VANCOUVER, BC, March 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - International Battery Metals Ltd. (the "Company") (CSE: IBAT) (OTC: IBATF) (FSE: 8RE), is pleased to announce that its shareholders (the "Shareholders") have voted at the Company's special meeting held today, March 10, 2023, and have approved by ordinary resolution, the re-approval of the private placement of up to 17,250,000 units of the Company at a price per unit of CAD$0.58 to EVL Holdings LLC ("EVL"), and Sorcia Minerals LLC ("Sorcia") (the "2021 Private Placement"), as had been previously approved at the Company's special meeting held on April 19, 2021.
With the approval of the 2021 Private Placement, Shareholder's further re-affirmed the pre-emptive rights granted to each of EVL and Sorcia under the terms of the 2021 Private Placement, which permitted them to acquire such securities of the Company as to maintain their equity ownership in the Company prior to the issuance of any securities for a period of two years.
In light of the foregoing and pending confirmation from the Canadian Securities Exchange, the Company will finalize the issuance of 8,625,000 units to each of EVL and Sorcia at a deemed price of CAD$0.58 per unit, with each unit comprised of one common share and one common share purchase warrant entitling the holder thereof to acquire one common share of the Company at a price per common share of CAD$0.58 (the "Issuance").
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
"Garry Flowers"
Garry Flowers, CEO
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Forward–looking and cautionary statements
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any state in the United States in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. Any securities of the Company referred to herein have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements. This release may contain statements within the meaning of safe harbour provisions as defined under securities laws and regulations.
This release may contain certain forward–looking statements with respect to the financial condition, results of operations and business of the Company and certain of the plans and objectives of the Company with respect to the same. There is no assurance that the company's apparatus will be able to commercially produce lithium at the stated capacity. The purpose of the tests is to determine if it will be able to do so and successful completion of the tests cannot be assured as they are subject to risks and uncertainties associated with any new mineral processing method and characteristics of the material being processed.
By their nature, forward–looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future and there are many factors that could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward–looking statements.
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