A hedge fund that is an example of this type of arbitrage is Greenridge Capital, which acts as an angel investor retaining equity in private companies which are in the process of becoming publicly traded, buying in the private market and later selling in the public market.

Some of this $ 2. 5 trillion is invested in claim checks — U. S. bonds, both governmental and private — and some in such assets as property and equity securities.

In July 2008, the company after a series of change of ownership was eventually acquired by the US private equity firm, NRDC Equity Partners, which also owned American department store chain Lord & Taylor.

In July 16, 2008, after Zucker's death, the company was sold to NRDC Equity Partners, a private equity firm of Purchase, New York which already owned Lord & Taylor, the oldest department store chain in the United States.

There were reports that Sichuan Tengzhong might pursue the purchase of the Hummer brand from GM by purchasing it privately through the company's new J & A Tengzhong Fund SPC, a private equity investment fund owned by an offshore entity that was recruiting private investors to buy into its acquisition plan.

A key factor of their growth over this and the next decade was increased allocations by US institutional investors, notably pension and endowment funds, following the success of David Swensen's investments in alternative investments and other non-marketable assets, such as hedge funds, timber, real estate and private equity, at Yale University's endowment fund.

Liquidity refers to the degree to which an asset can be bought and sold or converted to cash ; similar to private equity funds, hedge funds employ a lock-up period during which an investor cannot remove money.

In testimony to the House Financial Services Committee in 2009, Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Board Chairman said he " would not think that any hedge fund or private equity fund would become a systemically-critical firm individually ".

On 4 June 2010 Manx Telecom was sold by Telefónica to UK private equity investor HgCapital ( who were buying the majority stake ), alongside telecoms management company CPS Partners

DaimlerChrysler eventually sold most of their interest in Chrysler to a private equity company in 2007.

Dan Quayle joined Cerberus Capital Management, a multi-billion dollar private equity firm, in 1999 and is chairman of the company's Global Investments division.

* John Nash ( private equity ) ( born 1949 ), British businessman

Kangol has been owned by Sports World since 2006, when they acquired the brand from private equity fund, August Equity Trust.

A UK-based private equity firm, Alchemy Partners, and the India-headquartered Tata Motors and Mahindra and Mahindra expressed interest in purchasing Jaguar and Land Rover from the Ford Motor Company.

* Matrix Partners, a private equity investment firm

The annual Mexico Investment Summit takes place in Mexico City covering the development and investment opportunities and challenges across Mexican private equity, venture capital, infrastructure, real estate, agriculture, tourism, energy and natural resources evolving in the country's economy.

Other members of Attanasio's ownership group include private equity investor John Canning Jr., David Uihlein, Harris Turer and Stephen Marcus, all of whom were involved with the previous ownership group led by Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig.

* In 2004, Macrovision acquired InstallShield, creators of installation authoring software ( later divested to private equity ).

* PIPE deal or private investment in public equity

This is often described as private equity.

In June 2004 SGI sold the business, later renamed to Alias Systems Corporation, to the private equity investment firm Accel-KKR for $ 57. 1 million.

In Chisholm, the Court ruled that federal courts had the authority to hear cases in law and equity brought by private citizens against states and that states did not enjoy sovereign immunity from suits made by citizens of other states in federal court.

He said the TVA's supplanting of Commonwealth & Southern could threaten $ 400 million in investors ' equity, which convinced the House to limit the TVA's ability to build transmission lines that competed with existing private companies.

The sequence of events leading to his important discovery still remains ambiguous but it seems that one of the advanced students at the university related that the first direct event that led to the publication of Oersted's discovery occurred during a private lecture made before a group of other advanced students in the spring of 1820.

The next morning he summoned a group of top Democrats to his private office and broke the news: he would lead the fight to oust Colmer, whom he is said to regard as `` an inferior man ''.

* AccuWeather, a private weather forecasting group

Many private taxicab companies also operate larger minibus vehicles to cater for group fares.

Companies, private groups and social clubs may hire buses or coaches as a cost effective method of transporting a group to an event or site, such as a group meeting, racing event, or organised recreational activity such as a summer camp.

They agree with communists that the means of production should be expropriated from private owners and converted to common property, but they advocate the ownership of this property to be vested by a loose group of decentralized communes rather than to be held in common by all of society.

* Conservatives for Patients ' Rights, a pressure group founded and funded by Rick Scott that argues for private insurance methods to pay for healthcare

However, in certain applications where discs will not be distributed or exchanged outside a private group and will not be archived for a long time, a proprietary format may be an acceptable way to obtain greater capacity ( up to 1. 2 GB with GigaRec or 1. 8 GB with HD-BURN on 99 minute media ).

A cabal is a group of people united in some close design together, usually to promote their private views or interests in a church, state, or other community, often by intrigue.

A second group, headed by Chief Justice Edward D. White and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., stood for " reasonable " market regulation, managed either by private agreements among producers ( long permitted under common law ) or by public administrative agencies.

Teaching work for double bassist includes giving private lessons in the home or at colleges and universities ; coaching bass players who are preparing for recordings or auditions ; doing group coaching at music camps or for youth ensembles ; and working as a high school music teacher.

Instead, the group attend memorial services in New York, as well as organizing their own private memorial in Los Angeles along with David's family and close friends.

They argue that some, if not all, of the cost difference between public and private schools comes from a process known as cream skimming — selecting only those students that belong to a preferred economic, religious, or ethnic group — rather than from differences in administration.

Some libertarians in the U. S. object to vouchers on the grounds that granting government money, even indirectly, to private and religious schools will inevitably lead to increased governmental control over non-government education, and possibly over the teachings of the sponsoring religious group ( most often a church ).

After the office in the Stowe home, ( and after the first concert fund-raiser ) Greenpeace functions moved to other private homes and held public meetings weekly on Wednesday nights at the Kitsilano Neighborhood House before settling, in the fall of 1974, in a small office shared with the SPEC environmental group, at 2007 W. 4th Avenue, at Maple Street, across from the Bimini neighbourhood pub.

It began with a rotating group of four alumni and students from the Kamehameha School for Boys, a private school in Honolulu.

France prohibits by its penal code and by its press laws public and private communication which is defamatory or insulting, or which incites discrimination, hatred, or violence against a person or a group of persons on account of place of origin, ethnicity or lack thereof, nationality, race, specific religion, sex, sexual orientation, or handicap.

In 2002 the renamed BAE Systems resold HK to a group of private investors, who created the German group holding company ( HK Beteiligungs-GmbH ).

It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message as well as chat and data transfer, including file sharing.

Libertarian socialism ( sometimes called social anarchism, and sometimes left libertarianism ) is a group of political philosophies that promote a non-hierarchical, non-bureaucratic, stateless society without private property in the means of production.

Libertarian socialism ( sometimes called social anarchism, and sometimes left libertarianism ) is a group of political philosophies that promote a non-hierarchical, non-bureaucratic society without private property in the means of production.

They have historically been used both in group ritual and for private meditation.