hostile takeover

Examples of hostile takeover in the following topics:

• Benefits of Repurchasing Shares

  • The company may feel that the shares are undervalued, an executive's compensation may be tied to earnings per share targets, or it may need to prevent a hostile takeover.
  • A company can take over another firm if it holds enough of the other takeover target's shares (the buyer of the shares is called the bidder, and the company it is trying to buy is called the takeover target).
  • The bidder is buying the takeover target's shares in an attempt to purchase enough to own it.
  • Assuming the firm does not want to be taken over this way, the takeover attempt is called hostile.
  • Furthermore, it can prevent future takeover attempts.

• A Summary of International Trade Agreements

  • Finally, Canadians have often objected to the NAFTA agreements due to the way in which the United States FDI employs hostile takeovers.

• Monopolies, Mergers, and Restructuring

  • The 1980s and 1990s brought new waves of friendly mergers and "hostile" takeovers in some industries, as corporations tried to position themselves to meet changing economic conditions.
  • The takeovers, which would provide cable-line access to about 60 percent of U.S. households, also offered AT&T a solid grip on the cable TV and high-speed Internet-connection markets.
  • Following a wave of Japanese takeovers of U.S. companies in the 1980s, German and British firms grabbed the spotlight in the 1990s, as Chrysler Corporation merged into Germany's Daimler-Benz AG and Deutsche Bank AG took over Bankers Trust.

• Types of Bonds

  • These restructurings took the form of management buyouts (called leveraged buyouts or LBOs), and hostile or friendly takeovers of companies by outside parties.

• The Mixtec

  • Before the arrival of Spanish hostility, a number of Mixtecan city-states competed with each other and with the Zapotec kingdoms.
  • Disease, weaponry, and local political fractures likely aided the Spanish takeover of the area.

• Application of Knowledge

  • They vary in focus from how to undertake a corporate takeover to how to expand a company's share of the market.
  • Ju and Wagner mention that the nature of business games can include decision-making tasks, which pit the player against a hostile environment or hostile opponents.

• The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

  • It was distinguished from rollback by implicitly tolerating the previous Soviet takeovers in Eastern Europe.
  • American Republicans hostile to the plan had also gained seats in the 1950 Congressional elections, and conservative opposition to the plan was revived.

• Nixon and Foreign Policy

  • Public opinion favored withdrawal from Vietnam, even if it meant abandonment of its treaties and a communist takeover of South Vietnam.
  • Following the North Vietnamese takeover of South Vietnam, a reunited Vietnam subsequently invaded the Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) during the Cambodian-Vietnamese War and fought the Third Indochina War, or the Sino-Vietnamese War, against a Chinese invasion.
  • The term was first applied to describe the efforts of United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, beginning November 5, 1973, which facilitated the cessation of hostilities following the Yom Kippur War.

• Containment in Vietnam

  • This law ended U.S. military involvement in Vietnam and led to violent communist takeovers of South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

• The Cost of New Common Stock

  • Depending on the scale of shares available, the organization must consider takeover risks