UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report: December 15, 2016
(Date of earliest event reported)
INTERNATIONAL
TOWER HILL MINES LTD.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
British Columbia, Canada | 001-33638 | N/A |
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation) | (Commission File Number) | (IRS Employer Identification No.) |
1177 W. Hastings Street, Suite 2300 | |
Vancouver, British Columbia Canada | N/A |
(Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) |
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (604) 683-6332
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
¨ | Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425) |
¨ | Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12) |
¨ | Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b)) |
¨ | Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c)) |
Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On December 15, 2016, International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. (the “Company”) entered into subscription agreements relating to a non-brokered private placement of 45,833,334 common shares of the Company at a price of USD 0.48 per share, for anticipated aggregate gross proceeds of approximately USD 22 million. The offering will be taken up by certain of the Company’s current institutional shareholders.
The closing of the private placement is subject to customary closing conditions, including approval of the offering by the Toronto Stock Exchange and the NYSE MKT. The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the private placement for full satisfaction of the final payment due in January 2017 with respect to acquisition of certain mining claims and related rights in the vicinity of the Livengood Gold Project in Alaska (the “Project”) (approximately $14.8 million as of September 30, 2016), continuation of optimization studies to further improve and de-risk the Project, required environmental baseline studies, and for general working capital purposes.
The subscription agreements contain customary representations and warranties, covenants and conditions to closing that the parties made to, and solely for the benefit of, each other in the context of all of the terms and conditions of the subscription agreements and in the context of the specific relationship between the parties. The provisions of the subscription agreements, including the representations and warranties contained therein, are not for the benefit of any party other than the parties to such agreements and are not intended as documents for investors and the public to obtain factual information about the current state of affairs of the Company.
The foregoing description of the subscription agreements is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the subscription agreements, forms of which are filed herewith as Exhibit 10.1 and Exhibit 10.2 and incorporated into this Item 1.01 by reference.
Item 3.02 Unregistered Sale of Equity Securities.
The disclosure set forth in Item 1.01 of this Current Report is incorporated in this Section 3.02 by reference. The Company is relying on the exemptions from registration under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Regulation S under the Securities Act for purposes of the private placement of the common shares. The common shares to be issued have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of U.S. persons (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) or persons in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from such registration requirements.
Item 8.01. Other Events.
On December 15, 2016, the Company issued a press release regarding the non-brokered private placement. A copy of the press release is attached to this report as Exhibit 99.1.
Item 9.01. Exhibits.
Exhibit | Description | |
10.1 | Form of Subscription Agreement (Paulson & Co.). | |
10.2 | Form of Subscription Agreement (other investors). | |
99.1 | Press Release of the Company, dated December 15, 2016, regarding the non-brokered private placement. |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
INTERNATIONAL TOWER HILL MINES LTD. | ||
DATE: December 20, 2016 | By: | /s/ Thomas Irwin |
Thomas Irwin President & Chief Executive Officer |
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit | Description | |
10.1 | Form of Subscription Agreement (Paulson & Co). | |
10.2 | Form of Subscription Agreement (other investors). | |
99.1 | Press Release of the Company, dated December 15, 2016, regarding the non-brokered private placement. |
Exhibit 10.1
INTERNATIONAL TOWER HILL MINES LTD.
SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT
(SHARES –Non-Brokered)
INSTRUCTIONS
All Subscribers:
1. | Complete and sign pages i and ii of the Subscription Agreement. |
2. | If you are a portfolio manager resident outside of Canada and you are not purchasing securities with an aggregate acquisition cost of at least CDN$150,000, complete and sign the Accredited Investor Certificate – Appendix I to Schedule A |
All Canadian Residents:
1. | Complete and sign the Canadian Exemption Certificate – Schedule A. |
2. | If you are an individual or are not purchasing securities with an aggregate acquisition cost of at least CDN$150,000, complete and sign the Accredited Investor Certificate – Appendix I to Schedule A |
All U.S. Purchasers (as defined herein):
1. | Complete and sign the U.S. Accredited Investor Certificate – Schedule B |
PLEASE DELIVER YOUR COMPLETED AND ORIGINALLY EXECUTED COPY OF THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT, TOGETHER WITH THE OTHER DOCUMENTS REQUIRED TO BE DELIVERED ALONG THEREWITH, TO THE CORPORATION AT:
International Tower Hill Mines Ltd.
Suite 2300 – 1177 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC V6E 2K3
ATTN: Tom Irwin (tirwin@ithmines.com)
with a copy to:
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Suite 2400 – 745 Thurlow Street
Vancouver, BC V6E 0C5
ATTN: Robin Mahood (rmahood@mccarthy.ca)
THE SHARES OFFERED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “1933 ACT”) OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD UNLESS REGISTERED UNDER THE 1933 ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OR PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM SUCH REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS. HEDGING TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING THE SHARES OFFERED HEREBY MAY NOT BE CONDUCTED UNLESS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE 1933 ACT.
TO: | International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. (the “Corporation”) of Suite 2300 – 1177 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6E 2K3 |
The undersigned (the “Subscriber”) on its own behalf or, if applicable, on behalf of the disclosed purchaser who is identified by name and on whose behalf the Subscriber, as agent, is purchasing hereunder (the “Disclosed Purchaser”), hereby irrevocably subscribes for and agrees to purchase from the Corporation, on and subject to the terms and conditions attached hereto, that number of common shares without par value in the capital stock of the Corporation (“Common Shares”) set forth below, for the aggregate subscription price set forth below at a subscription price of US$0.48 per share (the “Purchase Price”). Attached as Appendix 1 to this Agreement are the terms and conditions of the sale of the Purchased Securities (as defined herein) and the representations, warranties, certifications and covenants hereby made by the Subscriber and the Corporation, all of which Appendix 1 forms part of and is hereby incorporated by reference into this Agreement (the “Terms and Conditions”).
The Offering (as defined herein) is subject to, among other things, the Corporation obtaining conditional acceptance from The Toronto Stock Exchange (the “TSX”) to list the Offered Securities (as defined herein) and consent for the Offering from the NYSE MKT LLC (“NYSE MKT” and, together with the TSX, the “Exchanges”).
Number of Common Shares subscribed for |
Subscriber’s Total Subscription Funds | |
Execution by the Subscriber (Please also ensure all schedules (as applicable) are completed and executed (see “Instructions” on the first page of this Agreement)):
EXECUTED by the Subscriber this day of , 2016.
Signature of Subscriber (if Subscriber is an individual) or of | (Subscriber’s Residential or Head Office Address) (please print) | |
the Authorized Signatory (if Subscriber is not an individual) | ||
Name of Subscriber (please print) | ||
Name and Official Capacity or Title of Authorized Signatory (please print) |
(Telephone Number) | |
(Facsimile Number) |
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If you are signing this Agreement as agent for a Disclosed Purchaser please provide the following information for each Disclosed Purchaser | ||
Details of Disclosed Purchaser, if applicable | ||
Name of Disclosed Purchaser (please print) | Disclosed Purchaser’s Residential or Head Office Address | |
(Telephone Number) | (Facsimile Number) | |
Registration Instructions (if other than in name of Subscriber): | Certificate Delivery Instructions (if other than the address above): | |
Name and Address (as it should appear on the certificates) | Address | |
Account reference, if applicable | Account reference, if applicable | |
Address of Intermediary | Contact Name | |
( ) | ||
Telephone Number |
The Purchased Securities will be subject to a hold period in Canada of four months from the Closing Date pursuant to applicable securities laws. The certificates evidencing the Purchased Securities will bear a legend to that effect, as applicable. Consequently, the Purchased Securities will be subject to resale restrictions during such period. Additional restrictions will apply to Purchased Securities purchased by persons in the United States or purchasing for the account or benefit of persons in the United States, as described in Schedule B. You are advised to consult your own legal advisors in this regard.
Present Ownership of Securities
The Subscriber or Disclosed Purchaser, as the case may be, either [check appropriate box]:
¨ | owns directly or indirectly, or exercises control or direction over, no common shares in the capital stock of the Corporation or securities convertible into common shares in the capital stock of the Corporation; or |
¨ | owns directly or indirectly, or exercises control or direction over, common shares in the capital stock of the Corporation and convertible securities entitling the Subscriber to acquire an additional common shares in the capital stock of the Corporation. |
Insider
The Subscriber or Disclosed Purchaser, as the case may be, is either [check appropriate box]:
¨ | an “Insider” as such term is defined in the Company Manual of the TSX; or |
¨ | not an “Insider” as so defined. |
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This Agreement is accepted by International Tower Hill Mines Ltd., subject to the Terms and Conditions, this day of , 2016.
INTERNATIONAL TOWER HILL MINES LTD. | ||
Per: | ||
Authorized Signatory |
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APPENDIX 1
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE OFFERING
THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE OFFERING ARE AS FOLLOWS:
1. | Definitions |
Definitions: In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) | “1933 Act” means the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended; |
(b) | “Accredited Investor” has the meaning ascribed to such term in National Instrument 45-106; |
(c) | “Agreement” means the subscription agreement of which this Appendix 1 forms part, and includes all other schedules, appendices and exhibits attached thereto, in each case, as the same may be amended, supplemented or restated from time to time; |
(d) | “Business Day” means a day on which Canadian chartered banks are open for the transaction of regular business in the City of Vancouver, British Columbia; |
(e) | “Closing” means the closing of the purchase and sale of the Offered Securities which may, at the discretion of the Corporation, occur in one or more tranches; |
(f) | “Closing Date” means the date or dates (as applicable) of Closing, which will be such date or dates (as applicable) as the Corporation may determine following receipt by the Corporation of all required acceptances/approvals; |
(g) | “Commissions” means the provincial securities commission or other regulatory authority in each of the Offering Jurisdictions; |
(h) | “Common Shares” means the common shares without par value in the capital stock of the Corporation as constituted on the date hereof; |
(i) | “Corporation” means International Tower Hill Mines Ltd., a company incorporated under the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) and includes any successor corporation thereto; |
(j) | “CRA” means the Canada Revenue Agency; |
(k) | “Directed Selling Efforts” means “directed selling efforts” as defined under Regulation S; |
(l) | “Disclosed Purchaser” means the person on whose behalf the Subscriber, as agent, is purchasing hereunder, if any; |
(m) | “Distribution Compliance Period” means the “distribution compliance period” as defined under Rule 902(f) of Regulation S; |
(n) | “Distributor” means a “distributor” as defined in Rule 902(d) of Regulation S; |
(o) | “General Solicitation” or “General Advertising” means “general solicitation or general advertising”, as used under 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, any unrestricted websites, or any seminar or meeting whose attendees had been invited by general solicitation or general advertising; |
(p) | “National Instrument 45-106” means National Instrument 45-106 “Prospectus Exemptions” of the Canadian Securities Administrators; |
(q) | “Offered Securities” means up to 45,833,333 Common Shares offered for sale by the Corporation pursuant to the Offering; |
(r) | “Offering” means the offering of the Offered Securities on a private placement basis; |
(s) | “Offering Jurisdictions” means collectively the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario, the United States and such other jurisdictions as may be agreed to by the Corporation; |
(t) | “Person” means an individual, a firm, a corporation, a syndicate, a partnership, a trust, an association, an unincorporated organization, a joint venture, an investment club, a government or an agency or political subdivision thereof and every other form of legal or business entity of whatsoever nature or kind; |
(u) | “Personal Information” means any personal information as that term is defined under applicable privacy legislation, including, without limitation, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Canada) and any other applicable similar, replacement or supplemental provincial or federal legislation or laws in effect from time to time and without limiting the foregoing, but for greater clarity in this Agreement, means information about an identifiable individual, including but not limited to any information about the Subscriber and, if applicable, any Disclosed Purchaser, and includes information provided by the Subscriber in this Agreement; |
(v) | “Purchase Price” means US$0.48 per Offered Security; |
(w) | “Purchased Securities” means the Common Shares which the Subscriber has agreed to purchase under this Agreement; |
(x) | “Regulation D” means Regulation D promulgated under the 1933 Act; |
(y) | “Regulation S” means Regulation S promulgated under the 1933 Act; |
(z) | “Regulatory Authorities” means the Commissions and the Exchanges; |
(aa) | “Securities Laws” means the securities legislation and regulations of, and the instruments, policies, rules, orders, codes, notices and interpretation notes of, each of the Commissions; |
(bb) | “Subscriber” means the Person purchasing the Purchased Securities, whose name appears on the execution page of the Agreement and who has signed the Agreement or, if the Person whose name appears on the execution pages hereof has signed the Agreement as agent for or on behalf of a Disclosed Purchaser and is not purchasing the Purchased Securities as principal, the Disclosed Purchaser as identified on page ii of the Agreement; |
(cc) | “Subscription Proceeds” means the aggregate Purchase Price paid by the Subscriber for the Purchased Securities; |
(dd) | “U.S. Accredited Investor” means an “accredited investor” that satisfies one or more of the criteria set forth in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D; |
(ee) | “U.S. Person” means “U.S. person” as defined in Rule 902(k) of Regulation S; |
(ff) | “U.S. Purchaser” means (i) any person resident in the United States; (ii) any U.S. Person; (iii) any person purchasing the Purchased Securities for the account or benefit of a U.S. Person or person in the United States; (iv) any person that receives or received an offer of the Purchased Securities while in the United States; or (v) any person that was (or whose authorized signatory was) in the United States at the time their buy order was originated or this Agreement was executed. U.S. Purchaser does not include persons excluded from the definition of U.S. Person pursuant to Rule 902(k)(2)(vi) of Regulation S or persons holding accounts excluded from the definition of U.S. Person pursuant to Rule 902(k)(2)(i) of Regulation S, solely in their capacities as holders of such accounts; and |
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(gg) | “United States” means the United States of America, its territories and possessions, any state of the United States and the District of Columbia. |
2. | Conditions of the Offering |
In connection with your purchase of the Purchased Securities, you agree to return to the Corporation as soon as possible the following documents:
(a) | this Agreement, duly completed and executed; |
(b) | a certified cheque, bank draft or wire transfer for the aggregate Purchase Price of the Purchased Securities payable to the Corporation; |
(c) | if you are, or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser is, a resident of Canada, a duly completed Canadian Exemption Certificate, attached as Schedule A hereto, and if you are, or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser is, an “Accredited Investor”, a duly executed and completed Accredited Investor Certificate, attached as Appendix I to Schedule A hereto; |
(d) | if you are a portfolio manager resident outside of Canada and you are not purchasing sufficient Offered Securities so that the aggregate acquisition cost of the Purchased Securities is CDN$150,000, a duly executed and completed Accredited Investor Certificate, attached as Appendix I to Schedule A hereto; |
(e) | if you are, or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser is, in the United States or purchasing for the benefit or account of a person in the United States, a duly executed and completed U.S. Accredited Investor Certificate, attached as Schedule B hereto; and |
(f) | any further documentation as required to be provided by the Subscriber under the Securities Laws or by the policies of the Exchanges or other Regulatory Authorities in connection with the purchase and sale of the Purchased Securities. |
The obligation of the Corporation to sell the Purchased Securities to you is subject to, among other things, the conditions that:
(a) | you having executed and returned all documents required by the Securities Laws and the policies of the Exchanges for delivery on your behalf, including the forms set out in Schedule A and Schedule B attached hereto, as applicable, to the Corporation, as the sale of the Purchased Securities by the Corporation to you will not be qualified by a prospectus; |
(b) | the representations and warranties made by you on your own behalf or, if applicable, on behalf of the Disclosed Purchaser (including representations and warranties made in any Schedule attached hereto, as applicable) being true and correct when made and true and correct on the Closing Date with the same force and effect as if they had been made on and as of such date; |
(c) | all covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement to be performed by you or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser on or prior to the Closing Date having been performed or complied with in all material respects; |
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(d) | the Corporation receives conditional acceptance of notice of the Offering and conditional approval for the listing of the Offered Securities from the TSX and approval for the listing of the Offered Securities from NYSE MKT; and |
(e) | all other required approvals (including, if required by Securities Laws or the rules and regulations of the TSX or NYSE MKT, shareholder approval) having been obtained by the Corporation prior to the Closing Date. |
The obligation of the Subscriber and, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser to purchase the Purchased Securities from the Corporation is subject to, among other things, the conditions that:
(f) | the representations and warranties made by the Corporation being true and correct when made and true and correct on the Closing Date with the same force and effect as if they had been made on and as of such date; |
(g) | all covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement to be performed by the Corporation on or prior to the Closing Date having been performed or complied with in all material respects; |
(h) | the Investor Rights Agreement dated as of the date hereof among the Corporation and the Subscriber being duly completed and executed; |
(i) | the Corporation receives conditional acceptance of notice of the Offering and conditional approval for the listing of the Offered Securities from the TSX and approval for the listing of the Offered Securities from NYSE MKT; and |
(j) | all other required approvals (including, if required by Securities Laws or the rules and regulations of the TSX or NYSE MKT, shareholder approval) having been obtained by the Corporation prior to the Closing Date. |
By returning this Agreement you consent on your own behalf or, if applicable, on behalf of the Disclosed Purchaser, to the filing by the Corporation of all documents and personal information concerning you or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser, provided in this Agreement required by the Securities Laws and the policies of the Exchanges.
If you are not subscribing for the Purchased Securities for your own account, each Disclosed Purchaser for whom you are contracting hereunder must be purchasing the Purchased Securities as principal, for such Disclosed Purchaser’s own account, and (unless you are an authorized agent with power to sign on behalf of the beneficial purchaser) must execute all documents required by the Securities Laws of the Offering Jurisdictions and the policies of the Exchanges with respect to the Purchased Securities being acquired by such Disclosed Purchaser as principal. If you are signing this Agreement as agent or pursuant to a power of attorney for the Subscriber, you represent and warrant that you have authority to bind the Subscriber.
You agree, and you agree to cause any Disclosed Purchaser for whom you are contracting hereunder, to comply with all Securities Laws and with the policies of the Exchanges concerning the purchase of, the holding of, and the resale restrictions applicable to, the Purchased Securities.
You acknowledge on your own behalf or, if applicable, on behalf of the Disclosed Purchaser, that the Corporation has the right to close the subscription books at any time without notice and to accept or reject any subscription in its sole discretion.
3. | The Purchased Securities |
The Purchased Securities will be issued and registered in the name of the Subscriber or its nominee in accordance with the instructions provided by the Subscriber on page ii of this Agreement.
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The issue of the Purchased Securities will not restrict or prevent the Corporation from obtaining any other financing, or from issuing additional securities, options, warrants or rights.
4. | The Closing |
Subject to receipt of all completed documentation and the satisfaction or waiver by the relevant party of the conditions to the purchase and sale of the Purchased Securities in accordance with section 2, the Closing of the purchase and sale of the Offered Securities will take place at the offices of the Corporation, Suite 2300, 1177 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 2K3, at 10:00 a.m. (Vancouver time) on the Closing Date, or at such other place and time as the Corporation may determine. Certificates representing the Purchased Securities will be available for delivery to you against payment to the Corporation of the amount of the Purchase Price for the Purchased Securities in freely transferable funds.
The Subscriber acknowledges that the Offering may be completed at one or more partial closings in the discretion of the Corporation and that the Closing as contemplated in this Agreement may be effected at one or more of such partial closings.
Upon completion of the Closing, the Corporation is irrevocably entitled to the Purchase Price for the Purchased Securities, subject to the rights of the Subscriber under this Agreement and any applicable laws.
5. | Representations and Warranties of the Subscriber |
The sale of the Purchased Securities by the Corporation to the Subscriber is conditional upon such sale being exempt from the requirements as to the filing of a prospectus or registration statement and as to the preparation of an offering memorandum or similar document contained in any statute, regulation, instrument, rule or policy applicable to the sale of the Purchased Securities or upon the issue of such orders, consents or approvals as may be required to permit such sale without the requirement of filing a prospectus or registration statement or delivering an offering memorandum or similar document.
The Subscriber and, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, acknowledges, represents, warrants, covenants and certifies to and with the Corporation that, as at the date given above and at the Closing Date:
(a) | the Corporation has advised you that the Corporation is relying on exemptions from the requirements under the Securities Laws to provide you with a prospectus or registration statement and no prospectus or registration statement has been filed by the Corporation with any of the Commissions in connection with the issuance of the Purchased Securities, and as a consequence: |
(i) | you are restricted from using most of the civil remedies available under the Securities Laws and certain protections, rights and remedies provided by the Securities Laws, including statutory rights of rescission or damages, will not be available to you; |
(ii) | you may not receive information that would otherwise be required to be provided to you under the Securities Laws; and |
(iii) | the Corporation is relieved from certain obligations that would otherwise apply under the Securities Laws; |
(b) | you are resident in the jurisdiction set out under “Subscriber’s Residential or Head Office Address” on the first page of this Agreement or under “Disclosed Purchaser’s Residential or Head Office Address” on the second page of this Agreement (if applicable), which address is your residence or principal place of business, and such address was not obtained or used solely for the purpose of acquiring the Purchased Securities; |
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(c) | you are: |
(i) | purchasing the Purchased Securities as principal for your own account or, in the case section 5(d)(i) below applies, are deemed under the applicable Securities Laws to be purchasing as principal, and not for the benefit of any other person; or |
(ii) | purchasing the Purchased Securities as agent for the Disclosed Purchaser and the Disclosed Purchaser for whom you may be acting is purchasing the Purchased Securities as principal for its own account and not for the benefit of any other Person; |
(d) | if you are resident in any province or territory in Canada you: |
(i) | are an Accredited Investor, by virtue of the fact that you fall within one or more of the sub-paragraphs of the definition of Accredited Investor set out in the Accredited Investor Certificate attached as Appendix I to Schedule A , you confirm the truth and accuracy of all statements in such schedule as of the date of this Agreement and the Closing Date, and you were not created or used solely to purchase securities as an Accredited Investor as described in paragraph (m) of the definition of Accredited Investor set out in Schedule A; or |
(ii) | are purchasing sufficient Offered Securities so that the aggregate acquisition cost of the Purchased Securities is not less than CDN$150,000 and, if you are not an individual, you were not created solely to purchase or hold securities in reliance on section 2.10 of National Instrument 45-106; |
(e) | if you are a portfolio manager resident outside of Canada and you are not purchasing sufficient Offered Securities so that the aggregate acquisition cost of the Purchased Securities is CDN$150,000, you have completed an Accredited Investor Certificate, attached as Appendix I to Schedule A hereto and you confirm the truth and accuracy of all statements in such schedule as of the date of this Agreement and the Closing Date; |
(f) | if you are not an individual, you pre-existed the offering of the Offered Securities and you have a bona fide business purpose other than the investment in the Offered Securities and you were not created, formed or established solely or primarily to acquire Offered Securities, or permit purchases of securities without a prospectus, in reliance on an exemption from the prospectus requirements of applicable Securities Laws; |
(g) | unless you are a U.S. Purchaser and have completed and delivered the U.S. Accredited Investor Certificate attached as Schedule B hereto (in which case you have properly completed, executed and delivered to the Corporation such U.S. Accredited Investor Certificate and make the representations, warranties and covenants therein and you confirm the truth and accuracy of all statements in such U.S. Accredited Investor Certificate as of the date of this Agreement and the Closing Date), you acknowledge and agree that: |
(i) | unless you are excluded from the definition of U.S. Person pursuant to Rule 902(k)(2)(vi) of Regulation S or a person holding accounts excluded from the definition of U.S. Person pursuant to Rule 902(k)(2)(i) of Regulation S, solely in your capacity as holder of such accounts, the Offered Securities were not offered to you, or any beneficial purchaser for whom you are acting, in the United States; |
(ii) | unless you are excluded from the definition of U.S. Person pursuant to Rule 902(k)(2)(vi) of Regulation S or a person holding accounts excluded from the definition of U.S. Person pursuant to Rule 902(k)(2)(i) of Regulation S, solely in your capacity as holder of such accounts, the order to purchase the Purchased Securities was made outside the United States and this Agreement was delivered to, executed and delivered by, you (or your authorized signatory) outside the United States; |
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(iii) | you are not a U.S. Person and you are not, and will not be, purchasing the Purchased Securities for the account or benefit of, a U.S. Person or a person in the United States; |
(iv) | the transactions contemplated hereunder have not been pre-arranged with a buyer located in the United States or with a U.S. Person, and the current structure of this transaction and all transactions and activities contemplated hereunder is not a scheme to avoid the registration requirements of the 1933 Act; |
(v) | you, and any beneficial purchaser for whom you are acting, (a) have no intention to distribute either directly or indirectly any of the Purchased Securities in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, a U.S. Person or person in the United States, except in compliance with the 1933 Act, any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States and applicable Securities Laws, and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (b) will not, directly or indirectly offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer the Purchased Securities (1) during the Distribution Compliance Period, in the United States, to, or for the account or benefit of, a U.S. Person or person in the United States, or otherwise in a manner that is not in compliance with Regulation S, or (2) after the Distribution Compliance Period, otherwise than pursuant to registration under the 1933 Act or an available exemption therefrom and, in accordance with all applicable state and foreign securities laws; |
(vi) | you, and any beneficial purchaser for whom you are acting, have not purchased the Purchased Securities as a result of any form of Directed Selling Efforts; |
(vii) | none of you, any beneficial purchaser for whom you are acting, and any person acting on your behalf has engaged, nor will engage, in any Directed Selling Efforts to a U.S. Person with respect to the Purchased Securities, and you, any beneficial purchaser for whom you are acting, and any person acting on your behalf have complied and will comply with the “offering restrictions” requirements of Regulation S; |
(viii) | you, and any beneficial purchaser for whom you are acting, understand that the Purchased Securities have not been registered under the 1933 Act or the applicable securities laws of any state of the United States, the Purchased Securities may not be offered or sold, directly or indirectly, in the United States except pursuant to registration under the 1933 Act and the applicable securities laws of any state of the United States or pursuant to applicable exemptions from such registration requirements, and the Corporation has no obligation or present intention of filing a registration statement under the 1933 Act in respect of any of the Purchased Securities; |
(ix) | you, and any beneficial purchaser for whom you are acting, will not engage in any hedging transactions involving the Purchased Securities before the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period unless in compliance with the 1933 Act; |
(x) | the Purchased Securities are “restricted securities” as such term is defined under Rule 144 of the 1933 Act and will retain such status following the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period in accordance with Rule 905 of Regulation S; |
(xi) | each certificate representing the Purchased Securities will bear a legend in substantially the following form, in addition to any other legend required to be placed thereon by applicable Securities Laws: |
“THE SECURITIES represented by this certificate WERE ISSUED IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION TO PERSONS WHO ARE NOT U.S. PERSONS PURSUANT TO REGULATION S UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “1933 ACT”).”
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“NONE OF THE SECURITIES TO WHICH THIS CERTIFICATE RELATES HAVE BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE 1933 ACT, OR ANY U.S. STATE SECURITIES LAWS, AND, UNLESS SO REGISTERED, NONE MAY BE OFFERED OR SOLD IN THE UNITED STATES OR, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, TO U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT OR PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE 1933 ACT AND IN EACH CASE ONLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. IN ADDITION, HEDGING TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE CONDUCTED UNLESS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE 1933 ACT.”
(xii) | you, and any beneficial purchaser for whom you are acting, (i) acknowledge that the Corporation will refuse to register any transfer of the Purchased Securities not made in accordance with Regulation S or pursuant to registration under the 1933 Act or an available exemption therefrom, and (ii) consent to the Corporation making a notation on its records or giving instructions to any transfer agent of the Corporation in order to implement the restrictions on transfer of the Purchased Securities set forth in this section 5(g); |
(h) | if you are resident outside of Canada and the United States, you: |
(i) | are knowledgeable of, or have been independently advised as to the applicable securities laws of the securities regulatory authorities (the “Authorities”) having application in the jurisdiction in which you are resident (the “International Jurisdiction”) which would apply to the acquisition of the Purchased Securities, if any; |
(ii) | are purchasing the Purchased Securities pursuant to exemptions from the prospectus and registration requirements under the applicable securities laws of the Authorities in the International Jurisdiction or, if such is not applicable, you are permitted to purchase the Purchased Securities under the applicable securities laws of the Authorities in the International Jurisdiction without the need to rely on any exemption; |
(iii) | confirm that the subscription by the Subscriber does not contravene any applicable securities laws of the Authorities in the International Jurisdiction and does not require the Corporation to make any filings or seek any approvals of any nature whatsoever from any Authority of any kind whatsoever in the International Jurisdiction in connection with the issue and sale or resale of the Purchased Securities; and |
(iv) | confirm that the purchase of the Purchased Securities by you does not trigger: |
(A) | an obligation by the Corporation or any other Person to prepare and file a registration statement, prospectus or similar document, or any other report with respect to such purchase in the International Jurisdiction; or |
(B) | continuous disclosure reporting obligations of the Corporation in the International Jurisdiction; and |
you will, if requested by the Corporation, comply with such other requirements as the Corporation may reasonably require;
(i) | the Corporation has advised you that no agency, stock exchange or governmental agency, securities commission or similar regulatory authority or other entity has reviewed or passed on or made any finding or determination as to the merits of or made any recommendation or endorsement with respect to the Purchased Securities; |
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(j) | if you are not a resident of the Province of British Columbia, you certify to the Corporation that you are not a resident of British Columbia and acknowledge that: |
(i) | no securities commission or similar regulatory authority has reviewed or passed on or passed on the merits of the Purchased Securities; |
(ii) | there is no government or other insurance covering the Purchased Securities; |
(iii) | there are risks associated with the purchase of the Purchased Securities and you are aware of the risks and other characteristics of the Purchased Securities; |
(iv) | there are restrictions on your ability to resell the Purchased Securities and it is your responsibility to find out what those restrictions are and to comply with them before selling the Purchased Securities; and |
(v) | the Corporation has advised you that it is relying on an exemption from the requirements to provide you with a prospectus and to sell securities through a person registered to sell securities under the Securities Act (British Columbia) and, as a consequence of acquiring securities pursuant to this exemption, certain protections, rights and remedies provided by the Securities Act (British Columbia), including statutory rights of rescission or damages, will not be available to you; |
(k) | you acknowledge and consent to the fact that the Corporation is collecting Personal Information of the Subscriber and Disclosed Purchaser, if any, for the purpose of completing this Agreement. You acknowledge and consent to the Corporation retaining such Personal Information for as long as permitted or required by law or business practices, and you agree and acknowledge that the Corporation may use and disclose such Personal Information: |
(i) | for internal use with respect to managing the relationships between and contractual obligations of the Corporation and the Subscriber and Disclosed Purchaser, if any; |
(ii) | for use and disclosure for income tax-related purposes, including, without limitation, where required by law, disclosure to CRA; |
(iii) | to professional advisers of the Corporation; |
(iv) | to securities regulatory authorities and other regulatory bodies with jurisdiction with respect to reports of trade or similar regulatory filings; |
(v) | to a governmental or other authority to which the disclosure is required by court order or subpoena compelling such disclosure and where there is no reasonable alternative to such disclosure; |
(vi) | to any person where such disclosure is necessary for legitimate business reasons and is made with your prior written consent; |
(vii) | to a court determining the rights of the parties under this Agreement; and |
(viii) | for use and disclosure as otherwise required or permitted by law. |
In addition, you further acknowledge and consent to the fact that the Corporation may be required to provide any one or more of the Canadian securities regulators, stock exchanges, the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, other regulatory agencies or the Corporation’s registrar and transfer agent with any Personal Information provided by the Subscriber and Disclosed Purchaser, if any, in this Agreement, and may make any other filings of such Personal Information as the Corporation’s counsel deems appropriate, and you acknowledge receipt of notification of the disclosure of Personal Information by the Corporation to the Exchanges and the Subscriber and Disclosed Purchaser, if any, hereby consent to and authorize the foregoing use and disclosure of such Personal Information and agree to provide, on request, all particulars required by the Corporation in order to comply with the foregoing;
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(l) | you further acknowledge and expressly consent to: |
(i) | the disclosure of Personal Information by the Corporation to the Exchanges and other applicable regulatory authorities, as required; and |
(ii) | the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information by the Exchanges for such purposes as may be identified by the Exchanges from time to time; |
(m) | if you are a resident of Ontario, you authorize the indirect collection of Personal Information by the Ontario Securities Commission and confirm that you have been notified by the Corporation: |
(i) | that the Corporation will be delivering the Personal Information to the Ontario Securities Commission; |
(ii) | that such Personal Information is being collected indirectly by the Ontario Securities Commission under the authority granted to it in applicable Securities Laws; |
(iii) | that such Personal Information is being collected for the purpose of the administration and enforcement of applicable Securities Laws; and |
(iv) | that the public official in the Province of Ontario who can answer questions about the Ontario Securities Commission’s indirect collection of the Personal Information is as follows: Ontario Securities Commission, Administrative Support Clerk, at (416) 593-3684 or by facsimile at (416) 593-8122 or in person or writing at Suite 1903, Box 55, 20 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5H 3S8. |
(n) | the funds representing the aggregate Purchase Price in respect of the Purchased Securities which will be advanced by the Subscriber to the Corporation hereunder will not represent proceeds of crime for the purpose of the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (Canada) (the “PCMLTF Act”) or the United States Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (as amended, the “PATRIOT Act”) and you acknowledge that the Corporation may in the future be required by law to disclose the Subscriber’s or Disclosed Purchaser’s name and other information relating to this Agreement and the Subscriber’s subscription hereunder, on a confidential basis, pursuant to the PCMLTF Act, PATRIOT Act or other “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations. To the best of your knowledge, none of the subscription funds to be provided hereunder: |
(v) | have been or will be obtained or derived, directly or indirectly, from or related to any activity that is deemed illegal under the laws of Canada or the United States or any other jurisdiction, or |
(vi) | are being tendered on behalf of a person or entity who has not been identified to you. |
You will promptly notify the Corporation if you discover that any such representation ceases to be true, and will provide the Corporation with appropriate information in connection therewith;
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(o) | you have been advised to consult your own legal advisors with respect to the applicable hold periods imposed in respect of the Purchased Securities by the applicable Securities Laws and confirm that no representation by the Corporation has been made respecting the hold periods applicable to the Purchased Securities and you are solely responsible (and the Corporation is not responsible) for compliance with the applicable resale restrictions; |
(p) | no person has made to you any written or oral representations: |
(i) | that any Person will resell or repurchase any of the Purchased Securities; |
(ii) | that any Person will refund the Purchase Price of any of the Purchased Securities; |
(iii) | as to the future price or value of any of the Purchased Securities; or |
(iv) | other than as set forth in this Agreement, that any of the Purchased Securities will be listed and posted for trading on a stock exchange or that application has been made to list and post any of the Purchased Securities for trading on a stock exchange; |
(q) | you acknowledge that you have not received an offering memorandum, prospectus or other disclosure document in respect of the Purchased Securities or the Corporation describing the business and affairs of the Corporation in order to assist you in making an investment decision in respect of the Purchased Securities, that you have had access to the Corporation’s public filings on the Internet at www.sedar.com and www.sec.gov and that you have not become aware of any advertisement in printed media of general and regular paid circulation, radio or television with respect to the distribution of the Purchased Securities; |
(r) | you have no knowledge of a “material fact” or “material change” (as those terms are defined in the Securities Laws) in the affairs of the Corporation that has not been generally disclosed to the public; |
(s) | your decision to tender this offer and purchase the Purchased Securities has not been made as a result of any non-public oral or written representation as to fact made by or on behalf of the Corporation or any other Person and is based entirely upon the representations, warranties and covenants of the Corporation provided to the Subscriber in this Agreement and on currently available public information concerning the Corporation; |
(t) | the offer made by this subscription is irrevocable and requires acceptance by the Corporation and the acceptance or approval of the Exchanges; |
(u) | the acceptance of this subscription offer will be conditional upon the sale of the Purchased Securities to you being exempt from the prospectus and registration requirements under applicable Securities Laws; |
(v) | if you are: |
(i) | a corporation, you are duly incorporated and are validly subsisting under the laws of your jurisdiction of incorporation and have all requisite legal and corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement, to subscribe for the Purchased Securities as contemplated herein and to carry out and perform your covenants and obligations under the terms of this Agreement and the entering into of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby will not result in the violation of any of the terms and provisions of any law applicable to, or the constating documents of, you or any agreement, written or oral, to which you may be a party or by which you are or may be bound; |
(ii) | a partnership, syndicate or other form of unincorporated organization, you have the necessary legal capacity and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to observe and perform your covenants and obligations hereunder and have obtained all necessary approvals in respect thereof; or |
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(iii) | an individual, you are of full age of majority and have the legal capacity and competence to enter into and to execute this Agreement and to observe and perform your covenants and obligations hereunder; |
(w) | this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by you and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of you enforceable against you; |
(x) | if required by applicable Securities Laws, policy or order or by any Regulatory Authority, you will execute, deliver, file and otherwise assist the Corporation in filing, such reports, undertakings and other documents with respect to the issue of the Purchased Securities as may be required; |
(y) | the Purchased Securities are highly speculative in nature and you have such sophistication and experience in business and financial matters as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of this investment and you are able to bear the economic risk of loss of this investment; |
(z) | this subscription is not enforceable by you unless it has been accepted by the Corporation and you waive any requirement on the Corporation’s behalf to immediately communicate its acceptance of this subscription to you; |
(aa) | in connection with your subscription, you have not relied upon the Corporation for investment, legal or tax advice, or other professional advice, and have in all cases sought or elected not to seek the advice of your own personal investment advisers, legal counsel and tax advisers and you are able, without impairing your financial condition, to bear the economic risk of, and withstand a complete loss of, the investment and you can otherwise be reasonably assumed to have the capacity to protect your own interest in connection with your investment; |
(bb) | all costs and expenses incurred by you (including any fees and disbursements of any special counsel or other advisors retained by you) relating to the purchase of the Purchased Securities shall be borne by you; |
(cc) | you acknowledge that legal counsel retained by the Corporation is acting as counsel to the Corporation and not as counsel to you and you may not rely upon such counsel in any respect; |
(dd) | this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered and, when accepted by the Corporation, will constitute your legal, valid and binding obligation enforceable against you in accordance with the terms hereof or, if you are acting on behalf of a Disclosed Purchaser, will constitute a legal, valid and binding obligation against such Disclosed Purchaser in accordance with the terms hereof; and |
(ee) | the above representations, warranties, covenants and acknowledgements in this section 5 will be true and correct both as of the execution of this subscription and as of the Closing Date. |
The Subscriber and, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, acknowledges and agrees that the foregoing representations, warranties, covenants and certifications are made by the Subscriber and, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, with the intent that they may be relied upon in determining its eligibility as a purchaser of the Purchased Securities under relevant Securities Laws. The Subscriber and, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, further agrees that by accepting the Purchased Securities, the Subscriber and, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, shall be representing and warranting that the foregoing representations, warranties and certifications contained herein or in any document furnished by the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, to the Corporation are true as at the Closing, with the same force and effect as if they had been made by the Subscriber as at the Closing and shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding any subsequent disposition by the Subscriber or Disclosed Purchaser (if applicable) of the Purchased Securities. The Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, undertakes to notify the Corporation immediately of any changes in any representation, warranty, certification or other information relating to the Subscriber or the Disclosed Principal (if applicable) set forth herein which takes place prior to the Closing Date.
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6. | Legends |
The Subscriber and, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, acknowledges that the certificates representing the Purchased Securities will, in addition to the legend specified in subparagraph 5(g)(xi), bear the following legends:
“UNLESS PERMITTED UNDER SECURITIES LEGISLATION, THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY MUST NOT TRADE THE SECURITY BEFORE ●, 2017” [the date which is four months and one day after the Closing Date will be inserted]
“the securities represented by this certificate ARE LISTED ON THE TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE (“tsx”); HOWEVER, THE SAID SECURITIES CANNOT BE TRADED THROUGH THE FACILITIES OF THE TSX SINCE THEY ARE NOT FREELY TRANSFERABLE, AND CONSEQUENTLY ANY CERTIFICATE REPRESENTING SUCH SECURITIES IS NOT ‘GOOD DELIVERY’ IN SETTLEMENT OF TRANSACTIONS ON THE TSX.”
provided that subsequent to the date which is four months and one day after the Closing Date the certificates representing the Purchased Securities may be exchanged for certificates bearing no such legends.
The Subscriber and, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, also acknowledges that it has been advised to consult its own independent legal advisor with respect to the applicable resale restrictions; that it is solely responsible for complying with such restrictions; that the Corporation is not responsible for ensuring compliance by the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser, of the applicable resale restrictions; and that additional restrictions are applicable to resales of, and additional restrictive legends will be placed upon, Purchased Securities acquired by U.S. Persons as described in Schedule B.
7. | Representations and Warranties of the Corporation |
The Corporation represents, warrants, covenants and certifies to and with the Subscriber and, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser that, as of the date given above and at the Closing:
(a) | the Corporation is a valid and subsisting company incorporated and in good standing under the laws of the Province of British Columbia; |
(b) | the Corporation and each of its subsidiaries is duly registered and licensed to carry on business in each jurisdiction in which it carries on business or owns property where required under the laws of that jurisdiction; |
(c) | all annual and quarterly reports, financial statements, proxy statements/information circulars, press releases, material change reports and other documents filed by or on behalf of the Corporation within the past 12 months with the Exchanges and any of the Commissions (the “Disclosure Record”) were true and correct in all material respects and did not contain any misrepresentation (as defined in the Securities Act (British Columbia)) as at the respective dates of such filings; |
(d) | except as qualified by the disclosure in the Disclosure Record, the Corporation is the beneficial owner of the properties, business and assets or the interests in the properties, business or assets referred to in the Disclosure Record as being beneficially owned by the Corporation; |
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(e) | the financial statements of the Corporation contained in the Disclosure Record have all been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles, accurately and fairly reflect the financial position, performance, cash flows and all liabilities (accrued, absolute, contingent or otherwise) of the Corporation and its subsidiaries in all material respects as of the dates thereof; |
(f) | subject to the representations, warranties and certifications of the Subscriber herein contained being accurate and truthful in all material respects and the Subscriber fulfilling all of its covenants and obligations herein contained, the Corporation has complied and will comply fully with the requirements of all applicable corporate and securities laws and administrative policies and directions, including, without limitation, the Securities Laws and the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) in relation to the issue and trading of its securities and in all matters relating to the private placement of the Offered Securities; |
(g) | there is not presently any material change, as defined in the Securities Laws, relating to the Corporation or change in any material fact, as defined in the Securities Laws, relating to any of the Purchased Securities, which has not been fully disclosed in accordance with the requirements of the Securities Laws and the policies of the Exchanges; |
(h) | the issue and sale of the Offered Securities by the Corporation does not and will not conflict with, and does not and will not (including, without limitation, with the giving of notice, the lapse of time or the happening of any other event or condition or any combination of the foregoing) result in a material breach of, any of the terms of the Corporation’s constating documents or any agreement or instrument to which the Corporation is a party or by which it is bound; |
(i) | the issue and sale of the Offered Securities by the Corporation qualifies as an “Exempt Acquisition” under the Amended & Restated Shareholder Rights Plan Agreement dated August 26, 2009 (as amended and restated on September 19, 2012) among the Corporation and Computershare Investor Services Inc.; |
(j) | neither the Corporation nor any of its subsidiaries is a party to any actions, suits or proceedings which could materially affect its business or financial condition, and to the best of the Corporation’s knowledge, no such actions, suits or proceedings are contemplated or have been threatened; |
(k) | there are no judgments against the Corporation which are unsatisfied, nor is the Corporation subject to any consent decrees or injunctions; |
(l) | this Agreement has been or will be at the Closing Date duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Corporation, and the Corporation has full corporate power and authority to undertake the Offering and to issue, sell and deliver the Purchased Securities; |
(m) | to the Corporation’s knowledge, after due enquiry, it is not in material default of any of the requirements of the Securities Laws or any of the administrative policies or notices of the Exchanges; |
(n) | to the Corporation’s knowledge, after due enquiry, no order ceasing or suspending trading in securities of the Corporation nor prohibiting the sale of such securities has been issued to and is outstanding against the Corporation or its directors, officers or promoters and no proceedings for such purpose are pending or threatened; |
(o) | except for as provided in the Disclosure Record, no person has any right, agreement or option, present or future, contingent or absolute, or any right capable of becoming such a right, agreement or option, for the issue or allotment of any unissued shares in the capital of the Corporation, or any other security convertible into or exchangeable for any such shares, or to require the Corporation to purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any of the issued and outstanding shares in its capital; |
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(p) | each of the Corporation’s subsidiaries is a valid and subsisting corporation organized and in good standing under the laws of their respective jurisdictions of organization; |
(q) | the Corporation and each of its subsidiaries is in all material respects conducting its business in material compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations of each jurisdiction in which its business is carried on; |
(r) | the authorized capital of the Corporation consists of 500,000,000 Common Shares, of which, immediately prior to the Closing Date, 116,353,638 Common Shares are issued and outstanding; |
(s) | the Common Shares (i) do not constitute a U.S. Real Property Interest for purposes of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and (ii) are not, and are not deemed to be, “taxable Canadian property” for purposes of the Income Tax Act (Canada); |
(t) | as of the Closing, the Purchased Securities will be validly issued and outstanding; |
(u) | no approval, authorization, consent or other order of, and no filing, registration or recording with, any governmental authority is required to be obtained or made by the Corporation in connection with the execution and delivery by the Corporation of this Agreement or the performance by the Corporation of its obligations hereunder, except such approvals, authorizations, consents, orders, filing, registrations or recordings required under the Securities Laws and the rules of the Exchanges, which shall be obtained or made by the Corporation prior to the Closing or otherwise within the periods prescribed thereunder; |
(v) | the Corporation has not relied upon the Subscriber for investment, legal or tax advice, or other professional advice, and has in all cases sought or elected not to seek the advice of its own personal investment advisers, legal counsel and tax advisers; |
(w) | the Corporation acknowledges (i) that the Subscriber has not been asked by the Corporation to agree, nor has the Subscriber agreed with the Corporation, to desist from purchasing or selling, long and/or short, securities of the Corporation, or “derivative” securities based on securities issued by the Corporation or to hold the Purchased Securities for any specified term, and (ii) that the Subscriber, and counter parties in “derivative” transactions to which the Subscriber is a party, directly or indirectly, presently may have a “short” position in the Common Shares which were established prior to the Subscriber’s knowledge of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. The Corporation further understands and acknowledges that following the public disclosure of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Subscriber may engage in hedging and/or trading activities at various times during the period that the Purchased Securities are outstanding, and that such hedging and/or trading activities, if any, can reduce the value of the existing shareholders’ equity interest in the Corporation both at and after the time the hedging and/or trading activities are being conducted; |
(x) | none of the Corporation, its subsidiaries or any of their respective officers, directors or employees acting on behalf of the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries has taken, committed to take or been alleged to have taken any action which would cause the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries to be in violation of the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (Canada) (and the regulations promulgated thereunder) or any applicable law of similar effect of another jurisdiction, and to the knowledge of the Corporation no such action has been taken by any of its agents, representatives or other Persons acting on behalf of the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries; |
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(y) | neither the Corporation nor any of its subsidiaries has, and, to the Corporation’s knowledge, no Person acting on their behalf has, (i) taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to cause or to result in the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Corporation to facilitate the sale or resale of the Common Shares, (ii) sold, bid for, purchased, or paid any compensation for soliciting purchases of, any of the Common Shares, or (iii) paid or agreed to pay to any Person any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any other securities of the Corporation; |
(z) | other than its shares of its subsidiaries and 65,000 shares of Millrock Resources, Inc. held as marketable securities, the Corporation does not own and does not have any agreements of any nature to acquire, directly or indirectly, any securities, or other equity or proprietary interest in any Person, and the Corporation does not have any agreements to acquire or lease any other business operations; |
(aa) | the Corporation has filed in a timely manner all necessary tax returns and notices and has paid all applicable taxes of whatsoever nature for all tax years prior to the date hereof to the extent that such taxes have become due or have been alleged by the Canada Revenue Agency, the Internal Revenue Service or any other taxation authority to be due. There are no agreements, waivers or other arrangements providing for an extension of time with respect to the filing of any tax return by the Corporation or the payment of any material tax, governmental charge, penalty, interest or fine against the Corporation. The Corporation has no liability for taxes except those arising in the ordinary course of its business. There are no material actions, suits, proceedings, audits, investigations or claims in progress, now threatened or pending against the Corporation which could result in a material liability in respect of taxes, charges or levies of any governmental authority, penalties, interest, fines, assessments or reassessments or any matters under discussion with any governmental authority relating to taxes, governmental charges, penalties, interest, fines, assessments or reassessments asserted by any such authority and the Corporation has withheld (where applicable) from each payment to each of the present and former officers, directors, employees and consultants thereof the amount of all taxes and other amounts, including, but not limited to, income tax and other deductions, required to be withheld therefrom, and has paid the same or will pay the same when due to the proper tax or other receiving authority within the time required under applicable tax legislation; |
(bb) | the Corporation has its property and assets insured against loss or damage by insurable hazards or risks on a basis 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 business in which each of the Corporation and its subsidiaries operates as conducted by a reasonably prudent Person, based on the advice of insurance brokers consulted by the Corporation and its subsidiaries. Each of the Corporation and its subsidiaries has not made any material claim on any policy of insurance or been refused any insurance coverage sought or applied for. Each of the Corporation and its subsidiaries has no reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business at a cost that would not be reasonably expected to have a material adverse effect on the Corporation’s business; |
(cc) | each of the Corporation and its subsidiaries owns, or to its knowledge, has the right to use all information used by the Corporation and its subsidiaries (including for the purposes of any technical reports pursuant to Canadian National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (“NI 43-101”) without infringing the intellectual property rights of others; |
(dd) | the Corporation has filed all technical reports as required by NI 43-101, and all such reports have been prepared in material compliance with the requirements of NI 43-101. In addition, with respect to each press release issued, and any other documents filed, by or on behalf of the Corporation in respect of which any requirements of such Canadian National Instrument applied, each such press release and document also complied in all material respects as to form, substance and otherwise with the requirements of such Canadian National Instrument; |
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(ee) | to the Corporation’s knowledge, none of the directors or officers of the Corporation, nor any holder of more than 10% of any class of shares of the Corporation, or any associate or affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons, has any material interest, direct or indirect, in any proposed material transaction which is material to or will materially affect the Corporation other than (i) the acquisition of Offered Securities and (ii) the related party transaction described in Note 10 to the Corporation’s interim financial statements for the three and nine month periods ending September 30, 2016; |
(ff) | the Corporation has not disclosed to the Subscriber or any of its officers, directors, employees, affiliates, representatives or agents any material information, which has not been generally disclosed, regarding the Corporation or its subsidiaries or affiliates in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; and |
(gg) | the representations, warranties, covenants and certifications in this section 7 will be true and correct both as of the execution of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date. |
8. | No Finder’s Fee |
The Corporation confirms that it is not paying any form of commission, bonus, finder’s fee or similar compensation to any Person in connection with the Offering.
9. | Press Releases |
The Corporation agrees that any press release related to the Offering shall be subject to the prior written approval of the Subscriber.
10. | General |
(a) | Headings: The division of this Agreement into articles and sections and the insertion of headings are for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement. The terms “this Agreement,” “hereof,” “hereunder”, “herein” and similar expressions refer to this Agreement and not to any particular article, section or other portion hereof and include any agreement supplemental thereto and any exhibits attached hereto. Unless something in the subject matter or context is inconsistent therewith, reference herein to articles, sections and paragraphs are to articles, sections, subsections and paragraphs of this Agreement. |
(b) | Number and Gender: Words importing the singular number only shall include the plural and vice versa, words importing the masculine gender shall include the feminine gender and neuter and vice versa. |
(c) | Statutory References: In this Agreement, unless something in the subject matter or context is inconsistent therewith or unless otherwise herein provided, a reference to any statute is to that statute as now enacted or as the same may from time to time be amended, re-enacted or replaced and includes any regulation made thereunder. |
(d) | Severability: If one or more of the provisions contained in this Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect under any applicable law, the validity, legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof shall not be affected or impaired thereby. Each of the provisions of this Agreement is hereby declared to be separate and distinct. |
(e) | Notices: All notices or other communications to be given hereunder shall be delivered by hand or by telecopier, and if delivered by hand, shall be deemed to have been given on the date of delivery or, if sent by telecopier, on the date of transmission if sent before 5:00 p.m. and such day is a Business Day or, if not, on the first Business Day following the date of transmission. |
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Notices to the Corporation shall be addressed to:
International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. Ltd.
Suite 2300, 1177 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6E 2K3
Attention: General Counsel
Fax Number: (604) 408-7499
Notices to the Subscriber shall be addressed to the address of the Subscriber set out on the execution page hereof.
Either the Corporation or the Subscriber may change its address for service aforesaid by notice in writing to the other party hereto specifying its new address for service hereunder.
(f) | Further Assurances: Each party hereto shall from time to time at the request of the other party hereto do such further acts and execute and deliver such further instruments, deeds and documents as shall be reasonably required in order to fully perform and carry out the provisions of this Agreement. The parties hereto agree to act honestly and in good faith in the performance of their respective obligations hereunder. |
(g) | Successors and Assigns: Except as otherwise provided, this Agreement shall enure to the benefit of and shall be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns. |
(h) | Notification of Changes: The parties hereby covenant and agree to notify the other party upon the occurrence of any event prior to the Closing which would cause any party’s representations, warranties or covenants contained in this Agreement to be false or incorrect in any material respect. |
(i) | Assignment: This Agreement is not assignable or transferable by the parties hereto without the express written consent of the other party to this Agreement. |
(j) | Entire Agreement: The terms of this Agreement express and constitute the entire agreement between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and no implied term or liability of any kind is created or shall arise by reason of anything in this Agreement. |
(k) | Time of Essence: Time is of the essence of this Agreement. |
(l) | Amendments: The provisions of this Agreement may only be amended with the written consent of all of the parties hereto. |
(m) | Survival: Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities of or by the Corporation, the Subscriber and the Disclosed Purchaser contained herein or in any certificate, document or instrument delivered pursuant hereto shall survive the completion of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. |
(n) | Governing Law and Venue: The contract arising out of this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of British Columbia and the laws of Canada applicable therein, governing contracts made and to be performed wholly therein, and without reference to its principles governing the choice or conflict of laws. The parties hereto irrevocably attorn and submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of British Columbia, sitting in the City of Vancouver, with respect to any dispute related to or arising from this Agreement. |
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(o) | Counterparts: This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts which when taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Delivery of counterparts may be effected by facsimile transmission thereof. |
(p) | Facsimile Copies: The Corporation shall be entitled to rely on a facsimile copy of an executed subscription agreement and acceptance by the Corporation of such facsimile subscription shall be legally effective to create a valid and binding agreement between the Subscriber and the Corporation in accordance with the terms thereof. If less than a complete copy of this Agreement is delivered to the Corporation at Closing, the Corporation and its advisors are entitled to assume that the Subscriber accepts and agrees to all of the terms and conditions of the pages not delivered at Closing unaltered. |
(q) | Regulatory Acceptance/Approval: Without limitation, this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby are conditional upon receipt by the Corporation of the conditional acceptance/approval from the Exchanges to list the Purchased Securities. This condition (q) is for the benefit of both the Corporation and the Subscriber. |
If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please sign and return this Agreement together with the other required documents signifying your agreement to purchase the Purchased Securities.
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Schedule A
CANADIAN EXEMPTION CERTIFICATE
Capitalized terms used in this Schedule A and defined in the Agreement to which this Schedule A is attached have the meaning defined in the Agreement unless otherwise defined herein.
In connection with the purchase by the Subscriber of the Purchased Securities, the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, hereby represents, warrants, covenants and certifies that:
2. | the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser (please check the appropriate line): |
(a) | CDN$150,000 Exemption: is purchasing sufficient Purchased Securities such that the aggregate acquisition cost of the Purchased Securities is not less than CDN$150,000 and, if the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser, is not an individual, it was not created or used solely to purchase or hold securities in reliance on the exemptions from the dealer registration requirement or the prospectus requirement contained in Section 2.10 of NI 45-106; or |
(b) | Accredited Investor Exemption: is an “accredited investor” within the meaning of National Instrument 45-106 entitled “Prospectus Exemptions” (“NI 45-106”) by virtue of the fact that the Subscriber or Disclosed Purchaser, as the case may be, falls within one or more of the subparagraphs of the definition of “accredited investor” set out in Appendix I to this Schedule A (YOU MUST ALSO COMPLETE APPENDIX I ATTACHED TO THIS CERTIFICATE); |
3. | the above representations, warranties and covenants will be true and correct both as of the execution of this certificate and as of the closing time of the purchase and sale of the Purchased Securities and will survive the completion of the issue of the Purchased Securities; and |
4. | the foregoing representations, warranties and covenants are made by the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, with the intent that they be relied upon in determining the suitability of the Subscriber or Disclosed Purchaser as a purchaser of the Purchased Securities and the Subscriber undertakes to immediately notify the Corporation of any change in any statement or other information relating to the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser, set forth herein which takes place prior to the closing time of the purchase and sale of the Purchased Securities. |
The Subscriber has executed this certificate as of the day of , 2016.
If a trust, partnership or other entity: | If an individual: | |
Name of Entity | Signature | |
Type of Entity | Name of Individual | |
Signature of Person Signing | ||
Title of Person Signing |
APPENDIX I TO SCHEDULE A
ACCREDITED INVESTOR CERTIFICATE
TO: | INTERNATIONAL TOWER HILL MINES LTD. |
Capitalized terms used in this Appendix I to Schedule A and defined in the Agreement to which this Appendix I to Schedule A is attached have the meaning defined in the Agreement unless otherwise defined herein.
The undersigned or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the undersigned acting as its agent, hereby represents, warrants and certifies to the Corporation that the undersigned, or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser, is an “Accredited Investor” as defined in subsection 1.1 of National Instrument 45-106. The undersigned has indicated below the categories which the undersigned, or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser, satisfies in order to qualify as an “Accredited Investor”.
The undersigned or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the undersigned acting as its agent, understands that the Corporation and its counsel are relying upon this information in determining to sell securities to the undersigned or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser, in a manner exempt from the prospectus and registration requirements of applicable securities laws.
The undersigned or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the undersigned acting as its agent, represents, warrants and certifies that it, he or she is: [initial or place a checkmark above the line to the left of each applicable item]
______ | (a) | a Canadian financial institution, or an authorized foreign bank named in Schedule III of the Bank Act (Canada); | |
______ | (b) | the Business Development Bank of Canada incorporated under the Business Development Bank of Canada Act (Canada); | |
______ | (c) | a subsidiary of any person referred to in paragraphs (a) to (b), if the person owns all of the voting securities of the subsidiary, except the voting securities required by law to be owned by directors of that subsidiary; | |
______ | (d) | a person registered under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada as an adviser or dealer; | |
______ | (e) | an individual registered under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada as a representative of a person referred to in paragraph (d); | |
______ | (e.1) | an individual formerly registered under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada, other than an individual formerly registered solely as a representative of a limited market dealer under one or both of the Securities Act (Ontario) or the Securities Act (Newfoundland and Labrador); | |
______ | (f) | the Government of Canada or a jurisdiction of Canada, or any crown corporation, agency or wholly owned entity of the Government of Canada or a jurisdiction of Canada; | |
______ | (g) | a municipality, public board or commission in Canada and a metropolitan community, school board, the Comité de gestion de la taxe scolaire de l’île de Montréal or an intermunicipal management board in Québec; | |
______ | (h) | any national, federal, state, provincial, territorial or municipal government of or in any foreign jurisdiction, or any agency of that government; |
______ | (i) | a pension fund that is regulated by either the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (Canada) or a pension commission or similar regulatory authority of a jurisdiction of Canada; | ||
______ | (j) | an individual who, either alone or with a spouse, beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, financial assets having an aggregate realizable value that before taxes, but net of any related liabilities, exceeds CDN$1,000,000 [NOTE: If the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as his/her agent, is relying on this category of “accredited investor” to purchase Common Shares, the Subscriber, or the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as his/her agent, as applicable, must also complete in duplicate Exhibit 1 to Appendix I to the Agreement]; | ||
______ | (j.1) | an individual who beneficially owns financial assets having an aggregate realizable value that, before taxes, but net of any related liabilities, exceeds CDN$5,000,000; | ||
______ | (k) | an individual whose net income before taxes exceeded CDN$200,000 in each of the two most recent calendar years or whose net income before taxes combined with that of a spouse exceeded CDN$300,000 in each of the two most recent calendar years and who, in either case, reasonably expects to exceed that net income level in the current calendar year [NOTE: If the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as his/her agent, is relying on this category of “accredited investor” to purchase Common Shares, the Subscriber, or the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as his/her agent, as applicable, must also complete in duplicate Exhibit 1 to Appendix I to the Agreement]; | ||
______ | (l) | an individual who, either alone or with a spouse, has net assets of at least CDN$5,000,000 [NOTE: If the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as his/her agent, is relying on this category of “accredited investor” to purchase Common Shares, the Subscriber, or the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as his/her agent, as applicable, must also complete in duplicate Exhibit 1 to Appendix I to the Agreement]; | ||
______ | (m) | a person, other than an individual or investment fund, that has net assets of at least CDN$5,000,000 as shown on its most recently prepared financial statements; | ||
______ | (n) | an investment fund that distributes or has distributed its securities only to: | ||
(i) | a person that is or was an accredited investor at the time of the distribution, | |||
(ii) | a person that acquires or acquired securities in the circumstances referred to in sections 2.10 Minimum amount investment and 2.19 Additional investment in investment funds of NI 45-106; or | |||
(iii) | a person described in paragraph (i) or (ii) that acquires or acquired securities under section 2.18 Investment fund reinvestment of NI 45-106; | |||
______ | (o) | an investment fund that distributes or has distributed securities under a prospectus in a jurisdiction of Canada for which the regulator or, in Québec, the securities regulatory authority, has issued a receipt; | ||
______ | (p) | a trust company or trust corporation registered or authorized to carry on business under the Trust and Loan Companies Act (Canada) or under comparable legislation in a jurisdiction of Canada or a foreign jurisdiction, acting on behalf of a fully-managed account managed by the trust company or trust corporation, as the case may be; |
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______ | (q) | a person acting on behalf of a fully-managed account managed by that person, if that person is registered or authorized to carry on business as an adviser or the equivalent under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada or a foreign jurisdiction: | |
______ | (r) | a registered charity under the Income Tax Act (Canada) that, in regard to the trade, has obtained advice from an eligibility adviser or an adviser registered under the securities legislation of the jurisdiction of the registered charity to give advice on the securities being traded; | |
______ | (s) | an entity organized in a foreign jurisdiction that is analogous to any of the entities referred to in paragraphs (a) through (d) or paragraph (i) in form and function; | |
______ | (t) | a person in respect of which all of the owners of interests, direct, indirect or beneficial, except the voting securities required by law to be owned by directors, are persons that are accredited investors; | |
______ | (u) | an investment fund that is advised by a person registered as an adviser or a person that is exempt from registration as an adviser; | |
______ | (v) | a person that is recognized or designated by the securities regulatory authority or, except in Ontario and Québec, the regulator as an accredited investor; or | |
______ | (w) | a trust established by an accredited investor for the benefit of the accredited investor’s family members of which a majority of the trustees are accredited investors and all of the beneficiaries are the accredited investor’s spouse, a former spouse of the accredited investor or a parent, grandparent, brother, sister, child or grandchild of that accredited investor, of that accredited investor’s spouse or of that accredited investor’s former spouse. |
The Subscriber has executed this Certificate as of the day of , 2016.
If a trust, partnership or other entity: | If an individual: | |
Name of Entity | Signature | |
Type of Entity | Name of Individual | |
Signature of Person Signing | ||
Title of Person Signing |
As used in this Certificate, the following terms have the following meanings:
An issuer is an “affiliate” of another issuer if:
(a) | one of them is the subsidiary of the other, or |
(b) | each of them is controlled by the same person; |
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A person is considered to beneficially own securities that:
(a) | for the purposes of Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Northwest Territories and Nunavut securities law, are beneficially owned by: |
(i) | an issuer controlled by that person; or |
(ii) | an affiliate of that person or an affiliate of an issuer controlled by that person; |
(b) | for the purposes of Alberta securities law, are beneficially owned by: |
(i) | a company controlled by that person or an affiliate of that company; |
(ii) | an affiliate of that person; or |
(iii) | through a trustee, legal representative, agent or other intermediary of that person. |
A person (first person) is considered to control another person (second person) if:
(a) | the first person, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns or exercises control or direction over
securities of the second person carrying votes which, if exercised, would entitle the first person to elect a majority of the directors
of the second person, unless that first person holds the voting securities only to secure an obligation; |
(b) | the second person is a partnership, other than a limited partnership, and the first person holds more
than 50% of the interests of the partnership; or |
(c) | the second person is a limited partnership and the general partner of the limited partnership is the first person. |
“bank” means a bank named in Schedule I or II of the Bank Act (Canada);
“Canadian financial institution” means:
(a) | an association governed by the Cooperative Credit Associations Act (Canada) or a central cooperative credit society for which an order has been made under section 473(1) of that Act; or |
(b) | a bank, loan corporation, trust company, trust corporation, insurance company, treasury branch, credit union, caisse populaire, financial services cooperative, or league that, in each case, is authorized by an enactment of Canada or a jurisdiction of Canada to carry on business in Canada or a jurisdiction of Canada; |
“control person” has the meaning ascribed to that term in securities legislation except in Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island and Québec where “control person” means any person that holds or is one of a combination of persons that holds:
(a) | a sufficient number of any of the securities of an issuer so as to affect materially the control of the issuer, or |
(b) | more than 20% of the outstanding voting securities of an issuer except where there is evidence showing that the holding of those securities does not affect materially the control of the issuer; |
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“director” means (a) a member of the board of directors of a company or an individual who performs similar functions for a company, and (b) with respect to a person that is not a company, an individual who performs functions similar to those of a director of a company;
“eligibility advisor” means:
(a) | a person that is registered as an investment dealer or in an equivalent category of registration under the securities legislation of the jurisdiction of a purchaser and authorized to give advice with respect to the type of security being distributed; and |
(b) | in Saskatchewan or Manitoba, also means a lawyer who is a practicing member in good standing with a law society of a jurisdiction of Canada or a public accountant who is a member in good standing of an institute or association of chartered accountants, certified general accountants or certified management accountants in a jurisdiction of Canada provided that the lawyer or public accountant must not: |
(i) | have a professional business or personal relationship with the issuer, or any of its directors, executive officers, founders or control persons, and |
(ii) | have acted for or been retained personally or otherwise as an employee, executive officer, director, associate or partner of a person that has acted for or been retained by the issuer or any of its directors, executive officers, founders or control persons within the previous 12 months; |
“financial assets” means cash, securities, or a contract of insurance, a deposit or an evidence of a deposit that is not a security for the purposes of securities legislation;
“foreign jurisdiction” means a country other than Canada or a political subdivision of a country other than Canada;
“fully managed account” means an account of a client for which a person makes the investment decisions if that person has full discretion to trade in securities for the account without requiring the client’s express consent to a transaction;
“investment fund” has the same meaning as in National Instrument 81-106 Investment Fund Continuous Disclosure and means a mutual fund or a non-redeemable investment fund;
“jurisdiction” means a province or territory of Canada except when used in the term “foreign jurisdiction”;
“local jurisdiction” means the jurisdiction in which the Canadian securities regulatory authority is situated;
“non-redeemable investment fund” has the same meaning as in National Instrument 81-106 Investment Fund Continuous Disclosure and means an issuer:
(a) | whose primary purpose is to invest money provided by its securityholders; |
(b) | that does not invest; |
(i) | for the purpose of exercising or seeking to exercise control of an issuer, other than an issuer that is a mutual fund or a non-redeemable investment fund; or |
(ii) | for the purpose of being actively involved in the management of any issuer in which it invests, other than an issuer that is a mutual fund or a non-redeemable investment fund; and |
(c) | that is not a mutual fund; |
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“person” includes an individual, a corporation, a partnership, trust, fund and an association, syndicate, organization or other organized group of persons, whether incorporated or not; and an individual or other person in that person’s capacity as a trustee, executor, administrator or personal or other legal representative;
“regulator” means, for the local jurisdiction, the Executive Director as defined under securities legislation of the local jurisdiction;
“related liabilities” means:
(a) | liabilities incurred or assumed for the purpose of financing the acquisition or ownership of financial assets; or |
(b) | liabilities that are secured by financial assets; |
“Schedule III bank” means an authorized foreign bank named in Schedule III of the Bank Act (Canada);
“securities legislation” means:
(a) | for British Columbia, the Securities Act (British Columbia) and the regulations, rules and forms under such Act and the blanket rulings and orders issued by the British Columbia Securities Commission; or |
(b) | for other Canadian jurisdictions, such other statutes and instruments as are listed in Appendix B of National Instrument 14-101 Definitions; |
“securities regulatory authority” means:
(a) | the British Columbia Securities Commission; or |
(b) | in respect of any local jurisdiction other than British Columbia, means the securities commission or similar regulatory authority listed in Appendix C of National Instrument 14-101 Definitions; |
“spouse” means, an individual who:
(a) | is married to another individual and is not living separate and apart within the meaning of the Divorce Act (Canada), from the other individual; |
(b) | is living with another individual in a marriage-like relationship, including a marriage-like relationship between individuals of the same gender; or |
(c) | in Alberta, is an individual referred to in paragraph (a) or (b), or is an adult interdependent partner within the meaning of the Audit Interdependent Relationships Act (Alberta); |
“subsidiary” means an issuer that is controlled directly or indirectly by another issuer and includes a subsidiary of that subsidiary; and
“voting security” means a security of an issuer that:
(c) | is not a debt security; and |
(d) | carries a voting right either under all circumstances or under some circumstances that have occurred and are continuing. |
Calculation of purchaser’s net assets: To calculate a purchaser’s net assets under paragraphs (l) and (m) of the “Accredited Investor” definition, subtract the purchaser’s total liabilities from the purchaser’s total assets. The value attributed to assets should reasonably reflect their estimated fair value. Income tax should be considered a liability if the obligation to pay it is outstanding at the time of the trade.
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EXHIBIT 1 TO APPENDIX I
To be completed and signed by the Subscriber, or the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as his/her agent, as applicable, if relying on category (j), (k) or (l) of the Accredited Investor Exemption Certificate attached as Appendix I to Schedule A
RISK ACKNOWLEDGMENT FORM FOR CERTAIN INDIVIDUAL ACCREDITED INVESTORS
WARNING! This investment is risky. Don’t invest unless you can afford to lose all the money you pay for this investment.
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SECTION 1 TO BE COMPLETED BY THE ISSUER | |
1. About your investment | |
Type of securities: Common Shares | Issuer: International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. (the “Issuer”) |
Purchased from: The Issuer. | |
SECTIONS 2 TO 4 TO BE COMPLETED BY THE PURCHASER | |
2. Risk acknowledgement | |
This investment is risky. Initial that you understand that: | Your initials |
Risk of loss – You could lose your entire investment of CDN$__________. [Instruction: Insert the total dollar amount of the investment.] | |
Liquidity risk – You may not be able to sell your investment quickly – or at all. | |
Lack of information – You may receive little or no information about your investment. | |
Lack of advice – You will not receive advice from the salesperson about whether this investment is suitable for you unless the salesperson is registered. The salesperson is the person who meets with, or provides information to, you about making this investment. To check whether the salesperson is registered, go to www.aretheyregistered.ca. | |
3. Accredited investor status | |
You must meet at least one of the following criteria to be able to make this investment. Initial the statement that applies to you. (You may initial more than one statement.) The person identified in section 6 is responsible for ensuring that you meet the definition of accredited investor. That person, or the salesperson identified in section 5, can help you if you have questions about whether you meet these criteria. | Your initials |
· Your net income before taxes was more than CDN$200,000 in each of the 2 most recent calendar years, and you expect it to be more than CDN$200,000 in the current calendar year. (You can find your net income before taxes on your personal income tax return.) |
· Your net income before taxes combined with your spouse’s was more than CDN$300,000 in each of the 2 most recent calendar years, and you expect your combined net income before taxes to be more than CDN$300,000 in the current calendar year. | |
· Either alone or with your spouse, you own more than CDN$1 million in cash and securities, after subtracting any debt related to the cash and securities. | |
· Either alone or with your spouse, you have net assets worth more than CDN$5 million. (Your net assets are your total assets (including real estate) minus your total debt.) |
4. Your name and signature | ||
By signing this form, you confirm that you have read this form and you understand the risks of making this investment as identified in this form. | ||
First and last name (please print): | ||
Signature: | Date: | |
SECTION 5 TO BE COMPLETED BY THE SALESPERSON | ||
5. Salesperson information | ||
[Instruction: The salesperson is the person who meets with, or provides information to, the purchaser with respect to making this investment. That could include a representative of the issuer, a registrant or a person who is exempt from the registration requirement.] | ||
First and last name of salesperson (please print): | ||
Telephone: | Email: | |
Name of firm (if registered): | Dealer Rep. Code: | |
SECTION 6 TO BE COMPLETED BY THE ISSUER | ||
6. For more information about this investment | ||
International Tower Hill Mines Ltd.
Tel: 604-408-7499
For more information about prospectus exemptions, contact your local securities regulator. You can find contact information at www.securities-administrators.ca. |
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Schedule B
U.S. ACCREDITED INVESTOR CERTIFICATE
TO: INTERNATIONAL
TOWER HILL MINES LTD. (the “Corporation”)
Capitalized terms used in this Schedule B and defined in the Agreement to which is Schedule B is attached have the meaning defined in the Agreement unless otherwise defined herein.
The undersigned or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the undersigned acting as its agent, (the “Subscriber”) represents, warrants and covenants (which representations, warranties and covenants shall survive the Closing) to the Corporation (and acknowledges that the Corporation is relying thereon) that:
(a) | it understands and agrees that the Purchased Securities have not been and will not be registered under the 1933 Act, or applicable securities laws of any state of the United States, and the Purchased Securities are being offered and sold by the Corporation to the Subscriber in reliance upon the exemption from the registration requirements of the 1933 Act set forth in Section 4(a)(2) of the 1933 Act and Rule 506(b) of Regulation D; |
(b) | it is purchasing the Purchased Securities for its own account or for the account or benefit of one or more persons for whom it is exercising sole investment discretion, (a “Beneficial Purchaser”), for investment purposes only and not with a view to resale or distribution and, in particular, neither it nor any Beneficial Purchaser for whose account it is purchasing the Purchased Securities has any intention to distribute either directly or indirectly any of the Purchased Securities in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of a U.S. Person; provided, however, that this paragraph shall not restrict the Subscriber from selling or otherwise disposing of any of the Purchased Securities pursuant to registration thereof pursuant to the 1933 Act and any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States or under an applicable exemption from such registration requirements; |
(c) | it, and if applicable, each Beneficial Purchaser for whose account or benefit it is purchasing the Purchased Securities, is a U.S. Accredited Investor that satisfies one or more of the categories of U.S. Accredited Investor as indicated below (the Subscriber must initial “SUB” for the Subscriber, and “BP” for each Beneficial Purchaser, if any, on the appropriate line(s)): |
Category 1. | A bank, as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the 1933 Act, whether acting in its individual or fiduciary capacity; or | |||
Category 2. | A savings and loan association or other institution as defined in Section 3(a)(5)(A) of the 1933 Act, whether acting in its individual or fiduciary capacity; or | |||
Category 3. | A broker or dealer registered pursuant to Section 15 of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; or | |||
Category 4. | An insurance company as defined in Section 2(a)(13) of the 1933 Act; or | |||
Category 5. | An investment company registered under the United States Investment Company Act of 1940; or | |||
Category 6. | A business development company as defined in Section 2(a)(48) of the United States Investment Company Act of 1940; or | |||
Category 7. | A small business investment company licensed by the U.S. Small Business Administration under Section 301 (c) or (d) of the United States Small Business Investment Act of 1958; or | |||
Category 8. | A plan established and maintained by a state, its political subdivisions or any agency or instrumentality of a state or its political subdivisions, for the benefit of its employees, with total assets in excess of US$5,000,000; or | |||
Category 9. | An employee benefit plan within the meaning of the United States Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 in which the investment decision is made by a plan fiduciary, as defined in Section 3(21) of such Act, which is either a bank, savings and loan association, insurance company or registered investment adviser, or an employee benefit plan with total assets in excess of US$5,000,000 or, if a self-directed plan, with investment decisions made solely by persons who are U.S. accredited investors; or | |||
Category 10. | A private business development company as defined in Section 202(a)(22) of the United States Investment Advisers Act of 1940; or | |||
Category 11. | An organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, a corporation, a Massachusetts or similar business trust, or a partnership, not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the securities offered, with total assets in excess of US$5,000,000; or | |||
Category 12. | Any director or executive officer of the Corporation; or | |||
Category 13. | A natural person whose individual net worth (i.e. the excess of total assets at fair market value, including personal and real property but excluding the estimated fair market value of a person’s primary home, over total liabilities), or joint net worth with that person's spouse, at the time of this purchase exceeds US$1,000,000; provided that total liabilities excludes any mortgage on the primary home in an amount of up to the home's estimated fair market value as long as the mortgage was incurred more than 60 days before the securities are purchased, but includes (i) any mortgage amount in excess of the home's fair market value and (ii) any mortgage amount that was borrowed during the 60-day period before the closing date for the sale of securities for the purpose of investing in the securities; or | |||
Category 14. | A natural person who had an individual income in excess of US$200,000 in each of the two most recent years or joint income with that person’s spouse in excess of US$300,000 in each of those years and has a reasonable expectation of reaching the same income level in the current year; or | |||
Category 15. | A trust, with total assets in excess of US$5,000,000, not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the securities offered, whose purchase is directed by a sophisticated person as described in Rule 506(b)(2)(ii) under the 1933 Act; or | |||
Category 16. | Any entity in which all of the equity owners meet the requirements of at least one of the above categories; | |||
(d) | it acknowledges that the Purchased Securities are “restricted securities”, as such term is defined under Rule 144 of the 1933 Act, and may not be offered, sold, pledged, or otherwise transferred, directly or indirectly, without prior registration under the 1933 Act and applicable securities laws of any state of the United States, and it agrees that if it decides to offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer, directly or indirectly, any of the Purchased Securities absent such registration, it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer, directly or indirectly, any of the Purchased Securities, directly or indirectly, except: |
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(i) | to the Corporation; or |
(ii) | outside the United States in an “offshore transaction” in compliance with the requirements of Rule 904 of Regulation S under the 1933 Act, if available, and in compliance with applicable local laws and regulations; or |
(iii) | in compliance with an exemption from registration under the 1933 Act provided by Rule 144 thereunder, if available, and in accordance with any applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of any state of the United States; or |
(iv) | in a transaction that does not require registration under the 1933 Act or any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States; |
and, in the case of subparagraph (iii) or (iv), it has furnished to the Corporation an opinion of counsel of recognized standing in form and substance satisfactory to the Corporation to such effect;
(e) | it understands that upon the issuance thereof, and until such time as the same is no longer required under the applicable requirements of the 1933 Act or applicable U.S. state laws and regulations, the certificates representing the Purchased Securities, and all securities issued in exchange therefor or in substitution thereof, will bear a legend in substantially the following form: |
“THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “1933 ACT”) OR ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING SUCH SECURITIES, AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF INTERNATIONAL TOWER HILL MINES LTD. (THE “CORPORATION”) THAT SUCH SECURITIES MAY BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, ONLY (A) TO THE CORPORATION, (B) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 904 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE 1933 ACT AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS, (C) IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE 1933 ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144 THEREUNDER, IF AVAILABLE, AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES OR “BLUE SKY” LAWS, OR (D) IN A TRANSACTION THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE REGISTRATION UNDER THE 1933 ACT OR ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, AND, IN THE CASE OF SUBPARAGRAPH (C) OR (D), THE SELLER FURNISHES TO THE CORPORATION AN OPINION OF COUNSEL OF RECOGNIZED STANDING IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE SATISFACTORY TO THE CORPORATION TO SUCH EFFECT. DELIVERY OF THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT CONSTITUTE “GOOD DELIVERY” IN SETTLEMENT OF TRANSACTIONS ON STOCK EXCHANGES IN CANADA.
provided, that if the Purchased Securities are being sold under clause (B) above, at a time when the Corporation is a “foreign issuer” as defined in Rule 902 under the 1933 Act, the legend set forth above may be removed by providing a declaration to the Corporation and its transfer agent in the form attached hereto as Appendix I to Schedule B or such other evidence of exemption as the Corporation or its transfer agent may from time to time prescribe, to the effect that the sale of the securities is being made in compliance with Rule 904 of Regulation S;
provided further, that if any of the Purchased Securities are being sold pursuant to Rule 144 of the 1933 Act and in compliance with any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States, the legend may be removed by delivery to the Corporation’s transfer agent of an opinion of reputable counsel in form and substance satisfactory to the Corporation and its transfer agent to the effect that the legend is no longer required under applicable requirements of the 1933 Act or applicable securities laws of any state of the United States;
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(f) | it has had the opportunity to ask questions of and receive answers from the Corporation regarding the investment, and has received all the information regarding the Corporation that it has requested; |
(g) | it consents to the Corporation making a notation on its records or giving instruction to the registrar and transfer agent of the Corporation in order to implement the restrictions on transfer with respect to the Purchased Securities set forth and described herein and understands that the Corporation may instruct its registrar and transfer agent not to record any transfer of any securities of the Corporation without first being notified by the Corporation that it is satisfied that such transfer is exempt from or not subject to the registration requirements of the 1933 Act and applicable securities laws of any state of the United States; |
(h) | it understands and acknowledges that the Corporation has no obligation or present intention of filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission or with any state securities administrator any registration statement in respect of resales of the Purchased Securities in the United States; |
(i) | the office or other address of the Subscriber at which the Subscriber received and accepted the offer to purchase the Purchased Securities is the address listed as the “Subscriber’s Residential or Head Office Address” on the first page of the Subscription Agreement; |
(j) | it understands and agrees that there may be material tax consequences to the Subscriber of an acquisition, disposition or exercise of any of the Purchased Securities, the Corporation gives no opinion and makes no representation with respect to the tax status of the Corporation or the consequences to the Subscriber under United States, state, local or foreign tax law of the Subscriber’s acquisition or disposition or exercise of the Purchased Securities, including whether the Corporation will at any given time be deemed a “passive foreign investment company” within the meaning of Section 1297 of the United States Internal Revenue Code; |
(k) | it understands that (i) the Corporation may be deemed to be an issuer that is, or that has been at any time previously, an issuer with no or nominal operations and no or nominal assets other than cash and cash equivalents (a “Shell Company”), (ii) if the Corporation is deemed to be, or to have been at any time previously, a Shell Company, Rule 144 under the 1933 Act may not be available for resales of the Purchased Securities, and (iii) the Corporation is not obligated to make Rule 144 under the 1933 Act available for resales of the Purchased Securities; |
(l) | it acknowledges that it had a prior relationship with the Corporation before such time as any announcement, press release, or other notice or report of the offering of the Purchased Securities was made by the Corporation; |
(m) | it acknowledges that it has not purchased the Securities as a result of any form of General Solicitation or General Advertising, including any advertisements, articles, notices or other communications published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over radio, television or internet or any seminar or meeting whose attendees have been invited by general solicitation or general advertising; |
(n) | it confirms that it or the Beneficial Purchaser, if any, (i) is able to bear the economic risk of the investment in the Purchased Securities, (ii) is able to hold the Purchased Securities for an indefinite period of time, (iii) is able to afford a complete loss of its investment and that it has adequate means of providing for its current needs and possible personal contingencies, and that it has no need for liquidity in this investment, (iv) finds this investment is suitable for it based upon its investment holdings and financial situation and needs, and this investment does not exceed ten percent of its net worth, and (v) by reason of its business or financial experience could be reasonably assumed to have the capacity to protect its own interests in connection with this investment; and |
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(o) | it acknowledges that the representations, warranties and covenants contained in this Schedule are made by it with the intent that they may be relied upon by the Corporation in determining its eligibility to purchase the Purchased Securities and in establishing that the issuance of the Purchased Securities is exempt from the registration requirements of the 1933 Act. It agrees that by accepting the Purchased Securities it shall be representing and warranting that the representations and warranties above are true as at the Closing with the same force and effect as if they had been made by it at the Closing and that they shall survive the purchase by it of the Purchased Securities and shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding any subsequent disposition by it of such securities. |
The Subscriber and, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, undertakes to notify the Corporation immediately of any change in any representation, warranty or other information relating to the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser set forth herein which takes place prior to the Closing.
Executed this day of , 2016
If a Corporation, Partnership or Other Entity: | If an Individual: | |
Name of Entity | Signature | |
Type of Entity | Print or Type Name | |
Signature of Person Signing | ||
Print or Type Name and Title of Person Signing |
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Appendix I to Schedule B
U.S. Accredited Investor Certificate
FORM OF DECLARATION FOR REMOVAL OF U.S. LEGEND
To: | Computershare Investor Services Inc., as Registrar and Transfer Agent for the Shares of International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. (the “Corporation”). |
The undersigned (a) acknowledges that the sale of the securities of the Corporation to which this declaration relates is being made in reliance on Rule 904 of Regulation S under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”) and (b) certifies that (1) the undersigned is not an affiliate of the Corporation (as that term is defined in Rule 405 under the 1933 Act), (2) the offer of such securities was not made to a person in the United States and either (A) at the time the buy order was originated, the buyer was outside the United States, or the seller and any person acting on its behalf reasonably believed that the buyer was outside the United States, or (B) the transaction was executed in, on or through the facilities of a “Designated Offshore Securities Market” as defined in Rule 902 of Regulation S under the 1933 Act and neither the seller nor any person acting on its behalf knows that the transaction has been prearranged with a buyer in the United States, (3) neither the seller nor any affiliate of the seller nor any person acting on any of their behalf has engaged or will engage in any directed selling efforts in the United States in connection with the offer and sale of such securities, (4) the sale is bona fide and not for the purpose of “washing off” the resale restrictions imposed because the securities are “restricted securities” (as such term is defined in Rule 144(a)(3) under the 1933 Act), (5) the seller does not intend to replace such securities with fungible unrestricted securities of the Corporation and (6) the contemplated sale is not a transaction, or part of a series of transactions which, although in technical compliance with Regulation S, is part of a plan or scheme to evade the registration provisions of the 1933 Act. Terms used herein have the meanings given to them by Regulation S.
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Affirmation by Seller’s Broker-Dealer
We have read the foregoing representations of our customer, (the “Seller”), dated , with regard to our sale, for such Seller’s account, of the common shares, represented by certificate number (the “Shares”), of the Corporation described therein, and on behalf of ourselves we certify and affirm that (A) we have no knowledge that the transaction had been prearranged with a buyer in the United States, (B) the transaction was executed on or through the facilities of The Toronto Stock Exchange and (C) neither we, nor any person acting on our behalf, engaged in any directed selling efforts in connection with the offer and sale of such securities. Terms used herein have the meanings given to them by Regulation S.
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6639353
Exhibit 10.2
INTERNATIONAL TOWER HILL MINES LTD.
SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT
(SHARES –Non-Brokered)
INSTRUCTIONS
All Subscribers:
1. | Complete and sign pages i and ii of the Subscription Agreement. |
2. | If you are a portfolio manager resident outside of Canada and you are not purchasing securities with an aggregate acquisition cost of at least CDN$150,000, complete and sign the Accredited Investor Certificate – Appendix I to Schedule A |
All Canadian Residents:
1. | Complete and sign the Canadian Exemption Certificate – Schedule A. |
2. | If you are an individual or are not purchasing securities with an aggregate acquisition cost of at least CDN$150,000, complete and sign the Accredited Investor Certificate – Appendix I to Schedule A |
All U.S. Purchasers (as defined herein):
1. | Complete and sign the U.S. Accredited Investor Certificate – Schedule B |
PLEASE DELIVER YOUR COMPLETED AND ORIGINALLY EXECUTED COPY OF THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT, TOGETHER WITH THE OTHER DOCUMENTS REQUIRED TO BE DELIVERED ALONG THEREWITH, TO THE CORPORATION AT:
International Tower Hill Mines Ltd.
Suite 2300 – 1177 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC V6E 2K3
ATTN: Tom Irwin (tirwin@ithmines.com)
with a copy to:
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Suite 2400 – 745 Thurlow Street
Vancouver, BC V6E 0C5
ATTN: Robin Mahood (rmahood@mccarthy.ca)
THE SHARES OFFERED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “1933 ACT”) OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD UNLESS REGISTERED UNDER THE 1933 ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OR PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM SUCH REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS. HEDGING TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING THE SHARES OFFERED HEREBY MAY NOT BE CONDUCTED UNLESS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE 1933 ACT.
TO: | International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. (the “Corporation”) of Suite 2300 – 1177 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6E 2K3 |
The undersigned (the “Subscriber”) on its own behalf or, if applicable, on behalf of the disclosed purchaser who is identified by name and on whose behalf the Subscriber, as agent, is purchasing hereunder (the “Disclosed Purchaser”), hereby irrevocably subscribes for and agrees to purchase from the Corporation, on and subject to the terms and conditions attached hereto, that number of common shares without par value in the capital stock of the Corporation (“Common Shares”) set forth below, for the aggregate subscription price set forth below at a subscription price of US$0.48 per share (the “Purchase Price”). Attached as Appendix 1 to this Agreement are the terms and conditions of the sale of the Purchased Securities (as defined herein) and the representations, warranties, certifications and covenants hereby made by the Subscriber and the Corporation, all of which Appendix 1 forms part of and is hereby incorporated by reference into this Agreement (the “Terms and Conditions”).
The Offering (as defined herein) is subject to, among other things, the Corporation obtaining conditional acceptance from The Toronto Stock Exchange (the “TSX”) to list the Offered Securities (as defined herein) and consent for the Offering from the NYSE MKT LLC (“NYSE MKT” and, together with the TSX, the “Exchanges”).
Number of Common Shares subscribed for |
Subscriber’s Total Subscription Funds | |
Execution by the Subscriber (Please also ensure all schedules (as applicable) are completed and executed (see “Instructions” on the first page of this Agreement)):
EXECUTED by the Subscriber this _________ day of ___________________, 2016.
Signature of Subscriber (if Subscriber is an individual) or of the Authorized Signatory (if Subscriber is not an individual) | (Subscriber’s Residential or Head Office Address) (please print) | |
Name of Subscriber (please print) | ||
Name and Official Capacity or Title of Authorized Signatory (please print) | (Telephone Number) | |
(Facsimile Number) |
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If you are signing this Agreement as agent for a Disclosed Purchaser please provide the following information for each Disclosed Purchaser
Details of Disclosed Purchaser, if applicable | ||
Name of Disclosed Purchaser (please print) | Disclosed Purchaser’s Residential or Head Office Address | |
(Telephone Number) | (Facsimile Number) | |
Registration Instructions (if other than in name of Subscriber): | Certificate Delivery Instructions (if other than the address above): | |
Name and Address (as it should appear on the certificates) | Address | |
Account reference, if applicable | Account reference, if applicable | |
Address of Intermediary | Contact Name | |
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Telephone Number |
The Purchased Securities will be subject to a hold period in Canada of four months from the Closing Date pursuant to applicable securities laws. The certificates evidencing the Purchased Securities will bear a legend to that effect, as applicable. Consequently, the Purchased Securities will be subject to resale restrictions during such period. Additional restrictions will apply to Purchased Securities purchased by persons in the United States or purchasing for the account or benefit of persons in the United States, as described in Schedule B. You are advised to consult your own legal advisors in this regard.
Present Ownership of Securities
The Subscriber or Disclosed Purchaser, as the case may be, either [check appropriate box]:
¨ | owns directly or indirectly, or exercises control or direction over, no common shares in the capital stock of the Corporation or securities convertible into common shares in the capital stock of the Corporation; or |
¨ | owns directly or indirectly, or exercises control or direction over, _______________________ common shares in the capital stock of the Corporation and convertible securities entitling the Subscriber to acquire an additional ____________________ common shares in the capital stock of the Corporation. |
Insider
The Subscriber or Disclosed Purchaser, as the case may be, is either [check appropriate box]:
¨ | an “Insider” as such term is defined in the Company Manual of the TSX; or |
¨ | not an “Insider” as so defined. |
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This Agreement is accepted by International Tower Hill Mines Ltd., subject to the Terms and Conditions, this ______ day of ______________________, 2016.
INTERNATIONAL TOWER HILL MINES LTD. | ||
Per: | ||
Authorized Signatory |
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APPENDIX 1
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE OFFERING
THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE OFFERING ARE AS FOLLOWS:
1. | Definitions |
Definitions: In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) | “1933 Act” means the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended; |
(b) | “Accredited Investor” has the meaning ascribed to such term in National Instrument 45-106; |
(c) | “Agreement” means the subscription agreement of which this Appendix 1 forms part, and includes all other schedules, appendices and exhibits attached thereto, in each case, as the same may be amended, supplemented or restated from time to time; |
(d) | “Business Day” means a day on which Canadian chartered banks are open for the transaction of regular business in the City of Vancouver, British Columbia; |
(e) | “Closing” means the closing of the purchase and sale of the Offered Securities which may, at the discretion of the Corporation, occur in one or more tranches; |
(f) | “Closing Date” means the date or dates (as applicable) of Closing, which will be such date or dates (as applicable) as the Corporation may determine following receipt by the Corporation of all required acceptances/approvals; |
(g) | “Commissions” means the provincial securities commission or other regulatory authority in each of the Offering Jurisdictions; |
(h) | “Common Shares” means the common shares without par value in the capital stock of the Corporation as constituted on the date hereof; |
(i) | “Corporation” means International Tower Hill Mines Ltd., a company incorporated under the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) and includes any successor corporation thereto; |
(j) | “CRA” means the Canada Revenue Agency; |
(k) | “Directed Selling Efforts” means “directed selling efforts” as defined under Regulation S; |
(l) | “Disclosed Purchaser” means the person on whose behalf the Subscriber, as agent, is purchasing hereunder, if any; |
(m) | “Distribution Compliance Period” means the “distribution compliance period” as defined under Rule 902(f) of Regulation S; |
(n) | “Distributor” means a “distributor” as defined in Rule 902(d) of Regulation S; |
(o) | “General Solicitation” or “General Advertising” means “general solicitation or general advertising”, as used under 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, any unrestricted websites, or any seminar or meeting whose attendees had been invited by general solicitation or general advertising; |
(p) | “National Instrument 45-106” means National Instrument 45-106 “Prospectus Exemptions” of the Canadian Securities Administrators; |
(q) | “Offered Securities” means up to 45,833,333 Common Shares offered for sale by the Corporation pursuant to the Offering; |
(r) | “Offering” means the offering of the Offered Securities on a private placement basis; |
(s) | “Offering Jurisdictions” means collectively the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario, the United States and such other jurisdictions as may be agreed to by the Corporation; |
(t) | “Person” means an individual, a firm, a corporation, a syndicate, a partnership, a trust, an association, an unincorporated organization, a joint venture, an investment club, a government or an agency or political subdivision thereof and every other form of legal or business entity of whatsoever nature or kind; |
(u) | “Personal Information” means any personal information as that term is defined under applicable privacy legislation, including, without limitation, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Canada) and any other applicable similar, replacement or supplemental provincial or federal legislation or laws in effect from time to time and without limiting the foregoing, but for greater clarity in this Agreement, means information about an identifiable individual, including but not limited to any information about the Subscriber and, if applicable, any Disclosed Purchaser, and includes information provided by the Subscriber in this Agreement; |
(v) | “Purchase Price” means US$0.48 per Offered Security; |
(w) | “Purchased Securities” means the Common Shares which the Subscriber has agreed to purchase under this Agreement; |
(x) | “Regulation D” means Regulation D promulgated under the 1933 Act; |
(y) | “Regulation S” means Regulation S promulgated under the 1933 Act; |
(z) | “Regulatory Authorities” means the Commissions and the Exchanges; |
(aa) | “Securities Laws” means the securities legislation and regulations of, and the instruments, policies, rules, orders, codes, notices and interpretation notes of, each of the Commissions; |
(bb) | “Subscriber” means the Person purchasing the Purchased Securities, whose name appears on the execution page of the Agreement and who has signed the Agreement or, if the Person whose name appears on the execution pages hereof has signed the Agreement as agent for or on behalf of a Disclosed Purchaser and is not purchasing the Purchased Securities as principal, the Disclosed Purchaser as identified on page ii of the Agreement; |
(cc) | “Subscription Proceeds” means the aggregate Purchase Price paid by the Subscriber for the Purchased Securities; |
(dd) | “U.S. Accredited Investor” means an “accredited investor” that satisfies one or more of the criteria set forth in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D; |
(ee) | “U.S. Person” means “U.S. person” as defined in Rule 902(k) of Regulation S; |
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(ff) | “U.S. Purchaser” means (i) any person resident in the United States; (ii) any U.S. Person; (iii) any person purchasing the Purchased Securities for the account or benefit of a U.S. Person or person in the United States; (iv) any person that receives or received an offer of the Purchased Securities while in the United States; or (v) any person that was (or whose authorized signatory was) in the United States at the time their buy order was originated or this Agreement was executed. U.S. Purchaser does not include persons excluded from the definition of U.S. Person pursuant to Rule 902(k)(2)(vi) of Regulation S or persons holding accounts excluded from the definition of U.S. Person pursuant to Rule 902(k)(2)(i) of Regulation S, solely in their capacities as holders of such accounts; and |
(gg) | “United States” means the United States of America, its territories and possessions, any state of the United States and the District of Columbia. |
2. | Conditions of the Offering |
In connection with your purchase of the Purchased Securities, you agree to return to the Corporation as soon as possible the following documents:
(a) | this Agreement, duly completed and executed; |
(b) | a certified cheque, bank draft or wire transfer for the aggregate Purchase Price of the Purchased Securities payable to the Corporation; |
(c) | if you are, or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser is, a resident of Canada, a duly completed Canadian Exemption Certificate, attached as Schedule A hereto, and if you are, or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser is, an “Accredited Investor”, a duly executed and completed Accredited Investor Certificate, attached as Appendix I to Schedule A hereto; |
(d) | if you are a portfolio manager resident outside of Canada and you are not purchasing sufficient Offered Securities so that the aggregate acquisition cost of the Purchased Securities is CDN$150,000, a duly executed and completed Accredited Investor Certificate, attached as Appendix I to Schedule A hereto; |
(e) | if you are, or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser is, in the United States or purchasing for the benefit or account of a person in the United States, a duly executed and completed U.S. Accredited Investor Certificate, attached as Schedule B hereto; and |
(f) | any further documentation as required to be provided by the Subscriber under the Securities Laws or by the policies of the Exchanges or other Regulatory Authorities in connection with the purchase and sale of the Purchased Securities. |
The obligation of the Corporation to sell the Purchased Securities to you is subject to, among other things, the conditions that:
(a) | you having executed and returned all documents required by the Securities Laws and the policies of the Exchanges for delivery on your behalf, including the forms set out in Schedule A and Schedule B attached hereto, as applicable, to the Corporation, as the sale of the Purchased Securities by the Corporation to you will not be qualified by a prospectus; |
(b) | the representations and warranties made by you on your own behalf or, if applicable, on behalf of the Disclosed Purchaser (including representations and warranties made in any Schedule attached hereto, as applicable) being true and correct when made and true and correct on the Closing Date with the same force and effect as if they had been made on and as of such date; |
(c) | all covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement to be performed by you or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser on or prior to the Closing Date having been performed or complied with in all material respects; |
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(d) | the Corporation receives conditional acceptance of notice of the Offering and conditional approval for the listing of the Offered Securities from the TSX and approval for the listing of the Offered Securities from NYSE MKT; and |
(e) | all other required approvals (including, if required by Securities Laws or the rules and regulations of the TSX or NYSE MKT, shareholder approval) having been obtained by the Corporation prior to the Closing Date. |
The obligation of the Subscriber and, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser to purchase the Purchased Securities from the Corporation is subject to, among other things, the conditions that:
(f) | the representations and warranties made by the Corporation being true and correct when made and true and correct on the Closing Date with the same force and effect as if they had been made on and as of such date; |
(g) | all covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement to be performed by the Corporation on or prior to the Closing Date having been performed or complied with in all material respects; |
(h) | the Corporation receives conditional acceptance of notice of the Offering and conditional approval for the listing of the Offered Securities from the TSX and approval for the listing of the Offered Securities from NYSE MKT; and |
(i) | all other required approvals (including, if required by Securities Laws or the rules and regulations of the TSX or NYSE MKT, shareholder approval) having been obtained by the Corporation prior to the Closing Date. |
By returning this Agreement you consent on your own behalf or, if applicable, on behalf of the Disclosed Purchaser, to the filing by the Corporation of all documents and personal information concerning you or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser, provided in this Agreement required by the Securities Laws and the policies of the Exchanges.
If you are not subscribing for the Purchased Securities for your own account, each Disclosed Purchaser for whom you are contracting hereunder must be purchasing the Purchased Securities as principal, for such Disclosed Purchaser’s own account, and (unless you are an authorized agent with power to sign on behalf of the beneficial purchaser) must execute all documents required by the Securities Laws of the Offering Jurisdictions and the policies of the Exchanges with respect to the Purchased Securities being acquired by such Disclosed Purchaser as principal. If you are signing this Agreement as agent or pursuant to a power of attorney for the Subscriber, you represent and warrant that you have authority to bind the Subscriber.
You agree, and you agree to cause any Disclosed Purchaser for whom you are contracting hereunder, to comply with all Securities Laws and with the policies of the Exchanges concerning the purchase of, the holding of, and the resale restrictions applicable to, the Purchased Securities.
You acknowledge on your own behalf or, if applicable, on behalf of the Disclosed Purchaser, that the Corporation has the right to close the subscription books at any time without notice and to accept or reject any subscription in its sole discretion.
3. | The Purchased Securities |
The Purchased Securities will be issued and registered in the name of the Subscriber or its nominee in accordance with the instructions provided by the Subscriber on page ii of this Agreement.
The issue of the Purchased Securities will not restrict or prevent the Corporation from obtaining any other financing, or from issuing additional securities, options, warrants or rights.
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4. | The Closing |
Subject to receipt of all completed documentation and the satisfaction or waiver by the relevant party of the conditions to the purchase and sale of the Purchased Securities in accordance with section 2, the Closing of the purchase and sale of the Offered Securities will take place at the offices of the Corporation, Suite 2300, 1177 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 2K3, at 10:00 a.m. (Vancouver time) on the Closing Date, or at such other place and time as the Corporation may determine. Certificates representing the Purchased Securities will be available for delivery to you against payment to the Corporation of the amount of the Purchase Price for the Purchased Securities in freely transferable funds.
The Subscriber acknowledges that the Offering may be completed at one or more partial closings in the discretion of the Corporation and that the Closing as contemplated in this Agreement may be effected at one or more of such partial closings.
Upon completion of the Closing, the Corporation is irrevocably entitled to the Purchase Price for the Purchased Securities, subject to the rights of the Subscriber under this Agreement and any applicable laws.
5. | Representations and Warranties of the Subscriber |
The sale of the Purchased Securities by the Corporation to the Subscriber is conditional upon such sale being exempt from the requirements as to the filing of a prospectus or registration statement and as to the preparation of an offering memorandum or similar document contained in any statute, regulation, instrument, rule or policy applicable to the sale of the Purchased Securities or upon the issue of such orders, consents or approvals as may be required to permit such sale without the requirement of filing a prospectus or registration statement or delivering an offering memorandum or similar document.
The Subscriber and, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, acknowledges, represents, warrants, covenants and certifies to and with the Corporation that, as at the date given above and at the Closing Date:
(a) | the Corporation has advised you that the Corporation is relying on exemptions from the requirements under the Securities Laws to provide you with a prospectus or registration statement and no prospectus or registration statement has been filed by the Corporation with any of the Commissions in connection with the issuance of the Purchased Securities, and as a consequence: |
(i) | you are restricted from using most of the civil remedies available under the Securities Laws and certain protections, rights and remedies provided by the Securities Laws, including statutory rights of rescission or damages, will not be available to you; |
(ii) | you may not receive information that would otherwise be required to be provided to you under the Securities Laws; and |
(iii) | the Corporation is relieved from certain obligations that would otherwise apply under the Securities Laws; |
(b) | you are resident in the jurisdiction set out under “Subscriber’s Residential or Head Office Address” on the first page of this Agreement or under “Disclosed Purchaser’s Residential or Head Office Address” on the second page of this Agreement (if applicable), which address is your residence or principal place of business, and such address was not obtained or used solely for the purpose of acquiring the Purchased Securities; |
(c) | you are: |
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(i) | purchasing the Purchased Securities as principal for your own account or, in the case section 5(d)(i) below applies, are deemed under the applicable Securities Laws to be purchasing as principal, and not for the benefit of any other person; or |
(ii) | purchasing the Purchased Securities as agent for the Disclosed Purchaser and the Disclosed Purchaser for whom you may be acting is purchasing the Purchased Securities as principal for its own account and not for the benefit of any other Person; |
(d) | if you are resident in any province or territory in Canada you: |
(i) | are an Accredited Investor, by virtue of the fact that you fall within one or more of the sub-paragraphs of the definition of Accredited Investor set out in the Accredited Investor Certificate attached as Appendix I to Schedule A , you confirm the truth and accuracy of all statements in such schedule as of the date of this Agreement and the Closing Date, and you were not created or used solely to purchase securities as an Accredited Investor as described in paragraph (m) of the definition of Accredited Investor set out in Schedule A; or |
(ii) | are purchasing sufficient Offered Securities so that the aggregate acquisition cost of the Purchased Securities is not less than CDN$150,000 and, if you are not an individual, you were not created solely to purchase or hold securities in reliance on section 2.10 of National Instrument 45-106; |
(e) | if you are a portfolio manager resident outside of Canada and you are not purchasing sufficient Offered Securities so that the aggregate acquisition cost of the Purchased Securities is CDN$150,000, you have completed an Accredited Investor Certificate, attached as Appendix I to Schedule A hereto and you confirm the truth and accuracy of all statements in such schedule as of the date of this Agreement and the Closing Date; |
(f) | if you are not an individual, you pre-existed the offering of the Offered Securities and you have a bona fide business purpose other than the investment in the Offered Securities and you were not created, formed or established solely or primarily to acquire Offered Securities, or permit purchases of securities without a prospectus, in reliance on an exemption from the prospectus requirements of applicable Securities Laws; |
(g) | unless you are a U.S. Purchaser and have completed and delivered the U.S. Accredited Investor Certificate attached as Schedule B hereto (in which case you have properly completed, executed and delivered to the Corporation such U.S. Accredited Investor Certificate and make the representations, warranties and covenants therein and you confirm the truth and accuracy of all statements in such U.S. Accredited Investor Certificate as of the date of this Agreement and the Closing Date), you acknowledge and agree that: |
(i) | unless you are excluded from the definition of U.S. Person pursuant to Rule 902(k)(2)(vi) of Regulation S or a person holding accounts excluded from the definition of U.S. Person pursuant to Rule 902(k)(2)(i) of Regulation S, solely in your capacity as holder of such accounts, the Offered Securities were not offered to you, or any beneficial purchaser for whom you are acting, in the United States; |
(ii) | unless you are excluded from the definition of U.S. Person pursuant to Rule 902(k)(2)(vi) of Regulation S or a person holding accounts excluded from the definition of U.S. Person pursuant to Rule 902(k)(2)(i) of Regulation S, solely in your capacity as holder of such accounts, the order to purchase the Purchased Securities was made outside the United States and this Agreement was delivered to, executed and delivered by, you (or your authorized signatory) outside the United States; |
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(iii) | you are not a U.S. Person and you are not, and will not be, purchasing the Purchased Securities for the account or benefit of, a U.S. Person or a person in the United States; |
(iv) | the transactions contemplated hereunder have not been pre-arranged with a buyer located in the United States or with a U.S. Person, and the current structure of this transaction and all transactions and activities contemplated hereunder is not a scheme to avoid the registration requirements of the 1933 Act; |
(v) | you, and any beneficial purchaser for whom you are acting, (a) have no intention to distribute either directly or indirectly any of the Purchased Securities in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, a U.S. Person or person in the United States, except in compliance with the 1933 Act, any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States and applicable Securities Laws, and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (b) will not, directly or indirectly offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer the Purchased Securities (1) during the Distribution Compliance Period, in the United States, to, or for the account or benefit of, a U.S. Person or person in the United States, or otherwise in a manner that is not in compliance with Regulation S, or (2) after the Distribution Compliance Period, otherwise than pursuant to registration under the 1933 Act or an available exemption therefrom and, in accordance with all applicable state and foreign securities laws; |
(vi) | you, and any beneficial purchaser for whom you are acting, have not purchased the Purchased Securities as a result of any form of Directed Selling Efforts; |
(vii) | none of you, any beneficial purchaser for whom you are acting, and any person acting on your behalf has engaged, nor will engage, in any Directed Selling Efforts to a U.S. Person with respect to the Purchased Securities, and you, any beneficial purchaser for whom you are acting, and any person acting on your behalf have complied and will comply with the “offering restrictions” requirements of Regulation S; |
(viii) | you, and any beneficial purchaser for whom you are acting, understand that the Purchased Securities have not been registered under the 1933 Act or the applicable securities laws of any state of the United States, the Purchased Securities may not be offered or sold, directly or indirectly, in the United States except pursuant to registration under the 1933 Act and the applicable securities laws of any state of the United States or pursuant to applicable exemptions from such registration requirements, and the Corporation has no obligation or present intention of filing a registration statement under the 1933 Act in respect of any of the Purchased Securities; |
(ix) | you, and any beneficial purchaser for whom you are acting, will not engage in any hedging transactions involving the Purchased Securities before the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period unless in compliance with the 1933 Act; |
(x) | the Purchased Securities are “restricted securities” as such term is defined under Rule 144 of the 1933 Act and will retain such status following the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period in accordance with Rule 905 of Regulation S; |
(xi) | each certificate representing the Purchased Securities will bear a legend in substantially the following form, in addition to any other legend required to be placed thereon by applicable Securities Laws: |
“THE SECURITIES represented by this certificate WERE ISSUED IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION TO PERSONS WHO ARE NOT U.S. PERSONS PURSUANT TO REGULATION S UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “1933 ACT”).”
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“NONE OF THE SECURITIES TO WHICH THIS CERTIFICATE RELATES HAVE BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE 1933 ACT, OR ANY U.S. STATE SECURITIES LAWS, AND, UNLESS SO REGISTERED, NONE MAY BE OFFERED OR SOLD IN THE UNITED STATES OR, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, TO U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT OR PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE 1933 ACT AND IN EACH CASE ONLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. IN ADDITION, HEDGING TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE CONDUCTED UNLESS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE 1933 ACT.”
(xii) | you, and any beneficial purchaser for whom you are acting, (i) acknowledge that the Corporation will refuse to register any transfer of the Purchased Securities not made in accordance with Regulation S or pursuant to registration under the 1933 Act or an available exemption therefrom, and (ii) consent to the Corporation making a notation on its records or giving instructions to any transfer agent of the Corporation in order to implement the restrictions on transfer of the Purchased Securities set forth in this section 5(g); |
(h) | if you are resident outside of Canada and the United States, you: |
(i) | are knowledgeable of, or have been independently advised as to the applicable securities laws of the securities regulatory authorities (the “Authorities”) having application in the jurisdiction in which you are resident (the “International Jurisdiction”) which would apply to the acquisition of the Purchased Securities, if any; |
(ii) | are purchasing the Purchased Securities pursuant to exemptions from the prospectus and registration requirements under the applicable securities laws of the Authorities in the International Jurisdiction or, if such is not applicable, you are permitted to purchase the Purchased Securities under the applicable securities laws of the Authorities in the International Jurisdiction without the need to rely on any exemption; |
(iii) | confirm that the subscription by the Subscriber does not contravene any applicable securities laws of the Authorities in the International Jurisdiction and does not require the Corporation to make any filings or seek any approvals of any nature whatsoever from any Authority of any kind whatsoever in the International Jurisdiction in connection with the issue and sale or resale of the Purchased Securities; and |
(iv) | confirm that the purchase of the Purchased Securities by you does not trigger: |
(A) | an obligation by the Corporation or any other Person to prepare and file a registration statement, prospectus or similar document, or any other report with respect to such purchase in the International Jurisdiction; or |
(B) | continuous disclosure reporting obligations of the Corporation in the International Jurisdiction; and |
you will, if requested by the Corporation, comply with such other requirements as the Corporation may reasonably require;
(i) | the Corporation has advised you that no agency, stock exchange or governmental agency, securities commission or similar regulatory authority or other entity has reviewed or passed on or made any finding or determination as to the merits of or made any recommendation or endorsement with respect to the Purchased Securities; |
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(j) | if you are not a resident of the Province of British Columbia, you certify to the Corporation that you are not a resident of British Columbia and acknowledge that: |
(i) | no securities commission or similar regulatory authority has reviewed or passed on or passed on the merits of the Purchased Securities; |
(ii) | there is no government or other insurance covering the Purchased Securities; |
(iii) | there are risks associated with the purchase of the Purchased Securities and you are aware of the risks and other characteristics of the Purchased Securities; |
(iv) | there are restrictions on your ability to resell the Purchased Securities and it is your responsibility to find out what those restrictions are and to comply with them before selling the Purchased Securities; and |
(v) | the Corporation has advised you that it is relying on an exemption from the requirements to provide you with a prospectus and to sell securities through a person registered to sell securities under the Securities Act (British Columbia) and, as a consequence of acquiring securities pursuant to this exemption, certain protections, rights and remedies provided by the Securities Act (British Columbia), including statutory rights of rescission or damages, will not be available to you; |
(k) | you acknowledge and consent to the fact that the Corporation is collecting Personal Information of the Subscriber and Disclosed Purchaser, if any, for the purpose of completing this Agreement. You acknowledge and consent to the Corporation retaining such Personal Information for as long as permitted or required by law or business practices, and you agree and acknowledge that the Corporation may use and disclose such Personal Information: |
(i) | for internal use with respect to managing the relationships between and contractual obligations of the Corporation and the Subscriber and Disclosed Purchaser, if any; |
(ii) | for use and disclosure for income tax-related purposes, including, without limitation, where required by law, disclosure to CRA; |
(iii) | disclosure to professional advisers of the Corporation; |
(iv) | disclosure to securities regulatory authorities and other regulatory bodies with jurisdiction with respect to reports of trade or similar regulatory filings; |
(v) | disclosure to a governmental or other authority to which the disclosure is required by court order or subpoena compelling such disclosure and where there is no reasonable alternative to such disclosure; |
(vi) | disclosure to any person where such disclosure is necessary for legitimate business reasons and is made with your prior written consent; |
(vii) | disclosure to a court determining the rights of the parties under this Agreement; and |
(viii) | for use and disclosure as otherwise required or permitted by law. |
In addition, you further acknowledge and consent to the fact that the Corporation may be required to provide any one or more of the Canadian securities regulators, stock exchanges, the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, other regulatory agencies or the Corporation’s registrar and transfer agent with any Personal Information provided by the Subscriber and Disclosed Purchaser, if any, in this Agreement, and may make any other filings of such Personal Information as the Corporation’s counsel deems appropriate, and you acknowledge receipt of notification of the disclosure of Personal Information by the Corporation to the Exchanges and the Subscriber and Disclosed Purchaser, if any, hereby consent to and authorize the foregoing use and disclosure of such Personal Information and agree to provide, on request, all particulars required by the Corporation in order to comply with the foregoing;
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(l) | you further acknowledge and expressly consent to: |
(i) | the disclosure of Personal Information by the Corporation to the Exchanges and other applicable regulatory authorities, as required; and |
(ii) | the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information by the Exchanges for such purposes as may be identified by the Exchanges from time to time; |
(m) | if you are a resident of Ontario, you authorize the indirect collection of Personal Information by the Ontario Securities Commission and confirm that you have been notified by the Corporation: |
(i) | that the Corporation will be delivering the Personal Information to the Ontario Securities Commission; |
(ii) | that such Personal Information is being collected indirectly by the Ontario Securities Commission under the authority granted to it in applicable Securities Laws; |
(iii) | that such Personal Information is being collected for the purpose of the administration and enforcement of applicable Securities Laws; and |
(iv) | that the public official in the Province of Ontario who can answer questions about the Ontario Securities Commission’s indirect collection of the Personal Information is as follows: Ontario Securities Commission, Administrative Support Clerk, at (416) 593-3684 or by facsimile at (416) 593-8122 or in person or writing at Suite 1903, Box 55, 20 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5H 3S8. |
(n) | the funds representing the aggregate Purchase Price in respect of the Purchased Securities which will be advanced by the Subscriber to the Corporation hereunder will not represent proceeds of crime for the purpose of the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (Canada) (the “PCMLTF Act”) or the United States Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (as amended, the “PATRIOT Act”) and you acknowledge that the Corporation may in the future be required by law to disclose the Subscriber’s or Disclosed Purchaser’s name and other information relating to this Agreement and the Subscriber’s subscription hereunder, on a confidential basis, pursuant to the PCMLTF Act, PATRIOT Act or other “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations. To the best of your knowledge, none of the subscription funds to be provided hereunder: |
(v) | have been or will be obtained or derived, directly or indirectly, from or related to any activity that is deemed illegal under the laws of Canada or the United States or any other jurisdiction, or |
(vi) | are being tendered on behalf of a person or entity who has not been identified to you. |
You will promptly notify the Corporation if you discover that any such representation ceases to be true, and will provide the Corporation with appropriate information in connection therewith;
(o) | you have been advised to consult your own legal advisors with respect to the applicable hold periods imposed in respect of the Purchased Securities by the applicable Securities Laws and confirm that no representation by the Corporation has been made respecting the hold periods applicable to the Purchased Securities and you are solely responsible (and the Corporation is not responsible) for compliance with the applicable resale restrictions; |
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(p) | no person has made to you any written or oral representations: |
(i) | that any Person will resell or repurchase any of the Purchased Securities; |
(ii) | that any Person will refund the Purchase Price of any of the Purchased Securities; |
(iii) | as to the future price or value of any of the Purchased Securities; or |
(iv) | other than as set forth in this Agreement, that any of the Purchased Securities will be listed and posted for trading on a stock exchange or that application has been made to list and post any of the Purchased Securities for trading on a stock exchange; |
(q) | you acknowledge that you have not received an offering memorandum, prospectus or other disclosure document in respect of the Purchased Securities or the Corporation describing the business and affairs of the Corporation in order to assist you in making an investment decision in respect of the Purchased Securities, that you have had access to the Corporation’s public filings on the Internet at www.sedar.com and www.sec.gov and that you have not become aware of any advertisement in printed media of general and regular paid circulation, radio or television with respect to the distribution of the Purchased Securities; |
(r) | you have no knowledge of a “material fact” or “material change” (as those terms are defined in the Securities Laws) in the affairs of the Corporation that has not been generally disclosed to the public; |
(s) | your decision to tender this offer and purchase the Purchased Securities has not been made as a result of any non-public oral or written representation as to fact made by or on behalf of the Corporation or any other Person and is based entirely upon the representations, warranties and covenants of the Corporation provided to the Subscriber in this Agreement and on currently available public information concerning the Corporation; |
(t) | the offer made by this subscription is irrevocable and requires acceptance by the Corporation and the acceptance or approval of the Exchanges; |
(u) | the acceptance of this subscription offer will be conditional upon the sale of the Purchased Securities to you being exempt from the prospectus and registration requirements under applicable Securities Laws; |
(v) | if you are: |
(i) | a corporation, you are duly incorporated and are validly subsisting under the laws of your jurisdiction of incorporation and have all requisite legal and corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement, to subscribe for the Purchased Securities as contemplated herein and to carry out and perform your covenants and obligations under the terms of this Agreement and the entering into of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby will not result in the violation of any of the terms and provisions of any law applicable to, or the constating documents of, you or any agreement, written or oral, to which you may be a party or by which you are or may be bound; |
(ii) | a partnership, syndicate or other form of unincorporated organization, you have the necessary legal capacity and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to observe and perform your covenants and obligations hereunder and have obtained all necessary approvals in respect thereof; or |
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(iii) | an individual, you are of full age of majority and have the legal capacity and competence to enter into and to execute this Agreement and to observe and perform your covenants and obligations hereunder; |
(w) | this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by you and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of you enforceable against you; |
(x) | if required by applicable Securities Laws, policy or order or by any Regulatory Authority, you will execute, deliver, file and otherwise assist the Corporation in filing, such reports, undertakings and other documents with respect to the issue of the Purchased Securities as may be required; |
(y) | the Purchased Securities are highly speculative in nature and you have such sophistication and experience in business and financial matters as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of this investment and you are able to bear the economic risk of loss of this investment; |
(z) | this subscription is not enforceable by you unless it has been accepted by the Corporation and you waive any requirement on the Corporation’s behalf to immediately communicate its acceptance of this subscription to you; |
(aa) | in connection with your subscription, you have not relied upon the Corporation for investment, legal or tax advice, or other professional advice, and have in all cases sought or elected not to seek the advice of your own personal investment advisers, legal counsel and tax advisers and you are able, without impairing your financial condition, to bear the economic risk of, and withstand a complete loss of, the investment and you can otherwise be reasonably assumed to have the capacity to protect your own interest in connection with your investment; |
(bb) | all costs and expenses incurred by you (including any fees and disbursements of any special counsel or other advisors retained by you) relating to the purchase of the Purchased Securities shall be borne by you; |
(cc) | you acknowledge that legal counsel retained by the Corporation is acting as counsel to the Corporation and not as counsel to you and you may not rely upon such counsel in any respect; |
(dd) | this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered and, when accepted by the Corporation, will constitute your legal, valid and binding obligation enforceable against you in accordance with the terms hereof or, if you are acting on behalf of a Disclosed Purchaser, will constitute a legal, valid and binding obligation against such Disclosed Purchaser in accordance with the terms hereof; and |
(ee) | the above representations, warranties, covenants and acknowledgements in this section 5 will be true and correct both as of the execution of this subscription and as of the Closing Date. |
The Subscriber and, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, acknowledges and agrees that the foregoing representations, warranties, covenants and certifications are made by the Subscriber and, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, with the intent that they may be relied upon in determining its eligibility as a purchaser of the Purchased Securities under relevant Securities Laws. The Subscriber and, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, further agrees that by accepting the Purchased Securities, the Subscriber and, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, shall be representing and warranting that the foregoing representations, warranties and certifications contained herein or in any document furnished by the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, to the Corporation are true as at the Closing, with the same force and effect as if they had been made by the Subscriber as at the Closing and shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding any subsequent disposition by the Subscriber or Disclosed Purchaser (if applicable) of the Purchased Securities. The Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, undertakes to notify the Corporation immediately of any changes in any representation, warranty, certification or other information relating to the Subscriber or the Disclosed Principal (if applicable) set forth herein which takes place prior to the Closing Date.
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6. | Legends |
The Subscriber and, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, acknowledges that the certificates representing the Purchased Securities will, in addition to the legend specified in subparagraph 5(g)(xi), bear the following legends:
“UNLESS PERMITTED UNDER SECURITIES LEGISLATION, THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY MUST NOT TRADE THE SECURITY BEFORE ●, 2017” [the date which is four months and one day after the Closing Date will be inserted]
“the securities represented by this certificate ARE LISTED ON THE TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE (“tsx”); HOWEVER, THE SAID SECURITIES CANNOT BE TRADED THROUGH THE FACILITIES OF THE TSX SINCE THEY ARE NOT FREELY TRANSFERABLE, AND CONSEQUENTLY ANY CERTIFICATE REPRESENTING SUCH SECURITIES IS NOT ‘GOOD DELIVERY’ IN SETTLEMENT OF TRANSACTIONS ON THE TSX.”
provided that subsequent to the date which is four months and one day after the Closing Date the certificates representing the Purchased Securities may be exchanged for certificates bearing no such legends.
The Subscriber and, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, also acknowledges that it has been advised to consult its own independent legal advisor with respect to the applicable resale restrictions; that it is solely responsible for complying with such restrictions; that the Corporation is not responsible for ensuring compliance by the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser, of the applicable resale restrictions; and that additional restrictions are applicable to resales of, and additional restrictive legends will be placed upon, Purchased Securities acquired by U.S. Persons as described in Schedule B.
7. | Representations and Warranties of the Corporation |
The Corporation represents, warrants, covenants and certifies to and with the Subscriber and, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser that, as of the date given above and at the Closing:
(a) | the Corporation is a valid and subsisting company incorporated and in good standing under the laws of the Province of British Columbia; |
(b) | the Corporation and each of its subsidiaries is duly registered and licensed to carry on business in each jurisdiction in which it carries on business or owns property where required under the laws of that jurisdiction; |
(c) | all annual and quarterly reports, financial statements, proxy statements/information circulars, press releases, material change reports and other documents filed by or on behalf of the Corporation within the past 12 months with the Exchanges and any of the Commissions (the “Disclosure Record”) were true and correct in all material respects and did not contain any misrepresentation (as defined in the Securities Act (British Columbia)) as at the respective dates of such filings; |
(d) | except as qualified by the disclosure in the Disclosure Record, the Corporation is the beneficial owner of the properties, business and assets or the interests in the properties, business or assets referred to in the Disclosure Record as being beneficially owned by the Corporation; |
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(e) | the financial statements of the Corporation contained in the Disclosure Record have all been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles, accurately and fairly reflect the financial position, performance, cash flows and all liabilities (accrued, absolute, contingent or otherwise) of the Corporation and its subsidiaries in all material respects as of the dates thereof; |
(f) | subject to the representations, warranties and certifications of the Subscriber herein contained being accurate and truthful in all material respects and the Subscriber fulfilling all of its covenants and obligations herein contained, the Corporation has complied and will comply fully with the requirements of all applicable corporate and securities laws and administrative policies and directions, including, without limitation, the Securities Laws and the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) in relation to the issue and trading of its securities and in all matters relating to the private placement of the Offered Securities; |
(g) | there is not presently any material change, as defined in the Securities Laws, relating to the Corporation or change in any material fact, as defined in the Securities Laws, relating to any of the Purchased Securities, which has not been fully disclosed in accordance with the requirements of the Securities Laws and the policies of the Exchanges; |
(h) | the issue and sale of the Offered Securities by the Corporation does not and will not conflict with, and does not and will not (including, without limitation, with the giving of notice, the lapse of time or the happening of any other event or condition or any combination of the foregoing) result in a material breach of, any of the terms of the Corporation’s constating documents or any agreement or instrument to which the Corporation is a party or by which it is bound; |
(i) | the Corporation is not a party to any actions, suits or proceedings which could materially affect its business or financial condition, and to the best of the Corporation’s knowledge, no such actions, suits or proceedings are contemplated or have been threatened; |
(j) | there are no judgments against the Corporation which are unsatisfied, nor is the Corporation subject to any consent decrees or injunctions; |
(k) | this Agreement has been or will be at the Closing Date duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Corporation, and the Corporation has full corporate power and authority to undertake the Offering and to issue, sell and deliver the Purchased Securities; |
(l) | to the Corporation’s knowledge, after due enquiry, it is not in material default of any of the requirements of the Securities Laws or any of the administrative policies or notices of the Exchanges; |
(m) | to the Corporation’s knowledge, after due enquiry, no order ceasing or suspending trading in securities of the Corporation nor prohibiting the sale of such securities has been issued to and is outstanding against the Corporation or its directors, officers or promoters; |
(n) | except for as provided in the Disclosure Record, no person has any right, agreement or option, present or future, contingent or absolute, or any right capable of becoming such a right, agreement or option, for the issue or allotment of any unissued shares in the capital of the Corporation, or any other security convertible into or exchangeable for any such shares, or to require the Corporation to purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any of the issued and outstanding shares in its capital; |
(o) | each of the Corporation’s subsidiaries is a valid and subsisting corporation organized and in good standing under the laws of their respective jurisdictions of organization; |
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(p) | the Corporation and each of its subsidiaries is in all material respects conducting its business in material compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations of each jurisdiction in which its business is carried on; |
(q) | the authorized capital of the Corporation consists of 500,000,000 Common Shares, of which, immediately prior to the Closing Date, 116,353,638 Common Shares are issued and outstanding; |
(r) | as of the Closing, the Purchased Securities will be validly issued and outstanding; |
(s) | no approval, authorization, consent or other order of, and no filing, registration or recording with, any governmental authority is required to be obtained or made by the Corporation in connection with the execution and delivery by the Corporation of this Agreement or the performance by the Corporation of its obligations hereunder, except such approvals, authorizations, consents, orders, filing, registrations or recordings required under the Securities Laws and the rules of the Exchanges, which shall be obtained or made by the Corporation prior to the Closing or otherwise within the periods prescribed thereunder; |
(t) | none of the Corporation, its subsidiaries or any of their respective officers, directors or employees acting on behalf of the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries has taken, committed to take or been alleged to have taken any action which would cause the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries to be in violation of the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (Canada) (and the regulations promulgated thereunder) or any applicable law of similar effect of another jurisdiction, and to the knowledge of the Corporation no such action has been taken by any of its agents, representatives or other Persons acting on behalf of the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries; and |
(u) | the representations, warranties, covenants and certifications in this section 7 will be true and correct both as of the execution of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date. |
8. | No Finder’s Fee |
The Corporation confirms that it is not paying any form of commission, bonus, finder’s fee or similar compensation to any Person in connection with the Offering.
9. | General |
(a) | Headings: The division of this Agreement into articles and sections and the insertion of headings are for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement. The terms “this Agreement,” “hereof,” “hereunder”, “herein” and similar expressions refer to this Agreement and not to any particular article, section or other portion hereof and include any agreement supplemental thereto and any exhibits attached hereto. Unless something in the subject matter or context is inconsistent therewith, reference herein to articles, sections and paragraphs are to articles, sections, subsections and paragraphs of this Agreement. |
(b) | Number and Gender: Words importing the singular number only shall include the plural and vice versa, words importing the masculine gender shall include the feminine gender and neuter and vice versa. |
(c) | Statutory References: In this Agreement, unless something in the subject matter or context is inconsistent therewith or unless otherwise herein provided, a reference to any statute is to that statute as now enacted or as the same may from time to time be amended, re-enacted or replaced and includes any regulation made thereunder. |
(d) | Severability: If one or more of the provisions contained in this Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect under any applicable law, the validity, legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof shall not be affected or impaired thereby. Each of the provisions of this Agreement is hereby declared to be separate and distinct. |
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(e) | Notices: All notices or other communications to be given hereunder shall be delivered by hand or by telecopier, and if delivered by hand, shall be deemed to have been given on the date of delivery or, if sent by telecopier, on the date of transmission if sent before 5:00 p.m. and such day is a Business Day or, if not, on the first Business Day following the date of transmission. |
Notices to the Corporation shall be addressed to:
International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. Ltd.
Suite 2300, 1177 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6E 2K3
Attention: General Counsel
Fax Number: (604) 408-7499
Notices to the Subscriber shall be addressed to the address of the Subscriber set out on the execution page hereof.
Either the Corporation or the Subscriber may change its address for service aforesaid by notice in writing to the other party hereto specifying its new address for service hereunder.
(f) | Further Assurances: Each party hereto shall from time to time at the request of the other party hereto do such further acts and execute and deliver such further instruments, deeds and documents as shall be reasonably required in order to fully perform and carry out the provisions of this Agreement. The parties hereto agree to act honestly and in good faith in the performance of their respective obligations hereunder. |
(g) | Successors and Assigns: Except as otherwise provided, this Agreement shall enure to the benefit of and shall be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns. |
(h) | Notification of Changes: The parties hereby covenant and agree to notify the other party upon the occurrence of any event prior to the Closing which would cause any party’s representations, warranties or covenants contained in this Agreement to be false or incorrect in any material respect. |
(i) | Assignment: This Agreement is not assignable or transferable by the parties hereto without the express written consent of the other party to this Agreement. |
(j) | Entire Agreement: The terms of this Agreement express and constitute the entire agreement between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and no implied term or liability of any kind is created or shall arise by reason of anything in this Agreement. |
(k) | Time of Essence: Time is of the essence of this Agreement. |
(l) | Amendments: The provisions of this Agreement may only be amended with the written consent of all of the parties hereto. |
(m) | Survival: Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities of or by the Corporation, the Subscriber and the Disclosed Purchaser contained herein or in any certificate, document or instrument delivered pursuant hereto shall survive the completion of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. |
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(n) | Governing Law and Venue: The contract arising out of this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of British Columbia and the laws of Canada applicable therein, governing contracts made and to be performed wholly therein, and without reference to its principles governing the choice or conflict of laws. The parties hereto irrevocably attorn and submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of British Columbia, sitting in the City of Vancouver, with respect to any dispute related to or arising from this Agreement. |
(o) | Counterparts: This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts which when taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Delivery of counterparts may be effected by facsimile transmission thereof. |
(p) | Facsimile Copies: The Corporation shall be entitled to rely on a facsimile copy of an executed subscription agreement and acceptance by the Corporation of such facsimile subscription shall be legally effective to create a valid and binding agreement between the Subscriber and the Corporation in accordance with the terms thereof. If less than a complete copy of this Agreement is delivered to the Corporation at Closing, the Corporation and its advisors are entitled to assume that the Subscriber accepts and agrees to all of the terms and conditions of the pages not delivered at Closing unaltered. |
(q) | Regulatory Acceptance/Approval: Without limitation, this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby are conditional upon receipt by the Corporation of the conditional acceptance/approval from the Exchanges to list the Purchased Securities. This condition (q) is for the benefit of both the Corporation and the Subscriber. |
If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please sign and return this Agreement together with the other required documents signifying your agreement to purchase the Purchased Securities.
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Schedule A
CANADIAN EXEMPTION CERTIFICATE
Capitalized terms used in this Schedule A and defined in the Agreement to which this Schedule A is attached have the meaning defined in the Agreement unless otherwise defined herein.
In connection with the purchase by the Subscriber of the Purchased Securities, the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, hereby represents, warrants, covenants and certifies that:
2. | the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser (please check the appropriate line): |
(a) | CDN$150,000 Exemption: _________ is purchasing sufficient Purchased Securities such that the aggregate acquisition cost of the Purchased Securities is not less than CDN$150,000 and, if the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser, is not an individual, it was not created or used solely to purchase or hold securities in reliance on the exemptions from the dealer registration requirement or the prospectus requirement contained in Section 2.10 of NI 45-106; or |
(b) | Accredited Investor Exemption: _________is an “accredited investor” within the meaning of National Instrument 45-106 entitled “Prospectus Exemptions” (“NI 45-106”) by virtue of the fact that the Subscriber or Disclosed Purchaser, as the case may be, falls within one or more of the subparagraphs of the definition of “accredited investor” set out in Appendix I to this Schedule A (YOU MUST ALSO COMPLETE APPENDIX I ATTACHED TO THIS CERTIFICATE); |
3. | the above representations, warranties and covenants will be true and correct both as of the execution of this certificate and as of the closing time of the purchase and sale of the Purchased Securities and will survive the completion of the issue of the Purchased Securities; and |
4. | the foregoing representations, warranties and covenants are made by the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, with the intent that they be relied upon in determining the suitability of the Subscriber or Disclosed Purchaser as a purchaser of the Purchased Securities and the Subscriber undertakes to immediately notify the Corporation of any change in any statement or other information relating to the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser, set forth herein which takes place prior to the closing time of the purchase and sale of the Purchased Securities. |
The Subscriber has executed this certificate as of the ____ day of ______________, 2016.
If a trust, partnership or other entity: | If an individual: | |
Name of Entity | Signature | |
Type of Entity | Name of Individual | |
Signature of Person Signing | ||
Title of Person Signing |
APPENDIX I TO SCHEDULE A
ACCREDITED INVESTOR CERTIFICATE
TO: INTERNATIONAL TOWER HILL MINES LTD.
Capitalized terms used in this Appendix I to Schedule A and defined in the Agreement to which this Appendix I to Schedule A is attached have the meaning defined in the Agreement unless otherwise defined herein.
The undersigned or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the undersigned acting as its agent, hereby represents, warrants and certifies to the Corporation that the undersigned, or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser, is an “Accredited Investor” as defined in subsection 1.1 of National Instrument 45-106. The undersigned has indicated below the categories which the undersigned, or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser, satisfies in order to qualify as an “Accredited Investor”.
The undersigned or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the undersigned acting as its agent, understands that the Corporation and its counsel are relying upon this information in determining to sell securities to the undersigned or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser, in a manner exempt from the prospectus and registration requirements of applicable securities laws.
The undersigned or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the undersigned acting as its agent, represents, warrants and certifies that it, he or she is: [initial or place a checkmark above the line to the left of each applicable item]
_____ | (a) | a Canadian financial institution, or an authorized foreign bank named in Schedule III of the Bank Act (Canada); |
_____ | (b) | the Business Development Bank of Canada incorporated under the Business Development Bank of Canada Act (Canada); |
_____ | (c) | a subsidiary of any person referred to in paragraphs (a) to (b), if the person owns all of the voting securities of the subsidiary, except the voting securities required by law to be owned by directors of that subsidiary; |
_____ | (d) | a person registered under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada as an adviser or dealer; |
_____ | (e) | an individual registered under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada as a representative of a person referred to in paragraph (d); |
_____ | (e.1) | an individual formerly registered under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada, other than an individual formerly registered solely as a representative of a limited market dealer under one or both of the Securities Act (Ontario) or the Securities Act (Newfoundland and Labrador); |
_____ | (f) | the Government of Canada or a jurisdiction of Canada, or any crown corporation, agency or wholly owned entity of the Government of Canada or a jurisdiction of Canada; |
_____ | (g) | a municipality, public board or commission in Canada and a metropolitan community, school board, the Comité de gestion de la taxe scolaire de l’île de Montréal or an intermunicipal management board in Québec; |
_____ | (h) | any national, federal, state, provincial, territorial or municipal government of or in any foreign jurisdiction, or any agency of that government; |
_____ | (i) | a pension fund that is regulated by either the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (Canada) or a pension commission or similar regulatory authority of a jurisdiction of Canada; |
_____ | (j) | an individual who, either alone or with a spouse, beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, financial assets having an aggregate realizable value that before taxes, but net of any related liabilities, exceeds CDN$1,000,000 [NOTE: If the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as his/her agent, is relying on this category of “accredited investor” to purchase Common Shares, the Subscriber, or the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as his/her agent, as applicable, must also complete in duplicate Exhibit 1 to Appendix I to the Agreement]; |
_____ | (j.1) | an individual who beneficially owns financial assets having an aggregate realizable value that, before taxes, but net of any related liabilities, exceeds CDN$5,000,000; |
_____ | (k) | an individual whose net income before taxes exceeded CDN$200,000 in each of the two most recent calendar years or whose net income before taxes combined with that of a spouse exceeded CDN$300,000 in each of the two most recent calendar years and who, in either case, reasonably expects to exceed that net income level in the current calendar year [NOTE: If the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as his/her agent, is relying on this category of “accredited investor” to purchase Common Shares, the Subscriber, or the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as his/her agent, as applicable, must also complete in duplicate Exhibit 1 to Appendix I to the Agreement]; |
_____ | (l) | an individual who, either alone or with a spouse, has net assets of at least CDN$5,000,000 [NOTE: If the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as his/her agent, is relying on this category of “accredited investor” to purchase Common Shares, the Subscriber, or the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as his/her agent, as applicable, must also complete in duplicate Exhibit 1 to Appendix I to the Agreement]; |
_____ | (m) | a person, other than an individual or investment fund, that has net assets of at least CDN$5,000,000 as shown on its most recently prepared financial statements; |
_____ | (n) | an investment fund that distributes or has distributed its securities only to: |
(i) | a person that is or was an accredited investor at the time of the distribution, | ||
(ii) | a person that acquires or acquired securities in the circumstances referred to in sections 2.10 Minimum amount investment and 2.19 Additional investment in investment funds of NI 45-106; or | ||
(iii) | a person described in paragraph (i) or (ii) that acquires or acquired securities under section 2.18 Investment fund reinvestment of NI 45-106; |
_____ | (o) | an investment fund that distributes or has distributed securities under a prospectus in a jurisdiction of Canada for which the regulator or, in Québec, the securities regulatory authority, has issued a receipt; |
_____ | (p) | a trust company or trust corporation registered or authorized to carry on business under the Trust and Loan Companies Act (Canada) or under comparable legislation in a jurisdiction of Canada or a foreign jurisdiction, acting on behalf of a fully-managed account managed by the trust company or trust corporation, as the case may be; |
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_____ | (q) | a person acting on behalf of a fully-managed account managed by that person, if that person is registered or authorized to carry on business as an adviser or the equivalent under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada or a foreign jurisdiction: |
_____ | (r) | a registered charity under the Income Tax Act (Canada) that, in regard to the trade, has obtained advice from an eligibility adviser or an adviser registered under the securities legislation of the jurisdiction of the registered charity to give advice on the securities being traded; |
_____ | (s) | an entity organized in a foreign jurisdiction that is analogous to any of the entities referred to in paragraphs (a) through (d) or paragraph (i) in form and function; |
_____ | (t) | a person in respect of which all of the owners of interests, direct, indirect or beneficial, except the voting securities required by law to be owned by directors, are persons that are accredited investors; |
_____ | (u) | an investment fund that is advised by a person registered as an adviser or a person that is exempt from registration as an adviser; |
_____ | (v) | a person that is recognized or designated by the securities regulatory authority or, except in Ontario and Québec, the regulator as an accredited investor; or |
_____ | (w) | a trust established by an accredited investor for the benefit of the accredited investor’s family members of which a majority of the trustees are accredited investors and all of the beneficiaries are the accredited investor’s spouse, a former spouse of the accredited investor or a parent, grandparent, brother, sister, child or grandchild of that accredited investor, of that accredited investor’s spouse or of that accredited investor’s former spouse. |
The Subscriber has executed this Certificate as of the ______ day of ____________, 2016.
If a trust, partnership or other entity: | If an individual: | |
Name of Entity | Signature | |
Type of Entity | Name of Individual | |
Signature of Person Signing | ||
Title of Person Signing |
As used in this Certificate, the following terms have the following meanings:
An issuer is an “affiliate” of another issuer if:
(a) one of them is the subsidiary of the other, or
(b) each of them is controlled by the same person;
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A person is considered to beneficially own securities that:
(a) | for the purposes of Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Northwest Territories and Nunavut securities law, are beneficially owned by: |
(i) | an issuer controlled by that person; or |
(ii) | an affiliate of that person or an affiliate of an issuer controlled by that person; |
(b) | for the purposes of Alberta securities law, are beneficially owned by: |
(i) | a company controlled by that person or an affiliate of that company; |
(ii) | an affiliate of that person; or |
(iii) | through a trustee, legal representative, agent or other intermediary of that person. |
A person (first person) is considered to control another person (second person) if:
(a) | the first person, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns or exercises control or direction over securities of the second person carrying votes which, if exercised, would entitle the first person to elect a majority of the directors of the second person, unless that first person holds the voting securities only to secure an obligation; |
(b) | the second person is a partnership, other than a limited partnership, and the first person holds more than 50% of the interests of the partnership; or |
(c) | the second person is a limited partnership and the general partner of the limited partnership is the first person. |
“bank” means a bank named in Schedule I or II of the Bank Act (Canada);
“Canadian financial institution” means:
(a) | an association governed by the Cooperative Credit Associations Act (Canada) or a central cooperative credit society for which an order has been made under section 473(1) of that Act; or |
(b) | a bank, loan corporation, trust company, trust corporation, insurance company, treasury branch, credit union, caisse populaire, financial services cooperative, or league that, in each case, is authorized by an enactment of Canada or a jurisdiction of Canada to carry on business in Canada or a jurisdiction of Canada; |
“control person” has the meaning ascribed to that term in securities legislation except in Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island and Québec where “control person” means any person that holds or is one of a combination of persons that holds:
(a) | a sufficient number of any of the securities of an issuer so as to affect materially the control of the issuer, or |
(b) | more than 20% of the outstanding voting securities of an issuer except where there is evidence showing that the holding of those securities does not affect materially the control of the issuer; |
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“director” means (a) a member of the board of directors of a company or an individual who performs similar functions for a company, and (b) with respect to a person that is not a company, an individual who performs functions similar to those of a director of a company;
“eligibility advisor” means:
(a) | a person that is registered as an investment dealer or in an equivalent category of registration under the securities legislation of the jurisdiction of a purchaser and authorized to give advice with respect to the type of security being distributed; and |
(b) | in Saskatchewan or Manitoba, also means a lawyer who is a practicing member in good standing with a law society of a jurisdiction of Canada or a public accountant who is a member in good standing of an institute or association of chartered accountants, certified general accountants or certified management accountants in a jurisdiction of Canada provided that the lawyer or public accountant must not: |
(i) | have a professional business or personal relationship with the issuer, or any of its directors, executive officers, founders or control persons, and |
(ii) | have acted for or been retained personally or otherwise as an employee, executive officer, director, associate or partner of a person that has acted for or been retained by the issuer or any of its directors, executive officers, founders or control persons within the previous 12 months; |
“financial assets” means cash, securities, or a contract of insurance, a deposit or an evidence of a deposit that is not a security for the purposes of securities legislation;
“foreign jurisdiction” means a country other than Canada or a political subdivision of a country other than Canada;
“fully managed account” means an account of a client for which a person makes the investment decisions if that person has full discretion to trade in securities for the account without requiring the client’s express consent to a transaction;
“investment fund” has the same meaning as in National Instrument 81-106 Investment Fund Continuous Disclosure and means a mutual fund or a non-redeemable investment fund;
“jurisdiction” means a province or territory of Canada except when used in the term “foreign jurisdiction”;
“local jurisdiction” means the jurisdiction in which the Canadian securities regulatory authority is situated;
“non-redeemable investment fund” has the same meaning as in National Instrument 81-106 Investment Fund Continuous Disclosure and means an issuer:
(a) whose primary purpose is to invest money provided by its securityholders;
(b) that does not invest;
(i) | for the purpose of exercising or seeking to exercise control of an issuer, other than an issuer that is a mutual fund or a non-redeemable investment fund; or |
(ii) | for the purpose of being actively involved in the management of any issuer in which it invests, other than an issuer that is a mutual fund or a non-redeemable investment fund; and |
(c) that is not a mutual fund;
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“person” includes an individual, a corporation, a partnership, trust, fund and an association, syndicate, organization or other organized group of persons, whether incorporated or not; and an individual or other person in that person’s capacity as a trustee, executor, administrator or personal or other legal representative;
“regulator” means, for the local jurisdiction, the Executive Director as defined under securities legislation of the local jurisdiction;
“related liabilities” means:
(a) | liabilities incurred or assumed for the purpose of financing the acquisition or ownership of financial assets; or |
(b) | liabilities that are secured by financial assets; |
“Schedule III bank” means an authorized foreign bank named in Schedule III of the Bank Act (Canada);
“securities legislation” means:
(a) | for British Columbia, the Securities Act (British Columbia) and the regulations, rules and forms under such Act and the blanket rulings and orders issued by the British Columbia Securities Commission; or |
(b) | for other Canadian jurisdictions, such other statutes and instruments as are listed in Appendix B of National Instrument 14-101 Definitions; |
“securities regulatory authority” means:
(a) | the British Columbia Securities Commission; or |
(b) | in respect of any local jurisdiction other than British Columbia, means the securities commission or similar regulatory authority listed in Appendix C of National Instrument 14-101 Definitions; |
“spouse” means, an individual who:
(a) | is married to another individual and is not living separate and apart within the meaning of the Divorce Act (Canada), from the other individual; |
(b) | is living with another individual in a marriage-like relationship, including a marriage-like relationship between individuals of the same gender; or |
(c) | in Alberta, is an individual referred to in paragraph (a) or (b), or is an adult interdependent partner within the meaning of the Audit Interdependent Relationships Act (Alberta); |
“subsidiary” means an issuer that is controlled directly or indirectly by another issuer and includes a subsidiary of that subsidiary; and
“voting security” means a security of an issuer that:
(c) | is not a debt security; and |
(d) | carries a voting right either under all circumstances or under some circumstances that have occurred and are continuing. |
Calculation of purchaser’s net assets: To calculate a purchaser’s net assets under paragraphs (l) and (m) of the “Accredited Investor” definition, subtract the purchaser’s total liabilities from the purchaser’s total assets. The value attributed to assets should reasonably reflect their estimated fair value. Income tax should be considered a liability if the obligation to pay it is outstanding at the time of the trade.
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EXHIBIT 1 TO APPENDIX I
To be completed and signed by the Subscriber, or the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as his/her agent, as applicable, if relying on category (j), (k) or (l) of the Accredited Investor Exemption Certificate attached as Appendix I to Schedule A
RISK ACKNOWLEDGMENT FORM FOR CERTAIN INDIVIDUAL ACCREDITED INVESTORS
WARNING! This investment is risky. Don’t invest unless you can afford to lose all the money you pay for this investment. |
SECTION 1 TO BE COMPLETED BY THE ISSUER | ||
1. About your investment | ||
Type of securities: Common Shares | Issuer: International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. (the “Issuer”) | |
Purchased from: The Issuer. | ||
SECTIONS 2 TO 4 TO BE COMPLETED BY THE PURCHASER | ||
2. Risk acknowledgement | ||
This investment is risky. Initial that you understand that: | Your initials | |
Risk of loss – You could lose your entire investment of CDN$_____________________. [Instruction: Insert the total dollar amount of the investment.] | ||
Liquidity risk – You may not be able to sell your investment quickly – or at all. | ||
Lack of information – You may receive little or no information about your investment. | ||
Lack of advice – You will not receive advice from the salesperson about whether this investment is suitable for you unless the salesperson is registered. The salesperson is the person who meets with, or provides information to, you about making this investment. To check whether the salesperson is registered, go to www.aretheyregistered.ca. | ||
3. Accredited investor status | ||
You must meet at least one of the following criteria to be able to make this investment. Initial the statement that applies to you. (You may initial more than one statement.) The person identified in section 6 is responsible for ensuring that you meet the definition of accredited investor. That person, or the salesperson identified in section 5, can help you if you have questions about whether you meet these criteria. | Your initials | |
· Your net income before taxes was more than CDN$200,000 in each of the 2 most recent calendar years, and you expect it to be more than CDN$200,000 in the current calendar year. (You can find your net income before taxes on your personal income tax return.) | ||
· Your net income before taxes combined with your spouse’s was more than CDN$300,000 in each of the 2 most recent calendar years, and you expect your combined net income before taxes to be more than CDN$300,000 in the current calendar year. | ||
· Either alone or with your spouse, you own more than CDN$1 million in cash and securities, after subtracting any debt related to the cash and securities. | ||
· Either alone or with your spouse, you have net assets worth more than CDN$5 million. (Your net assets are your total assets (including real estate) minus your total debt.) | ||
4. Your name and signature | ||
By signing this form, you confirm that you have read this form and you understand the risks of making this investment as identified in this form. | ||
First and last name (please print): | ||
Signature: | Date: | |
SECTION 5 TO BE COMPLETED BY THE SALESPERSON | ||
5. Salesperson information |
[Instruction: The salesperson is the person who meets with, or provides information to, the purchaser with respect to making this investment. That could include a representative of the issuer, a registrant or a person who is exempt from the registration requirement.] |
First and last name of salesperson (please print): | |
Telephone: | Email: |
Name of firm (if registered): | Dealer Rep. Code: |
SECTION 6 TO BE COMPLETED BY THE ISSUER | |
6. For more information about this investment | |
International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. Tel: 604-408-7499
For more information about prospectus exemptions, contact your local securities regulator. You can find contact information at www.securities-administrators.ca. |
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Schedule B
U.S. ACCREDITED INVESTOR CERTIFICATE
TO: INTERNATIONAL TOWER HILL MINES LTD. (the “Corporation”)
Capitalized terms used in this Schedule B and defined in the Agreement to which is Schedule B is attached have the meaning defined in the Agreement unless otherwise defined herein.
The undersigned or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the undersigned acting as its agent, (the “Subscriber”) represents, warrants and covenants (which representations, warranties and covenants shall survive the Closing) to the Corporation (and acknowledges that the Corporation is relying thereon) that:
(a) | it understands and agrees that the Purchased Securities have not been and will not be registered under the 1933 Act, or applicable securities laws of any state of the United States, and the Purchased Securities are being offered and sold by the Corporation to the Subscriber in reliance upon the exemption from the registration requirements of the 1933 Act set forth in Section 4(a)(2) of the 1933 Act and Rule 506(b) of Regulation D; |
(b) | it is purchasing the Purchased Securities for its own account or for the account or benefit of one or more persons for whom it is exercising sole investment discretion, (a “Beneficial Purchaser”), for investment purposes only and not with a view to resale or distribution and, in particular, neither it nor any Beneficial Purchaser for whose account it is purchasing the Purchased Securities has any intention to distribute either directly or indirectly any of the Purchased Securities in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of a U.S. Person; provided, however, that this paragraph shall not restrict the Subscriber from selling or otherwise disposing of any of the Purchased Securities pursuant to registration thereof pursuant to the 1933 Act and any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States or under an applicable exemption from such registration requirements; |
(c) | it, and if applicable, each Beneficial Purchaser for whose account or benefit it is purchasing the Purchased Securities, is a U.S. Accredited Investor that satisfies one or more of the categories of U.S. Accredited Investor as indicated below (the Subscriber must initial “SUB” for the Subscriber, and “BP” for each Beneficial Purchaser, if any, on the appropriate line(s)): |
_____ | Category 1. | A bank, as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the 1933 Act, whether acting in its individual or fiduciary capacity; or | |
_____ | Category 2. | A savings and loan association or other institution as defined in Section 3(a)(5)(A) of the 1933 Act, whether acting in its individual or fiduciary capacity; or | |
_____ | Category 3. | A broker or dealer registered pursuant to Section 15 of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; or | |
_____ | Category 4. | An insurance company as defined in Section 2(a)(13) of the 1933 Act; or | |
_____ | Category 5. | An investment company registered under the United States Investment Company Act of 1940; or | |
_____ | Category 6. | A business development company as defined in Section 2(a)(48) of the United States Investment Company Act of 1940; or |
_____ | Category 7. | A small business investment company licensed by the U.S. Small Business Administration under Section 301 (c) or (d) of the United States Small Business Investment Act of 1958; or | |
_____ | Category 8. | A plan established and maintained by a state, its political subdivisions or any agency or instrumentality of a state or its political subdivisions, for the benefit of its employees, with total assets in excess of US$5,000,000; or | |
_____ | Category 9. | An employee benefit plan within the meaning of the United States Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 in which the investment decision is made by a plan fiduciary, as defined in Section 3(21) of such Act, which is either a bank, savings and loan association, insurance company or registered investment adviser, or an employee benefit plan with total assets in excess of US$5,000,000 or, if a self-directed plan, with investment decisions made solely by persons who are U.S. accredited investors; or | |
_____ | Category 10. | A private business development company as defined in Section 202(a)(22) of the United States Investment Advisers Act of 1940; or | |
_____ | Category 11. | An organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, a corporation, a Massachusetts or similar business trust, or a partnership, not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the securities offered, with total assets in excess of US$5,000,000; or | |
_____ | Category 12. | Any director or executive officer of the Corporation; or | |
_____ | Category 13. | A natural person whose individual net worth (i.e. the excess of total assets at fair market value, including personal and real property but excluding the estimated fair market value of a person’s primary home, over total liabilities), or joint net worth with that person's spouse, at the time of this purchase exceeds US$1,000,000; provided that total liabilities excludes any mortgage on the primary home in an amount of up to the home's estimated fair market value as long as the mortgage was incurred more than 60 days before the securities are purchased, but includes (i) any mortgage amount in excess of the home's fair market value and (ii) any mortgage amount that was borrowed during the 60-day period before the closing date for the sale of securities for the purpose of investing in the securities; or | |
_____ | Category 14. | A natural person who had an individual income in excess of US$200,000 in each of the two most recent years or joint income with that person’s spouse in excess of US$300,000 in each of those years and has a reasonable expectation of reaching the same income level in the current year; or | |
_____ | Category 15. | A trust, with total assets in excess of US$5,000,000, not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the securities offered, whose purchase is directed by a sophisticated person as described in Rule 506(b)(2)(ii) under the 1933 Act; or | |
_____ | Category 16. | Any entity in which all of the equity owners meet the requirements of at least one of the above categories; |
(d) | it acknowledges that the Purchased Securities are “restricted securities”, as such term is defined under Rule 144 of the 1933 Act, and may not be offered, sold, pledged, or otherwise transferred, directly or indirectly, without prior registration under the 1933 Act and applicable securities laws of any state of the United States, and it agrees that if it decides to offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer, directly or indirectly, any of the Purchased Securities absent such registration, it will not offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer, directly or indirectly, any of the Purchased Securities, directly or indirectly, except: |
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(i) | to the Corporation; or |
(ii) | outside the United States in an “offshore transaction” in compliance with the requirements of Rule 904 of Regulation S under the 1933 Act, if available, and in compliance with applicable local laws and regulations; or |
(iii) | in compliance with an exemption from registration under the 1933 Act provided by Rule 144 thereunder, if available, and in accordance with any applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of any state of the United States; or |
(iv) | in a transaction that does not require registration under the 1933 Act or any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States; |
and, in the case of subparagraph (iii) or (iv), it has furnished to the Corporation an opinion of counsel of recognized standing in form and substance satisfactory to the Corporation to such effect;
(e) | it understands that upon the issuance thereof, and until such time as the same is no longer required under the applicable requirements of the 1933 Act or applicable U.S. state laws and regulations, the certificates representing the Purchased Securities, and all securities issued in exchange therefor or in substitution thereof, will bear a legend in substantially the following form: |
“THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “1933 ACT”) OR ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING SUCH SECURITIES, AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF INTERNATIONAL TOWER HILL MINES LTD. (THE “CORPORATION”) THAT SUCH SECURITIES MAY BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, ONLY (A) TO THE CORPORATION, (B) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 904 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE 1933 ACT AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS, (C) IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE 1933 ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144 THEREUNDER, IF AVAILABLE, AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES OR “BLUE SKY” LAWS, OR (D) IN A TRANSACTION THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE REGISTRATION UNDER THE 1933 ACT OR ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, AND, IN THE CASE OF SUBPARAGRAPH (C) OR (D), THE SELLER FURNISHES TO THE CORPORATION AN OPINION OF COUNSEL OF RECOGNIZED STANDING IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE SATISFACTORY TO THE CORPORATION TO SUCH EFFECT. DELIVERY OF THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT CONSTITUTE “GOOD DELIVERY” IN SETTLEMENT OF TRANSACTIONS ON STOCK EXCHANGES IN CANADA.
provided, that if the Purchased Securities are being sold under clause (B) above, at a time when the Corporation is a “foreign issuer” as defined in Rule 902 under the 1933 Act, the legend set forth above may be removed by providing a declaration to the Corporation and its transfer agent in the form attached hereto as Appendix I to Schedule B or such other evidence of exemption as the Corporation or its transfer agent may from time to time prescribe, to the effect that the sale of the securities is being made in compliance with Rule 904 of Regulation S;
provided further, that if any of the Purchased Securities are being sold pursuant to Rule 144 of the 1933 Act and in compliance with any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States, the legend may be removed by delivery to the Corporation’s transfer agent of an opinion of reputable counsel in form and substance satisfactory to the Corporation and its transfer agent to the effect that the legend is no longer required under applicable requirements of the 1933 Act or applicable securities laws of any state of the United States;
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(f) | it has had the opportunity to ask questions of and receive answers from the Corporation regarding the investment, and has received all the information regarding the Corporation that it has requested; |
(g) | it consents to the Corporation making a notation on its records or giving instruction to the registrar and transfer agent of the Corporation in order to implement the restrictions on transfer with respect to the Purchased Securities set forth and described herein and understands that the Corporation may instruct its registrar and transfer agent not to record any transfer of any securities of the Corporation without first being notified by the Corporation that it is satisfied that such transfer is exempt from or not subject to the registration requirements of the 1933 Act and applicable securities laws of any state of the United States; |
(h) | it understands and acknowledges that the Corporation has no obligation or present intention of filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission or with any state securities administrator any registration statement in respect of resales of the Purchased Securities in the United States; |
(i) | the office or other address of the Subscriber at which the Subscriber received and accepted the offer to purchase the Purchased Securities is the address listed as the “Subscriber’s Residential or Head Office Address” on the first page of the Subscription Agreement; |
(j) | it understands and agrees that there may be material tax consequences to the Subscriber of an acquisition, disposition or exercise of any of the Purchased Securities, the Corporation gives no opinion and makes no representation with respect to the tax status of the Corporation or the consequences to the Subscriber under United States, state, local or foreign tax law of the Subscriber’s acquisition or disposition or exercise of the Purchased Securities, including whether the Corporation will at any given time be deemed a “passive foreign investment company” within the meaning of Section 1297 of the United States Internal Revenue Code; |
(k) | it understands that (i) the Corporation may be deemed to be an issuer that is, or that has been at any time previously, an issuer with no or nominal operations and no or nominal assets other than cash and cash equivalents (a “Shell Company”), (ii) if the Corporation is deemed to be, or to have been at any time previously, a Shell Company, Rule 144 under the 1933 Act may not be available for resales of the Purchased Securities, and (iii) the Corporation is not obligated to make Rule 144 under the 1933 Act available for resales of the Purchased Securities; |
(l) | it acknowledges that it had a prior relationship with the Corporation before such time as any announcement, press release, or other notice or report of the offering of the Purchased Securities was made by the Corporation; |
(m) | it acknowledges that it has not purchased the Securities as a result of any form of General Solicitation or General Advertising, including any advertisements, articles, notices or other communications published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over radio, television or internet or any seminar or meeting whose attendees have been invited by general solicitation or general advertising; |
(n) | it confirms that it or the Beneficial Purchaser, if any, (i) is able to bear the economic risk of the investment in the Purchased Securities, (ii) is able to hold the Purchased Securities for an indefinite period of time, (iii) is able to afford a complete loss of its investment and that it has adequate means of providing for its current needs and possible personal contingencies, and that it has no need for liquidity in this investment, (iv) finds this investment is suitable for it based upon its investment holdings and financial situation and needs, and this investment does not exceed ten percent of its net worth, and (v) by reason of its business or financial experience could be reasonably assumed to have the capacity to protect its own interests in connection with this investment; and |
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(o) | it acknowledges that the representations, warranties and covenants contained in this Schedule are made by it with the intent that they may be relied upon by the Corporation in determining its eligibility to purchase the Purchased Securities and in establishing that the issuance of the Purchased Securities is exempt from the registration requirements of the 1933 Act. It agrees that by accepting the Purchased Securities it shall be representing and warranting that the representations and warranties above are true as at the Closing with the same force and effect as if they had been made by it at the Closing and that they shall survive the purchase by it of the Purchased Securities and shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding any subsequent disposition by it of such securities. |
The Subscriber and, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser through the Subscriber acting as its agent, undertakes to notify the Corporation immediately of any change in any representation, warranty or other information relating to the Subscriber or, if applicable, the Disclosed Purchaser set forth herein which takes place prior to the Closing.
Executed this _________ day of _______________________, 2016
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Appendix I to Schedule B
U.S. Accredited Investor Certificate
FORM OF DECLARATION FOR REMOVAL OF U.S. LEGEND
To: | Computershare Investor Services Inc., as Registrar and Transfer Agent for the Shares of International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. (the “Corporation”). |
The undersigned (a) acknowledges that the sale of the securities of the Corporation to which this declaration relates is being made in reliance on Rule 904 of Regulation S under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”) and (b) certifies that (1) the undersigned is not an affiliate of the Corporation (as that term is defined in Rule 405 under the 1933 Act), (2) the offer of such securities was not made to a person in the United States and either (A) at the time the buy order was originated, the buyer was outside the United States, or the seller and any person acting on its behalf reasonably believed that the buyer was outside the United States, or (B) the transaction was executed in, on or through the facilities of a “Designated Offshore Securities Market” as defined in Rule 902 of Regulation S under the 1933 Act and neither the seller nor any person acting on its behalf knows that the transaction has been prearranged with a buyer in the United States, (3) neither the seller nor any affiliate of the seller nor any person acting on any of their behalf has engaged or will engage in any directed selling efforts in the United States in connection with the offer and sale of such securities, (4) the sale is bona fide and not for the purpose of “washing off” the resale restrictions imposed because the securities are “restricted securities” (as such term is defined in Rule 144(a)(3) under the 1933 Act), (5) the seller does not intend to replace such securities with fungible unrestricted securities of the Corporation and (6) the contemplated sale is not a transaction, or part of a series of transactions which, although in technical compliance with Regulation S, is part of a plan or scheme to evade the registration provisions of the 1933 Act. Terms used herein have the meanings given to them by Regulation S.
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Affirmation by Seller’s Broker-Dealer
We have read the foregoing representations of our customer, _____________________________ (the “Seller”), dated _______________________, with regard to our sale, for such Seller’s account, of the _________________ common shares, represented by certificate number ______________ (the “Shares”), of the Corporation described therein, and on behalf of ourselves we certify and affirm that (A) we have no knowledge that the transaction had been prearranged with a buyer in the United States, (B) the transaction was executed on or through the facilities of The Toronto Stock Exchange and (C) neither we, nor any person acting on our behalf, engaged in any directed selling efforts in connection with the offer and sale of such securities. Terms used herein have the meanings given to them by Regulation S.
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Exhibit 99.1
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Tel: 604.683.6332 Fax: 604.408.7499 www.ithmines.com |
NR16-08 | December 15, 2016 |
International Tower Hill Mines Announces US$22 Million
Non-Brokered Private Placement
Vancouver, British Columbia, December 15, 2016 – International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. (TSX: ITH, NYSE-MKT: THM) (“ITH” or the “Company”) announced today that it has arranged a non-brokered private placement financing (the “Offering”) of common shares to existing major shareholders to raise gross proceeds of approximately USD 22 million.
The Offering will consist of 45,833,334 common shares of the Company, representing approximately 39.4% of the 116.4 million shares currently issued and outstanding, at a price of USD 0.48 per share. The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the private placement for full satisfaction of the final payment due in January 2017 with respect to acquisition of certain mining claims and related rights in the vicinity of the Livengood Gold Project in Alaska (the “Project”) (approximately USD 14.8 million as of September 30, 2016), continuation of optimization studies to further improve and de-risk the Project, required environmental baseline studies, and for general working capital purposes.
The Offering will be taken up by the current institutional shareholders of the Company, with Paulson & Co. Inc. (“Paulson”) acquiring beneficial ownership of 32,429,842 shares, Tocqueville Asset Management, L.P. (“Tocqueville”) acquiring beneficial ownership of 9,041,554 shares (taken together Paulson and Tocqueville will acquire a total of 41,471,396 common shares, representing approximately 35.6% of the common shares currently issued and outstanding) and AngloGold Ashanti (U.S.A.) Exploration Inc. (“AngloGold”) acquiring beneficial ownership of 4,361,938 shares. Following completion of the Offering, Paulson, Tocqueville and AngloGold will beneficially own approximately 34.2%, 19.7%, and 9.5%, respectively, of the Company’s 162,186,972 common shares. In connection with the Offering, the Company has agreed to appoint one Paulson designee to the Company’s board of directors at closing. Commencing from the next annual general meeting of shareholders, Paulson will have the right to nominate two individuals for election to the board of directors.
The completion of the Offering is subject to a number of conditions including obtaining any required regulatory approvals including approval of the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") and the NYSE MKT. All common shares issued in the Offering will be subject to a hold period in Canada of four months from the closing of the Offering. All common shares issued in the United States will be subject to resale restrictions under U.S. federal and state securities laws.
As the aggregate number of common shares issued pursuant to the Offering exceeds 25% of the currently issued and outstanding common shares of the Company, the number of common shares issued to insiders pursuant to the Offering exceeds 10% of the currently issued and outstanding common shares of the Company and the Offering will materially affect control of the Company, the Company would ordinarily be required to obtain shareholder approval under the TSX Company Manual (the “Manual”). However, the Company has applied to the TSX under Section 604(e) of the Company Manual for a “financial hardship” exemption from the requirement to obtain shareholder approval. The Company’s board of directors, who are free from any interest in the Offering and are unrelated to the investors, have authorized such application on the basis of their determination that the Company is in serious financial difficulty and the Offering is designed to improve the Company’s financial situation and is reasonable for the Company in the circumstances.
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NR16-08 Continued |
As a consequence of relying upon the financial hardship exemption under Section 604(e) of the TSX Company Manual, the Company expects that the TSX will commence a remedial de-listing review, which is normal practice when a listed issuer seeks to rely on this exemption. Although the Company believes that it will be in compliance with all of the TSX listing requirements following completion of the Offering, no assurance can be provided as to the outcome of such review and, therefore, the Company’s continued qualification for listing on the TSX.
As Paulson and Tocqueville are insiders of the Company, the Offering is a “related party transaction” within the meaning of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions (“MI 61-101”). The participation of Paulson and Tocqueville in the Offering is exempt from the valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements under MI 61-101 by virtue of the “financial hardship” exemptions contained in Section 5.5(g) and 5.7(e) of MI 61-101.
The common shares to be issued in the Offering have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”) or any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons (as defined in Regulation S under the 1933 Act) or persons in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from such registration requirements. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of the common shares to be issued in the Offering, nor shall there be any offer or sale of the common shares to be issued in the Offering in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
About International Tower Hill Mines Ltd.
International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. controls a 100% interest of the Livengood Gold Project, located along the paved Elliott Highway, 70 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska.
On behalf of
International Tower Hill Mines Ltd.
(signed) Thomas E. Irwin
Chief Executive Officer
Contact Information: | Richard Solie, Jr., Manager - Investor Relations | |
E-mail: rsolie@ithmines.com | ||
Direct line: 907-328-2825 / | Toll-Free: 1-855-428-2825 |
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NR16-08 Continued |
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements and forward-looking information (collectively, “forward-looking statements”) within the meaning of applicable Canadian and US securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein, including statements with respect to the anticipated completion of the Offering and the proposed use of the proceeds of the Offering by the Company, the outcome of the expected remedial de-listing review by the TSX, the ability of the Company to carry out and complete optimization studies with respect to the Livengood Gold Project, the ability of the Company to advance the Livengood Gold Project, the potential development of any mine at Livengood, business and financing plans and business trends are forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes that such statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as: believe, expect, anticipate, intend, estimate, postulate, proposed, planned, potential and similar expressions, or are those, which, by their nature, refer to future events. The Company cautions investors that any forward-looking statements by the Company are not guarantees of future results or performance, and that actual results may differ materially from those in forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including, but not limited to, risks associated with the timing and pricing of the Offering, completion of the Offering, regulatory approval/acceptance of the Offering, the use of proceeds from the Offering, the potential inability of the Company to raise the necessary capital or to be fully able to implement its business strategies, and other risks and uncertainties disclosed in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K and other reports filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), and certain securities commissions in Canada and other information released by the Company and filed with the appropriate regulatory agencies. All of the Company’s Canadian public disclosure filings may be accessed via www.sedar.com and its United States public disclosure filings may be accessed via www.sec.gov, and readers are urged to review these materials, including the latest technical report filed with respect to the Company’s Livengood Gold Project.
This news release is not, and is not to be construed in any way as, an offer to buy or sell securities in the United States or Canada.
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