Barclays seals Lehman deal

From the FT:

Lehman Brothers on Tuesday reached a deal to sell certain parts of its business to Barclays, which had been in talks over the weekend to buy the entire investment bank before it filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday.
The two parties reached a deal in the early New York morning, though the exact Lehman businesses involved, and the price at which they will be sold, remained unclear. A deal could be accompanied by a small capital raising by the UK lender.
People close to the matter said it was likely that the deal centered around Lehman’s core US broker-dealer operations, which perform securities underwriting tasks, provide merger advice to lucrative clients, and conduct trading.

Posted by on September 16th, 2008 at 10:40 am


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