Judy Hong
Vice President, Investor Relations (USA)
Judy.hong@canopygrowth.com
Tyler Burns
Vice President, Investor Relations (Canada)
Tyler.burns@canopygrowth.com
855-558-9333 ext. 122
Acreage Contacts:
Steve West
Vice President, Investor Relations
investors@acreageholdings.com
646-600-9181
Howard Schacter
Vice President, Communications
h.schacter@acreageholdings.com
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About Canopy Growth Corporation
Canopy Growth (TSX:WEED, NYSE:CGC) is a world-leading diversified cannabis, hemp and cannabis device company, offering distinct brands and curated cannabis varieties in dried, oil and Softgel capsule forms, as well as medical devices through Canopy Growth’s subsidiary, Storz & Bickel GMbH & Co. KG. From product and process innovation to market execution, Canopy Growth is driven by a passion for leadership and a commitment to building a world-class cannabis company one product, site and country at a time. Canopy Growth has operations in over a dozen countries across five continents.
Canopy Growth’s medical division, Spectrum Therapeutics, is proudly dedicated to educating healthcare practitioners, conducting robust clinical research, and furthering the public’s understanding of cannabis, and has devoted millions of dollars toward cutting-edge, commercializable research and IP development. Spectrum Therapeutics sells a range of full-spectrum products using its colour-coded classification Spectrum system as well as single cannabinoid Dronabinol under the brand Bionorica Ethics.
Canopy Growth operates retail stores across Canada under its award-winning Tweed and Tokyo Smoke banners. Tweed is a globally recognized cannabis brand which has built a large and loyal following by focusing on quality products and meaningful customer relationships.
From our historic public listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange to our continued international expansion, pride in advancing shareholder value through leadership is engrained in all we do at Canopy Growth. Canopy Growth has established partnerships with leading sector names including cannabis icons Snoop Dogg and Seth Rogen, breeding legends DNA Genetics and Green House Seeds, and Fortune 500 alcohol leader Constellation Brands, to name but a few. Canopy Growth operates eleven licensed cannabis production sites with over 10.5 million square feet of production capacity, including over one million square feet of GMP certified production space. For more information visitwww.canopygrowth.com.
About Acreage Holdings, Inc.
Headquartered in New York City, Acreage is a vertically integrated, multi-state operator of cannabis licenses and assets in the U.S.. Acreage is dedicated to building and scaling operations to create a seamless, consumer-focused branded cannabis experience. Acreage debuted its national retail store brand, The Botanist in 2018 and its award-winning consumer brands, The Botanist and Live Resin Project in 2019.
Pursuant to the current Plan of Arrangement, the Acreage articles were amended to provide Canopy Growth with an option to acquire all of the Existing Shares, with a requirement to do so, upon the occurrence or waiver of the Triggering Event, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set out in the Arrangement Agreement. Acreage continues to operate as a stand-alone entity and conducts its business independently, subject to compliance with certain covenants contained in the Arrangement Agreement. Pursuant to the current Plan of Arrangement, upon the occurrence or waiver of the Triggering Event, Canopy Growth will, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions to closing set out in the Arrangement Agreement, acquire (the “Acquisition”) each of the Existing Shares (following the automatic conversion of the Class B proportionate voting shares and Class C multiple voting shares of Acreage into Existing Shares) in exchange for the payment of 0.5818 of a Canopy Growth Share per Existing Share (subject to adjustment in accordance with the terms of the Arrangement Agreement), until such time as amended in accordance with the New Arrangement. For more information about the current Plan of Arrangement and the Acquisition please see the respective information circulars of each of Acreage and Canopy Growth dated May 17, 2019, which are available on Canopy Growth’s and Acreage’s respective profiles on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Notice Regarding Forward Looking Statements
This news release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and “forward-looking information” within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Often, but not always, forward-looking statements and information can be identified by the use of words such as “plans”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “estimates”, “intends”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate”, or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might” or “will” be taken, occur or be achieved. Forward-looking statements or information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Canopy Growth, Acreage or their respective subsidiaries to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements or information contained in this news release. Examples of such statements include statements with respect to the timing and outcome of the New Arrangement, the anticipated benefits of the New Arrangement, amount of theup-front payment payable per Existing Share, the anticipated timing of the Meeting, the occurrence or waiver of the Triggering Event, the Acquisition, the satisfaction or waiver of the closing conditions set out in the Arrangement Agreement, the satisfaction of the conditions set out in the New Agreement, the ability of Acreage to complete certain financing transactions, dispose of certainnon-core assets and undertake a sale leaseback transaction, the expectation that the United States Is going to be a core market for Canopy Growth, the implied value of the Fixed Shares and Floating Shares, the formation of apre-eminent global cannabis company,