New Pacific Closes Bought Deal Offering
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NEW PACIFIC CLOSES BOUGHT DEAL OFFERING
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – June 9, 2020 : New Pacific Metals Corp. (TSXV:
NUAG) ("New Pacific " or the "Company") is pleased to announce th at it has closed its
previously announced bought deal financing (the " Offering"). A total of 4,238,000 common
shares of the Company (each, a " Common Share") were sold under the Offering at a price of
$5.90 per Common Share (the " Issue Price") for aggregate gross proceeds of $25,004,200. The
Offering was underwritten by BMO Capital Markets (the "Underwriter").
As previously announced, Silvercorp Metals Inc. ("Silvercorp") participated in the Offering and
purchased an aggregate of 1,320,710 Common Shares, maintaining its pro rata interest of 28.8%
of the outstanding Common Shares pursuant to its participation right and further increas ing its
interest by 100,000 Common Shares.
The Company will use the net proceeds of the Offering to advance exploration and development
at the Company's Silver Sand project and other regions and projects in Bolivia outside of the
Silver Sand project.
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 was a related party
transaction. The acquisition of Common Shares by Silvercorp pursuant to the Offering was
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.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any of the
securities in the United States. The securities have not been registered under the United States
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any state securities laws and may not be offere d or sold
within the United States, absent such registration or an applicable exemption from such
registration requirements.
About New Pacific Metals Corp.
New Pacific is a Canadian exploration and development comp any which owns the Silver Sand
project in the Potosí 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
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Fax: (604) 669-9387
www.newpacificmetals.com
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meaning of applicable Canadian provincial securities laws. Any statements or information that express or involve
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