It will also depend to some extent on the fortunes of its new Asian vulturefund, a joint venture with investment house Rothschild Inc.
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With other bidders dropping out early on, Softbank's only rival was Cerberus Capital Management, an American vulturefund that wanted to rip the bank apart, sell or securitise what it could and float the rest.