Initially, it would acquire 25 percent for about $175 million.
He acquired 49.9 percent of Philadelphia by putting up $20 million.
The government acquired 80 percent of the shares in the bank during the 1997-98 financial crisis.
The Bass family said it had acquired 5.6 percent of the company's stock.
The Prince looked set to acquire almost 15 percent of the nation's largest bank.
In 2006, he acquired 100 percent of the outstanding shares.
Investors must file such information, known as a schedule 13-D, after acquiring more than 5 percent of a company.
It acquired 51 percent of the American bank in March 1980 for $314 million.
The group offered to acquire 50.1 percent of Ambase's common stock for $4 a share, or about $68 million.
But she planned that they would buy a house only after they'd acquired at least forty percent of the purchase price.