"nominal ownership" is correct and usable in written English.
It typically refers to the symbolic or technical ownership of something, as opposed to actual control over it. For example, you might say, "John is listed as the nominal owner of the property, but his brother manages it."
Nominal ownership of the firm was transferred at that time to Zhang Yuhong, a Wen family friend, who the New York Times reported had connections with the Wen family's business interests.
He retained nominal ownership of the magazine — and full financial responsibility for it — but it now had an obligation to print at least one RGS-related story in every issue.
MERS routinely took nominal ownership of mortgages written by its constituent banks, thereby undermining the traditional state system of mortgage and property ownership records keeping.
The only caveat is that an employer may not grant nominal ownership shares to an employee simply to skirt the non-compete laws.
"In '88, we weren't walking down the street saying 'native title now.' We were marching down the street saying 'we want land rights now,'" Mason said, highlighting that land rights result in actual Aboriginal control of the land and its resources, rather than just nominal ownership.
State real estate laws, he said, "do not have provisions authorizing financial institutions to use the name of a shell company," in large part because "the point of these statutes is to provide a transparent, reliable record of actual — as opposed to nominal — land ownership".
The bank or bondholder gets nominal part-ownership of the asset in question, and receives rental payments rather than interest payments from the issuer.
Instead of receiving interest payments on lent money, as in a standard bond, a sukuk generally entitles its possessor to (nominal) part-ownership of an asset; he then receives income either from profits generated by that asset or from rental payments made by the issuer.
This resulted in generation of a nominal variable, "ownership-adjusted high-risk local exposure" (OWHRLE) with three levels: (i) no high-risk local exposure (OWHRLEno), (ii) high-risk local exposure within ownership (OWHRLEin), and (iii) high-risk local exposure outside of ownership (OWHRLEout).
It is more useful to think of this administration as pursuing a European-style corporate state, a form of political economy that allows the state to exert strong control in the economy while maintaining a nominal façade of private ownership.
At worst, even nominal success would result in greater ownership of listed fossil fuel businesses with people and institutions that have less interest in protecting the environment, further gridlocking the ability to make changes within these businesses.
