On April 14, 2011, Canada-based company Brazilian Diamonds Limited entered into a conditional agreement with Origo Partners PLC with the purpose to acquire Origo's interests in Kincora Group Limited, a closely held private company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands. The principal asset of the BVI company is the Bronze Fox copper/gold project in Mongolia.
Under the terms of the agreement, Brazilian Diamonds will acquire Origo's 25% interest in the BVI-registered Kincora Group, and will have assigned to it Origo's rights to acquire further 50% interest in the BVI company by paying US$6,000,000 and incurring US$6,000,000 in exploration expenditures on the Bronze Fox Project.
As consideration for the 25% interest and the Assignment the Canadian investment company is to issue Origo the number of shares that will cause Origo to hold between 40% and 45% of the fully diluted share capital of Brazilian Diamonds after the Completion Financing.
Completion of the above transactions is subject to Brazilian Diamonds raising through a private placement a minimum of CDN$12,500,000 and a maximum of CDN$15,000,000, on terms to be agreed upon between the company and Origo (the Completion Financing). In addition to the Completion Financing, Brazilian Diamonds proposes to effect a private placement of 16,655,924 shares at a price of C$0.10 per share, to fund the costs of pursuing the transactions contemplated herein and to retire the existing indebtedness of the company.
Origo Partners PLC is the London Stock Exchange-listed private equity investment company focused on growth opportunities created by the industrialization and urbanization processes in People's Republic of China.
