Sentences with phrase «equity commitment from»

Craig Munro - chaired Gulf Manganese Corporation has received a $ US10 million ($ A13 million) equity commitment from an Indonesian investor to progress development of its Kupang smelting hub in West Timor.

Laredo Energy, a company engaged in the acquisition and development of natural gas and oil reserves in South and East Central Texas, has raised $ 130 million in private equity commitments from Avista Capital Partners and Liberty Energy Holdings

October was also the month when the Blackstone Group closed its $ 13.3 billion real estate opportunity fund, its largest opportunistic real estate fund ever, with equity commitments from 250 investors.

With this closing, Avanath has almost doubled its equity commitments from its Fund II, which had its final closing at $ 200 million in July 2015.

Not exact matches

Perth - based coal miner Ascot Resources has received commitments from global commodity trader Gunvor Group for a $ 5 million equity capital investment in its $ 11.2 million raising.

Bass Pro Shops will finance the deal through preferred equity financing commitments of $ 2.4 billion from Goldman Sachs and Pamplona Capital Management.

It has received commitments from the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, which will buy about US$ 500 million of the equity, and Canadian private equity firm West Face Capital, which will buy US$ 250 million of the new HBC equity.

«But given the financing opportunities that exist for us in the private - equity arena and our growth rate this year of 25 % per month, we were able to win a loan commitment from a bank that would come into effect as soon as we carried out a private placement,» notes CEO Brad Galle.

• Elevate Midstream Partners, a Houston, Texas - based midstream company, secured an equity commitment of up to $ 100 million from Tailwater Capital LLC.

Coupled with a lack of distributions from their existing private equity and real assets portfolios, many of these investors were left with disproportionately outsized remaining commitments to, and invested capital in, a number of investment funds, which significantly limited their ability to make new commitments to third - party managed investment funds such as those advised by us.

He's a few days away from making an unsolicited bid for Dell, recently valued at $ 25 billion, offering to put up a $ 5 billion equity commitment funded almost completely out of his own pocket.

The foldout also includes commitments to «support our public schools» and to «close the $ 4.4 billion annual gap in funding owed by the state to public schools» — a figure apparently derived from the Court of Appeals» 2003 Campagn for Fiscal Equity, Inc. v. State decision, which ruled Albany had shortchanged the city billions in education funds.

«Right from the offset, we want to make sure that we have a system based on the values of equity and excellence and a commitment to inclusive, public service education.

The «big tent» of education reform spans the ideological spectrum, from civic leaders and business - backed advocates for higher standards and champions for charters and choice to the commitment of innovative educators and the relentless pursuit of equity by civil rights leaders and organizers.

As educators, we have a lot to learn from organizations that put their commitment to equity at the top of the agenda.

Other common elements include a focus on the total child, a commitment to equity and access, family and community engagement, and a relationship - oriented school climate — all of which require demonstrable guidance and support from principals as well.

Dr. Newcomb also received the 2011 Social Justice Teaching Award from the Leadership for Social Justice SIG of the American Educational Research Association «for work that represents exemplary commitment to teaching that promotes social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in the field of educational administration.»

The charter concept is based on deep commitment to quality and equity; schools of choice operating autonomously from traditional districts can serve as incubators of innovation and leverage market forces to ensure more students have access to exemplary public schools.

We are actively seeking support from organizations and individuals who share Reach's commitment to achieving equity and social justice through increased educational opportunities for all students, regardless of socio - economic background.

And this leadership must start with, and flow from, a deep commitment to equity for all students — those who come well - insulated and those with no insulation.

The charter school concept emerged from a deep commitment to quality and equity; schools of choice operating autonomously from traditional districts would serve as incubators of innovation and leverage market forces to ensure more students could access exemplary public schools.

Using classroom examples from science, math, social studies, physical education, and English Language Arts, the videos demonstrate how globally - minded teachers foster the dispositions of global competence: openness, respect, empathy, appreciation for diversity, valuing of multiple perspectives, and commitment to equity worldwide.

The inspiration for his doctoral work extends from a deep personal commitment to engage in teaching and research that can move us toward the achievement of transformational equity in Black schools and communities.

On March 28th, 2016 the first - ever Educator Equity Lab was held at Jackson State University in Mississippi, where more than one hundred education stakeholders made commitments to ensuring equal access to excellent teachers for the state's students of color and students from low income backgrounds.

For discussions of Finland's approach to teaching, see Linda Darling - Hammond, The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future (New York: Teachers College Press, 2010); and Pasi Sahlberg, Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?

Linked Learning is the right fit for students of all achievement levels and aspirations, with an essential commitment to equity and a focus on improving postsecondary and career outcomes for all students, including students of color and students from low - income backgrounds.

Our commitment to equity and equal opportunity runs like a ribbon through all of our initiatives at the U.S. Department of Education — from ensuring that low - income minority students aren't stuck in chronically under - performing schools, to working with districts to get great teachers in the schools and subjects where they are needed most, to targeting billions of dollars to students and schools in need of support.

Equipment worth $ 20m is invoiced to the IPO company at $ 100m from the related company, with the insiders pocketing the «free» $ 80m profit which they either pump back to the company to boost artificial sales or to convert as «personal» investment into «free» equity into the IPO company in a show of «ownership commitment» in the eyes of the unsuspecting investors.

Somehow I was reminded of this exchange when I learned from this morning's news that some institutional investors, smarting from recent losses, are considering increasing their commitment to active equity management.

The basic Couch Potato and Four Square portfolios have a 50 percent equity commitment, the Five Fold portfolio has a 60 percent equity commitment, and the Margarita and Six Ways from Sunday portfolios have a 67 percent equity commitment.

«Our commitment to achieving equity and historical accuracy in the way we narrate the history of postwar art has been made manifest from the first acquisitions we made after I assumed the directorship of the BMA,» said Bedford.

Here's a company that's gotten a commitment of big dollars ($ 1.5 B) from a private equity firm to create clean energy projects.

However, a clear understanding of how national emissions reductions commitments affect global climate change impacts requires an understanding of complex relationships between atmospheric ghg concentrations, likely global temperature changes in response to ghg atmospheric concentrations, rates of ghg emissions reductions over time and all of this requires making assumptions about how much CO2 from emissions will remain in the atmosphere, how sensitive the global climate change is to atmospheric ghg concentrations, and when the international community begins to get on a serious emissions reduction pathway guided by equity considerations.

In the absence of a court adjudicating what equity requires of nations in setting their national climate change commitments, a possibility but far from a guarantee under existing international and national law (for an explanation of some of the litigation issues, Buiti, 2011), the best hope for encouraging nations to improve the ambition of their national emissions reductions commitments on the basis of equity and justice is the creation of a mechanism under the UNFCCC that requires nations to explain their how they quantitatively took equity into account in establishing their INDCs and why their INDC is consistent with the nation's ethical obligations to people who are most vulnerable to climate change and the above principles of international law.

Where national commitments have been deduced from collective decision making — such as the case in the EU — nations should be required to explain the equity and justice basis for its national commitment.

One of the ethical issues raised by these facts is whether nations which may have much smaller national emissions reductions commitment obligations for the nation derived from an acceptable equity framework should nevertheless be expected to limit activities of individuals causing high levels of ghg emissions.

One of the ethical issues raised by these facts is is whether nations which may have much smaller national emissions reductions commitment obligations for the nation derived from an acceptable equity framework should nevertheless be expected to limit activities of individuals causing high levels of ghg emissions

The C&C framework is therefore a very non-controversial way of demonstrating the utter inadequacy of developed nations ghg emissions reductions commitments because other equity frameworks would require even greater reductions from developed countries.

The project enlisted the support of 23 researchers from around the world to examine how 23 nations actually considered or ignored equity, ethics, and justice in formulating national climate change commitments.

There has also been a fairly wide - spread understanding that the international community will not avoid very dangerous climate change unless nations increase their national commitments to levels required of them based upon equity while working with other nations to keep atmospheric concentrations of ghg from exceeding dangerous levels.

Developing nations that make commitments based upon funding from developed nations should be required to explain the equity framework that led to the claim for the contribution.In this regard claims of ecological debt should include explanation of the equity framework on which the equitable debt claim is based.

The obvious place to look for increases in ambition in national commitments is from nations that are obviously above emissions reduction levels that equity would require of them.

In achieving this commitment, starting in the summer of 2011 the Firm wishes to offer an opportunity for an undergraduate student from a Canadian University to work in a law firm environment focussing on equity and diversity initiatives within the Firm.

To the contrary, those about to embark upon that journey confront: (1) the daunting cost of law school; (2) an average of $ 120K debt for attending; (3) a job market where, nationally, close to half of all graduates do not have Bar - required employment nine months after graduation; (4) a widespread market perception that law school graduates — even those from elite schools — lack «practice ready» skills; (5) cut - backs in hiring newly minted lawyers — even among many stalwart law firms; (6) an erosion of mentorship due in part to pressure on senior lawyers to «produce» more (7) the unlikelihood of making (equity) partner; (8) instability of law firms; (9) global competition; (10) technology companies creating products that replace services; and (11) a blizzard of negative press trumpeting the glum prospects for the profession; and (12) alternative career choices — finance, accounting, technology, etc. — that portend greener pastures and do not require the same time and financial commitment to prepare for entry.

The Insurance Regulatory Development Authority of India is looking at capital commitment from professionals applying for general insurance licence to ensure that funds continue to flow for future growth, especially those backed by short - sighted private equity players.

«The National Congress is ground - breaking for all the right reasons: it has evolved from a process driven by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and it has stood by its commitment to gender equity by implementing a National Executive comprising equal representation of women and men.

This can range from the definition of commitment, intimacy, jealousy, the notion of equity and sharing, scarcity and more.

North American private equity real estate funds that closed from January to November 2015 raised $ 61 billion in investor commitments, a 42 percent percent jump compared to the same period in 2014, according to an NREI story, citing data from London - based research firm Preqin.

Mr. Nolan was a member of the senior management team that led GGP's reorganization and emergence from bankruptcy, which included the restructuring of $ 15.0 billion in project - level debt, payment in full of all of GGP's pre-petition creditors and the securing of $ 6.8 billion in equity commitments.

Equity is the value of cash and land contributed to a project, and preleasing is a commitment from tenants to take space before work begins.