At the time the company disclosed that it had overstated its profits, it was negotiating to increase its outstanding loans to $5 billion.
Businessland said it was negotiating with its lenders.
Grand Metropolitan P.L.C., the British food, liquor and retailing giant, confirmed it was negotiating to sell its brewing operations to Elders IXL Ltd. of Australia.
In addition, La Caixa, Spain's largest savings bank and its third-largest financial institution, said it was negotiating to team up with a smaller regional competitor, Caixa Girona.
Sega last month said it was negotiating to consolidate Heat.net, its long-struggling online gaming community, with "a leading gaming site".
The company, which operates 329 restaurants, said it was negotiating with creditors to restructure its debt.
A spokesman in the Jordan agency, Matar Saqer, said it was negotiating possible salary increases with its striking employees.
Telenor said in Oslo that it was negotiating with SBC Communications to buy its stake in TDC.
Globix, an Internet service provider, said it was negotiating with bondholders and preferred shareholders to reduce its debt through a prepackaged bankruptcy filing.
Now the liver, as he put it, was negotiating a severance package.
It was negotiating with Colonel Qaddafi's government to build an arms manufacturing plant on Libyan soil.
