Sentence examples similar to equity form from inspiring English sources

A decade before the titans of American private equity formed Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Hanson Trust was borrowing money and snapping up cheap firms.

This new equity forms the capital base of the continuing company – meaning its obligations are restructured so that it is again solvent (meaning the value of its assets exceeds the value of its liabilities).

Davenport was an active member of Equity, forming a rightwing (though he himself was of middle-ground disposition) and ultimately successful "Act for Equity" faction in opposition to Corin and Vanessa Redgrave's Workers Revolutionary party cell within the union in the 1970s.

Manchester United has become one of the world's most valuable sports businesses on his watch, and although he is not responsible for commercial matters, one of the secrets of his success has been knowing the value of money.He seems to prefer the private-equity form of capitalism that now controls Manchester United to the more short-term profit orientation of earlier years.

EMI and the Advent International Corporation, a private equity firm, formed HMV in 1998 by combining EMI's music stores, Dillon's bookstores and the Waterstone's stores owned by the W. H. Smith Group.

It was led by L Catterton, the private equity firm formed by the recent merger of Catterton with the PE arm of luxury conglomerate LVMH.

Combined, the two forms of equity would form a 16.4% fully diluted stake in CMGI.

The close relationship between pension funds and equities, formed in the late 1950s, is heading for the divorce courts.Figures from the Pension Protection Fund, an industry insurance scheme, show that British defined-benefit (or final-salary) schemes had 43.2% of their portfolios in bonds and just 38.5% in equities.

They had all held executive positions at Microsoft before cashing in their equity to form Qpass in 1997.

The top private equity firms formed a lobbying group, the Private Equity Council, and succeeded in quashing a similar bill directed just at them during the Bush administration.

Complaints to the investment ombudsman jumped by one third last year, with poor administration of personal equity plans forming the bulk of investors' gripes.