Investors say they had to tender their old shares to receive the new ones, creating a sale under the Securities Act. But an oil and gas company insists the transaction left shareholders with the exact same economic interest.
(CN) — Fossil fuel investors claim they were handed shares in a new oil and gas company with $47 million of key assets, only for those same assets to be written down to zero.
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