It's odd to me that such an important agreement would set a weekend as a drop-dead date. I spend my working life dealing with agreements of purchase and sale for real estate, and it's rare for the parties involved not to check a calendar when they're signing to make sure their closing date iss a weekday. Perhaps it's not such an important date as far as KRY and CRRC are concerned, and was informally extended weeks ago.

As far as public announcements go, the agreement basically says that neither party can announce anyhing without the other side agreeing. I don't think that CRRC has any reason whatsoever to announce anything, at any time. In fact, depending on the terms of the final agreement, I wouldn't be surpised if KRY has to fight for the right to annnounce anything at all, ever, save for those events that securities legislation requires they announce - and even those may be limited to terse, circumspect statements that do no more than satisfy the most basic requirements of the legislation.

As far as having info in hand prior to voting at a shareholders' meeting - has aa meeting been called for sure during late August? I don't think I've recieved anything yet. They have to give, what, 20 days' notice of the meeting. They're not going to have the meeting without the proper notice period. And I can't imagine any shareholder (except a s**t disturber who holds shares for a whole other agenda) voting no - regardless of what is in the CRRC deal. I mean, come on, what's a credible alternative to the CRRC setup?