The Irish state-owned firm finalised the details of the takeover with NIE's parent company Viridian last December.
Margaret Thatcher thought she was getting Rover off the government's back when she sold the state-owned firm in 1988.
Thus, the Chinese state-owned firm Sinochem has hired HSBC for advice on how to proceed with a bid for POT.
The deal gives the Chinese state-owned firm a 51% stake in the joint venture, with Rio taking a 49% stake.
Pertamina, the state-owned firm that administers the subsidy, is facing a desperate cash crunch, and has resorted to running down its stocks.
The British-based Messier-Dowty unit of French state-owned firm Snecma, would build the Boeing jet's landing gear, a substantial and expensive part of any aircraft.
France is supporting the former head of a state-owned firm to be the chairwoman of EADS, even as the company works to simplify its ownership structure and reduce government interference.
Ampal announced on its website on Sunday that EGAS and the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC), another state-owned firm, had told EMG that they were "terminating the Gas Supply and Purchase Agreement".
Anton Siluanov, Russia's finance minister, said the Cypriots were seeking to get Russian companies to invest in a state-owned firm managing revenues from the island's newfound offshore gas deposits and give Russian companies a stake in that company.
According to the court documents, between 2006 and 2008, Zhang collaborated with several investors to acquire shares of Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Group under the name Yunnan Xingyunxin Investment, which is affiliated with the state-owned firm Yunnan Tobacco.
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Moreover, state-owned banks are only too happy to lend to a fellow state-owned firm in pursuit of the government's fond goal of boosting clean forms of power generation at the expense of grubby coal the main fuel for China's power stations.
Moscow's flexing of its muscles in the energy sector - which saw state-owned firm Gazprom temporarily cut off gas supplies to neighbouring Ukraine - as well as new rules for the foreign ownership of Russian companies and export tax rises, all have implications for BP.
After five years, the notoriously sharp-elbowed Alfa Group has settled its differences with Telenor, a largely state-owned Norwegian firm that is its partner in mobile-phone ventures in Russia and Ukraine, called VimpelCom and Kyivstar respectively.
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The In Amenas plant - a joint venture between state-owned oil firm Sonatrach, UK multinational BP and Norway's Statoil - has been operating since 2006 and has a production capacity of nine billion cubic meters per year.
He would not comment on the types of clients the firm caters to, but it reportedly has a contract with Mubadala, a state-owned investment firm in Abu Dhabi.
SeaFrance, which was owned by French state-owned rail firm SNCF, went into liquidation in November 2011.
These reach to within 37 nautical miles (68km) of Vietnam's coast, according to PetroVietnam, a Vietnamese state-owned oil firm.
It subsequently ended up in the hands of Rosneft, a state-owned oil firm.
On Wednesday the government confirmed that an attempt to privatise the last big state-owned oil firm, Rosneft, had been a fiasco, hitting revenues once more.
Rio was seeking to shore up its finances (and fend off any future bids) by bringing in Chinalco, a state-owned Chinese firm, as a big shareholder.
The Canadian government has approved the sale of oil company Nexen to state-owned Chinese firm CNOOC, but said it would likely block any such future takeovers.
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Petronas is often compared to Petrobras, Brazil's partly state-owned oil firm, which has also built an enviable reputation in competition with the titans of the industry.
This week, the Saudi cabinet approved plans to sell most of the government's stake in the country's main insurer, and some of its shares in Maaden, a state-owned mining firm.
Punj Lloyd got its first overseas break as a sub-contractor to PT Trihasra Bimanusa Tunggal, an Indonesian firm with Suharto family ties that had the contract to build a 130-mile pipeline for Pertamina, the state-owned petroleum firm.
Lithuania has not signed economic deals with Russia as Latvia has, and Vilnius has repeatedly called out Russian energy behemoth Gazprom over unbundling issues, even going so far as threatening to take the state-owned energy firm to court.
Although the Saudi authorities do not release much evidence to support their claims of vast oil reserves, engineers from Saudi Aramco, the state-owned oil firm, do give talks at conferences and publish papers about their experience of reservoir modelling and management.
CNOOC, a state-owned Chinese oil firm that wanted to buy America's Unocal last year, America foolishly strengthened this mercantilist instinct.
Nufarm itself only barely avoided being acquired in 2007 in a joint bid by an American private-equity firm and a Chinese state-owned company.
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