Weren't Seymour Pierce asked by Andy Android, as administrator of CSI, to sell PFC at the end of 2011 ?
Then there was this last year, :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9367251/Seymour-Pierce-set-to-be-sold-to-former-Soviet-company.html
( Seems to be a familiar theme )