Our private equity owners then provided some additional cash so we could test our ideas.
Sure, the new equity owners will have seats at the table, but you are still ultimately in control.
That three-pennies-on-the-dollar payback, incidentally, is even less than the 5 cents that class action equity owners typically get.
The Philadelphia Inquirer'snew private-equity owners found themselves facing a possible strike after they tried to lay off workers.
Corporate earnings are robust and lenders desperate for business, so private-equity owners are borrowing still more against firms' growing cashflow.
Thank the increasingly popular trick known as dividend recapitalization, in which operating companies take on big loans to make payouts to their private-equity owners.
By keeping the company intact, the private-equity owners are able to fix the problems, and by preserving the employees, the customers and the business, society at large benefits.
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Obama has failed to succor the 20% of home owners still carrying negative equity on their homes.
FirstBuy has a similar aim for first-time buyers, but instead of paying rent, owners take out an equity loan to finance the balance.
By working with business owners, you receive equity in the business.
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This, in concert with the Federal Reserve in the United States jacking short-term rates above bond yields and home owners unable to extract equity from their homes they way they have in past years, does not have a salutary effect on the U.S. or world economy.
In that same column, I surmised that any new tax revenue would likely be pursued in the form of proposals the President has previously pitched but failed to turn into law, such as eliminating preferences for the oil and gas industries, private jet owners, and private equity fund managers.
Team owners would take an equity stake in the sanctioning body, share more of the national broadcast and sponsorship revenue and could borrow, as football and baseball team owners do, against that stake to invest in the drivers and technology that can make their teams better and the sport more exciting.
Customers and taxpayers are protected and owners and management lose their equity.
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They can start giving equity back to owners, by paying bigger dividends or buying back shares, so that investors can redeploy their capital to industries in which the pickings are better.
Weber has been in companies with all kinds of owners, from public investors to private equity firms.
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However, with mortgage lending booming, house prices surging and home-owners tempted to borrow against the rising equity in their homes, the Bank will be worried about inflation.
If a government recapitalisation does prove necessary, the treasury is likely to take one of two routes: a preferred-stock investment that allows the agencies to raise more capital of their own, or nationalisation through a common-equity injection that leaves current owners with nothing, and thus offers the taxpayer a better deal.
What NFL owners really crave are more revenue streams are equity stakes in regional sports networks like some MLB, NBA and NHL franchises enjoy.
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Their deals are long term, do not have opt-outs, and the team owners make money from dividend payouts from their equity stakes and their big payday is in the capital appreciation of the RSN.
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The maker of windows, doors and cabinets is seeing a lot of homeowners with cash to spend taking on projects, while younger owners who took on projects funded by home equity lines of credit or other borrowing during the boom years have been largely absent.
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In an interview with Radio 5 live's Sportsweek programme, Mr Purslow said Liverpool's US owners would not be leaving and were trying to raise new equity for the club.
The two owners would open this tranche of senior debt to other investors for equity warrants.
Building up a little equity is a good idea, a democracy of property owners is a different thing from a country with a small group of rentiers and a mass of renters.
Currently, the New York Yankees, whose games are televised on YES, own 34% of the network, while Goldman Sachs owns 34%, a group led by Ray Chambers and the former owners of the Brooklyn Nets owns about 27%, and Providence Equity owns about 5%.
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When China invests it secures an equity share of production on terms comparable to other co-owners (mainly the host country).
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Scott Milleison, who runs the Sports Finance Group at JP Morgan Private Bank, was recently guest on Forbes SportsMoney on the YES Network, where he discussed the new owners in sports that have come from venture capital, technology and private equity industries are increasing team values.
The Equity Group Investments that Zell and Lurie ran was one of the largest owners of real estate in the country and held stakes in more than a dozen operating companies.
Late last year, IBRA selected a group led by Newbridge Capital and Gilbert Global Equity Partners, both U.S. investment funds, to be Astra's new owners.
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