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The upcoming qualifying transaction by Oriana Resources Corp., a capital pool company that raised $300,000 in its initial public offering last October, represents one of the more unusual reverse takeovers in recent times.

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It’s different from the norm – which for reverse takeovers is rather broad – because the target, Graphene Lighting PLC, is a U.K. based technology transfer company associated with the University of Manchester.

And it’s unusual because the planned board of directors – it’s planned because the two parties only signed a letter of intent this week – contains Nobel Prize winner, Andre Geim. The Soviet-born Dutch-British physicist – who is also a knight— won the Nobel prize for Physics in 2010.

And the transaction is unusual because Oriana Resources has two targets: the announced deal with Graphene Lighting; and an option to purchase Lumeneering Innovations. That option to acquire the LED lighting company runs until year-end. Lumeneering works with public utilities to upgrade existing lighting systems with new high-efficiency LED lighting solutions.