leighton buys out asi stake for 4.5m, page-24

buying on market would have been a waste of time - as it would have been too late to register the shares etc etd - a deal with bolton was the only way to go

lucky that watso has only been an interested bystander, but if watso were a holder, then he would have been thinking that bolton needed his votes, as much as what a shareholder needed boltons vote (after all, he put forward the resolutions.. if watso were a shareholder, he would feel shafted