Never mind the poison pill that Netflix put in place after Icahn acquired a near-10% stake.
Unfortunately, the judge ruling in the case upheld the legality of Poison Pill plans yesterday evening.
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Soon after, Office Depot created a poison pill defense that would fend off hostile takeovers.
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Mergers are a key fuel in the evolution of this market, not the poison pill.
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"It's not something that should be considered a poison pill or a hot potato, " said Gregory T.
It has been pressing management to eliminate its poison pill designed to deter any hostile takeover attempts.
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Congress should repeal this poison pill and allow patients, if they so choose, to be treated outside of Medicare.
But now that opportunity is gone because of the poison pill plan having been upheld by the Delaware Chancery.
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In 1984 Gibbs helped fend off hostile shareholders bent on liquidating the company and engineered a poison pill antitakeover provision.
Burkle owns 19% of the firm and sued in an effort to increase his holding without triggering the poison pill.
Lawyers who advise on similar deals, including the prodigious Martin Lipton, inventor of the poison pill, don't earn that kind of money.
In a move to fend off any hostile takeover attempt, BMC this morning also announced the adoption of a poison pill rights plan.
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"This is not a poison pill, " South Carolina Republican Representative Mick Mulvaney, who supported the amendment, told the Associated Press prior to the vote.
This offer is conditioned on completion of cursory due diligence, and the redemption and waiver of anti-takeover devices and laws such as the poison pill.
He expects the company will eventually get rid of its poison pill mechanism, now that it has announced that it would seek other strategic measures.
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How strange, then, to find a poison pill being used (seemingly) in a good cause, against somebody who has (apparently) given many shareholders a lousy deal.
Second, the technology isn't yet integrated with Intel's other security features, such as identity protection or its "poison pill" that prevents the PC from even booting.
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The board of film rental firm Netflix has adopted a "poison pill" strategy to ward off a potential hostile takeover bid by activist investor Carl Icahn.
Mr Mather said independence would drive forward an economic model for a resilient Scotland "not one that gives us something that is half-baked and a poison pill".
This morning, Netflix announced that it has adopted a poison pill shareholder rights plan as a defense against unfriendly attempts to take control of the company.
The company has adopted a poison pill to discourage any hostile bid for the company after rumors floated that there might be an unwelcome buyer looking at the company.
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This week, Hollinger International's board launched a campaign, including the creation of a poison pill, to stop Lord Black selling control of the firm to the wealthy Barclay brothers.
Marco Rubio, the most prominent Republican in the "Gang of Eight, " was among those who called Leahy's amendments a poison pill virtually certain to destroy GOP support for the measure.
Fortunately the legality of poison pill plans was finally called into question in a case that sat before the most important business court in the world, the Delaware Chancery Court.
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An official in the auto industry said that bringing the Colombian pact into the negotiations could be a poison pill that would prevent passage of an auto industry aid package.
Instead, poison pill plans protect poor under-performing management teams.
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"If this was a fair fight and there wasn't this poison pill, this would be an open and shut case as of this morning, " said Alex Potter, an analyst at Collins Stewart.
The Corporate Library paper argues that too many former private equity companies reach the public markets with anti-takeover poison pill provisions, board seats for the former owners and executive compensation plans that don't serve shareholders.
Bostock and the rest of the board call the offer insufficient and adopt a poison pill-type HR plan to make it virtually impossible for Microsoft to go through with the deal in a hostile manner.
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