RE: NPX00120 Mar 2021 19:39
FX, remember Oxilio only need to take up their option before 23rd. Once they have done so they will begin a negotiation with NFX as to the terms of the license.
Oxilio only started an open fund raise at the end of Feb / beginning of March, so they need to be in a place to be confident of their resources prior to negotiations commencing, understandably they will take that to a late point, which may have been a closing of the funding on Friday just gone. Then they can sign off their option on Monday and commence negotiating.
It was interesting that in the half years that Blackwell wrote in December, it mentioned that they would update on Oxilio in H1 2021, but when Anne gave her update she was right onto the 23rd deadline, putting the pressure back on them.