Daily Mail, 9 Feb 2020, Sirius Minerals stand-off with investors

The Daily Mail reports that “crunch talks have been held with small shareholders”:

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-7984611/Sirius-Minerals-bosses-hold-crunch-talks-shareholders-seek-backing-405m-takeover.html

…Sirius chief executive Chris Fraser and chairman Russell Scrimshaw met with ShareSoc, which is representing hundreds of individual investors, in a bid to drum up support for the deal last week…

…according to ShareSoc, Fraser and Russell dashed these hopes during the ‘frank’ talks. ShareSoc said: ‘The board has not closed down discussions on alternative solutions and will continue to review all viable alternatives to the Anglo bid until the 11th hour. But they were at pains to stress that there is absolutely no reason for optimism.’…