Shell, the world's second-largest oil company, was founded in 1907 by the merger of Dutch and British petroleum giants.

壳牌公司是世界上第二大的石油公司，由荷兰与英国的石油巨头共同建立于1907年。

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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.

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Mervyn Jacobson read about Simons' bumpy journey and was smitten with the idea of finding value in junk DNA. In 1989 they formed GeneType and applied for their first patent covering noncoding regions and HLA. In 2000 GeneType pulled off a reverse merger with a publicly traded Australian shell company that formerly mined for gold.

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In a reverse merger, the private firm merges with a public shell company.

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