Granite Real Estate Investment Trust and Granite REIT Inc. Complete Unwind of Stapled Unit Structure
01 Ottobre 2024 - 2:40PM
Business Wire
Granite Real Estate Investment Trust (“Granite REIT”) and
Granite REIT Inc. (“Granite GP”) (collectively,
“Granite”) (TSX: GRT.UN / NYSE: GRP.U) announced
today that on October 1, 2024 Granite completed the
previously-announced court-approved plan of arrangement under the
Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) (the
“Arrangement”) to replace Granite’s stapled unit structure
with a conventional REIT trust unit structure. The Arrangement was
approved by holders of Granite’s stapled units (“Stapled
Units”) (each consisting of a unit of Granite REIT (a
“Granite REIT Unit”) and a common share of Granite GP (a
“Granite GP Share”), at meetings of unitholders held on June
6, 2024 and by a final order of the Supreme Court of British
Columbia.
Under the Arrangement, (i) the two components of each Stapled
Unit were uncoupled, (ii) each Granite GP Share was automatically
exchanged for 0.001/99.999 of a Granite REIT Unit, and (iii) the
Granite REIT Units were consolidated back to the number of Stapled
Units outstanding before the exchange occurred.
As a result of and immediately following the Arrangement, each
Granite unitholder holds a number of Granite REIT Units equal to
the number of Stapled Units held prior to completion of the
Arrangement, and Granite GP has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Granite REIT. The Stapled Units will be delisted from the Toronto
Stock Exchange (the “TSX”) and the New York Stock Exchange
(the “NYSE”), and the Granite REIT Units will trade on the
TSX and the NYSE under the same ticker symbols “GRT.UN” and
“GRP.U”, respectively.
Additional “Early Warning” Disclosures Under Canadian Securities
Laws
Immediately before the completion of the Arrangement, Granite
REIT owned no Granite GP Shares. Immediately after the completion
of the Arrangement, Granite REIT owned 62,740,097 Granite GP
Shares, representing 100% of the outstanding Granite GP Shares.
As noted above, each Granite GP Share was acquired by Granite
REIT in return for 0.001/99.999 of a Granite REIT Unit. The closing
price of the Stapled Units (of which the value of the Granite GP
Share component is estimated to be a nominal amount) on September
30, 2024 on the TSX was $81.63 per unit, and on the NYSE was
US$61.11 per unit.
The purpose of the transaction was to complete the Arrangement
and simplify Granite’s capital structure by unwinding Granite’s
previous stapled unit structure. Granite REIT’s head office address
is 77 King Street West, Suite 4010, P.O. Box 159, Toronto-Dominion
Centre, Toronto, Ontario M5K 1H1. A copy of the early warning
report filed by Granite may be obtained on Granite REIT’s profile
on www.sedarplus.ca or from Granite REIT at the above address,
Attention: Andrea Sanelli, Associate Director, Legal & Investor
Services, at 647-925-7504.
ABOUT GRANITE
Granite is a Canadian-based REIT engaged in the acquisition,
development, ownership and management of logistics, warehouse and
industrial properties in North America and Europe. Granite owns 143
investment properties representing approximately 63.3 million
square feet of leasable area.
OTHER INFORMATION
Copies of financial data and other publicly filed documents
about Granite are available through the internet on the Canadian
Securities Administrators’ System for Electronic Data Analysis and
Retrieval + (SEDAR+) which can be accessed at www.sedarplus.ca and
on the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s
Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System (EDGAR)
which can be accessed at www.sec.gov.
For further information, please see our website at
www.granitereit.com.
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Teresa Neto Chief Financial Officer 647-925-7560
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647-925-7504
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