There certainly could be an offer at 4 billions. Why not ?
Such a price could be reached through an auction process behind closed doors. And that will be for the intellectual property and not for the company, because ASIC will not agree with a takeover going through a private auction.
A private auction has many advantages : - Sharholders are not in the process (they will only vote at the end) . So no risk of seeing the company go for half a billion. - The money is received by 4DS, not by shareholders, so it is easyer to substract the bonus from the payment received. - Also it is probably easier to control the diffusion of very confidential data.
It is probably the easiest way to sell the technology. I just dont think it could reach many billions. The time to a market success seems to long for such a price. But with the tsunamy of cash that is engulfing the world out of central banks, why not ?
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