There are still a number of uncertainties for Barclays, including whether the Dutch Central Bank -- a regulator that has said it will assess any takeover proposals of ABN with "great meticulousness" -- will support the RBS consortium, and what sort of offer the consortium will come back with.
Turner emphasised that his consortium's offer for the club is genuine.
Prior to that date the Dutch bank's shares had been trading between the Barclay's bid and the RBS consortium's indicative offer.
Thankfully for team ownership, the Bombay High Court offered some legal relief by setting a hearing for September 24 and ruling that the BCCI must wait to take offers from new prospective ownership groups, like the 32-bank consortium that made an offer over the weekend to manage the team.
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Zhu Kejiang, the mayor of the city, went to Suntech with a finance offer from a consortium of several banks, including Bank of China, on Thursday, aimed at helping it weather its financial difficulties, local media reported on Saturday.
In October 2008, they received an offer from Dubai-based consortium Zabeel Investments but the deal collapsed soon after, and in 2009 they were linked with a bid from former Newcastle United colleagues Dennis Wise and Tony Jimenez.
The interested parties had wanted access to the accounts of the regional side, but Dragons commercial director Gethin Jenkins said the consortium has not yet tabled an acceptable offer that would allow negotiations to advance to that stage.
This put pressure on a Japanese competitor, the Shinkansen consortium, which on August 23rd matched the offer.
The outgoing Italian prime minister and former European Commission president, Romano Prodi, also said he had turned down (for now, at least) a Russian offer to head the South Stream consortium.
In response, the consortium led by Mr Dell said its buy-out offer was "in the best interests of stockholders".
Selling that unit may be attractive to Barclays because potential cost synergies with a local suitor mean it would probably also get a higher offer price than from Barclays or the RBS consortium.
Barclays has been bitterly trying to fend off a rival bid to control ABN from a consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland, which sweetened its offer last month, upping its cash element from 71% to 93% in an effort to win over shareholders.
The government rejected an offer from a South African-Canadian-American-British consortium known as Kafue.
The Irish consortium have been involved in the process of due diligence and if an offer is accepted by Murray, shareholders would have up to 21 days to make a decision.
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The second is Sweden's centre-right prime minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, who recently refused to rescue a loss-making carmaker, Saab (though when a Swedish-led consortium agreed to buy Saab from General Motors, his government was ready to offer loan guarantees).
The offer for the LSE, which Macquarie will pursue as part of a consortium, would involve a similar structure.
In the UK, the Futurelearn consortium of 18 institutions, headed by the Open University, has announced plans to offer online courses from later this year.
Another possibility is that Barclays will launch an upgraded offer very close to the July 23 deadline and make it challenging for the consortium to adjust its own bid.
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