Renaissance BioScience Corp. Closes Balance of $5 million Convertible Debenture
Strategic Industry Investor Subscribes for $3.265 million Outstanding Balance of $5 million Convertible Debenture
Vancouver, Canada — November 1, 2021 — Renaissance BioScience Corp. (“Renaissance”), a leading global bioengineering company, is pleased to announce that the $3.265 million balance of its $5 million convertible debenture unit offering (“Debenture”) has been fully subscribed by a strategic industry investor and the debenture offering is now closed.
The Debenture matures on June 30, 2023 and is redeemable at maturity or convertible to common shares at any time prior to maturity, at the election of the Debenture subscriber. Each Debenture unit is comprised of one 12% convertible debenture with a principal amount of $1,000 and 500 common share purchase warrants. Each warrant will entitle the holder thereof to acquire one common share of Renaissance at a price of $1.50 per common share until the date which is 12 months after the first day Renaissance common shares are listed for trading on a recognized stock exchange. The convertible debenture is convertible to common shares of Renaissance at $1.25 per common share until June 30, 2022 and at $1.50 per common share during the period from July 1, 2022 until maturity on June 30, 2023.
The net proceeds from this Debenture closing of $2.612 million, after contractually required segregated interest payments, will be used to advance the proprietary Renaissance RNA production and delivery platform technology, to continue to build the Renaissance research and development team and executive team, to fund the costs of fulfilling our mandate to publicly list Renaissance common shares for trading, and for general corporate purposes.
About Renaissance BioScience Corp.
Based in Vancouver, Canada, Renaissance is an Environmental Impact company whose bioengineering platform technologies develop innovative, market-ready, functional microorganisms that provide solutions to a broad range of health, environmental and industrial problems. Detailed information about the Renaissance group of companies is available at www.renaissancebioscience.com.
For more information please contact Maurice Boucher, Renaissance Executive Chair, by email: mboucher@renaissancebioscience.com
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Steve Campbell
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Communications and Public Relations
Vancouver, BC, Canada
01 604 888-5267
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Dr. John Husnik, CEO
Renaissance BioScience Corp.
Vancouver, BC, Canada
01 604 822-6499
jihusnik@renaissancebioscience.com