Sentences with phrase «by private firms with»

That decision marked, to say the least, a major expansion of the scope of the 1964 act and was driven in large measure by the fear that using only a disparate - treatment test (which entailed proof of some form of race - conscious behavior) would allow discrimination by private firms with a history of discrimination by race to slip through the cracks.

Research on pharmaceuticals is funded by private firms with one goal in mind: bringing profitable drugs to market.

Not exact matches

• Mednax, a U.S. healthcare network operator targeted by Elliott Management, is facing acquisition interest from several private equity firms, according to people familiar with the matter interviewed by Reuters.

She cites the example of a recent client, a private B.C. firm with $ 400 to $ 500 million in annual revenues, and which is controlled by the third generation.

Instead, the winning group will have a public - private partnership contract with the government which will allow it use of some state infrastructure, such as sites to build towers on and a fiber optic network owned by the state electricity firm.

«In soliciting investments in the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accounts.

Now he's once again putting his money where his six - year - old's mouth is — by co-investing with Brazilian private equity firm 3G to buy Kraft (KRFT).

In fact, he just bought into a company that it majority owned by a private equity firm whose co-founder is credited with coining the phrase «private equity.»

They acknowledge they've had conversations with bankers and say they've been pitched relentlessly by private equity firms and other would - be buyers, but they are having too much fun to sell.

The company, which is controlled by private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, will shed some $ 700 million in debt in the prepackaged reorganization that will be filed soon with federal bankruptcy court in Wilmington, Del..

Craig Powell is CEO of Motus, a Boston - based vehicle management and reimbursement app, which was acquired in January 2018, along with its rival Runzheimer, by Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm.

The National recently featured a 17 - minute report by Lang on private security firms in Afghanistan using NATO money to bribe insurgents, a topic with only the most tangential link to her beat.

The company's growth has been further accelerated by its 2016 partnership with private equity firm TorQuest Partners, which specializes in mid-market firms and manages more than $ 2 billion of equity capital.

And, whether we're talking about hedge funds or mutual funds, private equity or real estate trusts, there is not a single field with more than 5 percent of its assets managed by minority or women - owned firms, according to a recently released Knight Foundation report.

A person familiar with the matter said WPP, owner of ad agencies JWT and Ogilvy & Mather, had been contacted by one private equity group and a venture capital firm expressing interest in the Kantar business if WPP ever decides to sell.

Last spring, Claridge Inc., the private equity firm founded by Charles Bronfman in 1987 and executive chaired by his son Stephen, teamed up with Ivanhoe Cambridge, the property arm of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, to commit approximately $ 100 million to a slate of mid-size development projects in and around their hometown of Montreal.

That's how I feel about the merger between Burger King and Tim Hortons, which was engineered by Brazilian private equity firm 3G Capital with some financing help from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc..

The biggest radio broadcaster in the US with nearly 850 radio stations, iHeartMedia, formerly called Clear Channel Communications — which was acquired by private equity firms Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners in a leveraged buyout at the apex of the LBO boom just before the Financial Crisis — has finally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, after threatening to do so since 2010.

The earnings report followed weeks of tumult for Facebook, after a controversy erupted last month when The New York Times and other news outlets reported that millions of Facebook users» private information had been harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a political firm with ties to the Trump campaign.

Online home rental marketplace Airbnb Inc is said to be raising $ 1.5 billion in a fund raising round led by U.S. private equity firm General Atlantic with participation from Hillhouse Capital, Tiger Global and others.

With the help of a recruiting firm, PagerDuty pursued Tejada, an experienced executive who took charge of the marketing software company Keynote Systems in 2013 after it was acquired with her help by private equity firm Thoma BrWith the help of a recruiting firm, PagerDuty pursued Tejada, an experienced executive who took charge of the marketing software company Keynote Systems in 2013 after it was acquired with her help by private equity firm Thoma Brwith her help by private equity firm Thoma Bravo.

Controversy erupted for Facebook last month after revelations that millions of users» private information had been harvested by a political firm with ties to the Trump campaign.

Methodology Discovery Data compiled the rankings based on discretionary and nondiscretionary assets under management listed on SEC Form ADV. To capture independent fee - only planning firms, every effort is made to exclude firms with broker - dealer and insurance company affiliations and those with substantial outside ownership stakes held by private equity firms and some outside investors.

Buffett and 3G, the private - equity firm founded by Brazilian billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann, previously teamed up to buy Heinz in 2013 and they cut costs, a strategy they aim to repeat with Kraft.

«We have not hired an adviser with regards to approaches by private equity firms,» a Mednax spokesman said.

By partnering with a private equity firm like Carrick, Mavenlink is able to leverage their experience.

Mr. Asper, working with New York investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and private equity firm Catalyst Capital Group, launched a rival bid at the last minute, but was turned down by on Ontario judge.

Playboy, which had gone public in 1971, was taken private again in 2011 by Mr. Hefner with Rizvi Traverse Management, an investment firm founded by Suhail Rizvi, a publicity - shy Silicon Valley investor, who has interests in Twitter, Square and Snapchat among others.

INCJ was part of a proposed bid tabled by U.S. chipmaker Western Digital last week that also included U.S. private equity firm KKR & Co LP, sources familiar with the matter have said.

In the middle space, where the small firms can hit a hockey stick and grow, I'm quite excited by this creation of the business growth fund, which is actually a private - sector initiative, but with certain rules that make it easier to happen.

Several of my favorite mutual funds offered by companies such as Third Avenue and Tweedy Browne (full disclosure: my family and I have investments with these firms) already offer private accounts (separately managed accounts) for high net worth individuals and mutual funds for the masses that invest extensively throughout the world.

This expertise is complemented by our connectivity with the significant investment and operating resources of TPG, a leading global private investment firm, and TPG Sixth Street Partners («TSSP»), the credit and special situations platform of TPG.

Deloitte Private has a strong heritage of working with some of Australia's wealthiest families, backed by the strength of a globally competitive firm.

Aerospace and aviation are by far the biggest segments of IMP, a conglomerate with revenue of more than $ 1 - billion a year from interests spanning charter airline CanJet and private aviation firm Innotech - Execaire Aviation Group.

Before AI - qualified FAs / PWAs / ICs may discuss a particular private fund with a prospective investor, they must confirm that the prospective investor meets the offering's minimum qualification requirements by submitting the appropriate client information into the firm's Reg D system.

This expertise is complemented by our connectivity with the significant investment and operating resources of the TPG platform, a leading private investment firm.

Southeastern Asset Management, which owns 8.5 percent of U.S. computer maker Dell, filed a statement with regulators on Feb. 8 opposing the $ 24.4 billion buyout proposed by Michael Dell, the company's founder and chief executive, and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners.

... Even by the standards of Apollo, one of the world's largest private equity firms, the previously unreported transaction with the Kushners was a big deal: It was triple the size of the average property loan made by Apollo's real estate lending arm... An even larger loan came from Citigroup, which lent the firm and one of its partners $ 325 million to help finance a group of office buildings in Brooklyn.

Growing public outrage over the misuse of the private information of tens of millions of Facebook users by the firm that claimed it helped Donald Trump win the White House has ignited a full - blown crisis, with U.S. and European lawmakers demanding hearings and investigations underway by the Federal Trade Commission and two state attorneys general.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

The importance of these insights for a proper understanding of central banks» devices for monetary control becomes instantly apparent once one realizes that, by regulating the actual quantity of its outstanding notes and deposit balances, together with the terms upon which it is willing to make more of the last available on credit to private sector financial firms, a central bank is able to influence, not just the quantity of circulating paper money, but the quantity of money substitutes created by the private sector.

Trends Bribery & Corruption Anti-bribery and corruption enforcement efforts are picking up worldwide, with private firms more likely to be targeted, while large, state - owned enterprises are getting off easier, according to a report by Moody's Investors Service.

A month later Kumova had been dragged along by his friend Ben Kay at Melbourne advisory firm BW Equities to a presentation given in the firm's Melbourne boardroom of a small private mining explorer called Alderan Resources with some assets in Utah in the United States.

Helping to entice KKR, and other private equity firms, to throw a bid on the table is Mr Clarke's previous work with the close - knit global private equity firm industry who see merit in his initial plans — also revealed this week — to slash costs by $ 35 million at Treasury Wine and pump the savings into a 50 per cent boost on brand marketing.

HFI is supported by Horizon Holdings, LLC, a San Francisco - based private investment firm with a significant track record in successfully building private and public companies.

The 2015 accounts were prepared on a going - concern basis on the understanding the company would continue to be supported by its shareholders, including Sydney - based private equity firm Equity Partners, Singapore - based Crescent Point and Shaw Investments, a company associated with chief executive Brendan Shaw.

US - based buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has teamed with European private equity group Rhone Capital to increase their offer by 10.6 per cent to $ 5.20 a share.

Smashburger began in 2007 with the vision of Rick Schaden and funding by Consumer Capital Partners — the private equity firm that Rick and his father Richard own.

Developed and owned by private equity firm Consumer Capital Partners (CCP), Smashburger operates and develops both corporate and multi-unit franchise territories across the country with 164 restaurants worldwide.

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