MANAGEMENT INFORMATION AND PROXY CIRCULAR
This management information and proxy circular, including all schedules hereto (the “Circular”), is furnished in connection with the solicitation of proxies by or on behalf of the management (“Management”) of Trilogy International Partners Inc. (the “Corporation” or “TIP Inc.”) from the holders of common shares (the “Common Shares”) of the Corporation, for the purposes set forth in the Notice of Annual General Meeting of shareholders of the Corporation (the “Shareholders”) accompanying this Circular. The Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Corporation, or any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof (the “Meeting”), will be held on June 30, 2023 at 9:30 a.m., Pacific Daylight Time, via a live webcast at https://virtual-meetings.tsxtrust.com/1497.
Except as otherwise stated, the information contained herein is given as of March 31, 2023. Unless otherwise stated, figures in this Circular are expressed in United States dollars (“US$” or “$”), the same currency that the Corporation uses in its consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2022 (the “Annual Financial Statements”). As of December 31, 2022 and March 31, 2023, the value of Canadian dollar (“C$”) to the US$, based on the Bank of Canada’s daily rates of exchange, was US$0.7383 and US$0.7389, respectively. As of December 31, 2022 and March 31, 2023, the value of the New Zealand dollar (“NZ$”), based on the rates published by Oanda (www.oanda.com), was US$0.6348 and US$0.6265, respectively.
TIP Inc. was incorporated under the name “Alignvest Acquisition Corporation” (“Alignvest”) under the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) (“OBCA”) on May 11, 2015. Alignvest was a special purpose acquisition corporation, or “SPAC”, formed for the purpose of effecting an acquisition of one or more businesses or assets by way of a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or any other similar business combination involving Alignvest, referred to as its “qualifying acquisition”.
On November 1, 2016, Alignvest and Trilogy International Partners LLC (“Trilogy LLC”) entered into an arrangement agreement (as amended December 20, 2016, the “Arrangement Agreement”). On February 7, 2017, pursuant to the terms of the Arrangement Agreement, Alignvest completed its qualifying acquisition under which it effected a business combination with Trilogy LLC by way of a court-approved plan of arrangement (the “Arrangement”).
At the effective time of the Arrangement, Alignvest’s name was changed to “Trilogy International Partners Inc.” and Alignvest’s authorized capital was amended to create one Special Voting Share and an unlimited number of Common Shares. In addition, the existing share purchase warrants of Alignvest were deemed to be amended to be share purchase warrants (the “TIP Inc. Warrants”) to acquire Common Shares following 30 days after the effective date of the Arrangement, at an exercise price of C$11.50 per share, but otherwise unamended. Each outstanding TIP Inc. Warrant expired on February 7, 2022.
Immediately following the effective time of the Arrangement, TIP Inc. continued out of the jurisdiction of Ontario under the OBCA and into the jurisdiction of British Columbia under the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) (“BCBCA”). As a result of this continuation, the Corporation adopted new articles (the “Articles”) that included an advance notice policy, as well as certain ownership and voting restrictions that were implemented in order for the Corporation to comply with the Overseas Investment Act 2005 of New Zealand.
For more information on the Arrangement, see the management information and proxy circular of Alignvest dated December 22, 2016 (including the prospectus set out at Appendix “F” thereto), as amended January 12, 2017, which is available on the Corporation’s company profile on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (“SEDAR”) at www.sedar.com and in the United States on the Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval (“EDGAR”) database at www.sec.gov.
On December 31, 2021, Trilogy International New Zealand LLC (“TINZ”), a subsidiary of the Corporation, and Tesbrit B.V. (“Tesbrit”, together with TINZ, the “Vendors”) entered into a purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Voyage Digital (NZ) Limited (“Voyage Digital”), and Voyage Australia Holdings Pty Limited pursuant to which Voyage Digital agreed to acquire, subject to certain terms and conditions, all of the issued and outstanding shares in the capital of Two Degrees Mobile Limited (“2degrees”) owned by the Vendors