See “Directors, Senior Management and Employees—Compensation” in our Annual Report for a summary of the terms of our compensation plans.
Warrants
On June 5, 2020, we issued (i) in connection with the SAF Transaction, the SAF Warrants to purchase 17,500,000 common shares at an exercise price of US$1.20 per warrant and to purchase 17,500,000 common shares at an exercise price of US$1.00 per warrant, (ii) in connection with the Securities Purchase Agreement, the New Investor Warrants to purchase 14,457,059 common shares, at an exercise price of US$0.9338 and (iii) in connection with certain placement agent services related to the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Placement Agent Warrants to purchase 1,080,000 common shares. See “Description of Private Placement”, and “Description of SAF Transaction” and “Prospectus Summary—Recent Developments—Placement Agent Warrants”.
In August 2019, in connection with our initial public offering, we issued additional warrants to holders of the 12% Convertible Notes to incentivize participation in a lockup incentive offer. During the year ended December 31, 2019, the principal amount of $21.2 million and US$2.5 million of our 12% Convertible Notes was converted into equity units, at the option of the holders. Equity units issued consisted of 6.2 million common shares and 3.6 million warrants. As of the date of this prospectus, there are outstanding (i) 2,787,546 warrants with an exercise price of $4.38 that were issued pursuant to conversion of the Canadian-dollar denominated 12% Convertible Notes and (ii) 444,888 warrants with an exercise price of US$3.75 that were issued pursuant to conversion of the US-dollar denominated 12% Convertible Notes.
We have historically awarded equity compensation in the form of simple and performance warrants, entitling the holder to subscribe for and purchase fully paid and non-assessable shares in our capital. In the fiscal year ended February 28, 2018, we granted 2,904,000 simple warrants and 8,125,334 performance warrants, collectively exercisable into an aggregate of 11,029,334 common shares, at an average exercise price of $0.82 and $1.39, respectively, as equity incentives to certain of our employees. In the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018, we granted 3,535,200 simple warrants and 2,188,800 performance warrants, collectively exercisable into an aggregate of 5,724,000 common shares at an average exercise price of $2.61 and $2.48, respectively, as equity incentives to certain of our employees. In the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, we granted 4,795,200 simple warrants and 723,200 performance warrants, collectively exercisable into an aggregate of 5,518,400 common shares at a weighted average exercise price of $6.32 and $12.23, respectively, as equity incentives to certain of our employees. Subsequent to our initial public offering, we established the stock option, RSU and DSU plans to replace the granting of simple warrants and performance warrants. See “Directors, Senior Management and Employees—Compensation” for a summary of the terms of our compensation plans.
In addition, in a series of transactions between June 20, 2018 and August 24, 2018, we sold an aggregate of 4,491,154 units, each comprising one common share and one warrant, immediately vested and exercisable into one common share prior to April 30, 2019 at an exercise price of $3.91. In August 2018, a total of 558,501 warrants were exercised at a price of $3.91. As an incentive to exercise, the warrant holders received a total of 279,251 warrants, which became immediately vested and exercisable at an exercise price of $3.91 upon issuance. As of the date of this prospectus, all such warrants have been exercised. See “—Common Shares” above.
In January 2019, we entered into an engagement letter with one of our advisors to provide certain financial advisory services in connection with our initial public offering and have entered into an addendum to such engagement letter in July 2019. Pursuant to the terms of the engagement letter as supplemented, we issued to such advisor (1) 240,000 common share purchase warrants, exercisable into an aggregate of 240,000 common shares at an exercise price of $3.91 per share, immediately prior to our initial public offering, and (2) 144,000 immediately vested common share purchase warrants, exercisable into 144,000 common shares at an exercise price of $3.91, and 160,000 immediately vested common share purchase warrants, exercisable into 160,000 common shares at an exercise price of $6.25.
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