SGSC28 Sep 2023 21:59
So basically we bought into 8% of SGSC's development of AZ1656 in COVID (only):
On 20 October 2020, Vela acquired an 8 per cent. economic interest in the commercialisation of the Covid-19 application of AZD1656 from St George Street Capital ("SGSC"), a UK-based medical charity. Under the terms of the agreement, SGSC agreed to pay Vela 8 per cent. of any proceeds received by SGSC in excess of £19.2 million and after the deduction of sums payable to the original major pharmaceutical company developer and to certain other funders and after provision for taxation ("the Economic Interest"). Consideration for the acquisition of the Economic Interest was £2.35 million, satisfied by cash of £1.25 million and the issuance of 1,100,000,000 consideration shares in Vela at a price of 0.1 pence per share. SGSC is a party to, and has consented to, the Option Agreement."
Conduit have bought that from us ( via the PUT option) but do not intend to develop if further. There is no indication that SGSC are continuing trials, having moved onto another aspect.
Hence we are quite lucky as they could have not offered the option.
But who knows what is actually going on behind the scenes on all this.
On the subject of the 1.1billion shares in VELA, from the SGSC accounts they appeared to have been transferred to conduit after the ARACDIA trial ( rather than sold by SGSC).