That includes valuable power plants and other assets in California and around the country that by many estimates are worth far more than the transmission lines.
He said the actual value was unclear because in addition to cash, gold and land deeds, the assets included valuable Buddhist amulets and antiques.
Dubai owns more strategically valuable assets, including stakes in local banks and the flagship Emirates airline.
That may cause him to sell valuable assets, including a portion of his ownership in the Mets.
It had pawned many of its most valuable assets, including a huge slice of overseas investments, to service that debt.
The least valuable assets, including the run-down factories in Flint, were left in the shell of the old G.M., now named the Motors Liquidation Company.
Though struggling financially, it still has valuable assets, including a laboratory for conducting advanced vaccine and other nonmilitary tests on animals.
But bankruptcy would also be complicated by the fact that some of Enron's most valuable assets, including its Transwestern Pipeline linking Texas natural gas fields with California energy markets, are already pledged to lenders.
So in June Mr. Thain dispatched Gregory Fleming, the company's president and chief operating officer, to negotiate the sale of some of Merrill's most valuable assets, including its 20percentt stake in Bloomberg, which Merrill bought in the 1980s.
News of the bust alerted arty types, since Capello counts a fine collection of modern art among his most valuable assets, including a piece by the American abstractionist Cy Twombly, who recently had a painting sold for $8.7m £4.3mm) in New York.
