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Alliance Entertainment wo n’t lose Diamond Comics at bankruptcy auction without a fight … it all plain off on Monday
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This morning , Bleeding Cool reported that the debtorsin theDiamond Comic Distributors Chapter 11 bankruptcy casehad stated that they preferred the auction joint bid byUniversal Distribution and Ad Populusrather than the previous winning tender byAlliance Entertainmentor AENT .
Bleeding Cool confirmed that the Universal / Ad Populus command was just over $ 69 million , break open between the two , with Universal to compensate almost $ 50 million for Allia
nce Games and Diamond UK , cited as the profitable flank of the business enterprise , and Ad Populum to pay almost $ 20 million for Diamond Comic Distributors , Diamond Select Toys & Collectibles and the relief . While the Alliance Entertainment or AENT bid turn down by the debtors was $ 72 million , almost three million dollar higher than the Universal / Ad Populus bidding , and they were n’t interested in Diamond UK . Universal Distribution ’s stalk sawhorse command from earlier in the year was a bare $ 39 million . And Diamond received seven dependent bid .
But Alliance Entertainment is not dropping out without a fight . Today they have filed unexampled paperwork with the court ahead of the bankruptcy hearing at 10 am tomorrow . By announcing the follow raw witnesses to the court listening
So AENT is bringing informant from the legal house Raymond James & Associates task with carrying out the auction . AENT also " reserves the right hand to call any soul listed or called as a witness by any other political party , any mortal for purposes of impeachment ; and any person for purposes of rebuttal .
But legal paperwork filed yesterday states that after consultation , the debitor trust thatthe consortium reported by Bleeding Cool as the auction bridge substitute bidders , Canadian distributors Universal Distribution and Ad Populum should be the successful bidder for Diamond Comic Distributors . And a audience is taking place tomorrow at 10 am before JudgeDavid E. Riceat the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland .
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