Sentence examples for stake swap from inspiring English sources

Call it a cross-border billionaire stake swap.

In early 2008 there was a lot of uncertainty surrounding Microsoft Corp's ill-fated attempt to take control of Yahoo Inc. Murdoch moved quickly and had discussions with Yahoo about a possible equity stake swap which would value Myspace at anywhere from $6 billion to $10 billion but those talks came to nothing.

PTT will maintain its 49percentt stake, swapping other refining assets for shares.

Selling the stake or swapping it for Merrill Lynch stock would have severe tax implications, say compensation experts.

"It cannot be in the group when the banks hold the equity," the executive said, referring to the plan for creditors to take a controlling stake by swapping some of Hyundai Construction's $5 billion debt for equity at the next shareholders' meeting in May.

Under the proposal, hedge funds, energy firms and other large players in the market must turn over daily reports detailing an array of private data, including their stakes in swaps and records of their trades.

But the small net number masks how much is at stake if the swaps do not behave after Greece's debt exchange as investors planned.

Meanwhile, the two will also swap stakes in each other: Borse Dubai will take a 20% share in NASDAQ, while the American exchange will take 33% of Dubai's International Financial Exchange, which controls Dubai Bourse.

They might, for example, swap stakes in each other in the manner of firms like Shell or Unilever to form a Eurospace or Eurospatiale group, retaining some national identity in each country but essentially working as one integrated aerospace group.

Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, which owned 30percentt of RTL, agreed to swap its stake for a 25percentt stake in Bertelsmann.

Some analysts have suggested that a voting interest in Time Warner would allow Liberty Media to swap its stake for Time Warner's 50percentt of television channel Court TV.