Who's signature was it that caused the sale to fall through?
I'd guess the answer to that is known to those who currently need to know, and is not a necessary (nor indeed productive) piece of info for those of us who don't.
We'd all
love to know the whos, whys, and related minutae of what really went down during the closure talks, but (infuriating as it is for those of us with unanswered questions, i.e. basically every CoH player, lol!) ultimately that information sits at the centre of a mesh of legal threads that would only either unravel entirely or tangle up even more if the information got out.
And neither of those outcomes would help our cause any.
As I see it from what Ironwolf's said so far, certain stumbling blocks caused issues with negotiations during the closure, and those stumbling blocks are no longer an issue for the current negotiation attempt. Exactly what the nature of those stumbling blocks was is not necessary for us to know - at least for now.
If there does come a time when that information would no longer have any relevance to the outcome of negotiations, I'm sure we will be told - except by that point of course, we wouldn't care anyway because we'll be too busy doing the Happy Dance at CoH's resurrection party