With their distribution power and detailed knowledge of the market, multinational companies influence could surely be leveraged to address many development problems, regardless of a country s political or economic legacy.

Investment banks commitments to leveraged buyouts became liabilities.

Germany s banks are leveraged at 32 times their assets.

These investment vehicles would utilize a number of the same tactics and target the same type of companies as more traditional leveraged buyouts and in many ways could be considered a forerunner of the later private equity firms.

In several countries, debt financed housing booms have left households and companies over leveraged and governments have reduced deficits to contain their own debt. As a result, there are likely to be too few investors and too many savers.

The second question is how to constrain leveraged growth in the future.

The partnerships have leveraged additional funding from the Government of the Netherlands.

Executives in highly leveraged institutions should be paid more, because they bear more risk.

We leveraged that 10,000 seed grant more than 300 times into a 3 million park.

The crisis was caused by the largest leveraged asset bubble and credit bubble in history.

Many homebuilders are near bankrupt, as are some hedge funds and other highly leveraged institutions.

Eastern Europe has its problems, which are likely to impact Western Europe s highly leveraged banks.

Big companies. Big companies.

But its revenues and expenditures were in part determined by a highly leveraged real estate bubble.

They can take on more risk running a more highly leveraged business with less shareholder capital.

There is little excuse for Iceland, which essentially turned itself into a highly leveraged hedge fund.

The titans of Wall Street and the City of London were exposed as hugely over leveraged.

But do we really want to see the US leveraged up to its ears again? Probably not.

The legacy of excess real estate capacity and over leveraged households makes recovery all the more difficult.

Eurozone banks became among the world s most over leveraged and the worst affected by the crash of 2008.

Deleveraging by highly leveraged firms such as hedge funds will lead them to sell illiquid assets in illiquid markets.

In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls.

Emerging economies have watched the leveraged power of investors distort the price formation process in crisis stricken advanced economies.

Do we need financial institutions to be so highly leveraged (that is, carrying so much debt relative to equity)?

The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries.

This memorandum of understanding has leveraged additional funding for water for Asian cities from the Government of the Netherlands.

Even so, ensuring transparency and disclosure cannot fully address heavily debt laden leveraged buy outs, which would still be objectionable.

These are highly leveraged businesses, typically funding their balance sheets with no more than 5 equity (and thus 95 debt).

In other words, they would not wrap themselves up in their institutions equity and the leveraged products they were selling.

Publicists could work in large companies as in little companies.

Trade unions in the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and elsewhere have long pointed to the damage caused by leveraged buy outs.

Meanwhile, the continuing problems at European banks are a stark reminder that operating highly leveraged, thinly capitalized firms is incredibly risky.

Statutory Companies.

There also are railway services operated by private rail companies, regional governments, and companies funded by both regional governments and private companies.

Then there is the exposure of banks and other financial institutions to rising losses on loans that financed reckless leveraged buy outs (LBOs).

The stock market is the first logical place to look, as it is a highly leveraged investment and has a history of bubbles.

To the extent that banks and other highly leveraged financial institutions hold them, the bursting bubbles could cause bankruptcies and financial market breakdown.

These leveraged buy outs leave the company saddled with debt and interest payments, its workers are laid off, and its assets are sold.

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5 engineer companies

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5 Engineer Companies

Equity based awards, coupled with the highly leveraged capital structure of banks, tie executives compensation to a leveraged bet on the value of banks assets. As Holger Spamann and I show in our research, executive payoffs should be tied to the long term value delivered not only to shareholders, but also to other contributors to banks capital.

Companies apparently recognize this.

Also, private companies compete.