Tirupati Graphite PLC Update regarding Acquisition of Suni Resources (0772K)

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Tirupati Graphite PLC

19 December 2022

Tirupati Graphite plc

('Tirupati', 'TG' or the 'Company')

Clarification and update regarding Acquisition of Suni Resources

Tirupati Graphite plc (TGR.L, TGRHF.OTCQX), the specialist graphite and graphene company developing sustainable new age materials, announced on 17 August 2021 its agreement with Battery Metals Limited to acquire the entire issued share capital of its subsidiary Suni Resources SA as per the abridged terms in the announcement and varied subsequently.

Under the Key Transaction Terms in the announcement, the first bullet point states that:

Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions to the transaction, the Company will acquire from Battery Minerals 100% of the issued share capital of Suni Resources (a Mozambique incorporated subsidiary of Battery Minerals), all related intellectual property relating to the Montepuez Project and Balama Central Project, and will be assigned the shareholder loans owed by Suni Resources to certain Battery Minerals group companies amounting to c.AU$29 million for a total aggregate consideration of AU$12.5 million.

Owing to some questions received from investors in relation to the shareholder loans amounting to c.AU$29 million that will be assigned to TG by Battery Minerals group companies, the Company wishes to clarify that:

-- TG will not be assuming any external debt as a result of the acquisition and it will not have any obligation in respect of repayment of or the payment of interest in respect of any third party debt upon completion as a result of the acquisition of Suni Resources; and

-- The debt assigned to TG by Battery Minerals group companies shall on completion become an intra group debt within the enlarged TG group owed by Suni Resources to TG.

The Company further confirms that arrangements have been progressed for the provision of the Bank Guarantee ('BG') to be completed which will allow for the last steps towards closing of the acquisition of Suni Resources to be progressed.

Shishir Poddar, CEO of Tirupati Graphite, said:

"We felt duty bound to correct the misconception that the Company is acquiring any external debt through the acquisition of Suni Resources. The agreed consideration is the only cost to Tirupati for acquiring these transformational, ready-to-construct projects with globally significant resources.

"Without taking on any debt, TG will acquire the Balama Central and Montepeuz projects in Mozambique, which are both fully licensed for construction to >150,000 tpa flake graphite production capacity and which have already benefited from significant investment to this date."

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For further information, please visit https://www.tirupatigraphite.co.uk/ or contact:

 
Tirupati Graphite Plc 
 Puruvi Poddar - Chief of Corporate & Business     admin@tirupatigraphite.co.uk 
 Development                                                +44 (0) 20 39849894 
Optiva Securities Limited (Broker) 
 Ben Maitland - Corporate Finance                          +44 (0) 20 3034 2707 
 Robert Emmet - Corporate Broking                          +44 (0) 20 3981 4173 
FTI Consulting (Financial PR)                              +44 (0) 20 3727 1000 
 Ben Brewerton / Nick Hennis / Kelly Smith           tirupati@fticonsulting.com

About Tirupati Graphite

Tirupati Graphite Plc is a specialist flake graphite company, a material vital in the energy transition economy. The Company places a special emphasis on "green" applications, including renewable energy and energy efficiency, energy storage and thermal management and is committed to ensuring its operations are sustainable as well.

The Company's operations include primary mining and processing in Madagascar, where the Company operates two key projects, Sahamamy and Vatomina; 12,000 tpa installed capacity of high-quality flake graphite concentrate with up to 96% purity is currently being produced and sold to customers globally, planned to increase to 84,000 tpa as per the Company's modular medium-term development plan.

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