VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Dec 17, 2014) - BioAB Strategies Ltd. (the "Company" or "BioAB") is pleased to announce that in furtherance to its press release dated July 10, 2014, the Company has entered into an amalgamation agreement dated as of December 16, 2014 (the "Amalgamation Agreement") pursuant to which BioAB will acquire all of the issued and outstanding securities of Greener Pastures Marihuana Dispensary Ltd. ("GPMD"), a corporation incorporated under the laws of the Province of British Columbia.
The transaction will be carried out by way of a three-cornered amalgamation whereby a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company incorporated under the laws of the Province of British Columbia ("Newco") will amalgamate with GPMD to form a new corporate entity ("Amalco"). Upon completion of the amalgamation, Amalco will be known as Greener Pastures Marihuana Dispensary Ltd., the continuing entity resulting from the amalgamation of Newco and GPMD. The Amalgamation Agreement entered into among the Company, Newco and GPMD contemplates the issuance of 22,479,120 BioAB shares, with a deemed price of $0.04 per share, to the GPMD shareholders on the basis of one BioAB share for every one GPMD share held and the cancellation of the GPMD shares. Completion of the transaction is subject to customary conditions as well as other conditions, including regulatory and shareholder approval, and satisfactory completion of due diligence reviews.
The Canadian Stock Exchange (the "CSE") has conditionally accepted BioAB's application for the listing of its common shares. Upon completion of the amalgamation, GPMD will become the operating arm of the Company. Also in connection with the completion of the amalgamation and the listing on the CSE, BioAB will change its name to Invictus MD Strategies Corp.
In connection with the Company's proposed listing on the CSE, the proposed directors and officers of the Company upon completion of the transaction (the "Related Persons") and warrantholders of the Company will enter into an escrow agreement that contains the escrow release provisions set out in National Policy 46-201 ("NP 46-201"). In addition, 17,089,120 of the 21,089,120 common shares held by the Related Persons will, in addition to the NP 46-201 release provisions, be subject to escrow release provisions contingent on the Company reaching certain earnings milestones.
Private Placement
The Company also announces that concurrent with the transactions contemplated in the Amalgamation Agreement, BioAB intends to complete a non-brokered private placement of 2,754,667 BioAB shares at a price of $0.15 per common share to raise gross proceeds of $413,200.