RE: ticking down again21 Aug 2020 11:37
Yes.. He confirmed they had in July,however given Acacia were tied into a complicated funding arrangement with Starboard they may not have been willing to trade any shares held at a fixed or current market price but trade them freely as their next milestone date for payment of loans / warrants to Starboard et al on the debt isn't until 30th September.
By way of explanation: the Acacia quarterly report out last week made reference to the purchase from link of the woodford funds (section 14 of the report) there is explicit reference to the link portfolio :
Acacia had an options agreement to buy the holdings valued and dated as of 3rd April (orph price was 5.9p then). This options agreement was actioned on 22nd May (orph price 14.15p at close) which meant that Acacia secured to rights to but not possession of the shares on that date at the valuation of 5.9p. They took possession on the 4th June 2020 as we know but we also now know the price they paid 5.9p.
I include the following as a direct paste from the report -"On June 4, 2020, the Company executed the Transaction Agreement between Link Fund Solutions Limited, Seller, and the Company. Pursuant to the Transaction Agreement, the Company will purchase from Seller and the Seller will transfer to the Company the specified equity securities of all Portfolio Companies at set prices at various future dates. The transfer dates will vary among the Portfolio Companies as the Transaction Agreement gives the Company the exclusive right to determine WHEN to call for transfer of each security, and because each Portfolio Company (or its existing equity holders) may be required to approve the transfer due to rights of first refusals and other company-specific terms and conditions. Thus, the execution of the Transaction Agreement resulted in forward contracts for the Company to purchase equity securities in each public and private company at a specified price on a future date.
In accordance with the Transaction Agreement, the Company transferred the total purchase price of £223.9 million into an escrow account. As each of the equity securities in the Portfolio are transferred to the Company, the associated funds will be released from the escrow account to the Seller based on the consideration amount assigned to the equity securities in the Transaction Agreement.
For accounting purposes, the total purchase price of the portfolio was allocated to the individual equity securities based on their individual fair values as of April 3, 2020, in order to establish an appropriate cost basis for each of the acquired securities."
Acacia disclosed last week that as of 30th June the net value of the portfolio was $74.3m profit (realised and unrealised gains). So we do not know what amount (if any) they have left but we know they declared that had taken all link held Orph shares 5th June (38m) and by the 7th were under the 3% threshold (13m). They (or whoever had the 24m) aren't in a hurry as the profits make