Sentences with phrase «private companies were interested in»

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PitchBook senior analyst Garrett Black said in a statement that three factors — private companies staying private, volatile public markets and a looming rise in interest rates — are driving the trend.

The SBA, in partnership with the GSA, pulls info from SAM to populate the SBA's Dynamic Small Business Search (DSBS) so that government agencies — or even private sector corporations — that are interested in a service or product your business offers can search for and find your company.

Lured by the prospect of a steal, would - be entrepreneurs have been joined in the bidding by companies interested in expanding through strategic acquisitions and private equity groups like SeaFort seeking solid «old economy» assets.

However, the Federal Reserve increased its benchmark interest rate in mid-December, which is likely to have a direct impact on fundraising and force down the high valuations of many of these late - stage private companies, venture capitalists and economists say.

It's still in the company's best interest to remain private for a while longer, he says.

While venture capitalists, mutual funds and other private investors can only see upside in a zero - interest environment where growth is hard to find, public investors would be skeptical of a public Uber, Smith explains, just as they've asked tough questions about companies like Twitter and Yelp.

But it is still in the ride - sharing platform's best interest to remain private say some analysts, and they expect the company will do just that.

SecondMarket is the largest centralized marketplace and auction platform for illiquid assets, such as asset - backed securities, auction - rate securities, bankruptcy claims, collateralized debt obligations, limited partnership interests, private company stock, residential and commercial mortgage - backed securities, restricted securities and block trades in public companies, and whole loans.

As a private family company, we're not interested in getting into bidding wars.

But it's also interesting as validation of a model that's becoming increasingly popular: Companies that are private only in name.

Icahn expressed his distaste for Dell's initial go - private offering of $ 24.4 billion in a letter to the Dell Board in March, saying that the proposed deal is «not in the best interests of Dell shareholders and substantially undervalues the company.»

Top tech investor Paul Meeks told «Squawk Box» on Wednesday, that might be in the form of an offer from private equity, since he doesn't see obvious candidates — other technology companies like Microsoft or Alibaba — as interested.

It is in China's interest to respect private intellectual property rights if it wants to move beyond being described as the world's factory: if it wants would want to move from «made in China,» where goods are largely produced under foreign companies» control, to «made by China,» where Chinese companies own the brains behind the manufacturing and design of goods.

One interesting source of statistics is a new Web site, www.privateraise.com, that tracks all kinds of deals in the capital marketplace, including the PIPEs (private investments in public equities) that attract funds that otherwise might have gone to private companies like HealthHelp.

This is interesting as more and more private equity firms have increased their scrutiny of public & private companies they invest in or might invest in to decrease their exposure to areas that could bring controversy.

Barclays Capital was hired last year to conduct a sale of a minority interest in the company, including all or a portion of Chris's shares (the bidding was code - named «Project Amethyst»), and various private - equity and strategic firms have considered buying them.

Knight Frank says that while these companies» plans may still be rough, some private investors are happy to take the long view and back interesting ventures in the early stages if they promise a nice return.

Other companies, including Best Buy, Amazon.com, Comcast and the satellite company EchoStar, had also expressed interest in acquiring Vudu, according to this person, who asked for anonymity because the terms of the deal were private.

The PRPA has already completed substantial pre-development work at the sites, improving access, in anticipation of private development spurred by a Request for Expressions of Interest (REI) that was issued late last year and, the port authority said, «garnered a high level of response from maritime industry, manufacturing, and energy companies.»

This RFI was seen as the latest in a series of indications of NASA's interest in partnering with private companies to return to the Moon — and last week, the agency affirmed this goal.

Although President Trump hasn't spoken about NASA's moon mission in detail, people close to him — and some former NASA officials — have made it clear that there is interest in the White House to return to the moon in partnership with private space companies.

Twitter's successful debut is likely to stoke interest in other up - and - coming consumer Internet companies such as ride service Uber, scrapbooking site Pinterest, accommodation service Airbnb and the payment start - up Square, all of which boast private - market valuations well north of a billion dollars and could go public in the coming years.

I've recounted over the past year the many allegations that Ferro — in rejecting Gannett, in making business deals with those formerly associated with his Wrapports company (that ownership now held in trust, he says), and in doing private placements of shares or now selectively buying back shares, as he's done with Oaktree — has not acted in the best interests of all shareholders.

Michael Dell, the company's multi-billionaire founder and CEO, clearly believes going private is in Dell's interest; he would help finance the deal, along with several banks.

In his response, Austin made an interesting point: although there is certainly a distinction to be made between investments from private companies and SOEs, there is also one to be made between the different kinds of SOEs.

Space Angels provides truly unique access for individuals interested in the emerging private space industry, through exclusive events, company tours, and connections to the largest community of space investors and entrepreneurs in the world (our members have been behind some of the most exciting startups in the industry).

Mike Logan, of Dairy Connect, is working with six interested parties, both state owned and private companies, to invest up to $ 150 million over three factories in the Mid North Coast or Hunter region, the Central West and the Southern Highlands, towards Nowra.

Low interest rates and cashed - up private equity firms mean under - performing companies are vulnerable targets, which has been highlighted in offers for Treasury Wine Estates and Goodman Fielder.

As a rule of thumb, plant breeders in both public research institutes and private companies use genetic engineering only in the following situations: 1) the gene of interest is not found within the crop gene pool, 2) if found in the gene pool, transfer will be difficult due to incompatibility and other breeding problems or 3) the transfer of the gene will take a long time as in the case of perennial crops like coconut.

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In addition, we have obvious conflicts of interest with regard to government advisors and their connections to certain payday loan companies, not to mention the connections that government ministers have to private health organisations and other vultures, waiting in the wings to take the profitable parts of our NHS, which the government is hell bent on selling ofIn addition, we have obvious conflicts of interest with regard to government advisors and their connections to certain payday loan companies, not to mention the connections that government ministers have to private health organisations and other vultures, waiting in the wings to take the profitable parts of our NHS, which the government is hell bent on selling ofin the wings to take the profitable parts of our NHS, which the government is hell bent on selling off.

In that sense, a private company has to be understood as upholding public interest principles, as embedded in a community to which it owes duties and obligationIn that sense, a private company has to be understood as upholding public interest principles, as embedded in a community to which it owes duties and obligationin a community to which it owes duties and obligations.

He is also very well paid by private companies which are directly interested in the area of policy his parliamentary work focuses on.

Interesting bit of history - when the socialist economy of the USSR started crumbling in the 80's, the first private enterprises allowed were so called «cooperatives» - which in fact were limited private companies.

The reason why CA is unanswerable to anyone because in a private company like CA, The controlling Interest Of the company might actually be in hands of the executives and founders.

Alas, in recently approved draft legislation, the Romanian government declared the Canadian company's private project to be of public utility and of overriding public interest, which it is not, given that the Romanian Constitution stresses that «public interest riches», including underground resources, are the exclusive object of public property, meaning that they solely belong to the Romanian people.

That includes everything from cleaning up any environmental hazards, to working with (and providing tax credits to) private - sector companies that may be interested in developing on the property.

A request for proposals has been issued for private companies interested in booking non-fair events at the New York State Fairgrounds in Geddes, Onondaga County.

«That this House notes that the Government regulation implementing Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act contradicts previous Ministerial assurances that NHS commissioners should decide when and how competition should be used to serve patient interests; acknowledges that, although the last Labour Government rolled out the red carpet to private companies to make profits from NHS services, believes that patients come before profits in our NHS; and therefore calls on HM Government to withdraw SI 257, go back to the drawing board and draw up a policy which supports an integrated NHS which encourages collaboration in the interest of patient care rather than a fragmented service driven by profit.»

You've concerned editors at the Post-Star, who worry that your focus won't be on serving the interests of NY 21, but instead will be on private companies, that you find equity money to start or invest in while in Congress.

In other words, free education isn't just a policy, it's a whole new philosophy of how Labour should behave towards vested interests, private companies and unaccountable power when it is government.

That's meant that the so - called LLC loophole — an industry favorite that allows property owners and other private interest groups to pour unlimited amounts of cash into political campaigns though multiple limited liability companies — has remained in place.

On Sept. 23 — the day after the state and federal charges were announced — the administration received a memo from private investigator Bart Schwartz, whose company Guidepost Solutions has been tasked by Cuomo with investigating improper lobbying and conflicts of interest in the «Buffalo Billion» initiative, and other projects overseen by SUNY Poly.

Percoco's disclosure forms for 2014 show he took on two private clients with interests before state government even as he managed Cuomo's 2014 campaign; those companies are among those of interest in the federal probe.

Gig.U is holding a request for information (RFI) from September to November to solicit ideas from the local service providers for building out new networks, which would ultimately be funded by Gig.U members as well as any non-profits and private - sector companies interested in the project.

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Tensions between the human and alien population are running thin so the private company Multi-National United (MNU), who have a commercial interest in harnessing the alien technology for weaponry, are sent in to relocate the aliens.

They discover the letters by hiring a private investigator (played by Ann Dowd) to follow Howard to find some evidence that he is mentally impaired in some way, so that Whit, Howard's business partner, can sell the company to an interested buyer.

Of course, it isn't just private companies in the educational technology space that are interested these developments.