'equity piece' is a legitimate phrase that is commonly used in written English.
You can use it to refer to a form of payment or benefit that is given to someone as part of an equitable arrangement. For example, "The investors are looking for a larger equity piece in exchange for the extra capital they're bringing to the table."
That's the equity piece and that's what's missing".
But in a document obtained by investigators, Citigroup executives said that Mr. Fastow had "given his verbal commitment" to a senior Citigroup executive that Enron "will support the 3percentt equity piece of this transaction".
While there were initial representations to ACA from Goldman that left the impression with ACA that Paulson & Company was going long on the trade, Mr. Coffey presented multiple other exhibits, including the offering document, which showed that no investor was taking that equity piece of the trade.
The upside comes in the equity piece, which will initially be worth about $6, but could more than double.
After it assembled a $1.2 billion debt and equity deal in late September to split from Paramount, the equity piece, from India's Reliance Group, came through.
The upside: the equity piece, which will initially be worth about $6, but could more than double, depending largely on the performance of its new hotshot ex- University of Kentucky coach Rick Pitino.
He can roll equity into pieces of ever larger pies-yet again.
Kenya's biggest bank, Equity Bank, wants a piece of the action.
The University of Chicago's Steve Kaplan, arguably the leading researcher in the field and an unabashed defender of private equity, recently wrote a piece extolling private-equity firms' performance, and attributing their superior returns to their ability to better incentivize and supervise management and their ability to introduce operational improvements.
Most established V.C.'s get a piece of equity in companies they invest in, and if you hit it big, you can get very rich; Frank, who is near the bottom of the V.C. totem pole, works for straight salary.
To stick with the private equity example, a great piece of investigative journalism by Ruth Sunderland and Nick Mathiason in the Observer shows that closing the 10% loophole would have no impact on most of the executives in question.
