Sentences with phrase «minority stake»

Their mandate ranges from growth investments for control of companies to taking minority stakes in businesses with significant prospects for growth.

Through a secondary investment process, the technology investing company is taking a significant minority stake from existing investors in the consumer credit monitoring and financial health startup through a secondary investment process.

This varies according to the deal size and risk profile although they are always minority stakes.

Funds have put less emphasis on active portfolio management largely because minority stakes make it difficult to get directly involved in management and value creation.

Mahindra Mahindra Financial Services Limited (Mahindra Finance), which holds minority stake in Kotak Mahindra Insurance company, one of India's leading private insurers, is one of the first insurance broking company to be accredited with Maturity Level 3 of the People Capability Maturity Model (People - CMM) globally.

One obstacle in Spotify's negotiations is over the share of revenue the service has to pass on record companies — some of which also own minority stakes in Spotify — and their musical acts.

Macerich Co. agreed to sell minority stakes in eight U.S. malls for $ 2.3 billion to Singapore's GIC Pte and property investor Heitman LLC, a deal that will allow the landlord to pay a special dividend, buy back shares and cut debt.

That phone call would eventually lead to the first investments by big beer into smaller breweries, as the company bought minority stakes in Redhook and later Widmer.

Applied Blockchain Ltd, a London - based blockchain start - up, has secured its first funding round with investments from Shell Trading International Ltd (Shell) and Calibrate Partners LLP for minority stakes in the company.

In January, the conglomerate appeared to secure a lifeline with a $ 2.2 billion investment from Sunac China, a real estate developer, which purchased minority stakes in three of the conglomerate's more stable businesses, including the smart TV affiliate Leshi Zhixin, Le Vision Pictures, and Leshi Internet.

Russell Investments» ownership is composed of a majority stake held by funds managed by TA Associates with minority stakes held by funds managed by Reverence Capital Partners and Russell Investments» management.

Recent investments made by 3M New Ventures include minority stakes in Perceptive Pixel Inc., a developer of advanced multi-touch solutions; Printechnologics GmbH, a printed electronics specialist providing innovative solutions for electronic circuitry on paper or foil; and txtr GmbH, an innovative eReading technology company.

Modern activists exploit this property by taking large minority stakes in these stocks and then agitating for change.

Yes, having the owners / management in place for a year (to bed things down) makes perfect sense — and it's not difficult to devise an appropriate incentive structure — but a significant minority stake after that offers little additional reward & plenty of potential risk (& sub-par acquisition benefits).

AllianceBernstein is also taking an undisclosed minority stake in Algomi and a seat on the board.

Monogram Capital Partners acquired a substantial minority stake in Greek yogurt brand Ellenos this week, according to the firm.

Etihad has spent billions of dollars buying minority stakes from Europe to Australia in its bid to catch up with regional rivals Emirates and Qatar Airways.

As part of the arrangement that saw him relinquish Magna's reins last year, he insisted on receiving a controlling minority stake in Magna E-Car Systems, a nascent venture that's co-ordinating Magna's foray into electric vehicles.

«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.

«The IRS has proposed changes in the rules for how minority stakes in family - owned businesses are valued when owners transfer interests to the next generation during their lifetimes,» explains McCuller.

Nissan will first take full control of the business - Automotive Energy Supply Corp - by buying the combined 49 percent minority stake held by NEC Corp and its subsidiary NEC Energy Devices.

Deutsche Telekom AG, which owns 66 percent of T - Mobile U.S.'s company shares, would be left with a large minority stake if the deal is closed.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management is reportedly gearing up to buy direct minority stakes in private equity companies, initially through its Petershill II LP pooled investment vehicle but eventually via a new $ 1.5 billion dedicated fund that may be raised for the purpose.

After selling its 35 per cent minority stake of Ocean Hotels back to owner H10 Hotels for $ 190.1 million in 2017, as well as its tour operating unit Jonview Canada for $ 44 million, chief executive Jean - Marc Eustache said the timing was finally right.

Even now Saudi Arabia is finalizing its upcoming sale of an intended minority stake in the largest oil company in the world, their Saudi Aramco state oil company.

Vista sold a portion of its stake in the Company in February 2018 and retains a passive minority stake in the business.

While building Chesapeake, McClendon ran a secretive commodities hedge fund on the side, used minority stakes he took in Chesapeake's wells as collateral for loans and made madcap corporate investments that added to a massive debt load.

Over the past five years, only about 15 % of deals qualified as buyouts, meaning most of the other 85 % involved minority stakes.

Borders recently suspended selling ebooks and diverted all of its customers to Kobo, in which Borders has a small minority stake.

In 2012, Tencent took a sizable minority stake in Epic Games, based in North Carolina.

Financier and big - time collector whose hedge fund has a growing minority stake in Sotheby's.

A firm announcement states that Pinsents «has acquired a [20 %] minority stake in «New Law» start - up business Yuzu.»

There is strong growth in small and medium - sized M&A deals, and a willingness to do deals that result in smaller or minority stakes rather than outright acquisitions and greater activity by financial investors, including private equity funds.»

It could be, perhaps, part of a larger consortium, or for a mere minority stake, allowing itchy extant investors a partial exit.

Backfeed contends the proposal could guard against hostile takeovers, while encouraging shareholders with more minority stakes in the DAO to contribute.

Spotify announced the equity investments on Friday, under which Tencent will buy secondary shares from Spotify's existing investors while Spotify will also acquire minority stakes in Tencent Music Entertainment (TME).

Before these financial investors existed, LPs, wealth sovereign wealth funds, and large Canadian pension funds owned minority stakes in private equity investors, so we don't view it as something all that different.

The lackluster performance has revealed a hard truth about the quality of investments made during the peak years: A large number of inexperienced funds bought at inflated prices and settled for taking minority stakes, which left them little room to maneuver when growth slowed in markets like China and India.

Sales of minority stakes have become increasingly common in recent years, with private equity firms including Vista Equity Partners, Silver Lake and Riverstone Holdings selling off interests.

Nope, according to Chief Operating Officer Barney Harford, who told CNBC: ``... Going forward we have no interest in doing transactions for minority stakes... the markets that we remain in today are core markets for us, we are doubling down on our investment and we are very committed to these markets.»

The U.S. and Canadian governments initially held minority stakes of 8 % and 2 %, respectively, of the new Chrysler.

Walmart in talks to buy minority stake in India's Flipkart.

(Although last year's story on the top firms stated it did not include minority stakes, it inadvertently did, a comparison of the data showed this year.)