the firm conviction that juvenile offenders should never be held in adult lockups
Recent Examples on the WebAnd chatter about possible M&A that the company could engage in is likely to surge now that the two-year Reverse Morris Trust lockup period for big deals involving WBD has ended.—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Apr. 2024 Shareholders are expected to officially approve the merger during a vote later this month, but a lockup provision of the deal would require Trump to wait six months before selling any shares.—Jonathan O'Connell, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024 He and other board members are bound by the same lockup agreement.—Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024 But there’s an escape clause written into the deal: Trump can seek a waiver of the lockup from the post-merger board.—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024 Trump can’t sell or leverage his stake in Truth Social for at least six months due to a lockup provision intended to prevent a rapid selloff that could shake investor confidence, but the company has already bolstered Trump’s net worth.—Max Zahn, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2024 But over the past few years, the deteriorating conditions and rising death tolls in lockups from New York to Texas to California have attracted increasing scrutiny.—Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024 Such lockup periods are standard provisions in corporate deals, designed to instill confidence in investors that the leaders won’t sell before enough time has passed to see how the company performs.—Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024 The complaints include their stories as well as information about the importance of in-person contact for the inmates and their loved ones, particularly children, and practices and cost comparisons at other lockups.—Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2024
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: the tactic of arranging with a friendly party an option to buy a valuable portion of one's corporate assets in order to discourage a takeover by another party
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