hostile takeover
noun
: an attempt to buy a company when the people who own the company do not want to sell it
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There’s no evidence that Electric 360 is any kind of hostile takeover of electric racing or has an ulterior motive, for example to push EVs entirely in the direction of hydrogen.
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James Morris, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
That’s when JetBlue launched a hostile takeover of Spirit after the low-cost carrier’s deal with Frontier Airlines fell through.
—Emma Roth, The Verge, 4 Mar. 2024
In 2017, in order to fend off a hostile takeover bid by a Chinese activist investor, the company let the Shenzhen government step in as its top shareholder.
—Laura He, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024
This one was more of a mix between Durant having a hostile takeover in the fourth and defending the Bulls' 3-point shot better, after trailing by as many as 23 with 8:06 left in the third.
—The Arizona Republic, 23 Jan. 2024
Apple does a hostile takeover of Comcast Sony and then immediately engulfs Warner Paramount Discovery.
—Meredith Woerner, Variety, 11 Feb. 2024
In response, the company implemented a shareholder rights plan to discourage the possibility of a hostile takeover.
—Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2024
DeSantis wants the Legislature to allocate another $19 million to cover more legal fees, with $5 million earmarked for the defense of his most reckless shenanigan — a hostile takeover of the governing board overseeing the Walt Disney Company’s 25,000-acre tract south of Orlando.
—Fred Grimm, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
In the nineteen-eighties, a financier led a hostile takeover of PALCO, and racked up hundreds of millions of dollars in debt in the process; two decades later, the company turned to a Manhattan investment firm called Marathon Asset Management to stay afloat.
—Michael Waters, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2024
James Morris, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
That’s when JetBlue launched a hostile takeover of Spirit after the low-cost carrier’s deal with Frontier Airlines fell through.
—Emma Roth, The Verge, 4 Mar. 2024
In 2017, in order to fend off a hostile takeover bid by a Chinese activist investor, the company let the Shenzhen government step in as its top shareholder.
—Laura He, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024
This one was more of a mix between Durant having a hostile takeover in the fourth and defending the Bulls' 3-point shot better, after trailing by as many as 23 with 8:06 left in the third.
—The Arizona Republic, 23 Jan. 2024
Apple does a hostile takeover of Comcast Sony and then immediately engulfs Warner Paramount Discovery.
—Meredith Woerner, Variety, 11 Feb. 2024
In response, the company implemented a shareholder rights plan to discourage the possibility of a hostile takeover.
—Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2024
DeSantis wants the Legislature to allocate another $19 million to cover more legal fees, with $5 million earmarked for the defense of his most reckless shenanigan — a hostile takeover of the governing board overseeing the Walt Disney Company’s 25,000-acre tract south of Orlando.
—Fred Grimm, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
In the nineteen-eighties, a financier led a hostile takeover of PALCO, and racked up hundreds of millions of dollars in debt in the process; two decades later, the company turned to a Manhattan investment firm called Marathon Asset Management to stay afloat.
—Michael Waters, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2024
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