Always, in all cases, you have to buy your shares 2 days before they are officially yours. Do you want to challenge that? They wrote that owners of SIAF shares on October 31 is eligible for the distribution. Do you want to challenge that? So if you sell after that nothing implies that you will not have any rights to the distribution. Neither does it say, or imply, that you can buy shares after that and still get part of the distribution. TRW as a not listed company will do as they please. I might be wrong, but I only keep to the known facts.