UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
FORM 40-F
☐ Registration statement pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or
☒ Annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
| For the fiscal year ended: December 31, 2020 | Commission File Number: 001-39166 |
Metalla Royalty & Streaming Ltd.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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British Columbia |
1040 |
Not Applicable |
543 Granville Street
Suite 501
Vancouver BC
Canada V6C 1X8
(604) 696-0741
(Address and telephone number of registrant's principal executive offices)
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DL Services Inc. Columbia Center 701 Fifth Avenue, Suite 6100 Seattle, WA 98104-7043 (206) 903-8800 (Name, address (including zip code) and telephone number (including area code) of agent for service in the United States) |
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
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Title of Each Class: |
Trading Symbol(s) |
Name of Each Exchange On Which Registered: |
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Common shares, no par value |
MTA |
NYSE American LLC |
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None
Securities for which there is a reporting obligation pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Act: None
For annual reports, indicate by check mark the information filed with this form:
| ☒ Annual Information Form | ☒ Audited Annual Financial Statements |
Indicate the number of outstanding shares of each of the registrant's classes of capital or common stock as of the close of the period covered by the annual report:
As of December 31, 2020, there were 39,739,047 common shares outstanding.
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports) and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. ☒ Yes ☐ No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to submit such files). ☒ Yes ☐ No
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
☒ Emerging growth company
If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management's assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. ☐
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Amendment No. 1 (this “Amendment”) to our Annual Report on Form 40-F for the period ended December 31, 2020 (the “Form 40-F”) is being filed solely to resubmit the XBRL interactive data file, as a technical error in the version previously submitted affected its filing.
Metalla Royalty & Streaming Ltd. ("we", "us", "our", "Metalla" or the "Company") is a Canadian corporation that is permitted, under a multijurisdictional disclosure system adopted by the United States, to prepare this Annual Report on Form 40-F ("Annual Report") pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), in accordance with disclosure requirements in effect in Canada, which are different from those of the United States.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Annual Report, including the Exhibits incorporated by reference into this Annual Report, contains “forward‑looking information” and “forward‑looking statements” (collectively, “forward-looking statements”) within the meaning of applicable securities legislation. The forward‑looking statements are provided as of the date of this Annual Report and the Company does not intend to and does not assume any obligation to update forward‑looking information, except as required by applicable law. For this reason and the reasons set forth below, investors should not place undue reliance on forward‑looking statements.
All statements included herein that address events or developments that we expect to occur in the future are forward-looking statements. Generally, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved".
The forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions that have been made by Metalla as at the date hereof and are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of Metalla to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including but not limited to:
Forward-looking statements included in this AIF include statements regarding:
Estimates of mineral resources and mineral reserves are also forward-looking statements because they involve estimates of mineralization that will be encountered in the future, and projections regarding other matters that are uncertain, such as future costs and commodity prices.
Forward-looking statements are based on a number of material assumptions, which management of Metalla believe to be reasonable, including, but not limited to, that owners and operators of properties in which Metalla holds, or may acquire, an interest who have had their operations affected by COVID-19 will restart their operations on the timetables currently proposed by such persons, the continuation of mining operations from which Metalla will purchase precious or other metals or in respect of which Metalla will receive Royalty payments, that commodity prices will not experience a material decline, mining operations that underlie Streams or Royalties will operate in accordance with disclosed parameters and achieve their stated production outcomes and such other assumptions as may be set out herein.
Although Metalla has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Investors and readers of this Annual Report should also carefully review the risk factors set out in the AIF under the heading "Risk Factors".
RESOURCE AND RESERVE ESTIMATES
Unless otherwise indicated, all scientific and technical information, including mineral resource and mineral reserve estimates, included in the documents incorporated by reference into this Annual Report have been prepared in accordance with Canadian National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101") and the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Classification System. NI 43-101 is a rule developed by the Canadian securities administrators, which establishes standards for all public disclosure an issuer makes of scientific and technical information concerning mineral projects. Canadian standards, including NI 43-101, differ from the requirements of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), and scientific and technical information, including mineral resource and mineral reserve estimates, contained in the documents incorporated by reference into this Annual Report may not be comparable to similar information disclosed by U.S. companies subject to technical disclosure requirements of the SEC.
DIFFERENCES IN UNITED STATES AND CANADIAN REPORTING PRACTICES
We prepare our financial statements, which are filed with this report on Form 40-F, in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board. Accordingly, our financial statements may not be comparable to financial statements of the United States companies.
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
The following documents, or the portions thereof indicated below, that are filed as exhibits to this Annual Report, are incorporated herein by reference.
• Annual Information Form of the Company for the financial year ended December 31, 2020 (the "AIF");
• Audited Annual Consolidated Financial Statements for the seven months ended December 31, 2020 and twelve months ended May 31, 2020 and notes thereto, together with the report of auditors thereon (the "2020 Financial Statements"); and
• Management's Discussion and Analysis of the Company for the seven months ended December 31, 2020.
CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Information regarding our disclosure controls and procedures, internal control over financial reporting and changes in internal control over financial reporting is included in the Management Discussion and Analysis incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 99.3, under the heading "Disclosure Controls and Internal Control Over Financial Reporting."
Attestation Report of the Registered Public Accounting Firm
This Annual Report does not include an attestation report of the Company's registered public accounting firm because emerging growth companies are exempt from this requirement for so long as they remain emerging growth companies.
NOTICES PURSUANT TO REGULATION BTR
There were no notices required by Rule 104 of Regulation BTR that the Company sent during the financial year ended December 31, 2020 concerning any equity security subject to a blackout period under Rule 101 of Regulation BTR.
AUDIT COMMITTEE AND AUDITOR INFORMATION
We have a separately-designated standing audit committee established in accordance with section 3(a)(58)(A) of the Exchange Act. The following information is included in the "Audit Committee" section of our AIF, which are incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 99.1:
• Information regarding our Audit Committee composition, independence, audit committee financial expert and pre-approval policies and procedures; and
• Information regarding fees billed by our principal accountants for each of the last two fiscal years.
CODE OF ETHICS
We have adopted a code of business conduct and ethics that applies to all of our directors, officers and employees. A copy of the code of business conduct and ethics is posted on our website at https://www.metallaroyalty.com/corporate-governance/. The code was most recently amended on September 24, 2019, in connection with the listing of our common shares on the NYSE American, to set forth our expectation that the Company and its personnel comply with applicable stock exchange rules, and to clarify the procedures for reporting of any concerns or violations. The Company did not grant any waiver from a provision of the code to any of its principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller, or persons performing similar functions, during the fiscal period ended December 31, 2020.
OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENTS
The Company has no off-balance sheet arrangements.
TABULAR DISCLOSURE OF CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS
The following table lists as of December 31, 2020 information with respect to our known contractual obligations.
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Payments due by period (in thousands of United States dollars) |
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Contractual Obligations |
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1 - 3 years |
3 - 5 years |
5 years |
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Long-Term Debt Obligations |
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$5,194 |
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$550 |
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$4,644 |
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$0 |
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$0 |
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Total |
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$5,194 |
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$550 |
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$4,644 |
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$0 |
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$0 |
In addition to the obligations above, the Company could in the future have additional commitments payable in cash and/or shares related to the acquisition of royalty and stream interests as disclosed in Note 4 of the 2020 Financial Statements, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 99.3. However, these payments are subject to certain triggers or milestone conditions that had not been met as of December 31, 2020.
MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURE
We do not operate any mine in the United States and have no mine safety incidents to report for the financial year ended December 31, 2020.
UNDERTAKINGS
We undertake to make available, in person or by telephone, representatives to respond to inquiries made by the SEC staff, and to furnish promptly, when requested to do so by the SEC staff, information relating to the securities registered pursuant to Form 40-F; the securities in relation to which the obligation to file an annual report on Form 40-F arises; or transactions in said securities.
CONSENT TO SERVICE OF PROCESS
We have previously filed with the SEC a written consent to service of process and power of attorney on Form F-X. Any change to the name or address of our agent for service shall be communicated promptly to the SEC by amendment to the Form F-X referencing our file number.
EXHIBIT INDEX
The following documents are being filed with the SEC as exhibits to this Annual Report on Form 40-F.
*Previously filed
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Exchange Act, the Company certifies that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form 40-F and has duly caused this Annual Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
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METALLA ROYALTY & STREAMING LTD. |
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/s/ Brett Heath |
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Name: Brett Heath |
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Title: President and Chief Executive Officer |
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Date: March 31, 2021 |
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