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3Com, Bain Extend Talks to Late March3Com, Bain Extend Talks to Late March

3Com announced that they'll once again push back their shareholders' meeting, from tomorrow to March 21, to try and salvage the company's private equity buyout by Bain Capital and Huawei Technologies.

Eric Krapf

March 6, 2008

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3Com announced that they'll once again push back their shareholders' meeting, from tomorrow to March 21, to try and salvage the company's private equity buyout by Bain Capital and Huawei Technologies.

3Com announced that they'll once again push back their shareholders' meeting, from tomorrow to March 21, to try and salvage the company's private equity buyout by Bain Capital and Huawei Technologies.The company released a statement saying,

Adjourning the meeting for an additional 14 days enables 3Com to continue working with Bain Capital Partners to construct alternatives that would address concerns raised by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) regarding the pending merger transaction between the parties.

The WSJ's Deal Journal blog has been covering this pretty intensely, including a look at what 3Com's options are absent an acquisition that involves Huawei (Huawei being the part of the deal that has aroused the objections among U.S. regulators and legislators). Deal Journal also reports, under a rather overheated headline, that the U.S. Department of Defense is expressing some specific concerns about Huawei.

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Eric Krapf

Eric Krapf is General Manager and Program Co-Chair for Enterprise Connect, the leading conference/exhibition and online events brand in the enterprise communications industry. He has been Enterprise Connect.s Program Co-Chair for over a decade. He is also publisher of No Jitter, the Enterprise Connect community.s daily news and analysis website.
 

Eric served as editor of No Jitter from its founding in 2007 until taking over as publisher in 2015. From 1996 to 2004, Eric was managing editor of Business Communications Review (BCR) magazine, and from 2004 to 2007, he was the magazine's editor. BCR was a highly respected journal of the business technology and communications industry.
 

Before coming to BCR, he was managing editor and senior editor of America's Network magazine, covering the public telecommunications industry. Prior to working in high-tech journalism, he was a reporter and editor at newspapers in Connecticut and Texas.