DLA Piper Canada advising Nova Royalty on royalty purchase agreement for Vizcachitas project and $28 million loan facility with Beedie Capital
On February 10, 2021, Nova Royalty Corp. (“Nova”) (TSXV: NOVR) announced that it had entered into a royalty purchase agreement to acquire a net smelter return royalty on part of the Vizcachitas Project in Chile. DLA Piper Canada acted for Nova in this transaction as well as a loan agreement with Beedie Capital for the acquisition of new royalties.
The Vizcachitas Project is a copper-molybdenum porphyry deposit in central Chile, 100% owned by Los Andes Copper Ltd. (TSX-V:LA). Nova entered into the royalty purchase agreement with RCF VI CAD LLC, an affiliate of Resource Capital Funds VI L.P. and will acquire an existing net smelter return royalty of 0.98% on open pit operations and 0.49% on underground operations on the San José 1/3000 exploitation concession that forms part of the Vizcachitas Project.
Nova also entered into an amended and restated convertible loan agreement with Beedie Capital for the acquisition of new royalties in the principal amount of $28 million.
Nova is a Vancouver-based royalty company focused on providing investors with exposure to the building blocks of clean energy - copper and nickel.
The DLA Piper Canada team in this matter was led by Partner Denis G. Silva and included Alan Monk.