NMG Announces US$297 Million Equity Financing Package including US$213 Million Private Placement and US$84 Million Bought Deal Public Offering, Advancing Phase-2 Matawinie Mine toward FID

MONTRÉAL–(BUSINESS WIRE)—- $NMG #ESG–Nouveau Monde Graphite Inc. (“NMG” or the “Company”) (NYSE: NMG, TSX: NOU) is pleased to announce an equity investment of US$82 million by Canada Growth Fund Inc. (“CGF”), US$61 million by the Government of Québec, through Investissement Québec (“IQ”), and US$70 million by Eni S.p.A. (“Eni”) – a global integrated energy company – respectively, in NMG for an aggregate investment amount of US$213 million (the “Private Placement”), subject to, among other things, receipt