RE: 13oct acceptance update…15 Oct 2021 16:21
Hi guys- Im a shareholder since 2014 here so Im hoping for a better outcome than the current Ganfeng offer but it does look like the BCN mgmt have been lulled into thinking Ganfeng where on their side while they had a plan to buy the whole of Sonora in stages.
First they agree a 29% shareholding, injecting cash into BCN and then a 50% direct stake in Sonora at the project level, with a cash payment there too. From that position its going to be very difficult for BCN to go elsewhere for the finance needed. Ganfeng have been bidding for lithium assets around the globe and mainly been successful in these bids.
The current capex has been revised to $420m, so BCN need $210m and they have most of this in the bank but Ganfeng are heavily inbedded in the design, engineering, funding, offtake all the way down to commissioning so it looks like BCN are now paying the penalty of trusting them with so many aspects of the project.
They may even want the full offtake, cutting out Hanwa from their initial 50% offtake.