RE: RNS6 Oct 2020 20:42
The RNS is a mixed bag. The 60day mobilisation period hasn't been mentioned before to my knowledge but I just see that as an oversight. Every contract that requires mobilisation of plant and equipment will have some mobilisation period, and it doesn't take five minutes. It's fairly standard, so I am assuming it's simply just been forgotten about by AM in the timeline - which isn't helpful.
Although, quite interestingly, Diggerman has been proved correct.
The Lind issue is difficult to unpick - although there is a formal debenture charge on Companies House for Edenville, it references back to the convertible security funding agreement (the guts of the CLF). But of course the agreement itself is commercially sensitive, so it's not in the public domain. The question for me is whether the company has created an event of default somehow, because that could result in payment on demand, which appears to be what has happened.
But if the Lind facility goes all end up, we do have an agreement for $1m from ILTL as a loan so, technically, we have a financial backstop. I did question why we needed that $1m previously and I wonder whether Lind doing what they have done has been potentially foreseen by someone, because without that loan agreement if Lind do pull the plug we would be up the proverbial creek. That tends to suggest to me that we might indeed have created an event of default, but that's just assumption.
But it's not really about what we think or post on here. It's how the market reacts tomorrow morning. GLA