Outrider interest settlement22 Jun 2019 06:47
Good morning all
A lot has been said on this board and elsewhere about us all being misled about the interest payment being due to Outrider in September last year.
This is the extract from the notes to the accounts from the RNS on 29 June 2018:
"In October 19, 2016, the Company and the holders of the largest outstanding group of the 2016 Notes, Outrider Master Fund, LP and Outrider Management, LLC (collectively "Outrider") agreed to exchange the 2016 Notes for new secured unconvertible notes maturing on August 1, 2020. On December 20, 2016, in accordance with this agreement, Frontera International Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary, issued new secured unconvertible notes maturing on August 1, 2020 to Outrider. This was followed by the issuance of new notes on the same terms to other holders of the 2016 Notes. As a result of this exchange, the note holders exchanged $30.1 million of principal in the original notes into new secured notes due August 2020. There was $1.5 million in associated interest expense recognized through the end of year 2016 on the 2020 Notes. The 2020 Notes are not convertible into ordinary shares of the Company and bear an interest rate of 10 percent if paid in cash or 12 percent if paid in-kind with additional notes at the Company's election. Following the issue of the 2020 Notes, the 2016 Notes were re-assigned to the Company and cancelled. During 2017, the Company elected quarterly interest payments in kind and issued approximately $4.0 million in additional unconvertible notes in accordance with the terms of the 2020 Notes."
This reads to me that FRR were due to make quarterly interest payments and during 2017 elected to settle them in loan notes as opposed to cash. So doesn't that mean that we should have been fully aware that payments would have been due in 2018? So, in that respect, surely we weren't misled? Where the trust has been lost is that Zaza spoke to us on 4 October and didn't state that we had defaulted.