VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 12,
2022 /CNW/ - Trevali Mining Corporation
("Trevali Corp." or the "Company") announced that the Supreme Court
of British Columbia (the "Court"),
on application of the Company as well as its wholly owned
subsidiary Trevali Mining (New
Brunswick) Ltd. ("Trevali NB" and, together with Trevali
Corp., "Trevali"), made in Trevali's ongoing Companies'
Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada) ("CCAA") proceedings has conditionally
authorized and empowered the Company to obtain and borrow up to the
maximum principal amount of US$16.5
million pursuant to an interim financing tranche (the "DIP
Tranche") to be made available to Trevali Corp. pursuant to the
terms of an amendment (the "Fifth Amendment") to the existing
credit facility extended to the Company under the Second Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement dated August
6, 2020 (the "Credit Agreement") between the Company, as
borrower, the Bank of Nova Scotia,
as administrative agent (the "Administrative Agent"), and lenders
party thereto (the "Interim Lenders"). The DIP Tranche shall be on
the terms and be subject to the conditions set forth in the Credit
Agreement as amended by the Fifth Amendment on the terms agreed to
between Trevali and the Administrative Agent. The Approval of the
DIP Tranche is conditional upon the execution by the Company (with
the consent of the FTI Consulting Canada Inc. (the "Monitor")), the
Administrative Agent and the Interim Lenders of the Fifth Amendment
on the terms agreed to between Trevali and the Administrative
Agent.
CCAA Proceedings
On October 11, 2022, in
conjunction with the approval of the DIP Tranche, the Court also
extended the stay of proceedings applicable to Trevali until and
including December 15, 2022. Pursuant
to an Initial Order of the Court granted under the CCAA on
August 19, 2022, Trevali obtained
protection from its creditors for an initial period of ten (10)
days (the "Stay Period"). The Court issued a further order on
August 29, 2022 approving an initial
extension of the Stay Period until October
6, 2022. The Court issued a further order earlier this month
on October 6, 2022 approving a third
extension of the Stay Period until October
18, 2022.
All inquiries regarding the CCAA proceedings of the Company
should be directed to the court-appointed monitor, FTI Consulting
Inc. (email: Trevali@fticonsulting.com or telephone: +1-877-294-
8998). Information about the Company's CCAA proceedings, including
all court orders made and the Monitor's reports, are available on
the Monitor's website at
http://cfcanada.fticonsulting.com/trevali/.
About Trevali Mining
Corporation
Trevali is a base-metals mining company headquartered in
Vancouver, Canada. For further
details on Trevali, readers are referred to the Company's website
(www.trevali.com) and to Canadian regulatory filings on SEDAR at
www.sedar.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding
Forward-Looking Information and Statements
This news release contains "forward-looking information" within
the meaning of Canadian securities legislation and "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of the United States Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (collectively,
"forward-looking statements"). Forward-looking statements are based
on the beliefs, expectations and opinions of management of the
Company as of the date the statement are published, and the Company
assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement,
except as required by law. In certain cases, forward-looking
statements can be identified by the use of words such as "plans",
"expects", "outlook", "guidance", "budget", "scheduled",
"estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "believes",
or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain
actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might", "will
be taken", "occur" or "be achieved" or the negative of these terms
or comparable terminology. Forward-looking statements in this news
release include, among others, statements with respect to the DIP
Tranche and the outcome thereof. Forward-looking statements relate
to future events or future performance and reflect management's
expectations or beliefs regarding future events including, but not
limited to, statements with respect to the outcome of the DIP
Tranche. By their very nature, forward-looking statements involve
known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may
cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the
Company to be materially different from any future results,
performance or achievements expressed or implied by the
forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, the
risk that the conditions will not be met with respect to the DIP
Tranche, operating in foreign jurisdictions with risk of changes to
governmental regulation; compliance with governmental regulations;
compliance with environmental laws and regulations; maintaining
ongoing social license to operate; limitations inherent in our
insurance coverage; litigation; and other risks of the mining
industry including, without limitation, risks and uncertainties
that are more fully described in the Company's annual information
form, interim and annual audited consolidated financial statements
and management's discussion and analysis of those statements, all
of which are filed and available for review under the Company's
profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. Although the Company has
attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual
actions, events or results to differ materially from those
described in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors
that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated,
estimated or intended. Trevali provides no assurance that
forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual
results and future events may differ from those anticipated in such
statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on
forward-looking statements.
SOURCE Trevali Mining Corporation