RE: Great Value3 Oct 2019 09:46
Waylow, the two major shareholders have a year after the loan notes are issued to convert them to ordinary shares. So it will only be when they have both converted that they will own over 80% of the shares in issue (supposing no further shares are issued before conversion).
Assuming conversion at maturity by the Investors of all of the principal amount and accrued interest in respect of the Loan Notes at the Conversion Price, CEIII would acquire ownership and control over a total of 151,643,990 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 9.2% of the issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares. Immediately following such a conversion, together with the Ordinary Shares of the Company already owned by CEII, CEIII and CEII would together have ownership and control over 1,035,667,346 Ordinary Shares of the Company, representing approximately 62.5% of the issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares.
Assuming conversion at maturity by the Investors of all of the principal amount and accrued interest in respect of the Loan Notes at the Conversion Price, Lombard Odier would acquire ownership and control over a total of 151,643,990 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 9.2% of the issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares. Immediately following such a conversion, Lombard Odier would have ownership and control over 336,888,590 Ordinary Shares of the Company, representing approximately 20.3% of the issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares.
So they own between them 64.4% already. I assume CE11 and CE111 will continue to hold their shares. Lombard may well look to reduce their holding in due course, but they cannot do that for 4 months after the issue of the loan notes or for 4 months after issue of shares following any conversion they may make.
Lombard’s right to convert at 1.4p MAY limit upside potential in the SP.
Those are my thoughts on this. I will be happy to know what others think.