The bidder, the Indian Hotels Company, currently has a 6.9 percent stake in Orient-Express.
For Thomson Reuters, the other likely bidder, the calculation is somewhat different.
The move would raise Anheuser-Busch's price tag, potentially deterring an unsolicited bidder, the analysts wrote.
On March 21, the Port Authority opened talks with the second-place bidder, the Silverstein group.
"I am meat, traded to the highest bidder: the only bidder," he writes.
It is unclear whether yet another supposed bidder, the news blog site Gawker, is serious.
As the only bidder, the 2014 World Cup was duly awarded to Brazil.
Now it seems a rival bidder, the Bonomi family from Italy, may attempt a takeover of its own.
Again, there was only one bidder; the work brought its low $7 million estimate, or $7.9 million including commission.
The winning bidder, the real estate investment company 768 Dean Inc., has been trying to evict Ms. Ward ever since.
Poncher was offering the highest bidder the chance to sleep, in all eternity, with the world's favourite Hollywood sex symbol.
