Administrators from Grant Thornton have asked the courts for another year to sell Esporta's parent companies as the firm's fees climbed past £1.3m.
Total professional fees for the last year reached £2.6m including lawyers and investment bank fees.
Grant Thornton pockets £1m in Esporta sale saga
Adminstrators ask for extra year in attempt to sell Esporta
Accountancy Age, 21 Aug 2008
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Grant Thornton has asked for the administration extensions of Bell Leisure Investment I and II to 13 August 2009, to enable it to sell Esporta's 55 leisure centres.
Advisers are looking to pay off main creditor Société Générale to the tune of £330m.
Grant Thornton's fees came from 3,926 hours' work, at an average of £331 per hour, reported The Telegraph.
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