Leading Edge Materials Announces Results Of Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders

Vancouver, April 28, 2022 – Leading Edge Materials Corp. (“Leading Edge Materials” or the “Company”) (TSXV: LEM) (Nasdaq First North: LEMSE) (OTCQB: LEMIF) (FRA: 7FL) announces the results of the Company’s Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders held on April 28, 2022 (the “Meeting”).

A total of 52,608,851 common shares were represented in person or by proxy at the Meeting, representing 34.69% of the votes attached to all outstanding common shares of the Company as at the record date. All the matters submitted to the shareholders, as set out in the Notice of Meeting and Information Circular dated March 23, 2022, were voted in favour, including: (a) fixing the size of the Board of the Company to three; (b) the adoption of a new stock options plan, pursuant to which the Company may grant stock options up to 10% of its issued and outstanding common shares at the time of grant; and (c) the appointment of D&H Group LLP, Chartered Professional Accounts, as the auditors of the Company for the ensuing year.

Messrs. Lars-Eric Johansson, Daniel Major and Eric Krafft were re-elected to serve as directors of the Company, with the percentage of votes cast for each director as follows:

Additional details of the results of the Meeting are provided in the Report of Voting Results filed under the Company’s profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com

Subsequent to the Meeting, the Board re-appointed Mr. Johansson as Non-Executive Chairman, Mr. Filip Kozlowski as Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Sanjay Swarup as Chief Financial Officer, and Ms. Manuela Balaj-Coroiu was appointed as Corporate Secretary to replace Mr. Nick DeMare. Messrs. Johansson, Major and Krafft were appointed as members of the Audit Committee.

On behalf of the Board of Directors,
Leading Edge Materials Corp.

Filip Kozlowski, CEO

For further information, please contact the Company at:
info@leadingedgematerials.com
www.leadingedgematerials.com

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About Leading Edge Materials
Leading Edge Materials is a Canadian public company focused on developing a portfolio of critical raw material projects located in the European Union. Critical raw materials are determined as such by the European Union based on their economic importance and supply risk. They are directly linked to high growth technologies such as batteries for electromobility and energy storage and permanent magnets for electric motors and wind power that underpin the clean energy transition towards climate neutrality. The portfolio of projects includes the 100% owned Woxna Graphite mine (Sweden), Norra Karr HREE project (Sweden) and the 51% owned Bihor Sud Nickel Cobalt exploration alliance (Romania).

Additional Information

The information was submitted for publication through the agency of the contact person set out above, on April 28, 2022, at 2:00 pm Vancouver time.

Leading Edge Materials is listed on the TSXV under the symbol “LEM”, OTCQB under the symbol “LEMIF” and Nasdaq First North Stockholm under the symbol “LEMSE”. Mangold Fondkommission AB is the Company’s Certified Adviser on Nasdaq First North and may be contacted via email CA@mangold.se or by phone +46 (0) 8 5030 1550.

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