RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Tata Steel to up stake inTownie, I'm almost certain that you are right. That is the way these deals work. Senior companies finance the treasury (of NML in our case) and in return become a part owners of the company (in NML's case 19.9% of ownership), acquire a right of first refusal to buy a specified percentage of production BUT at market value. Hence, Tata benefits by nailing down secure supply of material and benefits from being a shareholder, a very influential shareholder, of NML. NML benefits because it gets $ that permits it to get into production and has a ready customer.