Video Commerce To
Close Upsized Private Placement of $15,000,000
VANCOUVER, BC, June 21, 2021 /CNW/ - Evermount Ventures
Inc. (the "Company") (TSXV: ETV.H), a capital pool
company, is pleased to provide an update on its Qualifying
Transaction (the "Qualifying Transaction") to acquire all of
the outstanding securities of Video Commerce Group Limited
("VCG" d.b.a. "OOOOO") pursuant to a Securities
Exchange Agreement dated September 1,
2020, as amended.
Upsize to Transaction Financing
The parties have agreed to increase the transaction financing
(the "Transaction Financing") from $12 million to $15
million. Pursuant to the amended terms of the Transaction
Financing, VCG shall issue 13,474,250 Subscription Receipts on the
same terms as previously announced, for gross proceeds of
$10,779,400. Additionally, VCG has
issued ordinary shares in the capital of VCG (each, a "VCG
Share") at a price of $0.80 per
share for gross proceeds of $4,229,400 (the "Ordinary Share Issuance")
to an arm's length strategic investor. The VCG Shares issued
pursuant to the Ordinary Share Issuance will be converted into
5,286,750 Subordinate Voting Shares ("SVS") of the resulting
issuer on closing of the Qualifying Transaction. VCG expects to
utilize up to $2,400,000 of the
proceeds from the Ordinary Share Issuance prior to closing of the
Qualifying Transaction for recruiting Creators, additional studio
space and for general corporate purposes, with the balance being
available to the resulting issuer on closing of the Qualifying
Transaction. The resulting issuer plans to add the remaining funds
from the upsized private placement of approximately $600,000 to its unallocated working capital.
In connection with the over-subscribed Transaction Financing,
the Company has engaged certain finders who will receive fees in
addition to those disclosed in the Company's filing statement dated
March 10, 2021. The parties have
agreed to pay such finders a cash commission of 8% on the gross
proceeds raised by such finders for total cash fees of $530,928. The parties have also agreed to
additionally provide certain of such finders with broker warrants
to acquire SVS of the resulting issuer for a period of one year
from the closing of the Qualifying Transaction at a price of
$0.80 per SVS (the "Broker
Warrants") in an amount equal to 8% of the number of
Subscription Receipts placed by such finders. A total of 478,360
Broker Warrants will be issued to such finders. The finders fees,
payable in shares and or broker warrants are as follows:
Finder
|
Cash
Fee
$
|
Broker
Warrants
|
Leede Jones Gable
Inc.
|
203,008
|
253,760
|
Canaccord Genuity
Corp.
|
160,640
|
200,800
|
Echelon Wealth
Partners Inc.
|
19,040
|
23,800
|
New Asia Realty
Inc.
|
61,600
|
-
|
Zhao Song
|
16,000
|
-
|
Sundecin Enterprises
Inc.
|
42,560
|
-
|
Han Wu
|
8,080
|
-
|
Xi Wei
|
8,000
|
-
|
Robert
Crocker
|
12,000
|
-
|
Subsequent to filing of the Company's Filing Statement, certain
shareholders of VCG ("VCG Shareholders") holding 240 VCG
Shares voluntarily agreed to cancel their VCG Shares to VCG and an
arm's length party purchased 212 VCG Shares from treasury for a
total of US$200,000, reflecting a
price per resulting issuer share equivalent to $0.44. Accordingly, there are now 19,666 VCG
Shares outstanding that will be converted into 52,440,966 shares of
the resulting issuer ("OOOOO Shares"). The reduction in the
number of VCG Shares to be exchanged into the 52,440,966 OOOOO
Shares results in a new exchange ratio of 2,666.5802. Accordingly,
the Value Escrowed Securities shall be comprised of 17,332,133
OOOOO Shares held by Sam Jones,
representing 22% of the total issued and outstanding OOOOO Shares
on closing of the Qualifying Transaction, and 2,525,661 OOOOO
Shares held by Eric Zhang,
representing 3.2% of the issued and outstanding OOOOO Shares on
closing of the Qualifying Transaction.
The total number of OOOOO Shares expected to be outstanding on
closing of the Qualifying Transaction is 78,760,984, consisting of
an aggregate of 61,428,213 SVS and 17,332,771 Multiple Voting
Shares. All of the issued and outstanding Multiple Voting Shares
will, directly or indirectly, be held or controlled by Samuel Jones.
The fully diluted share capital of the resulting issuer on
closing is expected to be as follows:
Description of
Securities
|
Number
Outstanding on
Closing(2)
|
Percentage of
Outstanding on Closing
(fully-diluted)
|
Common Shares of the
Company outstanding(1)
|
4,559,018
|
5.7%
|
OOOOO Shares to be
issued to VCG Shareholders
|
52,440,966
|
65.9%
|
OOOOO Shares to be
issued pursuant to the Transaction Financing
|
18,761,000
|
23.6%
|
OOOOO Shares to be
issued to finders(3)
|
3,000,000
|
3.8%
|
OOOOO Shares issuable
to finders on exercise of Broker Warrants
|
478,360
|
0.6%
|
OOOOO Shares to be
issued on exercise of outstanding warrants
|
375,000
|
0.5%
|
Total
|
79,614,344
|
100.0%
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1)
|
Presented on a
post-Consolidation basis.
|
(2)
|
The reported number
of OOOOO Shares comprise 17,332,771 Multiple Voting Shares and
62,281,573 SVS.
|
(3)
|
In addition, cash
fees of eight percent will be paid to certain arm's length finders
in connection with $6,636,600 of the Transaction Financing for
total cash fees of $530,928.
|
The TSX Venture Exchange has granted the Company a 30-day
extension to July 10, 2021 for the
completion of the Qualifying Transaction. The parties expect to
close the Qualifying Transaction on or about July 8, 2021.
The TSX Venture Exchange Inc. has in no way passed upon the
merits of the proposed transaction and has neither approved nor
disapproved the contents of this press release.
About the Company
The Company is a Capital Pool Company trading on the TSX-NEX
exchange within the meaning of the policies of the Exchange.
The Company has not commenced operations and has no assets
other than cash.
Forward Looking Information
Information set forth in this news release contains
forward-looking statements. These statements reflect management's
current estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations; they are
not guarantees of future performance. The Company cautions that all
forward looking statements are inherently uncertain and that actual
performance may be affected by a number of material factors, many
of which are beyond the Company's control. Such factors
include, among other things: risks and uncertainties relating to
the Company's expectation to list its common shares on the TSXV,
the Company's ability to complete the Transaction Financing, the
Company's ability to complete the Qualifying Transaction in the
time expected, or at all and other risks and uncertainties,
including those described in the Company's other disclosure
documents filed with the Canadian Securities Administrators and
available on www.sedar.com. Accordingly, actual and future
events, conditions and results may differ materially form the
estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations expressed or
implied in the forward looking information. Except as required
under applicable securities legislation, the Company undertakes no
obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking
information.
NEITHER TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE NOR ITS REGULATION SERVICES
PROVIDER (AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN THE POLICIES OF THE TSX
VENTURE EXCHANGE) ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR
ACCURACY OF THIS RELEASE.
SOURCE Evermount Ventures Inc.