Last updated: 10 september, 2009 - 12:05 GMT

Lehman's administrators count the cost

Steven Pearson and Tony Lomas (right) of the accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Steven Pearson and Tony Lomas are from the accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Last September, they were appointed as the administrators of Lehman Brothers European operations.

Steven Evans joined them in the bank's former London headquarters, to see how they set about salvaging something from the wreckage of the investment bank.

Suddenly the high testosterone, go-getting bank was under the control of outsiders of a very different culture.

First broadcast on Business Daily

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