RE: Arato Global Opportunities Limited25 May 2019 10:40
Good morning Joe, I trust that you are well. I have had a look at your post and the one hand I do not understand your motives in writing in such an aggressive manner and on the other hand you make some valid points. However I do feel that some of your points are not as accurate as you may think.
Firstly I have to agree, who are Arato Global? and as you rightly suggest no lender is going to wait until the end of the contract to recover their funds. The problem with PRD is the MC and as such. no recognised Institutional Investor will look at a company under a £50m MC. That leaves the lesser, so called "Bucket Shop" Lenders, who to be honest have kept AIM afloat over the years.
Your presumption that all of these loans are classed as Death Spirals, is not altogether true. The difference with this one is the 45 days grace given from the signing of the agreement and the lack of evidence showing any form of forward selling. At this point I refer you to TERN whos Lender was selling before the announcement of the deal and their continuation to sell aggressively left TERN with no alternative but to terminate the deal. This Lender has drawn back £250k of the loan and in my opinion most of these shares have been sold into the market.As I have said before the next RN showing a further draw down, will answer a lot of questions.
Finally I am not sure why TRls should come into play, with such small draw downs on the loan. You make some very good points but by using words like naive and dodgy, you do yourself no favours. I have to agree with you that this type of fund raising, is not the one I would like to see for PRD but it is what it is and not all bad like you seem to imply. The one good point you have failed to mention, is that total amount of the loan is recoverable into PRD coffers.
I wish you well and enjoy the weekend.
HT