Was Fenway's capital injection enough to give it a controlling stake in the company?
One sticking point was that foreigners could not own a controlling stake in telecommunications companies.
That would give the family a controlling stake but it's not the only offer.
So in 2003 Gillette took a controlling stake in Fujian Nanping Nanfu Battery, China's dominant domestic maker.
Lichtenstein purchased a controlling stake in Park Avenue Bank in 2004 and installed Antonucci to run it.
Wharf obtained a controlling stake in the Hangzhou-based residential developer in mid-2012 after it became overstretched financially.
Glaxo provided the initial funding and holds a controlling stake, but the Cambridge, Mass. startup runs independently.
It also has interests overseas and recently bought a controlling stake in New York's landmark Plaza Hotel.
The group also has interests overseas, it recently bought a controlling stake in New York's landmark Plaza Hotel.
Tom Glocer, Reuters' well-regarded boss, will take the helm, but the Thomson family will own a controlling stake.
Adelson, with a controlling stake in the company, reportedly earned five hundred and ten million dollars from the sale.
In October, he sold off a controlling stake in his flour milling company to Tiger Brands of South Africa.
The Investcorp Gulf Opportunity Fund acquired a controlling stake in Hydrasun from private equity firm Equistone Partners Europe Ltd.
ENI, and though it still has a controlling stake in the firm, it hopes to sell more shares soon.
Gent, the CEO of Vodafone, was blocked by Vivendi from a controlling stake in Cegetel, France's No. 2 telecom.
Suzuki bought a controlling stake last year, reducing the government's holding to 45.5%.
Bentley is a VW subsidiary, and Porsche owns a controlling stake in Volkswagen.
Lyondell had itself acquired companies such as Millennium Chemicals in 2004 and a controlling stake in Equistar Chemicals in 2002.
Heineken is also tipped to take a controlling stake in Kaiser, Brazil's second-biggest brewer, which it might merge with Argentina's Quilmes.
Kazakhstan's sovereign-wealth fund, Samruk Kazyna, which also holds a controlling stake in BTA, owns a further 22% in the Turkish lender.
To address the first question, the answer is that we cannot always be certain whether 20 percent is a controlling stake.
Investors fumed when Alphatec announced in February it would buy a controlling stake in Submicron, a wafer-fabrication plant owned by Chaarn.
BayernLB and the Bavarian Finance Ministry, which has a controlling stake in the lender, didn't respond to a request for comment.
The deal is still being negotiated, but it emerged this week that Gazprom will probably end up with a controlling stake.
But the deal, in which DBS would buy a controlling stake from Singapore state investment firm Temasek Holdings, faces significant regulatory hurdles.
Last year he failed in his attempt to buy a controlling stake in the Letseng mine in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho.
Mr Szeles was hailed as a hero, and allowed to buy a controlling stake in the company he seemed to have rescued.
Tesla Motors, in which Mr. Musk had a controlling stake, was buffeted by financial problems and sucking up more of his time.
It comes a day after Australia approved Virgin's deal to purchase a controlling stake in Singapore Airlines' associate budget carrier Tiger Airways Australia.
It is common practice for large companies in Japan to list their subsidiaries on the stock market, while maintaining a controlling stake thereafter.
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