Four decades after founding a transport business that grew into one of the world's foremost operators of floating oil platforms, Malaysian entrepreneur Lim Hang Weng is now in talks to reclaim full stewardship of Yinson Holdings, the company he built, by taking it off the public market. The proposed $1.7 billion arrangement — drawing in Malaysia's largest pension fund and a major shipping firm as partners — reflects a recurring human impulse: to consolidate what one has created, free from the scrutiny and constraints of public ownership. Whether the deal proceeds or dissolves, it marks a signi