More than 12, 000 private shareholders and 100 institutional investors have raised a class action against the bank.
Earlier this month more than 12, 000 private shareholders and 100 institutional investors raised a class action against the bank.
The more complex a company's structure, Mr Lazzarini finds, the less consumers and private shareholders benefit from public investment in it.
Private shareholders, now exempt from capital-gains tax if they hold their shares for more than a year, will no longer be so.
The continued slide in share prices and the corporate scandals of the past year or so have knocked the stuffing out of private shareholders.
The state banks now have private shareholders, many of them foreigners.
If lower interest rates lift share prices, this may boost consumer spending as private shareholders feel wealthier, or spur corporate investment by reducing the cost of capital.
The new structures are open, in theory, to private shareholders.
The conflict at TNK-BP remains a dispute between private shareholders.
There are also around 2, 200 private shareholders (one of the biggest, with 5.6% of the bank, is Theo Siegert, a German, though his voting rights are limited to 100 shares).
Relatedly, as we show, the corporate dominance of the developed nations is steadily receding--many of the big government companies in the rest of the world are taking on private shareholders and qualifying.
Addressing a large group of mainly private shareholders at the meeting, Mr Cook -- sitting on a high stool, and dressed in a black shirt and jeans -- defended Apple's growth rate and recent performance.
In theory, the presence of private shareholders in DB ML should reduce its ability to win special treatment from DB Netz, though Mr Mehdorn will, bizarrely, continue to head both DB and DB ML. The privatisation represents a step towards the British model, in which private firms run trains on a state-owned network.
SharesPost, which is known for its website for buying and selling private company stock, is launching a new program to lend cash to shareholders in private companies in order for them to exercise their stock options.
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Regulators are desperate to avoid a situation where shareholders bank private profits but losses are borne by the taxpayer.
Some shareholders of private company stock options face a tax issue when the company has an IPO or other liquidity event.
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The act quadruples the number of shareholders that private companies can have (from 499 to 2, 000) before they have to go public.
In early December, an individual investor in Facebook shared with me the talk among in-the-know investors: that the limited liability companies being created to buy shares of Facebook stock on the secondary market were somehow exploiting an SEC loophole that limits the number of shareholders in private companies to 499.
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But the problem is that the profits of private enterprise go exclusively to shareholders.
One antiquated rule that the SEC might relax is the limit of 500 shareholders in a private company.
And there is scant prospect of a hostile tender offer to rescue the shareholders of a mismanaged private REIT.
This can't be a bailout of private-equity firms or existing shareholders.
An SEC rule requires private firms with 500 or more shareholders of record in a given type of stock to publish quarterly accounts and audited financial statements.
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Having failed to do so he reversed course in 2008 and came up with a clever scheme in which he, along with China Netcom, PCCW's second-largest shareholder, would take the company private, buying out the other shareholders for slightly less than he would receive from the company in a special dividend issued after the deal's completion.
Private companies with more than 500 outside shareholders are required to disclose certain financial information.
The companies were overwhelmingly private with few having more than 10 shareholders, especially in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Four media men (including Nazri) are theoretically the major shareholders of MRCB through a private company, Realmild, of which they each own 25%.
At companies owned by private equity, the board and the shareholders are one and the same: their directors are hardly under the thumb of managers.
The hope is that private banks run for the benefit of shareholders will lend more productively and more prudently than the big four have managed to date.
In the U.S. an investor lawsuit pending in a state court in Houston, Tex. argues that Goldman, in advising pipeline operator Kinder Morgan in a going-private buyout last year, shortchanged public shareholders.
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