For the first 25 years of its existence, Carlyle operated as a private partnership controlled by its investment partners.

Paladino and several limited partnerships controlled by him have donated to numerous political candidates and organizations, both Democratic and Republican.

The bank plans to sell real estate assets carried on its books at $723 million to a partnership controlled by Morgan Stanley.

The sellers are three separate limited partnerships controlled by New England Investment Companies.

It is set to gain ownership when the center's owners, two partnerships controlled by the Mitsubishi Estate Company, emerge from bankruptcy protection.

The tax shelter for stock options involves an executive or employer setting up a partnership controlled by the executive or the executive's family.

It gave Nationwide the right to build on it by a series of subleases through a nonprofit group and a partnership controlled by Nationwide.

The owners, two partnerships controlled by the Mitsubishi Estate Company, filed for bankruptcy protection in May and stopped making mortgage payments.

Last month a partnership controlled by the developer, Milstein Properties, sued the city.

The government is focusing on a series of individual transactions involving partnerships controlled by the company's former chief financial officer, Andrew S. Fastow.