Even so, that record price probably had much to do with the previous owner.
The management buy-out bought MFI from its previous owner, private equity group Merchant Equity Partners (MEP).
To show how far Chelsea has come, look no further than its previous owner, Ken Bates.
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Take the Rangers who under previous owner Tom Hicks filed for bankruptcy under a pile of debt.
Daniel Searle, the former chairman of Searle Pharmaceutical, bought the painting legitimately from a previous owner in 1987.
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Frost is taking sole control of the club from previous owner Colin Horton, who will stay on as promoter.
Victims' families are taking action against the previous owner but it has been decided the vessel is not needed.
The protesters marched from the community centre to Hagley Hall, the home of the land's previous owner Lord Cobham.
But a lawyer for the club's previous owner, Ali Al Faraj, will challenge whether such a takeover can go through.
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The grounds offer up olive and citrus trees and organic herb gardens thanks to the previous owner, a TV chef.
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To top it off, the fear over lawsuits that may emanate from how the previous owner maintained the land always exists.
The auction house did not identify the dress' previous owner, who purchased the garment at Sotheby's in New York in 1989.
The previous owner, lighting technician Mike Leonard, was landlord and friend to the band and even inspired their earliest name, Leonard's Lodgers.
If you can't get receipts from the previous owner, take pictures to document the high-end appliances or fancy shrubs you're writing off.
The weirdest thing about our new house is that the previous owner plastered opaque film over every window, blocking out all natural light.
Whether by crafting a great new name or wresting one from a previous owner, online retailers would do well to master the domain game.
The team's previous owner, Clark Enterprises, a consortium of 19 St.
If your house hasn't been appraised in years, be prepared for a hike, especially if the previous owner made changes that weren't recorded in the assessment.
The previous owner displayed the bowl in their living room for several years before they became curious about its origins and had it assessed, Leung said.
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And there is a separate case about the rights to use the historic Team Lotus name, which Fernandes bought from its previous owner David Hunt last year.
The previous owner of The Sorrel Horse in Shottisham, Suffolk intended to sell the pub for housing, prompting local people set up a company to buy it.
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The money market fund might then use the funds to buy government bonds, but that would just transfer the bank balance to the previous owner of those bonds.
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The artist disliked the glass walls on the entire side of the house that the previous owner had installed, because he felt the light in Dali was too bright.
For example, you buy a home and later learn that the previous owner paid so little real estate tax that the local government has put a lien on the property.
Like the Rangers and its previous owner, Tom Hicks, the Dodgers and Frank McCourt have debt problems with hordes of creditors chomping at the bit to get what is owed them.
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The Massone-led Italian consortium took control of Livingston last summer and the present chairman has blamed debt problems inherited from previous owner Pearce Flynn for financial problems that plagued them throughout last season.
For example, suppose that you buy a multi-unit building only to be notified later by your city that the previous owner had not obtained the necessary permits required to convert it from a single-family dwelling.
Resolution has already been held up by the sale of the other The Daily, the fashion news magazine, to its founder, Brandusa Niro, by its previous owner, the sports marketing and fashion conglomerate IMG.
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The Tenby Observer, in Pembrokeshire, survives today mainly because he refocused it on Tenby and its doings after its previous owner had made it regional, renamed it the West Wales Observer and pushed it into bankruptcy.
"The previous owner were cheap, no two ways about it, but the Glazers would spend nothing other than top-dollar on coaches and players to get the team to where they wanted it to be, " Cummings added.
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