New Pacific Announces Silvercorp Participation IN Bought Deal Financing
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Trading Symbol: TSX-V: NUAG
OTCQX: NUPMF
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NEW PACIFIC ANNOUNCES SILVERCORP PARTICIPATION IN BOUGHT DEAL FINANCING
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – May 26, 2020 – New Pacific Metals Corp. (TSX-V: NUAG) (“New Pacific” or the
“Company”) is pleased to announce that Silvercorp Metals Inc. (“Silvercorp”) has indicated its intent to participate
in the Company’s bought deal financing (the “Offering”), previously announced on May 19, 2020, by purchasing
common shares of the Company ("Common Shares") to maintain its pro rata interest of 28.8% of the outstanding
Common Shares pursuant to its participation right and further increase its interest by 100,000 Common Shar es, for
an aggregate of 1,320,710 Common Shares.
The Offering is expected to close on or about June 9, 2020 and is subject to the Company receiving all necessary
regulatory and stock exchange approvals. Upon completion of the Offering, Silvercorp wil l own, directly or
indirectly, 43,917,216 Common Shares, representing an approximate 28.87% ownership interest in the Company,
assuming the over-allotment option is not exercised.
Silvercorp is a related party of the Company for the purposes of Multilateral Instrument 61 -101 – Protection of
Minority Securityholders in Special Transactions ("MI 61-101") and the acquisition by Silvercorp of Common Shares
pursuant to the Offering is a related party transaction. The acquisition of Common Shares by Silvercorp pur suant to
the Offering is exempt from the valuation and minority approval requirements of MI 61 -101 pursuant to the
exemptions in Sections 5.5(a) and 5.7(a) of MI 61-101.
The securities offered have not been registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be
offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration
requirements. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor sha ll
there be any sale of the securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
ABOUT NEW PACIFIC
New Pacific is a Canadian exploration and development company which owns the Silver Sand Project, in the Potos í
Department of Bolivia, and the Tagish Lake Gold Project in Yukon, Canada.
For further information, please contact:
New Pacific Metals Corp.
Gordon Neal
President
Phone: (604) 633-1368
Fax: (604) 669-9387
www.newpacificmetals.com
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture
Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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applicable Canadian provincial securities laws. Any statements or information that express or involv e discussions with respect to
predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions or future events or performance (often, but n ot
always, using words or phrases such as “expects”, “is expected”, “anticipates”, “believes”, “plans ”, “projects”, “estimates”,
“assumes”, “intends”, “strategies”, “targets”, “goals”, “forecasts”, “objectives”, “budgets”, “schedules”, “potential” or
variations thereof or stating that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might” or “will” be taken, occur or
be achieved, or the negative of any of these terms and similar expressions) are not statements of historical fact and may be
forward-looking statements or information. Such statements include Silvercorp’s participation in the Offe ring; obtaining the
required regulatory and stock exchange approvals; the closing date of the Offering; completion of the Offering; and the exerc ise
of the over-allotment option.
Forward-looking statements or information are subject to a variety of known a nd unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors
that could cause actual events or results to differ from those reflected in the forward -looking statements or information,
including, without limitation, risks relating to: global economic and social impact of COVID-19; fluctuating equity prices, bond
prices, commodity prices; calculation of resources, reserves and mineralization, foreign exchange risks, interest rate risk, foreign
investment risk; loss of key personnel; conflicts of interest; dependence on management and others.
This list is not exhaustive of the factors that may affect any of the Company’s forward -looking statements or information.
Forward-looking statements or information are statements about the future and are inherently uncertain, and ac tual
achievements of the Company or other future events or conditions may differ materially from those reflected in the forward -
looking statements or information due to a variety of risks, uncertainties and other factors, including, without limitation, those
referred to in the Company’s Annual Information Form for the year ended June 30, 2019 under the heading “Risk Factors”.
Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, there
may be o ther factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated, described or intended. Accordingly, readers should
not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements or information.
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management as of the date of this news release, and other than as required by applicable securities laws, the Company does not
assume any obligation to update forward -looking statements or information if circumstances or management’s assumptions,
beliefs, expectations or opinions should change, or changes in any other events affecting such statements or information. For
the reasons set forth above, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements or information.