CLN4 Jan 2024 15:05
So UKOG gave YA / Riverfort 1,300,000,000 of equity shares which were converted when the vwap was 0.0504p after the 28 June RNS and probably sold them all at a higher price between the announcement and the conversion date, but this wasn't mentioned until 3 November. It was unclear from the RNS that these shares were just being handed over without any further announcement and there was no mention of a further handover of 1,424.4 87,652 shares - labelled as a second tranche of equity shares.
But UKOG shares in circulation wasn't updated until November - surely that isn't allowed. If the 1,300,000,000 were handed over in June when the CLN agreement was announced, or soon after, they should have updated the shares figure then. If these shares weren't handed over before they were sold then YA / Riverfort surely must have been shorting.
In November they handed over the second tranche of equity shares, another 1,424,487,652 shares to YA/Riverfort (and updated the shares in circulation) that trade data suggests they are or have been, selling - but when will UKOG let investors not given help like this know what price these shares have been converted at.
This affects how much loan remains to be converted. Assuming all the second tranche of equity shares are sold and they have 'converted' at 0.022p (just above the lowest vwap I calculated) then with the first tranche of equity shares they still have £1,575,000 of loan to convert (includes the 4.5% added to the loan on the sale proceeds of the equity shares and the £500,000 added in November but not the £500,000 to be added before February 16). Hopefully these will be converted with only a few days delay between conversion and RNS.
It seems a very opaque system with no public record of when YA/Riverfort choose the conversion price / date which seems unfair to 'normal' investors, even traders.
Excerpts from the 3 November RNS:-
'The Loan's first tranche of 1,300,000,000 has been converted by the Investors at an average price of 0.0504 pence per share. Investors can elect to convert the second tranche of 1,424,487,652 Equity Shares at the lower of the Variable Price* or the Fixed Price**.'
'Application has been made for the first and second tranches of the Equity Shares, numbering 2,724,487,652 ordinary shares in total, to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"). Admission is expected to take place at 8.00 a.m. on or around 8 November 2023.'