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The company specializes in sale-leaseback transactions to clients including Google, Tesco and hundreds if not thousands of other businesses.
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Other countries, such as the U.K., Canada and Australia, offer similarly structured sale-leaseback deals, provided the studios use native actors or shoot portions of the film within their borders.
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The legal structure is akin to a sale-leaseback.
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Since interest is forbidden under Sharia law, companies enter sale-and-leaseback arrangements with trusts that issue certificates called sukuks.
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The social-security ministry, on the other hand, owns practically nothing, having already done a sale-and-leaseback deal on its benefit offices.
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Clients were encouraged to invest money supposedly to support the UK film industry and were then loaned money back, exploiting government tax relief rules on investment in new British films - so-called sale-and-leaseback schemes.
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It plans some one-off tricks, such as the sale and leaseback of its property portfolio.
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