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unusual facts about debt-for-equity



Acxiom

On May 16, 2007, Acxiom agreed to be bought by leading investment firms Silver Lake Partners and ValueAct Capital in an all-cash deal valued at $3 billion, including the assumption of about $756 million of debt.

Avolon

Avolon has also raised US$4.4 billion in debt from a range of commercial and specialist aviation banks including Wells Fargo Securities, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Credit Agricole, UBS, DVB, Nord LB and KfW IPEX-Bank.

Basel I

Assets of banks were classified and grouped in five categories according to credit risk, carrying risk weights of 0% (for example cash, bullion, home country debt like Treasuries), 20% (securitisations such as mortgage-backed securities (MBS) with the highest AAA rating) 50%, 100% (for example, most corporate debt), and some assets given No rating.

Beazer

After becoming overburdened with debt it was rescued by Hanson plc in 1991.

British Columbia New Democratic Party

The BC NDP introduced capital taxes, slashed funding to universities, but suffered the most for bringing clarity to the accounting Social Credit had used, and showed that BC was significantly in debt.

Burton baronets

The fourth and last Baronet was imprisoned for debt in 1710 and following conviction for theft in 1722 was transported.

Caterair

Caterair was sold by Carlyle to the Canadian private equity firm, Onex Corporation, in September 1995 which merged it with its other acquisition LSG/Sky Chef.

Cigarette taxes in the United States

This occurred as a result of the Union’s increasing debt during the American Civil War and the Federal government’s need for additional revenue.

Con-way

In December 2004, CNF sold Emery (rechristened Menlo Forwarding) to UPS for $100 million in cash and $260 million in assumed debt.

Creative Loafing

In 2007 it doubled its circulation with the purchase of the Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper; the $40 million debt it incurred, along with an economic recession, forced the company into bankruptcy one year later.

Derrick Fung

As part of the undergraduate program, he interned at Microsoft in Marketing, BNP Paribas in Equity Derivative Sales and on the trading floor of Merrill Lynch in 2009 as the first class after the merger with Bank of America.

Edwin Thomas Smith

His public benefactions were many and included £2,000 to clear the debt off the Norwood Oval, £2,000 for the Blind, Deaf and Dumb Institution, £1,000 to start an insurance fund for the Commercial Travellers' Association, and many other private benefactions.

Fromund Le Brun

He bought Roebuck Castle, in the south of Dublin in 1261; it is possible the purchase caused him financial loss since he was rumoured to be in heavy debt shortly before his death.

Ghost Box Music

Releases on the label (currently encompassing The Focus Group, Eric Zann, Belbury Poly, Roj, Pye Corner Audio and The Advisory Circle, and a rerelease of a Mount Vernon Arts Lab album) tend to share a common design aesthetic - all record covers so far have been by Julian House, with an acknowledged debt to the iconic design of sixties Penguin Books paperbacks.

Greenlight Capital

As of 2013, the top equity holdings of the firm were in the shares of the following companies: Apple Inc, General Motors, Marvell Technology Group, CIGNA, Aetna, Computer Sciences, Delphi Automotive, NCR Corp., and Virgin Media.

Harold Ray Wing

Hal became mayor of Springville in 1997 and was able to accomplish his goal of ridding Springville of its debt.

HG Capital

H.I.G. Capital - a $7.5 billion private equity firm based in Miami

High Speed vendor Feed

HSVF various exchanges uses the following global Identifiers: Q = Montreal Exchange, B = Boston Options Exchange, E = Turquoise (trading platform) (Derivatives), O = Oslo Børs, I = IDEM (Italian Derivatives Equity Market) on Borsa Italiana.

Houlihan Lokey

During this period the firm advised on almost 1000 restructuring transactions (including 12 of the 15 largest bankruptcy cases), special situations or Distressed M&A, with aggregate debt claims in excess of $1.5 trillion, including cases such as Lehman Brothers, WorldCom, Enron, General Motors and CIT Group.

Japan public debt

Notwithstanding the stability of the market for Japanese government debt, the cost of servicing Japan's public debt uses up half of the state's tax revenues, and the cost of importing energy in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster has also negatively impacted Japan's longstanding current account surplus.

Joseph Schofer

He is actively engaged with the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Research Council, chairing national policy studies on Equity Implications of Evolving Transportation Finance Mechanisms and Strategies for Improved Passenger and Freight Travel Data; serving on the Technical Advisory Committee on Capacity for the Strategic Highway Research Program.

King Street Capital Management

Investments include public equity and fixed income markets globally with a focus in distressed companies, equity, bonds, foreign exchange, warrants, and options.

Leonard Chang

Chang's experiments in crime fiction is related to this shift, since the stories revolve around solving a mystery or crime, and despite the fact that the protagonist is Korean American, the debt here is more to crime and noir writers like Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Ross Macdonald.

Lynne Scime

Recently, Scime has been a vocal opponent of the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board's equity policy and has spoken out against LGBT rights.

Mário Garnero

Henry Kissinger was also a guest of his during the difficult years of Brazil's foreign debt negotiations.

Martin Melcher

Shortly after his death, Day discovered Melcher had committed her to a CBS situation comedy, The Doris Day Show, without consulting her, and that not only had he lost the millions she had earned throughout their marriage because of poor investments, but he had left her seriously in debt as well.

MultiWeb Internet Browser

The browser was developed by the Equity Access Research and Development Group at Deakin University under a grant from the Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services.

MyCargo Airlines

In February 2008, a 21 percent equity stake was acquired by Manara Investments Ltd.

Neil Back

Back and Nick Beal share the unusual distinction of being contemporary players whose names are anagrams of each other's, and they both worked for insurance company Equity & Law at the same time, too.

Neil Shephard

Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen, Peter Reinhard Hansen, Asger Lunde, Neil Shephard (2008), "Designing realised kernels to measure the ex-post variation of equity prices in the presence of noise", Econometrica.

O'Leary Manager 2000

An unfortunate bug in the game allows the player to gain a huge sum of money (around 70m) if the club goes into a certain amount of debt, which pretty much negates the need for financial planning.

Orix

On July 1, 2013 Orix has acquired approximately 90.01% of the equity in Dutch asset manager Robeco from Rabobank also from the Netherlands.

Peter Menegazzo

Partner in the Nebo Consortium (with Jack Cowin, founder of Hungry Jack's, and Queensland grazier Peter Hughes), Menegazzo became one of Australia's largest landholders, and the third-biggest cattle owner, with the $417.5 million plus debt sale, gaining 115,000 square kilometres and a herd of half a million cattle.

Phoebe Washburn

An earlier work, Heavy Has Debt, (exhibited in 2003 in Grinnell, Iowa), was a "massive, shingled wall of debris," produced largely from mounted cardboard.

PhotoBox

The company is majority owned by private equity firms Insight Venture Partners, Index Ventures, HarbourVest Partners, Quilvest Ventures, Greenspring Associates and Highland Capital Partners.

PrimeCo

The Illinois-Indiana PrimeCo territories were purchased by Clarity Partners, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm in 2001, who successfully improved the company's operations and later sold it to U.S. Cellular.

Rare disasters

The idea was first proposed by Rietz in 1988, as a way to explain the equity premium puzzle.

Richard R. Murray

Richard R. Murray (born February 3, 1956 in Bay City, Michigan) is the founder of Equity Schools Inc. and has extensive experience in education and real estate.

Richard Savage

Savage went to Swansea, but he resented bitterly the conditions imposed by his patrons, and removed to Bristol, where he was imprisoned for debt.

Robert P. Smith

Robert Smith is also the model for the character “Sammy the Spread”, who deals in third-world debt (Emerging market debt), in John D. Spooner’s book Do You Want to Make Money or Would You Rather Fool Around? (Spooner 2000 ).

Simpson's-in-the-Strand

The Savoy Group was purchased in 1998 by a private equity house, Blackstone Group, and, after further changes of ownership, the Savoy Hotel and Simpson's were split off from the rest of the group in 2005 and are run by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts.

Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 2nd Baronet

He also praised Captain R. T. Claridge for his “for his strenuous exertions in the cause”, to which every hydropathist “owes a deep debt of gratitude”.

Sokratis Tsoukalas

Although AEK Athens was relegated to the 3rd Division in order the team's debt to be erased, Tsoukalas was agreed to stay and help AEK for the big comeback to Greek Superleague alongside Kostas Tsoupros, Anastasios Tsoumagas, Dimitris Anakoglou, Miguel Cordero, Dimitris Grontis and Michalis Pavlis

The History of King Lear

The production was directed by the company's Artistic Director, W. Stuart McDowell, and featured Eric Hoffmann in the role of Lear, and supported by an Equity company of fifteen, including Frank Muller in the role of the Bastard Edmund.

The Teacher Salary Project

American Teacher also features interviews with US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Deputy Secretary of Education Brad Jupp, the founder of The Equity Project Charter School Zeke Vanderhoek, Stanford Professor of Education Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford economist Eric Hanushek, and several regional and national teachers of the year.

Trudi Wilkes

She grew up doing youth theatre in Nottingam (Acorn/NYT) before landing an Equity contract at the Nottingham Playhouse.

United Rentals

On July 23, 2007 United Rentals announced a definitive agreement to sell the company to Cerberus Capital Management in a transaction valued at approximately $6.6 billion, including the assumption of approximately $2.6 billion in debt obligations.

WCAS

Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a private equity investment firm in the United States

West Japan Railway Company

JR West purchased the line in October 1991 at a cost of 974.1 billion JPY (about 7.2 billion USD) in long-term payable debt.

Zeus Mortgage

He is a Certified Public Accountant and a recognized mortgage planning and equity management expert.


see also

The Garden Centre Group

In February 2009, following the collapse of the Icelandic investment company Baugur Group who had a large stake in the firm, the Bank of Scotland became the majority owner of the firm in a debt-for-equity deal.