It went public that September, with the ticker THIN, by merging with a shell company.
The interpretation may seem a touch cynical, but how about a skilfully beatified shell company?
With 68% voting control of Hollinger International through a Canadian shell company he also controls, Hollinger Inc.
In a reverse merger, the private firm merges with a public shell company.
So a deal was reached, through a shell company, for Apple to purchase that trademark for a trivial sum.
Thalveg, it turns out, is a shell company, sister to others with names like Orange Computer, Purple Mountain Server and Maquis Techtrix.
Proview had a product called the IPAD, Apple set up a shell company to buy the trademark from them.
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That means shareholders of Q-Telecom would receive 2.8 times the multiple their shell company, Troy, was paying TIM Hellas investors.
The shell company ostensibly was going to sell gas condensate to Russia, but didn't do a very good job of it.
Forus was owned by Forus Holding (Luxembourg), which in turn was owned at least partly by a Lausanne shell company named Anros.
Once the shell company has raised money from the public market, its executives begin to look for a promising startup to acquire.
Crumbs went public in June 2011 after a shell company bought it.
But in a complicated dispute, Proview claimed Apple set up a shell company to fool it into selling the trademark.
And hundreds, perhaps thousands, of the faithful bought, sending the stock, once a Utah shell company, climbing from 8 cents to 48 cents.
We can ditch the definition of shell company altogether and also this extra step of trying to reclaim costs only in hopeless cases.
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NewGen Technologies, which says it plans to build several hundred million dollars' worth of ethanol refineries, was formed out of a shell company.
Proview had argued that Apple didn't negotiate in good faith, using a shell company that promised not to make competing products under the iPad label.
Siwei is a subsidiary of ERA Mining Machinery, a Hong Kong-listed firm controlled by a shell company whose principals are two American entrepreneurs in China.
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Burger King was taken private in 2010 by 3G Capital, a New York-based investment firm, and will soon become publicly traded through a merger with a shell company.
Or alternatively, Apple could have set up a new shell company, as they did when buying the iPad name off Proview, not that that worked out entirely wonderfully.
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Compounding the purportedly false audit representations, the Complaint asserts that JMA is not a legitimate accounting firm but rather a shell company that Murray secretly created and controlled.
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The banks that will be allowed to bid are those that are small, such as Virgin Money or the shell company NBNK, or foreign, such as National Australia Bank.
He founded Geely in 1998 without a government license, then bought out a Hong Kong-listed shell company, giving him access to capital markets and the flexibility to grow as he wished.
The basic idea being to float a shell company in London, raise some cash, then use the cash and the float to reverse in some large but foreign and privately owned resource company.
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His Conoil Producing, which was founded as Shell Company of Nigeria in 1927 and privatized in 2000, is one of Nigeria's largest independent oil companies, with a production capacity of 100, 000 barrels per day.
The big advantage is the speed of getting to market and reduced out of pocket expenses, though there are considerable costs associated with shares that are sold after the transactions by members of the shell company.
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Bias, after his release from prison, had formed a five-state network of salesmen to find investors to fund restaurant REITs managed by the shell company he had created--FIIK. He also controlled Richmond Energy in Houston, which owned a chain of Mexican restaurants.
Picture Frame Innovations, for example, is a shell company armed with a patent that had once been held by IV, and though it is unclear if IV retained a stake in it, the shell has sued Eastman Kodak and Hewlett-Packard for infringement.
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