* Private Equity – Doughty Hanson ’ s buyout team focuses on majority ownership and control of market-leading businesses at the upper end of the European middle-market with enterprise values between € 250m and € 1bn.

The Decca label is currently in use by Universal Music Group worldwide ; this is possible because Universal Studios ( which officially dropped the MCA name after the Seagram buyout in 1997 ) acquired PolyGram, British Decca's parent company in 1998, thus consolidating Decca trademark ownership.

Ultimately unsuccessful in preventing the buyout, Rodamco's ownership interest and management operation of the mall was acquired by Simon Property Group in early 2002.

The company returned to private ownership when it was acquired in a leveraged buyout led by Forstmann Little & Company in 1984.

KKR would begin to reduce its ownership in RJR, when in 1994, its stock in RJR was used as part of the consideration for its leveraged buyout of Borden, Inc., a producer of food and beverage products, consumer products, and industrial products, in a highly complex and unprecedented transaction.

A management buyout in 1995 saw the end of Mattel ownership and a new company was born, Corgi Classics Limited.

The Progressive Party had opposed the public buyout of Boston's streetcar system, which it argued enriched the previous private ownership and was followed by higher fares to city residents.

On August 3, 2007, Limited Brands transferred 75 % ownership of its flagship Limited chain to buyout firm Sun Capital Partners Inc.

* The Limited-on August 3, 2007, Limited Brands transferred 75 % ownership of its flagship Limited chain to buyout firm Sun Capital Partners Inc.

Under Thomson's ownership Routledge's name and operations were retained, and in 1996 a management buyout financed by the European private equity firm Cinven saw Routledge operating as an independent concern once more.

Beneficial retained ownership until 1985, when the company was purchased in a leveraged buyout led by Western Auto management and Wesray Capital Corporation.

The Metro Radio Group itself was bought out by EMAP in 1996 and ownership rules at the time meant that as they already owned neighbouring Radio Aire in Leeds something had to be sold on, and that was The Pulse and its sister station Classic Gold which were purchased in a management buyout from senior staff and ex-Metro Group executives.

A buyout of Radio Investments saw the station rebrand to 107. 2 Win FM in 2004 under the ownership of The Local Radio Company.

In January 2008, Windsong completed a buyout from Arvato, gaining independent ownership again.

He was also unable to save Northern Songs from a buyout by ATV, which took away ownership of nearly all the band's song copyrights.

In finance, a buyout is an investment transaction by which the ownership equity of a company, or a majority share of the stock of the company is acquired.

Romney negotiated a ten-year retirement agreement with Bain Capital that allowed him to receive a passive profit share and interest as a retired partner in some Bain Capital entities, including buyout and Bain Capital investment funds, in exchange for his ownership in the management company.

WLTW Program Director Jim Ryan has denied these firings were part of the company's cost cutting that were going on at all the other Clear Channel stations in preparation for their conversion the leveraged buyout that took the company from public to private ownership in 2006, but rather from their desire to improve ratings.

Other reasons for restructuring include a change of ownership or ownership structure, demerger, or a response to a crisis or major change in the business such as bankruptcy, repositioning, or buyout.

He also asked the General Assembly to appropriate funds for a one-time staff buyout ; to work with him in revising budgetary and human resources rules ; to grant the Secretary-General more managerial authority and flexibility ; to strengthen the Office of Internal Oversight Services ; and " to review all mandates older than five years to see whether the activities concerned are still genuinely needed or whether the resources assigned to them can be reallocated in response to new and emerging challenges ".

A more recent paper ( Harris, Jenkinson and Kaplan, 2012 ) found that average buyout fund returns in the U. S. have actually exceeded that of public markets.

Johnson received compensation worth more than $ 60 million from the buyout, then left in February 1989.

As the financing markets became more adverse in the summer of 2007, the buyout was on tenuous ground.

Piniella had one more season remaining on his contract from October 2002, but agreed to a $ 2. 2 million buyout, in lieu of $ 4. 4 million that he was due, had he decided to manage the team for one more season.

Southern Pacific's less numerous Kodachromes were repainted much more slowly ; some remained active on the Union Pacific after the SP buyout ; a few Kodachrome-painted locomotives still operate in lease service today.

The firm specializes in leveraged buyout transactions as well as growth capital investments and has invested in more than 130 companies globally since its inception in 1989.

Following the breakdown in any buyout, plans were made by Hargreaves to invest more money into the Matalans brand.

While there are a number of dedicated growth capital firms, growth capital investments are also made by late-stage venture capital investors as well as more traditional buyout firms.

Following the buyout, Lone Star Steakhouse switched from its " Texas roadhouse " theme to a more urban-style restaurant, abandoning most of the Texas and cowboy themes in its older restaurants.

The new team drove Converse from the 16th largest footwear company to number 7 in less than 2 1 / 2 years, leading to a buyout by rival Nike on July 9, 2003 for $ 305 million, qualifying as the merger and acquisition of the year in 2003.

Newsroom staff in 2008 was about the same size as it was in 1993, though there were fifty fewer full-time staff members than there were in 2002 ; about half of those positions were eliminated after a buyout in late 2007.

The buyout of Court TV marks Time Warner's first instance of buying a TV network — rather than selling one — since the acquisition of TBS Networks in 1996.

Current freight train operators other than EWS include Freightliner ( UK ) ( purchased by a management buyout ) and two open access freight operators: Direct Rail Services and FirstGBRf.

* 2009-Bank of America to help it absorb known losses that were much greater than revealed to shareholders incurred by its buyout of Merrill Lynch

Their model was to buy existing firms with money mostly borrowed against their assets, partner with existing management to apply Bain methodology to their operations ( rather than the hostile takeovers practiced in other leverage buyout scenarios ), and sell them off in a few years.

Many of WCW's top wrestlers had contracts with AOL Time Warner, WCW's parent company, and were willing to sit at home rather than wrestle for less money ; Booker T, the reigning WCW Champion at the time of WWF's purchase, was a notable exception, agreeing to a buyout of the remainder of his contract with AOL Time Warner in order to wrestle for the WWF immediately.

Ironically, it was revealed later that the price achieved was several £ million less than the buyout that would have saved this much-loved brewer.

The company cut around 3, 000 employees with an early-retirement program who accepted buyout and planned to eliminate as many as 10, 000 jobs ( around 14 percent of the 73, 400 total employees before curtailment ).

To foil a takeover bid by Dart Group Corp., management took Supermarkets General private in a $ 2. 1 billion leveraged buyout in 1987, in which Merrill Lynch Capital Markets Inc. received 55 percent of the shares, Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U. S., 35 percent, with management retaining 10 percent.

In July 2005, Spanish giants Real Madrid signed Robinho by agreeing to pay a fee equal to 60 percent of the buyout clause in his contract belonging to Santos (€ 24 ).

On 27 July 2011, RTÉ reported that the petition for examinership had been withdrawn, allowing the proposed buyout to proceed.

On September 4, 2008, NASCAR Holdings announced their buyout of the Grand American Road Racing Association in an attempt to merge communications, research, and marketing resources into a single entity, while allowing each organization to continue to control their own racing series.