This is a matter of honesty with one’s self. What I mean by that is your entire commentary hinges upon this unrelated lawsuit holding up a “second transaction”. But whenever you get the closure you feel you need on that (it’s already done), you will create a new reason why the second transaction is being held up. Moving the goalposts like that is deluding one’s self.
There was nothing hidden or not straightforward about this liquidation. There has never in history been a transaction delayed by 3 years, and there is literally definitive statement that there is not one here by all involved.