Nortel Networks Corp, the fallen Canadian telecom giant, said on Tuesday it is selling its sprawling Ottawa campus to the Canadian government for C$208 million ($202 million), Reuters reported. Nortel, once North America's biggest telecommunications equipment maker, said the sale is expected to close at the end of the year. The 370 acres of land and its 11 interconnected buildings had been a proud symbol of the company's dominance in its field and of Canada's technical prowess.
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Anglo Irish Bank has secured a temporary court injunction restraining the wife of its former chief executive David Drumm from transferring the couple’s former home in Co Dublin from her sole ownership back to the joint ownership of her husband and herself, The Irish Times reported.
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Policy makers at the European Central Bank face the same high unemployment and slow growth that dogs their friends across the Atlantic at the Federal Reserve. But don't expect the ECB to follow the Fed in taking extraordinary measures to try to get things moving again, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Fed thinks it can and should use the tools at its disposal, in this case buying U.S. Treasury bonds to bring down long-term interest rates and goose growth, because doing so will bring down the jobless rate. The Europeans won't have any of it.
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Mexico's largest nonbank mortgage lender, Hipotecaria Su Casita, said Thursday that it missed principal and interest payments on local notes for a total of MXN730.7 million ($58.7 million), but added that negotiations continue with creditors on a restructuring, Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review reported. Despite the defaults, "negotiations with holders of these notes and with the rest of Su Casita's creditors continue aimed at reaching an agreement for the financial restructuring of the company," Su Casita said.
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Nortel Networks Corp. Thursday postponed a hearing on the appointment of a mediator to help broker an end to disputes over the cash raised in the liquidation of its global telecommunications equipment business, Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review reported. Lawyers for U.K. retirees whose pensions are in jeopardy due to Nortel's bankruptcy have petitioned to be part of the mediation, and the company is in talks with them, said James Bromley, attorney for Nortel. The Toronto company and its creditors want to summon Layn R.
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Canada's Adanac Molybdenum Corp, which is under Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act protection, said it will seek court approval Monday for its credit restructuring plan, Reuters Africa reported. The company, which has got extension to CCAA protection until Oct. 29, intends to seek approval from the Supreme Court of British Columbia to increase its authorized share capital and consolidate its shares at a 150-to-1 ratio.
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Singapore billionaire Peter Lim increased his offer for Premier League soccer club Liverpool FC to £320 million ($508 million), hoping to trump a bid by New England Sports Ventures LLC of the U.S., The Wall Street Journal reported. Meanwhile, lawyers for current co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett said in a London court that they had received a bid from a U.S. hedge fund, as they tried to prevent Liverpool's board from completing a sale of the club to NESV. The board last week voted to accept a roughly £300 million bid from U.S.
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Bernard Callebaut has found an investor to make a bid for his chocolate company, which was placed in receivership in August, The Calgary Herald reported. His wife Francesca said they are "working with a company here in the city" and will put in a proposal Tuesday. Earlier in the week, Callebaut said he was seeking investors and if that option didn't work, he had developed a plan that would see him making chocolates under a new brand identity.
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Nortel Networks Corp. and its creditors have tapped former federal judge Layn R. Phillips to help divide nearly $3.2 billion raised in a series of bankruptcy sales, Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review reported. Phillips is being called in to serve as a mediator as the former telecommunications giant completes the dismantling of its global equipment and service business, according to documents filed Wednesday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del. Mediation sessions have been scheduled to start Nov. 11 and run through Nov. 16, court documents say. Creditors in Canada, the U.S.
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Adesto Technologies Inc., a developer of low-power memory chips for consumer electronics, says it has acquired intellectual property and patents from German semiconductor company Qimonda AG, Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review reported. Adesto bought Qimonda intellectual property and patents related to Conductive Bridging Random Access Memory, or CBRAM, technology. The agreement includes the purchase of 30 CBRAM patent families and the licensing of additional undisclosed patents. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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