 After the first crisis summit, the supervisory board members independent from and unaffiliated to JC Flowers and Grove International Partners LLP resigned from the office.As successors, Michael Endres (chairman), Bernd Knobloch, Edgar Meister, Sigmar Mosdorf, Hans Jörg Vetter, Bernhard Walter and Manfred Zaß were appointed to the board.The deal fell apart on 4 October 2008 after the banking consortium involved pulled out.