LAST EDITED ON Jun-19-13 AT 12:23 PM (EDT)
 
I get the feeling that Ben and Zoner were rather careful about their timing of approaching certain governments, and made considerable use of the wave of approval that rose for themselves and the WDF in general in the wake of the victory over Largo. They acquired (and leveraged) some pretty big prestige there, and in their efforts to help rebuild afterwards, and may well have spent a good chunk of it getting the IPO accords in place.