RE: RRR: DRC AWARD $10M & International Arbitration.3 Apr 2024 15:19
News, Boring Boy just makes stuff up and repeats it ad nauseum. When he gets puts straight, he backs off for a few days and then restarts the same drivel.
1. If I knew DRC was signed, I couldn't and wouldn't tell you. MAR and all that good stuff.
2. It doesn't matter how close anyone thinks it is (including AB), until it is actually done, it isn't done.
3. AB has thought we were done a few times and then we weren't.
4. As he has said recently, there is now no dispute that RRR is owed 51% of the $15mil: so about $7.5mil.
5. RRR has a separate court award for the $2.5mil plus damages (I think $2mil).
6. There is no point in endlessly repeating the same drivel but Boring Boy seems to like it doing it.
7. IMHO Burkina Faso will dwarf the $7.5mil.
8. The big thing about getting the $7.5mil sorted it that we can then get on with the big numbers. I expect that we will get on with it pretty quickly. I expect that they will want to chat to me about what the potential claim will be. Once they have an idea what they can claim they will need to get what is called an Expert Witness lined up.
9. Ideally our friends who now own Musonoi want to do a deal and not mess around but they might want to mess around, in which case RRR needs to line up no-win, no-fee funding or a contingency fee structure or after the event insurance.
10. My view is that we should use Anya Law but it could be others. A big issue will be finding decent London lawyers who are not conflicted (a big no-no).
Anyway, fingers crossed.
DYOR