RE: Chart8 Oct 2018 15:22
Lindon, interesting you put 'walked away' in inverted commas. There is nothing that suggests that they walked away.
From the interims RNS:
"The Shareholder Loan matured on 2 September 2018, however Ncondezi has received written "in principle" support from all Lenders to enter the Restructuring. Documentation for the Restructuring has been submitted to Lenders and is in the process of being finalised. The Company has received indications from Lenders representing over 63% of the Shareholder Loan that they will accept the Restructuring proposal, with no rejections. This includes Company Chairman, Michael Haworth, Non-Executive Director, Estevao Pale and Christiaan Schutte. The outstanding Lender indication is pending review of the restructuring documentation."
This implies that the same deal is on the table but that the final paper work has yet to be approved by the remaining shareholder that provided the loan.
Very specifically, that an 'in principle' agreement always needed to be followed up with the necessary paperwork. That paperwork has been produced and sent to all parties. Since then, lenders representing 63% of the value of the loan have agreed, '...with no objections.'
We are now awaiting for the remaining lender, the AFC, who own near 20% of NCCL shares in issue (and are shareholders like us), to have completed their review of the documentation. AFC by the way are a larger financial institution and is not so simple as to approve, for example, as our Chairman (who has also lent money).
And so, no, they've not walked away.