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DEALS AND SUITS

Trek Mining, Newcastle Gold and Anfield Gold complete business combination to create Equinox Gold

Date closed: 12/22/2017

Value: See below

On December 22, 2017, Equinox Gold Corp. (TSX-V: EQX) (Equinox Gold or the Company), formerly Trek Mining Inc. (TSX-V: TREK), announced that Trek Mining Inc., NewCastle Gold Ltd. (NewCastle) and Anfield Gold Corp. (Anfield) have combined their businesses to create Equinox Gold.(the transaction)

Under the terms of the Transaction, Trek Mining acquired all outstanding shares of NewCastle and Anfield at a share exchange ratio of 0.873 Trek Mining shares for each NewCastle share and 0.407 Trek Mining shares for each Anfield share.

BLG represented Anfield with a team led by Fred Pletcher that included Stephen Robertson, Tom Ladner, Michelle Wilkinson and Salvador Pimentel (SCM and Mining) and Randy Morphy, Kirsten Kjellander and Danielle Lewchuk (tax), Jeffrey Thomas (Competition) and Steve Warnett(Litigation).