The stakes have been built up over the years, and the partners who hold them must hold onto their shares for five years before selling.

Kansas Gas has resisted the $857 million offer and urged its stockholders to hold onto their shares.

Some Enron employees have held onto their shares and seen their retirement accounts eviscerated.

You have to convince the current shareholders that the deal is better than simply hanging onto their shares as the company goes about its business all alone.

Under securities law, Microsoft has to hold onto its shares for a year, meaning it can sell at the end of this month.

Furthermore, investors can choose whether to participate in the buyback or to hold onto their shares and defer taxes completely.

Instead, she holds onto her 500 shares and borrows another 500, quickly reselling them at $70.

In 2007 Coates said We held onto our shares and sold them only last year.

"My hope is that, as happened with the Iscor privatization, people won't believe that you have to hold onto your shares long term."

Those initial investors who held onto their shares, until July 2000, received a 4% bonus-share allocation.