Goldman Sachs Capital Partners may ask some of the country’s largest pension funds to help purchase Alliance Atlantis assets to avoid regulatory issues, according to a newspaper report.

CanWest and Goldman’s private-equity division, GS Capital Partners, announced the acquisition last week.

GS Capital Partners is looking for outside investors because it will own the majority of Alliance’s television assets, but CanWest will have voting control.

Under television broadcast ownership and control requirements, a foreign company cannot own more than 20% of an operating company and no more than 33.3% of a holding company. Added together, that equals a foreign ownership limit of 46.7%.

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