What is worse than having a major shareholder who is also your chairman selling $125m-worth of shares in the company?

How about having a major shareholder who is also your chairman selling $125m-worth of shares while you are in the middle of a five-day, four-city non-deal roadshow presentation?

That was the awkward position management of Euronav found themselves in last week, as they were — by several accounts — caught unawares that Peter Livanos would make a further sell-down in the middle of their marketing campaign to institutional investors in the US and Canada.

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