

Further monthly statements will be provided to holders if there have been any changes in their security holding in the Company during the preceding month.

8.12

Privacy Act

If you complete an application for New Options, you will be providing personal information to the Company (directly or by the Company’s share registry). The Company collects, holds and will use that information to assess your application, service your needs as a holder of equity securities in the Company, facilitate distribution payments and corporate communications to you as a Shareholder and carry out administration.

The information may also be used from time to time and disclosed to persons inspecting the register, bidders for your securities in the context of takeovers, regulatory bodies, including the Australian Taxation Office, authorised securities brokers, print service providers, mail houses and the Company’s share registry.

You can access, correct and update the personal information that we hold about you. Please contact the Company or its share registry if you wish to do so at the relevant contact numbers set out in this Prospectus.

Collection, maintenance and disclosure of certain personal information is governed by legislation including the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (as amended), the Corporations Act and certain rules such as the ASX Settlement Operating Rules. You should note that if you do not provide the information required on the application for New Options, the Company may not be able to accept or process your application.

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9. DIRECTORS’ AUTHORISATION

This Prospectus is issued by the Company and its issue has been authorised by a resolution of the Directors.

In accordance with section 720 of the Corporations Act, each Director has consented to the lodgement of this Prospectus with the ASIC.

_______ DON CARROLL CHAIRMAN For and on behalf of KOGI IRON LIMITED

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10. GLOSSARY

  • $ means the lawful currency of the Commonwealth of Australia.

Applicant means a Shareholder who applies for Options pursuant to the Offer.

ASIC means the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

ASX means ASX Limited (ACN 008 624 691) or the financial market operated by it as the context requires.

ASX Listing Rules means the listing rules of the ASX.

ASX Settlement Operating Rules means the settlement rules of the securities clearing house which operates CHESS.

Board means the board of Directors unless the context indicates otherwise.

Business Day means Monday to Friday inclusive, except New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and any other day that ASX declares is not a business day.

Closing Date means the date specified in the timetable set out at the commencement of this Prospectus (unless extended).

Company means Kogi Iron Limited (ACN 001 894 033).

Constitution means the constitution of the Company as at the date of this Prospectus.

Corporations Act means the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).

Directors means the directors of the Company as at the date of this Prospectus.

Entitlement means the entitlement of a Shareholder who is eligible to participate in the Offer.

Entitlement and Acceptance Form means the entitlement and acceptance form either attached to or accompanying this Prospectus.

New Option means an Option issued on the terms set out in section 6.1 of this Prospectus.

Offer means the non-renounceable entitlement issue the subject of this Prospectus.

Official Quotation means official quotation on ASX.

Option means an option to acquire a Share on the terms and conditions set out in section 6.1 of this Prospectus.

Optionholder means a holder of an Option.

Prospectus means this prospectus.

Record Date means the date specified in the timetable set out at the commencement of this Prospectus.

Share means a fully paid ordinary share in the capital of the Company.

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Shareholder means a holder of a Share.

Shortfall means the Options not applied for under the Offer (if any). Shortfall Options means those Options issued pursuant to the Shortfall. Underwriting Agreement has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 8.4.1. WST means Western Standard Time as observed in Perth, Western Australia.

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