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Enviva Announces Court Approval of DIP and the Commencement of the DIP Syndication Process

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Enviva Inc. (“Enviva” or the “Company”), a leading producer of sustainably sourced wood-based biomass, announced that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (the “Court”) approved, among other matters, its previously announced $500 million debtor-in-possession financing (the “DIP Facility”) pursuant to the Debtor-in-Possession Credit and Note Purchase Agreement (the “DIP Facility Agreement”) and the procedures and related materials that will govern the syndication of the DIP Facility. Pursuant to the DIP Facility Agreement, the Company intends to offer certain holders of shares of the Company’s Common Stock, par value $0.001 (CUSIP 29415B103) (the “Common Stock”) as of March 11, 2024 (the “Record Date” and such holders, the “Holders”) the opportunity (the “Opportunity”) to subscribe to participate in the syndication of the DIP Facility.

To be eligible to participate in the Opportunity, each Holder must be (i) an institutional accredited investor within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act or an entity in which all of the equity investors are such institutional accredited investors, (ii) a beneficial owner of Common Stock as of the Record Date, and (iii) not the Company (an “Eligible Holder”). An Eligible Holder may designate another entity that is a partner, affiliate, or related party of such Eligible Holder to be a subscriber in the Opportunity (a “Permitted Designee”). Each Eligible Holder may elect to participate and submit a subscription to lend any portion of the DIP loans up to an aggregate amount not to exceed $100 million, provided that the minimum committed participation amount of DIP loans by any Eligible Holder and any of its Permitted Designees (taken together) shall not be less than $1 million. If you are not an Eligible Holder, you may not participate in the Opportunity.

Eligible Holders that participate in the Opportunity will be subject to certain restrictions under the DIP Facility Agreement, including with respect to voting and information rights.

The ability of Eligible Holders to submit commitments for the Opportunity commences today, March 15, 2024 and will expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City Time, on March 28, 2024 unless extended earlier or terminated, in accordance with the applicable subscription documents, and which extension will be made by public announcement by the Company in a press release and/or Form 8-K.

If you are an Eligible Holder interested in participating in the Opportunity, you must complete copies of the relevant subscription documents. Copies of the relevant subscription documents may be obtained at www.kccllc.com/Enviva or by contacting the Information Agent, Kurtzman Carson Consultants LLC at Enviva DIP Syndication, c/o KCC, 222 N. Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 300, El Segundo, CA 90245, Telephone: (877) 499-4509 (U.S./Canada) or (917) 281-4800 (international), Email: EnvivaDIP@kccllc.com.

Certain principal terms of the DIP Facility and the Company and certain of its subsidiaries’ contemplated restructuring are set forth in the DIP Facility Agreement, which is available at www.kccllc.com/Enviva (by clicking on the link for “DIP Syndication Materials”).

The securities being offered pursuant to the Opportunity have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and may not be offered absent registration or an exemption from registration. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the securities described herein, nor shall it constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale is unlawful.

About Enviva

Enviva Inc. (NYSE: EVA) is the world’s largest producer of industrial wood pellets, a renewable and sustainable energy source produced by aggregating a natural resource, wood fiber, and processing it into a transportable form, wood pellets. Enviva owns and operates ten plants with annual production of approximately 5.0 million metric tons in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi, and is constructing its 11th plant in Epes, Alabama. Enviva sells most of its wood pellets through long-term, take-or-pay off-take contracts with customers located primarily in the United Kingdom, the European Union, and Japan, helping to accelerate the energy transition away from conventional energy sources and reduce greenhouse gas emissions on a lifecycle basis in hard-to-abate sectors like steel, cement, lime, chemicals, and aviation. Enviva exports its wood pellets to global markets through its deep-water marine terminals at the Port of Chesapeake, Virginia, the Port of Wilmington, North Carolina, and the Port of Pascagoula, Mississippi, and from third-party deep-water marine terminals in Savannah, Georgia, Mobile, Alabama, and Panama City, Florida. To learn more about Enviva, please visit our website at www.envivabiomass.com. Follow Enviva on social media @Enviva.

Source: Enviva, Inc.