All told, the various private equity owners have made around $750 million in profits from Simmons over the years.

The one person truly at risk is the equity owner, who's often the least knowledgeable.

His rise there was rapid and by 1889, at the age of 35, was an equity owner in the business.

I hope being an equity owner will move me up the list when I need one of those rooms.

The obvious implication of this is that all equity owners of the professional business entity must be professionals themselves.

The balance goes to Metromedia and the equity owners.

The only proper definition of corporate success, he argues, is the return equity owners reap.

Unless they are equity owners in this project, I have the up position, and their work lives are controlled by my whims.

It might take many years for Ms. Brown to make money as an equity owner.

Yell's private equity owners doubled their original investments, and the offering raised £1.14 billion, or $1.86 billion.