For its study, CarGurus analyzed vehicle history reports for 2 million listings posted by dealers and private sellers on its website in 2012.
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Federally licensed gun shops must use the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS. Private sellers and gun shows have no background check requirement.
But studies I have conducted indicate that stricter regulations of gun sales, whether by retail dealers or by private sellers, are associated with fewer guns diverted to criminals.
According to the US justice department, up to 40% of gun purchases take place without a background check - those from private sellers and some at gun shows.
In the meantime, we expect most of the initial acquisition activity to be in smaller, less visible and less politically contentious deals where the negotiations between Chinese buyers and private sellers can be carried out under the radar and over a longer period of time.
Recently a lot has been written about the emergence of new private company stock marketplaces (often referred to s secondary marketplaces) where buyers and sellers of private company securities can connect and transact.
At the time, so-called secondary funds, investment partnerships set up to purchase existing private equity fund stakes, expected distressed sellers to drive down prices and flood the market.
Initial public offerings and other securities activities have a radically different risk profile than sophisticated buyers and sellers setting the price on a private company in a fully-negotiated transaction.
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Meanwhile, in a sign of regulators' growing concern about evolving electronic trading, the SEC staff is also studying rules for so-called dark pools, private electronic-trading networks that match buyers and sellers anonymously.
Consignors and sellers often wish to remain anonymous, and few private collections have been published.
Trbovich feels the threat of short-sellers is one of the reasons Glassman wants to go private.
Other sellers are public companies that have decided to reduce their private-equity investments or to get rid of them altogether.
The danger for sellers is that they may pay several hundred pounds to a private sale website, but still fail to find a buyer.
Banks and other motivated sellers also need cash and want to avoid future commitments to private equity funds in which they are limited partners.
Many of the Facebook shares are being sold by former employees in deals arranged on private-stock exchanges like SecondMarket and SharesPost, which match buyers and sellers.
As SecondMarket offers liquidity to more private companies, founders and top executives must grapple with how much information to give employees who are also potential sellers and how to construct insider trading rules.
Much of this comes from distressed sellers, dumping their stakes cheaply to avoid having to meet their obligation to cough up more money when private-equity funds demand it.
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