In the last two years, the firm has been involved in 25 percent of the region's private equity deals, experience that has made Abraaj an important partner for buyout shops based in America that are looking to explore the area.
G.M.'s chief financial officer, Frederick A. Henderson, called the buyouts "an important step" in the reorganization of the troubled domestic auto industry.
The site has yet to turn a profit, but 20,000 new users are signing up every day, and, as Instagram proved, when it comes to buyouts, users are more important than revenue.
These are important rights because in past management-led buyouts, executives have scrambled to line up financing, sometimes failing miserably with little consequence.
"The Great Global Buyout Bubble" (DealBook, Nov. 13) raised important concerns about the buyout industry's rapid growth.
This tax-saving tactic has been important with most of the big takeovers and buyouts of the Eighties.
Since last summer, financing for the multibillion dollars deals has withered, depriving buyout firms of the headlines and, more important, the returns to which they had grown accustomed.
He cited the $2.9 billion of hard currency from the buyout that would flow immediately into South Africa as an important economic benefit.
That is important because N.B.A. teams are allowed to pay only $500,000 of a player's buyout.
Canada's highest court is moving to settle a dispute over the buyout of the country's largest telecom company that could set an important precedent on the legal position of bondholders.
