Vote No, early and often7 Oct 2023 13:24
He is actually buying it for less than a €1/2 million .
The €1m and €5m are going in when it’s basically his company or his incurred debts.
If everything is above board and if no private deals have been done ???? then it’s impossible to see why large investors like Peagant would vote for this. Why would anybody?
LG has safeguarded his original investment, and now has €25-€40m of tax write offs . He will take legal action to seek compensation with others but also To delay any payment for clean up bills ( which of course will never be paid in full )
The 5% of a future sale or production( no mention of compensation funds) is a joke and a tease. 80% of the shareholders to get 5% of of revenues from a licence that has expired.
The only thing we have to value this , is logp , which has 20% of that expired licence. The markets value it at just £1m and it has a proper legal Route to full Compensation, rockhopper style .
LG has been to greedy here . He has forgotten a basic lesson of the cattle markets ,leave a little on the table .
Let this go into liquidation. We know, from the Examiner, there was 2 other offers . Let LG and others bid for the tax write offs and possible revenues from compensation.
Total creditors are less than €1/2 m so there is a possibility of some return from a liquidation for shareholders instead of pie in the sky inflation devastated 10 year worthless promise on an expired licence.
Finally it would be great to get clarity on whether this “5% future carrot” affects our ability to write off full losses on our own personal tax bills this year .