Interestinger and interestinger, Keith Neumeyer going WANT WANT WANT. Presumably, the next bit is where Stan’s cronies tell us that 3c is better than 6c. Here’s the link, here’s the NR:
PS: Full disclosure: I do not own any COD.v, FF,v or (heaven forbid) SMC.to.
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired – May 3, 2015) – First Mining Finance Corp. (TSX VENTURE:FF) “First Mining“) announces that it has delivered a renewed definitive, written proposal to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Coastal Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE:COD) (“COD“) on the basis of 0.15 common shares in the capital of First Mining for each COD common share by way of a plan of arrangement under the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) (the “IncreasedProposal“). The Increased Proposal represents an increase of 0.028 First Mining shares from First Mining’s proposal delivered to the COD board of directors on April 26, 2015, and represents an increase in the implied value of First Mining’s proposal by $0.01 per COD share.
Based on the closing prices of each of First Mining, COD and Sulliden as of May 1, 2015, the Increased Proposal implies a value of $0.06 per COD common share, which represents a premium of:
- 167% to the implied value of $0.0225 per COD common share under the Sulliden Agreement (the total value of Sulliden’s offer being $3,807,618 as opposed to the total implied value of First Mining’s offer which is $10,153,649);
- 261% to the unaffected COD common share price on February 27, 2015, the last trading day prior to the public announcement of the Sulliden Agreement; and
- 100% to the current market price of the COD common shares.
The Proposal was delivered to the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of COD earlier today and is not subject to any financing or due diligence condition. In order to accept the Proposal, COD is required to terminate the Sulliden Agreement by no later than 5:00 pm (Toronto time) on May 9, 2015. COD is entitled to terminate the Sulliden Agreement in certain circumstances, including if it is unable to obtain the approval of its shareholders to the revised proposal by Sulliden announced by COD on April 28, 2015.
“We continue to be very interested in a business combination with COD which we think would be in the best interests of our shareholders and the independent shareholders of COD,” said Keith Neumeyer, Chairman of First Mining. “Even though Sulliden has increased its offer that offer is still worth far less than the current market price of COD shares. We find it difficult to understand how the COD board could reject our offer in favour of a weaker offer from Sulliden. We are now increasing our offer so that all shareholders of COD can be aware that there is a clearly superior alternative to the Sulliden offer available to COD shareholders. Our renewed offer can only be accepted by COD if the independent COD shareholders vote down the undervalued Sulliden offer and we again urge all independent shareholders of COD to vote against the Sulliden offer. We are also calling on the board of COD to postpone the COD shareholder meeting to allow the independent shareholders of COD to make an informed decision on which offer they believe is better.”
First Mining cautions that there is no assurance that the shareholders of COD will not approve the Sulliden offer; that COD will terminate the Sulliden Agreement in accordance with its terms; or that the Proposal will be completed on the above terms or at all.
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