Previous episodes: Day 69 — Romania Enters the Battlefield · Day 68 — Fruit of the Poisonous Tree · Day 67 — Where We Stand.
Nasdaq Copenhagen: SHAPE · CVR DK38322656 · ISIN DK0061273125
This Company Announcement is published pursuant to the Nasdaq Copenhagen Rulebook, Section 3.1, and concerns the ongoing appeal in case B-281-26 before Østre Landsret, 4. afdeling. The full GAME OVER investigation (70 episodes) is available at substack.wildceo.live.
70 days since the Danish High Court unanimously annulled the bankruptcy. Over the weekend, the Danish financial press decided the real story was that we booked a won lawsuit one quarter too early.
I didn’t call him a communist. I called the behavior communist. There is a difference.
The Story Børsen Chose
Over the weekend, I made the front page of Børsen. Not for the unlawful bankruptcy. Not for the 59 days of trustee malpractice. Not for the missing MAR disclosures. Not for the cancelled EGM.
The story Børsen chose to investigate: that Shape Robotics Romania booked, in Q2 2025, a EUR 24 million claim against the Romanian Ministry of Education — a claim we ultimately won in court in January 2026.
The expert who provided commentary: a man named Lars Kirzner. He has no publicly accessible CV. His PhD appears to date from 1997. He told me, in writing, that his credentials are “available to informed parties.” He hides behind a Karnov Group paywall costing thousands of kroner. He told me he won’t talk to me anymore because I called the behavior communist.
I didn’t call him a communist. I called the behavior communist. There is a difference.
A Romanian recognizes this pattern instantly. We had a name for it: nomenklatura. A class of experts with hidden credentials, opaque relationships, and the unquestioned authority to declare who is correct and who is not. We had a phrase for the documents that justified their authority: “materiale de uz intern” — for internal use only. Available, naturally, only to the informed.
The substance of the story: the Romanian lawsuit was won. Booking it in Q2 2025 as a contingent receivable — when the favorable lower-court ruling existed but appeal windows remained open — is a legitimate accounting question, not a fraud. The judgment became final in January 2026. The receivable is real. Romanian commercial courts have validated it. The asset is now part of the reconstruction estate.
The real question Børsen has not asked: how is it possible, in 2026, in Denmark, for a publicly listed company with 4,800 shareholders to be declared bankrupt unlawfully — and for no journalist in the country to investigate that failure of the system?
TLDR — The Timeline That Matters
Børsen ran a story this weekend about a EUR 24 million lawsuit between Shape Robotics Romania and the Romanian Ministry of Education. The timeline matters more than the headline.
• Late 2024 — Romanian Ministry of Education refused to award a grant to Shape Robotics Romania.
• End of 2024 — Shape Romania filed a complaint with the Ministry of European Funds (MIPA), the upper ministry. MIPA agreed with our position.
• 2024–2025 — Shape Romania initiated a lawsuit against the Ministry of Education seeking compensation.
• Q2 2025 — Shape Romania booked the claim as a contingent receivable in its financial statements.
• January 2026 — Judgment in favor of Shape Romania. Not appealed by the Ministry. Final.
• 15 May 2026 — Shape Romania entered reconstruction proceedings (see Day 69). The receivable is now an asset of the estate.
Substantively, this is good news. A win. A definitive judgment in favor of the company against a Romanian state actor. A real asset that the special administrator will now work to monetize as part of the Romanian reconstruction plan.
Børsen’s framing was not “Shape Romania wins lawsuit, brings asset to reconstruction.” Børsen’s framing was that we booked the claim too early in Q2 2025, before the judgment became final.
This is the journalistic equivalent of a police officer stopping you at a red light, where you have legally stopped, to inform you that you might have been speeding earlier. He has no evidence. You did not speed. But he wants you to be aware that it could have been a problem.
What Børsen Actually Wrote About Lars Kirzner
The expert Børsen and JP Hus (same media group) keep quoting in Shape Robotics matters is a man named Lars Kirzner. Over the weekend, I had a written exchange with him on LinkedIn. The exchange is public. You can read it.
Here is what I asked him:
1. Who are you? Where is your public CV?
2. What is your expertise? Where are your published works that anyone can read?
3. What is your relationship to Børsen and JP Hus? Do you invoice them? Are you on retainer? Or do you provide commentary informally?
4. Why are you commenting on Romanian commercial law matters? This was a Romanian lawsuit. Are you a Romanian-law expert?
Here is what he answered, paraphrased:
1. His CV is “available to informed parties.”
2. His published work is behind a Karnov Group paywall costing thousands of Danish kroner. His PhD thesis, which I downloaded, appears to be from 1997.
3. He says he has no commercial relationship with the newspapers but offers “free classes” for journalists. Whatever that means.
4. He has no specific Romanian-law expertise that I could identify — but he is commenting on the matter anyway.
Then he told me he would not continue the dialogue because I had called him a communist. I did not call him a communist. I called the behavior communist. There is a critical distinction.
The behaviors I named are:
• Credentials “available only to informed parties.”
• Publications behind paywalls inaccessible to the public.
• Anonymous or unaccountable expertise deployed to attack named individuals.
• Refusal to engage with substantive criticism.
• Demands that the criticized party show respect to the un-credentialed authority.
Romanians recognize these patterns. We lived under them for forty-five years.
I have invited Mr. Kirzner to testify in the Romanian court proceedings regarding Shape Robotics Romania — as a witness, to explain the methodology by which Børsen and JP Hus generate their expert commentary on this case. The invitation is open.
Why a Romanian Sees This Pattern Immediately
Romania was a communist dictatorship from 1947 to 1989. During those forty-two years, the country developed a class of experts whose authority did not rest on publicly verifiable credentials, but on opaque relationships within the party structure. This class was called the nomenklatura. Its members had access to information, materials, and decision-making processes that ordinary citizens did not.
The internal documents that justified the nomenklatura’s authority were classified into categories. The most common was “materiale de uz intern” — materials for internal use only. If you wanted to challenge a decision, you had to cite the materials. If you wanted to cite the materials, you had to be inside the system. If you were inside the system, you would not be challenging the decision.
This is what I recognized in Lars Kirzner’s response: that his CV is “available to informed parties.” That is exactly the nomenklatura’s response. You can question my authority — but only if you are already authorized to question it. Otherwise, please return to your seat.
Romanians left this system in 1989. Many of us paid for the privilege with the lives of family members. We are not nostalgic. We notice the pattern when it appears in countries that consider themselves immune.
I am not calling Denmark a communist country. Denmark is one of the most democratic countries in the world. But specific patterns — the hidden credentials, the paywalls, the unaccountable expertise, the demand for respect without transparency — appear in Denmark with surprising frequency in the way the Danish establishment polices its own.
I notice. I name what I notice. I am told it is rude to notice. It is rude. I do not care.
What the Story Reveals About the System
The Børsen story over the weekend tells you something important about how Danish financial journalism is structured. It is not primarily an inquiry into the truth. It is a maintenance function for a system that has decided certain outcomes in advance.
Consider the questions Børsen did not ask this weekend:
• How did a publicly listed company get bankrupted unlawfully in 10 minutes? — the foundational error of the entire case.
• Why was no certified interpreter present at the 17 April hearing? — ECHR Article 6(3)(e) violation, documented.
• Why was Teis appointed kurator three times in four months? — documented per se conflict of interest.
• Where are the Cision announcements during Teis’s 59 days? — MAR Article 17 violation, DFSA confirmed.
• Why was the EGM cancelled with no announcement? — documented destruction of shareholder rights.
• Why was Sanako Oy bankrupted by its parent’s trustee? — documented destruction of a valuable subsidiary.
• Why did Erhvervsstyrelsen contradict itself on the company’s address? — cases 137907 vs 143927, contradictory in 20 days.
These are the substantive failures of the system that produced the Shape Robotics situation. Børsen has not investigated any of them. Børsen investigated whether a contingent receivable was booked one quarter too early in a Romanian financial statement that no Danish investor has ever read.
The function of the story, in other words, is not to inform. It is to construct, retrospectively, a narrative in which the unlawful bankruptcy was somehow inevitable. “Anyway, they were going to fail.” This is what Romanians recognize as the alibi narrative — the explanation deployed after the fact to make a wrong outcome seem natural.
Nimbochromis — A Considered Reply
The most substantial critique of the weekend came from a Nordnet user, Nimbochromis. Unlike the troll account “Progression,” Nimbochromis writes in good faith. He has read the case. He raises arguments that deserve a proper answer. His critique, in essence: one lawsuit replaces the other, nothing moves forward; little value is left in the company; a reconstruction is the same as starting from scratch; existing shareholders will end up as “alibis and useful idiots.”
This is a serious critique. It deserves a serious response. Let me take each argument in turn.
1) “One lawsuit replaces the other — it doesn’t move forward.” This is empirically wrong. In 70 days: the bankruptcy was annulled by the Eastern High Court (unanimous, 5 March 2026); a Carnegie analyst was sanctioned by the DFSA (MAR Art. 20(1) reprimand, 7 April 2026); DFSA confirmed in writing a MAR Article 17 violation against Teis (24–27 April 2026); the Romanian Ministry of Education lawsuit was won (January 2026, definitive, EUR 24M); the 14 April EGM was held with a 90.6% restructuring mandate and a new board approved (Aurel Nein Chairman, Kim Okkola, Alexandru Ambrozie); the company was renamed to Phase Education A/S (Cision 06-26); Shape Romania reconstruction was opened (15 May 2026); the Brussels Ibis Article 53 certificate was filed with the bailiff; the Ground D filing was submitted to the Eastern High Court (13 May 2026, ruling within days). This is a lot of forward movement. What looks like stasis from outside is, in fact, a deliberate construction of legal positions on multiple fronts.
2) “Not much value left — the IP is not worth the paper it’s written on.” Yes — Chinese competitors are sprinting ahead in educational robotics hardware, with a 1.4-billion-person domestic market and near-zero marginal cost in Shenzhen. But the European public-sector education market is highly protectionist. Chinese hardware does not win EU tenders against European-curriculum-aligned platforms — not because of price, but because of compliance, sovereignty, and political economy. The IP that matters here is not the molded plastic of the Fable robot. It is the multi-year integration into a regulatory environment that Chinese competitors will not match within the relevant time horizon: curricular integration with 27 EU member-state systems, GDPR/DPA/eIDAS compliance, trust relationships with Ministries of Education in five EU countries, the Bechtle framework for Polish schools (EUR 32M, 5 years), the PNRR pipeline in Romania (EUR 120M pending), and a Romanian–Polish–Finnish manufacturing nexus. Our pipeline is not empty: EUR 152M in active opportunities, with EUR 24M already crystallized as a court-validated receivable from the Romanian state.
3) “A reconstruction is starting from scratch — no startup gets listed on day one.” This conflates two different things. A reconstruction is not a newly founded company. It is court-supervised continuation of an existing entity that retains its CVR (DK38322656), its ISIN (DK0061273125), its Nasdaq Copenhagen listing (currently suspended), its IP, contracts, employee base, and customer relationships — and all litigation rights against the parties that caused the damage. The reconstruction plan I will file by end of May proposes restoring the trading status — not starting a new IPO — under Nasdaq Copenhagen Rulebook section 5.3 (resumption of trading following corporate restructuring). The Phase Education A/S that emerges is the same legal entity, with the same shareholders of record, with the asset base reorganized and the debt structure reset.
4) “Mark Abraham will take payment — existing shareholders will be useful idiots.” Of course I expect to be paid for this work. I have a family. I have a daughter. I have rent. I have a life. The idea that I am doing this for moral satisfaction alone is not a serious idea. But compensation has a structure, and the structure I am committed to is: public disclosure in advance (no hidden side arrangements); alignment with shareholder recovery (if shareholders recover 100% of pre-bankruptcy value, I get paid more — if they recover less, I get paid less); subject to formal approval mechanisms (board, AGM, audit committee), not by my unilateral decision; and explicitly not the SAS pattern. The proposed reconstruction converts unsecured creditor claims (DKK 540M) into litigation rights against the parties responsible for the unlawful bankruptcy. Existing shareholders retain their position. New capital comes in through transparent equity issuance ratified by AGM. You are not useful idiots. You are my partners.
One closing observation on Nimbochromis: I disagree with much of his analysis. But I respect the framing. He wrote in his own name, with arguments rather than insults. He distinguished between criticizing me and dismissing me. This is what a good-faith critic looks like. I will engage with him substantively in every episode where he writes. The dialogue I offered Progression is also open to him — live, on camera, with substance.
Scoreboard — Where We Stand Today
• First appeal (K 33-3725-F) — WON. 3 judges, 0 dissent, 5 March 2026.
• DFSA Topholm complaint (25-026420) — WON. Carnegie reprimanded.
• DFSA MAR confirmations, 24–27 April — documented in writing.
• MAR Article 17 supervisory file (26-005434) — open, active.
• Police complaint (0100-83986-10362-26) — open.
• Bar Council case (2026-1127) — open.
• Ministry of Education lawsuit, Romania — WON, January 2026, definitive.
• Shape Romania reconstruction — opened 15 May 2026.
• Brussels Ibis enforcement — filed with bailiff.
• Forced dissolution / new bankruptcy appeals (B-281-26) — awaiting ruling this week.
• Lars Kirzner testimony in Romanian court — invited, awaiting response.
• Børsen substantive investigation of the unlawful bankruptcy — still waiting.
What’s Next — Timeline
• 18 May 2026 (today) — Episode 70 published. Lars Kirzner invited to Romanian court testimony.
• This week — Eastern High Court ruling expected on B-281-26 (Teis as liquidator appeal).
• By 22 May — Brussels Ibis Article 53 certificate from Romanian bailiff.
• By end of May — Romanian reconstruction plan filed (14-day deadline from 15 May opening).
• June — Creditor vote on Romanian reconstruction plan.
The Real Question
I want to leave you with the question that Børsen, JP Hus, and every Danish financial journalist of consequence has refused to ask for 70 days. How is it possible, in 2026, in Denmark, for a publicly listed company on Nasdaq Copenhagen — with 4,800 shareholders across 17 countries and 700 employees across three continents — to be declared bankrupt unlawfully in a 10-minute hearing, and for that failure to receive zero substantive journalistic investigation in the Danish financial press?
The answer, to a Romanian, is depressingly familiar. The system has decided what the outcome should be. The journalism then assembles, after the fact, the narrative that justifies the outcome. The expert commentary then reinforces the narrative. The criticism is then dismissed as the noise of someone who does not understand how things are done here.
We understood how things were done. We left. We are not coming back.
I’m not calling Denmark a communist country. I’m naming the patterns I see. The real question is: how is it possible for a publicly listed company to go bankrupt unlawfully in 2026 Denmark?
You are not useful idiots. You are my partners.
Q.E.D.
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Mark-Robert Abraham
Founder · Former CEO · Shareholder
Shape Robotics A/S (now Phase Education A/S)
Director · Shape Robotics Romania SRL (in reconstruction)
CVR 38322656 · ISIN DK0061273125 · Nasdaq Copenhagen: SHAPE (suspended)
Voluntari, Ilfov, Romania · 18 May 2026
Open invitation: Mr. Lars Kirzner — the invitation to appear as a witness in the Romanian commercial court proceedings on Shape Robotics Romania remains active. Your CV need not be made public. The court has its own standards for credentialing witnesses. We look forward to your testimony.
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