If all goes as planned, Visa's offering would generate a windfall for thousands of its so-called member banks, which own the company.
In one sense, that's fair enough – a sale being the only reasonable way to generate a windfall return for founders.
Selling its stake in Alibaba will generate a windfall of almost $200m by September 2015 - about 20% of Yahoo's predicted annual profits.
Was Mr. Naimi signaling that Saudi Arabia was prepared to increase its own production soon, easing policies that have generated a windfall for his nation over the last two years?
Hopes that next year's sale of 4G airwaves could generate a windfall for the Government have been fuelled by successful auctions in other countries.
All things considered, it's hard to avoid seeing the merger proposal as a cynical move designed to boost Pfizer's stock price and generate a windfall for the company's senior managers, who are compensated mainly in equity.
The ancillary products generated a windfall for many others.
That should drive up the shares of JagNotes and generate a windfall for Valinoti, who owns 5 million shares.
But rather than eating away at the traditional media, the growing popularity of the Internet will generate a windfall for offline news and entertainment, the study argues.
Mr. Murdoch (who bought the company that bought my last company) bought MySpace when it was convenient, generated a windfall from the Google deal, and now that its fortunes have soured, he is divesting from the medium: first Photobucket, then Rotten Tomatoes.
