Sentence examples for different classes of shareholders from inspiring English sources

"Here, we were trying to buy out 60 million shares and had four different classes of shareholders to convince this was a good idea -- along with Prime Retail's board of directors and management".

However, as Chris Huhne, a British Euro-MP, points out, there could still be political opposition to the directive, and in particular to its proposal to outlaw the allocation of different voting weights to different classes of shareholders.

This brings us to a term you probably do not know -- ratchet -- which is how different classes of shareholders are treated when a private company is valued at a lower level in a current round of financing than it was in the previous one.

Split capital investment trusts have different classes of shareholder, with some investing for income and some for growth.

A different class of stakeholders in Bear Stearns with differing economic interests to the shareholders can use derivatives to ensure that their needs are met.

Harmoni's finances are complex, with hundreds of shareholders and different classes of stocks.

There is also the question of attributing business cash flow to shareholders with different classes of stock.

(That's why the Ford family uses different classes of stock to get more voting rights than common shareholders have).

And remember the structure of corporations: there are shareholders, who nominally own the corporation although now that's been rigged by management because different classes of stock and options and all that you have the management, and then you have the board of directors, who are supposed to give a sort of oversight of the management on behalf of the shareholders.

Some have different rewards for different classes of workers or different levels of accomplishment.

Wheat contains several different classes of proteins.