Becoming an Established Issuer If the Issuer is an emerging issuer on the date of this Agreement and, during this Agreement, the Issuer: (a) lists its securities on the Toronto Stock Exchange Inc. or Aequitas NEO Exchange Inc.; (b) becomes a TSX Venture Exchange Inc. (TSX Venture) Tier 1 issuer; or (c) lists or quotes its securities on an exchange or market outside Canada that its “principal regulator” under National Policy 43-201 Mutual Reliance Review System for Prospectuses and Annual Information Forms (in Quebec under Staff Notice, Mutual Reliance Review System for Prospectuses and Annual Information Forms) or, if the Issuer has only filed its IPO prospectus in one jurisdiction, the securities regulator in that jurisdiction, is satisfied has minimum listing requirements at least equal to those of TSX Venture Tier 1, then the Issuer becomes an established issuer.
Release Schedule for an Emerging Issuer (a) Usual case If the Issuer is an emerging issuer (as defined in section 3.3 of the Policy) and you have not sold any escrow securities in a permitted secondary offering, your escrow securities will be released as follows: On March 23, 2015, the date the Issuer's securities are listed on a Canadian exchange (the listing date) 1/10 of your escrow securities 6 months after the listing date 1/6 of your remaining escrow securities 12 months after the listing date 1/5 of your remaining escrow securities 18 months after the listing date ¼ of your remaining escrow securities 24 months after the listing date 1/3 of your remaining escrow securities 30 months after the listing date ½ of your remaining escrow securities 36 months after the listing date your remaining escrow securities 3 *In the simplest case, where there are no changes to the escrow securities initially deposited and no additional escrow securities, then the release schedule outlined above results in the escrow securities being released in equal tranches of 15% after completion of the release on the listing date. (b) Alternate meaning of "listing date" If the Issuer is an established issuer, an alternate meaning for listing date is the date the Issuer completes its IPO if the Issuer's securities are listed on a Canadian exchange immediately before its IPO. (c) Additional escrow securities If you acquire additional escrow securities, those securities will be added to the securities already in escrow, to increase the number of remaining escrow securities. After that, all of the escrow securities will be released in accordance with the applicable release schedule in the tables above.