The game has shifted to gathering assets, making fees from managing those assets and contemplating once-heretical moves like going public.

Sharing costs, like the hiring of engineers, offer a financial advantage as well, making fees eventually lower to taxpayers, she said.

Moreover, they can expect to make income and fees from the deal.

However, the deal saw the mezzanine holders wiped out and, consequently, Houlihan nursing a lost opportunity to make fees.

Photography is allowed when a proper reservation has been made, additional fees paid and pass issued.

"You need a lot more engineering and design to use these lots," he said, "and we will probably make bigger fees on smaller homes."

Bankers can make advisory fees on the sale of the often-large assets.

Indian newspaper accounts quoted recruiting executives as saying they made fees of $300 to $800 per recruit.

Why should good companies be destroyed by short term investors looking for a speculative killing, while their accomplices in the City make fat fees?

But in state litigation against the tobacco companies, some lawyers clearly stand to make astoundingly high fees.