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    a phrase

    just wanted to check:

    Весной словацкая компания J&T Group завершила сделку по приобретению 75% акций ООО «Балчуг», владеющей гостиницей, у компании Kempinski Hotels.

    so company X has now got 75% shares in Balchug and Balchg owns/runs Kempinski Hotels (i.e. hotels owed by them, not the whole company)
    is this right or is it the other way around????

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    Re: a phrase

    Quote Originally Posted by Lt. Columbo
    Весной словацкая компания J&T Group завершила сделку по приобретению 75% акций ООО «Балчуг», владеющей гостиницей, у компании Kempinski Hotels.
    What the Russian sentence actually says is that
    (a) the Slovak Company bought 75% of shares of OOO Balchug from Kempinski Hotels,
    (b) OOO Balchug owns "the hotel" (it is not specified which hotel. We can safely assume that the hotel in question is the Balchug Kempinski hotel in Moscow, but the Russian does not say so directly)

    Quote Originally Posted by Lt. Columbo
    so company X has now got 75% shares in Balchug...
    In OOO Balchug. OOO Balchug is a company, and is not necessarily the same thing as the Balchug hotel (it may be so, I just don't know, and the Russian snippet you posted is not quite clear about that. For all I know, OOO Balchug may own two dozen hotels, Balchug Kempinski being just one of them. Or not.)

    Quote Originally Posted by Lt. Columbo
    and Balchg owns/runs Kempinski Hotels (i.e. hotels owed by them, not the whole company)
    Don't think so, since it says very clearly that the shares were bought from Kempinski Hotels. So if your interpretation was correct, then it would mean that Kempinski Hotels owns OOO Balchug, and OOO Balchug, in its turn, owns hotels owned by Kempinski Hotels?

    To be brief, the Russian text you posted is not clear enough. In fact, I suspect that it is a bad translation from English.

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    Re: a phrase

    thanks!
    the particular text's by this russian author are always written, in my opinion, strangely. its like they want to make it purposely longer with more words etc to
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    Re: a phrase

    If I'm not mistaken, the Russian contains a grammatical error - it should be владеющего rather than владеющей because it refers to "OOO [общество ограниченой ответсвенности = limited liability corporation or ltd.] Balchug" which is neutral gender.

    Here's an example from Google:
    Предлагаем приобрести 100% акций ООО «Ладога-Гранит», владеющего лицензиями на месторождения песчанно-гравийного материала.

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    Re: a phrase

    Quote Originally Posted by John_Douglas
    If I'm not mistaken, the Russian contains a grammatical error - it should be владеющего rather than владеющей because it refers to "OOO [общество ограниченой ответсвенности = limited liability corporation or ltd.] Balchug" which is neutral gender.

    Here's an example from Google:
    Предлагаем приобрести 100% акций ООО «Ладога-Гранит», владеющего лицензиями на месторождения песчанно-гравийного материала.
    You are right.

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