Word: buy-out
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...when Mark Zuckerberg first launched TheFacebook, buy-out and investment offers came early and fervently—even before the site expanded to schools other than Harvard...
...buyer to emerge? LeaseTrading com launched a new feature this summer that lets qualified sellers drop out of a lease immediately. Naturally, it will cost you: so-called Instant LeaseRelease requires that you pay half your car's negative equity, which is the difference between the lease buy-out price and what the car is actually worth. It may be a fraction of what the dealer would charge, but you may want to think twice before driving down that road...
...labyrinthine accounting, but insists Tanzi was calling the shots. The scandal burst into the open in November, when Parmalat had trouble meeting a routine bond payment, prompting tougher scrutiny of its books by its own auditors and Italian regulators. In early December the Tanzis held talks with the U.S. buy-out firm Blackstone Group about a possible sale - and mentioned that Parmalat's published accounts didn't tell the whole story, according to the sec lawsuit...
...Pirelli's 80% premium was an offer they couldn't refuse. In one of the more controversial points of the takeover, however, the 80% premium was not offered to all Olivetti shareholders. By keeping their share of Olivetti under 30%, Pirelli and Benetton were not obliged to offer the buy-out to all investors. Minority shareholders are understandably furious, especially since Olivetti dropped 15.3% the first day after the deal...
...Others, however, talk of a different kind of nitty-gritty. "Works councilors are always getting buy-out offers and threats," says Todd Toussaint, an American who ran a council at the Berlitz language schools before starting his own company. "I've been on both sides of the table and talked to a lot of councilors, and I can't see that they solve problems at smaller companies." His advice: know your value and fight for it, and if that doesn't work, quit...