BPH Energy Limited Stock Market Press Releases and Company Profile
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Perth, Oct 1, 2019 AEST (ABN Newswire) - On 21 August 2019 BPH Energy Limited (googlechartASX:BPH) announced that it intended to pursue a complementary strategy of making an investment (or investments) in the medical cannabis sector, as it is considered that an investment of this nature is in line with its investee company strategy and, in particular, its biomedical business. The medical cannabis sector is showing significant growth with current developments boosting the sectors viability including the move to legalise cannabis in Canada and the announcement by the UK Government to legalise medical cannabis.

On 2 September 2019 BPH announced it had agreed to acquire an initial investment of 10% (with the option to increase its percentage to 49%) in Patagonia Genetics Pty Ltd ("PG Aust"), the entity that owns a 100% interest in Patagonia Genetics SPA ("PG"), a Chilean entity.

The key terms are:

(a) BPH agreed to acquire a total 10% interest in PG Aust in consideration for a subscription amount of $50,000 in cash into the entity and the issue of 150,000,000 BPH shares and payment of $50,000 by equal instalments over 6 months to the shareholders of PG Aust ("T1 transaction"). The amount of capital issued by BPH for the consideration represents approximately 5.5% of the capital of BPH. The 150,000,000 BPH shares were issued on 30 August 2019 ; and

(b) BPH is granted the option to acquire a total shareholding of 49% in PG Aust (that is, an additional 39% when added to the original acquisition of a 10% interest) in consideration for a subscription amount of $700,000 into the entity and the issue of 450,000,000 shares in the capital of BPH ("T2 transaction").

The transaction will be conditional on appropriate due diligence, and for the T2 transaction, shareholder approval. There was be no requirement for a shareholder approval for the T1 transaction as the consideration will be met from the current cash position and the shares issued from the existing 15% ASX Listing Rule 7.1 capacity of BPH.

It is acknowledged as part of the terms sheet and it will be acknowledged in the warranties and representations in the formal agreement that the licence applications are owned by PG and that PG Aust and PG will not apply for or pursue recreational cannabis licences nor make investments in the recreational cannabis space or in any activities or projects using Mistella (unless the transactions have been otherwise approved by ASX).

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About BPH Energy Limited

BPH EnergyBPH Energy Limited (ASX:BPH) is an Australian Securities Exchange listed company developing biomedical research and technologies within Australian Universities and Hospital Institutes.

The company provides early stage funding, project management and commercialisation strategies for a direct collaboration, a spin out company or to secure a license.

BPH provides funding for commercial strategies for proof of concept, research and product development, whilst the institutional partner provides infrastructure and the core scientific expertise.

BPH currently partners with several academic institutions including The Harry Perkins Institute for Medical Research and  Swinburne University of Technology (SUT).

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