I understand how your example could get the shares into the threshold list numbers and that's what we're trying to sort out. But I would think that "your" attorney would eliminate any question about the propriety of the release from restriction in his due diligence effort and that any "contrary instruction" from the issuer would essentially be an unlawful reneging assuming it was a proper issuance in the first place. After all, we can all count to six (months).
It's not that I couldn't see how that might happen, it's just that it wouldn't be right.