"Does a country have a right to purchase a stake in a project that is its own?"

Highland purchased an 80% stake in the company, and plans to nearly triple the number of stores to 50 within the next five years.

Kazakh officials had been negotiating to purchase a 16.7 percent stake in the field.

In 1979, General Motors took control of the company, purchasing a 77.4% stake.

This is the third round of layoffs since 1999, when Paxton first purchased a stake in the paper.

Def Jam purchased a 50% stake in the company in 1997 for a reported $1.5 million.

In 1936 with the company having no success at locating oil, the Texaco purchased a 50% stake of the concession.

GM purchased a 34% stake in the company in 2002 and has since 2008 sought to increase ownership.

Soon after they were founded, Barnes & Noble purchased a 49% stake in the company.

In the late 1990s, a business consortium purchased a 35% stake to fend off Lloyds.