RE: Polo loan19 Jul 2024 16:09
If you look in note 5 of the interim results (im sure it's also in the full results) it tells us excatly where the loan is in terms of borrowed & interest currently incurred.
Personally, I think this is Tang's protection, from any hostile take over or other such manovers. I think Tang knows this & had to take Polo private to stop outside infulence on his thought process for Polo loan facility. Currently Polo can't ask for the share s it would push them over the 30%, which is an automatic AIM rule take over lilmit, Also the higher no of shares in issue the higher share payments goes to DG & Diani, who are on share issued % payments for milestones achieved.
But I think you are right, the conversion to shares can be at any time.
Also, as my last point, I think Tang was blocked at drawing down that last Β£300,000 of the loan in Dec, Jan, when the Nomad stepped in then subsequently had to step aside. If Tang drew down again, at that time the conversion rate would also have been revised... We were at 1p then... That would be about 500,000,000 share conversion at the last loan amount.
So glad I still have Polo shares in a bin bag in the garden somewhere...