Posted on 27/11/08
DEAL ON THE ROCKS: BCE FAILS KEY TEST
TORONTO, NEW YORK -- Shortly after markets closed on Tuesday, a team of auditors in KPMG's Toronto offices ushered a trio of BCE Inc. executives into a meeting room to advise them that the world's largest leveraged takeover had effectively been killed. The culprit? A five-line clause that virtually no one had noticed in the company's much-scrutinized $35-billion sale agreement.
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