Earlier this week Shunfeng’s shareholders approved the company’s takeover of Wuxi Suntech, ostensibly gaining control over the Suntech factories, intellectual property and brand name.

Suntech Power Holdings (SPH), however, retains control over most of the former Suntech empire’s vast and well-connected sales and distribution networks. SPH today said that its joint provisional liquidators have negotiated a number of short-term arrangements with Wuxi Suntech that will allow it to take advantage of those networks.