A stake purchase by the activist investor could add friction in a potential merger of the $ 53 bln software company with its controlling shareholder Dell.
Hong Kong - listed shares of BYD, up about 65 % since the MidAmerican
stake purchase was announced, are still down about 30 % from their highs last October.
Constellation Brands moves into cannabis with US$ 191m Canopy Growth Corp
stake purchase Constellation Brands has agreed to purchase a near - 10 % stake in Canada - based medicinal cannabis company Canopy... read more
Constellation Brands moves into cannabis with US$ 191m Canopy Growth Corp
stake purchase Constellation Brands has agreed to purchase a near - 10 % stake in Canada - based medicinal cannabis company Canopy
AdVini snaps up majority share in Stellenbosch Vineyards French wine firm AdVini has upped its presence in South Africa with a major
stake purchase in the country's Stellenbosch Vineyards.
French wine firm AdVini has upped its presence in South Africa with a major
stake purchase in the country's Stellenbosch Vineyards.
Planned
stake purchase fails to win regulatory approval.
Actually, a move such as this would be reminiscent of the way in which Nintendo has treated Monolithsoft since acquiring them in the 2007
stake purchase from Namco.
Helped Canam, North America's largest fabricator of steel components, in its majority
stake purchase of New Jersey steel erector Stonebridge
This additional
stake purchase would increase LIC's holdings in OBC to 14.5 % as compared to the 8.36 % holding the insurer had earlier.
With
this stake purchase, the insurance company's stake in the public sector lender has increased to 14.5 percent, which earlier stood at 11.63 percent.
Including the current
stake purchase, the life insurance company owns over 14.39 percent stake in the bank, which earlier stood at 10.15 percent.
Tokio Marine's additional
stake purchase would infuse cash to the tune of Rs. 525 crores into the company and aid the JV's future expansion plans in India.
Not exact matches
Rumours of Verizon's entry into Canada recently subsided with the company's
purchase of Vodafone's 45 % Verizon
stake, as well as statements from Verizon's CEO indicating that the company wasn't particularly interested in going north.
In a complex deal, Fuji Xerox would buy back Fujifilm's 75 percent
stake in their joint venture before Fujifilm would then
purchase 50.1 percent of new Xerox shares.
Constellation Brands, the owner of Corona and a large number of wine and spirits labels,
purchased a 9.9 per cent
stake in Canopy Growth Corp. for $ 245 million this week.
Seattle - based PopCap, meanwhile, was acquired by giant Electronic Arts in 2011 for $ 750 million, and Finland's Supercell, which currently rules the mobile roost with its hit Clash of Clans, last month netted a cool $ 1.5 billion after Japanese telecom provider Softbank
purchased a 51 %
stake, which values the company at $ 3 billion — or bigger than Zynga.
Things became especially fraught when negotiating the
purchase of Taillefer's
stake in the company.
The
purchase of the
stake means Starboard will become the second activist investor within months to push for a change in strategy.
While Sequoia acknowledged that Facebook «has unquestionably committed sins for which it must now atone,» the firm explained that it chose to
purchase a
stake as it believes «it remains a far more competitively advantaged, economically attractive and faster - growing enterprise than the average American business.»
Since then, starting with its 2001
purchase of a 51 %
stake in independent U.S. ad agency Crispin Porter & Bogusky, MDC Partners has built up an impressive roster of creative ad agencies, increased its revenues and established itself as a major player in global marketing.
On Wednesday, the board announced it had
purchased a 15 per cent
stake in ORPEA S.A., a long - term care provider in Europe, for approximately $ 468.2 million.
• Advent agreed to
purchase Leonard Green & Partners»
stake in CCC Information Services, a Chicago SaaS provider to the automotive, insurance, and collision repair industries.
Fosun has made high profile acquisitions such as France's Club Med and Brazil's investment firm Rio Bravo, and it has
purchased stakes in Britain's tour operator Thomas Cook, Canada's Cirque de Soleil and Indian drugmaker Gland Pharma.
The
purchase worth as much as 26.5 billion rupees could increase Singtel's
stake in Bharti Telecom by up to 1.7 percentage points to 48.9 percent and its holding in Bharti Airtel, the country's biggest mobile carrier, by up to 0.9 percentage points to 39.5 percent.
Why it's hot: A big selling point for Home Instead Senior Care franchises is the idea that one is
purchasing a
stake in a gratifying, rewarding business that will give back to others.
A surge in the value of Bezos's
stake in Amazon has allowed the company founder to personally invest in such projects as his $ 250 million
purchase of the Washington Post in 2013.
Various news outlets this week reported that Chinese Internet company Alibaba, which has expansion plans in North America, is interested in
purchasing a
stake in Snapchat, and assessing it to be worth 11 figures.
Carnegie Wave Energy has wholly acquired solar power and lithium battery storage provider Energy Made Clean by
purchasing the 65 per cent
stake it didn't already own.
Energy giant Woodside Petroleum says it has completed its $ US440 million
purchase of ConocoPhillips»
stake in an oilfield off the coast of Senegal, despite leaving a contractual dispute with one of the project's partners unresolved.
In other words, Dorsey's
stake in the company was already publicly disclosed, so the amount of his options grant was already factored into the stock
purchase decision of existing shareholders who had already bought the stock.
If the Houston superstar does invest in the NBA franchise, she'll be cultivating a portfolio similar to that of her business mogul husband, Jay Z, who
purchased a
stake in the Brooklyn Nets in 2004 for a reported $ 1 million.
So far, NBA Hall of Famer and former Rockets player Dikembe Mutombo has also expressed interest in a Rockets ownership
stake, and said last month that he is working on putting a group together to
purchase the team.
Last year, for example, the U.S. parent
purchased a major chunk of shares, bringing its ownership
stake above 90 %.
Launched in October 2008 under Bush - era Treasury secretary Henry Paulson during the panic that followed the implosion of Lehman Bros., TARP was initially designed to prop up bank balance sheets via the government
purchase of equity
stakes or the acquisition of illiquid assets.
So if he buys up a chunk of your company, take it as a mark of confidence: The sale of CPPIB's
stake in auto parts manufacturer Gates Corp. for $ 1.5 billion and its $ 128 - million
purchase of 115,000 acres of Saskatchewan farmland are just two recent examples that show no deal is too big or small for the CCPIB head honcho.
Alibaba has
purchased the remaining 57 %
stake of China food delivery app Ele.me it doesn't already own, bringing the app's valuation up to $ 9.5 b. Tech companies such as Alibaba and Tencent, which has invested billions of dollars in Meituan - Dianping, are eager to cash in on China's growing online food delivery market, which is expected to grow 18 % to 241 billion yuan ($ 38 billion) this year.
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) this morning announced that it will
purchase an 8.7 %
stake in Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. (AXTA) from The Carlyle Group (CG) via a private placement.
Scotiabank's
purchase of a 19.9 %
stake in the Bank of Guangzhou, which is run by the Chinese government, for about $ 719 million, has been held up for a year.
Tsinghua Unigroup has spent more than $ 9.4 billion making acquisitions and investments at home and abroad over the past two years, including the
purchase of
stakes in U.S. data storage company Western Digital Corp (WDC) and Taiwan's Powertech Technology Inc..
The group's plan is to raise at least $ 500 million in an IPO, then
purchase a minority
stake in one or more highly valued private tech companies.
The company then loans the $ 4 million to the ESOP, which uses the funds to
purchase the owner's
stake.
Berlin is also very worried about China's buying spree in the heartland of its top technologies — a recent allegedly stealthy
purchase of a 9.7 percent
stake in Daimler (which owns the Mercedes Benz brand of cars), an 8.8 percent ownership of the Deutsche Bank, the
purchase of the robotics firm KUKA and the energy management company Ista.
Sure, the company has an employee share -
purchase plan, which grants a
stake to workers.
LONDON, May 3 - Libya's National Oil Corp is withholding Total's share of crude from the Waha concession as a dispute drags on over the French oil major's
purchase of Marathon's
stake in the concession two months ago, Libyan oil and industry sources said.
LONDON, May 3 (Reuters)- Libya's National Oil Corp (NOC) is withholding Total's share of crude from the Waha concession as a dispute drags on over the French oil major's
purchase of Marathon's
stake in the concession two months ago, Libyan oil and industry sources said.
Coca - Cola has inked a 10 - year partnership with Keurig - maker Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, and has also
purchased a 10 % equity
stake in the company valued at $ 1.25 billion.
Charoen gained the upper hand when he amassed a
stake of more than 40 percent in F&N by
purchasing an additional 90.8 million shares, or a 6.3 percent
stake in F&N, at S$ 9.55 each on Friday and another 2.2 million shares on Saturday.
«One is that investors who might otherwise be interested only in outright
purchases of a company or in buying only majority equity
stakes are now willing to consider deals where they invest in significant minority
stakes instead.
But by only
purchasing a minority
stake in SoundCloud, rather than acquiring the company entirely, the worst case scenario for Twitter will be if the investment turns out to be a distraction.