great news! warrants exercised! Teck buy out coming? Mr. Jim Borland reports
STRAIT ANNOUNCES EARLY EXERCISE OF WARRANTS AT REDUCED PRICE
Strait Minerals Inc. has received approval from the TSX Venture Exchange to reduce the exercise price of three million warrants held by Teck Resources Ltd. to 12 cents from 35 cents per share in consideration for Teck agreeing to exercise the warrants within five business days of receipt of approval from the exchange.
The Warrants were issued pursuant to a $600,000 private placement completed by Teck on December 16, 2011, and were originally exercisable until December 31, 2013, at $0.35 per share.
Following completion of the 2011 private placement, Teck held 5.6% of the issued and outstanding capital of Strait. On August 15, 2012, the Company closed a private placement with Teck whereby Teck subscribed for a further 3,000,000 common shares of Strait. Following completion of the 2012 private placement, Teck held 10.56% of the issued and outstanding capital of Strait.
Teck currently holds 10.48% of the issued and outstanding capital of Strait. Upon exercise of the Warrants, Teck will hold 14.9% of the issued and outstanding capital of Strait. As a result, the Re-pricing Transaction is considered a related party transaction. The Re-pricing Transaction is exempt from the valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 ("MI 61-101") by virtue of the exemptions contain in section 5.5(a) and 5.7(1) (a) of MI 61-101 in that the fair market value of the consideration received by Teck pursuant to the Re-pricing Transaction does not exceed 25% of the Company's market capitalization.
We seek Safe Harbor.