[El Car]

We get a dividend from the joint venture when it chooses to pay one (which is at the discretion of SD). We currently stand to get around just 25% of any such dividend, and it also appears we're liable for any sort of exceptional costs such as write-offs, with them being transfer priced to us and then netted off against our dividend. This means in theory that the joint venture can make a loss through its operations (before transfer pricing some of the expense component to us) but SD still get a cash dividend payment, while any payment we receive would basically be paid for by us in the first place. I suspect what Ashley is trying to hide with his injunction is the particulars of what losses we have to absorb, because if we knew that we could systematically boycott aspects of the merchandise to hurt the joint venture without causing more expense for RIFC.