Industry players rejected a bid by Chinese firm Huawei to acquire Nortel in 2008 because of business intel concerns.
If a big technology firm bid successfully for, say, .cloud, consumers might come to associate cloud computing with that company above others.
The 38-year-old has been linked with a number of clubs in Germany and England but no firm bid has so far been made.
Investors seem to think a foreign bid for either firm is unlikely, however: hence the lacklustre performance of their shares after the deal was announced.
Under Luxembourg's law the owner of more than 33% of a company is obliged to make a full bid for the firm, but the duchy's regulator made an exception for Mr Mordashov.
This market is proving that there is a firm bid underneath the surface, but the day you start getting sloppy and giving things too much room could be the day we end up getting a more significant pullback.
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Eventually the Holiday Inn brand passed into the ownership of Six Continents, a British-based outfit that calls itself the world's leading global hotel company, and was this week being threatened with a possible takeover bid by a firm headed by Hugh Osmond, a Briton with an eye for opportunity.
Her choice, Aventis, closed the contest up 62%, thanks to a takeover bid from French pharmaceutical firm Sanofi-Synthelabo.
The Derby-based firm has bid for a contract to build 200 diesel trains, some planned to be used on the Great Western line, against rivals from Spain and China.
The firm out-bid Raasay Crofters' Association, which had managed the rights for 18 years.
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Canada said last week that the firm could not bid to help build a secure national network.
Or when China's CNOOC oil company put up a bid for the American oil firm Unocal a year earlier?
The Galashiels firm said the bid was too low and after a number of approaches has decided to recommend the offer from the Japanese company.
Despite the weekend news of Q-Cells sale, the Spanish firm announced a bid for the company, citing that the final transaction is subject for approval by creditors today.
"Southeastern has been working hard to secure a better outcome for our clients through a superior offer or a rejection of the current bid, " the investment firm wrote in an April letter to its clients.
Regulators in Britain told Macquarie Bank that if it did not state its firm intention to bid for the London Stock Exchange by December 15th it would be banned from doing so for six months.
So any bid would need to have firm plans for navigating these challenges such as keeping the two firms as separate entities to help ensure privacy concerns are met in addition to reaching a value for the firm that could win shareholder approval.
The winning bid came from a financial technology firm, which Hawtin declined to name.
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Even some who had initially declared firm opposition to the bid softened over time.
He was a victim of a scandal involving alleged share-price manipulation at a sister firm fighting a takeover bid.
In 2005 CNOOC, a Chinese oil firm, withdrew a bid for Unocal, a Californian producer, after American politicians kicked up a stink.
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The firm was previously a bid target for bookmaker Ladbrokes.
Those aghast that a brash antipodean firm should dare to bid for one of the City of London's historic and hallowed institutions may not relish the prospect of a genuine bid.
In 2006 the two sparred when Mr Samuelsson launched a hostile bid for Scania, a Swedish truck firm.
Nufarm itself only barely avoided being acquired in 2007 in a joint bid by an American private-equity firm and a Chinese state-owned company.
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Among them were specialty-chemicals maker Evonik Industries AG and insurance company Talanx AG both based in Germany as well as Russian telecom firm MegaFon and investment-bid vehicle Tungsten Corp.
On television on Tuesday morning, Flowers and Mark Winkelman , who was named chairman of Refco, insisted they planned to resuscitate the firm and possibly make a bid to buy Refco's securities-brokerage division.
In the aftermath of the referendum defeat, the French establishment talked itself into a state of advanced paranoia because of rumours of a bid for Danone, a French food firm, by PepsiCo, an American one.
Playboy has agreed to an offer from founder Hugh Hefner to take the firm private after he raised his bid by 12%.
PTT's bid is the biggest ever by a Thai firm for a foreign one, and underscores the rush for oil-and-gas assets off the east African coast.
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