The Rigases, who kept their shares, took corporate assets for personal use, and will now spend a long time in prison.
A typical deal would be the friendly sale or acquisition of corporate assets.
But that was before the branding craze kicked in and turned a person's good name into just another corporate asset.
The value of corporate assets would be adjusted for inflation.
He contended that "conceptual value" added to products and services was a tangible corporate asset.
I hate to disabuse you but you're not exactly in the corporate assets league.
Signature issues combine corporate assets with pro bono work to fight social problems.
"The idea of using corporate assets to guarantee personal borrowing is pretty unheard-of," he said.
The corporate assets have already had a slice of stardom.
Black is accused of illegally using corporate assets to line his own pockets.