Although I find the information posted on Stockhouse very useful at times, I always check the sources. For corporate filings, that's on sedar.ca and insider transactions/holdings, that's at sedi.ca
In a December 12th 2017 Information Circular, Newstrike Management and Board recommend the approval of the merger and lists the following majority shareholders are supporting the agreement.
HIP: 225M shares out of 390M shares already said: Yes
Lots of information on the Sedar filings that point to the synergy between HIP.V and CMED.TO
Fundamentally, Newstrike HIP.V gained tremendous credibility with this merger with CanniMed CMED.TO Read the sedar filings for both companies to get an idea for yourself.
From my understanding, core shareholders who account for 58% of the Newstrike HIP shares have already said "Yes" to the Merger with Cannimed.
Keep in mind the November share prices for HIP.V was below 50 cents and credibility increased in December to over 57 to surge to these euphoric highs of $3 total. I had a friend ask me what he should do I and told him to sell half of his HIP.V and make sure he had a stop loss for the rest because something is odd happening there with volume and apparent "painting the tape" to drive up the share price? Hopefully some more experienced traders can comment?
But on the Newstrike HIP information circular, the following is provided as directors and majority owners supporting the deal:
"The Newstrike Shareholders listed below have entered into voting support agreements, the form of which is attached as Schedule “F” to the Arrangement Agreement in Schedule “D” to this Information Circular and pursuant to which they have agreed to vote in favour of the Newstrike"
Arrangement Resolution.
Beneficial Newstrike Shareholder
Number of Newstrike Shares Subject to Voting Support
Agreements
(1)
9580000 Canada Inc.
24,184,856
Beechhill Capital Corp.
10,431,632
Andrew Buck
1,438,112
Kevin Epp
564,797
Peter Hwang
15,039,349
Jennifer Maccarone
799,737
Jim Macpherson
782,372
Makaty Holdings Inc.
21,030,310
John Paul Morgan
10,515,151
Paradigm I Holdings Ltd.
7,190,799
Niklas Van Haeren
104,208,995
James (Jay) Wilgar
29,009,486
TOTAL : 225,195,596