Gushan Environmental Energy announced completion of Merger with BVI company

Gushan Environmental Energy Limited, the Chinese company manufacturing copper products and biodiesel, announced the completion of the merger with Trillion Energy Holdings Limited, a company limited by shares and incorporated under the law of the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands exempted company Trillion Energy Investments Holdings Limited, wholly owned by the BVI company, and Mr. Jianqiu Yu, Chairman and Principal Executive Officer of Gushan. The completed merger is in accordance with previously announced agreement and plan of merger between the above named parties, which was signed in June, 2012, amended in September, 2012, and approved by Gushan’s shareholders at an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders on October 15, 2012.

Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, each ordinary share of the Chinese company issued and outstanding prior to the effective time of the merger, with some exceptions, has been cancelled in exchange for the  right to receive US$0.165 per share and each American depositary share (ADS), each representing 10 shares, represents the right to receive US$1.65 per ADS, in each case, in cash without interest and net of any applicable withholding taxes.

Registered holders of shares and American depositary shares will receive a letter of transmittal and instructions on how to surrender their certificates in exchange for the merger consideration. Gushan also requested that trading of its ADSs on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") be suspended, the ADS being delisted and company’s registered securities being deregistered.

As a result of the merger, Gushan became a wholly owned subsidiary of BVI-incorporated Trillion Energy Holdings Limited.