Vela are not a one trick pony . It’s been a tough year or two for sure but a good few of our investments could well prove worthwhile . Cornerstone is well on the way back up for one !
We invested roughly£2.5million in AZ1656 drug via St.George St. Capital.
We paid CDT £400k for a put option whereby they buy back our rights for a cut ( I think 8%) of a commercial deal on this drug for use in COVID. They would do this by issuing us shares in CDT.
VELA don't have to ( and as far as we know haven't yet) exercised this option....hence the speculation as to why not.
If they exercise today and sold all the allocated shares they would get approx £3.75 million which would be a handy profit on the original investment.
The could hold for a much higher price, or wait for a commercial deal which 8% of which may be many more millions.