Article: WS Atkins is to sell off some of its stakes in PFI projects after last week's profits warning - which cost chief executive Robin Southwell his job - has left it in danger of breaching its banking covenants.

WS Atkins is to sell off some of its stakes in PFI projects after last weeks profits warning - which cost chief executive Robin Southwell his job - has left it in danger of breaching its banking covenants.

The company, whose shares crashed by 70% on the day of the profits warning, will reconsider the status of its ten PFI contracts and sell some of them to external bidders. It needs the money to pay back some of the pound sterling120m (E192m) net debt it has racked up through a combination of computer glitches and poor market conditions.

WS Atkins has to rethink its strategy after last weeks catastrophic announcement, which shocked the markets and led ...

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