RE: Cost overruns4 Oct 2022 19:22
I suspect it’s two things:
1) Together with the Primary Capital Raise, the Fundraise is anticipated to allow the Company to draw down on its senior debt facility (subject to conditions and covenants to be satisfied at each draw down customary for a financing of this nature, including formal agreement of the cost to complete construction at that time).
and
2) In addition, the Fundraise will allow the Company to accelerate engineering studies and basic engineering for the development of line 2 at Araguaia, as well as further invest in its decarbonisation strategy for the Project.
Point 1) suggests that the cost rises meant couldn’t have drawn the main funding without sourcing more cash via this raise.
However as point 2) is a “nice to have”, and not necessarily required, it smacks of expanding the raise and letting all the big boys (including directors) average down with big money (the same way any PI could recently but they wouldn’t be able to on-market).
Cheeky, but at the same time, people moaned about directors not buying, well they are but on a much bigger scale, as tucked away in there is “and certain Directors either directly or through associated entities to raise up to approximately £26.4 million”.
I’d rather see all the big backers and the directors on top piling in than none of them and the company scrabbling for cash from random others…