Mr. Akshay Dubey reports
CVW SUSTAINABLE ROYALTIES ANNOUNCES $50-MILLION STRATEGIC INVESTMENT BY FAIRFAX AND UPSIZE OF PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED PRIVATE PLACEMENT FINANCING TO A MAXIMUM OF $50-MILLION FOR $100-MILLION IN TOTAL FINANCING
CVW Sustainable Royalties Inc. investor Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., through certain of its subsidiaries, will make a strategic investment for $50.0-million into the company. In addition and as a result of strong investor demand, the company has increased the size of its previously announced brokered private placement from $25.0-million to $50.0-million.
This will provide the company with $100.0-million in total gross proceeds to deploy in its royalty investment strategy and provides a strong endorsement of this strategy from Fairfax as well as other investors. The company will continue to focus its efforts on originating and executing additional royalty transactions, by performing comprehensive due diligence on potential investment opportunities and structuring royalty transactions in a manner which we believe will be accretive to shareholders. The company has built meaningful relationships with key stakeholders including company management teams, sustainability-focused investors including venture capital and private equity firms and investment banks which has led to a significant opportunity pipeline. As CVW advances several of these opportunities, the capital provided through the Fairfax strategic investment and the upsized offering will be instrumental to execute on further transactions. The company remains committed to building a diversified royalty platform which delivers strong returns to shareholders through exposure to commodities and commodity-like products produced in a sustainable manner.
strategic investment by Fairfax
The strategic participation from Fairfax, provides critical capital at an inflection point for the company and reflects confidence in the company's sustainability-focused royalty investment strategy, disciplined capital allocation approach and growing pipeline of royalty opportunities. Fairfax has a global network of business partners which is expected to provide a meaningful advantage to the company as it acquires royalties on a global scale. The need for sustainability-focused technologies has only strengthened and the company is confident in the value of its strategic partnership with Fairfax.
In connection with Fairfax's participation, the company intends to issue a combination of common share units and non-voting common share units to Fairfax, which is expected to be structured as follows:
- Tranche 1 -- 54,600,712 Fairfax voting units purchased by Fairfax at a price of 78 cents per Fairfax voting unit for gross proceeds of approximately $42,588,555. Each Fairfax voting unit shall consist of one common share of the company and one warrant exercisable to purchase a non-voting common share at a price of 95 cents per non-voting common share for a period of two years from closing.
- Tranche 2 -- 9,501,852 Fairfax non-voting units at a price of 78 per Fairfax non-voting unit for gross proceeds of approximately $7,411,445. Each Fairfax non-voting unit shall consist of one non-voting common share and one non-voting common share warrant.
The non-voting common shares will be convertible into common shares by Fairfax, subject to a beneficial ownership restriction if such exercise would result in Fairfax and its affiliates owning greater than 19.9 per cent of the company's common shares on a non-diluted basis. The non-voting common share warrants are subject to an acceleration provision which provides that, at any time following the six-month anniversary of the upsized closing date (as defined below) and from time to time thereafter, if the VWAP of the common shares exceeds $1.20 for 30 consecutive trading days at any time, the company may, within 20 days following such occurrence but without having been required to act upon the first or subsequent occurrence thereof, deliver a notice to the holders thereof accelerating the expiry date of the non-voting common share warrants to a date that is 30 calendar days after the date of such notice.
Upsized private placement
Further to the press release dated Feb. 4, 2026, in connection with the previously announced $25.0-million brokered private placement with Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc., as lead agent and co-bookrunner and due to strong investor demand, the company has decided to upsize the brokered offering to total gross proceeds of up to $50.0-million in aggregate through the issuance of up to 64,102,564 units at 78 cents per brokered unit. Each brokered unit shall consist of one common share and one common share purchase warrant. Each brokered warrant shall be exercisable to purchase an additional common share at a price of 95 cents per brokered warrant for a period of two years from the upsized closing date. At any time following the six-month anniversary of the upsized closing date and from time to time thereafter, if the VWAP of the common shares exceeds $1.20 for 30 consecutive trading days at any time, the company may, within 20 days following such occurrence but without having been required to act upon the first occurrence thereof, deliver a notice to the holders thereof accelerating the expiry date of the brokered warrants to a date that is 30 calendar days after the date of such notice.
The company intends to use the net proceeds from the Fairfax strategic investment and the upsized offering to finance future royalty transactions, diligence and closing expenses related thereto, and general corporate purposes.
Shareholder approval and regulatory matters
The company intends to call a special meeting of shareholders to seek approval to amend its articles of incorporation to create the non-voting common shares. Further details regarding the proposed amendment and the special meeting will be provided in due course.
All securities issued pursuant to the upsized offering and the Fairfax strategic investment will be subject to a four-month-and-one-day statutory hold period from the respective closing dates in accordance with Canadian securities laws.
The upsized offering is still expected to close on or about Feb. 26, 2026, or such other date as may be agreed to by the company and the agents. The Fairfax strategic investment is expected to close shortly after the special meeting and on or about April 7, 2026. The Fairfax strategic investment and the upsized offering are subject to certain conditions, including, but not limited to, the receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals, including the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange and, in the case of the Fairfax strategic investment, both shareholder approval and closing of the upsized offering for minimum aggregate gross proceeds of $50-million. All amounts included herein are in Canadian dollars.
About CVW Sustainable Royalties
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CVW Sustainable Royalties invests in sustainability-focused technologies and operations providing returns linked to commodities and commodity-like products. CVW Sustainable Royalties is building a portfolio of royalty-based cash-flow streams by partnering with clean technology innovators in the commodity space.
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