Nightcap (NGHT), the company that uses shareholders cash to pay off the personal liabilities of its CEO Sarah Willingham and which hands out bonuses to her husband for doing M&A deals however bad, nonsensical or related party, has served up a- not surprisingly – poor trading statement. The uncalled for Plan B lockdown clearly hurt.
As I exposed, a few weeks ago, the Independent NED at Nightcap (NGHT) who signs off on bonuses for failure for CEO Sarah Willingham and bonuses for crap M&A for her husband is in fact her best friend's husband and so if he is independent I am a banana. Toby Van der Meer is, in fact, so keen on the Willingham family that he charges £0 for his services to Nightcap. So he charges nothing and waives through utterly iunjustifiable payments to Sarah and her hubby and is also the man who allowed the company to pay a personal legal settlement of La Willingham which the prospectus explicitly said it would not do. So just how close and non independent are the Van Der Meer's and the Willingham's?Judge for yourself...
There is no word from scandal ridden AIM cash guzzler Nightcap (NGHT) on the misuse of company funds by CEO Sarah Willingham and others or the undeclared non-independence of the NED who waived such payments through. Instead Willingham’s other half Michael will get his third £100,000 bonus of 2021 for arranging another completely insane acquisition.
The chair of the Remuneration committee at Nightcap PLC (NGHT) is senior NED Toby Van der Meer. So it is Toby who must have approved the payments of £167,530 to settle legal liabilites of Dragon's Den star Sarah Willingham,her husband Michael and others when the prospectus specifically said the company was indemnified. And Toby must have pushed through the 100% performance related bonus for La Willingham for last year when the group lost c£5 million. But as a NED he is independent right? Er...
Yesterday’s bombshell exposure of the misallocation of £167,530 of company funds by persons including the CEO and Dragon’s Den star Sarah Willingham should be enough to see heads roll. But if La Willingham and hapless Nomad Allenby thought this was the last of my exposes it is in for a massive shock this weekend.
Because the CEO of NightCap (NGHT) is a bird, the financial press feels obliged to overlook the manifest corporate governance failings of this overvalued disgrace to AIM. Anyone criticising the greed and absurd conflicts of interest of Dragons Den star Sarah Willingham is naturally a sexist beast all of whose views can therefore be dismissed. As such no member of the mainstream media will report on section 12.1 of the IPO prospectus from December 2020. They are too scared. I’m not.
Nightcap (NGHT) the joke SPAC created by Dragon’s Den star Sarah Willingham to buy an insolvent bars group where she was a director and major shareholder, not from the receiver as it should have done, but from shareholders, including La Willingham herself, has published its first annual results and they are truly diabolical.
Bars owner Nightcap (NGHT), the bastard child of La Willingham of Dragon’s Den fame, has issued a trading statement which superficially appears top banana but it is what it does not say that should ring alarm bells and throw into grave doubt a valuation of £40 million at 21.5p.
Faced with a plunging share price since the “oversubscribed” placing and founder shareholder stock dump in May, what does Dragon’s Den “star” Sarah Willingham do for her NightCap (NGHT) baby. First: panic. Second put out out a rushed trading statement with old news and missing out critical numbers.
At the tail end of the week before last, NightCap (NCAP) – the AIM Company created by Dragon’s Den star Sarah Willingham to buy - at a grossly inflated price - an insolvent company which she had founded, sounded out investors about a placing of £5-6 million at 25p. I exposed that so forcing a statement. Today comes news that she has raised £10 million but at only 23p. The shares were 33.5p before the roadshow. Natch Sarah says “We are really pleased to see such strong demand in support of the Nightcap strategy”. Tell you what love: If you’d cut the price again you could have raised even more.
Yesterday I revealed how Sarah Willingham's Nightcap (NGHT) was scrabbling around to raise money via a bucket shop placing. Let’s hope it manages to spend less on this fund raise than the AIM admission which had estimated costs of admission of £1 million to raise gross proceeds of £4 million, a ludicrous 25% of money raised.
