James Kirby
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He's one of the few people who ever in Australian corporate circles was charged and jailed for insider trading once upon a time.
He served 12 months in jail.
for conspiring to commit insider trading.
That was back in 2016.
You know, life is on and everyone deserves a second act.
Here he comes this time around with this group, Firmus.
One of the things that really is intriguing, Eric, is
Who's backing him?
Wes Maas, M-A-A-S, is behind him, who, of course, is a major rich lister.
And he's put a lot of money in there.
We know that already.
Admittedly, he has contracts with that same company.
So that might explain to some extent why he would go in there.
James Packer has gone in there.
As I understand, it's almost a race between the richest in Australia to get in on this IPO.
Would that be...
Fair to say.
Would you say that's fair?
So, I mean, as you say, the nature with highly hyped floats is that they can go highly wrong.