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Minsheng, unlike the bulk of its peers, is privately owned and was prepared to settle for a minority stake.

That afternoon, Thain met Lewis ready to discuss the sale of a minority stake in Merrill Lynch.

If the parent company decides to sell only a minority stake in the business, the exercise is called a partial spin-off.

Blackstone is believed to be in the advanced stages of planning an initial public offering (IPO) of a minority stake, perhaps 10%.

Prudential Financial Inc. has a minority stake in the bank's brokerage unit, created in a joint venture in 2003.

By negotiating for a minority stake, Coke is returning to a formula used in most China deals.

Many of those deals saw Sinochem take a passive minority stake in the oil assets, but the group is now reaching for outright acquisitions.

Better, he thinks, to have the assurance of a trusted Chinese partner holding a minority stake.

Cathay paid HK$8. 22bn ($1. 05bn) last September for control of Dragonair, in which it had a minority stake.

Billions of dollars more are available for growth capital investments, when funds take a minority stake in a business.

TravelJigsaw's management retains a minority stake in the company and will stay on to manage its next stage.

The Brazilian government has a minority stake in Petrobras's equity, but a majority of the voting shares.

Buying a minority stake would almost certainly go down better than an outright Chinese takeover of Potash.

And if Cohen gets his minority stake in the Mets, he could be an intriguing addition to the management team.

Mitsubishi exports polyethylene sheets to China from Sharq, a Saudi Arabian petrochemical company in which it owns a minority stake.

The deal promptly ran into trouble, forcing Carlyle to revise its bid to a minority stake at a higher price.

He also owns a minority stake in Wentworth golf club, in partnership with Richard Caring, the restaurant entrepreneur, who owns the rest.

Many in China involve merely taking a passive minority stake through a convertible bond shortly before the company goes public.

Arguably, by taking a minority stake in Suzuki, without the demands of actual integration, it should not overstretch itself.

CIC is in discussions on taking a minority stake in AES Corp. , a U. S. power-plant developer based in Virginia.

The governments of Belgium and Luxemburg will in return take a minority stake in BNP Paribas.

It will float or sell privately to financial investors most of Europe's third largest semiconductor business, but retain a minority stake.

The minority stake remains the largest outward investment made by a Chinese bank.

DBS Asset Management has also agreed to take a minority stake in Myo.

That would allow existing shareholders to keep a minority stake and to benefit from growth.

is published by Adicio Inc. , in which Wall Street Journal owner News Corp. holds a minority stake.

This week it denied rumours that it was in talks to buy a minority stake in India's Reliance Communications.

Carlyle, a private-equity firm, owns a minority stake in Sandler, for instance.

Ford and Mazda together own 50% of the joint venture, but individually they are minority stake holders.

In some countries, the cost per share for a minority stake is 40% lower than the share price for a controlling block.

GE owns a minority stake in Topstar, a Chinese-government-owned fluorescent manufacturer.

In March TPG sold its minority stake in Parkway Holdings, a chain operating 16 hospitals in half a dozen Asian countries, for $685m.

Blackstone paid about US$190 million for its minority stake in Dili last year, he added.

"Agreeing to a minority stake is a humiliation for Carlyle, " said one Hong Kong-based banker.

Last year he bought a minority stake in China Oriental, another steel company.

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Lenovo, a maker of PCs, in which theChineseAcademyof Sciences has a large minority stake;

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