The sellers of privately held shares are usually former employees or early investors who are looking to cash out.
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We held shares of Isilon for years after the IPO until its exit last fall via acquisition by EMC.
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Milner talked about how his investments are mainly done through secondary transactions, buying privately held shares from employees and investors.
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Only a quarter held shares before the crash of 1987, and only 3% on the eve of the crash of 1929.
In 1997, Renault, in which the French government held shares, announced that it was closing a factory at Vilvoorde, on the outskirts of Brussels.
Berkshire at points in the 1970s held shares in Scripps Howard, Booth Newspapers, Harte-Hanks Communications and Affiliated Publications, then the owner of the Boston Globe.
Kerner's ambitions rest on his goal to vastly expand the market for trading in privately held shares--from a few well-known names like Facebook, Twitter and Zynga to hundreds of smaller, earlier-stage names.
Last year, for instance, a group of British and American investment funds beat off an attempt by the French government, for political reasons, to strip a French mining company in which they held shares of a licence to dig in Canada.
The following day, she responded that her husband had never owned the shares, a claim that has since been called into question by evidence from Italy that Mr Mills had held the shares through a trust in which he may have had a beneficial interest.
Those who ignored the Forbes warning and held their shares may yet be bailed out.
The tax liability can be especially galling if a fund's wunderkind held onto shares for less than a year.
He held those shares until the stock rebounded, earning himself a small profit.
Furthermore, the 20-week moving average is quickly descending into the 18 region, an area that has held the shares in check since early November.
On my calculations of the asset allocation in the Church of England Funded Pensions Scheme, 84% is held in shares, property and derivatives - or what are perceived to be riskier assets.
Furthermore, traders have placed their bets on the long side, as there are only a few million shares held short, which we consider rather small for a stock that has more than 75 million shares outstanding.
Next May, another 47.3 million shares held by Mail.ru and DST Global become free trading.
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Any shares held in the ESOP were immediately vested and tucked into the 401(k).
And most important for AIG, Greenberg would return to AIG the shares held by Starr International.
Shares held by individuals for more than one year will be liable to capital-gains tax.
Facebook fell 3.9% as a post-IPO lockup expired on millions of shares held by employees.
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Class B holders will likewise get one AMC share for every four Cablevision Class B shares held.
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On May 18, 2013, the lock-up expires on 47 million shares held by Mail.ru and DST Global.
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On December 14, the lock-up expires on 156 million shares held by selling holders in the IPO.
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Another 777 million shares held by employees, insiders and early investors will become available for trading on 14 November.
The fraction of shares held in cross-shareholdings has fallen to 37%, from 52% in 1991, according to Goldman Sachs.
Coming into their earnings release, Coinstar had about 28% of its shares held short as some traders doubted their business model.
The Malkins need 80% of the shares held by the Empire State Building's 2, 800 owners to vote in favor of the plan.
With husband Michael Vlock, an investor, Karen has held onto her shares.
The Class A shares offered to the public carry one-tenth of the voting power of the Class B shares held by team ownership.
Under terms of the spin, each Cablevision Class A holder will get one AMC Networks Class A share for every four shares held.
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