Sentences with phrase «equity firms thus»

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Management thus may eventually obtain voting control without ever investing any additional equity in the firm.

Outerwall has historically produced high returns on capital, and it's a business that doesn't need much tangible capital to produce huge amounts of cash flow (an attractive business), but it has been run similar to companies that get purchased by private equity firms — leverage up the balance sheet, issue a dividend (or buyout some shareholders), thus keeping very little equity «at risk».

Thus, and application of contingent claims theory to the firm, much as Merton did it, should serve as a replacement for MPT in order to estimate the cost of capital for a firm, and for the equity itself.

Partnership compensation from highest to lowest paid partners widens as firms feel pressure to pay market rate compensation for some partners that might leave, while the firm overall can not afford to do so, and thus reallocates it from lower ranks of equity partners to higher ranks.

The critical hinge to his action is whether an equity partner in a law firm should be regarded as an «employee» for the purposes of the Code, thus giving the Human Rights Tribunal jurisdiction over his complaint.

The critical hinge to his action is whether an equity partner in a law firm should be regarded as an «employee» for the purposes of the Code, thus giving the Human... [more]

Thus far, most firms — even those performing at the lower end of the economic scale — have been able to maintain some semblance of stability by bolstering their PPEP through an intentional thinning of heir ranks of equity partners, aggressive expense management, and annual rate increases (albeit smaller increases than prior to 2008).