RE: placing3 Feb 2022 10:36
Staz, forward selling can and does still happen, rule 120.3 covers it, as well as guidance to rule 1400. Cornhill got fined around £300k a few years ago when the forward sold shares in an Oil company's (can't remember the name) after the placing was voted down by the shareholders. They were fined, not for forward selling, but because they never had procedures in place to cover the possibility of a no-vote at the GM. Obviously google it for full details.
I suspect that by the wording of the RNS, the ODX board would have preferred to get the raise away before the CE news came out yedterday - as any raise now would again be at a discount ti current price after the SP movement this last couple of days -
On the flip side, if they are confident that the test can be sold in Europe from the 01st April then they should have no need at all to raise money.
Interesting times.