Bluewater Acquisition Corp. (NEX:BAQ.H,
"
Bluewater") and AlphaDelta Management Corp.
("
ADM") are pleased to announce that they have
entered into a non-binding letter of intent dated April 20, 2022
(the "
Letter of Intent"), that sets out the terms
under which Bluewater would be prepared to acquire all of the
issued and outstanding securities of ADM (the "
Proposed
Transaction").
Bluewater intends the Proposed Transaction to constitute its
"Qualifying Transaction", as defined by the policies of TSX Venture
Exchange Inc. (the "Exchange"). After the
completion of the Proposed Transaction, Bluewater expects to be
classified as a "Tier 2" issuer in the "Industrial/Investment/
Technology" industry segment of the Exchange and carry on the
business of ADM.
ADM
ADM is a creator, marketer and promoter of actively-managed
investment funds and other investment products which are sold to
Canadian investors through the broker-dealer distribution channel.
The AlphaDelta Funds are distinguished by their fulfilling of
un-met client needs and their high degree of differentiation from
index and closet-index funds. All of the AlphaDelta Funds have, at
one time or another, been at or near the top of their respective
investment categories over their five-year performance history.
ADM was incorporated under the federal laws of Canada in
Vancouver, British Columbia on May 4, 2014, and carries on the
business of distribution of financial investment products through
IIROC and MFDA financial advisors throughout Canada.
ADM has 66,902,186 common shares (the "ADM
Shares") and 5,500,000 stock options (the "ADM
Options") issued and outstanding. The directors of ADM are
Maurice Levesque of Edmonton, Alberta; Victor Therrien of
Vancouver, British Columbia; and Peter Van Dyke of Vancouver,
British Columbia. No individual or group of individuals acting in
concert has beneficial ownership of, or control or direction over,
directly or indirectly, more than 20% of the outstanding ADM Shares
on a non-diluted or fully-diluted basis.
ADM intends to disclose certain historical financial information
in a subsequent press release.
Bluewater
Bluewater is a Capital Pool Company (as that term is defined in
the policies of the Exchange). Bluewater has not commenced
operations and has no assets other than cash. The principal
business of Bluewater is the identification and evaluation of
assets or businesses with a view to completing a Qualifying
Transaction.
Bluewater has 7,716,500 common shares (the "Bluewater
Shares") issued and outstanding and 771,650 stock options
(the "Bluewater Options") issued and outstanding.
No individual or group of individuals acting in concert has
beneficial ownership of, or control or direction over, directly or
indirectly, more than 20% of the outstanding Bluewater Shares.
Certain historical financial information about Bluewater is
available at www.sedar.com.
Proposed Transaction
The Proposed Transaction involves several steps. Under the
Proposed Transaction: (a) Bluewater will incorporate a wholly-owned
subsidiary; (b) the wholly-owned subsidiary and ADM will amalgamate
(the "Amalgamation") and, pursuant to the
Amalgamation, the ADM shareholders will receive Bluewater Shares in
exchange for their ADM Shares, and the ADM option holders will
receive Bluewater Options in exchange for their ADM options, in
accordance with the Exchange Ratio (as defined below).
Private Placements
Shortly after the dissemination of this press release, ADM
intends to conduct a non-brokered private placement of a maximum of
20,000,000 ADM Shares, at a price of $0.05 per ADM Share, for
maximum gross proceeds of $1,000,000 (the "Initial Private
Placement"). The proceeds of the Initial Private Placement
will be used for working capital purposes.
Immediately prior to the completion of the Proposed Transaction,
ADM expects to conduct a brokered private placement (the
"Concurrent Private Placement" and, together with
the Initial Private Placement, the "Private
Placements") of ADM subscription receipts, for minimum
gross proceeds of $2,000,000. Each ADM subscription receipt will
entitle the holder to receive, without payment of additional
consideration and without any further action, one AlphaDelta Share
upon satisfaction of all the conditions to the completion of the
Proposed Transaction. The proceeds of the Concurrent Private
Placement will be used for working capital purposes.
Conditions Precedent to Closing
The Proposed Transaction is subject to a number of significant
conditions, including that: (a) the Exchange has conditionally
accepted the Proposed Transaction; (b) ADM has closed the Private
Placements; and (c) ADM shareholders have approved the
Amalgamation.
Post-Closing Capitalization of Bluewater
Under the Proposed Transaction, the parties will establish the
number of Bluewater Shares to be issued for each ADM Share, and the
number of Bluewater Options to be issued for each ADM Option, based
on an exchange ratio that will result in former AlphaDelta
shareholders owning approximately 97.00% of the common shares of
the resulting issuer, on a fully-diluted basis, and former
Bluewater shareholders owning approximately 3.00% of the common
shares of the resulting issuer, on a fully-diluted basis,
immediately after the completion of the Proposed Transaction.
Post-Closing Directors and Officers
Immediately after the Proposed Transaction, the parties expect
the directors or officers of the resulting issuer to be as
follows:
Victor J Therrien, Director, Chief Executive
Officer. Mr. Therrien is the CEO / Founder of ADM and over
the past 30 years served in the following executive roles;
Vice-President, Director for AGF Management Ltd., an investment
management firm, Executive Vice-President, Director (Canada),
Executive Director / Global Institutional Group at Brandes
Investment Partners Ltd., an investment management firm, President
and CEO at Therrien Woods & Co., an investment management firm,
Vice-President (Ontario) of Richardson GMP Limited, a wealth
management firm, and CEO / Founder of ADM. As well, Mr. Therrien
serves on the board of directors of a publicly- traded company, a
registered investment fund manager and two private companies.
Brad Farquhar, Director. Mr. Farquhar is
Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of SSC
Security Services Corp. (TSXV: SECU; OTCQX: SECUF) and its
predecessor companies. He previously co-founded Assiniboia Capital
Corp., which built Canada’s largest farmland fund before selling it
to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in 2014. Mr. Farquhar
is a trained financial planner and spent over 10 years as a senior
advisor to senior political leaders in Saskatchewan and Canada
prior to founding Assiniboia. He received a MPA in Electoral
Governance from Griffith University in Australia, studied political
science at Carleton University, and completed a BA at Providence
College. He previously served as Executive in Residence in
Agribusiness at the University of Regina. Mr. Farquhar has
extensive public company and board experience as a Director of SSC
Security Services Corp. (TSXV: SECU), Mongolia Growth Group Inc.
(TSXV: YAK), LUXXFOLIO Holdings Inc. (CSE: LUXX), Radicle Group
Inc., SIM Canada, Prairie College, and the advisory board of
AgFunder.
Maurice Levesque, Director. Mr. Maurice
Levesque is a founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of
Qwest Investment Management Corp. (“QIM”). Mr. Levesque is the
Chairman, CEO and Chief Compliance Officer of Qwest Investment Fund
Management Ltd., and Chairman, President and director of Heritage
Bancorp Ltd., Chairman of Qwest Fund Advisory and Back Officer
Services Ltd. (all three companies a subsidiary of QIM). Mr.
Levesque has over 35 years of experience in the Canadian financial
industry and is recognized for his broad knowledge, skills and
experience in the venture capital industry, financial services
industry and for his leadership skills in new business formation
and development. Mr. Levesque is a founder and/or a director of
several private and publicly traded companies which operate in a
variety of industries. Mr. Levesque graduated from The Northern
Alberta Institute of Technology with a diploma in Administration
Management.
Dave Malone, Director. For the last 20 years,
Mr. Malone has served as VP Business Initiatives at RBC Wealth
Management (reporting to CEO and COO) where he was responsible for
business technology strategy, prioritization, funding and
implementation of advisor desktop and client facing technologies
across $4 billion annual revenue business, supporting 1900 Advisor
teams and 450,000 HNW clients. For the past 5 years, Mr. Malone has
been the President and Director of a 360 unit Condominium Board in
the GTA Humber Bay Shores area. Graduated from University of
Toronto in 1983, Canadian Chartered Accountant (CA) designation
(1986), Canadian Securities Course (1987), CSI Derivatives Course
(2010), and Masters Trust Institute (MTI) in 2011.
Michail Sapountzoglou, Director. Mr.
Sapountzoglou's is currently co-founder and CEO of Bluewater. Mr.
Sapountzoglou began his career with a private family office in
Monaco running proprietary trading and asset management. In 1994,
he moved to London and helped establish the family office of the
Angelopoulos Group, leading M&A transactions within its core
investments in shipping, off-shore drilling, and private equity
until his departure in 2015. He established Angelopoulos Group's
joint venture with Odfjell Drilling Ltd. and led a series of bond
transactions trading on the Oslo Stock Exchange, raising over $1.6
billion for the off-shore projects. For the Angelopoulos Group's
shipping arm, Metrostar Management Corp., he led capital markets
strategy and business development. He directed the Angelopoulos
Group's initial seed investment in PuriCore, focused on developing
its HOCl, where he was also a founding Director from 1999-2013. He
assisted in taking PuriCore public on the Main List of the London
Stock Exchange and chaired its Remuneration and Nomination
committees.
Peter Van Dyke, Director. Mr. Van Dyke is a
seasoned finance professional, having worked in the finance and
investment industry for most of his 35-year career. He held
positions in banking (Royal Bank: Administrative Management and
Lloyds Bank: Commercial/Corporate Credit), real estate market
analysis (CMHC), operational finance and investment and for the
last four years has been working in the family office space,
managing an institutional-sized investment portfolio. Peter is a
Director of Junior Achievement BC and Chair of its Risk Management
Committee. He is also Director and Treasurer of the Vancouver
Community College Foundation. Peter is a Chartered Professional
Accountant (CPA, CMA), a graduate of Simon Fraser University (BBA –
Finance), and University of British Columbia (Urban Land Economics
Diploma). He has successfully completed the Canadian Securities
Course and completed the first year of the CFA Institute’s
Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement.
Dr. John Schmitz, Director. Dr. Schmitz is one
of Canada’s foremost authorities on global equities and global
derivatives. He is responsible for risk management and chairs
AlphaDelta’s Investment Oversight Committee for the AlphaDelta
Funds. Dr. Schmitz holds a BESc (Mechanical Engineering), a BA
(Economics) and a DHS (Honours Economics) from the University of
Western Ontario, a MA (Economics) from the University of Toronto,
and a PhD (Finance) from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the
University of Western Ontario. He also holds the Chartered
Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
Glenn Warkentin, Corporate Secretary. Mr.
Warkentin is Counsel at Lindsey MacCarthy LLP, a Canadian law
firm.
Arm's Length Negotiations
The Proposed Transaction does not constitute a "Non Arm's Length
Qualifying Transaction", as defined in the policies of the
Exchange, and Bluewater is not required, therefore, to obtain
shareholder approval of the Proposed Transaction under the policies
of the Exchange.
Sponsorship
In connection with the Proposed Transaction, Bluewater intends
to apply for a waiver of the sponsorship requirements of the
Exchange. There can be no assurance that the Exchange will grant
the waiver. If the Exchange does not grant the waiver, then
Bluewater must retain a sponsor of the Proposed Transaction in
accordance with the policies of the Exchange.
Resignation of Antonios Backos
Bluewater also announces that Antonios Backos resigned as a
director of Bluewater on April 5, 2022. Bluewater wishes to thank
Mr. Backos for his service to Bluewater and wishes him well in his
future endeavours.
Exchange Advisory
Completion of the Proposed Transaction is subject to a number of
conditions, including but not limited to, Exchange acceptance and
if applicable pursuant to the requirements of the Exchange,
majority of the minority shareholder approval. Where applicable,
the Proposed Transaction cannot close until the required
shareholder approval is obtained. There can be no assurance that
the Proposed Transaction will be completed as proposed or at
all.
Investors are cautioned that, except as disclosed in the
prospectus to be prepared in connection with the Proposed
Transaction, any information released or received with respect to
the Proposed Transaction may not be accurate or complete and should
not be relied upon.
Trading in the securities of a Capital Pool Company should be
considered highly speculative.
The Exchange has in no way passed upon the merits of the
Proposed Transaction and has neither approved nor disapproved the
contents of this press release.
Neither the Exchange nor its "regulation services
provider" (as defined in the policies of the Exchange) accepts
responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this press
release.
Forward-Looking Information Disclaimer
This press release contains forward-looking information within
the meaning of applicable securities legislation. In general,
forward-looking information refers to disclosure about future
conditions, courses of action, and events. The use of any of the
words "anticipates", "expects", "intends", "will", "would", and
similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking
information. More particularly and without limitation, this press
release contains forward looking information concerning the
proposed terms, and the anticipated results, of the Proposed
Transaction, Initial Private Placement, and Concurrent Private
Placement. The forward-looking information is based on certain key
expectations and assumptions made by Bluewater and ADM, including
expectations and assumptions concerning the ability of Bluewater
and ADM to complete the Proposed Transaction, Initial Private
Placement, and Concurrent Private Placement. Although Bluewater and
ADM believe that the expectations and assumptions on which such
forward-looking information is based are reasonable, undue reliance
should not be placed on the forward-looking information because
neither Bluewater nor ADM can give any assurance that they will
prove to be accurate. By its nature, forward-looking information is
subject to various risks and uncertainties, which could cause the
actual results and expectations to differ materially from the
anticipated results or expectations expressed in this press
release. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited
to, the inability of Bluewater and ADM to satisfy the conditions
precedent to the Proposed Transaction, Initial Private Placement,
and Concurrent Private Placement. Readers are cautioned not to
place undue reliance on this forward-looking information, which is
given as of the date of this press release, and to not use such
forward-looking information for anything other than its intended
purpose. Neither Bluewater nor ADM undertakes any obligation to
update publicly or revise any forward-looking information, whether
as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except
as required by applicable securities legislation.
Further Information
For further information about Bluewater, please contact:
Michail SapountzoglouPresident, CEO, and CFO306945226000
For further information about ADM, please contact:
Victor TherrienCEO7789876417Victortherrien (WhatsApp)
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