PowerTap launches a Strategic Review to Unlock Shareholder Value
PowerTap Hydrogen Capital Corp (OTC: MOTNF) has announced plans to explore strategic options aimed at maximizing shareholder value. The company will consider investments, joint ventures, mergers, and plans to take its hydrogen fueling subsidiary public via merger with a SPAC. CEO Raghu Kilambi highlighted the potential in the hydrogen industry and the company's patented technology. PowerTap has retained advisors Jefferies LLC and Canaccord Genuity for this process. The company is also working towards a NASDAQ uplisting and has amended its sponsorship fee agreement involving its Indy Lights entry.
- Exploring strategic avenues to maximize shareholder value.
- Retained knowledgeable financial advisors for strategic review.
- Patented hydrogen production technology positioned for growth in the hydrogen fueling infrastructure.
- Plans for uplisting to NASDAQ.
- No assurances that the strategic review will lead to a transaction.
- Uncertainty in achieving expected results from strategic initiatives.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia and IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PowerTap Hydrogen Capital Corp (NEO: MOVE) (FWB: 2K6) (OTC: MOTNF) (“PowerTap” or the “Company” or “MOVE”) today announced that it will be conducting a process to explore strategic avenues to maximize shareholder value. The Company and external advisors will be considering a broad range of options including receiving strategic investments, international joint ventures, strategic mergers and taking its wholly owned PowerTap Hydrogen Fueling Corp. public via a merger with a USA Special Purpose Acquisition Corp.
Raghu Kilambi, CEO of PowerTap, noted, “In light of various inquiries we have received from potential strategic partners globally and several USA listed SPACs over the past few months, we decided it was prudent to retain financial advisors and conduct a formal process to maximize shareholder value. Our financial advisors are very knowledgeable in clean energy and hydrogen and are enthusiastic about the potential for hydrogen fueling infrastructure globally. The Hydrogen industry has gained global interest in the past 18 months and our unique, patented PowerTap onsite hydrogen production technology is well positioned to play a major role in building out the globally needed hydrogen fueling infrastructure which is needed to build the hydrogen highway.”
There can be no assurance that these mandates will result in a transaction or other strategic change or outcome. The Company has not set a timetable for the conclusion of its review, and it does not intend to comment further unless and until PowerTap’s Board of Directors have approved a specific course of action or the Company has otherwise determined that further disclosure is appropriate or required by law.
PowerTap continues to work towards an uplisting to NASDAQ and will provide updates via press releases.
PowerTap has retained Jefferies LLC as lead financial advisor and capital markets advisor and Canaccord Genuity Corp. as financial advisor for its process of exploring accretive and synergistic opportunities.
The Company is also announcing that it has amended the mechanics of its sponsorship fee payment in relation to its sponsorship agreement on the No. 17 Indy Lights entry piloted by Devlin DeFrancesco, that was initially announced on May 17, 2021. As part of the sponsorship fee for 2021, the Company will issue an additional 2,100,000 common shares at deemed value of
ABOUT POWERTAP HYDROGEN CAPITAL CORP.
PowerTap Hydrogen Capital Corp., through its wholly owned subsidiary, PowerTap Hydrogen Fueling Corp. (“PowerTap”), is focused on installing hydrogen production and dispensing fueling infrastructure in the United States. PowerTap is now commercializing its third-generation blue hydrogen product that will focus on the refueling needs of the automotive and long-haul trucking markets that lack hydrogen fueling infrastructure. There are currently under 100 operational publicly available hydrogen stations in the United States with most of the existing stations purchasing industrial hydrogen from industrial manufacturers and shipping hydrogen to individual stations via tanker trucks.
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