Burcon Announces Additional Loan from Shareholder

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - March 27, 2019) - Burcon NutraScience Corporation (TSX: BU) ("Burcon") announced today that it has amended (the "Amendment") the loan agreement (the "Loan Agreement") entered into on November 13, 2018 with Large Scale Investments Limited (the "Lender"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Firewood Elite Limited ("Firewood") (see press release of Burcon dated November 13, 2018). Pursuant to the Amendment, the Lender has agreed to increase the principal amount of the loan (the "Initial Loan") to Burcon by $500,000 (the "Additional Loan").

The Additional Loan will bear interest at the same rate as the Initial Loan, with the drawn portion of the Additional Loan bearing interest at a rate of 18% per annum and the undrawn portions of the Additional Loan bearing interest at a rate of 3% per annum. The Additional Loan will mature and become payable with the Initial Loan on June 3, 2019, together with accrued interest. The Lender will be paid a commitment fee of 1% of the Additional Loan amount on the date the Additional Loan is first drawn down.

The net proceeds from the Loan will be used to continue Burcon's commercialization efforts, for partnering discussions for its Peazazz® pea protein technology and other alternative plant protein technologies, for continued research and development of Burcon's protein extraction and purification technologies, for work on Burcon's intellectual property portfolio and for other general corporate purposes.

Firewood is wholly-owned by Mr. Alan Chan, a director of Burcon, and is an insider and related party of Burcon as it currently holds, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, 11,433,287 common shares of Burcon ("Common Shares"), representing approximately 26.02% of the outstanding Common Shares. In addition, Mr. Alan Chan and Ms. Rosanna Chau, directors of Burcon, are also directors of the Lender. The Additional Loan is considered a "related party transaction" pursuant to Multilateral Instrument 61-101 - Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions ("MI 61-101"). Burcon is relying on the exemption available under Section 5.7(a) of MI 61-101 minority shareholder approval requirement. Additionally, the Additional Loan is exempt from the formal valuation requirement of MI 61-101 since it is a related party transaction under section (l) of the "related party transaction" definition of MI 61-101. The Amendment was approved by the independent members of the board of directors of Burcon, with Mr. Alan Chan and Ms. Rosanna Chau abstaining from the vote. Burcon will file a material change report containing the prescribed disclosure under MI 61-101 on or before April 5, 2019.

The Amendment was conditionally approved by the TSX on March 22, 2019.

About Burcon NutraScience Corporation

Burcon is a leader in developing functionally and nutritionally valuable plant-based proteins. The company has developed a portfolio of composition, application, and process patents originating from a core protein extraction and purification technology. Burcon's CLARISOY® soy protein - under license to the Archer Daniels Midland Company - offers clarity and high-quality protein nutrition for low pH beverage systems and excellent solubility and exceptionally clean flavor at any pH; Peazazz® is a uniquely soluble and clean-tasting pea protein; and Puratein®, Supertein® and Nutratein® are canola protein isolates with unique functional and nutritional attributes. For more information about the company, visit www.burcon.ca.

The TSX has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy of the content of the information contained herein. This press release contains forward-looking statements or forward-looking information within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and applicable Canadian securities legislation. Forward-looking statements or forward-looking information involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results, performances, prospects and opportunities to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Forward- looking statements or forward-looking information can be identified by words such as "anticipate", "intend", "plan", "goal", "project", "estimate", "expect", "believe", "future", "likely", "may", "should", "could", "will" and similar references to future periods. All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this release are forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements regarding expectations, intentions and plans contained in this press release. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements or information. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from Burcon's plans and expectations include the actual results of business negotiations, marketing activities, adverse general economic, market or business conditions, regulatory changes and other risks and factors detailed herein and from time to time in the filings made by Burcon with securities regulators and stock exchanges, including in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in Burcon's annual information form dated June 18, 2018 filed with the Canadian securities administrators on www.sedar.com. Any forward-looking statement or information only speaks as of the date on which it was made and, except as may be required by applicable securities laws, Burcon disclaims any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Although Burcon believes that the assumptions inherent in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, and accordingly, investors should not rely on such statements.

CLARISOY is a trademark of Archer Daniels Midland Company.

Media & Industry Contact:
Paul Lam
Manager, Business Development
Burcon NutraScience Corporation
Tel (604) 733-0896, Toll-free (888) 408-7960
plam@burcon.ca
www.burcon.ca

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