VANCOUVER and MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NEWMEDIAWIRE – Neovasc Inc. (“Neovasc” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ, TSX: NVCN) announced today that Strul Medical Group LLC (“SMG”) exercised 501,000 of the remaining 1,149,910 common share purchase warrants (the “May Warrants”) issued pursuant to a Securities Purchase Agreement dated May 26, 2020 at an exercise price of US$2.634 per May Warrant for aggregate exercise proceeds to the Company of US$1,319,634.00 (the “Exercise Proceeds”).
Using the Exercise Proceeds, the Company has prepaid a portion of the convertible debenture (the “Note”) in the aggregate principal amount of US$11,500,000 issued to SMG pursuant to a private placement on May 13, 2019. The total aggregate amount of the Exercise Proceeds has been applied to the prepayment of the Note whereby US$1,263,884.57 has been applied to the remaining US$7,886,658.88 principal of the Note, US$25,277.69 has been paid as a prepayment penalty pursuant to the terms of the Note and US$30,471.74 has been paid in accrued interest. In connection with the prepayment of the Note, the Company also issued to SMG 168,518 common share purchase warrants (the “Repayment Warrants”) at an exercise price of US$7.50 per Repayment Warrant in accordance with the terms of the Note.
As of August 14, 2020, after the impact of the recently announced financing, the Company had 22,647,127 shares issued and outstanding and the fully diluted share count was 37,331,314 (assuming all notes and warrants are fully converted and exercised and without giving effect to the PIK interest).
About Neovasc Inc.
Neovasc is a specialty medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets products for the rapidly growing cardiovascular marketplace. Its products include Reducer, for the treatment of refractory angina, which is not currently commercially available in the United States and has been commercially available in Europe since 2015, and Tiara, for the transcatheter treatment of mitral valve disease, which is currently under clinical investigation in the United States, Canada, Israel and Europe. For more information, visit: www.neovasc.com.
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