Sentences with phrase «stake in the company through»

The news agency said VW, the world's largest automaker, had bought a 5 % stake in the company through its VW, with options to raise its stake, citing people familiar with the matter.

From a founder perspective, instead of diluting their stake in the company through various rounds of private financing and spending a vast amount of time and effort on building up both a brand and a customer base, the issuance of proprietary tokens to over 10,000 investors (as was the case with Bancor for example) creates an immediately incentivised populace willing to spread the company's name if it delivers on its promised product or service whilst simultaneously having not given away a single share of the company to institutional investors.

Kona Grill Inc (NASDAQ: KONA) is an undervalued asset situation with a potential acquirer raising its stake in the company through November.

We started following KONA because it was an undervalued asset situation with a potential acquirer — Mill Road Capital — raising its stake in the company through November last year.

Not exact matches

Where big corporations generally have layers and layers of corporate bureaucracy to wade through, not to mention the livelihoods of thousands of employees in their hands, and many stock and stake holders to answer to, smaller companies have always had the advantage of being able to pivot fast by making quick decisions.

Sumner Redstone and his family own a controlling stake in Viacom and CBS through privately held movie theater company, National Amusements.

The billionaire co-founded PayPal in 1998, and through Founders, he's taken stakes in prominent companies like SpaceX and crypto - focused hedge funds.

SoftBank has acquired a 15 % stake in Uber, through a combination of direct investment in the ride - hailing company and through buying the shares of existing Uber shareholder, Uber confirmed on Thursday, weeks after announcing that the transaction was underway.

Wellard chief executive Mauro Balzarini has sold a big chunk of his stake in the local agribusiness to a Chinese firm and repaid the company $ 16.3 million through his private investment vehicle.

With a nearly 16 percent stake in Dell and ties going back three decades to the creation of the company out of his college dorm room, Michael Dell is seen as having much more at stake in the deal going through than Silver Lake, a financial investor that often walks away from deals.

That increases the shares outstanding and dilutes the stake of existing shareholders, since shares issued by the company through the exercise of options are not sold in exchange for cash at fair market value but are exercised at a discount.

Other notable Thiel investments, either individually or through Founders Fund, have included LinkedIn; Spotify; a $ 120 million stake in Musk's rocket - ship company, SpaceX; and more recently Airbnb.

While Western Australia is a lot bigger than one man and one company, with a bit of imagination it is possible to see the state through the financial health of a firm that sells equipment to the mining industry, and the personal wealth of a man with the biggest stake in that business.

Amazon invested as much as $ 175 million in LivingSocial, its major daily deals partner — until losing $ 169 million through the service in the third quarter of 2012, and writing down its stake in the company (which ultimately sold to Groupon).

Through an accelerator, startups receive mentoring, guidance, and some funding in return for a small stake in the company.

He and his family own the stake through a trust, according to the company's website in March 2018.

While equity does not require repayment over a defined time period, an entrepreneur's stake in his or her company is diluted through the issuance of equity to outside investors.

The rest of his fortune is managed through closely held Cascade Investment, which controls stakes in dozens of publicly traded companies, including Canadian National Railway, Deere and Ecolab.

But with the JOBS Act, small businesses will be allowed to raise up to $ 1 million through crowdsourcing, and crowdsourcers will actually get to own a small stake in the company.

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Subsequent tax incentives in the 1980s (such as Section 1042 of the Internal Revenue Code) allowed owners of privately held businesses to defer their capital gains taxes when they sold more than 30 % of C corporations to the employees and managers through ESOPs or eligible worker cooperatives.15 Often, retiring entrepreneurs would sell 100 % in stages so that they could fully retire if they had no heir to operate the company or the family wished to cash out on their stake.

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.

Through ICOs, funds are usually raised in about 30 minutes and investors are not given any stake in the company or voting rights.

The investment was made through NBK Capital Equity Partners Fund II, the firm's private equity fund which focuses on acquiring minority and majority stakes in growing middle market companies in the MENA region.

Here's how it works: Activist investors, usually through the hedge funds they control, typically take a large equity stake in a company to obtain board seats or other means of exerting influence.

Open Avenue is staking the claim as the first Canadian real estate crowdsourcing company, though the notion of raising large sums through small investments from many people — crowdfunding — has been popular in the U.S. for a few years.

Pat Roney, CEO / President of Vintage Wine Estates announced that AGR Partners, an investment firm dedicated to food and agribusiness, has provided growth capital through a minority equity stake in the company.

ASX - listed company Primary Opinion holds a 48 per cent stake in Maggie Beer Products, the Barossa Valley - based business built up by celebrity chef Maggie Beer, who has a national profile through a string of cookbooks, television shows and as a guest judge on the Ten Network's MasterChef series.

TPG in the United States has investments in the casino industry through its stake in Caesars Entertainment, formerly known as Harrah's, and will need to overcome complex regulations in the gaming industry, along with «tied house» regulations governing the hospitality and entertainment industries.These tied house regulations put strict controls on the ownership structures of companies involved in the supply of alcohol to hotels, bars and entertainment venues.

Lightning Partners, Ltd., as the franchise is formally known, has a mystery owner from Japan named Takashi Okubo, who bought a limited stake in the team in»90 through his Tokyo golf resorts company, Kokusai Green, and is identified by a source in one lawsuit as being a «gangster.»

The bill backed by Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor, would also apply to party committee leaders from receiving consulting fees from state and local authorities either directly or through companies in which they hold a 10 percent ownership stake.

Ministers are looking to raise up to # 3bn before the end of the year through the sale of the government's 33 % stake in Urenco, the uranium enrichment company, in one of the biggest privatisations in years

At trial, the government had accused the elder Skelos of strong - arming three companies with a stake in state legislation — a major real estate developer, an environmental technology company and a medical malpractice insurer — into giving his son about $ 300,000 through consulting work, a no - show job and a payment of $ 20,000.

Surprisingly, the Norwegian aluminium giant Norsk Hydro through its spokesman Stefan Solberg said in Oslo that they never entered into any agreement with the government of Ghana nor any company to acquire a 70 % stake in VALCO.

Schools Week reported in 2016 that crippling costs were being passed on to schools when equity stakes were sold on, through a process known as «flipping» — where equity holders sell on the value of their equity in PFI projects to other companies.

But because they buy a small slice of every stock, and hold them through thick and thin, the impact is muted when any single company falls out of bed — and they always have a stake in the market's big winners.

The retail chain is in the midst of instituting an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), through which its staff will get a long - term stake in the company.

Nintendo recognises profit from the game through the 32 % stake it has in The Pokemon Company.

Then I spent almost a year going through a painful dispute to exercise my redemption right and value and sell them my stake in the company.

McCague Borlack, established in 1994, has built its reputation through top - notch representation of insurance companies when the stakes are at their highest.

Clifford Chance, Linklaters, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Travers Smith have all been signed up to help drive through a deal between private equity houses for a stake in roadside recovery company RAC.

Significant matters / transactions include: Advised Xstrata South Africa (Proprietary) Limited on its offer to purchase Lonmin plc's entire issued share capital, # 5 billion Advised Telkom SA Limited on its unbundling of a 35 % stake in Vodacom Group (Proprietary) Limited, R35 billion Advised Edgars Consolidated Stores Limited on its acquisition by Bain Capital, R25, 5 billion Advised The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited and FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) on the introduction of BEE equity participation in Sasol Limited and their arranging financing therefore, R25, 4 billion Advised FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) and Nedbank Limited (acting through its Nedbank Capital division) as lenders to Richards Bay Titanium (Proprietary) Limited and Richards Bay Mining (Proprietary) Limited, R19 billion Advised Citibank N.A. on a bridge loan granted to Turquoise Moon Trading 427 (Proprietary) Limited by Citibank N.A. and JP Morgan Chase, R10 billion Advised British American Tobacco plc on its secondary listing on the JSE, R550 billion Advised Pioneer Foods Limited on its listing on the JSE Securities Exchange, R6 billion Advised the South African National Roads Agency Limited in respect of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project involving the construction and upgrade of the Gauteng freeway and the procurement of an open road tolling system, R44 billion Advised Absa Bank Limited (acting though its Absa Capital division), FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) and Vunani Capital (as co-lead arrangers) and the South Africa National Roads Agency Limited (as issuer) on the establishment of its South African Guaranteed Domestic Medium Term Note Programme and the subsequent issue of notes thereunder, R32 billion Advised Shoprite Checkers (Proprietary) Limited on the proposed Brait Private Equity private equity buy - out (this did not proceed), R12 billion Advised Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited and various shareholders on the acquisition by Capitalworks Private Equity SP GP (Proprietary) Limited and Old Mutual Life Assurance Company South Africa Limited of a 20 % equity stake in Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited from various shareholders, R511 million Clients include: Multinationals, listed companies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and Government

AIA Group Limited is the fourth foreign insurance major to hike the stake in Indian firms with the foreign firm announcing that it will increase its shareholding in Tata AIA Life Insurance Company, a joint venture company by Tata Sons and AIA, from the current level of 26 per cent to 49 per cent through the purchase of another 23 per cent stake in the cCompany, a joint venture company by Tata Sons and AIA, from the current level of 26 per cent to 49 per cent through the purchase of another 23 per cent stake in the ccompany by Tata Sons and AIA, from the current level of 26 per cent to 49 per cent through the purchase of another 23 per cent stake in the companycompany.

Their portfolio sees nearly 90 % stake in fixed maturity investments, and has joined the top 40 companies for life insurance when considering admitted assets, along with a top 5 ranking for annuity sales through banks.

Tata Sons holds a majority stake of 74 percent in the company and AIA holds 26 percent through an AIA Group company.

To date, the company has been subsidizing the cost of tickets through the influx of capital it received after selling a majority stake — $ 27 million — to data firm Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc. (HMNY) in August.

Despite his negative view of the market, his fund has a large stake in Overstock.com — the first publicly - traded company to not only accept bitcoin, but launch its own virtual currency through a subsidiary project called tZERO.

Through its own Indicium (IND) token, users will be given a stake of ownership in a company which gives the right to dividend payout, as well as to vote on executive board elections and operations.

I have already been through three rounds of the hiring process with our part - time position, but this is my first time hiring someone for a role with bigger «stakes» — i.e., a fairly decent entry - level salary, amazing benefits, and the chance for free education and to move up in our large, multifaceted company.