Its not panic, but there will be a price for underwritting and the share issue doesnt add up when the issue price doesnt provide a discount to share price. An investor may as well buy at market below the issue price ($1.39) than participate in the share float..so they wont do either. If the share price goes up in the next week the picture changes, but you would have to say the shareholder perception of the deal is poor as the share price has dropped since the annoucement, so the likelyhood of that is low unless the directors get all their mates to prop the market up (just joking).
Im confident that they have made judgment that the Cooper fields from Delhi will pay dividends but this deal has had changed the company from being extremely cash strong to getting into debt and this is an important aspect in repayment.
Comments/info anyone?