If I came to you and said I need to borrow $1.75 million for a couple months max and I'll pay you 10% interest just to hold the money for those couple of months and I will put up as collateral say 10 million of my restricted IDWD shares (worth $3.5 million), what would you say? Now, I'm not a banker but that sounds like a reasonable deal.
The only way anyone would take that deal is if they could short against the restricted stock, which would not be good for shareholders.
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