New Hampshire also recently forced charities to make public any sizable transactions between a charity and members of its board.
Mr. Perelman's latest investment in Revlon, while indirect, is also notable because it is his first sizable transaction involving a public company in more than two years.
Copeland's sizable transaction revitalized interest in the sports memorabilia collection market.
Mr. Kirby said he could not say how much the value of shopping malls has slipped because there have been no sizable transactions in more than a year.
And in contrast with the U.S., where Citi hasn't done a sizable branch-banking transaction in years (a deal in 2004 for a small Texas business bank went for undisclosed terms), it has made splashy deals abroad, including Poland's Bank Handlowy, Mexico's Groupo Financiero Banamex, Korea's KorAm Bank and a 19.9% stake in Shanghai Pudong Development Bank.
If the shares remain below the strike price, the call expires worthless, but the call writer will still have collected the premium, earning a "static" return for the period of 20.71 percent, before commissions, which can be a sizable percentage of small transactions.
The transaction represents a sizable return for Permira, one of Europe's largest private equity firms.
If Time Warner bought the stake with cash, at a price of $10 billion -- the amount some analysts say it may be worth -- the transaction could mean a sizable capital gains tax for AT&T, because U S West paid only $2.5 billion for it back in 1992.
Why not? "Because the transaction fees might erode such a sizable percentage of your portfolio, it would defeat the purpose of rebalancing," he said.
Because of the difference between the appraisal and the sale price, the transaction was considered a gift, allowing him to take a sizable federal tax deduction.
