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- BUSINESS, Page 79Business NotesDEALSHeads I Win, Tails You Lose
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- When an attempted buyout of UAL, the parent company of
- United Airlines, collapsed two months ago, the news sparked the
- minicrash of Oct. 13. Now the failed bid is the talk of Wall
- Street once again, this time because of a Wall Street Journal
- report that bankers and lawyers will earn $58.7 million in fees
- for the deal, despite its downfall. More than $8 million will
- go to the investment firm Lazard Freres, which advised United's
- pilots union in the labor-management bid to buy the carrier for
- $6.8 billion.
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- UAL may be obliged to pay the bills because it accepted the
- proposed bid, which fell apart when the banks could not raise
- enough money to finance the buyout. (Citicorp and Chase
- Manhattan will receive a total of $8 million for their work.)
- The fees have infuriated some UAL shareholders, since the
- payments will come out of the company's profits.
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