SpeakEasy Announces Completion of $2 Million Convertible Loan Financing

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VANCOUVER, May 4, 2020 /CNW/ - SpeakEasy Cannabis Club Ltd. (CSE: EASY) (Frankfurt: 39H) (the "Company" or "SpeakEasy"), a holder of a federal licence to cultivate, process and sell cannabis under the Cannabis Act is pleased to announce that further to its press releases of March 23, 2020 and April 22, 2020, it has completed the transactions contemplated by a convertible loan agreement (the "Loan Agreement") among the Company, 10161233 Canada Limited (the "Guarantor"), 1244726 B.C. Ltd. (the "Lender"), Bhayana Ventures Ltd. and 1193213 B.C. Ltd. (the "Finder") dated April 21, 2020, for aggregate gross proceeds of $2,000,000 (the "Loan").

The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the Loan for capital projects and for general corporate purposes.

The principal amount of the Loan, accrued interest thereon and the finder's fee payable in connection with the Loan, are all convertible into common shares of the Company at the option of the Lender and the Finder, respectively, at any time prior to the maturity date at a conversion price of $1.00 per share, subject to adjustment on the terms and conditions set forth in the Loan Agreement.

As security for the Loan, the Company has caused the grant of a first mortgage over the Guarantor's property in Rock Creek, British Columbia and a first-ranking general security agreement over all of the present and after-acquired personal property of the Company and the Guarantor.    

The Company also announces that it has granted one Consultant the option to purchase up to 50,000 Common Shares of the Company at a price of $0.42 with an expiry date of 5 years from the date of grant.

About SpeakEasy Cannabis Club Ltd.:

SpeakEasy Cannabis Club Ltd. holds a cultivation, processing and sales licence issued by Health Canada under the Cannabis Act. SpeakEasy owns 290 acres of land in Rock Creek, British Columbia, and leverages three generations of farming experience in B.C. as well as its favourable location to grow and process high-quality cannabis products at low cost. SpeakEasy cultivates small batch, high quality craft cannabis in its 10,000 square foot indoor facility and has completed the development of its licenced 60-acre outdoor field. The Company expects to complete planting its outdoor cultivation area during Q2, 2020, and to produce approximately 70,000kg of outdoor, sun grown cannabis in 2020.  

For more information about SpeakEasy, visit speakeasygrowers.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This news release contains statements that constitute "forward-looking statements." Such forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause SpeakEasy's actual results, performance or achievements, or developments in the industry to differ materially from the anticipated results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Forward looking statements are statements that are not historical facts and are generally, but not always, identified by the words "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "intends," "estimates," "projects," "potential" and similar expressions, or that events or conditions "will," "would," "may," "could" or "should" occur.

Forward-looking statements in this document include statements concerning SpeakEasy's intended use of proceeds of the Loan, its intention to plant its outdoor crops and the timeframe associated with such planting, its intent to produce and sell high quality craft cannabis, its expected production output, the costs associated with such output and the timeframes associated with such production output and all other statements that are not statements of historical fact.

Although SpeakEasy believes the forward-looking information contained in this news release is reasonable based on information available on the date hereof, by their nature forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements, or other future events, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.  By their nature, these statements involve a variety of assumptions, known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual results, levels of activity and achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements.

Examples of such assumptions, risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, assumptions, risks and uncertainties associated with the global Covid-19 pandemic, including the risk that the Company be deemed a non-essential business and asked to temporarily cease operations; general economic conditions; adverse industry events; future legislative and regulatory developments involving cannabis; the Company's ability to access sufficient capital from internal and external sources, and/or inability to access sufficient capital on favorable terms; the cannabis industry in Canada and generally; the demand for cannabis and cannabis related products, the ability of SpeakEasy to implement its business strategies; competition; the ability of SpeakEasy to obtain and retain all applicable licences under the Cannabis Act and other assumptions, risks and uncertainties.

THE FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS NEWS RELEASE REPRESENTS THE EXPECTATIONS OF THE COMPANY AS OF THE DATE OF THIS NEWS RELEASE AND, ACCORDINGLY, IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AFTER SUCH DATE. READERS SHOULD NOT PLACE UNDUE IMPORTANCE ON FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION AND SHOULD NOT RELY UPON THIS INFORMATION AS OF ANY OTHER DATE. WHILE THE COMPANY MAY ELECT TO, IT DOES NOT UNDERTAKE TO UPDATE THIS INFORMATION AT ANY PARTICULAR TIME EXCEPT AS REQUIRED IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAWS.

The Canadian Securities Exchange has not approved nor disapproved the contents of this news release.

SOURCE Speakeasy Cannabis Club Ltd.

Bin Huang, Chief Executive Officer, [email protected], 1-778-668-4339