RHA11 Jun 2018 18:07
To stick to the thread with RHA, China, with regard to Zulu, do you actually know how much time it takes to do a JV or merger? never mind in Africa, never mind when you have multiple parties. To give an example, lets just take due diligence. That alone can easily take 1-3 months, as your not doing the simplistic view of just verifying data for holes in the ground. You check corporate governance, you check financial governance, you work out through interviews if management can work with each other, You have to verify the business on a continuing basis, you have to verify the data, this alone may mean sending samples to alternate companies to gain independent verification.
Fundamentally, this means to me, someone who has worked on M&A that the longer zulu takes the better the deal for us, as its no longer drillers doing holes for a million dollars and a big percentage.