A year ago, Warren E. Buffett began acquiring a large stake in Burlington Northern for Berkshire Hathaway, his holding company.
It has taken a large stake in Easdaq, a sort of European equivalent to Nasdaq that was largely moribund until Knight Securities took an interest in it.
His playbook consists of accumulating a large stake in a company and then agitating for change.
This has opened the way to the purchase of a large stake by an industrial partner.
In 2003 Exxon considered buying a large stake in Yukos, then Russia's largest oil firm.
That suit challenged his buyout of a company, M&F Worldwide, in which he held a large stake.
In April, he dumped a large stake in his electric power company.
To keep the company afloat, financier Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway bought a large stake.
The Russian state, on even flimsier grounds, has seized a large stake in Yukos.
Mr. Stiller has also built up a large stake, worth around $50 million, in Krispy Kreme Doughnuts.
Samba is 30% owned by Citigroup, in which the prince has a large stake.
