Filing Details

*	The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a reporting person’s initial filing on this form with respect to the subject class of securities, and for any subsequent amendment containing information which would alter disclosures provided in a prior cover page.

 

This statement on Schedule 13D (the “Schedule 13D”) is being filed by the undersigned, pursuant to §240.13d-1(a), with respect to the common shares (the “Common Shares”) of Nouveau Monde Graphite Inc., a Canadian company (the “Issuer”), whose principal executive offices are located at 331 rue Brassard, Saint-Michel-des-Saints, Québec Canada J0K 3B0.

(a-c, f) This Schedule 13D is filed by Investissement Québec (the “Reporting Person”).  The Reporting Person’s principal business is engaging in private financing that favors projects with good return on investment prospects and that are structural to the Quebec economy.  The principal business address of the Reporting Person is 1001, boulevard Robert-Bourassa, Bureau 1000, Montréal, Québec H3B 4L4.

Information regarding each director and executive officer of the Reporting Person is set forth on Schedule I attached hereto.

(d) Neither the Reporting Person nor, to the best of its knowledge, any of its executive officers or directors has, during the last five years, been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors).

(e) Neither the Reporting Person nor, to the best of its knowledge, any of its executive officers or directors has, during the last five years, been a party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and, as a result of such proceeding, was or is subject to a judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting or mandating activities subject to, federal or state securities laws or finding any violation with respect to such laws.

 

The Reporting Person acquired the securities reported herein as directly held by it for an aggregate purchase price of C$31,903,436.35. The Reporting Person used its working capital to acquire such securities.

 

The Reporting Person acquired the Issuer's Common Shares for investment purposes and may, under certain conditions, including market conditions, increase or decrease its beneficial ownership or control of the Issuer's Common Shares, including through market transactions, private agreements, new issuances or the exercise of convertible securities.

Daniel Buron, a consultant of the Reporting Person, serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Issuer (the “Board”) and, in such capacity, may have influence over the corporate activities of the Issuer, including activities which may relate to items described in subparagraphs (a) through (j) Item 4 of Schedule 13D.

Except as described in this Schedule 13D, the Reporting Person does not have any present plans or proposals that relate to or would result in any of the actions described in subparagraphs (a) through (j) of Item 4 of Schedule 13D, although the Reporting Persons, at any time and from time to time, may review, reconsider and change its position and/or change its purpose and/or develop such plans and may seek to influence management or the Board with respect to the business and affairs of the Issuer and may from time to time consider pursuing or proposing such matters with advisors, the Issuer or other persons.

 

(a) – (b) Calculations of the percentage of Shares beneficially owned are calculated in accordance with Rule 13d-3 and assumes that there are 55,214,717 Common Shares outstanding as of March 16, 2022, as reported on the Issuer’s website.

The aggregate number and percentage of Shares beneficially owned by the Reporting Person and, for the Reporting Person, the number of shares as to which there is sole power to vote or to direct the vote, shared power to vote or to direct the vote, sole power to dispose or to direct the disposition, or shared power to dispose or to direct the disposition, are set forth on rows 7 through 11 and row 13 of the cover pages of this Schedule 13D and are incorporated herein by reference.

(c) Except as described in this Schedule 13D, neither the Reporting Person nor, to the best of its knowledge, any of its executive officers or directors, has effected any transactions in Common Shares since May 24, 2021 (60 days prior to July 23, 2021).

(d) To the best knowledge of the Reporting Person, no one other than the Reporting Person, or its partners, members, affiliates or shareholders of such persons, has the right to receive or the power to direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the sale of, the Common Shares reported herein as beneficially owned by the Reporting Person.

(e) Not applicable.

 

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

SIGNATURES

After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

Dated: March 30, 2022