They're just shares, no one actually thinks they will get £61M for them! I've have though they might get about 3% of the nominal value or £1.8M.
Just to be clear the preference shares carry no voting rights. That means you do not need to buy them to buy the company, but they are a problem for any potential purchaser.
The preference shares carry a right to a 15% dividend and a right to distributions equal to the paid up amounts on those shares that is in theory accumulating for starters. There is also an order to those distributions and those relating to ARVO pref shares (14m) come first. The remaining 50m are owned by SBS&L and those B class pref shares come second
If someone was looking to purchase the club they would now, I would suggest, look to purchase SBS&L 1000 ordinary shares of £1 and to clear out the ARVO preference shares and loans. The whole set up has been organised so that ARVO comes first and this has been the case for a number of years. You wouldn't purchase just Otium because that would leave £50m of preference shares with rights to accumulating dividend/distributions in someone elses hands. Buy SBS&L and you effectively buy the rights to £50m of preference shares. To buy SBS&L you only need to buy the ordinary share capital. If it were for sale
As SBS&L are plaintiffs in the JR1 and JR2 then it is most unlikely that SISU would sell until that is settled. What the preference shares do is to effectively put up a barrier to buying Otium alone.
To get rid of ARVO seems to be £14m for preference shares, £10m to settle the loans in full and remove their security charge plus the value of £1000 ordinary shares in a asset less loss making group say £1
Just another thought does that mean that the investment value of SBS&L in SISU's books is nil ? Has that been the case for sometime? Cant see anyone paying £24m any time soon for SBS&L group somehow whatever way they structure it, should it be for sale in the first place