Information: - A business (also known as an enterprise, a company or a firm) is an organizational entity involved in the provision of goods and services to consumers. Businesses as a form of economic activity are prevalent in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and provide goods and services to customers in exchange for other goods, services, or money. Businesses may also be social non-profit enterprises or state-owned public enterprises charged by governments with specific social and economic objectives. A business owned by multiple individuals may form as an incorporated company or jointly organise as a partnership. Countries have different laws that may ascribe different rights to the various business entities. - An alternative investment is an investment in asset classes other than stocks, bonds, and cash. The term is a relatively loose one and includes tangible assets such as precious metals, art, wine, antiques, coins, or stamps and some financial assets such as real estate, commodities, private equity, distressed securities, hedge funds, carbon credits, venture capital, film production, financial derivatives, and cryptocurrencies. Investments in real estate and forestry are also often termed alternative despite the ancient use of such real assets to enhance and preserve wealth. Alternative investments are to be contrasted with traditional investments. - Venture capital (VC) is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, or both). Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for equityan ownership stakein the companies they invest in. Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing risky start-ups in the hopes that some of the firms they support will become successful. The start-ups are usually based on an innovative technology or business model and they are usually from the high technology industries, such as information technology (IT), social media or biotechnology. - In finance, private equity is a type of equity (finance) and one of the asset classes consisting of equity securities and debt in operating companies that are not publicly traded on a stock exchange. - The stock (also capital stock) of a corporation is constituted of the equity stock of its owners. A single share of the stock represents fractional ownership of the corporation in proportion to the total number of shares. In liquidation, the stock represents the residual assets of the company that would be due to stockholders after discharge of all senior claims such as secured and unsecured debt. Stockholders' equity cannot be withdrawn from the company in a way that is intended to be detrimental to the company's creditors. - In accounting, equity (or owner's equity) is the difference between the value of the assets and the cost of the liabilities of something owned. It is governed by the following equation: For example, if someone owns a car worth $15,000 (an asset), but owes $5,000 on a loan against that car (a liability), the car represents $10,000 of equity. Equity can be negative if liabilities exceeds assets. Shareholders' equity (or stockholders' equity, shareholders' funds, shareholders' capital or similar terms) represents the equity of a company as divided among shareholders of common or preferred stock. Negative shareholders' equity is often referred to as a shareholders' deficit. - Bain Capital is a global alternative investment firm based in Boston , Massachusetts . It specializes in private equity , venture capital and credit products . Bain Capital invests across a range of industry sectors and geographic regions . As of June 2014 , the firm managed more than $ 75 billion of investor capital across its various investment platforms . The firm was founded in 1984 by partners from the consulting firm Bain & Company . Since inception it has invested in or acquired hundreds of companies including AMC Theatres , Aspen Education Group , Brookstone , Burger King , Burlington Coat Factory , Canada Goose , Domino 's Pizza , DoubleClick , Dunkin ' Donuts , D&M Holdings , Guitar Center , Hospital Corporation of America ( HCA ) , iHeartMedia , Sealy , Sports Authority , Staples , Toys '' R '' Us , Warner Music Group , Fingerhut , The Weather Channel , and Apple Leisure Group , which includes AMResorts and Apple Vacations . As of 2014 , Bain Capital employs more than 900 people . Bain Capital is headquartered at the John Hancock Tower in Boston , Massachusetts with additional offices in New York City , Chicago , Palo Alto , San Francisco , Dublin , London , Luxembourg , Munich , Hong Kong , Shanghai , Mumbai , Tokyo and Melbourne . The company , and its actions during its first 15 years , became the subject of political and media scrutiny as a result of co-founder Mitt Romney 's later political career , especially his 2012 presidential campaign . - A hedge fund is an investment fund that pools capital from accredited individuals or institutional investors and invests in a variety of assets, often with complex portfolio-construction and risk-management techniques. It is administered by a professional investment management firm, and often structured as a limited partnership, limited liability company, or similar vehicle. Hedge funds are generally distinct from mutual funds as their use of leverage is not capped by regulators and distinct from private equity funds as the majority of hedge funds invest in relatively liquid assets. - A debt generally refers to something owed by one party, the borrower or debtor, to a second party, the lender or creditor. The borrower or debtor may be a sovereign state or country, local government, company, or an individual. The lender or creditor may be a bank, credit card company, payday loan provider, or an individual. Debt is generally subject to contractual terms regarding the amount and timing of repayments of principal and interest. The term can also be used metaphorically to cover moral obligations and other interactions not based on economic value. For example, in Western cultures, a person who has been helped by a second person is sometimes said to owe a "debt of gratitude" to the second person. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'bain capital' exhibits the relationship of 'legal form'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - company - corporation - limited liability company - private
limited liability company