21.   Joseph Littlejohn, an investment partnership, already owns some automotive parts operations.

22.   LaSalle said it had purchased the resort from HEI Inc., an investment partnership based in Westport, Conn., but declined to discuss terms of the transaction.

23.   Lauder, through investment partnerships that hold Class B shares, owns a majority voting stake in the company.

24.   Raul Salinas has said that some family friends and other prominent Mexicans gave him the money to form a real estate investment partnership.

25.   Several macro hedge funds -- investment partnerships that chase economic trends and manage money for wealthy individuals --wagered that copper prices would fall.

26.   Such funds are private investment partnerships, typically sold to sophisticated, wealthy individuals, that pursue speculative investment strategies, often using borrowed money.

27.   Such funds are private investment partnerships for wealthy investors that often use borrowed funds to boost returns from bets on stocks, bonds, or commodities.

28.   The company tends to finance its investments from a combination of equity from its investment partnerships and from bank debt.

29.   The fund-raising comes at a time when investment partnerships such as Warburg Pincus are raising record sums.

30.   The group also includes Chicago-based Castle Creek Partners, a private investment partnership, and Heights Capital Management, an affiliate of Susquehanna Investment Group.