I appreciate all your thoughts and (qualified) counsel. Really an above-and-beyond reply. Thank you much!
One thing I didn't understand in your reply though was the hypothesis that "Richlin" might be upset with the deal not having consummated yet.
How could that be? Richlin is the one with the company, money, product, assets, employees, sales, etc. He's in the diver's seat isn't he? IF he really wanted to, he could lower the fee that LC needs to come up with and seal the deal tomorrow, no? (I.e. assuming that LC's cash problem is preventing the deal.)
So I didn't understand your entertaining that hypothesis.