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Nokia Siemens Tweeting About Nortel Deal
Pulling out all the stops to “sell” its bid for Nortel’s CDMA wireless business and its LTE R&D unit, Nokia Siemens is now using Twitter to distribute news. And you thought Twitter was just for telling people about your Starbucks addiction!
A Bid to Save Nortel?
Is there hope for Nortel to continue as a standalone company without going through a firesale of all its best assets? The Ottawa Citizen reports that MatlinPatterson Global Advisors, a $9-billion private equity investor, may be interested in bidding for Nortel. MatlinPatterson’s biggest obstacle could be a lack of time it has to put together a [...]
Posted in Financials, M&A Also tagged cdma, matlinpatterson, Mike Zafirovski, Nokia, Nortel 58 Comments
Is Avaya the Logical Buyer for Enterprise?
Now that Nortel’s CDMA and LTE businesses have been sold, Nortel’s top-notch restructuring team can focused its energy on dumping the company’s remaining assets – with the enterprise and Metro Ethernet Network units being at the top of the list. Rumours abound that Avaya is poised to make a $500-million bid for the enterprise business. [...]
Guest Post: The New Nortel Post-Restructuring
Here’s a guest post by Duncan Stewart looking at what Nortel could be post-restructuring: Even before Nortel filed for bankruptcy in January it had put one of its divisions for sale. Therefore yesterday’s Wall Street Journal story that Nortel may sell large parts of its business came as little surprise to most people who follow [...]
Why Can’t Nortel Buy Something Cool?
Admittedly, acquisitions are difficult to make given you need to find the find technology and the right team at the right place. But why can’t Nortel, which desperately needs a strategic spark of any kind, acquire a start-up(s) with exciting prospects that would give people a sense that senior management has a vision of the [...]
Matlin Patterson Creates Advisory Board for Nortel Bid