Sentence examples for private merchant from inspiring English sources

Veronis Suhler, also in New York, is a private merchant bank that focuses on media, communications and information.

The purchasing group was organized by Leonard Green & Partners, a private merchant banking firm based in Los Angeles, and Texas Pacific Group, a private equity investment firm.

WELLS REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST INC., Norcross, Ga., a private REIT led by the Atlanta real estate investor Leo Wells III, purchased Aon Center, an 83-story skyscraper in Chicago, from Blackstone Group, New York, a private merchant bank.

So far, Clarke and Wilson have not been able to establish the exact circumstances of their wreck's final voyage — or, indeed, to determine whether she was a private merchant ship or perhaps a treasury ship of the Dutch East India Company.

G. Steven Burrill, the founder of Burrill & Company, a private merchant bank in San Francisco, said that the venture capital fund his company started in 1998 for agriculture and agricultural biotechnology companies had done well, raising about $85 million and generating a 300percentt return on the 13 companies in which it has invested.

In 1996, he worked in business development for Burrill & Company, a private merchant bank focused on life-sciences companies.

WEYERHAEUSER CO., Federal Way, Wash., a major seller of wood products, agreed to sell its custom-made door business to Saunders Karp & Megrue, Stamford, Conn., a private merchant-banking investment firm.

Rather, extreme pressures were put on private merchants and capitalists in late 1955 to "volunteer" their enterprises for transformation into "joint state-private" firms.

The intention had been to make Oriental trade a royal monopoly; but Portuguese, from viceroys to humble soldiers and seamen, became private merchants and lined their own pockets to the deprivation of the royal treasury.

He runs an organization that provides a variety of services to villagers in this area — legal aid, financial assistance to help them organize marriage and death ceremonies, and free refrigerated coffin boxes that they would otherwise have to procure at exorbitant rates from private merchants.

Both Grinnell and Murphy allowed private merchants to store goods not claimed on the docks in private warehouses for exorbitant fees.