Sentences with phrase «stake in the firm»

BEIJING, April 25 (Reuters)- German car maker Daimler AG's boss said on Wednesday there was no indication the firm's largest shareholder, Chinese auto magnate Li Shufu, was planning a hostile takeover, after he took a $ 9 billion stake in the firm earlier this year.

COPENHAGEN, Oct 2 - Debt - laden Danish shipping group Torm A / S has struck a long - awaited deal with its banks that will see them take a majority stake in the firm in exchange for extending $ 1.8 billion of debt and giving it access to fresh funds.

COPENHAGEN / LONDON, Dec 13 - Activist hedge fund Primestone Capital on Wednesday urged U.S. cleaning equipment company Tennant and Danish peer Nilfisk to consider merging after building up minority stakes in both firms.

Seven years later, he sold his stake in the firm.

Or you could take a stake in a firm that plays a big role in your issue of choice, like Exxon with climate change, to try and push them in the direction you want.

Today, the company he founded, the Olayan Group, is a blue - chip investor with significant stakes in firms such as Credit Suisse, the U.K.'s National Grid and Coca - Cola.

Typically, they don't take a seat on the startup's board; they take a small stake in the firm and hand over their funds in weeks rather than months.

Last year, Chinese conglomerate BlueFocus Communication Group acquired a majority stake in his firm Fuseproject.

It is only where either a) a money manager has a substantial amount of their own money invested in the same things as you or b) the money manager owns a substantial stake in their firm, so have a longer - term view in the success of the firm and its clients, that you can be confident that your money manager is really working for you, and not taking unneccessary risks.

Most employees don't have a stake in the firm.

It just doesn't bother us because what we're doing is building a collection of long - term cash - generating ownership stakes in firms that we want to hold for a very long time.

As fourth quarter sales beat expectations, the company chief executive reiterated L'Oréal's willingness to buy Nestlé's 23 percent stake in the firm should its Swiss shareholder want to sell.

Its runaway financial success in the browser game marketplace led to NBC taking a 35 % stake in the firm in 2008.

What I suspect is what I've written before: that many of the lawyers being sent out didn't have a stake in the firm or the clients, but were nothing more than highly paid employees.

Partners have an equity stake in the firm and run things.

Three days ago, the shares soared when Toscafund Asset Management bought a 5 % stake in the firm.

They admittedly only want to do «simple «stuff (they are in for a surprise), but they are there, and they did not need to sell a large equity stake in the firm to do it.

Here are examples of how a law school and two law firms are teaching law students and associates practical legal skills, and how two firms are encouraging associates to become rainmakers by giving them a personal stake in the firm's business.

Here, the court initially ordered that the wife's stake in the firm was half, and that the husband should pay $ 5,000 monthly until that amount — $ 420,000 — was paid off.

Equity partners have an ownership stake in the firm and share in the law firm's profits.

Lawyers with a fiscal stake in the firm are just fundamentally better and more pristine than equally invested non-lawyers would be?

Equity partners are considered to have ownership stakes in the firm, and share in the profits (and losses) of the firm.

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The Ontario Pension Board and wealth advisory firm Glenmede Trust, both of which already have a stake in the firm via venture capital (VC) investments, are among new investors to put $ 30m (# 24.2 m) into the startup, which specialises in high - calibre tech and sales jobs for top companies such as Facebook and Uber.

In a press release issued on Aug. 23, Brookfield executives claim they are not taking any steps toward buying the company, nor do they have an interest in selling their existing stake in the firm.

Ring announced on Sept. 14 that its chairman, Carl Ring, would sell his stake in the firm to MSD Partners, which invests the assets of Michael Dell and his family.

Other top dealmakers, including David Falk, Brian Waterman, Neil Goldmacher, Moshe Sukenik, Scott Klau, William Cohen and Michael and Paul Ippolito, hold large ownership stakes in the firm, sources familiar with the matter told The Real Deal.

Not exact matches

But in 2004, Disney sold its stake in the Town Center to the private - equity firm Lexin Capital.

April 11 (Reuters)- Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

Trump's name shows up in filings of less than 14 % of all companies, but the stakes are much higher for firms that have bet on the federal government taking a hands - off approach to marijuana policy.

Microcap fund manager Acorn Capital has increased its stake in listed Perth - based financial planning firm Plan B Group Holdings to control almost 10 per cent of the voting power.

The 2015 share performance of the other oilpatch firms Edwards has major stakes in, Ensign Energy Services and Penn West Petroleum, was even worse.

April 11 - Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

Her executive career began in the high stakes and male dominated world of Wall Street where she was the CEO of brokerage firm Smith Barney — now Morgan Stanley Wealth Management — the CFO of Citigroup and CEO of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management.

He's taken a stake in TYT Network, one of the top online - video political news networks, as part of $ 20 million in funding led by growth equity firm 3L Capital with participation from Greycroft and e.ventures.

• Pandion Energy, a portfolio company of Kerogen Capital, agreed to buy a 10 % stake in two North Sea fields from Norwegian oil firm Aker BP, Reuters reports.

And it's not only daredevils and cat lovers taking notice: Chinese electronics giant Foxconn acquired an 8.88 percent stake in GoPro in late 2012 for $ 200 million, and the firm filed for an IPO this February.

He had already started three companies, including Travidia, an Internet marketing firm in which he still owns a minority stake, and PRC Gaming, which he founded in 1993 and sold to Harrah's Entertainment (NYSE: HET) in 1997 for an undisclosed amount.

(It currently holds stakes in high - profile startups such as quantum computing company D - Wave Systems, energy firm General Fusion and e-commerce enterprise BuildDirect.)

• China International Capital Corporation Limited agreed to acquire a majority stake in Krane Funds Advisors LLC, a New York - based asset management firm.

• Elliott Capital Advisors has taken a 6.8 % stake in WS Atkins (LSE: ATK) after the U.K. - based engineering and construction consultancy firm agreed to be bought in a C$ 3.6 billion ($ 2.7 billion) deal.

Earlier this year, GP Strategies, a $ 400 million - a-year training and e-learning firm based in Maryland, snapped up a controlling stake in Prospero for an undisclosed amount.

TSM Capital, an investment firm founded by Marvin Traub, the former CEO and chairman of Bloomingdale's, picked up a minority stake in 2007.

That is key, given that the firm is located in a high - cost area and because it has many young employees who need cash — not speculative equity stakes — to meet their living expenses.

• Blackstone Strategic Capital Holdings will acquire a 15 % stake in Leonard Green & Partners, a Los Angeles, Calif. - based private equity firm, according to Bloomberg.

• Boyne Capital Partners agreed to acquire a stake in Greenrise Technologies LLC, a Readyville, Tenn. - based green infrastructure firms supplying engineered turnkey systems for green roofs, landscape and growing media, componentry and maintenance services.

It's difficult to find firm numbers -; many of the estimates are offered by those who have a stake in the industry.

«Dataminr feeds are like table stakes right now: Most hedge funds need to have it,» says Santo Politi, a founder of Spark Capital, a venture capital firm that was an early backer of Twitter and has a majority stake in a two - year - old hedge fund, Tashtego, that trades on signals from social media and other nontraditional data.

• An investor group led by Stone Point Capital and KKR (NYSE: KKR) agreed to acquire a majority stake in Focus Financial Partners, a New York - based wealth management firm, for around $ 2 billion.

The private equity firm will retain 100 % of its equity stake in Cision post-merger.]