Special-purpose entity
id:
special-purpose-entity-180-16582598
title:
Special-purpose entity
text:
A special-purpose entity is a legal entity created to fulfill narrow, specific or temporary objectives. SPEs are typically used by companies to isolate the firm from financial risk. A formal definition is "The Special Purpose Entity is a fenced organization having limited predefined purposes and a legal personality". Normally a company will transfer assets to the SPE for management or use the SPE to finance a large project thereby achieving a narrow set of goals without putting the entire firm a
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Type of legal entity in finance
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special-purpose_entity
date created:
2004-12-13T23:21:26Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T21:28:02Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q231842","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q231842"}
image:
fields total:
13
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15