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Voyager Digital Ltd. — Capital/Financing Update 2020
Dec 22, 2020
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AGENCY AGREEMENT
December 15, 2020
Voyager Digital Ltd. 33 Irving Pl. 3rd fl. New York, New York 10003
Attention: Mr. Stephen Ehrlich, Chief Executive Officer
Dear Sir:
The undersigned, Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc. (the “ Agent ”), as sole agent and bookrunner, on its own behalf, understands that Voyager Digital Ltd. (the “ Company ”) proposes to create, offer, issue and sell up to 4,666,675 special warrants of the Company (the “ Initial Special Warrants ”) at a price of $1.50 per Initial Special Warrant (the “ Issue Price ”) for aggregate gross proceeds of up to $7,000,013, or such other number of Special Warrants as the Agent and the Company may agree (together with the Agent’s Option (as defined below), the “ Offering ”), subject to the terms and conditions set out below. In addition, the Company has granted to the Agent an option (the “ Agent’s Option ”) exercisable, in whole or in part, at any time up to forty-eight (48) hours prior to the Time of Closing (as defined herein) to arrange for the sale of such number of additional special warrants of the Company as is equal to 15% of the number of Initial Special Warrants (the “ Additional Special Warrants ” and, together with the Initial Special Warrants, the “ Special Warrants ”) at the Issue Price to raise additional gross proceeds of up to $1,050,001.50, or such other amount as the Agent and the Company may agree. The Agent’s Option shall be exercisable by the Agent providing written notice to the Company thereof at any time up to 48 hours prior to the Time of Closing. Upon the furnishing of such a notice, the Company will be committed to sell and deliver to the Agent, in accordance with and subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the number of Additional Special Warrants indicated in such notice.
The Special Warrants shall be duly and validly created and issued pursuant to, and governed by, a special warrant indenture (the “ Special Warrant Indenture ”) to be entered into on the Closing Date between the Company and Computershare Trust Company of Canada (the “ Special Warrant Agent ”), or such other trust company as may be acceptable to the Agent and the Company. The description of the Special Warrants herein is a summary only and is subject to the specific attributes and detailed provisions of the Special Warrants set forth in the Special Warrant Indenture. In the case of any inconsistency between the description of the Special Warrants in this Agreement and their terms and conditions as set forth in the Special Warrant Indenture, the provisions of the Special Warrant Indenture shall govern.
Each Special Warrant is will entitle the holder thereof to receive, without payment of any further consideration, and subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments, one (1) unit of the Company (each an “ Underlying Unit ” and together with any Penalty Units (as defined below), the “ Underlying Units ”) in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Special Warrants,
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which are summarized in the term sheet attached to the Subscription Agreement (as defined below). Each Underlying Unit is comprised of one common share of the Company (each a “ Unit Share ” and collectively, the “ Unit Shares ”) and one-half of one (1) common share purchase warrant (each whole common share purchase warrant, a “ Warrant ” and collectively, the “ Warrants ”). Each Warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one (1) common share of the Company (each a “ Warrant Share ” and collectively, the “ Warrant Shares ”) for a period of 24 months following the Closing Date (the “ Expiry Date ”) at a price of $2.50 per Warrant Share, subject to adjustment in certain events. The Warrants shall be duly and validly created and issued pursuant to, and governed by, a warrant indenture (the “ Warrant Indenture ”) to be entered into on the Closing Date between the Company and Computershare Trust Company of Canada (the “ Warrant Agent ”), or such other trust company as may be acceptable to the Agent and the Company. The description of the Warrants herein is a summary only and is subject to the specific attributes and detailed provisions of the Warrants set forth in the Warrant Indenture. In the case of any inconsistency between the description of the Warrants in this Agreement and their terms and conditions as set forth in the Warrant Indenture, the provisions of the Warrant Indenture shall govern.
Each Special Warrant will be (i) voluntarily exercisable at any time for no additional consideration by any Purchaser (as defined herein) by providing written notice to the Special Warrant Agent of such exercise, or (ii) to the extent any Special Warrants remain unexercised, automatically exercised (without any further action on the part the Purchasers) at 5:00 p.m. (EDT) on the Qualification Date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event the Qualification Date has not occurred prior to 5:00 p.m. (EDT) on the date which is ninety (90) days following the Closing Date (the “ Qualification Deadline ”), each unexercised Special Warrant will thereafter entitle Purchasers to receive upon the exercise or deemed exercise thereof, for no additional consideration, 1.10 Units in lieu of one (1) Unit (each additional 0.10 Unit, a “ Penalty Unit ”). The Penalty Units shall be qualified for distribution pursuant to any Final Qualification Prospectus (as defined herein) filed by the Company. The Company will use reasonable commercial efforts to have the Qualification Date occur prior to the Qualification Deadline. Notwithstanding any failure by the Company to satisfy the Qualification Condition (as defined herein) by the Qualification Deadline, the Company shall continue to use reasonable commercial efforts to satisfy the Qualification Condition as soon as possible thereafter until such time as all the Special Warrants have been, or are deemed to have been, exercised.
In consideration of the Agent agreeing to act as agent to find Purchasers of Special Warrants on a “best efforts” private placement basis, the Company agrees to pay to the Agent at the Time of Closing (as defined below) on the Closing Date an aggregate cash commission equal to 7.0% of the aggregate gross proceeds from the sale of Special Warrants pursuant to the Offering (including any Special Warrants issued and sold upon exercise of the Agent’s Option) (the “ Agent’s Commission ”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, certain officers and directors of the Company and other individuals identified by the Company shall have the ability to participate in the Offering under a “ President’s List ”. All sales of Special Warrant placed under the President’s List will be subject to the Agent’s Commission, except that the cash portion of the Agent’s Commission in respect of such sales may be satisfied by the Company issuing Common Shares to the Agent at the Issue Price.
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As additional consideration for the services rendered by the Agent in connection with the Offering, the Company shall issue to the Agent that number of compensation warrants (the “ Compensation Warrants ”) equal to 7.0% of the number of Special Warrants sold in connection with the Offering (including any Special Warrants issued and sold upon exercise of the Agent’s Option). Each Compensation Warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one Common Share (each a “ Compensation Warrant Share ”, and together with the Compensation Warrants, the “ Compensation Securities ”) at the Issue Price at any time for a period of 24 months following the Closing Date. The Compensation Warrant Shares will, to the extent not issued prior thereto, be qualified for distribution under the Final Qualification Prospectus.
The Company and the Agent agree that any offers to sell or sales of the Special Warrants to, or for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States (as defined below) and U.S. Persons (as defined below), (i) be made in compliance with Schedule A attached hereto, which forms part of this Agreement, and allows for the Agent, acting through one or more U.S. Affiliates (as defined below), to offer the Special Warrants for sale by the Company to U.S. Accredited Investors (as defined below) and Qualified Institutional Buyers (as defined below) in accordance with Rule 506(b) of Regulation D; (ii) be conducted in such a manner so as not to require registration thereof or the filing of a prospectus or an offering memorandum with respect thereto under the U.S. Securities Act (as defined below); and (iii) be conducted through one or more duly registered U.S. Affiliates (as defined below) of the Agent in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws of the United States.
Contemporaneous with the Offering, the Company intends to complete a concurrent nonbrokered private placement (the “ Concurrent Private Placement ”) of up to 104,000 Special Warrants to a certain Canadian subscriber known to the Company who will settle directly with the Company, and up to 63,667 units to certain U.S. subscribers who will settle directly with the Company (the “ US Private Placement ”). Subscribers under the US Private Placement will receive units of the Company for a subscription price of $1.50 per unit, where each unit is comprised of one (1) Common Share and one-half (0.5) of one (1) Common Share purchase warrant (each whole Common Share purchase warrant, a “ Concurrent Private Placement Warrant ”), governed by a warrant certificate. Each Concurrent Private Placement Warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one Common Share at a price of $2.50 per Concurrent Private Placement Warrant for a period of 24 months following the Closing Date.
The Agent undertakes no obligation to the Company or to the purchasers under the Concurrent Private Placement. The Company acknowledges and agrees that purchasers under the Concurrent Private Placement do not and will not have any recourse to or any rights against the Agent, and the Agent do not and will not have any liability whatsoever to purchasers under or in connection with the Concurrent Private Placement.
The Agent shall be entitled to appoint, at its sole expense, other registered dealers (“ Selling Firms ”) as agents to assist in the Offering and the Agent shall determine the remuneration payable to such Selling Firms, such remuneration to be the sole responsibility of the Agent.
The Offering is conditional upon and subject to the additional terms and conditions set forth below. The following are additional terms and conditions of the Agreement between the Company and the Agent:
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1. Interpretation
– Definitions In addition to the terms previously defined and terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement (as defined below) (including the Schedules hereto), where used in this Agreement or in any amendment hereto, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively:
“ Agent’s Commission ” has the meaning ascribed to such term above;
“ Agreement ” means this Agency Agreement as the same may be amended and/or restated from time to time;
“ Ancillary Documents ” means all agreements, indentures (including the Special Warrant Indenture and the Warrant Indenture), certificates (including the Compensation Warrant Certificate and any certificates representing the Special Warrants, Unit Shares, Warrants and Warrant Shares), officers’ certificates, notices and other documents executed and delivered, or to be executed and delivered, by the Company in connection with the Offering or the qualification for distribution of the Underlying Units, whether pursuant to Applicable Securities Laws or otherwise;
“ Applicable Laws ” means, in relation to any person or persons, the Applicable Securities Laws, and all other statutes, regulations, statutory rules, orders, by-laws, codes, ordinances, decrees, the terms and conditions of any grant of approval, permission, authority or licence, or any judgment, order, decision, ruling, award, policy or guideline, of any Governmental Authority that are applicable to such person or persons or its or their business, undertaking, property or securities and emanate from a Governmental Authority, having jurisdiction over the person or persons or its or their business, undertaking, property or securities;
“ Applicable Securities Laws ” means, collectively, (i) the applicable securities laws of each of the Qualifying Jurisdictions, their respective regulations, rulings, rules, orders (including blanket orders and discretionary orders), instruments (including national and multilateral instruments), fee schedules and prescribed forms thereunder, the applicable policy statements issued by the Securities Commissions or similar authority thereunder and the securities legislation of and policies issued by each other relevant jurisdiction and the rules and policies of the CSE (as defined below), and (ii) all applicable securities laws in the United States, including without limitation, the U.S. Securities Act, the U.S. Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and any applicable state securities laws;
“ Assets and Properties ” with respect to any person means all assets and properties of every kind, nature, character and description (whether real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible, choate or inchoate, absolute, accrued, contingent, fixed or otherwise, and, in each case, wherever situated), including the goodwill related thereto, operated, owned, licensed or leased by or in the possession of such person;
“ BCBCA ” means the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia);
“ BCSC ” means the British Columbia Securities Commission;
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“ Business Day ” means a day, other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which chartered banks are not open for business in Vancouver, British Columbia or Toronto, Ontario;
“ CDS ” means CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc.;
“ Closing ” means the closing of the Offering;
“ Closing Date ” means December 15, 2020 or such earlier or later date as may be agreed to in writing by the Company and the Agent each acting reasonably;
“ Common Shares ” means the common shares in the capital of the Company;
“ Compensation Warrant Certificate ” means the certificate representing the Compensation Warrants;
“ Compensation Warrant Shares ” has the meaning ascribed to such term above;
“ Compensation Warrants ” has the meaning ascribed to such term above;
“ Compensation Securities ” has the meaning ascribed to such term above;
“ Concurrent Private Placement ” has the meaning ascribed to such term above;
“ Concurrent Private Placement Warrant ” has the meaning ascribed to such term above;
“ CSE ” means the Canadian Securities Exchange;
“ Debt Instrument ” means any material loan, bond, debenture, promissory note or other instrument evidencing indebtedness (demand or otherwise) for borrowed money or other liability;
“ Disclosure Record ” means the Company’s prospectuses, annual reports, annual and interim financial statements, annual information forms, business acquisition reports, management discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations, information circulars, material change reports, press releases and all other information or documents publicly filed or otherwise publicly disseminated by the Company since July 1, 2018;
“ distribution ” means distribution or distribution to the public, as the case may be, for the purposes of the Applicable Securities Laws in the Qualifying Jurisdictions or any of them;
“ Documents Incorporated by Reference ” means all financial statements, management’s discussion and analysis, management information circulars, annual information forms, business acquisition reports, material change reports and other documents filed by the Company, whether before or after the date of this Agreement, that are required to be incorporated by reference, or that are deemed to be incorporated by reference, under Applicable Securities Laws in the Qualifying Jurisdictions in the
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Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus or any Supplementary Material, as applicable;
“ Eligible Issuer ” means an issuer which meets the criteria and has complied with the requirements of NI 44-101 so as to be qualified to offer securities by way of a short form prospectus;
“ Encumbrance ” means any charge, mortgage, lien, pledge, claim, restriction, security interest or other encumbrance whether created or arising by agreement, statute or otherwise pursuant to any applicable law, attaching to property, interests or rights;
“ Exchange Agreement ” means any agreement governing the use of a cryptocurrency exchange by the Company and/or any Subsidiary, pursuant to which the Company and/or any Subsidiary engages in the processing, execution or settlement of trades in the ordinary course of business;
“ Final Receipt ” means the Passport Receipt for the Final Qualification Prospectus;
“ Final Qualification Prospectus ” means the (final) short form prospectus of the Company, including all of the Documents Incorporated by Reference, prepared by the Company and certified by the Company and the Agent, qualifying the distribution of the Underlying Units in the Qualifying Jurisdictions;
“ Governmental Authority ” means any governmental authority and includes, without limitation, any international, national, federal government, province, state, municipality or other political subdivision of any of the foregoing, any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government and any corporation or other entity owned or controlled (through stock or capital ownership or otherwise) by any of the foregoing;
“ Governmental Licences ” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 8(ddd) of this Agreement;
“ Historical Financial Statements ” means, collectively, the (i) audited consolidated financial statements of the Company as at and for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020 (which financial statements include comparative financial information for the June 30, 2019 fiscal year), together with the report of Marcum LLP on those financial statements, and including the notes with respect to those financial statements; and (ii) the unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements of the Company as at and for the three months ended September 30, 2020 (which financial statements include comparative financial information for the comparable period ended September 30, 2019), and including the notes with respect to those financial statements;
“ IFRS ” means International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, which were adopted by the Canadian Accounting Standards Board as Canadian generally accepted accounting principles applicable to publicly accountable enterprises;
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“ Indemnified Parties ” and “ Indemnified Party ” have the meanings ascribed thereto in Section 13;
“ Indemnitor ” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 13;
“ Intellectual Property ” shall mean all of the following which is owned by, issued to or licensed to the Company and/or any Subsidiary, or other rights of the Company and/or any Subsidiary to use the following: (i) rights in any patents, patent applications, patent rights, patent disclosures and inventions (whether or not patentable and whether or not reduced to practice) anywhere in the world and any re-issue, continuation, continuationin-part, revision, extension or re-examination thereof; (ii) trademarks, service marks, trade-names, business names, certification marks, logos, slogans, Internet domain names, distinguishing marks and guises, rights protecting goodwill and reputation and corporate names together with all the goodwill associated therewith, including, without limitation, the use of the current corporate name and any registrations and applications therefor, anywhere in the world, whether or not registered or registrable; (iii) copyrights (including performance rights) to any original works of art or authorship (including, without limitation, web sites, source code and graphics) which are fixed in any medium of expression, including copyright registrations and applications therefor, anywhere in the world, whether or not registered or registrable; (iv) all registrations, applications, and renewals for any of the foregoing, whether registrable or unregistrable; (v) trade secrets, know how (including unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary information, systems or procedures), show-how, proprietary knowledge and other confidential information; (vi) any and all industrial design rights, industrial designs, design patents, industrial design or design patent registrations and applications therefor, anywhere in the world, whether or not registered or registrable; (vii) information technologies, whether registrable or unregistrable; (viii) other intellectual property; (ix) all copies and tangible embodiments of the foregoing; and (x) any license rights or other rights of use of any of the foregoing;
“ Leased Premises ” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 8(uu);
“ Licensed IP ” means the Intellectual Property that is necessary and material to the business of the Company and the Subsidiaries as presently conducted or as presently proposed to be conducted and that is owned by any person other than the Company or any Subsidiary;
“ Material Adverse Effect ” means any event, fact, change (including a decision to implement such a change made by the board of directors or by senior management who believe that confirmation of the decision by the board of directors is probable), circumstance, development, occurrence or state of affairs which could have an effect that is materially adverse (actually or anticipated, whether financial or otherwise) to the business, assets (including intangible assets), affairs, operations, liabilities (contingent or otherwise), capital, assets, properties, prospects, condition (financial or otherwise) or results of operations of the Company and the Subsidiaries (taken as a whole), whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business;
“ Material Agreements ” means any material contract, commitment, agreement (written, oral or otherwise), arrangement, instrument, lease or other document, license agreement and agreements relating to intellectual property, to which the Company or any Subsidiary
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are a party or to which any of their property or assets are otherwise bound, including, without limitation, any Exchange Agreement;
“ material change ” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Applicable Securities Laws of the Qualifying Jurisdictions;
“ material fact ” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Applicable Securities Laws of the Qualifying Jurisdictions;
“ misrepresentation ” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Applicable Securities Laws of the Qualifying Jurisdictions;
“ NI 44-101 ” means National Instrument 44-101 – Short Form Prospectus Distributions of the Canadian Securities Administrators;
“ NI 45-106 ” means National Instrument 45-106 – Prospectus Exemptions of the Canadian Securities Administrators;
“ NI 51-102 ” means National Instrument 51-102 – Continuous Disclosure Obligations of the Canadian Securities Administrators;
“ Offering Documents ” means, collectively, the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus, and any Supplementary Material;
“ Passport Receipt ” means a receipt issued by the BCSC as principal regulator pursuant to the Passport System and which also evidences (i) that the Ontario Securities Commission has issued a receipt, and (ii) the deemed receipt of the Securities Commissions of the Qualifying Jurisdictions (other than Ontario and British Columbia), in any case for the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus or the Final Qualification Prospectus or any Supplementary Material, as the case may be;
“ Passport System ” means the passport system procedures provided for under National Policy 11-202 - Process for Prospectus Reviews in Multiple Jurisdictions of the Canadian Securities Administrators;
“ Penalty Unit ” has the meaning ascribed to such term above;
“ Person ” means any individual, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, syndicate, sole proprietorship, company or corporation with or without share capital, unincorporated association, trust, trustee, executor, administrator or other legal personal representative, regulatory body or agency, government or governmental agency, authority or entity however designated or constituted;
“ Personnel ” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 13;
“ Preliminary Receipt ” means the Passport Receipt for the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus;
“ Preliminary Qualification Prospectus ” means the preliminary short form prospectus of the Company, including all of the Documents Incorporated by Reference, prepared by
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the Company and certified by the Company and the Agent relating to the distribution of the Underlying Units in the Qualifying Jurisdictions;
“ Purchasers ” means the persons who (as purchasers or beneficial purchasers) acquire Special Warrants by duly completing, executing and delivering Subscription Agreements, and permitted assignees or transferees of such persons from time to time;
“ Qualification ” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 8(ff);
“ Qualification Condition ” means the Company obtaining the Final Receipt for the Final Qualification Prospectus from the BCSC, as principal regulator, on its own behalf and on behalf of each of the other Securities Commissions, which qualifies the distribution of the Underlying Units;
“ Qualification Date ” means the date that is the earlier of: (i) four (4) months and one (1) day following Closing, and (ii) the third business day after the Qualification Condition is satisfied;
“ Qualified Institutional Buyer ” means a “qualified institutional buyer” as that term is defined in Rule 144A that is also a U.S. Accredited Investor;
“ Qualifying Jurisdictions ” means the Provinces of Canada, other than Quebec, in which Purchasers are resident;
“ Regulation D ” means Regulation D adopted by the SEC under the U.S. Securities Act;
“ Rule 144A ” means Rule 144A adopted by the SEC under the U.S. Securities Act;
“ SEC ” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission;
“ Securities Commission ” means the applicable securities commission or regulatory authority in each of the Qualifying Jurisdictions and “ Securities Commissions ” has a comparable meaning;
“ SEDAR ” means the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval;
“ Selling Jurisdictions ” means, collectively, the Qualifying Jurisdictions, the United States and such other jurisdictions consented to by the Company and the Agent where Special Warrants are sold;
“ Standard Listing Conditions ” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7(a);
“ Subscription Agreements ” means, collectively, the subscription agreements in the form agreed upon by the Agent and the Company, pursuant to which Purchasers agree to subscribe for and purchase Special Warrants as herein contemplated and shall include, for greater certainty, all schedules thereto;
“ Subsequent Disclosure Documents ” means any annual and/or interim financial statements, management’s discussion and analysis, information circulars, annual information forms, material change reports, business acquisition reports or other
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documents issued by the Company after the date of this Agreement that are required to be incorporated by reference into the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus or any Supplementary Material;
“ Subsidiaries ” means those entities that would be a “subsidiary” of the Company pursuant to the Applicable Securities Laws of the Province of British Columbia and includes: (i) HTC Trading, Inc.; (ii) Voyager Digital Holdings, Inc.; (iii) Voyager IP, LLC; (iv) Voyager Digital, LLC; (v) VYGR Digital Securities, LLC; and (vi) LGO SAS;
“ Supplementary Material ” means, collectively, any amendment to or amendment and restatement of the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus and/or the Final Qualification Prospectus, and any further amendment, amendment and restatement or supplemental prospectus thereto or ancillary materials that may be filed by or on behalf of the Company under the Applicable Securities Laws relating to the qualification of the distribution of the Underlying Units;
“ Time of Closing ” means 8:00 a.m. (EDT) on the Closing Date, or such other time on the Closing Date as may be agreed to by the Company and the Agent;
“ Transaction Documents ” means, collectively, this Agreement, the Subscription Agreements, the Special Warrant Indenture, the Warrant Indenture, the Compensation Warrant Certificate and the certificates, if any, representing the Special Warrants and the Warrants;
“ Underlying Units ” has the meaning given to it above;
“ United States ” means the United States of America, its territories and possessions, any State of the United States and the District of Columbia;
“ U.S. Accredited Investor ” means an “accredited investor” within the meaning of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D;
“ U.S. Affiliate ” means the duly registered United States broker-dealer affiliate of an Agent;
“ U.S. Exchange Act ” means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder;
“ U.S. Person ” means a “ U.S. person ” as that term is defined in Rule 902(k) of Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act;
“ U.S. Securities Act ” means the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder;
“ Warrant Agent ” has the meaning given to it above; and
“ Warrant Indenture ” has the meaning given to it above.
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Other
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(a) Any reference in this Agreement to a Section shall refer to a section of this Agreement.
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(b) All words and personal pronouns relating thereto shall be read and construed as the number and gender of the party or parties referred to in each case requires and the verb shall be construed as agreeing with the required word and/or pronoun.
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(c) Any reference in this Agreement to “ $ ” or to “ dollars ” shall refer to the lawful currency of Canada, unless otherwise specified. All references in this Agreement to “deemed exercise” of the Special Warrants shall refer to the automatic exercise of the Special Warrants on the Qualification Date.
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(d) Where any representation or warranty contained in this Agreement or any Ancillary Document is expressly qualified by reference to the “ knowledge ” of the Company or “ the best of the Company’s knowledge ”, or where any other reference is made herein or in any Ancillary Document to the “ knowledge ” of the Company, it shall be deemed to refer to the actual knowledge of (i) Stephen Ehrlich, the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, (ii) Philip Eytan, Chairman of the Company, and (iii) Serge Kreiker, the Chief Technology Officer of the Company, of the facts or circumstances to which such phrase relates, after having made reasonable enquiry in connection with such facts and circumstances that would ordinarily be made by officers of similar sized companies (which for greater certainty shall exclude any due diligence reports or materials prepared by the Agent or its counsel).
2. Nature of Transaction
The Company hereby agrees to secure compliance with all Applicable Securities Laws on a timely basis in connection with the distribution of the Special Warrants and the Company shall execute and file with the Securities Commissions all forms, notices and certificates relating to the Offering required to be filed pursuant to the Applicable Securities Laws in the Qualifying Jurisdictions in the time required by Applicable Securities Laws in the Qualifying Jurisdictions.
3. Offering of Special Warrants
- (a) Agency Deal . The Company hereby appoints the Agent to act as the Company’s exclusive agents to offer and sell Special Warrants on a “best efforts” private placement basis and the Agent hereby accepts such appointment. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or any oral representations or assurances previously or subsequently made by the parties hereto, this Agreement does not constitute a commitment by, or legally binding obligation of, the Agent or any of its affiliates to act as underwriters, initial purchasers, arrangers, and/or placement agents in connection with any offering of securities of the Company, including the Special Warrants, or to provide or arrange any financing, other than the appointment as agent in connection with the
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Offering in accordance with the prior sentence and otherwise on the terms set forth herein.
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(b) Sale on Exempt Basis . The Company understands that the Agent shall have the right to and shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to arrange for the Special Warrants to be purchased by the Purchasers:
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(i) in the Qualifying Jurisdictions on a private placement basis in compliance with Applicable Securities Laws in the Qualifying Jurisdictions such that the offer and sale of the Special Warrants does not obligate the Company to file a prospectus (other than Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus or any Supplementary Material relating to the distribution of the Underlying Units as contemplated this Agreement);
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(ii) to, or for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States and U.S. Persons in transactions exempt from registration under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws and in accordance with Schedule A attached hereto; and
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(iii) in such other jurisdictions as consented to by the Company on a private placement basis in compliance with all applicable securities laws of such other jurisdictions provided that no prospectus, registration statement or similar document is required to be filed in such jurisdiction, no registration or similar requirement would apply with respect to the Company in such other jurisdictions and the Company does not thereafter become subject to on-going continuous disclosure obligations in such other jurisdictions.
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(c) Press Releases . In order to comply with applicable U.S. securities laws, any press release announcing or otherwise concerning the Offering shall include an appropriate notation on each page as follows: “ Not for distribution to United States Newswire Services or for dissemination in the United States ”, provided however, that any press release issued announcing the closing of the Offering shall not bear such legend. In addition, any such press release shall contain the following disclaimer: “This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of the securities in any state in which such offer, soliciation or sale would be unlawful. The securities being offered have not been, nor will they be, registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ U.S. Securities Act ”) and may not be offered or sold to, or for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States or “U.S. persons” (as such term is defined in Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act) absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.”
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(d) Filings . The Company undertakes to file, or cause to be filed, all forms or undertakings required to be filed by the Company in connection with the issue and sale of the Special Warrants (including a Form 45-106F1, Form D and any filings required under state blue-sky laws, as required, with the applicable Securities Commissions, the SEC and United States state regulatory authorities, as applicable) so that the distribution of the Special Warrants to the Purchasers may
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lawfully occur without the necessity of filing a prospectus, registration statement or other offering document in Canada or other jurisdictions (but on terms that will permit the Special Warrants acquired by the Purchasers to be sold by such Purchasers at any time in the Selling Jurisdictions, subject to applicable hold periods under Applicable Securities Laws). All prescribed fees payable in connection with such filings shall be at the sole expense of the Company.
- (e) No Offering Memorandum . Neither the Company nor the Agent shall: (i) provide to any prospective purchasers of Special Warrants any document or other material that would constitute an offering memorandum within the meaning of Applicable Securities Laws; or (ii) engage in any form of general solicitation or general advertising in connection with the offer and sale of the Special Warrants, including any advertisement, article, notice or other communication published in any newspaper, magazine, printed public media, printed media or similar media, or broadcast over radio, television or telecommunications, including electronic display, or any seminar or meeting relating to the offer and sale of the Special Warrants whose attendees have been invited by general solicitation or advertising.
4. Filing of Preliminary Qualification Prospectus and Final Qualification Prospectus
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(a) Preliminary Qualification Prospectus . The Company covenants and agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts to: (i) prepare and file the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus and obtain a Preliminary Receipt therefor from the BCSC as soon as practicable; and (ii) promptly resolve all comments received or deficiencies raised by the Securities Commissions in respect of the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus as expeditiously as possible.
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(b) Final Qualification Prospectus . The Company covenants and agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts to, as soon as practicable after all comments of the Securities Commissions have been satisfied with respect to the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, and in any event, prior to the Qualification Deadline, prepare and file the Final Qualification Prospectus and obtain a Final Receipt therefor from the BCSC. The Company shall promptly take, or cause to be taken, all reasonable steps and proceedings that may from time to time be required under Applicable Securities Laws in the Qualifying Jurisdictions to qualify the distribution of the Underlying Units in the Qualifying Jurisdictions (including for greater certainty, the Units issuable upon the exercise of the Compensation Warrants until the day that is 4 months and a day following the Closing Date) and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that such requirements shall be fulfilled prior to the Qualification Deadline. If the Company does not obtain the Final Receipt prior to the Qualification Deadline, the Company covenants in favour of the Purchasers to continue to use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the Final Receipt as soon as possible, provided that the Company shall no longer be required to do so after such time as all of the Special Warrants have been, or are deemed to have been, exercised.
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(c) Commercial Copies . The Company shall cause commercial copies of the Final Qualification Prospectus and any Supplementary Material to be delivered to the
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Agent without charge, in such numbers and in such cities in the Selling Jurisdictions as the Agent may reasonably request. Such delivery shall be effected as soon as practicable and, in any event, within two Business Days after the filing thereof in the Qualifying Jurisdictions.
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(d) Representation as to Final Qualification Prospectus and Supplementary Material . Each delivery to the Agent of the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus and/or any Supplementary Material by or on behalf of the Company shall constitute the representation and warranty of the Company to the Agent that:
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(i) all information and statements (except information and statements relating solely to and provided in writing by the Agent) contained and incorporated by reference in the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus or the Final Qualification Prospectus or any Supplementary Material, as the case may be, are, at the respective dates of delivery thereof, true and correct and contain no misrepresentation or untrue, false or misleading statement of a material fact and, on the respective dates of delivery thereof, the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus or any Supplementary Material provide full, true and plain disclosure of all material facts relating to the Company (on a consolidated basis), the Special Warrants, the Underlying Units, the Unit Shares, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares as required by Applicable Securities Laws of the Qualifying Jurisdictions;
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(ii) no material fact has been omitted from any of the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus or any Supplementary Material (except information and statements relating solely to and provided in writing by the Agent) which is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading in light of the circumstances in which they were made; and
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(iii) each of such documents complies with the requirements of the Applicable Securities Laws of the Qualifying Jurisdictions.
Such delivery shall also constitute the Company’s consent to the Agent and any Selling Firm’s use of the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus and any Supplementary Material in connection with the distribution of the Underlying Units in the Qualifying Jurisdictions in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement.
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(e) Review of Prospectuses . The form and substance of the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus and any Supplementary Material shall be satisfactory to the Agent (including a requirement to include special risk factors relating to the Company’s industry), acting reasonably, prior to the filing thereof with the Securities Commissions.
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(f) Contractual Right of Rescission . In the event that a holder of a Special Warrant who acquires Unit Shares and Warrants that comprise Underlying Units upon
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exercise or deemed exercise of the Special Warrant is or becomes entitled under Applicable Securities Laws in the Qualifying Jurisdictions to the remedy of rescission by reason of a misrepresentation in the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus or the Final Qualification Prospectus, or any Supplementary Material, qualifying for distribution in the Qualifying Jurisdictions the Unit Shares and Warrants comprising the Underlying Units to be issued on exercise or deemed exercise of the Special Warrants, the Company hereby agrees that such holder shall, subject to available defences and any limitation period under Applicable Securities Laws in the Qualifying Jurisdictions, be entitled to rescission not only of the holder’s exercise or deemed exercise of its Special Warrants but also of the private placement transaction under this Agreement pursuant to which the Special Warrants were initially acquired (i.e. the Offering), and shall be entitled in connection with such rescission to a full refund of all consideration paid to the Company on the acquisition of the Special Warrants. In the event that such holder is a permitted assignee of the interest of the original purchaser of the Special Warrants, the Company hereby agrees that such permitted assignee shall be permitted to exercise the rights of rescission and refund granted hereunder as if such permitted assignee was such original purchaser. The Company hereby agrees that the foregoing right, which is extended by the Company in respect of the Special Warrants issued by the Company pursuant to accepted subscriptions at the Time of Closing, is in addition to any other right or remedy available to a holder of Special Warrants under Section 131 of the Securities Act (British Columbia) or equivalent provisions of Applicable Securities Laws in the Qualifying Jurisdictions, or otherwise at law, and is subject to the defences and limitations described under such Applicable Securities Laws in the Qualifying Jurisdictions. The Company agrees that the foregoing rights shall be described in the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus and any Supplementary Material, and the Company agrees to and shall comply with such contractual right of rescission.
- (g) Due Diligence . The Company shall permit the Agent and its counsel to participate in the preparation of the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus and any Supplementary Material, to discuss the Company’s business with its corporate officers, auditors, legal counsel and other advisors and to conduct such full and comprehensive review and investigation of the Company’s business, affairs, capital and operations as the Agent shall consider to be necessary to establish a due diligence defence under Applicable Securities Laws in the Qualifying Jurisdictions to an action for misrepresentation or damages and to enable the Agent to responsibly execute the certificate of the Agent in the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus and any Supplementary Material. The Company also covenants to use commercially reasonable efforts to secure the cooperation of the Company’s professional advisors (including its legal advisors and auditors) to participate in any due diligence conference calls required by the Agent, and the Company consents to the use and the disclosure of information obtained during the course of the due diligence investigation where such disclosure is required by Applicable Laws.
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(h) Deliveries . The Company will deliver to the Agent prior to or concurrently with the filing of the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus and Final Qualification Prospectus, as applicable, unless otherwise indicated:
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(i) a copy of the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus and the Final Qualification Prospectus manually signed on behalf of the Company, by the persons and in the form required by Applicable Securities Laws in the Qualifying Jurisdictions;
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(ii) a copy of any other document filed with, or delivered to, the Securities Commissions by the Company under Applicable Securities Laws in the Qualifying Jurisdictions in connection with the filing of the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus or Final Qualification Prospectus; and
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(iii) in the case of the Final Qualification Prospectus, a “long-form” comfort letter dated the date of the Final Qualification Prospectus, in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent, acting reasonably, addressed to the Agent, from the Company’s auditors Marcum LLP, and based on a review completed not more than two Business Days prior to the date of the letter, with respect to certain financial and accounting information relating to the Company included and incorporated by reference in the Final Qualification Prospectus, which letter shall be in addition to the auditors’ report contained in the Final Qualification Prospectus and any auditors’ comfort letter addressed to or filed with the Securities Commissions under Applicable Securities Laws in the Qualifying Jurisdictions.
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(i) Supplementary Material . If applicable, the Company shall prepare and deliver promptly to the Agent copies of all Supplementary Material. Concurrently with the delivery of any Supplementary Material or the incorporation by reference in the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus or the Final Qualification Prospectus of any Subsequent Disclosure Document, the Company shall deliver to the Agent, with respect to such Supplementary Material or Subsequent Disclosure Document, documents substantially similar to those referred to in Section 4(h).
5. Distribution and Certain Obligations of the Agent
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(a) The Agent shall, and shall require any Selling Firm to agree to, comply with the Applicable Securities Laws and the applicable securities laws of the Selling Jurisdictions outside of Canada, in connection with the distribution of the Special Warrants and shall offer the Special Warrants for sale to the public directly and through Selling Firms upon the terms and conditions set out in this Agreement.
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(b) The Agent shall, and shall require any Selling Firm to agree to, distribute the Special Warrants in a manner which complies with and observes all Applicable Laws in each jurisdiction into and from which they may offer to sell the Special Warrants and will not, directly or indirectly, offer, sell or deliver any Special Warrants to any person in any jurisdiction other than in the Selling Jurisdictions, unless the Company and the Agent agree otherwise and then only in a manner which will not require the Company to comply with the registration and
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prospectus or other similar requirements under the applicable securities laws of such other jurisdictions.
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(c) The Agent will use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain from each Purchaser a duly completed and executed Subscription Agreement and other forms required under Applicable Securities Laws or the applicable securities laws of the Selling Jurisdictions outside of Canada that are provided to the Agent by the Company for execution by Purchasers relating to the issuance and sale of the Special Warrants, and the Agent shall at least two (2) Business Days prior to the Closing Date, provide the Company with copies of such Subscription Agreements and complete registration instructions in respect of the Special Warrants.
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(d) Each Agent is, respectively, an “accredited investor” as defined under NI 45-106.
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(e) The Agent will keep, and cause its representatives and agents to keep, strictly confidential, and will use only for the purpose of performing its obligations hereunder, all information, whether written, oral or otherwise, acquired from the Company and the Company’s representatives and agents in connection with the transactions contemplated hereunder, except (i) information for which disclosure was approved by the Company, (ii) information disclosed to employees and agents of the Company or its affiliates and to those officers, employees, agents and advisors of the Agent who require access thereto for the purpose of permitting the Agent to fulfill its obligations hereunder; (iii) information that was made available to the public prior to the engagement of the Agent, (iv) information that thereafter becomes available to the public other than through a breach by the Agent of its obligations hereunder, (v) information that was lawfully in the Agent’s possession prior to its engagement, or (vi) to the extent that the Agent is required by law to disclose such information. The Agent will provide the Company with prompt notice of any such legal disclosure requirement so that the Company may seek an appropriate protective order or waive compliance with this Section 5(e).
6. Material Change
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(a) The Company shall promptly inform the Agent (and promptly confirm such notification in writing) during the period from the date of this Agreement until the Qualification Date of the full particulars of:
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(i) any material change whether actual, anticipated, contemplated, threatened or proposed in the Company or any Subsidiary or in any of their respective businesses, assets (including intangible assets), affairs, operations, prospects, liabilities (contingent or otherwise), capital, assets, properties, condition (financial or otherwise) or results of operations or in the Offering;
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(ii) any material fact which has arisen or has been discovered or any new material fact that would have been required to have been stated in the Offering Documents had that fact arisen or been discovered on, or prior to the date of any of the Offering Documents; or
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(iii) any change in any material fact (which for the purposes of this Agreement shall be deemed to include the disclosure of any previously undisclosed material fact) contained or incorporated by reference in the Offering Documents or the Disclosure Record or whether any event or state of facts has occurred after the date hereof, which, in any case, is, or may be, of such a nature as to render any of the Offering Documents or the Disclosure Record untrue or misleading in any material respect or to result in any misrepresentation in any of the Offering Documents or the Disclosure Record, including as a result of any of the Offering Documents or the Disclosure Record containing or incorporating by reference an untrue statement of a material fact or omitting to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make any statement therein not false or not misleading in the light of the circumstances in which it was made, or which could result in any of the Offering Documents or the Disclosure Record not complying with the Applicable Securities Laws of any Qualifying Jurisdiction.
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(b) Subject to Section 6(d) the Company will prepare and file promptly (and, in any event, within the time prescribed by Applicable Securities Laws) any Supplementary Material which may be necessary under the Applicable Securities Laws, and the Company will prepare and file promptly at the request of the Agent any Supplementary Material which, in the opinion of the Agent, acting reasonably, may be necessary or advisable.
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(c) During the period commencing on the date hereof until the Qualification Date, the Company will promptly inform the Agent in writing of the full particulars of:
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(i) any request of any Securities Commission for any amendment to the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus or any Supplementary Material or for any additional information in respect of the Offering;
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(ii) the receipt by the Company of any material communication, whether written or oral, from any Securities Commission, the CSE or any other competent authority, relating to the Offering, the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus or any Supplementary Material;
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(iii) any notice or other correspondence received by the Company from any Governmental Authority and any requests from such bodies for information, a meeting or a hearing relating to the Company, the Offering, the issue and sale of the Special Warrants or any other event or state of affairs that could, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; or
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(iv) the issuance by any Securities Commission, the CSE or any other competent authority, including any other Governmental Authority, of any order to cease or suspend trading or distribution of any securities of the Company or of the institution, threat of institution of any proceedings for
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that purpose or any notice of investigation that could potentially result in an order to cease or suspend trading or distribution of any securities of the Company.
- (d) In addition to the provisions of Sections 6(a), 6(b) and 6(c) hereof, the Company shall in good faith discuss with the Agent any circumstance, change, event or fact contemplated in Sections 6(a), 6(b) or 6(c) which is of such a nature that there is or could be reasonable doubt as to whether notice should be given to the Agent under Section 6(a), 6(b) or 6(c) hereof and shall consult with the Agent with respect to the form and content of any Supplementary Material proposed to be filed by the Company, it being understood and agreed that no such Supplementary Material shall be filed with any Securities Commission prior to the review and approval thereof by the Agent and its counsel, acting reasonably.
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Regulatory Approvals
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(a) Prior to the completion of the Offering, the Company shall file or cause to be filed with the CSE all necessary documents and shall take or cause to be taken all necessary steps to ensure that the Company has obtained all necessary approvals for the Unit Shares, Warrant Shares and Compensation Warrant Shares to be conditionally listed on the CSE subject only to the satisfaction by the Company of such customary and standard post-closing conditions imposed by the CSE in similar circumstances and set forth in such letter if any, and the CSE’s policies (the “ Standard Listing Conditions ”).
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(b) The Company will make all necessary filings and obtain all necessary regulatory consents and approvals (if any), and the Company will pay all filing, exemption and other fees required to be paid in connection with the transactions contemplated in this Agreement.
8. Representations and Warranties of the Company
The Company represents and warrants to the Agent and the Purchasers as of the date of this Agreement, and acknowledges that each of them is relying on such representations and warranties in connection with the purchase of Special Warrants, that:
- (a) the Company: (i) has been duly incorporated, amalgamated, continued or organized and is validly existing as a company in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, amalgamation, continuation or organization, and has the corporate power, capacity and authority to own, lease and operate its property and assets, to conduct its business as now conducted and as currently proposed to be conducted and to carry out the provisions hereof; and (ii) where required, has been duly qualified as an extra-provincial or foreign corporation for the transaction of business and is in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction in which it owns or leases property, or conducts any business unless, in each case, the failure to so qualify in any such jurisdiction would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect;
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(b) other than the Subsidiaries, the Company has no subsidiaries and no investment in any person which is or would be material to the business and affairs of the Company. The Subsidiaries are the only subsidiaries of the Company. The Company is the direct or indirect registered and beneficial owner of all of the issued and outstanding shares and other voting securities of each Subsidiary, in each case free and clear of all Encumbrances or adverse interests whatsoever, and no person, firm, corporation or entity has any agreement, option, right or privilege (whether pre-emptive or contractual) capable of becoming an agreement or option, for the purchase from the Company or any Subsidiary of any of the shares or other securities of any Subsidiary;
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(c) each Subsidiary: (i) has been duly incorporated, amalgamated, continued or organized and is validly existing as a company in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, amalgamation, continuation or organization and has the corporate power, capacity and authority to own, lease and operate its property and assets, to conduct its business as now conducted and as currently proposed to be conducted and to carry out the provisions hereof; and (ii) where required, has been duly qualified as a foreign corporation for the transaction of business and is in good standing under the laws of each other jurisdiction in which it owns or leases property, or conducts any business and is not precluded from carrying on business or owning property in such jurisdictions by any other commitment, agreement or document;
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(d) each of the Company and the Subsidiaries (i) has conducted and has been conducting its business in compliance in all material respects with all Applicable Laws of each jurisdiction in which its business is carried on or in which its services are provided and has not received a notice of non-compliance, nor knows of, nor has reasonable grounds to know of, any facts that could give rise to a notice of non-compliance with any such Applicable Laws, (ii) is not in breach or violation of any judgment, order or decree of any Governmental Authority or court having jurisdiction over the Company or any Subsidiary, as applicable, and (iii) holds all, and are not in breach of any, material Governmental Licences expressly required of companies in the same business as the Company by the federal government of the United States that enable its business to be carried on as now conducted in each of the jurisdictions it carries on business and enable it to own, lease or operate its Assets and Properties, and none of the Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any other person, has taken any steps or proceedings, voluntary or otherwise, requiring or authorizing such Subsidiaries’ dissolution or winding up; and (iv) holds, or has engaged a service provider who so holds, all material Governmental Licences expressly required of companies in the same business as the Company by any state government of the United States that enable its business to be carried on as now conducted in each of the jurisdictions it carries on business and enable it to own, lease or operate its Assets and Properties;
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(e) none of the Company or any Subsidiary has been served with or otherwise received notice of any legal or governmental proceedings and there are no legal or governmental proceedings (whether or not purportedly on behalf of the Company)
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pending to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or of which any property or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary is the subject which is reasonably likely, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, or which might reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, no such proceedings have been threatened or contemplated by any Governmental Authority or any other parties;
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(f) the Company owns no real property. Any real property or building held under lease by the Company or any Subsidiary, which is material, individually or in the aggregate, to the Company or any Subsidiary, is held by it under valid and subsisting leases enforceable against the respective lessors thereof with such exceptions as are not material, individually or in the aggregate, to the Company;
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(g) the Company and each Subsidiary is the absolute legal and beneficial owner, and has good and valid title to, all of the material property or assets thereof as described in the Disclosure Record free and clear of all Encumbrances and defects of title except such as are disclosed in the Disclosure Record or such as are not material, individually or in the aggregate, to the Company or any Subsidiary, and (A) no other material property or assets are necessary for the conduct of the business of the Company or any Subsidiary as currently conducted, (B) the Company has no knowledge of any claim or the basis for any claim that might or could materially and adversely affect the right of the Company or any Subsidiary to use, transfer or otherwise exploit such property or assets, and (C) neither the Company nor the Subsidiary has any responsibility or obligation to pay any commission, royalty, licence fee or similar payment to any person with respect to the property and assets thereof;
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(h) the Historical Financial Statements:
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(i) have been prepared in accordance with Applicable Securities Laws in the Qualifying Jurisdictions and IFRS, applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods referred to therein, except as otherwise disclosed therein;
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(ii) present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and condition of the Company and the Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as at the dates thereof and the results of its operations and the changes in its shareholder’s equity and cash flows for the periods then ended, and contain and reflect adequate provisions or allowance for all reasonably anticipated liabilities, expenses and losses of the Company and the Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with IFRS, and do not contain a misrepresentation; and
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(iii) have been audited (in the case of the annual financial statements comprising the Historical Financial Statements) by independent public accountants within the meaning of Applicable Securities Laws in the
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Qualifying Jurisdictions and the rules of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada;
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(i) the accountants who audited the Historical Financial Statements are independent with respect to the Company within the meaning of Applicable Securities Laws in the Qualifying Jurisdictions and there has not been any “reportable event” (within the meaning of NI 51-102) with the current auditors or any former auditors of the Company during the past five financial years;
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(j) there are no material liabilities of the Company whether direct, indirect, absolute, contingent or otherwise which are not disclosed or reflected in the Historical Financial Statements, except for liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business since June 30, 2019, and which liabilities would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect;
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(k) the audit committee’s responsibilities and composition comply with National Instrument 52-110 - Audit Committees as such instrument applies to “venture issuers”;
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(l) except as disclosed in the Disclosure Record, none of the directors, executive officers or shareholders who beneficially own, directly or indirectly, or exercise control or direction over, more than 10% of the outstanding Common Shares or any known associate or affiliate of any such person, had or has any material interest, direct or indirect, in any transaction or any proposed transaction (including, without limitation, any loan made to or by any such person) with the Company which, as the case may be, materially affects, is material to or will materially affect the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis;
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(m) the Company and each Subsidiary are not a party to any agreements the termination of which by the other party to any such agreement would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;
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(n) the Company is not a party to any Debt Instrument or any agreement, contract or commitment to create, assume or issue any Debt Instrument;
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(o) neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries are party to any agreement that that confers a right similar to the one granted to the Agent in Section 18 hereof that would conflict with such right of the Agent or trigger an obligation of the Company in the circumstances described in Section 18 to provide such rights to a party other than the Agent;
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(p) there is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or brought by any Person, court or Governmental Authority or otherwise now pending, or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company or any Subsidiary. There are no judgments against the Company or any of the Subsidiaries which are unsatisfied, nor are there any consent decrees or injunctions to which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries is subject
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(q) the Company and each Subsidiary has duly and on a timely basis filed all foreign, federal, state, provincial, territorial, local and municipal tax returns required to be filed by it, has paid, collected, withheld and remitted all taxes due and payable or required to be collected, withheld and remitted by the Company and the Subsidiaries, respectively, and has paid all assessments and reassessments in respect of all taxes and all other governmental charges, including penalties, interest and other fines due and payable by it and which are claimed by any Governmental Authority to be due and owing, except where the failure to pay would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; there are no agreements, waivers or other arrangements providing for an extension of time with respect to the filing of any tax return or payment of any tax, governmental charge or deficiency by the Company or by any Subsidiary; there are no audits, actions, suits, proceedings, investigations or claims in progress or pending or, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, threatened against the Company or any Subsidiary in respect of taxes or other governmental charges which, if determined adversely, could individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect; the Company and each of the Subsidiaries have established on their books and records reserves that are adequate for the payment of all taxes and other governmental charges including penalties, interest and other fines not yet due and payable and there are no liens for such taxes and other amounts on the assets of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, and, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, there are no audits pending of the tax returns of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries (whether federal, state, provincial, local or foreign);
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(r) the Company and/or the Subsidiaries own, or have obtained valid and enforceable licenses for, or other rights to make, use, reproduce, license, sell, modify, update, enhance or otherwise exploit, the Intellectual Property including, for greater certainty, the Intellectual Property described in the Disclosure Record; the Company has no knowledge that the Company or any Subsidiary lacks or will be unable to obtain any rights or licenses to use or otherwise exploit all Intellectual Property used for the conduct of the business of the Company and/or the Subsidiaries (including the commercialization of the Company’s products and services candidates) as described in the Disclosure Record; no third parties have rights to any Intellectual Property of the Company or any Subsidiary, except as disclosed in the Disclosure Record or except for the ownership rights of the owners of the Licensed IP or except for any licenses of use granted by the Company and/or any Subsidiary therein; there is no pending or, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, threatened or ongoing action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the validity or enforceability of any Intellectual Property or the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s rights in or to any Intellectual Property, the Company has no knowledge of any facts which form a reasonable basis for any such claim, and to the best of the Company’s knowledge, there has been no finding of unenforceability or invalidity of the Intellectual Property; to the best of the Company’s knowledge, there is no patent or published patent application that contains claims that interfere with the issued or pending claims of any of the Intellectual Property of the Company or any Subsidiary; and to the best of the Company’s knowledge, there is no prior art that necessarily renders any patent
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application owned by the Company or any Subsidiary unpatentable that has not been disclosed to the US Patent and Trademark Office or any similar office in Canada or any other jurisdiction;
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(s) other than Licensed IP, the Company and/or the Subsidiaries are the legal and beneficial owners of, have good and marketable title to, and own all right, title and interest in and to all Intellectual Property free and clear of all Encumbrances or adverse interests whatsoever, covenants, conditions, options to purchase and restrictions or other adverse claims of any kind or nature, and the Company has no knowledge of any claim of adverse ownership in respect thereof; other than the Licensed IP, no consent of any person is necessary to make, use, reproduce, license, sell, modify, update, enhance or otherwise exploit any Intellectual Property and none of the Intellectual Property of the Company or any Subsidiary comprises an improvement to Licensed IP that would give any person any rights to any such Intellectual Property, including, without limitation, rights to license any such Intellectual Property;
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(t) neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries has received any notice or claim (whether written, oral or otherwise) challenging the ownership or right to use or otherwise exploit any of the Intellectual Property or suggesting that any other person has any claim of legal or beneficial ownership or other claim or interest with respect thereto, nor is there a reasonable basis for any claim that any person other than the Company and the Subsidiaries have any claim of legal or beneficial ownership or other claim or interest in any of the Intellectual Property;
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(u) the Company and its Subsidiaries have used commercially reasonable efforts to maintain and protect the Intellectual Property owned by the Company and/or any Subsidiary (including where applicable, unless otherwise specified, making filings and payments of registration, maintenance, renewal or similar fees and to obtain ownership of such Intellectual Property developed for the Company and/or any Subsidiary by its employees, consultants and contractors (including securing assignment agreements from all former and current employees, consultants and contractors that assign to the Company and/or a Subsidiary all rights, title and interest in and to any such Intellectual Property, and including with respect to all copyrightable Intellectual Property, securing from such employees, consultants and/or contractors waivers of moral rights in writing in favour of the Company, the Subsidiaries and their successors, assignees and licensees)); there are no oppositions, cancellations, invalidity proceedings, interferences or re-examination proceedings pending with respect to any Intellectual Property owned by the Company and/or any Subsidiary or, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, threatened or ongoing; all applications for registration of any Intellectual Property owned by the Company and/or any Subsidiary have been properly filed and have been pursued by the Company and the Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, and neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries has received any notice (whether written, oral or otherwise) indicating that any application for registration of the Intellectual Property owned by the Company and/or any Subsidiary has been finally rejected or denied by the applicable reviewing
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authority except for any rejection or denial that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect;
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(v) to the best of the Company’s knowledge, the conduct of the business of the Company and the Subsidiaries (including, without limitation, the sale of their respective products and services, or the use or other exploitation of the Intellectual Property by the Company, the Subsidiaries or any customers, distributors or other licensees thereof) has not infringed, violated, misappropriated or otherwise conflicted with (and does not infringe, violate, misappropriate or otherwise conflict with) any Intellectual Property right of any person; there is no pending, threatened, or ongoing action, suit, proceeding or claim by others alleging that any current or the currently proposed conduct of their respective businesses (including, without limitation, the sale of their respective products and services, or use or other exploitation of any Intellectual Property by the Company, the Subsidiaries or any customers, distributors or other licensees) infringes, violates, misappropriates or otherwise conflicts with (or would infringe, violate, misappropriate or otherwise conflict with) any Intellectual Property of others, and the Company has no knowledge of any facts which form a reasonable basis for any such claim;
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(w) to the best of the Company’s knowledge, no person has infringed or misappropriated, or is infringing or misappropriating, any rights of the Company and/or any Subsidiary in or to the Intellectual Property;
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(x) the Company has entered into valid and enforceable written agreements pursuant to which the Company has been granted all licenses and permissions to use, reproduce, sub-license, sell, modify, update, enhance or otherwise exploit the Licensed IP to the extent required to conduct the business of the Company and the Subsidiaries as currently conducted or as currently proposed to be conducted (including, if required, the right to incorporate such Licensed IP into the Intellectual Property), except where failure to do so would not be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company. All license agreements in respect of Licensed IP are in full force and effect and none of the Company, any of the Subsidiaries or to the best of the Company’s knowledge, any other person, is in default of its obligations thereunder;
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(y) to the extent that any of the Intellectual Property is licensed or disclosed to any person or any person has access to such Intellectual Property (including but not limited to any employee, officer, shareholder, consultant, systems-integrator, distributor, contract counterparty, or other customer of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries), the Company has entered into a valid and enforceable written agreement which contains terms and conditions prohibiting the unauthorized use, reproduction, disclosure or transfer of such Intellectual Property by such person. Other than such agreements that have expired in accordance with their respective terms, all such agreements are in full force and effect and none of the Company, any of the Subsidiaries or, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, any other person, is in default of its obligations thereunder;
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(z) the Company and/or any Subsidiary is not in default or in breach of any Material Agreements except where such default or breach would not have a Material Adverse Effect on the assets, business, operations or financial condition of the Company and/or any Subsidiary on a consolidated basis, and the execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents by the Company, the performance and compliance with the terms of the Transaction Documents and the issue and sale of the Special Warrants and the Compensation Securities, will not result in any breach of, or be in conflict with or constitute a default under, any term or provision of the its constating documents, any resolution of its directors (or any sub-committee thereof) or shareholders of the Company, any Material Agreement or by which the Company is bound or any judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or regulation applicable to the Company;
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(aa) all Material Agreements pursuant to which the Company and/or any Subsidiary carries on, directly or indirectly, its business are valid and subsisting agreements in full force and effect, enforceable against the Company and/or any Subsidiary in accordance with their respective terms, except where enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity where equitable remedies are sought and except as rights to indemnity and contribution may be limited by applicable laws;
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(bb) the Company is a reporting issuer in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario, is not in default under the Applicable Securities Laws of the Qualifying Jurisdictions and is not on the list of defaulting issuers maintained by the applicable Securities Commissions in the Qualifying Jurisdictions;
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(cc) the Company is in compliance with its timely and continuous disclosure obligations under the Applicable Securities Laws of each of the Qualifying Jurisdictions and the policies, rules and regulations of the CSE and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, there has not occurred any material change (actual, anticipated, contemplated or threatened) in the business, assets (including intangible assets), affairs, operations, prospects, liabilities (contingent or otherwise), capital, assets, properties, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations or control of the Company and the Subsidiaries which has not been set forth in the Disclosure Record or otherwise publicly disclosed on a nonconfidential basis, and the Company has not filed any confidential material change reports which remains confidential as at the date hereof, and the business and material property and assets of the Company and the Subsidiaries conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof contained in the Disclosure Record;
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(dd) to the best of the Company’s knowledge, no agreement is in force or effect which in any manner affects the voting or control of any of the securities of the Company or any Subsidiary;
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(ee) the Company is authorized to issue an unlimited number of Common Shares, of which 114,141,304 Common Shares are issued and outstanding as of the date
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hereof, and all such issued Common Shares are validly issued and outstanding, and no person, firm or corporation has any right, agreement or option, present or future, contingent or absolute, or any right capable of becoming such a right, agreement or option or privilege (whether pre-emptive or contractual), for the issue or allotment of any unissued shares in the capital of the Company or any Subsidiary or any other security convertible into or exchangeable for any such shares, or to require the Company or any Subsidiary to purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any of the outstanding securities in the capital of the Company or any Subsidiary, except as disclosed in the Disclosure Record, in connection with the Concurrent Private Placement and pursuant to the exercise or deemed exercise of the Special Warrants;
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(ff) the execution and delivery of each of the Transaction Documents and the performance of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby (including the issuance, sale and delivery of the Special Warrants to be issued and sold by the Company at the Time of Closing, the issuance and delivery of the Unit Shares and Warrants comprising the Underlying Units upon the exercise or deemed exercise of the Special Warrants, the issuance of the Warrant Shares upon exercise of the Warrants, the issuance of the Compensation Warrants and the issuance of the Compensation Warrant Shares upon exercise of the Compensation Warrants) have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Company and each of the Transaction Documents has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, provided that enforcement hereof may be limited by laws affecting creditors’ rights generally, that specific performance and other equitable remedies may only be granted in the discretion of a court of competent jurisdiction and that the provisions relating to indemnity, contribution, severability and waiver of contribution may be limited under Applicable Law (the “ Qualification ”);
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(gg) the execution and delivery of each of the Transaction Documents and the performance of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby by the Company (including the issuance, sale and delivery of the Special Warrants to be issued and sold by the Company at the Time of Closing, the issuance and delivery of the Unit Shares and Warrants comprising the Underlying Units upon the exercise or deemed exercise of the Special Warrants, the issuance of the Warrant Shares upon exercise of the Warrants, the issuance of the Compensation Warrants and the issuance of the Compensation Warrant Shares upon exercise of the Compensation Warrants) do not and will not:
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(i) require the consent, approval, authorization, registration or qualification of or with any Governmental Authority, stock exchange, Securities Commission or other third party, except such as have been obtained or such as may be required (and shall be obtained by the Company prior to the Time of Closing) under Applicable Securities Laws or stock exchange regulations, and except for the filing of the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus and any Supplementary Material, as applicable, all in accordance with Applicable Securities Laws
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in the Qualifying Jurisdictions, and the Company obtaining the Final Receipt; or
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(ii) result in a breach of or default under, and do not and will not create a state of facts which, after notice or lapse of time or both, will result in a breach of or default under, and do not and will not conflict with:
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(A) any of the terms, conditions or provisions of the notice of articles, articles, by laws or resolutions of the shareholders, directors or any committee of directors of the Company or any Subsidiary or any Material Agreement, contract, material indenture, agreement, instrument, Debt Instrument, lease or any other document to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which it or they are contractually bound or any judgment, decree or order binding the Company or its Assets and Properties or any Subsidiary or its Assets and Properties; or
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(B) any statute, rule, regulation or law applicable to the Company or any Subsidiary, including, without limitation, the Applicable Securities Laws, or any judgment, order or decree of any Governmental Authority or court having jurisdiction over the Company; and
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(iii) do not affect the rights, duties and obligations of any parties to any material indenture, agreement or instrument to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party, nor give a party the right to terminate any such indenture, agreement or instrument by virtue of the application of terms, provisions or conditions in such indenture, agreement or instrument;
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(hh) the Special Warrants have been duly created and authorized for issuance, and, upon payment of the aggregate Issue Price therefor, the Special Warrants will be validly issued and outstanding as fully paid securities of the Company. The Company has the corporate power, capacity and authority to issue and sell the Special Warrants and the Special Warrants will not have been issued in violation of or subject to any pre-emptive or contractual rights to purchase securities issued or granted by the Company;
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(ii) the Unit Shares and the Warrants comprising the Underlying Units have been duly created, authorized and allotted for issuance, and, upon the exercise or deemed exercise of the Special Warrants, (i) in the case of the Unit Shares, will be validly issued and outstanding as fully paid and non-assessable Common Shares in the capital of the Company, and (ii) in the case of the Warrants, will be duly created and validly issued and outstanding as fully paid securities of the Company. The Company has the corporate power, capacity and authority to issue the Unit Shares and the Warrants comprising the Underlying Units, and at the time of issuance thereof, the Unit Shares and the Warrants comprising the Underlying Units will not have been issued in violation of or subject to any pre-emptive or contractual rights to purchase securities issued or granted by the Company;
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(jj) the Warrant Shares have been duly created, authorized, allotted and reserved for issuance, and, upon the exercise of the Warrants and payment of the exercise price therefor, will be validly issued and outstanding as fully paid and nonassessable Common Shares in the capital of the Company. The Company has the corporate power, capacity and authority to issue the Warrant Shares and, at the time of issuance thereof, the Warrant Shares will not have been issued in violation of or subject to any pre-emptive or contractual rights to purchase securities issued or granted by the Company;
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(kk) the Compensation Warrants have been duly created and authorized for issuance and have been validly issued and are outstanding as fully paid securities of the Company. The Company has the corporate power, capacity and authority to issue and sell the Compensation Warrants and the Compensation Warrants will not have been issued in violation of or subject to any pre-emptive or contractual rights to purchase securities issued or granted by the Company;
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(ll) the Compensation Warrant Shares have been duly created, authorized and allotted for issuance, and, upon the exercise of the Compensation Warrants and payment of the exercise price therefor, will be validly issued and outstanding as fully paid and non-assessable Common Shares in the capital of the Company. The Company has the corporate power, capacity and authority to issue the Compensation Warrant Shares and, at the time of issuance thereof, the Compensation Warrant Shares will not have been issued in violation of or subject to any pre-emptive or contractual rights to purchase securities issued or granted by the Company;
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(mm) to the best of the Company’s knowledge, there is no legislation or governmental regulation which materially and adversely affect the business, assets (including intangible assets), affairs, operations, prospects, liabilities (contingent or otherwise), capital, assets, properties, condition (financial or otherwise) or results of operations of the Company or any Subsidiary;
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(nn) the Common Shares are listed and posted for trading on the CSE and, prior to the Time of Closing, all necessary notices and filings will have been made with and all necessary consents, approvals, authorizations will have been obtained by the Company from the CSE to ensure that, subject to fulfilling the Standard Listing Conditions, the Unit Shares, the Warrant Shares and the Compensation Warrant Shares, will be listed and posted for trading on the CSE upon their issuance;
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(oo) no default exists under and no event has occurred which, after notice or lapse of time or both, or otherwise, constitutes a default under or breach of, by the Company, any Subsidiary, or any other person, any material obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any contract, indenture, trust, deed, mortgage, loan or credit agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which it or any of its properties may be bound. No order, ruling or determination having the effect of suspending the sale or ceasing the trading of the Special Warrants, the Underlying Units, the Unit Shares, the Warrants, the Warrant Shares, the Compensation
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Warrants, the Compensation Warrant Shares, the Common Shares or any other security of the Company has been issued or made by any Securities Commission or stock exchange or any other regulatory authority and is continuing in effect and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, are contemplated or threatened by any such authority or under any Applicable Securities Laws;
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(pp) except for the approval of the CSE to list the Unit Shares, the Warrant Shares and the Compensation Warrant Shares, and receipt by the Company of the Final Receipt, there are no third party consents required to be obtained in order for the Company to complete the Offering;
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(qq) except for the Agent as provided herein, there is no person, firm or corporation acting for the Company entitled to any brokerage or finder’s fee in connection with this Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated hereunder;
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(rr) each of the documents forming the Disclosure Record by or on behalf of the Company with any Securities Commission or the CSE, did not contain a misrepresentation, determined as at the date of filing, which has not been corrected by the filing of a subsequent document which forms part of the Disclosure Record;
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(ss) based on the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada) and the regulations thereunder (together, the “ Tax Act ”) in force on the date hereof and assuming that any proposals to amend the Tax Act publicly announced by or on behalf of the Minister of Finance (Canada) prior to the date hereof are adopted in the manner proposed, the Special Warrants and the Unit Shares and Warrants comprising the Underlying Units would, if issued on the date hereof, be qualified investments for the purposes of the Tax Act for trusts governed by registered retirement savings plans, registered retirement income funds, deferred profit sharing plans, registered education savings plans, registered disability savings plans and tax-free savings accounts (each, a “ Plan ”), each as defined in the Tax Act, provided that at the relevant time, (i) in the case of the Special Warrants and Warrants, neither the Company nor any person with whom the Company does not deal at arm`s length is an annuitant, a beneficiary, an employer or a subscriber under, or a holder of, the Plan, and the Company is a “public corporation” for purposes of the Tax Act and, (ii) in the case of the Unit Shares comprising the Underlying Units, the Company is a “public corporation” for the purposes of the Tax Act;
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(tt) the minute books and records of each of the Company and the Subsidiaries made available to counsel for the Agent in connection with its due diligence investigation of the Company and the Subsidiaries are all of the minute books and records of the Company and the Subsidiaries for the period from July 1, 2018 to the date of this Agreement, and contain copies of all proceedings (or certified copies thereof) of the shareholders, the boards of directors and all committees of the boards of directors of the Company and the Subsidiaries during such period and other than with respect to the Offering there have been no other meetings, resolutions or proceedings of the shareholders, board of directors or any
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committees of the board of directors of the Company and the Subsidiaries during such period not reflected in such minute books and other records;
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(uu) with respect to each premises which is material to the Company or any Subsidiary and which the Company or any Subsidiary occupies as tenant (the “ Leased Premises ”), the Company or the Subsidiary (as applicable) occupies the Leased Premises and has the exclusive right to occupy and use the Leased Premises and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in breach or violation of or in default under any of the leases pursuant to which the Company or the Subsidiary (as applicable) occupies the Leased Premises where such breach or violation would have a Material Adverse Effect, and to the best of the Company’s knowledge, such leases are in good standing and in full force and effect;
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(vv) no material labour dispute with current and former employees of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries exists and the Company has no knowledge of any existing, threatened or imminent labour disturbance or disruption by the employees of any of the principal suppliers, manufacturers or contractors of the Company;
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(ww) the Company and the Subsidiaries maintain director and officer insurance on a basis that the Company believes to be consistent with insurance obtained by reasonably prudent participants in comparable businesses. Such insurance coverage is of a type and in an amount typical to the businesses in which the Company and the Subsidiaries operate as conducted by a reasonably prudent person, based on the advice of insurance brokers consulted by the Company. The Company has not made any claim on any policy of insurance or been refused any insurance coverage sought or applied for. The Company has no reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing director and officer insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its and the Company’s businesses at a cost that would not be reasonably expected to have a material adverse effect on the financial condition of the Company on a consolidated basis;
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(xx) the assets of the Company and the Subsidiaries are insured against loss or damage with responsible insurers on a basis consistent with insurance obtained by reasonably prudent participants in a comparable business in comparable circumstances, such coverage is in full force and effect and the Company has not failed to comply to promptly give any notice or present any material claim thereunder;
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(yy) the forms and terms of the certificates representing the Common Shares have been approved and adopted by the board of directors of the Company and the form and terms of the certificate representing the Common Shares do not and will not conflict with any Applicable Laws or the rules of the CSE;
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(zz) the forms and terms of the certificates representing each of the Special Warrants and the Warrants have been approved and adopted by the board of directors of the Company do not and will not conflict with any Applicable Laws;
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(aaa) Computershare Trust Company of Canada, at its principal offices in Vancouver, British Columbia, has been duly appointed as the registrar and transfer agent for the Common Shares;
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(bbb) Computershare Trust Company of Canada, at its principal offices in Vancouver, British Columbia, has been duly appointed as special warrant agent under the Special Warrant Indenture;
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(ccc) Computershare Trust Company of Canada, at its principal offices in Vancouver, British Columbia, has been duly appointed as warrant agent under the Warrant Indenture;
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(ddd) (A) the Company and each of the Subsidiaries possesses such permits, certificates, licences, approvals, registrations, qualifications, consents and other authorizations issued by Governmental Authorities (collectively, “ Governmental Licences ”), as are expressly required of companies in the same business as the Company by the federal government of the United States to conduct the business now operated by it in all jurisdictions in which it carries on business (as such business is currently conducted) and holds, or has engaged a service provider who so holds any, material Governmental Licences expressly required of companies in the same business as the Company by any state government of the United States that enable its business to be carried on as now conducted in each of the jurisdictions it carries on business and enable it to own, lease or operate its Assets and Properties;; (B) the Company and each Subsidiary is in material compliance with the terms and conditions of all such Governmental Licences; (C) all of such Governmental Licences are in good standing, valid and in full force and effect; (D) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation, suspension, termination or modification of any such Governmental Licences, and there are no facts or circumstances, including without limitation facts or circumstances relating to the revocation, suspension, modification or termination of any Governmental Licenses held by others, known to the Company, that could lead to the revocation, suspension, modification or termination of any such Governmental Licenses if the subject of an unfavourable decision, ruling or finding, except where such revocation, suspension, modification or termination is not in respect of a material Governmental Licence or where such revocation, suspension, modification or termination would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; (E) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in material default with respect to filings to be effected or conditions to be fulfilled in order to maintain such Governmental Licenses in good standing; (F) none of such Governmental Licenses contains any term, provision, condition or limitation which has or would reasonably be expected to affect or restrict in any material respect the operations or the business of the Company or any Subsidiary as now carried on or currently proposed to be carried on; (G) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has reason to believe that any party granting any such Governmental Licenses is considering limiting, suspending, modifying, withdrawing or revoking the same in any material respect;
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(eee) none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is subject to any obligation arising under an administrative or regulatory action, inspection, warning letter, notice of violation letter, or other written notice, response or commitment made to or with any Governmental Authority, and to Company’s knowledge, no such proceedings have been threatened;
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(fff) none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and to the Company’s knowledge none of its or its Subsidiaries’ officers, directors, and employees (i) are or have been a party to, or bound by, any order, individual integrity agreement, corporate integrity agreement, compliance undertaking or other formal agreement or settlement with any Governmental Authority concerning compliance with Applicable Laws; and (ii) have been served with or received any written search warrant, subpoena (other than those related to actions against third parties), civil investigative demand or contact letter from a Governmental Authority;
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(ggg) all information which has been prepared by the Company relating to the Company, its Subsidiaries and its business, property and liabilities and either publicly disclosed or provided to the Agent, and all financial, marketing, sales and operational information provided to the Agent is, as of the date of such information, true and correct in all material respects, and no fact or facts have been omitted therefrom which would make such information materially misleading;
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(hhh) all forward-looking information and statements of the Company contained in the Disclosure Record, including any forecasts and estimates, expressions of opinion, intention and expectation have been based on assumptions that are reasonable in the circumstances, and the Company has updated such forward-looking information and statements as required by and in compliance with Applicable Securities Laws in the Qualifying Jurisdictions;
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(iii) the statistical, industry and market related data included in the Disclosure Record are derived from sources which the Company reasonably believes to be accurate, reasonable and reliable, and such data is consistent with the sources from which it was derived;
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(jjj) (i) the responses given by the Company and its officers at the oral due diligence session conducted by the Agent in connection with the Offering on December 14, 2020, as they relate to matters of fact, were true and correct in all material respects, as at the time such responses were given, and such responses taken as a whole did not omit any fact or information necessary to make any of the responses not misleading in light of the circumstances in which such responses were given; and (ii) where the responses reflect the opinion or view of the Company or its officers (including responses or portions of such responses which are forward-looking or otherwise relate to projections, forecasts, or estimates of future performance or results (operating, financial or otherwise)), such opinions or views were honestly held and believed to be reasonable at the time they are given;
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(kkk) the Company is not insolvent (within the meaning of Applicable Laws), is able to pay its liabilities as they become due and has sufficient working capital to fund its operations for at least 12 months following the Closing Date;
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(lll) the Company (i) has not made any significant acquisitions as such term is defined in Part 8 of NI 51-102 in its current financial year or prior financial years in respect of which historical and/or pro forma financial statements or other information would be required to be included or incorporated by reference into the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus or the Final Qualification Prospectus and for which a business acquisition report has not been filed under NI 51-102, (ii) has not entered into any agreement or arrangement in respect of a transaction that would be a significant acquisition for purposes of Part 8 of NI 51-102, and (iii) there are no proposed acquisitions by the Company that have progressed to the state where a reasonable person would believe that the likelihood of the Company completing the acquisition is high and would be a significant acquisition for the purposes of Part 8 of NI 51-102 if completed as of the date hereof;
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(mmm)to the knowledge of the Company, each benefit plan or pension plan administered or provided by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is duly registered where required by Applicable Laws (including registration with relevant tax authorities where such registration is required to qualify for tax exemption or other tax beneficial status). Each benefit plan or pension plan has been administered in compliance in all material respects with, and is in good standing under, Applicable Laws. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary contributes to or has an obligation to contribute to a plan, program or arrangement that provides defined benefit pensions or for which the funding is determined by reference to a defined benefit. The Company does not have any outstanding indebtedness or any liabilities or obligations, including any unfunded obligation, under any such benefit plan or pension plan, whether accrued, absolute, contingent or otherwise;
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(nnn) the Company is not currently party to any agreement in respect of the change of control of the Company (whether by sale or transfer of shares or sale of all or substantially all of the assets and properties of the Company or otherwise);
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(ooo) the Company and the Subsidiaries and their directors, officers, employees and other representatives are familiar with and have conducted all transactions, negotiations, discussions and dealings in full compliance with anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws and regulations applicable in any jurisdiction in which they are located or conducting business. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has made any offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of payment of money or anything of value to any government official, or any other person while having reasonable grounds to believe that all or a portion of such money or thing of value will be offered, given or promised, directly or indirectly, to a government official, for the purpose of: (i) assisting the parties in obtaining, retaining or directing business; (ii) influencing any act or decision of a government official in his or its official capacity; (iii) inducing a government official to do or omit to do any act in violation of his or its lawful duty, or to use his or its influence with a government or instrumentality thereof to affect or influence any act or decision of such
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government or department, agency, instrumentality or entity thereof; or (iv) securing any improper advantage;
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(ppp) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary, nor any director, officer, agent, employee or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary, has to the knowledge of the Company while acting for or on behalf of the Company: (i) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity; (ii) made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds; (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the Corruption of Foreign Officials Act (Canada); or (iv) made any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment;
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(qqq) the operations of the Company and the Subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the money laundering statutes of all applicable jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any Governmental Authority (collectively, the “ Applicable Anti-Money Laundering Laws ”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any Governmental Authority involving the Company or any Subsidiary with respect to Applicable Anti-Money Laundering Laws is, to the knowledge of the Company, pending or threatened;
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(rrr) the Company will have filed a current annual information form in the form prescribed by NI 51-102 in each of the Qualifying Jurisdictions upon or prior to the filing of the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus; on the dates of and upon filing of the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus and the Final Qualification Prospectus, the Company will be an Eligible Issuer in the Qualifying Jurisdictions and there will be no documents required to be filed under the Applicable Securities Laws of the Qualifying Jurisdictions in connection with the Offering of the Special Warrants that will not have been filed as required as at those respective dates;
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(sss) the Unit Shares, Warrants and Warrant Shares will at the Time of Closing qualify as eligible investments and the Company will not take or permit any action within its control which would cause the Unit Shares, Warrants or Warrant Shares to cease to be qualified, during the period of distribution of the Special Warrants, as eligible investments to the extent so described in the Final Qualification Prospectus; and
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(ttt) at the time of delivery thereof to the Agent:
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(i) the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus and all Supplementary Material, if any, will comply, fully with the requirements of Applicable Securities Laws of the Qualifying Jurisdictions;
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(ii) the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus and all Supplementary Material, if any, will provide, full, true and plain disclosure of all material facts relating to the Company (on a consolidated basis) and the Special Warrants; and
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(iii) the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus and all Supplementary Material, if any, will not contain any misrepresentation.
9. Covenants of the Company
The Company covenants and agrees with the Agent and the Purchasers, and acknowledges that each of them is relying on such covenants in connection with the purchase by the Purchasers of Special Warrants, that the Company:
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(a) will advise the Agent, promptly after receiving notice thereof, of the time when the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus and any Supplementary Material has been filed and Passport Receipts have been obtained and will provide evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Agent of each such filing and copies of such Passport Receipts;
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(b) will advise the Agent, promptly after receiving notice or obtaining knowledge thereof, of: (i) the issuance by any Securities Commission of any order suspending or preventing the Offering, the use of the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus or any Supplementary Material or suspending or seeking to suspend the trading or distribution of the Unit Shares, Warrants or Warrant Shares; (ii) the suspension of the qualification of the Underlying Units, Unit Shares or Warrants for distribution in any of the Qualifying Jurisdictions; (iii) the institution, threatening or contemplation of any proceeding for any such purposes; or (iv) any requests made by any Securities Commission for amending or supplementing the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus or the Final Qualification Prospectus or any Supplementary Material or for additional information, and will use its reasonable efforts to prevent the issuance of any order or any suspension respectively referred to in (i) or (ii) above and, if any such order is issued, to obtain the withdrawal thereof as promptly as possible or if any such suspension occurs, to promptly remedy such suspension in accordance with this Agreement;
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(c) will use its commercially reasonable efforts to remain, and to cause each of the Subsidiaries to remain, a corporation validly subsisting under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation or amalgamation, and to be duly licensed, registered or qualified as an extra-provincial or foreign corporation or entity in all jurisdictions where the character of its properties owned or leased or the nature of the activities conducted by it make such licensing, registration or qualification necessary and to carry on its business in the ordinary course and in compliance in all material respects with all Applicable Laws, rules and regulations of each such jurisdiction; provided that the Company shall not be required to comply with this Section 9(c) following the completion of a merger, amalgamation, arrangement, business combination or take-over bid pursuant to which the Company ceases to
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be a “reporting issuer” (within the meaning of Applicable Securities Laws of the Qualifying Jurisdictions);
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(d) will use its commercially reasonable efforts to maintain its status as a “reporting issuer” (or the equivalent thereof) not in default of the requirements of the Applicable Securities Laws of each of the Qualifying Jurisdictions which have such a concept and will comply with all of its obligations under Applicable Laws; provided that the Company shall not be required to comply with this Section 9(d) following the completion of a merger, amalgamation, arrangement, business combination or take-over bid pursuant to which the Company ceases to be a “reporting issuer” (within the meaning of Applicable Securities Laws of the Qualifying Jurisdictions);
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(e) will use its commercially reasonable efforts (including, without limitation, making application to the Securities Commissions of each Qualifying Jurisdiction for all consents, orders and approvals necessary) to maintain the listing of the Common Shares on the CSE or another recognized stock exchange or quotation system, provided that the Company shall not be required to comply with this Section 9(e) following the completion of a merger, amalgamation, arrangement, business combination or take-over bid pursuant to which the Company ceases to be a “reporting issuer” (within the meaning of Applicable Securities Laws of the Qualifying Jurisdictions);
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(f) will use its commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the Unit Shares, the Warrant Shares and the Compensation Warrant Shares, are, when issued, listed and posted for trading on the CSE upon their date of issuance;
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(g) will apply the net proceeds from the issue and sale of the Special Warrants as set forth in the Subscription Agreements;
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(h) will promptly do, make, execute, deliver or cause to be done, made, executed or delivered, all such acts, documents and things as the Agent may reasonably require from time to time for the purpose of giving effect to the Transaction Documents and the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to implement to their full extent the provisions, and to satisfy the conditions, of each of the Transaction Documents;
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(i) will forthwith notify the Agent of any breach of any covenant of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, or any Ancillary Documents, by any party thereto, or upon it becoming aware that any representation or warranty of the Company contained in this Agreement or any other Transaction Document or any Ancillary Document, is or has become untrue or inaccurate in any material respect;
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(j) will not, at any time prior to the closing of the Offering, halt the trading of the Common Shares on the CSE without the prior written consent of the Agent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld;
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(k) will make available management of the Company for meetings with investors as scheduled by the Agent at the discretion of the Agent upon reasonable notice to the Company;
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(l) will fulfil or cause to be fulfilled, at or prior to the Time of Closing, each of the conditions applicable to the Company set out in Section 10 that are within its control (unless waived by the Agent);
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(m) on the dates of and upon filing of the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus and the Final Qualification Prospectus, the Company will be an Eligible Issuer in the Qualifying Jurisdictions and there will be no documents required to be filed under the Applicable Securities Laws in connection with the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus or the Final Qualification Prospectus that will not have been filed as required as at those respective dates;
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(n) will ensure that, at the Time of Closing, the Special Warrants are duly and validly created, authorized and issued on payment of the purchase price therefor and have attributes corresponding in all material respects to the description thereof set forth in this Agreement and the Subscription Agreements;
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(o) will ensure that the Concurrent Private Placement is conducted in a manner that is in compliance with Applicable Securities Laws;
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(p) will ensure that at all times a sufficient number of Unit Shares, Warrant Shares and Compensation Warrant Shares are duly and validly allotted and reserved for issuance upon the respective exercise or deemed exercise of the Special Warrants, the Warrants and the Compensation Warrants;
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(q) will ensure that, upon the exercise or deemed exercise of the Special Warrants, the Unit Shares are duly issued as fully paid and non-assessable Common Shares in the capital of the Company and the Warrants are duly created and issued Warrants as fully paid securities of the Company;
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(r) will ensure that, upon exercise of the Warrants, the Warrants Shares are duly issued as fully paid and non-assessable Common Shares in the capital of the Company;
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(s) will ensure that, upon exercise of the Compensation Warrants, the Compensation Warrant Shares are duly issued as fully paid and non-assessable Common Shares in the capital of the Company;
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(t) will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the Qualification Date occurs prior to the Qualification Deadline;
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(u) in connection with the issuance of the Special Warrants, will execute and file with the Securities Commissions all forms, notices and certificates required to be filed pursuant to Applicable Securities Laws in the Selling Jurisdictions within prescribed time periods; and
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- (v) until the Qualification Date, will consult in good faith with the Agent as to the content and form of any press release relating to the Offering or the Final Qualification Prospectus or the transactions contemplated therein.
10. Conditions of Closing
The obligations of the Agent hereunder with respect to the Offering will be subject to the completion by the Agent of a due diligence review satisfactory to the Agent in its sole judgment and to the satisfaction (or waiver by the Agent in its sole discretion) of the following additional conditions, as applicable, which conditions the Company covenants to exercise its commercially reasonable efforts to have fulfilled on or prior to the Time of Closing or any Option Closing Date, as applicable:
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(a) The Agent will receive at the Time of Closing a legal opinion addressed to the Agent and its counsel, Miller Thomson LLP, dated and delivered the Closing Date from the Company’s counsel, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, and from local counsel (in respect of matters governed by laws of the Qualifying Jurisdiction where the Company’s Canadian counsel is not qualified to practice), in each case in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent and its counsel, acting reasonably, with respect to the following matters, subject to such reasonable assumptions and qualifications customary with respect to transactions of this nature as may be accepted by the Agent and its counsel:
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(i) the Company is a corporation duly created and validly existing under the BCBCA, amalgamated or continued, as the case may be, and has all requisite corporate power, capacity and authority to carry on its business as now conducted and to own, lease and operate its property and assets;
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(ii) as to the authorized and issued capital of the Company;
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(iii) the Special Warrants have been duly and validly created, authorized and issued;
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(iv) the Unit Shares and Warrants comprising the Underlying Units have been duly and validly created authorized, allotted and reserved for issuance and, upon the issue thereof upon the exercise or deemed exercise of the Special Warrants in accordance with the terms of the Special Warrant Indenture, will be validly issued and outstanding, in the case of the Unit Shares, as fully paid and non-assessable Common Shares in the capital of the Company;
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(v) the Warrant Shares underlying the Warrants have been duly and validly created, authorized, allotted and reserved for issuance and, upon the issue thereof upon the exercise of the Warrants in accordance with the terms of the Warrant Indenture, will be validly issued and outstanding as fully paid and non-assessable Common Shares in the capital of the Company;
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(vi) the Compensation Warrants have been duly and validly created, authorized and issued;
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(vii) the Compensation Warrant Shares underlying the Compensation Warrants have been duly and validly created, authorized, allotted and reserved for issuance and, upon the issue thereof upon the exercise of the Compensation Warrants in accordance with the terms of the Compensation Warrant Certificate, will be validly issued and outstanding as fully paid and non-assessable Common Shares in the capital of the Company;
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(viii) if applicable, the form and terms of the definitive certificate representing the Common Shares and the certificate representing the Special Warrants (if any) have been approved by the directors of the Company and comply in all material respects with the BCBCA, the constating documents of the Company and the rules of the CSE;
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(ix) the Company has all necessary corporate power and capacity: (i) to execute and deliver the Transaction Documents and perform its obligations thereunder; (ii) to create, issue and sell the Special Warrants; (iii) to allot, reserve for issuance and issue the Unit Shares and Warrants comprising the Underlying Units issuable upon exercise or deemed exercise of the Special Warrants, (iv) to allot, reserve for issuance and issue the Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants; to create and issue the Compensation Warrants; and (vi) to allot, reserve for issuance and issue the Compensation Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Compensation Warrants;
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(x) the Company has duly authorized, executed and delivered, the Transaction Documents and the performance of its obligations under the Transaction Documents, including the creation, offering, issue, sale and delivery of the Special Warrants, the creation and grant of the Agent’s Option and the creation, issue and delivery of the Unit Shares and Warrants comprising the Underlying Units upon exercise or deemed exercise of the Special Warrants, the issuance and delivery of the Warrant Shares upon exercise of the Warrants, the creation and issuance of the Compensation Warrants, the issuance and delivery of the Compensation Warrant Shares upon the exercise of the Compensation Warrants, and each of the Transaction Documents constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, subject to the Qualification;
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(xi) the execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents and the fulfillment of the terms thereof, the issue and sale of the Special Warrants, the creation, issue and grant of the Agent’s Option, the creation, issue and sale of the Unit Shares and Warrants comprising the Underlying Units upon the exercise or deemed exercise of the Special Warrants, the issuance and delivery of the Warrant Shares upon exercise of the Warrants, the creation and issuance of the Compensation Warrants, the issuance and delivery of the Compensation Warrant Shares upon the exercise of the Compensation Warrants, and the consummation of the transactions
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contemplated by the Transaction Documents, do not conflict with or result in a breach of (whether after notice or lapse of time or both) or constitute a default under any of the terms, conditions or provisions of the notice of articles, articles of incorporation or amalgamation, as applicable, by-laws or resolutions of the shareholders or the board of directors (or any committee thereof) of the Company or any laws of the Province of British Columbia or federal laws of Canada applicable therein;
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(xii) Computershare Trust Company of Canada is the duly appointed registrar and transfer agent for the Common Shares;
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(xiii) Computershare Trust Company of Canada has been appointed the special warrant agent in respect of the Special Warrants and as warrant agent in respect of the Warrants;
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(xiv) the issuance and sale by the Company of the Special Warrants to the Purchasers in the Qualifying Jurisdictions in accordance with the Subscription Agreements and the issuance by the Company of the Compensation Warrants to the Agent in accordance herewith are exempt from the prospectus requirements of Applicable Securities Laws of the Qualifying Jurisdictions and no prospectus or other documents are required to be filed (other than specified forms accompanied by requisite filing fees), no proceedings taken or approvals, permits, consents, orders or authorizations obtained under the Applicable Securities Laws of the Qualifying Jurisdictions to permit such issuances and sales;
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(xv) the issuance to holders of Special Warrants of the Unit Shares and Warrants comprising the Underlying Units pursuant to and in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Special Warrant Indenture is exempt from the prospectus requirements of Applicable Securities Laws of the Qualifying Jurisdictions and no prospectus or other documents are required to be filed, proceedings taken or approvals, permits, consents, orders or authorizations obtained under the Applicable Securities Laws of the Qualifying Jurisdictions to permit such issuance;
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(xvi) the issuance to the Agent of the Compensation Warrants in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Compensation Warrant certificate, and the issuance to the Agent of the Compensation Warrant Shares in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Compensation Warrant Certificate, are exempt from the prospectus requirements of Applicable Securities Laws of the Qualifying Jurisdictions and no prospectus or other documents are required to be filed, proceedings taken or approvals, permits, consents, orders or authorizations obtained under the Applicable Securities Laws of the Qualifying Jurisdictions to permit such issuance;
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(xvii) that no other documents will be required to be filed, proceedings taken or approvals, permits, consents or authorizations obtained under the Applicable Securities Laws of the Qualifying Jurisdictions in connection with the first trade of the Special Warrants or the Unit Shares and
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Warrants comprising the Underlying Units or the Warrant Shares or the Compensation Warrants and Compensation Warrant Shares, provided that four months have lapsed since the Closing Date, subject to the usual qualifications;
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(xviii) if a Final Qualification Prospectus qualifying the distribution of the Underlying Units has been filed with, and a Final Receipt has been issued by the BCSC pursuant to the Passport System and provided the Final Qualification Prospectus is delivered to the holder of Special Warrants prior to the exercise of the same, the first trade by a holder of: (A) such Unit Shares and Warrants comprising the Underlying Units, the Warrant Shares, the Compensation Warrants and the Compensation Warrant Shares will not be subject to any statutory hold period or restricted period under Applicable Securities Laws of the Qualifying Jurisdictions, and (B) no documents will be required to be filed, proceedings taken or approvals, permits, consents or authorizations obtained under the Applicable Securities Laws of the Qualifying Jurisdictions in order to permit the first trade of such Unit Shares and Warrants comprising the Underlying Units in the Qualifying Jurisdictions through registrants registered under Canadian Securities Laws who have complied with such laws, provided that such sale is not a “control distribution” within the meaning of NI 45102;
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(xix) the Company is a “reporting issuer”, or its equivalent, in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario, and it is not listed as in default of any requirement of the Applicable Securities Laws in any of the Qualifying Jurisdictions which maintain such a list; and
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(xx) as to all other legal matters reasonably requested by counsel to the Agent prior to the Time of Closing.
In connection with such opinion, counsel to the Company may rely on the opinions of local counsel in the Qualifying Jurisdictions acceptable to counsel to the Agent, acting reasonably, as to the qualification for distribution of the Special Warrants and Unit Shares and Warrants comprising the Underlying Units or opinions may be given directly by local counsel of the Company with respect to those items and as to other matters governed by the laws of jurisdictions other than the province or provinces in which the Company’s Canadian counsel are qualified to practice and may rely, to the extent appropriate in the circumstances but only as to matters of fact, on certificates of officers of the Company and others;
- (b) if any Special Warrants are sold to, or for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States or U.S. Persons, the Agent shall have received a favourable legal opinion addressed to the Agent, in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent, acting reasonably, dated as of the Closing Date, from the special U.S. counsel to the Company, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, to the effect that registration of the Special Warrants is not required under the U.S. Securities Act
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in connection with the offer and sale of such Special Warrants to, or for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States and U.S. Persons pursuant to this Agreement;
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(c) the Agent shall have received legal opinions from legal counsel to, and duly qualified to practice law in the jurisdiction of formation of, Voyager Digital Ltd., addressed to the Agent and legal counsel to the Agent with respect to: (i) the incorporation and existence of each of its material Subsidiaries; (ii) the issued and outstanding securities of each of its material Subsidiaries and the holders of such outstanding securities; (iii) the power and capacity of each of its material Subsidiaries to carry on its business and activities and to own and lease its property and assets; such opinion to be in form and substance, acceptable in all reasonable respects to the Agent and its legal counsel;
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(d) the Agent shall have received a certificate dated the Closing Date, signed by the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company or any other senior officer(s) of the Company as may be acceptable to the Agent, in form and content satisfactory to the Agent and its counsel, acting reasonably, with respect to:
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(i) the notice of articles, articles and by laws of the Company;
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(ii) the resolutions of the Company’s board of directors relevant to the issue and sale of the Special Warrants to be issued and sold by the Company, the allotment and reservation of the Unit Shares and Warrants comprising the Underlying Units, the Warrant Shares, the Compensation Securities and the authorization of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents; and
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(iii) the incumbency and signatures of signing officers of the Company;
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(e) the Agent shall have received a certificate of status or the equivalent dated within one Business Day of the Closing Date, in respect of the Company and each of its material Subsidiaries;
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(f) the Company shall deliver to the Agent, at the Time of Closing, certificates dated the Closing Date addressed to the Agent and signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, or such other senior officer(s) of the Company as may be acceptable to the Agent, certifying for and on behalf of the Company and without personal liability, after having made due enquiries, to the effect that:
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(i) the Company has complied in all respects with all the covenants and satisfied all the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents on its part to be complied with and satisfied at or prior to the Time of Closing;
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(ii) the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein are true and correct in all material respects (or, in the case of any
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representation or warranty containing a materiality or Material Adverse Effect qualification, in all respects) as at the Time of Closing with the same force and effect as if made on and as at the Time of Closing after giving effect to the transactions contemplated hereby;
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(iii) to the knowledge of such persons, no order, ruling or determination having the effect of ceasing the trading or suspending the sale of the Special Warrants, Underlying Units, Unit Shares, Warrants, Warrant Shares, Compensation Warrants or Compensation Warrant Shares to be issued by the Company has been issued and no proceedings for such purpose have been instituted or are pending or, to the knowledge of such officers, contemplated or threatened; and
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(iv) such other matters as the Agent may reasonably request prior to the Time of Closing;
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(g) the Agent shall have received copies of correspondence indicating that the Company has obtained all necessary approvals for the Unit Shares, Warrant Shares and Compensation Warrant Shares to be listed on the CSE, subject only to the Standard Listing Conditions;
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(h) the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement will be true and correct in all material respects (or, in the case of any representation or warranty containing a materiality or Material Adverse Effect qualification, in all respects) at and as of the Time of Closing on the Closing Date, as if such representations and warranties were made at and as of such time and all agreements, covenants and conditions required by this Agreement to be performed, complied with or satisfied by the Company will have been performed, complied with or satisfied prior to that time;
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(i) the absence of any misrepresentations in the Disclosure Record or undisclosed material change or undisclosed materials fact relating to the Company or the Special Warrants, Underlying Units, Unit Shares, Warrants, Warrant Shares, Compensation Warrants or Compensation Warrant Shares;
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(j) the Concurrent Private Placement shall be completed contemporaneously with the Offering, and the Agent shall have received evidence thereof;
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(k) the Agent shall have completed its due diligence review of the Company and its Subsidiaries to its satisfaction acting reasonably;
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(l) the Agent shall have received a certificate from Computershare Investor Services Inc. as to the number of Common Shares issued and outstanding as at the date immediately prior to the Closing Date;
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(m) the Agent will have received such other certificates, opinions, agreements or closing documents in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent as the Agent may reasonably request prior to the Time of Closing; and
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- (n) each of the directors and executive officers of the Company (the “ Locked-Up Persons ”) will execute agreements, in favour of the Agent, agreeing that, provided the Offering is completed, they will not, directly or indirectly, without the prior written consent of the Agent, not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, offer, sell, contract to sell, lend, swap, or enter into any other agreement to transfer the economic consequences of, or otherwise dispose of or deal with, or publicly announce any intention to offer, sell, contract to sell, grant or sell any option to purchase, hypothecate, pledge, transfer, assign, purchase any option or contract to sell, lend, swap, or enter into any agreement to transfer the economic consequences of, or otherwise dispose of or deal with, whether through the facilities of a stock exchange, by private placement or otherwise, any Common Shares or other equity securities of the Company (or securities convertible or exercisable into Common Shares or other equity securities) held by them, directly or indirectly, on the Closing Date (the “ Locked-Up Securities ”) for a period of 90 days following the Closing Date (such period being the “ Lock-up Period ”), except in respect of the following: (a) transfers to affiliates of the Locked-up Persons, or any company, trust or other entity owned by or maintained for the benefit of the Locked-up Persons, or (b) transfers occurring by operation of law or in connection with transactions arising as a result of the death of the Locked-up Persons; provided, in each of (a) and (b), that any such transferee shall first execute a lock up agreement in substantially the same form agreed to with the Agent covering the remainder of the Lock-up Period, or (c) transfers made pursuant to a bona fide take-over bid made to all holders of voting securities of the Company or similar acquisition or merger transaction, provided that in the event that the take-over or acquisition or merger transaction is not completed, any securities shall remain subject to the restrictions contained in the undertaking, (d) transfers to any nominee or custodian where there is no change in beneficial ownership, for bona fide tax planning purposes including, but not limited to, transfers into a registered retirement savings plan and where the Locked-Up Securities are still subject to and governed by the original lock-up agreement, or (e) sales to satisfy tax obligations on the exercise of convertible securities.
11. Closing
The closing of the purchase and sale of the Special Warrants shall be completed at the Time of Closing at the Toronto offices of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP or at such other place as the Company and the Agent may agree in writing. At the Time of Closing:
- (a) the Company will deliver to the Agent, or as the Agent may direct, (i) one or more certificates in definitive form representing the Special Warrants and/or a direct deposit of the Special Warrants into the non-certificated inventory system of CDS, in each case registered in the name of “CDS & Co.” or in such other name or names as the Agent may notify the Company in writing not less than 48 hours prior to the Time of Closing, and (ii) one or more certificates in definitive form representing the Compensation Warrants, in each case registered in such name or names as the Agent shall notify the Company in writing not less than 48 hours prior to the Time of Closing, and (iii) all further documentation as may be contemplated in this Agreement or as counsel to the Agent may reasonably
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require; against payment by the Agent to the Company of the applicable purchase amount for the Special Warrants being issued and sold under this Agreement, net of the Agent’s Commission and the Agent’s expenses contemplated in Section 15 of this Agreement, by certified cheque, bank draft or wire transfer payable to or as directed by the Company not less than 48 hours prior to the Time of Closing; and
- (b) the Company shall make all necessary arrangements for the exchange of any such definitive certificates, on the date of delivery, at the principal offices of the registrar of the Company in the City of Vancouver for certificates representing the Special Warrants in such amounts and registered in such names as shall be designated by the Agent not less than 48 hours prior to the Time of Closing. The Company shall pay all fees and expenses payable to or incurred by the registrar of the Company in connection with the preparation, delivery, certification and exchange of any definitive certificates contemplated by this Section 11 and the fees and expenses payable to or incurred by the registrar of the Company in connection with such additional transfers required in the course of the distribution of the Special Warrants, which fees and expenses may be deducted by the Agent from the aggregate gross proceeds of the Offering.
12. Restrictions on Further Issues or Sales
During the period commencing on the date hereof and ending 90 days after the Closing Date, it will not, directly or indirectly, without the prior written consent of the Agent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, issue, sell, offer, grant an option or right in respect of, or otherwise dispose of, or enter into any derivative transaction that has the effect of the foregoing, or agree to or announce any intention to issue, sell, offer, grant an option or right in respect of, or otherwise dispose of, or enter into any derivative transaction that has the effect of the foregoing, any additional Common Shares, equity securities or debt securities, or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for Common Shares, equity securities or debt securities, in each case by way of a brokered or non-brokered transaction, except in conjunction with: (i) this Agreement; (ii) any existing option/warrant obligations; (iii) the grant or exercise of stock options and other similar issuances pursuant to any stock option plan or similar share compensation arrangements of the Company in place prior to the date hereof (provided that in the case of new grants, the exercise price of such stock options or compensation arrangement will be no less than the Issue Price); (iv) the grant of restricted share units; (v) the Offering; or (vi) the Concurrent Private Placement.
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Indemnity
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prior consent in reasonable settlement of any actions, suits, proceedings or claims), and the reasonable fees and expenses of its counsel that may be incurred in advising with respect to and/or defending any claim that may be made against the Indemnified Parties and/or the Personnel, to which the Indemnified Parties and/or the Personnel may become subject or otherwise involved in any capacity under any statute or common law or otherwise insofar as such expenses, losses, claims, damages, liabilities or actions arise out of or are based, directly or indirectly, upon the performance of professional services rendered to the Company by the Indemnified Parties and/or the Personnel or otherwise in connection with the matters referred to in this Agreement, including, without limitation, in any way caused by, or arising directly or indirectly from, or in consequence of:
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(i) any misrepresentation (as such term is defined in the Securities Act (Ontario)) contained in this Agreement;
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(ii) any information or statement (except any information or statement relating solely to the Agent) contained in any certificate of the Company delivered under or pursuant to this Agreement which at the time and in light of the circumstances under which it was made contains or is alleged to contain a misrepresentation;
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(iii) any omission to state, in any certificate of the Company delivered under or pursuant to this Agreement, any fact (except facts relating solely to the Agent) required to be stated in such document or necessary to make any statement in such document not misleading in light of the circumstances under which it was made;
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(iv) the non-compliance by the Company with any requirements of the Securities Act (Ontario) or other applicable securities laws and regulations; or
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(v) any breach of the representation contained in Section 8(o).
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(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Section 13, this indemnity shall not apply to the extent that a court of competent jurisdiction in a final judgment that has become non-appealable shall determine that:
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(i) the Indemnified Parties or their Personnel have been grossly negligent or have committed any fraudulent or illegal act in the course of the performance of professional services rendered to the Issuer by the Indemnified Parties and/or their Personnel or otherwise in connection with the matters referred to in the letter to which this indemnity is attached; and
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(ii) the expenses, losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as to which indemnification is claimed, were primarily caused by the gross negligence, fraud or illegal act referred to in Section 13(a) .
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(c) If for any reason (other than the occurrence of any of the events itemized in Sections 13(a) and 13(b)), the foregoing indemnification is unavailable to the Indemnified Party or insufficient to hold them harmless, then the Company shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by the Indemnified Party as a result of such expense, loss, claim, damage or liability in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Indemnified Party on the other hand but also the relative fault of the Company and the Indemnified Party, as well as any relevant equitable considerations; provided that the Company shall, in any event, contribute to the amount paid or payable by the Indemnified Party as a result of such expense, loss, claim, damage or liability, any excess of such amount over the amount of the fees received by the Indemnified Party hereunder pursuant to the letter agreement to which this indemnity is attached.
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(d) The Company agrees that in case any legal proceeding shall be brought against the Company and/or the Indemnified Party by any governmental commission or regulatory authority or any stock exchange or other entity having regulatory authority, either domestic or foreign, shall investigate the Company and/or the Indemnified Parties and any Personnel of the Indemnified Parties shall be required to testify in connection therewith or shall be required to respond to procedures designed to discover information regarding, in connection with, or by reason of the performance of professional services rendered to the Company by the Indemnified Party, the Indemnified Party shall have the right to employ their own counsel in connection therewith, and the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel as well as the reasonable costs (including an amount to reimburse the Indemnified Party for any time spent by Personnel in connection therewith) and out-of-pocket expenses incurred by their Personnel therewith shall, subject to the right of indemnity, be paid by the Indemnitor as they occur.
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(e) Promptly after receipt of notice of the commencement of any legal proceeding against the Indemnified Parties or any of their Personnel or after receipt of notice of the commencement of any investigation, which is based, directly or indirectly, upon any matter in respect of which indemnification may be sought from the Company, the Indemnified Parties will notify the Company in writing of the commencement thereof and, throughout the course thereof, will provide copies of all relevant documentation to the Company, will keep the Company advised of the progress thereof and will discuss with the Issuer all significant actions proposed. The omission to notify the Company shall not relieve the Company of any liability which the Company may have to the Indemnified Party except only to the extent that any such delay in giving or failure to give notice as herein required materially prejudices the defence of such action, suit, proceeding, claim or investigation or results in any material increase in the liability which the Company would otherwise have under this indemnity had the Indemnified Parties not so delayed in giving or failed to give the notice required hereunder.
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(f) The Company shall be entitled, at its own expense, to participate in and, to the extent it may wish to do so, assume the defence thereof, provided such defence is conducted by experienced and competent counsel. Upon the Company notifying
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the Indemnified Parties in writing of its election to assume the defence and retaining counsel, the Company shall not be liable to the Indemnified Parties for any legal expenses subsequently incurred by them in connection with such defence. If such defence is assumed by the Company, the Company throughout the course thereof will provide copies of all relevant documentation to the Indemnified Parties, will keep the Indemnified Parties advised of the progress thereof and will discuss with the Indemnified Parties all significant actions proposed.
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(g) Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph, any Indemnified Party shall have the right, at the Company's expense, to employ counsel of such Indemnified Party's choice, in respect of the defence of any action, suit, proceeding, claim or investigation if: (i) the employment of such counsel has been authorized in writing by the Company; or (ii) the Company has not assumed the defence and employed counsel therefor within a reasonable time after receiving notice of such action, suit, proceeding, claim or investigation; or (iii) counsel retained by the Company or the Indemnified Party has advised the Indemnified Party that representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate for any reason, including without limitation because there may be legal defences available to the Indemnified Party which are different from or in addition to those available to the Company (in which event and to that extent, the Company shall not have the right to assume or direct the defence on the Indemnified Party's behalf) or that there is a conflict of interest between the Company and the Indemnified Party or the subject matter of the action, suit, proceeding, claim or investigation may not fall within the indemnity set forth herein (in either of which events the Company shall not have the right to assume or direct the defence on the Indemnified Party's behalf).
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(h) No admission of liability and no settlement of any action, suit, proceeding, claim or investigation shall be made without the consent of the Indemnified Parties affected not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed. No admission of liability shall be made and the Company shall not be liable for any settlement of any action, suit, proceeding, claim or investigation made without its consent.
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(i) The indemnity and contribution obligations of the Company shall be in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have, shall extend upon the same terms and conditions to the Personnel of the Indemnified Parties and shall be binding upon and enure to the benefit of any successors, assigns, heirs and personal representatives of the Issuer, the Indemnified Parties and any of the Personnel of the Indemnified Parties. The foregoing provisions shall survive the completion of professional services rendered under this Agreement or any termination of the authorization given hereunder.
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(j) The indemnity and the contribution obligations of the Indemnitor and Indemnified Parties hereunder (i) shall not be assignable by the Indemnitor nor the Indemnified Parties without the prior written consent of each other; and (ii) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal law of Canada applicable therein and the parties hereto
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hereby irrevocably attorn to the jurisdiction of the court of the Province of Ontario. No waiver, amendment or other modification of this indemnity agreement shall be effective unless in writing and signed by each of the Indemnitor and the Indemnified Parties. The foregoing provisions shall survive any termination of this Agreement or the completion of professional services rendered under this Agreement or any termination of the authorization given by this Agreement.
14. Contribution
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(a) In order to provide for just and equitable contribution in circumstances in which an indemnity provided in Section 13 would otherwise be available in accordance with its terms but is, for any reason not solely attributable to any one or more of the Indemnified Parties, held to be unavailable under Applicable Laws or otherwise, or unenforceable by the Indemnified Party, in whole or in part, the Indemnified Party and the Company will contribute to the aggregate of all claims of the nature contemplated in Section 13(a) and suffered or incurred by the Indemnified Parties:
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(i) in such proportions as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the Agent on the other, from the distribution of the Special Warrants, it being agreed that such proportion is (i) in respect of the Company, the percentage that the gross proceeds to the Company from the sale of the Special Warrants minus the fee payable by the Company to the Agent bears to the total gross proceeds to the Company from the sale of the Special Warrants, all as determined pursuant to the provisions hereof; and (ii) in respect of the Agent, the percentage that the Agent’s Commission actually received by the Agent bears to the total gross proceeds to the Issuer from the sale of the Special Warrants; or
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(ii) if, but only if, the allocation provided in Section 14(a)(i) is not permitted by Applicable Laws, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in Section 14(a)(i) but also the relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and the Agent on the other, in connection with the circumstances which resulted in such claim (or claims in respect thereof), as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and of the Agent on the other, will be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any misrepresentation relates to information supplied by the Company or supplied by the Agent in connection with the Offering and their relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.
The amount paid or payable by a Person as a result of the claims referred to above shall be deemed to include, subject as otherwise provided herein, any legal or other fees or expenses reasonably incurred by the Indemnified Party in connection with investigating or defending any claim.
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(b) No Person who has been determined by a court of competent jurisdiction, in a final judgment that has become non-appealable, to have engaged in fraud, gross negligence or willful misconduct will be entitled to claim contribution from any Person who has not been so determined to have engaged in such fraud, gross negligence or willful misconduct.
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(c) The parties hereto agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution were determined by any method of allocation that does not take into account the equitable considerations referred to in this Section 14. In the event that the Company may be held to be entitled to contribution from the Agent under the provisions of any statute or any Applicable Laws, the Agent shall be limited to contribution in an amount not exceeding the lesser of (a) the portion of the full amount of the loss or liability giving rise to such contribution for which the Agent are responsible, as determined in Section 14(a); and (b) the aggregate fees actually received by the Agent from the Issuer under this Agreement.
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(d) If an Indemnified Party has reason to believe that a claim for contribution may arise, the Indemnified Party will give the Company notice in writing, but failure to so notify will not relieve the Company of any obligation which they may have to the Indemnified Party under this Section 14 provided that the Company is not materially prejudiced by that failure, and the right of the Issuer to assume the defence of that Indemnified Party will apply as set out in Section 13, mutatis mutandis .
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(e) The rights to contribution provided in this Section 14 will be in addition to and not in derogation of any other right to contribution which the Indemnified Parties may have by statute or otherwise under any Applicable Laws.
15. Fees and Expenses
Whether or not the purchase and sale of the Special Warrants shall be completed, all fees and expenses (including GST or HST, if applicable) of or incidental to the creation, issuance and delivery of the Special Warrants and of or incidental to all matters in connection with the transactions herein set out shall be borne by the Company including, without limitation:
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(a) all expenses of or incidental to the creation, issue, sale or distribution of the Special Warrants and the filing of the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus and any Supplementary Material;
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(b) the fees and expenses of the auditors, counsel to the Company and all local counsel (including disbursements and GST or HST, if and as applicable, on all of the foregoing);
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(c) all costs incurred in connection with the preparation and printing of the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus and any Supplementary Material contemplated hereunder and otherwise relating to the Offering;
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(d) a financial advisory fee to the Agent who have acted as financial advisors to the Company in connection with the Concurrent Private Placement; and
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(e) the reasonable out-of-pocket expenses and fees of the Agent, including the reasonable expenses and fees of the Agent and its counsel, with such expenses to be paid by the Company at the Time of Closing or at any other time requested by the Agent and provided that the fees of Agent and its counsel shall be limited to a maximum of $75,000 (exclusive of disbursements and taxes and the fees and disbursements of local counsel) shall be payable by the Company immediately upon receiving an invoice therefor from the Agent.
16. All Terms to be Conditions
The Company agrees that the conditions contained in Section 10 will be complied with insofar as the same relate to acts to be performed or caused to be performed by the Company and that it will use its reasonable efforts to cause all such conditions to be complied with or satisfied. Any breach or failure to comply with or satisfy any of the conditions set out in Section 10 shall entitle the Agent to terminate this Agreement by written notice to that effect given to the Company at or prior to the Time of Closing. It is understood that the Agent may waive, in whole or in part, or extend the time for compliance with, any of such terms and conditions without prejudice to the rights of the Agent in respect of any such terms and conditions or any other or subsequent breach or non-compliance, provided that to be binding on the Agent any such waiver or extension must be in writing.
17. Termination by Agent in Certain Events
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(a) The Agent shall be entitled to terminate their obligations under this Agreement by written notice to that effect given to the Company at any time prior to the Time of Closing if:
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(i) (i) any inquiry, action, suit, proceeding or investigation (whether formal or informal) (including matters of regulatory transgression or unlawful conduct) is commenced, announced or threatened in relation to the Company or any one of the officers or directors of the Company where wrong-doing is alleged or any order made by any federal, provincial, state, municipal or other governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality including, without limitation, the CSE or any securities regulatory authority which involves a finding of wrong doing (except for any inquiry, action, suit, proceeding, investigation or order based upon activities of the Agent and not upon activities of the Company); or (ii) any order, action, proceeding, law or regulation is made, enacted or changed which ceases trading in the Company’s securities or, in the opinion of the Agent (or any of them), acting reasonably, operates to prevent or restrict the trading of the common shares of the Company;
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(ii) there should develop, occur or come into effect any event of any nature, including without limitation, accident, act of terrorism, public protest, governmental law or regulation which in the sole opinion of the Agent,
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acting reasonably, adversely affects or may adversely affect the financial markets or the business, affairs, prospects or financial condition of the Company and the Subsidiaries or the market price or value of the common shares of the Company or the marketability of the Special Warrants;
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(iii) there shall be any material change in the assets, business, affairs, financial condition, results of operations, capital or prospects of the Company or its Subsidiaries, or there should be discovered any previously undisclosed material fact or circumstance or there should occur a change in any material fact relating to the Company and/or the Subsidiaries, which in any case, in the sole opinion of the Agent, acting reasonably, has or would be expected to have a material adverse effect on the market price or value of the Special Warrants, the Underlying Units, the Unit Shares, the Warrants, the Warrant Shares, the Compensation Securities or any other securities of the Company;
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(iv) the Agent determines, in its sole opinion, acting reasonably, that the state of the financial markets, whether national or international, is such that the Special Warrants cannot be profitably marketed or it would be impractical to offer or to continue to offer the Special Warrants for sale;
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(v) in the event that any due diligence reveals any material adverse information concerning the Company or its securities that has not been publicly disclosed or such information otherwise comes to the attention of the Agent;
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(vi) the Company is not in compliance in all material respects with any Applicable Laws (including Applicable Securities Laws relating to timely disclosure of material information) or is in breach of any term, condition or covenant contained in this Agreement or any representation or warranty given by the Company in this Agreement becomes or is false; or
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(vii) the Agent and the Company agree in writing to terminate this Agreement. The Agent or the Company may terminate this agreement if the Closing Date does not occur by December 31, 2020.
For certainty, the outbreak of COVID-19 and any related interruption to the business, affairs, or financial condition of the Company or any event, action state or condition or financial occurrence, related directly or indirectly to COVID-19, including any adverse effect on the financial markets generally, shall not constitute an event or occurrence which will enable the Agent (or any of them) to rely on any of the termination provisions referenced above except to the extent that there are material adverse developments related, directly or indirectly thereto occurring subsequent to the date hereof.
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on the part of the Company to the Agent except in respect of any liability which may have arisen or may thereafter arise under Sections 13, 14 and 15 hereof.
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18. Right of First Refusal
Provided the Closing occurs, the Company hereby grants the Agent a right of first refusal to act as the Company’s book-running lead managing underwriter, exclusive placement agent, exclusive arranger, exclusive financial advisor, exclusive structuring agent, or in any other similar capacity, on the Agent’s customary terms, in the event the Company retains or otherwise uses (or seeks to retain or use) the services of an investment bank or similar financial advisor to pursue at any time during the term of this Agreement or within 12 months after the date hereof, a registered, underwritten public offering of equity or debt securities, a private placement of equity or debt securities, other financing or capital raise and provide the Agent with no less than 50% syndicate economics of such financing and/or a merger, acquisition of another company or business except for an acquisition of Coinberry, Ltd, change of control, a sale of the Company, a joint venture, a sale of all or substantially all assets, a securitization of assets, or other similar transaction (regardless of whether the Company would be considered an acquiring party, a selling party or neither in such transaction). Nothing contained herein, however, constitutes an obligation of the Agent to serve as book-running lead managing underwriter, placement agent, exclusive arranger, exclusive financial advisor, exclusive structuring agent, or in any other similar capacity
19. Relationship between the Company and the Agent
In connection with the services described herein, the Agent shall act as independent contractors, and any duties of the Agent arising out of this Agreement shall be owed solely to the Company. The Company acknowledges that the Agent are securities firms engaged in securities trading and brokerage activities, as well as providing investment banking and financial advisory services, which may involve services provided to other companies engaged in businesses similar or competitive to the business of the Company and that the Agent shall have no obligation to disclose such activities and services to the Company. The Company acknowledges and agrees that in connection with all aspects of the engagement contemplated hereby, and any communications in connection therewith, the Company, on the one hand, and the Agent and any of its affiliates through which they may be acting, on the other hand, will have a business relationship that does not create, by implication or otherwise, any fiduciary duty on the part of the Agent or such affiliates, and each party hereto agrees that no such duty will he deemed to have arisen in connection with any such transactions or communications. The Company acknowledges and agrees that it waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims the Company and its affiliates may have against the Agent for breach of fiduciary duty or alleged breach of fiduciary duty and agrees that the Agent shall have no liability (whether direct or indirect) to the Company or any of its affiliates in respect of such a fiduciary duty
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claim or to any person asserting a fiduciary duty claim on behalf of or in right of the Company, including stockholders, employees or creditors of the Company. Information which is held elsewhere within the Agent, but of which none of the individuals in the investment banking department or division of the Agent involved in providing the services contemplated by this Agreement actually has knowledge (or without breach of internal procedures can properly obtain) will not for any purpose be taken into account in determining any of the responsibilities of the Agent to the Company under this Agreement.
20. Notices
Any notice or other communication required or permitted to be given hereunder shall be in writing and shall be delivered,
in the case of the Company, to:
Voyager Digital Ltd.
Suite 915 - 700 West Pender Street Vancouver, British Columbia, V6C 1G8
Attention: Stephen Ehrlich, Chief Executive Officer Email: [email protected]
with a copy of any such notice (which shall not constitute notice to the Company) to:
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP 333 Bay Street, Suite 2400 Toronto, Ontario, M5H 2T6
Attention: Krisztian Toth Email: [email protected]
in the case of the Agent, to:
Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc. 145 King Street West, Suite 300 Toronto, Ontario, M5H 1J8
Attention: Matthew Gaasenbeek, Managing Director and Co-Head of Investment Banking Email: [email protected]
and with a copy of any such notice (which shall not constitute notice to the Agent) to:
Miller Thomson LLP 40 King Street West Toronto, ON M5H 3S1
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Attention: Lawrence Wilder/Adam Kline Email: [email protected] [email protected]
The Company and the Agent may change their respective addresses for notice by notice given in the manner aforesaid. Any such notice or other communication shall be in writing, and unless delivered personally to the addressee or to a responsible officer of the addressee, as applicable, shall be given by fax and shall be deemed to have been given when: (i) in the case of a notice delivered personally to a responsible officer of the addressee, when so delivered; and (ii) in the case of a notice delivered or given by fax on the first business day following the day on which it is sent.
21. Miscellaneous
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(a) The Company acknowledges and agrees that all written and oral opinions, advice, analysis and materials provided by the Agent in connection with this Agreement hereunder are intended solely for the Company’s benefit and the Company’s internal use only with respect to the Offering and the Company agrees that no such opinion, advice, analysis or material will be used for any other purpose whatsoever or reproduced, disseminated, quoted from or referred to in whole or in part at any time, in any manner or for any purpose, without the prior written consent of the Agent in each specific instance. Any advice or opinions given by the Agent hereunder will be made subject to, and will be based upon, such assumptions, limitations, qualification and reservations as the Agent, in its sole judgment, deems necessary or prudent in the circumstances. The Agent shall act as independent contractor under this Agreement and not in any other capacity, including as a fiduciary, and any duties arising out of this Agreement shall be owed solely to the Company.
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(b) Upon successful completion of the Offering, the Agent shall be permitted to publish, at its own expense, such advertisements or announcements describing its services provided hereunder in such newspaper or other publications as the Agent considers appropriate, and shall further be permitted to post such advertisements or announcements on its website. Prior to publishing or posting any such advertisement, the Agent shall provide a draft thereof to the Company and shall afford the Company an opportunity to review and provide comments on such advertisement.
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(c) This Agreement shall enure to the benefit of, and shall be binding upon, the Agent and the Company and their respective successors and legal representatives, provided that no party may assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations under this Agreement, in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of the other party.
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(d) The Company acknowledges and agrees that: (i) the Offering contemplated by this Agreement is an arm’s length commercial transaction between the Company, on the one hand, and the Agent, on the other; (ii) in connection therewith and with the process leading to such transaction the Agent are acting solely as a principal
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and not the agent or fiduciary of the Company; (iii) the Agent have not assumed an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favour of the Company with respect to the offering contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether the Agent have advised or is concurrently advising the Company on other matters) or any other obligation to the Company except the obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement; and (iv) the Company has consulted its own legal and financial advisors to the extent they deemed appropriate. The Company agrees that it will not claim that the Agent have rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owes a fiduciary or similar duty to the Company in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto.
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(e) The Company acknowledges that the Agent are full service securities firms engaged in securities trading and brokerage activities as well as providing investment banking and financial advisory services and that in the ordinary course of its trading and brokerage activities, the Agent and/or any of its affiliates at any time may hold long or short positions, and may trade or otherwise effect transactions, for its own account or the accounts of customers, in debt or equity securities of the Company or any other company that may be involved in a transaction or related derivative securities.
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(f) Neither the Company nor the Agent shall make any public announcement in connection with the Offering, except if the other party has consented to such announcement or the announcement is required by applicable laws or stock exchange rules. In such event, the party proposing to make the announcement will provide the other party with a reasonable opportunity, in the circumstances, to review a draft of the proposed announcement and to provide comments thereon.
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(g) No waiver of any provision of this Agreement will constitute a waiver of any other provision (whether or not similar). No waiver will be binding unless executed in writing by the party to be bound by the waiver. A party’s failure or delay in exercising any right under this Agreement will not operate as a waiver of that right. A single or partial exercise of any right will not preclude a party from any other or further exercise of that right or the exercise of any other right it may have.
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(h) If any provision of this Agreement is determined to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable by an arbitrator or any court of competent jurisdiction from which no appeal exists or is taken, that provision will be severed from this Agreement and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.
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(i) This Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein and the parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of Ontario.
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(j) Time shall be of the essence hereof and, following any waiver or indulgence by any party, time shall again be of the essence hereof.
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(k) The words, “hereunder”, “hereof” and similar phrases mean and refer to the Agreement.
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(l) All warranties, representations, covenants and agreements (including the Company’s indemnification and contribution covenants and agreements in favour of the Agent and the other Indemnified Parties) of or made by the Company herein contained or contained in any Ancillary Document shall survive the purchase by the Purchasers of the Special Warrants and shall continue in full force and effect for the benefit of the Purchasers and the Agent regardless of the Closing of the sale of the Special Warrants, any subsequent disposition of the Special Warrants or the Underlying Units, Unit Shares, Warrants and/or Warrant Shares by the Purchasers or the termination of the obligations of the Agent under this Agreement for a period ending three years from the date of this Agreement and shall not be limited or prejudiced by any investigation made by or on behalf of the Agent in connection with the Offering, the preparation of the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus or any Supplementary Material or the distribution of the Special Warrants or the Underlying Units, Unit Shares, Warrants and/or Warrant Shares or otherwise, and the Company agrees that the Agent shall not be presumed to know of the existence of a claim against the Company under this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents or any Ancillary Document or in connection with the purchase and sale of the Special Warrants or the issuance of the Underlying Units, Unit Shares, Warrants, Warrant Shares and/or any of the Compensation Securities as a result of any investigation made by or on behalf of the Agent in accordance with the preparation of the Preliminary Qualification Prospectus, the Final Qualification Prospectus or any Supplementary Material or the distribution of the Special Warrants or the Underlying Units, Unit Shares, Warrants, Warrant Shares, Compensation Securities or otherwise.
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(m) Each of the parties hereto shall be entitled to rely on delivery of a facsimile or portable document format copy of this Agreement and acceptance by each such party of any such facsimile or portable document format copy shall be legally effective to create a valid and binding agreement between the parties hereto in accordance with the terms hereof.
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(n) This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which when taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement.
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(o) The parties hereby acknowledge that they have expressly required this Agreement and all notices, statements of account and other documents required or permitted to be given or entered into pursuant hereto to be drawn up in the English language only. Les parties reconnaissent avoir expressément demandé que la présente Convention ainsi que tout avis, tout état de compte et tout autre document à être ou pouvant être donné ou conclu en vertu des dispositions des présentes, soient rédigés en langue anglaise seulement .
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If this Agreement accurately reflects the terms of the transactions which we are to enter into and are agreed to by you, please communicate your acceptance by executing the enclosed copies of this Agreement where indicated and returning them to us.
Yours very truly,
STIFEL NICOLAUS CANADA INC.
By: “Matthew Gaasenbeek” Name: Matthew Gaasenbeek Managing Director, Co-Head of Title: Investment Banking
Accepted and agreed to by the undersigned as of the date of this Agreement first written above.
VOYAGER DIGITAL LTD.
By: “Stephen Ehrlich” Name: Stephen Ehrlich Title: Chief Executive Officer
SCHEDULE A
COMPLIANCE WITH UNITED STATES SECURITIES LAWS
This is Schedule A to the agency agreement dated as of December 15, 2020 between Voyager Digital Ltd. and Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc.
As used in this Schedule A, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
“ CPP Securities ” means the Special Warrants, the Underlying Units, the Unit Shares and Warrants, and the Warrant Shares, to be offered and sold to subscribers in the Concurrent Private Placement that are not in the United States or U.S. Persons, as well as the units, the Common Shares and the Warrants comprising such units, and the Common Shares issuable upon exercise of such Warrants, offered and sold to subscribers in the Concurrent Private Placement that are in the United States or U.S. Persons;
“ Dealer Covered Person ” has the meaning set forth in Section B.11 below;
“ Directed Selling Efforts ” means “directed selling efforts” as that term is defined in Rule 902(c) of Regulation S. Without limiting the foregoing, but for greater clarity in this Schedule, it means, subject to the exclusions from the definition of directed selling efforts contained in Regulation S, any activity undertaken for the purpose of, or that could reasonably be expected to have the effect of, conditioning the market in the United States for any of the Securities, and includes the placement of any advertisement in a publication with a general circulation in the United States that refers to the offering of the Securities or the CPP Securities;
“ Disqualification Event ” has the meaning set forth in Section A.10 below;
“ Foreign Issuer ” means a “foreign issuer” as that term is defined in Regulation S. Without limiting the foregoing, but for greater clarity in this Schedule, it means any issuer which is (a) the government of any country other than the United States or of any political subdivision of a country other than the United States; or (b) a corporation or other organization incorporated or organized under the laws of any country other than the United States, except an issuer meeting the following conditions as of the last business day of its most recently completed second fiscal quarter: (1) more than 50 percent of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer are directly or indirectly owned of record by residents of the United States; and (2) any of the following; (i) the majority of the executive officers or directors are United States citizens or residents, (ii) more than 50 percent of the assets of the issuer are located in the United States, or (iii) the business of the issuer is administered principally in the United States;
“ General Solicitation or General Advertising ” means “general solicitation or general advertising”, as used in Rule 502(c) of Regulation D, including any advertisements, articles, notices or other communications published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over radio or television or the internet, or any seminar or meeting whose attendees had been invited by general solicitation or general advertising;
“ Issuer Covered Person ” has the meaning set forth in Section A.10 below;
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“ Offshore Transaction ” means “offshore transaction” as that term is defined in Rule 902(h) of Regulation S;
“ Regulation S ” means Regulation S adopted by the SEC under the U.S. Securities Act;
“ Securities ” means the Special Warrants, the Underlying Units, the Unit Shares and Warrants, and the Warrant Shares;
“ Substantial U.S. Market Interest ” means “substantial U.S. market interest” as that term is defined in Rule 902(j) Regulation S; and
“ U.S. Purchaser ” means an original Purchaser of the Special Warrants that is either an U.S. Accredited Investor or Qualified Institutional Buyer who was, at the time of purchase, (a) in the United States or a U.S. Person, (b) any person purchasing such Special Warrants on behalf of, or for the account or benefit of, any U.S. Person or any person in the United States, (c) any person who receives or received an offer to acquire such Special Warrants while in the United States, and (d) any person who was in the United States at the time such person's buy order was made or the Subscription Agreement pursuant to which such Special Warrants were acquired was executed or delivered.
All other capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined in this Schedule A shall have the meanings assigned to them in the agency agreement to which this Schedule A is attached.
A. Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Company
The Company represents and warrants to and covenants with the Agent, as at the date hereof and as at the Closing Date, that:
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It is, and on the Closing Date will be, a Foreign Issuer with no Substantial U.S. Market Interest with respect to any of its equity securities.
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It has not offered and sold, and will not offer and sell, any Securities or CPP Securities except in accordance with this Schedule A (i) to, or for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States and U.S Persons that are either U.S. Accredited Investors or Qualified Institutional Buyers in reliance upon the exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act available pursuant to Rule 506(b) of Regulation D and similar exemptions under applicable U.S. state securities laws, and (ii) outside the United States in Offshore Transactions in reliance upon the exclusion from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act available pursuant to Rule 903 of Regulation S, neither the Company nor any of its affiliates, nor any person acting on any of their behalf (other than the Agent, the U.S. Affiliates, their respective affiliates or any person acting on any of their behalf, in respect of which no representation, warranty or covenant is made), has made or will make: (A) any offer to sell, or any solicitation of an offer to buy, any Securities or CPP Securities to a person in the United States or a U.S. Person; or (B) any sale of Securities or CPP Securities unless, at the time the buy order was or will have been originated, the purchaser is (i) outside the United States and not a U.S. Person or (ii) the Company, its affiliates, and any person acting on their behalf reasonably believe that the purchaser is outside the United States and not a U.S. Person.
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None of the Company or any, any of its affiliates persons acting on any of their behalf (other than the Agent, the U.S. Affiliates, their respective affiliates or any person acting on any of their behalf, in respect of which no representation, warranty or covenant is made) has made or will make any Directed Selling Efforts or has engaged or will engage in any form of General Solicitation or General Advertising or has acted in any manner involving a public offering within the meaning of Section 4(a)(2) of the U.S. Securities Act with respect to the offer and sale of Securities or CPP Securities to, or for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States or U.S. Persons.
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The Company is not, and as a result of the sales of the Securities or CPP Securities contemplated hereby will not be, registered or required to be registered as an “investment company”, as such term is defined in the United States Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, under such Act.
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The Company has not sold, offered for sale or solicited any offer to buy and will not sell, offer for sale or solicit any offer to buy, during the period beginning six months prior to the start of the earlier Offering of the Securities or the Concurrent Private Placement of the CPP Securities and ending six months after the later of the completion of the Offering of the Securities or the Concurrent Private Placement of the CPP Securities, any of its securities in the United States in a manner that would be integrated with and would cause (i) the exemption from registration provided by Rule 506(b) of Regulation D or the exclusion from registration provided by Rule 903 of Regulation S, to be unavailable with respect to offers and sales of the Securities in the Offering and the CPP Securities in the Concurrent Private Placement pursuant to this Schedule A.
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The Company will not take any action that would cause the exemptions or exclusions provided by Rule 506(b) of Regulation D or Rule 903 of Regulation S or to be unavailable with respect to offers and sales of the Securities in the Offering and the CPP Securities in the Concurrent Private Placement to, or for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States and U.S. Persons pursuant to the Agency Agreement including this Schedule A.
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Neither the Company nor any of its predecessors or affiliates has been subject to any order, judgment, or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction temporarily, preliminarily or permanently enjoining such person for failure to comply with Rule 503 of Regulation D.
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None of the Company, its affiliates or any person acting on behalf of any of them (other than the Agent, the U.S. Affiliates, their respective affiliates or any person acting on any of their behalf, in respect of which no representation, warranty or covenant is made) has engaged or will engage in any violation of Regulation M under the U.S. Exchange Act in connection with this Offering and the Concurrent Private Placement.
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The Company will, within prescribed time periods, prepare and file any forms or notices required under the U.S. Securities Act or applicable state securities laws in connection with the Offering and the Concurrent Private Placement.
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With respect to the Securities to be offered and sold hereunder (and the CPP Securities to be offered and sold in the Concurrent Private Placement) in reliance on Rule 506(b) of Regulation D, none of the Company, any of its predecessors, any director, executive officer, other officer of the Company participating in the offering, any beneficial owner of 20% or more
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of the Company’s outstanding voting equity securities, calculated on the basis of voting power, nor any promoter (as that term is defined in Rule 405 under the U.S. Securities Act) connected with the Company in any capacity at the time of sale (each, an “ Issuer Covered Person ” and, together, “ Issuer Covered Persons ”) is subject to any of the “Bad Actor” disqualifications described in Rule 506(d)(1)(i) to (viii) under the U.S. Securities Act (a “ Disqualification Event ”), except for a Disqualification Event covered by Rule 506(d)(2) or (d)(3). The Company has exercised reasonable care to determine (i) the identity of each person that is an Issuer Covered Person; and (ii) whether any Issuer Covered Person is subject to a Disqualification Event. The Company has complied, to the extent applicable, with its disclosure obligations under Rule 506(e), and has furnished to the Agent a copy of any disclosures provided thereunder.
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The Company is not aware of any person (other than any Dealer Covered Person) that has been or will be paid (directly or indirectly) remuneration for solicitation of Purchasers in connection with the sale of Securities in the Offering (or CPP Securities in the Concurrent Private Placement) pursuant to Rule 506(b) of Regulation D under the U.S. Securities Act.
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None of the Company, its affiliates or any person acting on any of their behalf (other than the Agent, the U.S. Affiliates, their respective affiliates or any person acting on any of their behalf, in respect of which no representation, warranty or covenant is made) will (i) take any action that would cause the exemption provided by Section 3(a)(9) of the U.S. Securities Act to be unavailable for the exchange of Special Warrants for the Underlying Units, the Unit Shares and the Warrants, or (ii) pay or give any commission or other remuneration, directly or indirectly, for soliciting the exchange of Special Warrants for Underlying Units, the Unit Shares and the Warrants.
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All offers and sales of CPP Securities in the Concurrent Private Placement have been made only by the Company (i) to, or for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States or U.S. Persons that are U.S. Accredited Investors in compliance with Rule 506(b) of Regulation D, and (ii) to, or for the account or benefit of, persons outside the United States that are not U.S. Persons in compliance with Rule 903 of Regulation S.
B. Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Agent
Each Agent represents and warrants to and covenants and agrees with the Company, as at the date hereof and as at the Closing Date, that:
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outside the United States and not a U.S. Person or acting for the account or benefit of a person in the United States or a U.S. Person. The Agent has not made any offers of CPP Securities in the Concurrent Private Placement.
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It has not entered and will not enter into any contractual arrangement with respect to the offer and sale of the Securities, except with the U.S. Affiliate, any Selling Firm or with the prior written consent of the Company. The Agent shall require its U.S. Affiliate and any Selling Firm to agree for the benefit of the Company, to comply with, and shall cause its U.S. Affiliate and any Selling Firm to comply with the same provisions of the Agreement and this Schedule “A” as apply to the Agent as if its provisions applied to such U.S. Affiliate and such Selling Firm.
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All offers and sales of the Securities to, or for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States or U.S. Persons will be effected by the U.S. Affiliate in accordance with all applicable U.S. federal and state broker-dealer requirements. Such U.S. Affiliate is on the date hereof, and will be on the date of each offer or sale of Securities to, or for the account or benefit of, a person in the United States or a U.S. Person, duly registered as a broker-dealer pursuant to Section 15(b) of the U.S. Exchange Act and the securities laws of each state in which such offer or sale is made (unless exempted from the respective state’s broker-dealer registration requirements) and a member of and in good standing with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.
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Any offers, or solicitations of offers to buy Securities that have been made or will be made to, or for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States or U.S. Persons, was or will be made only (i) to Qualified Institutional Buyers or U.S. Accredited Investors in transactions that are exempt from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act available pursuant to Rule 506(b) of Regulation D and exempt from registration under all applicable state securities laws, and (ii) outside the United States in Offshore Transactions that are exempt from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act available pursuant to Rule 903 of Regulation S.
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Immediately prior to making offers to, or for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States or U.S. Persons, the Agent, its affiliates (including its U.S. Affiliate), and any person acting on any of their behalf had reasonable grounds to believe and did believe that each such offeree was a Qualified Institutional Buyer or a U.S. Accredited Investor with respect to which the Agent or its affiliates (including its U.S. Affiliate) had a pre-existing business relationship; and at the time of completion of each sale to a U.S. Purchaser, the Agent, its affiliates (including its U.S. Affiliate), and any person acting on any of their behalf will have reasonable grounds to believe and will believe, that each such U.S. Purchaser is a Qualified Institutional Buyer or a U.S. Accredited Investor, as applicable.
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Offers and sales of Securities to, or for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States or U.S. Persons have not been and shall not be made by any form of General Solicitation or General Advertising or in any manner involving a public offering within the meaning of Section 4(a)(2) of the U.S. Securities Act.
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At least one Business Day prior to the Closing Date, it shall provide the Company and its transfer agent with a list of all U.S. Purchasers of the Special Warrants, together with their addresses (including state of residence), the number of Special Warrants purchased and the registration and delivery instructions for the Special Warrants.
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Prior to any sale of Securities to U.S. Purchasers, it shall cause each such U.S. Purchaser to execute and deliver to the Company, the Agent and the U.S. Affiliates, the Subscription Agreement, including the U.S. Accredited Investor Certificate annexed thereto as Schedule “C” – Annex 1 or the Qualified Institutional Buyer Investment Letter annexed thereto as Schedule “C” – Annex 2, as applicable.
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All offerees of the Securities that are, or are acting for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States or U.S. Persons shall be informed that the Securities have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws and are being offered and sold to such persons in reliance on the exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act provided by Rule 506(b) of Regulation D and similar exemptions under applicable U.S. state securities laws.
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The Agent understand that all Special Warrants sold and the Underlying Units issuable pursuant thereto to U.S. Purchasers in the Offering that are U.S. Accredited Investors will be issued in definitive physical form and will bear a restrictive legend substantially in the form set forth Schedule “C” to the Subscription Agreement.
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None of it, any of its affiliates (including, the U.S. Affiliate) or any person acting on any of their behalf has taken or will take, directly or indirectly, any action in violation of Regulation M under the U.S. Exchange Act in connection with the offer and sale of the Securities.
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With respect to the Securities to be offered and sold hereunder in reliance on Rule 506(b) of Regulation D, none of (i) the Agent or the U.S. Affiliate, (ii) the Agent’s or the U.S. Affiliate’s general partners or managing members, (iii) any of the Agent’s or U.S. Affiliate’s directors, executive officers or other officers participating in the offering of the Securities, (iv) any of the Agent’s or U.S. Affiliate’s general partners’ or managing members’ directors, executive officers or other officers participating in the offering of the Securities or (v) any other person associated with any of the above persons, including any Selling Firm and any such persons related to such Selling FDirm, that has been or will be paid (directly or indirectly) remuneration for solicitation of Purchasers in connection with the sale of the Securities (each, a “ Dealer Covered Person ” and, collectively, the “ Dealer Covered Persons ”), is subject to any Disqualification Event except for a Disqualification Event contemplated by Rule 506(d)(2) of the U.S. Securities Act and a description of which has been furnished in writing to the Company prior to the date hereof. It will notify the Company in writing, prior to the Closing Date of (a) any Disqualification Event relating to any Dealer Covered Person not previously disclosed to the Company hereunder, any (b) any event that would, with the passage of time, become a Disqualification Event relating to any Dealer Covered Person.
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The Agent represents that it is not aware of any person other than a Dealer Covered Person that has been or will be paid (directly or indirectly) remuneration for solicitation of purchasers in connection with the sale of the Securities pursuant to Rule 506(b) of Regulation D of the U.S. Securities Act. It will notify the Company, prior to the Closing Date of any agreement entered into between it and any such person in connection with such sale. No Dealer Covered Person has been or will be paid (directly or indirectly) remuneration for solicitation of purchasers in connection with the sale of the CPP Securities in the Concurrent Private Placement pursuant to Rule 506(b) of Regulation D of the U.S. Securities Act.
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None of the Agent, any of its affiliates (including, the U.S. Affiliate) or any person acting on any of their behalf will (i) take an action that would cause the exemption provided by Section 3(a)(9) of the U.S. Securities Act to be unavailable for the exchange of Special Warrants for Underlying Units, the Units Shares and the Warrants, or (ii) receive any commission or other remuneration, directly or indirectly, for soliciting the exchange of Special Warrants for Underlying Units, the Unit Shares and the Warrants.
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At Closing, the Agent, together with its U.S. Affiliate, will provide a certificate, substantially in the form of Exhibit A to this Schedule A, relating to the manner of the offer and sale of the Securities to, or for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States or U.S. Persons, or will be deemed to have represented that they did not offer or sell Securities to, or for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States or U.S. Persons.
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The Agent acknowledges that the Compensation Securities have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act or the securities laws of any state of the United States. In connection with the issuance of the Compensation Securities to it, the Agent represents, warrants and covenants that (i) it is acquiring the Compensation Securities as principal for its own account and not for the benefit of any other person; (ii) it is not a U.S. Person and is not acquiring the Compensation Securities in the United States, or on behalf of a U.S. Person or a person located in the United States; and (iii) the Agency Agreement was executed and delivered outside the United States. The Agent acknowledges and agrees that the Compensation Warrants may not be exercised in the United States or by or on behalf or for the benefit of a U.S. Person or a person in the United States, unless such exercise is exempt from registration under the U.S. Securities Act and the applicable securities laws of any state of the United States.
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EXHIBIT A
AGENT’S CERTIFICATE
In connection with the private placement in the United States of special warrants of Voyager Digital Ltd. (the “ Company ”) pursuant to the Agency Agreement dated December 15, 2020 among the Company and Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc. (the “ Agency Agreement ”), each of the undersigned does hereby certify to the Company as follows:
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(a) [●] (the “ U.S. Affiliate ”) is, and at all relevant times was, a duly registered broker or dealer with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and is a member of and in good standing with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. on the date hereof and the date on which each offer by it and sale by the Company of Securities was made to, or for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States or U.S. Persons, and all offers and sales of the Securities to, or for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States or U.S. Persons have been effected by the U.S. Affiliate in compliance with all U.S. federal and state broker-dealer requirements;
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(b) immediately prior to making any offers of Securities to, or for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States or U.S. Persons, we had reasonable grounds to believe and did believe that the U.S. Purchaser was either (i) a Qualified Institutional Buyer, or (ii) a U.S. Accredited Investor, as applicable, and, on the date hereof, we continue to believe that each such U.S. Purchaser purchasing Offered Securities from us is either a Qualified Institutional Buyer or Accredited Investor;
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(c) no form of General Solicitation or General Advertising was used by us, including advertisements, articles, notices or other communications published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over radio or television or the internet or any seminar or meeting whose attendees had been invited by General Solicitation or General Advertising, in connection with the offer or sale of the Securities to, or for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States or U.S. Persons;
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(d) prior to any sale of Securities to, or for the account or benefit of, a person in the United States or a U.S. Person, each such U.S. Purchaser thereof that is purchasing Securities provided an executed (i) U.S. Accredited Investor Certificate annexed to the Subscription Agreement as Schedule “C” – Annex 1 (if a U.S. Accredited Investor), or (ii) a Qualified Institutional Buyer Investment Letter annexed to the Subscription Agreement as Schedule “C” – Annex 2 (if a Qualifed Institutional Buyer), and we provided the Company with copies of all such completed and executed Schedules for acceptance by the Company;
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(e) neither we, nor our affiliates or any person acting on any of our behalf have taken or will take, directly or indirectly, any action in a violation of Regulation M under the U.S. Exchange Act in connection with the offer and sale of the Securities;
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(f) none of (i) the undersigned, (ii) the undersigned’s general partners or managing members, (iii) any of the undersigned’s directors, executive officers or other officers participating in the offering of the Securities, (iv) any of the undersigned’s general partners’ or managing members’ directors, executive officers or other officers participating in the offering of the Securities or (v) any Dealer Covered Person is subject to any of the “Bad Actor” disqualifications described in Rule 506(d)(1)(i) to (viii) under Regulation D, except for a Disqualification Event contemplated by Rule 506(d)(2) of the U.S. Securities Act and a description of which has been furnished in writing to the Company prior to the date hereof; and (vii) the undersigned is not aware of any person (other than any Dealer Covered Person) that has been or will be paid (directly or indirectly) remuneration for solicitation of purchasers in connection with the sale of the Securities;
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(g) all offerees and Purchasers that are, or are acting for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States or U.S. Persons have been informed that the Securities have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act and are being offered and sold to such Purchasers without registration in reliance on the exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act provided by Rule 506(b) of Regulation D and similar exemptions under applicable state securities laws; and
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(h) the offering of the Securities in the United States has been conducted by us in accordance with the terms of the Agency Agreement including Schedule A thereto.
Terms used in this certificate have the meanings given to them in the Agency Agreement, including Schedule A thereto, unless otherwise defined herein.
DATED this _ day of _____, 2020.
[●] [●] By: By: Name: Name: Title: Title:
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