More than 500 companies have been taken private in the last three years.

The deal also means that Allied will be taken private.

So he started to focus on the stocks of smaller companies, trying to figure out what their value would be if they were taken private.

In the 1980s the company was taken private by its Chairman.

"It needs to be taken private, outside of the public sphere."

Sotheby's had been public before being taken private in 1983.

The company went public in 1995 but was taken private in 2004.

Two large hospital groups taken private in the 1980's are preparing to return to the stock market.

The investment bank acquired its shares held by the public and the company was taken private.

The company went public in 2001 and was taken private again in 2007.