NEW YORK (Reuters) – A handful of potential stakeholders, including non-listed firms, have set their sights on BlackBerry, but early indications suggest that the interest is weak and that buyers prefer parties and not the company as a whole, said several sources familiar with the matter.
unlisted firms are interested primarily in areas such as the BlackBerry OS and patents related to your keyboard, two of the sources said.
However, one possibility is that Canadian pension fund to join an investor to buy the entire company, which currently has a value of just over 5,000 million dollars, said one source.
BlackBerry’s largest shareholder, Fairfax Financial Holdings, has contacted several major Canadian mutual funds to reach an agreement that will allow the Canadian manufacturer of advanced mobile becomes a private firm, Reuters reported last week.
In recent days, a few unlisted companies have signed confidentiality agreements or accepted meetings with the company to have access to its books, the sources said, adding that the sales process would begin within weeks.
BlackBerry
declined to comment.
Industry sources have said that several of these larger companies and some of the Asian hardware manufacturers decided not to proceed. However, sources added that certain assets of the Company to be of interest to buyers.
According to analysts, the BlackBerry assets include a service despite having incurred is well considered and supported in your messaging system. Its value would be between 3,000 and 4,500 million.
there are the patents, which could be worth between 2,000 and 3,000 million more, and 3,100 million in cash and investments.
Even with a conservative estimate, this is more than the 5,400 million market value of the company. Analysts said that the ‘smartphone’ that bear his name have a low or zero value, and could cost 2,000 million dollars to close the unit that manufactures them.
/ By Nadia Damouni and Nicola Leske /
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