Hi jembuss (et al),
I have received an email from Commsec International today and below is what they said:
CommSec International Desk <[email protected]> To:
[email protected] Thu, 7 July at 10:29 am
Hi xxxx,
Thanks for your email.
We require the following issues to be addressed to process your transfer:
-The DRS statement provided is a restricted stock. Please provide a DRS statement that does not list restricted stock.
If you have any further questions, please reply to this email, or for immediate assistance, call us on 1300 361 170 (24 hours a day on US market trading days) or from outside Australia on +612 9115 1531.
Kind regards,
Commsec International
[email protected]>
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So I gave Commsec International Desk a call this afternoon and was told clearly this time that they can't do much regarding the requested GMVD shares transfer if it's still restricted. And they don't provide services like produce/send legal letter (as per the information from this forum re one of the requirements by VStock Transfer to remove the restriction) to facilitate the transfer. But they did suggest that I go ask a
full-service broker and recommended two (Morgans and Bell Potter). So I then gave Morgans a call and they have branches across the country so they help transfer the call to the one that is very close to my post code. The guy in the branch was very helpful and said they have international office in US too. He has since asked me to send him all the relevant information (which i did right after the call) and he will talk to other office that looks after the type of things tomorrow and may get back to me sometime next week. So that may at least help solve my puzzle as I have no idea how to find a so-called US bar-lawyer? I did tell him that it might be possible that the G Medical management is trying to do a blanket legal letter (?) to help remove the restriction on all ex ASX holders' shares. So if Morgans will take say more than a month to transfer my shares at VStock, by then the restriction would probably already be removed so not that worthwhile to use Morgans as i also said to him. Will have to wait and see what he gets back to me next week. He was a bit confused though as i told him the restriction was for one year and is 100% expired as of today, he used the word "escrow", and said it should be out of escrow automatically if it was for one year and without complications. Anyways..
