• Acquisition of 100% of the fully paid ordinary shares in Alto Metals Limited (AME) via ascheme of arrangement
• Each Alto shareholder will receive 4.0 Brightstar Resources Limited fully paid ordinary shares for every Alto share held
• Alto owns the Sandstone Gold Project comprising a significant land position in the East Murchison and current Mineral Resource of 1.05Moz Au at 1.5g/t1
• Scheme unanimously recommended by the Alto Board, subject to no superior proposal emerging and an independent expert concluding (and continuing to conclude) that the Scheme is in the best interests of Alto shareholders
• Alto Managing Director, Matthew Bowles, to be appointed to the Brightstar Board as Non-Executive Director from implementation of the Scheme
• Alto’s largest shareholder, Windsong Valley Pty Ltd, representing 15% of shares on issue in Alto, has confirmed to Alto that it intends to vote all Alto shares held in favour of the Scheme, in the absence of a superior proposal and subject to an independent expert concluding (and continuing to conclude) that the merger is in the best interests of Alto shareholders
• Scheme is conditional on the Placement, but not the Montague Acquisition
• Scheme expected to be implemented 13 November 2024