The privately-held firm, based in Lawrenceville, N.

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This includes a merger of two publicly-traded firms, the acquisition of a privately-held company by a publicly-traded one, and the purchase of publicly-traded firm by private equity.

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In 1984 I was CEO and co-founder of Bentley Publishing Group, a privately held firm based in Walnut Creek, Calif.

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Obama denied permits for a privately held China firm to build a wind farm in green-as-can-be Oregon.

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This privately held firm may be small, but it managed to get a natural-gas-fired power plant completed in New York City in 2006.

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Another example he gives: When Pharmacopeia (nasdaq: PCOP - news - people ), a biotechnology company, tried to buy EOS , a privately held firm, Orbimed Advisors, Pharmacopeia's biggest shareholder, launched a vocal critique that sunk the deal.

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Privately held biotech firm Tolerx, allied with GlaxoSmithkline, aims to begin, by summer, a final-stage trial of its anti-CD3 drug, otelixizumab, in 250 newly diagnosed adults.

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