My 70 on ii26 Dec 2018 09:44
This is his post but have to say pretty much sums up how I generally feel here.More than happy to be totally wrong on this
A good post a Fozzer,
Personally i think ZM/SN are to blame for this mess and its there in the court documents for us to read. Hope appeared to continually ask for assurances on funding and then asked about his notes interest payments, on or around the 4th he was told they were working on it (the day Zaza was stood in front of investors) then on the 10th he asked for shares from the guarantors which was immediately followed by the Caymen court case. Maybe I’m wrong but that doesn’t tell me this was Hope taking the company out it just says he was owed his dues from the guarantors who failed to stump up the shares, he wanted shares not the company.
Whether the court case was ZM/SN buying time for another unknown event like the loan or company sale I’m not sure but the judge didn’t seem to be convinced because he lifted the injunction and FRR had to appeal to get it reinstated.
Regarding Cairns they have done us all a huge favour probably as a result of them not being given full insight into what was going on behind the scenes but I’m speculating there. If we had traded this would have gone to near zero.
So where are we? IMO We are in the hands of three men (completely), two appear to be detached have not been completely upfront apart from with themselves and appear in my mind to be running this as if it’s there own. One has a history of losing a prized asset at the last minute the other as time progresses isn’t coming up in a good light either! The things he said at the investor meeting was all very nice however this was a red hot potato in the background. Their naivety at the scale of this is concerning, the court documents telling and tweet on Xmas eve about not knowing about the NOMAD strange. Cairns advised them at 7:40 am but they tweet later in the day? Again they had the opportunity to contact Cairns or the LSE and do something about it but on that evening they still didn’t understand.
So moving forward we need to hope for the best and prepare for the worst, maybe there will be a deal and I hope the three of them are locked in discussions sorting this out but Instead of painting Hope as the pantomime villain I think we need to be prepared for this to go to the wall to seek maximum redress from ZM/SN as our losses will be as a result of their actions and inactions.
Happy to be corrected or discuss.