Captiva Closes Transactions Contemplated by Share Repurchase Agreement

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Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - December 31, 2024) - Captiva Verde Wellness Corp. (CSE: PWR) (OTC Pink: CPIVF) ("Captiva Verde" or the "Company") a public company listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange1 under the trading symbol PWR and further listed on the US OTC Market under the symbol CPIVF announces that, further to its news releases of August 30, 2024, and October 11, 2024, the Company has closed the transactions (the "Transactions") contemplated by the previously announced share repurchase agreement, as amended (the "Repurchase Agreement"), with 1435300 B.C. Ltd. ("Sonny Sports Holdco"), Ronnie Strasser ("Strasser") and certain shareholders of the Company listed in Schedule "A" thereto (collectively with Strasser, the "Purchasing Shareholders"). Following the closing of the Transactions, the Company is focused on its real estate development business and Sonny Sports Holdco no longer operates as a subsidiary of the Company. All references to currency in this news release are to Canadian dollars.

Pursuant to the terms of the Repurchase Agreement, the Company transferred its interest in Sonny Sports Holdco to the Purchasing Shareholders in exchange for the Purchasing Shareholders arranging for the return of an aggregate of 89,000,000 common shares in the capital of the Company (each common share, a "Common Share") to the treasury of the Company for cancellation and an aggregate of 55,000,000 Common Share purchase warrants (each, a "Warrant") for cancellation (the "Share Repurchase").2

In connection with the Repurchase Agreement, the Company entered into an option agreement (the "Option Agreement") with Strasser and certain shareholders of the Company (collectively, the "Strasser Group"), pursuant to which the Strasser Group granted to the Company the option to identify purchasers of up to 37,000,000 Common Shares beneficially owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by any member of the Strasser Group at a price of $0.02 per Common Share (the "Option"). The Company exercised the Option for the transfer of an aggregate of 35,000,000 Common Shares. Also in connection with the Repurchase Agreement, pursuant to the terms of the Company's previously announced (i) debt assumption and settlement amendment agreement (the "Greenbriar Debt Assumption and Settlement Amendment Agreement") with Greenbriar Sustainable Living Inc. ("Greenbriar") and Greenbriar Capital (U.S.) LLC ("Greenbriar USA") and (ii) debt settlement agreement with Greenbriar (the "Greenbriar Debt Settlement Agreement"), the Company received 2,197,802 common shares (each, a "Greenbriar Share") at a deemed price of $0.455 per Greenbriar Share in exchange for settling $1,000,000 in debt owed to the Company by Greenbriar USA. Each such Greenbriar Share is subject to the restricted period legend contained in s. 2.5(2)3(i) of National Instrument 45-102 Resale of Securities. Additionally, the Company entered into a debt assumption and settlement agreement (the "Consulting Debt Assumption and Settlement Agreement") with Strasser and Sonny Sports Holdco, pursuant to which the Company assumed $858,249.09 of liabilities owed to Strasser and his affiliates by Sonny Sports Holdco under a consulting agreement dated August 31, 2023, between Sonny Sports Holdco and Strasser (the "Consulting Assumed Indebtedness"), and settled the Consulting Assumed Indebtedness in exchange for 1,500,000 Greenbriar Shares. 1,125,000 of such Greenbriar Shares are subject to voluntary contractual hold periods, which expire on June 30, 2025, in respect of 375,000 Greenbriar Shares and on September 30, 2025, in respect of 750,000 Greenbriar Shares. The Company also entered into a mutual release (the "Mutual Release") with Sonny Sports Holdco, Jeffrey J. Ciachurski, and Strasser, pursuant to which, among other things and subject to certain limitations, the Company released Sonny Sports Holdco and Strasser from all claims and Sonny Sports Holdco, and Strasser released the Company from all claims.