Could Nortel have doubled the $4.5 billion paid for its IP portfolio?
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Could Nortel have doubled the $4.5 billion paid for its IP portfolio?

May 20, 2014

Nortel may have been the “poster child” for how to leverage IP assets in a bankruptcy, but one of the key players behind the deal now wonders whether the telecommunications company could have been sold for twice the price

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