The East Mediterranean Gas Company, based in Cairo, is "an Egyptian joint stock company" with the right to export gas to Israel from Egypt and to export to other locations in the region, according to Ampal's website.

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Khalid and his four brothers inherited NCB upon their father's death in 1994, and a 21% stake was sold to a group of private investors when the bank morphed from an unlimited liability private partnership into a joint stock company.

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V, the leading mutual insurer, has set up a joint-stock company, though not a publicly traded one.

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LB, which is already a joint-stock company, but two groups of Sparkassen would still own most of the bank.

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He ended up at Tianjin Lishen Battery Joint-Stock Company.

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Another insurance mutual, Alte Leipziger, has organised a joint-stock holding company which, executives say, may eventually be listed on the stock exchange.

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Mercedes and Toyota are in joint ventures with the company and its stock price has held up well since its IPO.

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In one case, a U.S. company sold stock in a Hong Kong company that owned a 49% interest in a Chinese joint venture.

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