Such an outcome might permit the parties to avoid a $65 million breakup fee.

Royal Caribbean is entitled to a $62.5 million breakup fee.

The city will now be forced to pay the museum a $3 million breakup fee for scuttling the deal.

If either company reneges on the deal, it would be forced to pay a $550 million breakup fee.

The companies also agreed to require a $550 million breakup fee if one or the other backed out.

One thing was clear: Sibneft will not be paying a $1 billion breakup fee for walking away from the union.

Apparently, neither company will have to pay a breakup fee to the other.

The deal is subject to a $50 million breakup fee if either side fails to complete it.

For one, Sibneft would have to pay a $1 billion breakup fee if it walked away.

The changes would include an extension of time to find an alternative transaction and a cut in the $40 million breakup fee.