Piedmont Announces Closing of Public Offering and Full Exercise of Underwriters’ Over-Allotment Option
23 Outubro 2020 - 5:05PM
Business Wire
Piedmont Lithium Limited (“Piedmont” or the “Company”)
(Nasdaq:PLL; ASX:PLL) today announced the closing of its
previously announced underwritten public offering of 2.3 million
American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”), which includes the full
exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase 300,000 additional
ADSs, with each ADS representing 100 of its ordinary shares
(“Public Offering”). The aggregate gross proceeds of the Public
Offering, before underwriting discounts and commissions, totaled
$57.5 million.
Evercore ISI, Canaccord Genuity and ThinkEquity, a division of
Fordham Financial Management, Inc., acted as joint book-runners for
the Public Offering. Loop Capital Markets and Roth Capital Partners
acted as co-managers for the Public Offering.
Proceeds from the offering will be used to continue development
of the Company’s Piedmont Lithium Project, including a definitive
feasibility study, testwork, permitting, further exploration
drilling and ongoing land consolidation, and for general corporate
purposes.
The Public Offering was made pursuant to an effective shelf
registration statement that has been filed with the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). A final prospectus supplement
related to the offering of the ADSs has been filed with the SEC and
is available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov and on the
ASX website. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and the
accompanying prospectus relating to the Public Offering may be
obtained from Evercore Group L.L.C., Attention: Equity Capital
Markets, 55 East 52nd Street, 35th Floor, New York, NY 10055, by
telephone at (888) 474-0200 or by e-mail at
ecm.prospectus@evercore.com; Canaccord Genuity LLC, 99 High Street,
Suite 1200, Boston, Massachusetts 02110, Attn: Syndicate
Department, by telephone at (671) 371-3900 or email at
prospectus@cgf.com; and ThinkEquity, a division of Fordham
Financial Management, Inc., Prospectus Department, 17 State Street,
22nd Floor, New York, New York 10004, telephone at (877) 436-3673
or e-mail at prospectus@think-equity.com.
This press release is not an offer or sale of the securities
in the United States or in any other jurisdiction where such offer
or sale is prohibited, and such securities may not be offered or
sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from
registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” as
defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
that involve risks and uncertainties. In some cases, you can
identify forward-looking statements by terms such as “may,”
“might,” “will,” “objective,” “intend,” “should,” “could,” “can,”
“would,” “expect,” “believe,” “design,” “estimate,” “predict,”
“potential,” “plan” or the negative of these terms and similar
expressions intended to identify forward-looking statements.
Piedmont cautions readers that forward-looking statements are based
on management’s expectations and assumptions as of the date of this
news release and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially, including,
but not limited to, the anticipated use of the net proceeds of the
offering; the fact that the Company’s management will have broad
discretion in the use of the proceeds from the sale of the ADSs;
the Company’s operations being further disrupted by, or the
Company’s financial results being adversely affected by, the novel
coronavirus pandemic; the Company’s limited operating history in
the lithium industry; the Company’s status as an exploration stage
company; the Company’s ability to identify lithium mineralization
and achieve commercial lithium mining; mining, exploration and mine
construction, if warranted, on the Company’s properties; the
Company’s ability to achieve and maintain profitability and to
develop positive cash flow from the Company’s mining activities;
the Company’s ability to enter into and deliver product under
supply agreements; investment risk and operational costs associated
with the Company’s exploration activities; the Company’s ability to
enter into and deliver product under supply agreements; the
Company’s ability to access capital and the financial markets;
recruiting, training and maintaining employees; possible defects in
title of the Company’s properties; potential conflicts of interest
of the Company’s directors and officers; compliance with government
regulations; the Company’s ability to acquire necessary mining
licenses, permits or access rights; environmental liabilities and
reclamation costs; volatility in lithium prices or demand for
lithium; the Company’s ADS price and trading volume volatility;
risks relating to the development of an active trading market for
the ADSs; ADS holders not having certain shareholder rights; ADS
holders not receiving certain distributions; and the Company’s
status as a foreign private issuer and emerging growth company.
Forward-looking statements reflect its analysis only on their
stated date, and Piedmont undertakes no obligation to update or
revise these statements except as may be required by law.
About Piedmont
Piedmont holds a 100% interest in the Piedmont Lithium Project
located within the Carolina Tin-Spodumene Belt (“TSB”) and along
trend to the Hallman Beam and Kings Mountain mines, historically
providing most of the western world’s lithium between the 1950s and
the 1980s. The TSB has been described as one of the largest lithium
provinces in the world and is located approximately 25 miles west
of Charlotte, North Carolina. It is a premier location for
development of an integrated lithium business based on its
favorable geology and easy access to infrastructure, power, R&D
centers for lithium and battery storage, major high-tech population
centers and downstream lithium processing facilities.
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Keith Phillips President & CEO T: +1 973 809 0505 E:
kphillips@piedmontlithium.com
Tim McKenna Investor and Government Relations T: +1 732
331 6457 E: tmckenna@piedmontlithium.com
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