Sentences with phrase «partners took over the company»

In 2007, private equity firm Castanea Partners took over the company.

Not exact matches

A Perth company that has become a global leader in the education software market is facing uncertain times as main rival Blackboard takes over two of its biggest partners.

Over the past several years, he had contemplated selling his company or taking it public, but ultimately decided that partnering with a global player and remaining private would give the company the best opportunity to grow.

In 2008, when Jason Lapp took over as VP of sales and marketing at the company established in 1966 by his father and business partner, Roger Bowman, Westech was, he says, a «shadow of its former self.»

Qualtrics has raised $ 220 million from Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Insight Venture Partners over two rounds of funding, but the 13 - year - old company was bootstrapped for its first decade, taking institutional money for the first time in 2012.

Another clash of giants took place earlier this week when Carl Icahn decided to take on fellow activist Warren Lichtenstein of Steel Partners over Steel's decision to convert a fund into a public company via a reverse merger without his investors» consent.

Take away: Kia's parent company Hyundai has already been in a tough fight with its Chinese partner BAIC Group over supply issues.

To keep things going, Winter's business partner, Kristie Melnik, who had been consulting as Chief Operating Officer since the company's launch, took over as interim CEO — a post she still holds — and Winter tapped her OSU - allotted 20 % consulting time, typical of faculty appointments at many academic institutions.

The program demands global collaboration among researchers in academia and industry, facilitates partnered clinical development by disparate biopharma companies, utilizes a one - of - a-kind clinical infrastructure that took over a decade to assemble, and invests in research - driven (as opposed to product - driven) clinical trials.

When BorrowersFirst shut down, its partners took over the management of loans the company had lent out.

The factory was originally planned to make PV cells and modules based on Silevo's high - efficiency technology, but as Tesla took over SolarCity, the company began making statements about «combining» Silevo's technology with that of its long - time manufacturing partner Panasonic.

The Desmarais family and their Belgian partner, Albert Frere, are the largest shareholders in oil company Total, which hopes to take three billion barrels of oil from the Alberta tar sands over the next 30 years.

Eversheds Sutherland has appointed new leadership for two of its practice groups, with corporate partner Keri Rees taking over as company commercial head from Keith Froud, who is set to become the firm's managing partner.

So, taking it slow really helped these companies to develop the products they wanted to bring to market before seeking to scale, often working with partners over a long period to learn and improve.

Care should be taken, however, in structures where the SLP has one or more UK - resident corporate partners, such that a UK - resident company could be regarded as having control over one of the subsidiaries held beneath the SLP, thereby bringing the Treasury consent and CFC provisions into consideration.

Leadell Pilv has represented Urmas Nisuma, one of the owners of the Hotel Parnu, in a dispute with business partner Ado Sepa and OU Linden Hotell, which Sepa controls involving allegations that Sepa and his company had taken over effective control of Hotel Parnu from Nisuma and lefyt him out of both the profits and day - to - day business of the hotel.

Some additional distinctions between Liam Brown's «law company» and the traditional law firm include: (1) performance and reward structures that value output over input; (2) closer alignment with the financial and enterprise objectives of the consumer; (3) a corporate structure that takes a long - term, client - centric view over profit - per - partner; (4) continuous process improvement; (5) investment in technology; (6) focus on «the right resource for the task»; (6) compressed delivery time; (7) a continuous quest to use technology and process to automate tasks and gather «big data» for benchmarking, predicting, and quantifying risk; (8) a transparent, 24/7/365 accessible connection with legal consumers; (9) supply chain management expertise; and (10) reduced cost.

The New York venture capital firm Lerer Hippeau is poised to take over most of the stranded 25 companies in the portfolio of a competing firm that lost its partners in a sexual harassment scandal.

The company assumed responsibility for Edwards» planned 15 - screen complex at Civic Partners» Vista Village redevelopment project in San Diego and took over operation of Edwards» 18 - screen megaplex at the Buena Park (Calif.) Mall.