Western Wind Energy Corp. (Toronto Venture Exchange -- "WND") (OTCQX -- "WNDEF") wishes to announce that it has received numerous proposals from world-class M&A advisory firms. The largest of these firms anticipate an average 18-week timeline from beginning of engagement to final sale. During this 18-week process, Western Wind will complete the financing and begin major construction of the Yabucoa Project, Puerto Rico. The chosen two M&A firms will publish the detailed selling procedures and schedule through a subsequent news release.
The largest M&A firms' proposals requires that the Board and the CEO commit to an exhaustive amount of time in presenting all of Western Wind's extensive assets to the potential purchasers. The only group that can accomplish these tasks accurately and efficiently is the current Board and CEO of Western Wind.
Western Wind has spent the past 12 years accumulating and building these assets. The only constant during this 12-year period is the CEO, Jeff Ciachurski, who has been with the Company since its inception in January, 1998 (14 years). The remaining Board has been with Western Wind, on average, for 10 years.
Every land asset, contract, power purchase agreement, piece of generating equipment, and business relationship has originated with the CEO and the current Board.
Included in the final sale price will be the 30-MW Yabucoa Solar Project, which is almost ready for financial close and the beginning of major construction. There are a few complex and delicate business relationship issues that need to be resolved prior to financial close, which is scheduled to happen well within the 18 week selling period. These delicate and complex relationship issues will never come to a conclusion without the present Board and CEO. They definitely will never happen with Savitr's dissident slate of directors.
Andrew Reuben Midler has constantly quoted both in his news release and his recent letters to the Board of Western Wind, that the DAI valuation is the benchmark of the Company's net asset value. In the DAI report, the Yabucoa asset has a net present equity value of $115 million ($1.53 per share fully diluted).
Savitr's dissident slate of directors and unknown management team cannot bring Yabucoa to financial close and therefore all of Western Wind's shareholders will be deprived of at least $1.53 per share, if not more
Savitr has spent all of its energy and time denigrating the current Board and CEO of Western Wind. Such behavior by Savitr has flowed down to all the stakeholders of Western Wind causing Savitr to lose credibility which advances mistrust. Stakeholders of Western Wind include directors, employees, consultants, lawyers, equipment vendors, lending groups, shareholders and key operation personnel.
Mr. Midler quotes the DAI report of $5.60 per share as a benchmark in his letters to the Board, yet he also criticizes the Board for not pursuing the Algonquin low-ball "bear hug bid letter" of $2.50 per share. Mr. Midler appears confused.
Mr. Midler calls the Western Wind organic development pipeline, a waste of millions of dollars of "ill advised" investments. Mr. Midler fails to name which investment he is referring to where Western Wind has wasted millions of dollars.
In the rare chance that Savitr's dissident slate of directors gets elected, all of Western Wind's shareholders will lose at least $1.50 per share off of the selling price.
Jeff Ciachurski states "Mr. Midler claims to be a friend of Western Wind yet since I have spoken with him in 2008, he has never toured, visited or inspected any of Western Wind's projects in California or elsewhere. This should be a telling sign considering Mr. Midler is based nearby in San Francisco. The only consistent aspect to my relationship with Mr. Midler since 2008 was his constant requests during numerous conversations, to have Western Wind provide him and Savitr with below market price private placements and stock offerings. Unlike Western Wind where our track record is published and made available to the entire public, none of Savitr's business transactions are available for public scrutiny. We have no access to his buy and sell records of Western Wind, we have no access to his tax payments or tax returns and definitely no real access to the true beneficial owners of Savitr's offshore holdings. The only realistic comment that has ever been made by Mr. Midler is his own admission in his July 31st, 2012 news release where he states that he was a managing member of a bio-diesel production company that went bankrupt in 2010.
If it were not for the exceptional financial stewardship and dedication of the CEO and the current Board having taken a few hundred thousand dollars in 2000 and parlaying that into a $400 million Balance Sheet, Mr. Midler woud have nothing to fight about. Mr. Midler's history of being a managing member of a bankrupt bio-diesel company and his complete lack of knowledge of the Western Wind assets, is in no way a resume to a Board position of Western Wind."