He said in a conference call last week that the company was "in very advanced negotiations to buy a controlling interest in what we think is a wonderful search engine."

And over the last month, he said, the company has gone into "advanced negotiations" with one potential tenant.

He had already been in advanced negotiations for the third season but had finally turned down the opportunity.

The league later denied the report, but acknowledged that advanced negotiations were underway and that commissioner Gary Bettman supported the move.

The International Lease Finance Corporation is in advanced negotiations with three aircraft makers for an order of up to 120 jets totaling more than $4 billion.

On 11 March 2008, it was announced that the Mariners were in "advanced negotiations" with Yorke to become the marquee for two years.

Ahead of the December 1993 parliamentary elections DS was in advanced negotiations with SPS about forming a coalition between the two parties.

And Mr. Lichtenberg says that deals for the remaining space are in advanced negotiations.

In 2002 and 2004 Deutsche Börse was in advanced negotiations to take over London Stock Exchange, which were broken off in 2005.