Jushi Holdings Inc. (“Jushi” or the “Company”) (CSE: JUSH) (OTCQX: JUSHF), a vertically integrated, multi-state cannabis operator, announced it has filed a preliminary short form base shelf prospectus with the securities commissions in each of the provinces and territories of Canada (the “Shelf Prospectus”). The Shelf Prospectus, when made final and effective, will allow the Company to offer up to C$500 million of subordinate voting shares, subscription receipts, debt securities, convertible securities, warrants, and units (collectively, the “Securities”), or any combination thereof, from time to time during the 25-month period that the Shelf Prospectus is effective. The final short form base shelf prospectus (the “Final Shelf Prospectus”) will be filed after the expiry of and will replace the Company’s existing short form base shelf prospectus, which was filed on October 9, 2020 with certain Canadian securities regulatory authorities.
The Company intends to file the Final Shelf Prospectus in order to maintain financial flexibility, including for responding to significant regulatory improvements and pursuing opportunistic acquisitions. The specific terms of any future offering of Securities under the Final Shelf Prospectus, including the use of proceeds from any such offering, will be established in a prospectus supplement to the Final Shelf Prospectus, which supplement will be filed with the applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities.
The Shelf Prospectus can be found and the Final Shelf Prospectus will be filed under the Company’s profile on SEDAR at sedar.com.
No securities regulatory authority has either approved or disapproved of the contents of this news release. This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of the Securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
