RE: Victory27 May 2022 14:44
“Yep no point entering into a non binding agreement if dd hasn't already been carried out it would be a waste of resources.” Not strictly true. The reason it’s non binding is that full dd has not been done on the company. The bidder may have evaluated Victory, but clearly didn’t want the other stuff. Taking those assets out leaves only Victory. However if the bidder is buying the company it will need to do its dd on the remaining obligations and liabilities (if any) in Corallian.
1:Corallian drilled a number of wells which were subject to abandonment, that liability remains with Corallian, so they will want to make sure the job was done properly.
2: Corallian almost certainly bough seismic data to evaluate their prospects. Depending on who they bought it from it may have further payments due on a change of control or other success based milestones. The extent of these, if any changes need to be understood.
3: They will likely want a comfort letter from NSTA to ensure that they won’t object to the new owner of Corallian, and that they have fulfilled the promised work programme, that the new owner is technically and financially qualified to operate a production and development project.
4: Other than checking that no shareholders are subject to sanctions or are politically exposed persons , it’s irrelevant who the shareholders are.
It’s not a huge job, but will take a little while.