Canopy Growth Announces Exercise of Acreage Options Paving the Way for Acquisition by Canopy USA
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SMITHS FALLS, ON, June 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ – Canopy Growth Corporation (“Canopy Growth” or the “Company“) (TSX:WEED) (NASDAQ: CGC), a world-leading cannabis company dedicated to unleashing the power of cannabis to improve lives, announced today that the option to acquire all of the issued and outstanding Class E subordinate voting shares (the “Fixed Shares“) of Acreage Holdings, Inc. (“Acreage“) has been exercised in accordance with the terms of the arrangement agreement dated April 18, 2019, as amended, between Canopy Growth and Acreage (the “Acreage Fixed Share Arrangement Agreement“). In connection with the arrangement agreement dated as of October 24, 2022, by and among Canopy Growth, Canopy USA, LLC (“Canopy USA“) and Acreage, as amended (the “Acreage Floating Share Arrangement Agreement“), in respect of the Class D subordinate voting shares (the “Floating Shares“) of Acreage, on closing, Canopy USA will acquire all of the Fixed Shares and Floating Shares and Acreage will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canopy USA.