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3Com-Bain-Huawei: All over But the Suing3Com-Bain-Huawei: All over But the Suing

Lost (at least by me, to be frank) in all the VoiceCon hoopla last week was the anti-climactic death of the 3Com-Bain Capital-Huawei buyout. The deal apparently died last Thursday, and the next day, 3Com's shareholders approved it. That's not quite as crazy as it sounds.

Eric Krapf

March 24, 2008

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Lost (at least by me, to be frank) in all the VoiceCon hoopla last week was the anti-climactic death of the 3Com-Bain Capital-Huawei buyout. The deal apparently died last Thursday, and the next day, 3Com's shareholders approved it. That's not quite as crazy as it sounds.

Lost (at least by me, to be frank) in all the VoiceCon hoopla last week was the anti-climactic death of the 3Com-Bain Capital-Huawei buyout. The deal apparently died last Thursday, and the next day, 3Com's shareholders approved it. That's not quite as crazy as it sounds.In the link above, AP reports that Bain said last Thursday it was backing out of the deal because of the widely-reported objections by various folks in the U.S. government. The next day, 3Com shareholders voted to approve the deal and 3Com took the position that the acquisition is a go.

Apparently it's all about positioning for the inevitable lawsuit, which in this case will center on a $66 million breakup fee.

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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.