Sentence examples for set up to acquire from inspiring English sources

The pooled vehicles being set up to acquire Facebook stock, for instance, could push the company's shareholder count above 499 if the S.E.C. counted the number of investors in the funds.

The 57th Street General Acquisition Corporation is a so-called special-purpose acquisition company - a publicly held investment fund that has no operations of its own but a pool of capital that is set up to acquire an operating business.

Bob Diamond, ousted as boss of Barclays last year after the Libor-rigging scandal, potentially stands to reap millions of pounds from a new stock market venture set up to acquire financial services companies in Africa.

Messrs Towers, Beale, Edwards and Stephenson were each issued with £2.5m of loan notes as part payment for the shares they owned in Techtronic (2000) Limited, the special purpose vehicle set up to acquire MG Rover.

Olivia Petroleum was set up to acquire and develop an oil storage facility called Istamelsa in Cadiz, on Spain's south-western coast, but the Guardian understands that the project was never completed.

The separate legal body set up to acquire the aircraft, known as a special-purpose entity, would be substantially controlled by the government, so "its transactions should be reflected in the federal budget," the report said.

It was set up to buy securities that A.I.G. had acquired through a subsidiary that lends stocks owned by the insurer to other investors for purposes like short-selling.

Protium was set up mainly to acquire and manage the Barclays assets.

Protium was set up mainly to acquire and manage the Barclays assets and is run by Mr. King and Mr. Keeley's asset management firm, C12 Capital Management.

It means, simply, that larger publishers – those who can afford to set up or acquire a UK imprint – can submit.

Tomography tilt series were taken using the FEI batch tomography software to set up and automatically acquire sample images with a tilt range from −70 to +70°.