The problem in any transaction designed to squeeze out minority shareholders is that the incentive for the buyer is to pay the lowest price possible, but corporate leaders also have an obligation to protect all shareholders from an unfair transaction.
There is nothing murky about a transaction designed to transfer unexpected losses from the banking system to pools of private capital in a manner that has been approved by the regulator.
MADRID -- The state of Israel has acquired its address on Twitter, the microblogging Internet service, from the Spanish owner of a pornographic Web site, in an unusual transaction designed to help Israel exercise more influence over its image worldwide.
Prosecutors alleged, and the jury apparently agreed, that it was a sham transaction designed to allow her to say she paid for the car although one of her husband's companies really footed the bill.
Nowhere does Manur more clearly confirm this judgment than when he confronts León and reveals that his marriage is "purely a business transaction" designed to rescue Natalia's father from financial ruin.
If you didn't have political power yourself, you needed access to a godfather who did".Another interesting sidelight on Russian tycoons' relationship with Western banks came in Mr Sumption's account of how a $1.3 billion payment was made through a company controlled by an Arab princeling: an "artificial transaction" designed to satisfy money-laundering regulations, Mr Sumption said.
In other recent news about iLike, the company is rumored to be raising new capital in an unusual transaction designed to push out Ticketmaster, an investor since 2006.
We've confirmed from multiple sources that San Francisco/Seattle based music service iLike, which has been profitable since 2008, is raising new capital in an unusual transaction designed to push out Ticketmaster, an investor since 2006.
Other off-balance-sheet arrangements back complex transactions designed to insure institutional investors' holdings.
