Their representative, the Aboriginal Working Group, which is seeking a majority stake in a pipeline, has hired the aboriginal banking unit of the Bank of Montreal to secure job guarantees, job training, service contracts and rent payments from pipeline companies.
MDC Partners, Toronto, is taking a majority stake in a new agency, the Bull-White House, New York, which is being opened by Matthew Bull, who had been chief creative officer of the Lowe & Partners Worldwide unit of the Interpublic Group of Companies.
In 1997, it acquired a majority stake in a maker of injection-molded polypropylene panels.
Today, he typically owns a majority stake in an oil or metals company.
Both have little option other than to come to terms with GM's decision not to sell a majority stake in the unit to Magna International, an Austrian-Canadian car parts maker, and Russia's Sberbank.
Siemens plans to sell a majority stake in the unit that owns the patents, Osram, the world's No. 2 maker of lighting technology after Philips, in three months.
Chinese antitrust officials allowed the Japanese company to sell a majority stake in its chip unit to an American-led group, a prelude to an easing of tensions between Washington and Beijing.
General Motors' sale of a majority stake in its financing unit to a group led by the private equity group Cerberus Capital Management received clearance yesterday from federal antitrust enforcers.
Under the deal, G.M. will sell a majority stake in its Opel unit to Magna International, a Canadian-Austrian group, and Sberbank, its Russian partner.
Comcast, which is acquiring a majority stake in the General Electric unit that holds NBC News and MSNBC, has also given to both governors' associations.
