He added, though, that it doesn't obligate the entrepreneurs to sign bigger investment deals.

They still aren't mixing, no matter how big the investment deal is.

Lost $40,000 in a bad investment deal because of Chester.

But the relationship appears to always be nonbinding: neither side is committed to entering into an investment deal with the other.

The $19 billion proposed deal would have been Pakistan's largest foreign investment deal.

Tax shelters are complex investment deals intended to reduce or eliminate income taxes.

Did I tell you that we're about to sign the investment deal?

Offsets are often a part of large foreign investment deals, particularly in the energy sector.

"Some years ago I had a major investment deal going on," Glav told him.

In 1999, the agency helped secure 118 foreign investment deals totaling $271 million, he said.