SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPT AGREEMENT
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Exhibit 99.23
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FIREΒ & FLOWER HOLDINGS CORP.
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COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY OF CANADA
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SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPT AGREEMENT
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Providing for the Issue of Subscription Receipts
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April 28, 2020
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1 INTERPRETATION | 2 | ||
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Β | Section 1.1 | Definitions | 2 |
Β | Section 1.2 | Interpretation | 6 |
Β | Section 1.3 | Applicable Law | 7 |
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ARTICLE 2 THE SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPTS | 7 | ||
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Β | Section 2.1 | Creation and Issue of Subscription Receipts | 7 |
Β | Section 2.2 | Terms of Subscription Receipts | 7 |
Β | Section 2.3 | Form of Subscription Receipts | 8 |
Β | Section 2.4 | CDS Subscription Receipts | 9 |
Β | Section 2.5 | Signing of Subscription Receipt Certificates | 11 |
Β | Section 2.6 | Authentication by Subscription Receipt Agent | 11 |
Β | Section 2.7 | Subscription Receipts to Rank Pari Passu | 12 |
Β | Section 2.8 | Issue in Substitution for Lost Certificates, Etc. | 12 |
Β | Section 2.9 | Subscription Receiptholder not a Shareholder | 12 |
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ARTICLE 3 REGISTRATION, TRANSFER AND OWNERSHIP OF SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPTS AND EXCHANGE OF SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPT CERTIFICATES | 13 | ||
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Β | Section 3.1 | Registration and Transfer of Subscription Receipts | 13 |
Β | Section 3.2 | Exchange of Subscription Receipt Certificates | 14 |
Β | Section 3.3 | No Charges for Exchange | 15 |
Β | Section 3.4 | Ownership of Subscription Receipts | 15 |
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ARTICLE 4 ISSUANCE OF CONVERTIBLE DEBENTURES | 15 | ||
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Β | Section 4.1 | Issuance of Convertible Debentures by Subscription Receipt Agent | 15 |
Β | Section 4.2 | Effect of Issuance of Convertible Debentures | 16 |
Β | Section 4.3 | Fractions | 16 |
Β | Section 4.4 | Recording | 16 |
Β | Section 4.5 | Securities Restrictions | 16 |
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ARTICLE 5 COVENANTS | 18 | ||
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Β | Section 5.1 | General Covenants of the Corporation | 18 |
Β | Section 5.2 | Representations, Warrants and Covenants in favour of the Subscription Receipt Agent. | 19 |
Β | Section 5.3 | Additional Compliance | 21 |
Β | Section 5.4 | Remuneration and Expenses of Subscription Receipt Agent | 22 |
Β | Section 5.5 | Notice of Issue | 22 |
Β | Section 5.6 | Securities Qualification Requirements | 22 |
Β | Section 5.7 | Performance of Covenants by Subscription Receipt Agent | 22 |
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ARTICLE 6 DEPOSIT OF PROCEEDS AND CANCELLATION OF SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPTS | 22 | ||
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Β | Section 6.1 | Deposit of Escrowed Proceeds in Escrow | 22 |
Β | Section 6.2 | Investment of Escrowed Funds | 23 |
Β | Section 6.3 | Release of Escrowed Funds on Completion | 23 |
Β | Section 6.4 | Release of Escrowed Funds on Termination | 23 |
Β | Section 6.5 | Additional Payments by the Corporation | 24 |
Β | Section 6.6 | Withholding | 24 |
Β | Section 6.7 | Escrowed Funds | 25 |
Β | Section 6.8 | Representation Regarding Third Party Interests | 25 |
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ARTICLE 7 ENFORCEMENT | 25 | ||
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Β | Section 7.1 | Suits by Subscription Receiptholders | 25 |
Β | Section 7.2 | Limitation of Liability | 26 |
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ARTICLE 8 MEETINGS OF SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPTHOLDERS | 26 | ||
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Β | Section 8.1 | Right to Convene Meetings | 26 |
Β | Section 8.2 | Notice | 26 |
Β | Section 8.3 | Chair | 26 |
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Β | Section 8.4 | Quorum | 26 |
Β | Section 8.5 | Power to Adjourn | 27 |
Β | Section 8.6 | Show of Hands | 27 |
Β | Section 8.7 | Poll | 27 |
Β | Section 8.8 | Voting | 27 |
Β | Section 8.9 | Regulations | 27 |
Β | Section 8.10 | The Corporation and Subscription Receipt Agent may be Represented | 28 |
Β | Section 8.11 | Powers Exercisable by Extraordinary Resolution | 28 |
Β | Section 8.12 | Meaning of βExtraordinary Resolutionβ | 29 |
Β | Section 8.13 | Powers Cumulative | 30 |
Β | Section 8.14 | Minutes | 30 |
Β | Section 8.15 | Instruments in Writing | 30 |
Β | Section 8.16 | Binding Effect of Resolutions | 30 |
Β | Section 8.17 | Evidence of Subscription Receiptholders | 31 |
Β | Section 8.18 | Holdings by the Corporation and Subsidiaries Disregarded | 31 |
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ARTICLE 9 SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENTS AND SUCCESSOR COMPANIES | 31 | ||
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Β | Section 9.1 | Provision for Supplemental Agreements for Certain Purposes | 31 |
Β | Section 9.2 | Successor Entities | 32 |
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ARTICLE 10 CONCERNING SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPT AGENT | 32 | ||
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Β | Section 10.1 | Applicable Legislation | 32 |
Β | Section 10.2 | Rights and Duties of Subscription Receipt Agent | 33 |
Β | Section 10.3 | Evidence, Experts and Advisers | 34 |
Β | Section 10.4 | Documents, Money, Etc. held by Subscription Receipt Agent | 34 |
Β | Section 10.5 | Action by Subscription Receipt Agent to Protect Interests | 35 |
Β | Section 10.6 | Subscription Receipt Agent not Required to Give Security | 35 |
Β | Section 10.7 | Protection of Subscription Receipt Agent | 35 |
Β | Section 10.8 | Replacement of Subscription Receipt Agent | 36 |
Β | Section 10.9 | Conflict of Interest | 38 |
Β | Section 10.10 | Acceptance of Duties and Obligations | 38 |
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ARTICLE 11 GENERAL | 38 | ||
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Β | Section 11.1 | Notice to the Corporation, the Subscription Receipt Agent | 38 |
Β | Section 11.2 | Notice to Subscription Receiptholders | 39 |
Β | Section 11.3 | Satisfaction and Discharge of Agreement | 39 |
Β | Section 11.4 | Sole Benefit of Parties and Subscription Receiptholders | 40 |
Β | Section 11.5 | Discretion of Directors | 40 |
Β | Section 11.6 | Force Majeure | 40 |
Β | Section 11.7 | Privacy Consent | 40 |
Β | Section 11.8 | Electronic Copies | 40 |
Β | Section 11.9 | Counterparts and Formal Date | 40 |
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Schedule βAβ FORM OF SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPT CERTIFICATE
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Schedule βBβ ESCROW RELEASE NOTICE
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Schedule βCβ FORM OF DECLARATION OF REMOVAL OF LEGEND
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Schedule βDβ APPROVED BANKS
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SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPT AGREEMENT
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THIS AGREEMENT (the βAgreementβ) dated as of April 28, 2020.
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AMONG:
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FIREΒ & FLOWER HOLDINGS CORP. (the βCorporationβ)
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COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY OF CANADA, (the βSubscription Receipt Agentβ)
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WHEREAS the Corporation proposes to create, issue and sell on a private placement basis 8,200 Subscription Receipts at a price of $1,000 per Subscription Receipt, with each Subscription Receipt representing the right of the holder thereof to acquire one (1) $1,000 principal amount Convertible Debenture, upon satisfaction of the Escrow Release Conditions;
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AND WHEREAS the Corporation has agreed that:
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Β | (a) | pending the satisfaction of the Escrow Release Conditions, 100% of the aggregate gross proceeds from the sale of the Subscription Receipts, are to be delivered to and held by the Subscription Receipt Agent as escrow agent hereunder, unless otherwise directed, and invested in the manner set out herein; |
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Β | (b) | if the Escrow Release Conditions are satisfied at or before the Escrow Release Deadline, the Subscription Receiptholders will be entitled to receive, without payment of additional consideration or the undertaking of any further action on the part of the Subscription Receiptholders, one (1) $1,000 principal amount Convertible Debenture for each Subscription Receipt then held; and |
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Β | (c) | if the Escrow Release Conditions are not satisfied at or before the Escrow Release Deadline or if prior to such time, the Corporation announces to the public that it does not intend to satisfy the Escrow Release Conditions, the Subscription Receiptholders will be entitled to receive an amount equal to (i) the aggregate Offering Price for their Subscription Receipts; and (ii) their pro rata share of the Earned Interest, less applicable withholding taxes, if any. |
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AND WHEREAS the Subscription Receipt Agent has agreed to act as registrar and transfer agent for the Subscription Receipts, and as escrow agent to receive the Escrowed Proceeds, in accordance with the terms and conditions set out herein;
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AND WHEREAS all things necessary have been done and performed to make Certificated Subscription Receipts and Uncertificated Subscription Receipts, when Authenticated by the Subscription Receipt Agent, as applicable, and issued and delivered as herein provided, legal, valid and binding obligations of the Corporation with the benefits of and subject to the terms of this Agreement;
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AND WHEREAS the foregoing recitals are made as representations by the Corporation and not by the Subscription Receipt Agent;
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AND WHEREAS the Subscription Receipt Agent has agreed to enter into this Agreement and to hold all rights, interests and benefits contained herein for and on behalf of those Persons who from time to time become holders of Subscription Receipts issued pursuant to this Agreement;
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NOW THEREFORE THIS AGREEMENT WITNESSES that for good and valuable consideration mutually given, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged by each of the Corporation and the Subscription Receipt Agent, the Corporation hereby appoints the Subscription Receipt Agent as agent for the Subscription Receiptholders, to hold all rights, interests and benefits contained herein for and on behalf of those Persons who from time to time become holders of Subscription Receipts issued pursuant to this Agreement, and the Corporation and the Subscription Receipt Agent hereby covenant, agree and declare as follows:
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ARTICLE 1
INTERPRETATION
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Section 1.1 Definitions
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In this Agreement and in the Subscription Receipt Certificates, unless there is something in the subject matter or context inconsistent therewith:
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(1) | βApplicable Legislationβ means such provisions of any statute of Canada or of a province or territory thereof, and of regulations under any such statute, relating to subscription receipt agreements or to the rights, duties and obligations of corporations and of subscription receipt agents under subscription receipt agreements, as are from time to time in force and applicable to this Agreement; |
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(2) | βApplicable Proceduresβ means (a) with respect to any transfer or exchange of beneficial ownership interests in, or the issuance of Convertible Debentures pursuant to the Subscription Receipts represented by, a CDS Subscription Receipt, the applicable rules, procedures or practices of the Depository in effect at the applicable time; and (b) with respect to any issuance, deposit or withdrawal of Subscription Receipts to or from an electronic position evidencing a beneficial ownership interest in Subscription Receipts represented by a CDS Subscription Receipt, the rules, procedures or practices of the Depository and the Subscription Receipt Agent in effect at the applicable time with respect to the issuance, deposit or withdrawal of such positions; |
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(3) | βApproved Bankβ has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 6.2(1) hereof; |
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(4) | βAuthenticatedβ means (a) with respect to the issuance of a Subscription Receipt Certificate, one which has been duly signed by the Corporation and authenticated by signature of an authorized officer of the Subscription Receipt Agent; and (b) with respect to the issuance of an Uncertificated Subscription Receipt, one in respect of which the Subscription Receipt Agent has completed all Internal Procedures such that the particulars of such Uncertificated Subscription Receipt as required by Section 2.6(1) hereof are entered in the register of holders of Subscription Receipts; and βAuthenticateβ, βAuthenticatingβ and βAuthenticationβ have the appropriate correlative meanings; |
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(5) | βBook Entry Participantsβ means institutions that participate directly or indirectly in the Depositoryβs book entry registration system for the Subscription Receipts; |
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(6) | βBusiness Dayβ means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or any other day on which the principal chartered banks located in Toronto, Ontario are open for business; |
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(7) | βCannabis Permitsβ means all permits or licences of any nature held by the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation, as of the date of this Agreement or thereafter, under Canadian federal, provincial and territorial law, and regulations made thereunder, that are necessary to lawfully conduct or maintain, directly or indirectly, the Corporationβs cannabis- related activities and interests; |
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(8) | βCDS Subscription Receiptsβ means Subscription Receipts representing all or a portion of the aggregate number of Subscription Receipts issued in the name of the Depository, and held as custodian for the beneficial owners of the Subscription Receipts, and represented by an Uncertificated Subscription Receipt or, if requested in writing by the Depository or the Corporation, by a Subscription Receipt Certificate; |
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(9) | βCertificated Subscription Receiptβ means any Subscription Receipt which is evidenced by a Subscription Receipt Certificate; |
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(10) | βClosing Dateβ means the closing date of the Offering, being April 28, 2020, or such earlier or later date(s) as may be determined by the Corporation; |
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(11) | βCommon Sharesβ means common shares in the capital of the Corporation; |
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(12) | βConvertible Debenturesβ means, collectively, the secured convertible debentures of the Corporation to be issued under the Debenture Indenture upon the deemed exchange of the Subscription Receipts, the terms and conditions of which are set out in the Debenture Indenture; |
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(13) | βCorporationβ has the meaning ascribed thereto in the recitals; |
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(14) | βCounselβ means a barrister and/or solicitor or a firm of barristers and/or solicitors retained by the Subscription Receipt Agent or retained by the Corporation, as applicable; |
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(15) | βDebenture Indentureβ means the indenture agreement between the Corporation and the Debenture Trustee dated the date hereof, which sets out the terms and conditions of the Convertible Debentures; |
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(16) | βDebenture Trusteeβ means Computershare Trust Company of Canada, in its capacity as convertible debenture trustee under the Debenture Indenture; |
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(17) | βDepositoryβ means CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc. or such other Person as is designated in writing by the Corporation to act as depository in respect of the Subscription Receipts; |
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(18) | βDirectorβ means a director of the Corporation, and reference without more to action by the directors means action by the directors of the Corporation as a board or, to the extent empowered, by a committee of the board, in each case by resolution duly passed; |
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(19) | βEarned Interestβ means the interest or other income earned or deemed to be earned, if any, on the investment of the applicable portion of the Escrowed Funds (or the reinvestment of such interest or other income) from the date hereof to, but not including, the earlier to occur of: (a) the Release Date; and (b) the Termination Date; |
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(20) | βEscrow Release Conditionsβ means the occurrence of each of the following events: |
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Β | (a) | the Underlying Shares being conditionally approved for listing on the TSX and the completion, satisfaction or waiver of all conditions precedent to such listing, other than the release of the Escrowed Funds and receipt of customary final documentation and payment of applicable fees; and |
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Β | (b) | the Corporation having delivered the Escrow Release Notice to the Subscription Receipt Agent; |
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(21) | βEscrow Release Deadlineβ means 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on August 25, 2020 or such later date as may be approved by holders not less than least 662/3% of the Subscription Receipts; |
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(22) | βEscrow Release Noticeβ means a written notice in substantially the form set out in Schedule βBβ attached hereto executed by the Corporation confirming that paragraph (a) of the Escrow Release Conditions has been satisfied or waived in accordance with this Agreement; |
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(23) | βEscrowed Fundsβ means the Escrowed Proceeds and the Earned Interest thereon at any given time; |
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(24) | βEscrowed Proceedsβ means the cash amount of $8,200,000, being the aggregate gross proceeds of the Offering delivered to the Subscription Receipt Agent to be held in escrow on the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement; |
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(25) | βExtraordinary Resolutionβ has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 8.12 and Section 8.15 hereof; |
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(26) | βGovernmental Authorityβ or βGovernmental Authoritiesβ means any of the governments of Canada, the United States, any other nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether provincial, state, territorial or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank, fiscal or monetary authority or other authority regulating financial institutions, and any other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government; |
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(27) | βIndemnified Partiesβ has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 10.7(2) hereof; |
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(28) | βInternal Proceduresβ means in respect of the making of, changes in or deletions of any one or more entries in the register at any time (including without limitation, original issuance or registration of transfer of ownership) the minimum number of the Subscription Receipt Agentβs internal procedures customary at such time for the entry, change or deletion made to be completed under the operating procedures followed at the time by the Subscription Receipt Agent; |
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(29) | βOfferingβ means the issue and sale of up to 8,200 Subscription Receipts by the Corporation on a private placement basis at the Offering Price for aggregate gross proceeds of up to $8,200,000; |
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(30) | βOffering Priceβ means $1,000 per Subscription Receipt; |
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(31) | βOfficerβs Certificateβ means a certificate of the Corporation signed by any one authorized officer or director of the Corporation in his or her capacity as an officer or director of the Corporation, as the case may be, and not in his or her personal capacity; |
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(32) | βPersonβ includes an individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, trustee, unincorporated organization or any other entity whatsoever, and words importing Persons have a similar extended meaning; |
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(33) | βRegulation Sβ means Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act; |
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(34) | βRelease Dateβ means either (i) the date, provided that it is prior to the Termination Time, on which the Escrow Release Notice is received by the Subscription Receipt Agent in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, provided that the Escrow Release Notice is received by the Subscription Receipt Agent at or before 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on such date; or (ii) the first Business Day following the date, provided that such initial date is prior to the Termination Time, on which the Escrow Release Notice is received by the Subscription Receipt Agent in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, if the Escrow Release Notice is received by the Subscription Receipt Agent after 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on such initial date; |
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(35) | βSubscription Receipt Agentβ has the meaning ascribed thereto in the recitals and includes its successors and assigns; |
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(36) | βSubscription Receipt Certificateβ means a certificate representing one or more Subscription Receipts substantially in the form of the certificate attached hereto as Schedule βAβ; |
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(37) | βSubscription Receiptholdersβ or βholdersβ means the Persons from time to time entered in a register of holders described in Section 3.1 hereof as holders of Subscription Receipts; |
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(38) | βSubscription Receiptholdersβ Requestβ means an instrument, signed in one or more counterparts by Subscription Receiptholders who hold in the aggregate not less than 10% of the total number of Subscription Receipts then outstanding, requesting the Subscription Receipt Agent to take some action or proceeding specified therein; |
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(39) | βSubscription Receiptsβ means the subscription receipts created and issued pursuant to Section 2.1(1) hereof and authorized for issue hereunder and that have not at the particular time expired, been purchased by the Corporation, or otherwise becomes null, void and of no further force or effect in accordance with the terms hereof; |
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(40) | βsubsidiaryβ means a subsidiary for purposes of the Securities Act (Ontario), as constituted at the date of this Agreement; |
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(41) | βTermination Dateβ means the earlier of: |
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Β | (a) | the date on which the Subscription Receipt Agent receives a Termination Notice or on which the Corporation announces to the public that it does not intend to satisfy the Escrow Release Conditions, provided that (i) if such notice or announcement is not received or made, as applicable, on a Business Day or is received or made, as applicable, after 4:30 p.m. (Toronto time) on a Business Day, the Termination Date shall be the next Business Day; and (ii) the Subscription Receipt Agent shall be required to receive a Termination Notice regardless of whether a public announcement as to not satisfying the Escrow Release Conditions is made; and |
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Β | (b) | the date that is the first Business Day after the Escrow Release Deadline, if the Subscription Receipt Agent has not received the Escrow Release Notice at or before the Escrow Release Deadline; |
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(42) | βTermination Noticeβ means a written notice from the Corporation addressed to the Subscription Receipt Agent indicating that the Corporation does not intend to satisfy the Escrow Release Conditions and directing the Subscription Receipt Agent to return all Escrowed Funds to the Subscription Receiptholders in accordance with Section 6.4 hereof; |
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(43) | βTermination Payment Timeβ means as soon as practically possible following the Termination Date, and in any event, within five (5) Business Days following the Termination Date; |
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(44) | βTermination Timeβ means 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on the Termination Date; |
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(45) | βthis Agreementβ, βheretoβ, βhereunderβ, βhereofβ, βhereinβ, βherebyβ and similar expressions mean or refer to this Subscription Receipt Agreement and any amendment or indenture, deed or instrument supplemental or ancillary hereto, and the expressions βarticleβ, βsectionβ, βsubsectionβ, βparagraphβ, βsubparagraphβ, βclauseβ and βsubclauseβ followed by a number mean the specified article, section, subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, clause or subclause of this Agreement; |
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(46) | βTSXβ means the Toronto Stock Exchange; |
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(47) | βUncertificated Subscription Receiptβ means any Subscription Receipt which is not a Certificated Subscription Receipt; |
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(48) | βUnderlying Sharesβ means the Common Shares issuable upon conversion of the Convertible Debentures in accordance with the terms of the Debenture Indenture or any certificate representing the Convertible Debentures; |
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(49) | βUnited Statesβ means the United States of America, its territories and possessions, any state of the United States and the District of Columbia; |
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(50) | βU.S. Personβ means a βU.S. personβ as that term is defined in Rule 902(k) of Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act; |
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(51) | βU.S. Purchaserβ means an original purchaser of Subscription Receipts that was at the time of purchase: (a) a U.S. Person or a Person purchasing the Subscription Receipts in the United States; (b)a Person purchasing Subscription Receipts on behalf of, or for the account or benefit of, any U.S. Person or Person in the United States; (c) a Person that received an offer to purchase the Subscription Receipts while in the United States; or (d) any Person that was in the United States at the time such Personβs buy order was made or the subscription for the Subscription Receipts was executed or delivered; |
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(52) | βU.S. Securities Actβ means the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and |
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(53) | βWritten Order of the Corporationβ, βWritten Request of the Corporationβ, βWritten Consent of the Corporationβ, βWritten Direction of the Corporationβ and βCertificate of the Corporationβ mean a written order, request, consent, direction and certificate, respectively, signed in the name of the Corporation by any Director or officer of the Corporation or by any other individual to whom applicable signing authority is delegated by the Directors from time to time, and may consist of one or more instruments so executed respectively. |
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Section 1.2 Interpretation
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(1) | Words Importing the Singular: Words importing the singular include the plural and vice versa and words importing a particular gender or neuter include both genders and neuter. |
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(2) | Interpretation Not Affected by Headings, etc.: The division of this Agreement into articles, sections, subsections, paragraphs, subparagraphs, clauses and subclauses, the provision of a table of contents and the insertion of headings are for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement. |
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(3) | Day Not a Business Day: Unless otherwise indicated, if the day on or before which any action which would otherwise be required to be taken hereunder is not a Business Day, that action will be required to be taken on or before the requisite time on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day. |
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(4) | Time of the Essence: Time will be of the essence in all respects in this Agreement and the Subscription Receipt Certificates. |
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(5) | Currency: Except as otherwise stated, all dollar amounts herein and in the Subscription Receipt Certificates are expressed in Canadian dollars. |
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(6) | Severability: In the event that any provision hereof shall be determined to be invalid or unenforceable in any respect, such determination shall not affect such provision in any other respect or any other provision hereof, all of which shall remain in full force and effect. |
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(7) | Conflict: In the event of a conflict or inconsistency between a provision in this Agreement and the Subscription Receipt Certificates issued hereunder, the relevant provision of this Agreement shall prevail to the extent of the inconsistency. |
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Section 1.3 Applicable Law
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This Agreement and the Subscription Receipt Certificates will be construed and enforced in accordance with the laws prevailing in the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein and will be treated in all respects as Ontario contracts.
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ARTICLE 2
THE SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPTS
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Section 2.1 Creation and Issue of Subscription Receipts
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(1) | An aggregate of 8,200 Subscription Receipts, on the terms and subject to the conditions herein provided, are hereby created and authorized for issue at a price of $1,000 for each Subscription Receipt. |
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(2) | One (1) Subscription Receipt shall be issued on the Closing Date, for each $1,000 received by the Corporation as payment therefor and each such Subscription Receipt shall be a fully paid security of the Corporation. |
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(3) | Each Subscription Receipt issued hereunder will entitle the holder thereof, in accordance with the provisions of Article 4 hereof, and without payment of any additional consideration, to be issued one (1) $1,000 principal amount Convertible Debenture under the Debenture Indenture (which is convertible into Underlying Shares in accordance with the terms of the Debenture Indenture). |
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Section 2.2 Terms of Subscription Receipts
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(1) | Purchase by the Issuer: Notwithstanding Section 3.1(2) hereof, the Corporation may from time to time purchase Subscription Receipts by private agreement or otherwise and any such purchase may be made in such manner, from such Persons, at such prices and on such terms as the Corporation in its sole discretion may determine in agreement with the applicable Subscription Receiptholder. Subscription Receipt Certificates representing Subscription Receipts purchased by the Corporation pursuant to this Section 2.2(1) shall be surrendered to the Subscription Receipt Agent for cancellation and shall be accompanied by a Written Direction of the Corporation to cancel the Subscription Receipts represented thereby and shall not be reissued. For greater certainty, nothing in this Section 2.2(1) shall grant to the Corporation a unilateral right of redemption with respect to the Subscription Receipts. |
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(2) | Cancellation of Subscription Receipts: In the event that: (a) a Termination Notice is delivered to the Subscription Receipt Agent; or (b) the Escrow Release Notice is not delivered to the Subscription Receipt Agent at or before the Escrow Release Deadline, then all of the Subscription Receipts shall, without any action on the part of the holders thereof (including the surrender of any Subscription Receipt Certificates), be terminated and cancelled by the Subscription Receipt Agent as of the Termination Time and holders of Subscription Receipt Certificates shall thereafter have no rights thereunder except to receive from the Corporation an amount equal to (i) the aggregate Offering Price for their Subscription Receipts; and (ii) their pro rata share of the Earned Interest, less applicable withholding taxes, if any, in accordance with Section 6.4 hereof. |
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Section 2.3 Form of Subscription Receipts
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(1) | Form: The Subscription Receipts may be issued in both certificated and uncertificated form. Upon the issue of Subscription Receipts, Subscription Receipt Certificates shall be executed by the Corporation and, in accordance with a Written Direction of the Corporation, Authenticated by or on behalf of the Subscription Receipt Agent and delivered by the Subscription Receipt Agent to the Corporation or to the order of the Corporation in accordance with the Written Direction of the Corporation. The Subscription Receipt Certificates shall be substantially in the form as Schedule βAβ attached hereto, subject to the provisions of this Agreement, with such variations and changes as may from time to time be agreed upon by the Subscription Receipt Agent and the Corporation, and the Subscription Receipt Certificates shall be dated as of the Closing Date, shall have such distinguishing letters and numbers as the Corporation may, with the approval of the Subscription Receipt Agent, prescribe and shall be issuable in any denomination excluding fractions. All Subscription Receipts issued to the Depository may be in either a certificated or uncertificated form, such uncertificated form being evidenced by a book position on the register of Subscription Receiptholders to be maintained by the Subscription Receipt Agent in accordance with Section 3.1(1) hereof. |
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(2) | Production: Except as provided in this Article 2, all Subscription Receipts shall, save as to denominations, be of like tenor and effect. The Subscription Receipt Certificates may be engraved, printed, lithographed, photocopied or be partially in one form or another, as the Subscription Receipt Agent may reasonably determine. |
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(3) | Canadian Legend: Subscription Receipt Certificates or written notices delivered in respect of ownership of the Subscription Receipts, as well as all certificates or written notices issued in exchange for or in substitution of such Subscription Receipt Certificates or written notices prior to the date that is four months and a day after the original date of issuance, shall bear a legend substantially in the form of the following: |
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βUNLESS PERMITTED UNDER SECURITIES LEGISLATION, THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY MUST NOT TRADE THE SECURITY BEFORE [INSERT THE DATE THAT IS 4 MONTHS AND A DAY AFTER THE DISTRIBUTION DATE].β
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βTHE SECURITIES REPRESENTED HEREBY AND ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION HEREOF HAVE NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE βU.S. SECURITIES ACTβ), OR STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THESE SECURITIES, AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF FIRE & FLOWER HOLDINGS CORP. (THE βCORPORATIONβ) THAT THESE SECURITIES MAY BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, ONLY (A) TO THE CORPORATION, (B) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 904 OF REGULATION S (βREGULATION Sβ) UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS, (C) IN ACCORDANCE WITH (1) RULE 144A UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT, IF AVAILABLE, OR (2) RULE 144 UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT, IF AVAILABLE, AND IN EACH CASE IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, OR (D) IN ANOTHER TRANSACTION THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE REGISTRATION UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OR ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, PROVIDED THAT IN THE CASE OF TRANSFERS PURSUANT TO (C)(2) OR (D) ABOVE, A LEGAL OPINION SATISFACTORY TO THE CORPORATION MUST FIRST BE PROVIDED TO SUCH EFFECT. DELIVERY OF THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT CONSTITUTE βGOOD DELIVERYβ IN SETTLEMENT OF TRANSACTIONS ON STOCK EXCHANGES IN CANADA.β
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Section 2.4 CDS Subscription Receipts
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(1) | Re-registration of beneficial interests in and transfers of Subscription Receipts held by the Depository shall be made only through the book entry registration system and no Subscription Receipt Certificates shall be issued in respect of such Subscription Receipts except as set out herein or as may be requested by a Depository or the Corporation, from time to time. Except as provided in this Section 2.4, owners of beneficial interests in any CDS Subscription Receipts shall not be entitled to have Subscription Receipts registered in their names and shall not receive or be entitled to receive Subscription Receipts in definitive form or to have their names appear in the register referred to in Section 3.1(1) hereof while they are held as book entry only securities with the Depository. |
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(2) | Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, no CDS Subscription Receipts may be exchanged in whole or in part for Subscription Receipts registered, and no transfer of CDS Subscription Receipts in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than the Depository for such CDS Subscription Receipts or a nominee thereof unless: |
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following which Subscription Receipts for those holders requesting such shall be issued to the beneficial owners of such Subscription Receipts or their nominees as directed by the Depository. The Corporation shall provide a Certificate of the Corporation giving notice to the Subscription Receipt Agent of the occurrence of any event outlined in this Section 2.4(2).
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(3) | Subject to the provisions of this Section 2.4, any exchange of CDS Subscription Receipts for Subscription Receipts which are not CDS Subscription Receipts may be made in whole or in part in accordance with the provisions of Section 3.2 hereof, mutatis mutandis. All such Subscription Receipts issued in exchange for CDS Subscription Receipts or any portion thereof shall be registered in such names as the Depository shall direct and shall be entitled to the same benefits and subject to the same terms and conditions (except insofar as they relate specifically to CDS Subscription Receipts) as the CDS Subscription Receipts or any portion thereof surrendered upon such exchange. |
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(4) | Every Subscription Receipt Authenticated upon registration of a transfer of a CDS Subscription Receipt or any portion thereof, or in exchange for or in lieu of a CDS Subscription Receipt or any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Section 2.4 or otherwise, shall be Authenticated in the form of, and shall be, a CDS Subscription Receipt, unless such Subscription Receipt is registered in the name of a Person other than the Depository or a nominee thereof. |
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(5) | Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, subject to Applicable Legislation, the CDS Subscription Receipts will be issued by way of an Uncertificated Subscription Receipt, unless otherwise requested in writing by the Depository or the Corporation. |
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(6) | The rights of beneficial owners of Subscription Receipts who hold securities entitlements in respect of the Subscription Receipts through the book entry registration system shall be limited to those established by Applicable Legislation and agreements between the Depository and the Book Entry Participants and between such Book Entry Participants and the beneficial owners of Subscription Receipts who hold securities entitlements in respect of the Subscription Receipts through the book entry registration system, and such rights must be exercised through a Book Entry Participant in accordance with the rules and Applicable Procedures of the Depository and the Subscription Receipt Agent. |
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(7) | For so long as Subscription Receipts are held through the Depository, if any notice or other communication is required to be given to Subscription Receiptholders, the Subscription Receipt Agent will give such notices and other communications to the Depository. |
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(8) | Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, neither the Corporation nor the Subscription Receipt Agent nor any agent thereof shall have any responsibility or liability for: |
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(9) | The Corporation may terminate the application of this Section 2.4 in its sole discretion in which case all Subscription Receipts shall be evidenced by Subscription Receipt Certificates registered in the name of a Person other than the Depository or a nominee thereof. |
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Section 2.5 Signing of Subscription Receipt Certificates
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(1) | Signing Officers: The Subscription Receipt Certificates shall be signed by any one (1) officer of the Corporation or any one (1) Director or by any other individual to whom such signing authority is delegated by the Directors from time to time. |
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(2) | Signatures: The signature of an individual referred to in Section 2.5(1) hereof may be a manual signature, electronic engraved, lithographed or printed electronically (including via DocuSign or similar applications) in PDF format or in facsimile and Subscription Receipt Certificates bearing such facsimile or electronic signature will, subject to Section 2.6 hereof, be binding on the Corporation as if they had been manually signed by such individual. |
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(3) | No Longer Officer: Notwithstanding that any individual whose manual, facsimile or electronic signature appears on a Subscription Receipt Certificate as one of the officers of the Corporation or Directors referred to in Section 2.5(1) hereof no longer holds the same or any other office with, or is no longer a Director of, the Corporation, at the date of issue of any Subscription Receipt Certificate or at the date of certification or delivery thereof, such Subscription Receipt Certificate will, subject to Section 2.6 hereof, be valid and binding on the Corporation. |
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Section 2.6 Authentication by Subscription Receipt Agent
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(1) | Authentication: No Subscription Receipt shall (a) be considered issued, valid, or obligatory; nor (b) entitle the holder thereof to the benefits of this Agreement, until it has been Authenticated by the Subscription Receipt Agent. |
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No Subscription Receipt Certificate, if issued, will be valid or entitle the holder to the benefits hereof until it has been certified by signature by or on behalf of the Subscription Receipt Agent substantially in the form of the certificate attached hereto as Schedule βAβ or in such other form as may be approved by the Subscription Receipt Agent and the Corporation. The certification by the Subscription Receipt Agent on a Subscription Receipt Certificate will be conclusive evidence as against the Corporation that such Subscription Receipt Certificate has been duly issued hereunder and that the holder thereof is entitled to the benefits of this Agreement.
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The Subscription Receipt Agent shall Authenticate Uncertificated Subscription Receipts (whether upon original issuance, exchange, registration of transfer or otherwise) by completing its Internal Procedures and the Corporation shall, and hereby acknowledges that it shall, thereupon be deemed to have duly and validly issued such Uncertificated Subscription Receipts under this Agreement. Such Authentication shall be conclusive evidence as against the Corporation that such Uncertificated Subscription Receipts have been duly issued hereunder and that the holder or holders thereof are entitled to the benefits of this Agreement. The register shall be final and conclusive evidence as to all matters relating to Uncertificated Subscription Receipts with respect to which this Agreement requires the Subscription Receipt Agent to maintain records or accounts. In the case of differences between the register at any time and any other time, the register at the later time shall be controlling, absent manifest error, and any Uncertificated Subscription Receipts recorded therein shall be binding on the Corporation.
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Authentication by the Subscription Receipt Agent shall be conclusive evidence as against the Corporation that the Subscription Receipts so Authenticated have been duly issued hereunder and that the holder thereof is entitled to the benefits of this Agreement.
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(3) | Authentication No Representation: Authentication by the Subscription Receipt Agent of any Subscription Receipts, including by way of entry on the register, shall not be construed as a representation or warranty by the Subscription Receipt Agent as to the validity of this Agreement or of such Subscription Receipt Certificates or Uncertificated Subscription Receipts (except the due Authentication thereof) or as to the performance by the Corporation of its obligations under this Agreement and the Subscription Receipt Agent shall in no respect be liable or answerable for the use made of the Subscription Receipts or any of them or, other than as set forth in this Agreement in respect of the Escrowed Funds, of the consideration thereof. |
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Section 2.7 Subscription Receipts to Rank Pari Passu
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All Subscription Receipts will rank pari passu, whatever may be the actual dates of issue.
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Section 2.8 Issue in Substitution for Lost Certificates, Etc.
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(1) | Substitution: If any Subscription Receipt Certificate becomes mutilated or is lost, destroyed or stolen, the Corporation, subject to Applicable Legislation and to Section 2.8(2) hereof, will issue, and thereupon the Subscription Receipt Agent will Authenticate and deliver, a new Subscription Receipt Certificate of like tenor and bearing the same legends as the one mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen in exchange for and in place of and on surrender and cancellation of such mutilated certificate or in lieu of and in substitution for such lost, destroyed or stolen certificate. |
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(2) | Cost of Substitution: The applicant for the issue of a new Subscription Receipt Certificate pursuant to this Section 2.8 shall bear the reasonable cost of the issue thereof and in the case of loss, destruction or theft shall, as a condition precedent to the issue thereof: |
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Β | (b) | if so requested, furnish an indemnity and surety bond in amount and form satisfactory to the Corporation and to the Subscription Receipt Agent in their discretion, acting reasonably; and |
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Section 2.9 Subscription Receiptholder not a Shareholder
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Nothing in this Agreement or in the holding of a Subscription Receipt or otherwise shall be construed as conferring on any Subscription Receiptholder any right or interest whatsoever as a shareholder of the Corporation, including, but not limited to, any right to vote at, to receive notice of, or to attend, any meeting of shareholders or any other proceeding of the Corporation or any right to receive any dividend or other distribution in respect of the Common Shares.
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ARTICLE 3
REGISTRATION, TRANSFER AND OWNERSHIP OF SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPTS AND EXCHANGE OF SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPT CERTIFICATES
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Section 3.1 Registration and Transfer of Subscription Receipts
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(1) | Register: The Corporation will cause to be kept by the Subscription Receipt Agent at its principal office in Toronto, Ontario a register of holders in which shall be entered in alphabetical order the names and addresses of the holders of Subscription Receipts and particulars of the Subscription Receipts held by them. |
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(2) | Transfer: The Subscription Receipts may only be transferred on the register kept by the Subscription Receipt Agent at the principal office by a holder or its legal representatives or its attorney duly appointed by an instrument in writing in form and execution satisfactory to the Subscription Receipt Agent only upon (i) in the case of Subscription Receipt Certificates, surrendering to the Subscription Receipt Agent at the principal office the Subscription Receipt Certificates representing the Subscription Receipts to be transferred together with a duly executed form of transfer (in the form attached to the Subscription Receipt Certificate as set out in Schedule βAβ attached hereto); (ii) in the case of Uncertificated Subscription Receipts, surrendering to the Subscription Receipt Agent at the principal office instruction from the holder in form reasonably satisfactory to the Subscription Receipt Agent; (iii) in the case of CDS Subscription Receipts, compliance with Applicable Procedures prescribed by the Depository under the book entry registration system; and (iv) compliance with: |
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and such transfer shall be duly noted in such register by the Subscription Receipt Agent. Upon compliance with such requirements, the Subscription Receipt Agent shall issue to the transferee of a Certificated Subscription Receipt, a Subscription Receipt Certificate representing the Subscription Receipts transferred, and to the transferee of an Uncertificated Subscription Receipt, an Uncertificated Subscription Receipt (or it shall Authenticate and deliver a Certificated Subscription Receipt instead, upon request) representing the Subscription Receipts transferred, and the transferee of a CDS Subscription Receipt shall be recorded through the relevant Book Entry Participant in accordance with the book entry registration system as the entitlement holder in respect of such Subscription Receipts. Transfers within the systems of the Depository are not the responsibility of the Subscription Receipt Agent and will not be noted on the register maintained by the Subscription Receipt Agent.
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No duty shall rest with the Subscription Receipt Agent to determine compliance of the transferor or transferee with applicable securities laws. The Subscription Receipt Agent shall be entitled to assume that all transfers are legal and proper.
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(3) | Certain Transfers by Persons in the United States: Neither the Subscription Receipts, the Convertible Debentures issuable pursuant to the Subscription Receipts nor the Underlying Shares issuable upon conversion of the Convertible Debentures have been or will be registered under the U.S. Securities Act or under any United States state securities laws. A U.S. Purchaser may only offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer the Subscription Receipts (i) to the Corporation; or (ii) outside the United States to a Person who is not a U.S. Person in compliance with the requirements of Rule 904 of Regulation S and in compliance with applicable local laws and regulations. |
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(4) | No Notice of Trusts: Subject to Applicable Legislation, neither the Corporation nor the Subscription Receipt Agent will be bound to take notice of or see to the execution of any trust, whether express, implied or constructive, in respect of any Subscription Receipt. |
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(5) | Inspection: The register referred to in Section 3.1(1) hereof, and any branch register maintained pursuant to Section 3.1(6) hereof, will at all reasonable times be open for inspection by the Corporation and any Subscription Receiptholder. The Subscription Receipt Agent will from time to time when requested to do so in writing by the Corporation or any Subscription Receiptholder (upon payment of the reasonable charges of the Subscription Receipt Agent) furnish the Corporation or such Subscription Receiptholder with a list of the names and addresses of holders of Subscription Receipts entered on such register and showing the number of Subscription Receipts held by each such holder. |
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(6) | Location of Registers: The Corporation may at any time and from time to time change the place at which the register referred to in Section 3.1(1) hereof is kept and/or cause branch registers of holders to be kept, in each case subject to the approval of the Subscription Receipt Agent, at other places and close such branch registers or change the place at which such branch registers are kept. Notice of all such changes or closures shall be given by the Corporation to the Subscription Receipt Agent and to the holders of Subscription Receipts in accordance with Section 11.1 and Section 11.2 hereof. |
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(7) | United States Transfers: No transfer of Subscription Receipts evidenced by a Subscription Receipt Certificate bearing a legend set forth in Section 2.3(4)(b) above shall be made except in accordance with the requirements of such legend and subject to this Agreement. |
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Section 3.2 Exchange of Subscription Receipt Certificates
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(1) | Exchange: One or more Subscription Receipt Certificates may at any time prior to the earlier of the Release Date and the Termination Date, on compliance with the reasonable requirements of the Subscription Receipt Agent, be exchanged for one or more Subscription Receipt Certificates of different denominations representing in the aggregate the same number of Subscription Receipts and registered in the same name as the Subscription Receipt Certificate or Subscription Receipt Certificates being exchanged. |
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(2) | Place of Exchange: Subscription Receipt Certificates may be exchanged only at the principal office in Toronto, Ontario of the Subscription Receipt Agent or at any other place designated by the Corporation with the approval of the Subscription Receipt Agent. |
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(3) | Cancellation: Any Subscription Receipt Certificate tendered for exchange pursuant to this Section 3.2 or for transfer pursuant to Section 3.1, shall be surrendered to the Subscription Receipt Agent and cancelled. |
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(4) | Execution: The Corporation will sign all Subscription Receipt Certificates in accordance with Section 2.5(1) hereof as necessary to carry out exchanges pursuant to this Section 3.2 and such Subscription Receipt Certificates will be Authenticated by the Subscription Receipt Agent. |
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(5) | Subscription Receipt Certificates: Subscription Receipt Certificates exchanged for Subscription Receipt Certificates that bear the legend set forth in Section 2.3 hereof shall bear the same legend, as applicable. |
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Section 3.3 No Charges for Exchange
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No charge will be levied on a presenter of a Subscription Receipt Certificate pursuant to this Agreement for the exchange of any Subscription Receipt Certificate.
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Section 3.4 Ownership of Subscription Receipts
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(1) | Owner: The Corporation and the Subscription Receipt Agent may deem and treat the Person in whose name any Subscription Receipt is registered as the absolute owner of such Subscription Receipt for all purposes, and such Person will for all purposes of this Agreement be and be deemed to be the absolute owner thereof, entitled to the rights and privileges attaching to such Subscription Receipt, and the Corporation and the Subscription Receipt Agent will not be affected by any notice or knowledge to the contrary except as required by Applicable Legislation or by order of a court of competent jurisdiction. |
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(2) | Rights of Registered Holder: The registered holder of any Subscription Receipt will be entitled to the rights represented thereby free from all equities and rights of set-off or counterclaim between the Corporation and the original or any intermediate holder thereof and all Persons may act accordingly, and the issue and delivery to any such registered holder of Convertible Debentures issuable pursuant thereto (or the payment of amounts payable in respect thereof pursuant to Section 2.2(2) hereof) will be a good discharge to the Corporation and the Subscription Receipt Agent therefor and neither the Corporation nor the Subscription Receipt Agent will be bound to inquire into the title of any such registered holder. |
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ARTICLE 4
ISSUANCE OF CONVERTIBLE DEBENTURES
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Section 4.1 Issuance of Convertible Debentures by Subscription Receipt Agent
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(1) | Escrow Release Notice: If the Escrow Release Conditions set forth in paragraph (a) of the definition of Escrow Release Conditions have been satisfied before the Escrow Release Deadline to the satisfaction of the Corporation, the Corporation shall as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter deliver to the Subscription Receipt Agent the Escrow Release Notice, executed by the Corporation. |
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(2) | Issuance of Convertible Debentures by Subscription Receipt Agent: If the Escrow Release Notice is delivered to the Subscription Receipt Agent at or before the Escrow Release Deadline, upon receipt of the Escrow Release Notice by the Subscription Receipt Agent, all Convertible Debentures will be automatically issued (in accordance with the terms of the Debenture Indenture) on the Release Date for and on behalf of the holders thereof and the holders thereof shall, without payment of additional consideration or any further action on the part of the holders thereof (including the surrender of any Subscription Receipt Certificates or deemed surrender of any Uncertificated Subscription Receipts), be deemed to have subscribed for and be the holder of the corresponding number of Convertible Debentures issuable pursuant to such Subscription Receipts. |
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(3) | Certificated Subscription Receipts: In the case of Certificated Subscription Receipts, the Corporation will cause the issuance of the applicable Convertible Debentures to the holders of Certificated Subscription Receipts. |
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(4) | Uncertificated and CDS Subscription Receipts: In the case of Uncertificated Subscription Receipts, the Corporation will cause the issuance and registration of the applicable Convertible Debentures in the name of the holders of Uncertificated Subscription Receipts and, in the case of CDS Subscription Receipts, the Corporation will direct the Depository to cause to be issued book entry only system customer confirmations to the beneficial holders of the Convertible Debentures. |
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(5) | Rights on Issuance: The holder of any Convertible Debentures deemed to be issued pursuant to Section 4.1(2) hereof shall have no rights hereunder except to be issued the Convertible Debentures pursuant to the Subscription Receipts, the Subscription Receipt Certificates will represent only the right of the holders thereof to be issued the Convertible Debentures pursuant to the Subscription Receipts. |
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(6) | Direction of Subscription Receipt Agent: Provided that the Escrow Release Notice is received by the Subscription Receipt Agent at or before the Escrow Release Deadline, the parties hereby irrevocably authorize the issuance of the Convertible Debentures pursuant to Section 4.1(2) hereof upon delivery of the Escrow Release Notice. |
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(7) | Release of Escrowed Funds: If the Escrow Release Notice is delivered to the Subscription Receipt Agent at or before the Escrow Release Deadline, the Subscription Receipt Agent will release the Escrowed Funds in accordance with Section 6.3 hereof. |
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Section 4.2 Effect of Issuance of Convertible Debentures
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Upon the issuance of the Convertible Debentures pursuant to the Subscription Receipts in accordance with Section 4.1(2) hereof, the Convertible Debentures thereby issuable will be issued, and the Person or Persons to whom such securities are to be issued will be the holder or holders of record thereof, on the Release Date unless the transfer registers for the Convertible Debentures are closed on the Release Date, in which case such Convertible Debentures will be deemed to have been issued and such Person or Persons will become the holder or holders of record thereof on the date on which such transfer registers are reopened, but such Convertible Debentures will be issued on the basis of the number of Convertible Debentures to which such Person or Persons were entitled on the Release Date.
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Section 4.3 Fractions
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The Corporation shall not be required, upon issuance of the Convertible Debentures pursuant to the Subscription Receipts, to issue fractions of Convertible Debentures to any Person or to issue certificates which evidence a fractional Convertible Debenture. To the extent that a Subscription Receiptholder would otherwise have been entitled to receive a fraction or fractions of an Convertible Debenture pursuant to the Subscription Receipts, that Subscription Receiptholder may exercise such right in respect of the fraction or fractions only in combination with its entitlement to a fraction or fractions of a Convertible Debenture in respect of another Subscription Receipt or other Subscription Receipts that in the aggregate entitle the Subscription Receiptholder to receive a whole number of Convertible Debentures and the Corporation shall issue such whole Convertible Debentures to the Subscription Receiptholder in respect of those fractions that in the aggregate form whole Convertible Debentures. Subject to the above, all remaining fractions of a Convertible Debenture will be rounded down to the nearest whole number without any payment or compensation in lieu thereof.
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Section 4.4 Recording
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Section 4.5 Securities Restrictions
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(1) | General: No Convertible Debentures will be issued pursuant to any Subscription Receipt if the issue of such Convertible Debentures would constitute a violation of the securities laws of any jurisdiction and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the certificates representing the Convertible Debentures thereby issued will bear such legend or legends as may, in the opinion of Counsel to the Corporation, be necessary or advisable in order to avoid a violation of any securities laws of any jurisdiction or to comply with the requirements of any stock exchange on which the Convertible Debentures or Common Shares are then listed, provided that if, at any time, in the opinion of Counsel to the Corporation, such legend or legends are no longer necessary or advisable in order to avoid a violation of any such laws or requirements, or the holder of any such legended certificate, at the expense thereof, provides the Corporation with evidence satisfactory in form and substance to the Corporation (which may include an opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the Corporation) to the effect that such holder is entitled to sell or otherwise transfer such Convertible Debentures in a transaction in which such legend or legends are not required, such legended certificate may thereafter be surrendered to the applicable transfer agent in exchange for a certificate which does not bear such legend or legends. |
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(2) | Canadian Legend on Convertible Debentures and Underlying Shares: The Convertible Debentures issued, or written notices delivered in respect of ownership of the Convertible Debentures, upon the conversion of the Subscription Receipts and the Underlying Shares issued, or written notices delivered in respect of ownership of the Underlying Shares, upon the conversion of the Convertible Debentures prior to the date that is four months and one day after the issuance of the Subscription Receipts shall bear a legend substantially in the following form: |
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βUNLESS PERMITTED UNDER SECURITIES LEGISLATION, THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY MUST NOT TRADE THE SECURITY BEFORE [INSERT THE DATE THAT IS 4 MONTHS AND A DAY AFTER THE DISTRIBUTION DATE].β
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(3) | United States Legend on Convertible Debentures and Underlying Shares |
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βTHE SECURITIES REPRESENTED HEREBY [For Convertible Debentures: AND ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION HEREOF] HAVE NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE βU.S. SECURITIES ACTβ), OR STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THESE SECURITIES, AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF FIRE & FLOWER HOLDINGS CORP. (THE βCORPORATIONβ) THAT THESE SECURITIES MAY BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, ONLY (A) TO THE CORPORATION, (B) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 904 OF REGULATION S (βREGULATION Sβ) UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS, (C) IN ACCORDANCE WITH (1) RULE 144A UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT, IF AVAILABLE, OR (2) RULE 144 UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT, IF AVAILABLE, AND IN EACH CASE IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, OR (D) IN ANOTHER TRANSACTION THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE REGISTRATION UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OR ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, PROVIDED THAT IN THE CASE OF TRANSFERS PURSUANT TO (C)(2) OR (D) ABOVE, A LEGAL OPINION SATISFACTORY TO THE CORPORATION MUST FIRST BE PROVIDED TO SUCH EFFECT. DELIVERY OF THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT CONSTITUTE βGOOD DELIVERYβ IN SETTLEMENT OF TRANSACTIONS ON STOCK EXCHANGES IN CANADA.β
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provided, that if such securities are being sold in compliance with Rule 904 of Regulation S, and provided further that the Corporation is a βforeign issuerβ within the meaning of Regulation S at the time of sale, the above noted legend may be removed by providing a duly completed and signed declaration to the Debenture Trustee or the transfer agent for the Common Shares, as applicable, substantially as set forth in Schedule βCβ hereto (or as the Corporation may prescribe from time to time), together with any additional documentation as may be required by the Corporation or the Debenture Trustee or transfer agent, which evidence may include an opinion of counsel of recognized standing, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Corporation, to the effect that such above noted legend is no longer required pursuant to the requirements of the U.S. Securities Act; and provided further that, if any such securities are being sold in accordance with Rule 144 under the U.S. Securities Act, the above noted legend may be removed by delivery to the Debenture Trustee or transfer agent, for the Common Shares, as applicable, of an opinion of counsel of recognized standing, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Corporation, to the effect that the above noted legend is no longer required under applicable requirements of the U.S. Securities Act or applicable state securities laws.
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ARTICLE 5
COVENANTS
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Section 5.1 General Covenants of the Corporation
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The Corporation covenants with the Subscription Receipt Agent and the Subscription Receiptholders, that so long as any Subscription Receipts remain outstanding:
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(1) | Maintenance: The Corporation will use its commercially reasonable efforts to at all times maintain its corporate existence, carry on and conduct its business, and that of its material subsidiaries, in a proper, efficient and business-like manner and keep or cause to be kept proper books of account in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. |
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(2) | Reservation of Underlying Shares: The Corporation will reserve and conditionally allot and keep available sufficient unissued Underlying Shares to enable it to satisfy its obligations pursuant to the Convertible Debentures. |
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(3) | Issue of Convertible Debentures: The Corporation will cause the Convertible Debentures to be issued pursuant to the Subscription Receipts and the certificates representing such Convertible Debentures to be issued in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the Debenture Indenture and all Convertible Debentures that are issued pursuant to the Subscription Receipts will be fully paid Convertible Debentures. |
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(4) | Notification of Completion or Termination: The Corporation will provide written notification to the Subscription Receipt Agent of the satisfaction of the Escrow Release Conditions (by way of the Escrow Release Notice) or the Termination Date (by way of the Termination Notice), as the case may be. |
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(5) | Open Registers: The Corporation will cause the Subscription Receipt Agent to keep open the registers of holders referred to in Section 3.1 hereof as required by such section and will not take any action or omit to take any action which would have the effect of preventing the Subscription Receiptholders from receiving any of the Convertible Debentures issued pursuant to the Subscription Receipts. |
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(6) | Filings: The Corporation will make all requisite filings, including filings with appropriate securities commissions and stock exchanges, in connection with the issue of the Convertible Debentures pursuant to the Subscription Receipts. |
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(7) | General Performance: The Corporation will perform and carry out all acts and things to be done by it as provided in this Agreement or in order to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby. |
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(8) | Notice of Default: The Corporation will promptly advise the Subscription Receipt Agent and the Subscription Receiptholders in writing of any default under the terms of this Agreement. |
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(9) | Notices to Subscription Receiptholders: Any notices or deliveries required to be provided to holders of Subscription Receipts hereunder shall be sent by prepaid mail or delivery to each holder of Subscription Receipts at the address of such holder appearing on the register of Subscription Receipts maintained hereunder. |
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Section 5.2 Representations, Warrants and Covenants in favour of the Subscription Receipt Agent
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(1) | To the extent that the Corporation currently has cannabis-related activities or interests, the Corporation represents, warrants and agrees that, in addition to any other representation and warranty in this Agreement: |
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Β | (c) | it does not hold cannabis or cannabis-related operations or interests in any other country (including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, royalty entitlements or investments in a cannabis business) where the production, distribution or possession of cannabis is prohibited as a matter of the law of the applicable country. |
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(2) | The Corporation agrees that it will promptly furnish to the Subscription Receipt Agent from time to time: |
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Β | (b) | not less than once per calendar year, and whenever reasonably requested by the Subscription Receipt Agent, evidence of the current status of each of its Cannabis Permits; |
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Β | (c) | any information that the Corporation provides in writing to a Governmental Authority in respect of its cannabis-related business and pursuant to a reporting obligation in accordance with applicable laws, provided that such information (or part thereof) shall be furnished solely to the extent that the Subscription Receipt Agent is reasonably required to receive such information to satisfy its obligations pursuant to the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (Canada), and provided further that, other than for such specific and limited purpose, the Subscription Receipt Agent shall have no rights whatsoever to any such confidential and proprietary information of the Corporation and shall keep confidential and not use or disclose, in any way, other than to satisfy those legal obligations. |
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(3) | To the extent that the Corporation has cannabis-related activities or interests now or in the future, the Corporation covenants and agrees that, in addition to any other covenant or obligation in this Agreement, it shall: |
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Β | (b) | at all times keep and maintain in good standing its Cannabis Permits, and shall notify the Subscription Receipt Agent of any breach of this requirement immediately upon obtaining knowledge thereof; |
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Β | (c) | obtain, and ensure at all times that it continues to have, all permits and licences required by any Canadian or other applicable Governmental Authority that are necessary to lawfully conduct or maintain, directly or indirectly, its cannabis-related activities and interests and upon receipt of its Cannabis Permits, immediately provide same to the Subscription Receipt Agent; |
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Β | (e) | deliver to the Subscription Receipt Agent, (i) at any reasonable time upon demand by the Subscription Receipt Agent; (ii) in any event, immediately upon the breach of any representation, warranty or covenant contained in this Section 5.2; and (iii) within one hundred and twenty (120) days after the end of each calendar year, an Officerβs Certificate (or a supplement to an Officerβs Certificate otherwise being provided), as to the knowledge of such officer(s) of the Corporationβs compliance or non- compliance with this Section 5.2, in each case attaching evidence of the current status of all Cannabis Permits; |
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Β | (f) | carry on and conduct its cannabis related activities in accordance with Applicable Legislation and regulations, of all Governmental Authorities in the applicable jurisdictions; |
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Β | (g) | if applicable, meet all listing requirements for each stock exchange upon which it is listed relating to compliance with Applicable Legislation in all jurisdictions in which the Corporation has interests; |
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Β | (h) | in no event, acquire or hold cannabis or cannabis-related operations or interests in the United States (including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, royalty entitlements or investments in a cannabis business), or sell or distribute cannabis into the United States so long as the production, distribution or possession of cannabis remains prohibited as a matter of any federal, territorial or state laws of the United States or is prohibited as a matter of any applicable United Statesβ Governmental Authority; and |
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Β | (i) | in no event, acquire or hold cannabis or cannabis-related operations or interests in any other country (including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, royalty entitlements or investments in a cannabis business) if the production, distribution or possession of cannabis is prohibited as a matter of the law of the applicable country. |
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(4) | The Corporation shall cause all of its Subsidiaries to comply with the provisions of this Section 5.2 as if such Subsidiaries were expressly referred to in such provisions in replacement of references to the Corporation, mutatis mutandis. |
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(5) | The Corporation acknowledges and agrees that, notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, any default of any provision of this Section 5.2 or any event which causes Canadian banks to cease providing financial services to cannabis businesses that are substantially similar to the Corporationβs business will result in the right of the Subscription Receipt Agent, at its sole discretion, to resign as Subscription Receipt Agent effective immediately, and the Corporation hereby acknowledges such right of the Subscription Receipt Agent to immediately resign. For certainty, no cure period or advance notice is required to be given by the Subscription Receipt Agent before the Subscription Receipt Agent may exercise such discretion. The Corporation acknowledges and agrees, in addition to any other provision herein relating to the resignation or replacement of the Subscription Receipt Agent, that the Subscription Receipt Agent may resign as subscription receipt agent hereunder and be discharged from all further duties and liabilities hereunder, without notice, if the Subscription Receipt Agent reasonably determines that (a) the Corporation has become unable to continue to lawfully operate any part of its cannabis or cannabis-related business or to own or maintain, directly or indirectly, its cannabis or cannabis-related investments or operations; or (b) the Subscription Receipt Agent would be prejudiced by continuing to act as subscription receipt agent hereunder (provided that nothing herein shall give rise to a right of termination by the Subscription Receipt Agent in the event that the Corporation takes steps, in anticipation of any change in law or regulations, to terminate or modify its cannabis or cannabis-related business, investments or operations to ensure compliance with applicable law). |
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Section 5.3 Additional Compliance
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The Corporation agrees that it will promptly furnish to the Subscription Receipt Agent from time to time:
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Section 5.4 Remuneration and Expenses of Subscription Receipt Agent
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The Corporation covenants that it will pay to the Subscription Receipt Agent from time to time reasonable remuneration for its services hereunder and will pay or reimburse the Subscription Receipt Agent upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Subscription Receipt Agent in the administration or execution of its duties hereunder (including the reasonable compensation and the disbursements of its Counsel and all other advisers and assistants not regularly in its employ) both before any default hereunder and thereafter until all duties of the Subscription Receipt Agent hereunder shall be finally and fully performed, except for any expense, disbursement or advance that arises out of or results from the Subscription Receipt Agentβs gross negligence, fraud, wilful misconduct or bad faith. Any amount owing hereunder and remaining unpaid after thirty (30) days from the invoice date will bear interest at the then current rate charged by the Subscription Receipt Agent, acting reasonably, against unpaid invoices and shall be payable upon demand. This Section 5.4 shall survive the resignation of the Subscription Receipt Agent and/or the termination of this Agreement.
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Section 5.5 Notice of Issue
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The Corporation will give written notice of and make all requisite filings respecting the issue of securities pursuant to the Subscription Receipts, in such detail as may be required, to each securities commission, stock exchange, or similar regulatory authority in each jurisdiction in which there is legislation or regulations requiring the giving of any such notice or making of any such filing in order that such issue of securities and the subsequent disposition of the securities so issued will not be subject to the prospectus or registration requirements, if any, of such legislation or regulations.
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Section 5.6 Securities Qualification Requirements
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If any instrument is required to be filed with, or any permission is required to be obtained from, any Governmental Authority or any other step is required under Applicable Legislation before any Convertible Debentures which a Subscription Receiptholder is entitled to acquire pursuant to the Subscription Receipts may properly and legally be issued, the Corporation covenants that it will promptly take such required action.
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Section 5.7 Performance of Covenants by Subscription Receipt Agent
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If the Corporation fails to perform any of its obligations under this Agreement, the Subscription Receipt Agent may notify the Subscription Receiptholders of such failure or may itself perform any of such obligations capable of being performed by the Subscription Receipt Agent, but the Subscription Receipt Agent will have no obligation to notify the Subscription Receiptholders that it is so doing. All amounts expended or advanced by the Subscription Receipt Agent in so doing will be repayable as provided in Section 5.4 hereof. No such performance, expenditure or advance by the Subscription Receipt Agent will relieve the Corporation of any default or of its continuing obligations hereunder.
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ARTICLE 6
DEPOSIT OF PROCEEDS AND
CANCELLATION OF SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPTS
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Section 6.1 Deposit of Escrowed Proceeds in Escrow
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The Corporation shall deliver the Escrowed Proceeds to the Subscription Receipt Agent on the Closing Date by way of certified cheque, bank draft or electronic wire transfer in immediately available funds, and upon receipt of such funds, the Subscription Receipt Agent shall deliver a signed receipt acknowledging receipt of the Escrowed Proceeds. The Subscription Receipt Agent shall immediately place such funds in a segregated account in accordance with the provisions of this Article 6. The Corporation acknowledges and agrees that it is a condition of the payment by the holders of Subscription Receipts of the aggregate Offering Price that the Escrowed Funds are held by the Subscription Receipt Agent in accordance with the provisions of this Article 6. The Corporation further acknowledges and confirms that it has no interest in the Escrowed Funds unless and until the Escrow Release Notice is delivered to the Subscription Receipt Agent (at or before the Escrow Release Deadline). The Subscription Receipt Agent shall retain the Escrowed Funds for the benefit of the holders of the Subscription Receipts and, upon the delivery of the Escrow Release Notice to the Subscription Receipt Agent (at or before the Escrow Release Deadline), retroactively for the benefit of the Corporation in accordance with the provisions of this Article 6. The Subscription Receipt Agent shall acknowledge by separate written receipt to the Corporation the receipt and deposit into segregated accounts of $8,200,000 of the Escrowed Proceeds, in accordance with the provisions of this Article 6.
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Section 6.2 Investment of Escrowed Funds
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(1) | Until released in accordance with this Agreement, the Escrowed Funds shall be kept segregated in the records of the Subscription Receipt Agent and shall be deposited in one or more segregated interest-bearing trust accounts to be maintained by the banks, including the banks listed in Schedule βDβ to this Agreement (each such bank, an βApproved Bankβ). |
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(2) | The Escrowed Funds shall bear interest at an annual rate which is equal to the Bank of Canada target overnight rate minus 0.05%. Such payment obligation shall be calculated daily and paid to the account(s) within three Business Days of each month-end. The Subscription Receipt Agent may receive investment earnings in excess of or less than the interest payable pursuant to this Section 6.2(2), such earnings being for the Subscription Receipt Agentβs benefit or at its risk, as applicable. |
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(3) | All amounts held by the Subscription Receipt Agent pursuant to this Agreement shall be held by the Subscription Receipt Agent for the benefit of the Subscription Receiptholders and the delivery of the Escrowed Proceeds to the Subscription Receipt Agent shall not give rise to a debtor-creditor or other similar relationship between the Subscription Receipt Agent and the Subscription Receiptholders. The amounts held by the Subscription Receipt Agent pursuant to this Agreement are the sole risk of the Subscription Receiptholders and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Subscription Receipt Agent shall have no responsibility or liability for any diminution of the Escrowed Funds which may result from any deposit made with an Approved Bank pursuant to this Section 6.2, including any losses resulting from a default by the Approved Bank or other credit losses (whether or not resulting from such a default) and any credit or other losses on any deposit liquidated or sold prior to maturity. The Corporation acknowledges and agrees that the Subscription Receipt Agent acts prudently in depositing the Escrowed Funds at any Approved Bank, and that the Subscription Receipt Agent is not required to make any further inquiries in respect of any such bank. |
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Section 6.3 Release of Escrowed Funds on Completion
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In the event that the Escrow Release Notice is delivered to the Subscription Receipt Agent at or before the Escrow Release Deadline, the Corporation shall be entitled to receive from the Subscription Receipt Agent an amount equal to the Escrowed Funds, less any remaining remuneration, expenses and disbursements of the Subscription Receipt Agent payable under Section 5.4 hereof. The Subscription Receipt Agent shall deliver the funds referred to in this Section 6.3 to the Corporation as soon as practicable on the Release Date.
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Section 6.4 Release of Escrowed Funds on Termination
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(1) | In the event that a Termination Notice is delivered to the Subscription Receipt Agent or the Corporation announces to the public that it does not intend to satisfy the Escrow Release Conditions at or before the Escrow Release Deadline, or the Escrow Release Notice is not delivered to the Subscription Receipt Agent at or before the Escrow Release Deadline, each Subscription Receipt shall, subject to Section 6.4(5) hereof, be terminated and cancelled by the Subscription Receipt Agent as of the Termination Time and each Subscription Receiptholder shall be entitled to receive at the Termination Payment Time, an amount equal to (a) the aggregate Offering Price in respect of such holderβs Subscription Receipts; and (b) such holderβs pro rata share of the Earned Interest, less applicable withholding taxes, if any. |
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(2) | To the extent that the Corporation or Subscription Receiptholder, as the case may be, receives a payment in respect of Earned Interest, the Corporation or Subscription Receiptholder, as the case may be, shall be deemed to have earned such Earned Interest for the purposes of the reporting or the withholding of taxes, if any, and the parties shall report the earning of such Earned Interest for income tax purposes in a manner consistent with the foregoing. For tax reporting purposes, all interest or other taxable income earned from the investment of the Escrowed Funds in any tax year shall (a) to the extent such interest is distributed by the Subscription Receipt Agent to any person or entity pursuant to the terms of this Agreement during such tax year, be allocated to such person or entity; and (b) otherwise be allocated to the Corporation in the taxation year that it was earned, notwithstanding that no such amount has been distributed. The Subscription Receiptholders and the Corporation agree to provide the Subscription Receipt Agent with their certified tax identification numbers and others forms, documents and information that the Subscription Receipt Agent may request in order to fulfill any tax reporting function. |
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(3) | The obligation to make the payment of the amounts specified in Section 6.4(1) hereof shall be satisfied, in the case of CDS Subscription Receipts, by wire transfer of immediately available funds made by the Subscription Receipt Agent to the Depository or otherwise by the Subscription Receipt Agent mailing cheques made payable to the Subscription Receiptholders at their registered addresses. |
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(4) | If, at the Termination Time, and after the payments in Section 6.4(1) have been satisfied, the Escrowed Funds are less than the amount to which a Subscription Receiptholder is entitled pursuant to its refund right under Section 6.4(1), the Corporation shall: (a) within two (2) Business Days of the Termination Date, provide the Subscription Receipt Agent with sufficient funds to offset any such difference; or (b) within five (5) Business Days of the Termination Date, mail payment representing such difference by cheque or cheques payable to the Subscription Receiptholders to the addresses specified for such Subscription Receiptholders in the register kept with the Subscription Receipt Agent. |
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(5) | Upon receipt of a wire transfer or the delivery of any cheque as provided in Section 6.4(4) hereof (and, in the case of a cheque, provided such cheque has been honoured for payment, if presented for payment within six (6) months of the date thereof) all rights evidenced by the Subscription Receipts held by a Subscription Receiptholder shall be satisfied and such Subscription Receipts shall be void and of no value or effect. |
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Section 6.5 Additional Payments by the Corporation
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The Corporation shall, no later than one (1) Business Day before the date upon which any amount due hereunder from the Corporation, if any, is required to be paid pursuant to this Article 6, pay to the Subscription Receipt Agent such amount, if any, in immediately available funds as will be sufficient to allow the Subscription Receipt Agent to pay in full the amounts required to be paid under this Article 6. The Corporation shall notify in writing the Subscription Receipt Agent of such payments when made.
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Section 6.6 Withholding
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The Subscription Receipt Agent shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amount released pursuant to this Agreement all taxes which may be required to be deducted or withheld under any provision of applicable tax law. All such withheld amounts will be treated as having been delivered to the party entitled to the amount released in respect of which such tax has been deducted or withheld and remitted to the appropriate taxing authority.
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Section 6.7 Escrowed Funds
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In addition to the other rights granted to holders of Subscription Receipts in this Agreement, until the earlier of the Termination Date or the Release Date, each holder of Subscription Receipts has a claim against the Escrowed Funds held by the Subscription Receipt Agent and against the Corporation, in the amount equal to $1,000 for each Subscription Receipt held by such holder, which claim shall subsist until such time as the Convertible Debentures issuable pursuant to such Subscription Receipts are issued or such amount is paid in full. In the event that, prior to the earlier of the Termination Time or the Release Date, the Corporation (a) makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or any proceeding is instituted by the Corporation seeking relief on behalf thereof as a debtor, or to adjudicate the Corporation a bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking liquidation, winding-up, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of the Corporation or the debts of the Corporation under any law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or relief of debtors, or seeking appointment of a receiver, receiver and manager, trustee, custodian or similar official for the Corporation or any substantial part of the property or assets of the Corporation or the Corporation takes any corporate action to authorize any of the actions set forth above; or (b) the Corporation shall be declared bankrupt, or a receiver, receiver and manager, trustee, custodian or similar official is appointed for the Corporation or any substantial part of the property or assets of the Corporation or an encumbrancer shall legally take possession of any substantial part of the property or assets of the Corporation or a distress or execution or any similar process is levied or enforced against such property and assets and remains unsatisfied for such period as would permit such property or such part thereof to be sold thereunder, the right of each holder of Subscription Receipts to be issued Convertible Debentures pursuant to the Subscription Receipts of such holder will terminate and such holder will be entitled to assert a claim, against the Escrowed Funds held by the Subscription Receipt Agent and against the Corporation for any shortfall, in an amount equal to $1,000 for each Subscription Receipt held by such holder.
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Section 6.8 Representation Regarding Third Party Interests
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The Corporation hereby represents to the Subscription Receipt Agent that any account to be opened by, or interest to be held by, the Subscription Receipt Agent in connection with this Agreement, for or to the credit of the Corporation, either (a) is not intended to be used by or on behalf of any third party; or (b) is intended to be used by or on behalf of a third party, in which case the Corporation hereby agrees to complete, execute and deliver forthwith to the Subscription Receipt Agent a declaration of third party interest in the Subscription Receipt Agentβs prescribed form in accordance with the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (Canada) and the regulations thereto, or in such other form as may be satisfactory to it, as to the particulars of such third party.
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ARTICLE 7
ENFORCEMENT
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Section 7.1 Suits by Subscription Receiptholders
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All or any of the rights conferred on the holder of any Subscription Receipt by the terms of the Subscription Receipt Certificate representing such Subscription Receipt or of this Agreement may be enforced by such holder by appropriate legal proceedings but without prejudice to the right which is hereby conferred on the Subscription Receipt Agent to proceed in the name thereof or on behalf of the holders of Subscription Receipts to enforce each and every provision herein contained for the benefit of the Subscription Receiptholders.
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Section 7.2 Limitation of Liability
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The obligations hereunder are not personally binding on, nor will resort hereunder be had to the private property of, any past, present or future Director, shareholder, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, but only the property of the Corporation shall be bound in respect hereof.
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ARTICLE 8
MEETINGS OF SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPTHOLDERS
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Section 8.1 Right to Convene Meetings
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(1) | Convening of Meeting: The Subscription Receipt Agent may at any time and from time to time convene a meeting of the Subscription Receiptholders, and will do so on receipt of a Written Request of the Corporation or a Subscription Receiptholdersβ Request and on being funded and indemnified to its reasonable satisfaction by the Corporation or by one or more of the Subscription Receiptholders signing such Subscription Receiptholdersβ Request against the costs which it may incur in connection with calling and holding such meeting. |
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(2) | Failure to Convene: If the Subscription Receipt Agent fails, within five (5) Business Days after receipt of such Written Request of the Corporation or Subscription Receiptholdersβ Request, funding and indemnification, to give notice convening a meeting, the Corporation or any of such Subscription Receiptholders, as the case may be, may convene such meeting. |
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(3) | Place of Meeting: Every such meeting will be held in Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, or such other place as is approved or determined by the Subscription Receipt Agent and the Corporation. |
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Section 8.2 Notice
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(1) | Notice: At least seven (7) Business Daysβ notice of any meeting must be given to the Subscription Receiptholders, to the Subscription Receipt Agent (unless the meeting has been called by it) and to the Corporation (unless the meeting has been called by it). |
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(2) | Contents: The notice of the meeting must state the time when and the place where the meeting is to be held and must state briefly the general nature of the business to be transacted thereat, but it will not be necessary for the notice to set out the terms of any resolution to be proposed or any of the provisions of this Article 8. |
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Section 8.3 Chair
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Some individual (who need not be a Subscription Receiptholder) designated in writing by the Subscription Receipt Agent will be chair of the meeting or, if no individual is so designated or the individual so designated is not present within fifteen (15) minutes after the time fixed for the holding of the meeting, the Subscription Receiptholders present in person or by proxy may choose some individual present to be chairman.
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Section 8.4 Quorum
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(1) | Quorum: Subject to the provisions of Section 8.12 hereof, at any meeting of Subscription Receiptholders, a quorum will consist of Subscription Receiptholders present in person or by proxy at the commencement of the meeting holding in the aggregate not less than 10% of the total number of Subscription Receipts then outstanding. |
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(2) | No Quorum: If a quorum of Subscription Receiptholders is not present within thirty (30) minutes after the time fixed for holding a meeting, the meeting, if summoned by Subscription Receiptholders or on a Subscription Receiptholdersβ Request, will be dissolved, but, subject to Section 8.12 hereof, in any other case will be adjourned to the third (3rd) following Business Day at the same time and place and no notice of the adjournment need be given. |
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(3) | Quorum at Adjourned Meeting: At the adjourned meeting, the Subscription Receiptholders present in person or by proxy will form a quorum and may transact any business for which the meeting was originally convened notwithstanding the number of Subscription Receipts that they hold. |
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Section 8.5 Power to Adjourn
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The chair of a meeting at which a quorum of the Subscription Receiptholders is present may, with the consent of the meeting, adjourn the meeting, and no notice of such adjournment need be given except as the meeting prescribes.
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Section 8.6 Show of Hands
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Every question submitted to a meeting, other than an Extraordinary Resolution, will be decided in the first place by a majority of the votes given on a show of hands and, unless a poll is duly demanded as herein provided, a declaration by the chair that a resolution has been carried or carried unanimously or by a particular majority or lost or not carried by a particular majority will be conclusive evidence of the fact.
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Section 8.7 Poll
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(1) | Extraordinary Resolution: On every Extraordinary Resolution, and on every other question submitted to a meeting on which a poll is directed by the chair or requested by one or more Subscription Receiptholders acting in person or by proxy and holding in the aggregate not less than 10% of the total number of Subscription Receipts then outstanding, a poll will be taken in such manner as the chair directs. |
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(2) | Other: Questions other than those required to be determined by Extraordinary Resolution will be decided by a majority of the votes cast on the poll. |
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Section 8.8 Voting
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On a show of hands each Person present and entitled to vote, whether as a Subscription Receiptholder or as proxy for one or more absent Subscription Receiptholders, or both, will have one (1) vote, and on a poll each Subscription Receiptholder present in person or represented by a proxy duly appointed by instrument in writing will be entitled to one (1) vote in respect of each Subscription Receipt held by such holder. A proxy need not be a Subscription Receiptholder.
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Section 8.9 Regulations
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(1) | Ability to Make: The Subscription Receipt Agent, or the Corporation with the approval of the Subscription Receipt Agent, may from time to time make or vary such regulations as it thinks fit: |
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Any regulations so made will be binding and effective and the votes given in accordance therewith will be valid and will be counted.
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(2) | Recognition: Except as such regulations provide, the only Persons who will be recognized at a meeting as the holders of any Subscription Receipts, or as entitled to vote or, subject to Section 8.10 hereof, to be present at the meeting in respect thereof, will be the registered holders of such Subscription Receipts or Persons holding proxies on their behalf. |
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Section 8.10 The Corporation and Subscription Receipt Agent may be Represented
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The Corporation and the Subscription Receipt Agent, by their respective employees, officers or Directors, and Counsel to the Corporation and the Subscription Receipt Agent, may attend any meeting of Subscription Receiptholders, but will have no vote as such.
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Section 8.11 Powers Exercisable by Extraordinary Resolution
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In addition to all other powers conferred on them by the other provisions of this Agreement or by law, the Subscription Receiptholders at a meeting will have the power, exercisable from time to time by Extraordinary Resolution:
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(1) | to assent to or sanction any amendment, modification, abrogation, alteration, compromise or arrangement of any right of the Subscription Receiptholders or, with the consent of the Subscription Receipt Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld), of the Subscription Receipt Agent in its capacity as agent hereunder or on behalf of the Subscription Receiptholders against the Corporation, whether such right arises under this Agreement or otherwise, which shall be agreed to by the Corporation, and to authorize the Subscription Receipt Agent to concur in and execute any amendment or indenture supplemental hereto in connection therewith; |
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(2) | to amend, alter or repeal any Extraordinary Resolution previously passed; |
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(3) | subject to arrangements as to financing and indemnity satisfactory to the Subscription Receipt Agent, to direct or authorize the Subscription Receipt Agent to enforce any obligation of the Corporation under this Agreement or to enforce any right of the Subscription Receiptholders in any manner specified in the Extraordinary Resolution; |
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(4) | to direct or authorize the Subscription Receipt Agent to refrain from enforcing any obligation or right referred to in Section 8.11(3) hereof; |
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(5) | to waive and direct the Subscription Receipt Agent to waive any default by the Corporation in complying with any provision of this Agreement, either unconditionally or on any condition specified in the Extraordinary Resolution; |
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(6) | to appoint a committee with power and authority to exercise, and to direct the Subscription Receipt Agent to exercise, on behalf of the Subscription Receiptholders, such of the powers of the Subscription Receiptholders as are exercisable by Extraordinary Resolution; |
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(7) | to restrain any Subscription Receiptholder from taking or instituting any suit, action or proceeding against the Corporation for the enforcement of any obligation of the Corporation under this Agreement or to enforce any right of the Subscription Receiptholders; |
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(8) | to direct any Subscription Receiptholder who, as such, has brought any suit, action or proceeding, to stay or discontinue or otherwise deal therewith on payment of the costs, charges and expenses reasonably and properly incurred by it in connection therewith; |
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(9) | to assent to any change in or omission from the provisions contained in the Subscription Receipt Certificates and this Agreement or any amendment or ancillary or supplemental instrument which may be agreed to by the Corporation or, with the consent of the Subscription Receipt Agent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, concerning any such right of the Subscription Receipt Agent, and to authorize the Subscription Receipt Agent to concur in and execute any amendment or ancillary or supplemental indenture embodying the change or omission; |
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(10) | to assent to any compromise or arrangement with any creditor or creditors or any class or classes of creditors, whether secured or otherwise, and with holders of any shares or other securities of the Corporation; or |
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(11) | from time to time and at any time to remove the Subscription Receipt Agent and appoint a successor Subscription Receipt Agent. |
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Section 8.12 Meaning of βExtraordinary Resolutionβ
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(1) | Meaning: The expression βExtraordinary Resolutionβ when used in this Agreement means, subject to the provisions of this Section 8.12 and of Section 8.15 and Section 8.16 hereof, a motion proposed at a meeting of Subscription Receiptholders duly convened for that purpose and held in accordance with the provisions of this Article 8 at which there are present in person or by proxy at the commencement of the meeting Subscription Receiptholders holding in the aggregate not less than 10% of the total number of Subscription Receipts then outstanding and passed by the affirmative votes of Subscription Receiptholders who hold in the aggregate not less than 66β % of the total number of Subscription Receipts represented at the meeting and voted on the motion. |
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(2) | No Quorum: If, at a meeting called for the purpose of passing an Extraordinary Resolution, the quorum required by Section 8.12(1) hereof is not present within thirty (30) minutes after the time fixed for the meeting, the meeting, if summoned by Subscription Receiptholders or on a Subscription Receiptholdersβ Request, will be dissolved, but in any other case will be adjourned to such day, being not less than five (5) Business Days or more than ten (10) Business Days later, and to such place and time, as is appointed by the chairman. |
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(3) | Notice: Not less than three (3) Business Daysβ notice must be given to the Subscription Receiptholders of the time and place of such adjourned meeting. |
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(4) | Form of Notice: The notice must state that at the adjourned meeting the Subscription Receiptholders present in person or by proxy will form a quorum but it will not be necessary to set forth the purposes for which the meeting was originally called or any other particulars. |
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(5) | Quorum at Adjourned Meeting: At the adjourned meeting, the Subscription Receiptholders present in person or by proxy will form a quorum and may transact any business for which the meeting was originally convened, and a motion proposed at such adjourned meeting and passed by the requisite vote as provided in Section 8.12(1) hereof will be an Extraordinary Resolution within the meaning of this Agreement notwithstanding that Subscription Receiptholders holding in the aggregate at least 10% of the total number of Subscription Receipts then outstanding may not be present in person or by proxy at the commencement of such adjourned meeting. |
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(6) | Poll: Votes on an Extraordinary Resolution must always be given on a poll and no demand for a poll on an Extraordinary Resolution will be necessary. |
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Section 8.13 Powers Cumulative
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Any one or more of the powers, and any combination of the powers, in this Agreement stated to be exercisable by the Subscription Receiptholders by Extraordinary Resolution or otherwise, may be exercised from time to time, and the exercise of any one or more of such powers or any combination of such powers from time to time will not prevent the Subscription Receiptholders from exercising such power or powers or combination of powers thereafter from time to time.
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Section 8.14 Minutes
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Minutes of all resolutions passed and proceedings taken at every meeting of the Subscription Receiptholders will be made and duly entered in books from time to time provided for such purpose by the Subscription Receipt Agent at the expense of the Corporation, and any such minutes, if signed by the chairman of the meeting at which such resolutions were passed or such proceedings were taken, will be prima facie evidence of the matters therein stated, and, until the contrary is proved, every such meeting in respect of the proceedings of which minutes have been so made, entered and signed will be deemed to have been duly convened and held, and all resolutions passed and proceedings taken thereat to have been duly passed and taken.
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Section 8.15 Instruments in Writing
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Any action that may be taken and any power that may be exercised by Subscription Receiptholders at a meeting held as provided in this Article 8 may also be taken and exercised by Subscription Receiptholders who hold in the aggregate not less than 50% of the total number of Subscription Receipts at the time outstanding or in the case of an Extraordinary Resolution, Subscription Receiptholders who hold in the aggregate not less than 66β % of the total number of Subscription Receipts at the time outstanding, by their signing, each in person or by attorney duly appointed in writing, an instrument in writing in one or more counterparts (which may be executed electronically, including through DocuSign and similar applications), and the expression βExtraordinary Resolutionβ when used in this Agreement includes a resolution embodied in an instrument so signed.
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Section 8.16 Binding Effect of Resolutions
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Every resolution and every Extraordinary Resolution passed in accordance with the provisions of this Article 8 at a meeting of Subscription Receiptholders will be binding on all Subscription Receiptholders, whether present at or absent from the meeting and whether voting for or against the resolution or abstaining, and every instrument in writing signed by Subscription Receiptholders in accordance with Section 8.15 hereof will be binding on all Subscription Receiptholders, whether signatories thereto or not, and every Subscription Receiptholder and the Subscription Receipt Agent (subject to the provisions for its indemnity herein contained) will be bound to give effect accordingly to every such resolution and instrument in writing.
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Section 8.17 Evidence of Subscription Receiptholders
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Any request, direction, notice, consent or other instrument which this Agreement may require or permit to be signed or executed by the Subscription Receiptholders, including a Subscription Receiptholdersβ Request, may be in any number of concurrent instruments of similar tenor (which may be executed electronically, including through DocuSign and similar applications) and may be signed or executed by such Subscription Receiptholders in person or by attorney duly appointed in writing. Proof of the execution of any such request, direction, notice, consent or other instrument or of a writing appointing any such attorney or (subject to the provisions of this Article 8 with regard to voting at meetings of Subscription Receiptholders) of the holding by any Person of Subscription Receipts shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Agreement if the fact and date of execution by any Person of such request, direction, notice, consent or other instrument or writing is proved by a certificate of any notary public, or other officer authorized to take acknowledgements of deeds to be recorded at the place where such certificate is made, to the effect that the Person signing such request, direction, notice, consent or other instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof, by an affidavit of a witness of such execution or in any other manner which the Subscription Receipt Agent may consider adequate. The Subscription Receipt Agent may, nevertheless, in its discretion require further proof in cases where it deems further proof desirable or may accept such other proof as it shall consider proper.
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Section 8.18 Holdings by the Corporation and Subsidiaries Disregarded
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In determining whether Subscription Receiptholders holding the required total number of Subscription Receipts are present in person or by proxy for the purpose of constituting a quorum, or have voted or consented to a resolution, Extraordinary Resolution, consent, waiver, Subscription Receiptholdersβ Request or other action under this Agreement, a Subscription Receipt held by the Corporation or by a subsidiary of the Corporation will be deemed to be not outstanding. The Corporation shall provide the Subscription Receipt Agent with a Certificate of the Corporation providing details of any Subscription Receipts held by the Corporation or by a subsidiary of the Corporation upon the written request of the Subscription Receipt Agent.
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ARTICLE 9
SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENTS AND SUCCESSOR COMPANIES
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Section 9.1 Provision for Supplemental Agreements for Certain Purposes
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From time to time the Corporation and the Subscription Receipt Agent may, without the consent of the Subscription Receiptholders and subject to the provisions of this Agreement, execute and deliver amendments or agreements or instruments supplemental hereto, which thereafter shall form part hereof, for any one or more or all of the following purposes:
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(1) | providing for the issuance of additional Subscription Receipts hereunder and any consequential amendments hereto as may be required by the Subscription Receipt Agent provided the same are not prejudicial to the interests of the Subscription Receiptholders based on the opinion of the Subscription Receipt Agent, relying on the opinion of Counsel; |
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(2) | evidencing the succession, or successive successions, of any other Person to the Corporation and the assumption by such successor of the covenants of, and obligations of, the Corporation under this Agreement; |
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(3) | adding to the provisions hereof such additional covenants and enforcement provisions as are necessary or advisable, provided that the same are not in the opinion of the Subscription Receipt Agent, relying on the opinion of Counsel, prejudicial to the interests of the Subscription Receiptholders as a group; |
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(4) | giving effect to any resolution or Extraordinary Resolution passed as provided in Article 8; |
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(5) | making such provisions not inconsistent with this Agreement as may be necessary or desirable with respect to matters or questions arising hereunder; provided that such provisions are not, in the opinion of the Subscription Receipt Agent, relying on the opinion of Counsel, prejudicial to the interests of the Subscription Receiptholders as a group; |
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(6) | adding to or amending the provisions hereof in respect of the transfer of Subscription Receipts, making provision for the exchange of Subscription Receipts and making any modification in the form of the Subscription Receipt Certificates which does not affect the substance thereof; |
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(7) | modifying any of the provisions of this Agreement or relieving the Corporation from any of the obligations, conditions or restrictions herein contained; provided that no such modification or relief shall be or become operative or effective if, in the opinion of the Subscription Receipt Agent, relying on the opinion of Counsel, such modification or relief impairs any of the rights of the Subscription Receiptholders as a group or of the Subscription Receipt Agent, and provided further that the Subscription Receipt Agent may in its sole discretion decline to enter into any amendment or supplemental agreement or instrument which in its opinion may not afford adequate protection to the Subscription Receipt Agent when the same shall become operative; and |
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(8) | for any other purpose not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement, including the correction or rectification of any ambiguities, defective or inconsistent provisions, errors, mistakes or omissions herein; provided that, in the opinion of the Subscription Receipt Agent, relying on the opinion of Counsel, the rights of the Subscription Receipt Agent and the Subscription Receiptholders as a group are not prejudiced thereby. |
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Section 9.2 Successor Entities
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In the case of the reclassification of the securities of the Corporation, a capital reorganization of the Corporation or an amalgamation, arrangement, consolidation or merger of the Corporation or transfer of the undertaking or assets of the Corporation as an entirety or substantially as an entirety with or to another Person (a βsuccessor entityβ), the successor entity resulting from the reclassification, capital reorganization, amalgamation, arrangement, consolidation, merger or transfer (if not the Corporation) shall be bound by the provisions hereof and all obligations for the due and punctual performance and observance of each and every covenant and obligation contained in this Agreement to be performed or observed by the Corporation and the successor entity shall by supplemental agreement, satisfactory in form to the Subscription Receipt Agent and executed and delivered to the Subscription Receipt Agent, expressly assume those obligations.
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ARTICLE 10
CONCERNING SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPT AGENT
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Section 10.1 Applicable Legislation
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If and to the extent that any provision of this Agreement limits, qualifies or conflicts with a mandatory requirement of Applicable Legislation, the mandatory requirement will prevail. The Corporation and the Subscription Receipt Agent each will at all times in relation to this Agreement and any action to be taken hereunder observe and comply with and be entitled to the benefits of Applicable Legislation.
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Section 10.2 Rights and Duties of Subscription Receipt Agent
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(1) | Duty of Subscription Receipt Agent: In the exercise of the rights and duties prescribed or conferred by the terms of this Agreement, the Subscription Receipt Agent will act honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of Subscription Receiptholders and will exercise that degree of care, diligence and skill that a reasonably prudent subscription receipt agent would exercise in comparable circumstances. The Subscription Receipt Agent shall not be bound to give any notice or do or take any act, action or proceeding by virtue of the powers conferred on it hereby unless and until it shall have been required so to do under the terms hereof; nor shall the Subscription Receipt Agent be required to take notice of any default hereunder, unless and until notified in writing of such default, which notice shall distinctly specify the default desired to be brought to the attention of the Subscription Receipt Agent and in the absence of any such notice the Subscription Receipt Agent may for all purposes of this Agreement conclusively assume that no default has been made in the observance or performance of any of the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or conditions contained therein. Any such notice shall in no way limit any discretion herein given to the Subscription Receipt Agent to determine whether or not the Subscription Receipt Agent shall take action with respect to any default. |
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(2) | No Relief From Liability: No provision of this Agreement will be construed to relieve the Subscription Receipt Agent from liability for its own grossly negligent act, wilful misconduct, fraud or bad faith. |
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(3) | Actions: The obligation of the Subscription Receipt Agent to commence or continue any act, action or proceeding in connection herewith, including without limitation, for the purpose of enforcing any right of the Subscription Receipt Agent or the Subscription Receiptholders hereunder is on the condition that the Subscription Receipt Agent shall have received a Subscription Receiptholdersβ Request specifying the act, action or proceeding which the Subscription Receipt Agent is requested to take and, when required by notice to the Subscription Receiptholders by the Subscription Receipt Agent, the Subscription Receipt Agent is furnished by one or more Subscription Receiptholders with sufficient funds to commence or continue such act, action or proceeding and an indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Subscription Receipt Agent to protect and hold it harmless against the costs, charges, expenses and liabilities to be incurred thereby and any loss and damage it may suffer by reason thereof. |
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(4) | Funding: No provision of this Agreement will require the Subscription Receipt Agent to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers unless it is so indemnified and funded. |
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(5) | Deposit of Subscription Receipts: The Subscription Receipt Agent may, before commencing or at any time during the continuance of any such act, action or proceeding, require the Subscription Receiptholders at whose instance it is acting to deposit with the Subscription Receipt Agent the Subscription Receipt Certificates held by them, for which certificates the Subscription Receipt Agent will issue receipts. |
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(6) | Restriction: Every provision of this Agreement that relieves the Subscription Receipt Agent of liability or entitles it to rely on any evidence submitted to it is subject to the provisions of Applicable Legislation. |
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(7) | Right Not to Act/ Right to Resign: The Subscription Receipt Agent shall retain the right not to act and shall not be liable for refusing to act if, due to a lack of information or for any other reason whatsoever, the Subscription Receipt Agent, in its sole judgment, acting reasonably, determines that such act might cause it to be in non-compliance with any applicable anti-money laundering, anti-terrorist or economic sanctions legislation, regulation or guideline. Further, should the Subscription Receipt Agent, in its sole judgment, acting reasonably, determine at any time that its acting under this Agreement has resulted in it being in non-compliance with any applicable anti-money laundering, anti-terrorist or economic sanctions legislation, regulation or guideline, then it shall have the right to resign on ten (10) daysβ written notice to the Corporation provided (a) that the Subscription Receipt Agentβs written notice shall describe the circumstances of such non-compliance; and (b) that if such circumstances are rectified to the Subscription Receipt Agentβs satisfaction, acting reasonably, within such ten (10) day period, then such resignation shall not be effective. |
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Section 10.3 Evidence, Experts and Advisers
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(1) | Evidence: In addition to the reports, certificates, opinions and other evidence required by this Agreement, the Corporation will furnish to the Subscription Receipt Agent such additional evidence of compliance with any provision hereof, and in such form, as is prescribed by Applicable Legislation or as the Subscription Receipt Agent reasonably requires by written notice to the Corporation. |
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(2) | Reliance by Subscription Receipt Agent: In the exercise of any right or duty hereunder, the Subscription Receipt Agent, if it is acting in good faith, may act and rely, as to the truth of any statement or the accuracy of any opinion expressed therein, on any statutory declaration, opinion, report, certificate or other evidence furnished to the Subscription Receipt Agent pursuant to a provision hereof or of Applicable Legislation or pursuant to a request of the Subscription Receipt Agent, if the Subscription Receipt Agent examines such evidence and determines that it complies with the applicable requirements of this Agreement. |
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(3) | Statutory Declaration: Whenever Applicable Legislation requires that evidence referred to in Section 10.3(1) hereof be in the form of a statutory declaration, the Subscription Receipt Agent may accept such statutory declaration in lieu of a Certificate of the Corporation required by any provision hereof. Any such statutory declaration may be made by any one or more of the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer or Secretary of the Corporation or by any other officer(s) or Director(s) of the Corporation to whom such authority is delegated by the Directors from time to time. In addition, the Subscription Receipt Agent may act and rely and shall be protected in acting and relying upon any resolution, certificate, direction, instruction, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, letter, telegram, cablegram or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or presented by or on behalf of the proper party or parties. |
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(4) | Proof of Execution: Proof of the execution of any document or instrument in writing, including a Subscription Receiptholdersβ Request, by a Subscription Receiptholder may be made by the certificate of a notary public, or other officer with similar powers, that the Person signing such instrument acknowledged to him the execution thereof, or by an affidavit of a witness to such execution, or in any other manner that the Subscription Receipt Agent considers adequate and in respect of a corporate Subscription Receiptholder, shall include a certificate of incumbency of such Subscription Receiptholder together with a certified resolution authorizing the Person who signs such instrument to sign such instrument. |
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(5) | Experts: The Subscription Receipt Agent may employ or retain such counsel, accountants, appraisers, or other experts or advisers as it reasonably requires for the purpose of determining and discharging its rights and duties hereunder and may pay the reasonable remuneration and disbursements for all services so performed by any of them, and will not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any of them. The Corporation shall pay or reimburse the Subscription Receipt Agent for any reasonable fees of such counsel, accountants, appraisers, or other experts or advisors. The Subscription Receipt Agent may act and rely and shall be protected in acting or not acting and relying in good faith on the opinion or advice of or information obtained from any counsel, accountant, appraiser or other expert or advisor, whether retained or employed by the Corporation or by the Subscription Receipt Agent, in relation to any matter arising in the administration of the duties and obligations hereof. |
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Section 10.4 Documents, Money, Etc. held by Subscription Receipt Agent
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Any security, document of title or other instrument that may at any time be held by the Subscription Receipt Agent subject to the provisions of this Agreement may be placed in the deposit vaults of the Subscription Receipt Agent or of any Canadian chartered bank or deposited for safekeeping with any such bank.
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Section 10.5 Action by Subscription Receipt Agent to Protect Interests
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The Subscription Receipt Agent will have power to institute and to maintain such actions and proceedings as it considers necessary or expedient to protect or enforce its interests and the interests of the Subscription Receiptholders.
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Section 10.6 Subscription Receipt Agent not Required to Give Security
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The Subscription Receipt Agent will not be required to give any bond or security in respect of the execution of the duties and obligations and powers of this Agreement.
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Section 10.7 Protection of Subscription Receipt Agent
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(1) | Protection: By way of supplement to the provisions of any law for the time being relating to subscription receipt agents, it is expressly declared and agreed that: |
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Β | (c) | the Subscription Receipt Agent will not be bound to give notice to any Person of the execution hereof; |
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Β | (d) | the Subscription Receipt Agent shall not be liable for any error in judgment or for any act done or step taken or omitted by it in good faith or for any mistake, in fact or law, or for anything which it may do or refrain from doing in connection herewith except arising out of its own negligence, wilful misconduct, fraud or bad faith; |
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Β | (e) | the Subscription Receipt Agent will not incur any liability or responsibility or be in any way responsible for the consequence of any breach by the Corporation of any obligation or warranty herein contained or of any act of any Director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation; |
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Β | (f) | subject to Section 10.9 hereof, the Subscription Receipt Agent, in its personal or any other capacity, may buy, lend upon and deal in securities of the Corporation, including the Subscription Receipts, and generally may contract and enter into financial transactions with the Corporation or any related entity of the Corporation without being liable to account for any profit made thereby; |
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Β | (g) | the Subscription Receipt Agent shall incur no liability with respect to the delivery or non-delivery of any certificate or certificates whether delivered by hand, mail or any other means provided that they are sent in accordance with the provisions hereof; |
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Β | (h) | if the Subscription Receipt Agent delivers any cheque as required hereunder, the Subscription Receipt Agent shall have no further obligation or liability for the amount represented thereby, unless any such cheque is not honoured on presentation; provided that in the event of the non-receipt of such cheque by the payee, or the loss or destruction thereof, the Subscription Receipt Agent, upon being furnished with reasonable evidence of such non-receipt, loss or destruction and, if required by the Subscription Receipt Agent, an indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it, shall issue to such payee a replacement cheque for the amount of such cheque; |
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Β | (i) | the Subscription Receipt Agent will disburse funds in accordance with the provisions hereof only to the extent that funds have been deposited with it. The Subscription Receipt Agent shall not under any circumstances be required to disburse funds in excess of the amounts on deposit with the Subscription Receipt Agent at the time of disbursement; and |
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Β | (j) | notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, and whether such losses or damages are foreseeable or unforeseeable, the Subscription Receipt Agent shall not be liable under any circumstances whatsoever for any (a) breach by any other party of securities law or other rule of any securities regulatory authority; (b) lost profits; or (c) special, indirect, incidental, consequential, exemplary, aggravated or punitive losses or damages. |
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Section 10.8 Replacement of Subscription Receipt Agent
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(1) | Resignation: The Subscription Receipt Agent may resign and be discharged from all further duties and liabilities hereunder, except as provided in this Section 10.8, by giving to the Corporation not less than sixty (60) daysβ notice in writing or, if a new subscription receipt agent has been appointed by the Corporation, such shorter notice as the Corporation accepts as sufficient; provided that such resignation and discharge shall be subject to the appointment of a successor thereto in accordance with the provisions hereof. |
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(2) | Removal: The Subscription Receiptholders by Extraordinary Resolution may at any time remove the Subscription Receipt Agent and appoint a new subscription receipt agent. |
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(3) | Appointment of New Subscription Receipt Agent: If the Subscription Receipt Agent so resigns or is so removed or is dissolved, becomes bankrupt, goes into liquidation or otherwise becomes incapable of acting hereunder, the Corporation shall forthwith appoint a new subscription receipt agent unless a new subscription receipt agent has already been appointed by the Subscription Receiptholders to the reasonable satisfaction of the Corporation. |
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(4) | Failure to Appoint: Failing such appointment by the Corporation, the retiring Subscription Receipt Agent or any Subscription Receiptholder may apply at the expense of the Corporation to the Ontario Superior Court, on such notice as the Court directs, for the appointment of a new subscription receipt agent. |
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(5) | New Subscription Receipt Agent: Any new subscription receipt agent appointed under this Section 10.8 must be a corporation authorized to carry on the business of a transfer agent or trust company in the Province of Ontario and, if required by the Applicable Legislation of any other province, in such other province. On any such appointment the new subscription receipt agent will be vested with the same powers, rights, duties and responsibilities as if it had been originally named herein as subscription receipt agent without any further assurance, conveyance, act or deed, but there will be immediately executed, at the expense of the Corporation, all such conveyances or other instruments as, in the opinion of Counsel to the Corporation, are necessary or advisable for the purpose of assuring the transfer of such powers, rights, duties and responsibilities to the new subscription receipt agent including, without limitation, an appropriate instrument executed by the new subscription receipt agent accepting such appointment and, at the request of the Corporation, the predecessor subscription receipt agent shall, upon payment of its outstanding remuneration and expenses, execute and deliver to the new subscription receipt agent an appropriate instrument transferring to such new subscription receipt agent all rights and powers of the Subscription Receipt Agent hereunder, and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to the new subscription receipt agent all securities, property and all records kept by the predecessor subscription receipt agent hereunder or in connection therewith. Any new subscription receipt agent so appointed by the Corporation, the Subscription Receiptholders or by the Court will be subject to removal as aforesaid by the Subscription Receiptholders. |
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(6) | Notice of New Subscription Receipt Agent: On the appointment of a new subscription receipt agent, the Corporation will promptly give notice thereof to the Subscription Receiptholders in accordance with Section 11.2(1) hereof. |
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(7) | Successor Subscription Receipt Agent: Any corporation into which the Subscription Receipt Agent is amalgamated or with which it is consolidated or to which all or substantially all of its corporate trust business is sold or is otherwise transferred or any corporation resulting from any consolidation or amalgamation to which the Subscription Receipt Agent is a party shall become the successor Subscription Receipt Agent under this Agreement, without the execution of any document or any further act, provided such corporation would be eligible for appointment as a new subscription receipt agent under Section 10.8(5) hereof. |
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(8) | Certificates: A Subscription Receipt Certificate certified but not delivered by a predecessor subscription receipt agent may be delivered by the new or successor subscription receipt agent in the name of the predecessor subscription receipt agent or new or successor subscription receipt agent. In case, at any time, any of the Subscription Receipt Certificates have not been countersigned, a Subscription Receipt Certificate may be countersigned either in the name of the predecessor subscription receipt agent or new or successor subscription receipt agent, and in all such cases such Subscription Receipt Certificates will have the full force provided in the Subscription Receipt Certificates and in this Agreement. |
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Section 10.9 Conflict of Interest
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The Subscription Receipt Agent represents to the Corporation that, to the best of its knowledge, at the time of execution and delivery hereof no material conflict of interest exists between its role as a subscription receipt agent hereunder and its role in any other capacity and agrees that in the event of a material conflict of interest arising hereafter it will, within thirty (30) days after ascertaining that it has such material conflict of interest, either eliminate the same or assign its appointment as subscription receipt agent hereunder to a successor subscription receipt agent approved by the Corporation and meeting the requirements set forth in Section 10.8(5) hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 10.9, if any such material conflict of interest exists or hereafter shall exist, the validity and enforceability of this Agreement and any Subscription Receipt Certificates shall not be affected in any manner whatsoever by reason thereof.
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Section 10.10 Acceptance of Duties and Obligations
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The Subscription Receipt Agent hereby accepts the duties and obligations in this Agreement declared and provided for and agrees to perform them on the terms and conditions herein set forth. The Subscription Receipt Agent accepts the duties and responsibilities under this Agreement solely as custodian, bailee and agent. No trust is intended to be or will be created hereby and the Subscription Receipt Agent shall owe no duties hereunder as a trustee.
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Section 11.1 Notice to the Corporation, the Subscription Receipt Agent
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(1) | Corporation: Unless herein otherwise expressly provided, a notice to be given hereunder to the Corporation or the Subscription Receipt Agent will be validly given if delivered personally, if sent by registered letter, postage prepaid or email transmission: |
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FireΒ & Flower Holdings Corp.
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx 000,
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, X0X 0X0
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Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Dentons Canada LLP
00 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, XX X0X 0X0
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Attention: Xxxx Xxxxxx
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Computershare Trust Company of Canada
000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx X0X 0X0
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Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
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and any such notice delivered or transmitted in accordance with the foregoing on a Business Day will be deemed to have been received on the date of delivery or email transmission or, if such day is not a Business Day, on the first Business Day following such delivery or transmission, and any such notice sent by registered letter in accordance with the foregoing will be deemed to have been received on the second (2nd) Business Day following the day of the mailing of the notice.
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(3) | Postal Interruption: If, by reason of a strike, lockout or other work stoppage, actual or threatened, involving Canadian postal employees, a notice to be given to the Corporation or the Subscription Receipt Agent hereunder could reasonably be considered unlikely to reach or likely to be delayed in reaching its destination, the notice will be valid and effective only if it is delivered to an officer of the party to which it is addressed. Any notice delivered in accordance with the foregoing will be deemed to have been received on the date of delivery to such officer. |
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Section 11.2 Notice to Subscription Receiptholders
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(1) | Notice: Unless herein otherwise expressly provided, a notice to be given hereunder to Subscription Receiptholders will be deemed to be validly given if the notice is sent by ordinary surface or air mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the Subscription Receiptholders or delivered (or so mailed to certain Subscription Receiptholders and so delivered to the other Subscription Receiptholders) at their respective addresses appearing on any of the registers of holders described in Section 3.1 hereof; provided, however, that if, by reason of a strike, lockout or other work stoppage, actual or threatened, involving Canadian postal employees, the notice could reasonably be considered unlikely to reach or likely to be delayed in reaching its destination, the notice will be valid and effective only if it is so delivered or is given by publication twice in the Report on Business section in the national edition of The Globe and Mail or similar sections in the National Post or Toronto Star. |
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(2) | Date of Notice: A notice so given by mail or so delivered will be deemed to have been given on the third (3rd) Business Day after it has been mailed or on the day on which it has been delivered, as the case may be, and a notice so given by publication will be deemed to have been given on the day on which it has been published as required. In determining under any provision hereof the date when such notice of a meeting or other event must be given, the date of giving notice will be included and the date of the meeting or other event will be excluded. Accidental error or omission in giving notice or accidental failure to mail notice to any Subscription Receiptholder will not invalidate any action or proceeding founded thereon. |
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Section 11.3 Satisfaction and Discharge of Agreement
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Upon the earlier of (a) the satisfaction of the Escrow Release Conditions (at or before the Escrow Release Deadline) and the issuance of the Convertible Debentures required to be issued in compliance with the provisions hereof, and delivery by the Subscription Receipt Agent of the Escrowed Funds as provided for in Section 6.3 hereof; and (b) the full repayment of Subscription Receiptholders pursuant to Section 6.4 hereof, this Agreement shall cease to be of further effect.
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On demand of and at the cost and expense of the Corporation and on delivery to the Subscription Receipt Agent of a Certificate of the Corporation stating that all conditions precedent to the satisfaction and discharge of this Agreement have been complied with and on payment to the Subscription Receipt Agent of any remaining remuneration, expenses and disbursements of the Subscription Receipt Agent payable under Section 5.3 hereof, the Subscription Receipt Agent shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the satisfaction of and discharging of this Agreement.
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Section 11.4 Sole Benefit of Parties and Subscription Receiptholders
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Nothing in this Agreement or the Subscription Receipt Certificates, expressed or implied, will give or be construed to give to any Person other than the parties hereto, the Subscription Receiptholders and the beneficial owners of the Subscription Receipts, as the case may be, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Agreement or the Subscription Receipt Certificates, or under any covenant or provision herein or therein contained, all such covenants and provisions being for the sole benefit of the parties hereto, the Subscription Receiptholders and beneficial owners of the Subscription Receipts.
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Any matter provided herein to be determined by the Directors will be determined by the Directors in their sole discretion, acting reasonably, and a determination so made will be conclusive.
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Section 11.6 Force Majeure
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No party hereto shall be liable to the others, or held in breach of this Agreement, if prevented, hindered, or delayed in the performance or observance of any provision contained herein by reason of act of God, riots, terrorism, acts of war, epidemics, earthquakes, or any other similar causes (including, but not limited to, mechanical, electronic or communication interruptions, disruptions or failures). Performance times under this Agreement shall be extended for a period of time equivalent to the time lost because of any delay that is excusable under this Section 11.6.
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The parties acknowledge that the Subscription Receipt Agent may, in the course of providing services hereunder, collect or receive financial and other personal information about such parties and/or their representatives, as individuals, or about other individuals related to the subject matter hereof, and use such information for the following purposes:
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(4) | if Social Insurance Numbers are collected by the Subscription Receipt Agent, to perform tax reporting and to assist in verification of an individualβs identity for security purposes. |
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Each party acknowledges and agrees that the Subscription Receipt Agent may receive, collect, use and disclose personal information provided to it or acquired by it in the course of this Agreement for the purposes described above and, generally, in the manner and on the terms described in its privacy code, which the Subscription Receipt Agent shall make available on its website or upon request, including revisions thereto.
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Further, each party agrees that it shall not provide or cause to be provided to the Subscription Receipt Agent any personal information relating to an individual who is not a party to this Agreement unless that party has assured itself that such individual understands and has consented to the aforementioned uses and disclosures.
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Section 11.8 Electronic Copies
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Each of the parties hereto shall be entitled to rely on delivery of a facsimile or PDF copy of this Agreement and acceptance by each such party of any such facsimile or PDF copy shall be legally effective to create a valid and binding agreement between the parties hereto in accordance with the terms hereof.
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This Agreement may be executed in several counterparts and electronically (including through DocuSign and similar applications), each of which when so executed will be deemed to be an original and such counterparts together will constitute one and the same instrument and notwithstanding the date of their execution will be deemed to be dated as of the date of this Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the day and year first above written.
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Β | FIRE & FLOWER HOLDINGS CORP. | |
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Β | By: | (signed) βXxxxxx Xxxxxxxβ |
Β | Name: | Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx |
Β | Title: | President and Chief Executive Officer |
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Β | COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY OF CANADA | |
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Β | By: | (signed) βXxxxxx Xxxxxxxxβ Name: |
Β | Β | Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Title: |
Β | Β | Corporate Trust Officer |
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Β | By: | (signed) βXxxx Xxxxxβ |
Β | Name: | Xxxx Xxxxx |
Β | Title: | Corporate Trust Officer |
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FORM OF SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPT CERTIFICATE
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UNLESS PERMITTED UNDER SECURITIES LEGISLATION, THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY MUST NOT TRADE THE SECURITY BEFORE [INSERT THE DATE THAT IS 4 MONTHS AND A DAY AFTER THE DISTRIBUTION DATE].
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βTHE SECURITIES REPRESENTED HEREBY AND ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION HEREOF HAVE NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE βU.S. SECURITIES ACTβ), OR STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THESE SECURITIES, AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF FIRE & FLOWER HOLDINGS CORP. (THE βCORPORATIONβ) THAT THESE SECURITIES MAY BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, ONLY (A) TO THE CORPORATION, (B) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 904 OF REGULATION S (βREGULATION Sβ) UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS, (C) IN ACCORDANCE WITH (1) RULE 144A UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT, IF AVAILABLE, OR (2) RULE 144 UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT, IF AVAILABLE, AND IN EACH CASE IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, OR (D) IN ANOTHER TRANSACTION THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE REGISTRATION UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OR ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, PROVIDED THAT IN THE CASE OF TRANSFERS PURSUANT TO (C)(2) OR (D) ABOVE, A LEGAL OPINION SATISFACTORY TO THE CORPORATION MUST FIRST BE PROVIDED TO SUCH EFFECT. DELIVERY OF THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT CONSTITUTE βGOOD DELIVERYβ IN SETTLEMENT OF TRANSACTIONS ON STOCK EXCHANGES IN CANADA.β]
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SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPTS
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FIRE & FLOWER HOLDINGS CORP.
(a corporation existing under the federal laws of Canada)
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THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT, for value received, [β] (the βholderβ) is the registered holder of the number of subscription receipts (βSubscription Receiptsβ) specified above of Fire & Flower Holdings Corp. (the βCorporationβ) and is thereby entitled, without payment of any additional consideration, to be issued, on the Release Date (as defined in the Subscription Receipt Agreement hereinafter referred to) one (1) $1,000 principal amount 8.0% secured convertible debenture (each, a βConvertible Debentureβ) of the Corporation in respect of each Subscription Receipt held.
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This Subscription Receipt Certificate represents Subscription Receipts of the Corporation issued under the provisions of a subscription receipt agreement (which agreement, together with all amendments and instruments supplemental or ancillary thereto, is herein referred to as the βSubscription Receipt Agreementβ) dated as of April 28, 2020, among the Corporation and Computershare Trust Company of Canada (the βSubscription Receipt Agentβ). Reference is hereby made for particulars of the rights of the holders of the Subscription Receipts, the Corporation and the Subscription Receipt Agent in respect thereof and of the terms and conditions upon which the Subscription Receipts are issued and held, all to the same effect as if the provisions of the Subscription Receipt Agreement were herein set forth in full, and to all of which the holder, by acceptance hereof, assents. In the event of a conflict between the provisions of this Subscription
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Receipt Certificate and the Subscription Receipt Agreement, the terms of the Subscription Receipt Agreement shall govern. All capitalized terms used but not defined in this Subscription Receipt Certificate shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Subscription Receipt Agreement. The Corporation will furnish to the holder, on request, a copy of the Subscription Receipt Agreement.
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Upon satisfaction of the Escrow Release Conditions at or before the Escrow Release Deadline, the Subscription Receipts represented by this Subscription Receipt Certificate will automatically evidence the right of the holder to receive Convertible Debentures on the Release Date and the holder will be a holder of the Convertible Debentures issuable pursuant to such Subscription Receipts without the taking of any further action by the holder or payment of additional consideration.
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The terms and conditions of each Convertible Debenture will be set out in the Debenture Indenture.
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On and after the date of issuance of the Convertible Debentures pursuant to the Subscription Receipts represented by this Subscription Receipt Certificate, the holder will have no rights hereunder except to the Convertible Debentures issued to such holder.
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Pursuant to the Subscription Receipt Agreement, the Release Date is the date, or the Business Day following such date, on which the Subscription Receipt Agent receives the Escrow Release Notice in the form required under the Subscription Receipt Agreement, which notice will inform the Subscription Receipt Agent of the satisfaction or waiver of the Escrow Release Conditions and will instruct the Subscription Receipt Agent to pay the Escrowed Funds in accordance with the Subscription Receipt Agreement.
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In the event that (a) a Termination Notice is delivered to the Subscription Receipt Agent or the Corporation announces to the public that it does not intend to satisfy the Escrow Release Conditions at or before the Escrow Release Deadline; or (b) the Escrow Release Notice is not delivered to the Subscription Receipt Agent at or before the Escrow Release Deadline, the Subscription Receipts represented by this Subscription Receipt Certificate shall, without any action on the part of the holder (including the surrender of this Subscription Receipt Certificate), be terminated and cancelled by the Subscription Receipt Agent as of the Termination Time. In such event, the holder shall thereafter have no rights hereunder except to receive the amount equal to (i) the aggregate Offering Price for the Subscription Receipts represented by this Subscription Receipt Certificate; and (ii) its pro rata share of the Earned Interest, less applicable withholding taxes, if any, in accordance with the Subscription Receipt Agreement.
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The holder of this Subscription Receipt Certificate is cautioned that in the event that the Subscription Receipts are deemed to be cancelled, a cheque will be mailed to the latest address of record of the registered holder.
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The Subscription Receipts evidenced by this Subscription Receipt Certificate, the Convertible Debentures issuable pursuant to the Subscription Receipts and the Underlying Shares issuable upon conversion of the Convertible Debentures have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the βU.S. Securities Actβ), or under the securities laws of any state of the United States. All or any portion of the Subscription Receipts represented by this Subscription Receipt Certificate may not be offered, sold or pledged or otherwise transferred in the United States (as defined in Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act) except in limited circumstances contemplated in the Subscription Receipt Agreement.
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No Convertible Debentures will be issued pursuant to any Subscription Receipt if the issue of such security would constitute a violation of the securities laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
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The Subscription Receipt Agreement contains provisions making binding on all holders of Subscription Receipts outstanding thereunder resolutions passed at meetings of such holders held in accordance with such provisions and instruments in writing signed by holders of a specified majority of all outstanding Subscription Receipts.
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The holding of this Subscription Receipt Certificate will not constitute the holder a shareholder of the Corporation or entitle such holder to any right or interest in respect thereof except as otherwise provided in the Subscription Receipt Agreement.
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This Subscription Receipt Certificate will not be valid for any purpose until it has been certified by or on behalf of the Subscription Receipt Agent for the time being under the Subscription Receipt Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF the Corporation has caused this Subscription Receipt Certificate to be signed by its officers or other individuals duly authorized in that behalf as of the ______ day of _____________________, 2020.
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COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY OF CANADA
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers to
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______________________________________________________________ (print name, address and Social Insurance Number/Social Security Number of transferee) the Subscription Receipts represented by this Subscription Receipt Certificate and hereby irrevocable constitutes and appoints ____________________________ as its attorney with full power of substitution to transfer the said securities on the appropriate register of the Subscription Receipts.
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Β | β | Canada and the United States: A Medallion Signature Guarantee obtained from a member of an acceptable Medallion Signature Guarantee Program (STAMP, SEMP, NYSE, MSP). Many commercial banks, savings banks, credit unions, and all broker dealers participate in a Medallion Signature Guarantee Program. The Guarantor must affix a stamp bearing the actual words βMedallion Guaranteedβ, with the correct prefix covering the face value of the certificate. |
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Β | β | Canada: A Signature Guarantee obtained from an authorized officer of the Royal Bank of Canada, Scotia Bank or TD Canada Trust. The Guarantor must affix a stamp bearing the actual words βSignature Guaranteedβ, sign and print their full name and alpha numeric signing number. Signature Guarantees are not accepted from Treasury Branches, Credit Unions or Caisse Populaires unless they are members of a Medallion Signature Guarantee Program. For corporate holders, corporate signing resolutions, including certificate of incumbency, are also required to accompany the transfer, unless there is a βSignature & Authority to Sign Guaranteeβ Stamp affixed to the transfer (as opposed to a βSignature Guaranteedβ Stamp) obtained from an authorized officer of the Royal Bank of Canada, Scotia Bank or TD Canada Trust or a Medallion Signature Guarantee with the correct prefix covering the face value of the certificate. |
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Β | β | Outside North America: For holders located outside North America, present the certificates(s) and/or document(s) that require a guarantee to a local financial institution that has a corresponding Canadian or American affiliate which is a member of an acceptable Medallion Signature Guarantee Program. The corresponding affiliate will arrange for the signature to be over-guaranteed. |
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The signature(s) of the transferor(s) must correspond with the name(s) as written upon the face of this certificate(s), in every particular, without alteration or enlargement, or any change whatsoever. The signature(s) on this form must be guaranteed by an authorized officer of Royal Bank of Canada, Scotia Bank or TD Canada Trust whose sample signature(s) are on file with the transfer agent, or by a member of an acceptable Medallion Signature Guarantee Program (STAMP, SEMP, NYSE, MSP). Notarized or witnessed signatures are not acceptable as guaranteed signatures. The Guarantor must affix a stamp bearing the actual words: βSIGNATURE GUARANTEEDβ, βMEDALLION GUARANTEEDβ OR βSIGNATURE & AUTHORITY TO SIGN GUARANTEEβ, all in accordance with the transfer agentβs then current guidelines and requirements at the time of transfer. For corporate holders, corporate signing resolutions, including certificate of incumbency, will also be required to accompany the transfer unless there is a βSIGNATURE & AUTHORITY TO SIGN GUARANTEEβ Stamp affixed to the Form of Transfer obtained from an authorized officer of the Royal Bank of Canada, Scotia Bank or TD Canada Trust or a βMEDALLION GUARANTEEDβ Stamp affixed to the Form of Transfer, with the correct prefix covering the face value of the certificate.
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SCHEDULE βBβ
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ESCROW RELEASE NOTICE
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TO: COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY OF CANADA
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Reference is made to the subscription receipt agreement dated as of April 28, 2020 (the βSubscription Receipt Agreementβ) among Fire & Flower Holdings Corp. (the βCorporationβ) and Computershare Trust Company of Canada (the βSubscription Receipt Agentβ). Unless otherwise defined herein, words and terms with the letter or letters thereof capitalized shall have the meanings given to such words and terms in the Subscription Receipt Agreement.
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The Subscription Receipt Agent is hereby notified that paragraph (a) of the Escrow Release Conditions has been satisfied in full or waived in accordance with the Subscription Receipt Agreement, and, accordingly, the Subscription Receipt Agent is hereby irrevocably directed and authorized to, in accordance with Section 6.3 of the Subscription Receipt Agreement, release on the Release Date to the Corporation, or as otherwise directed by the Corporation, $[β], representing the balance of the Escrowed Funds less $[β], being the remaining remuneration, expenses and disbursements of the Subscription Receipt Agent payable under Section 5.4 of the Subscription Receipt Agreement, by means of wire transfer(s) of immediately available funds in the amounts and to the bank account(s) as attached hereto.
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This Escrow Release Notice, which may be signed in counterparts and delivered electronically, is irrevocable and shall constitute your good and sufficient authority for taking the actions described herein.
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DATED this ___ day of _______________ , 2020.
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SCHEDULE βCβ
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FORM OF DECLARATION OF REMOVAL OF LEGEND
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Declarations for Removal of Legend To: Computershare Investor Services Inc., as Registrar and Transfer Agent for the common shares of Fire & Flower Holdings Corp. (the βCorporationβ).
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The undersigned (A) acknowledges that the sale of 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 βU.S. Securities Actβ), and (B) certifies that (1) the undersigned is not (a) an βaffiliateβ (as defined in Rule 405 under the U.S. Securities Act) of the Corporation, (b) a βdistributorβ as defined in Regulation S, or (c) an affiliate of a distributor; (2) the offer of such securities was not made to a βU.S. personβ or 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 on or through the facilities of the TSX, and neither the seller nor any person acting on its behalf knows that the transaction was 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 βwashing offβ the resale restrictions imposed because the securities are βrestricted securitiesβ (as that term is defined in Rule 144(a)(3) under the U.S. Securities Act); (5) the seller does not intend to replace such securities with fungible unrestricted securities; 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 U.S. Securities Act. Terms used herein have the meanings given to them by Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act.
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AFFIRMATION BY SELLERβS BROKER-DEALER (REQUIRED FOR SALES IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION (B)(2)(B) ABOVE)
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We have read the foregoing representations of our customer, ________________________ (the βSellerβ) dated ______________________ , with regard to our sale, for such Sellerβs account, of the securities 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 TSX, (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, and (D) no selling concession, fee or other remuneration is being paid to us in connection with this offer and sale other than the usual and customary brokerβs commission that would be received by a person executing such transaction as agent. Terms used herein have the meanings given to them by Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act.
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SCHEDULE βDβ
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APPROVED BANKS
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Bank |
Relevant S&P Issuer Credit Rating (as at April 1st , 2020) |
ANZ Banking Group | AA- |
Bank of America NA | A+ |
Bank of Montreal | A+ |
The Bank of Nova Scotia | A+ |
Bank of Scotland | A+ |
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ | A |
BNP Paribas | A+ |
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce | A+ |
Citibank NA | A+ |
HSBC Bank of Canada | AA- |
National Australia Bank Limited | AA- |
National Bank of Canada | A |
Royal Bank of Canada | AA- |
Societe Generale (Canada Branch) | A |
The Toronto-Dominion Bank | AA- |
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