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Dear Ken:
This note builds on the earlier voice mail, and a memorandum I have sent to you, following the Dave Dorman meeting. Given the initial ground work done by our team at ATT leadership level, the meeting between Jeff and David Dorman, we think did go as expected by us. I am sure Dave and Stewart, along with Jeff have shared their views of the meeting, and do feel positive about ?the process forward. Our take on the meeting is as follows: 1. Dave Dorman is open and eager to explore ways ATT and Enron could cooperate across the board. 2. Dave wants to move fast, but at a pace that will work within ATT, and is strategically sound for both the organizations 3. He is now looking forward to specific value propositions from Enron-Adventis team, which he is prepared to discuss with us. 4. On that basis I am sure he will guide us to the most appropriate guys within ATT who will need to understand and act on the value propositions. In view of the above the real work begins now. As discussed with Dave and Stewart, we will further reinforce our commitment to develop, and take the basic proposals with ATT forward. Our team is already on the job and will meet with Stewart early this week. I did indicate to both Dave and Stewart that we will like to take the next steps in a most expeditious and matured fashion so that all the strategic possibilities to create the new bandwidth dynamics between the two companies could be achieved. Given that there were some hesitation within Enron on the out come of the first meeting with ATT, we committed to the last 2.5 weeks of work with a reduced fee structure. Now that the first major step has been successfully taken, we plan to work with you along our normal professional fee schedule. As we do want to move as fast as possible and if at any point indications are that the desired out come will be difficult to achieve we could stop and review progress. As a result, although not common, we are willing to work with a weekly rate, adjusted to professional fees of $75,000/week and out of pocket expenses. In addition of course for an engagement of this nature which essentially leverages our firms professional credibility and trust in the industry, our clients pay us on the basis of successful execution of the alliance formation along preset milestones. Given the strategic nature of this engagement, and our commitment to assist you with all the major Telcos, -- incumbents and new, we will welcome to learn from you the basic structure of a formula which Enron is most comfortable with; typically in other situations in my professional life, we have been rewarded in three stages: 1. On signing of ?the letter of intent(s) 2. On ?signing of the agreement(s) 3. On launch of the first project (s) Ken, while we look forward to formalizing the above, please enure we sustain and if not increase the momentum gained from the first summit meeting last Thursday. If we do the right things, the upside is indeed huge. We of course should also start thinking through how to build the same kind of work dynamics with the other Telcos, in most we do enjoy similar professional trust. We will call you tomorrow to firm up the next 3 -4 weeks of ?work -- documentation of value propositions, actions, meetings, and decisions. Regards, Partha S Ghosh ?
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