" Third, journalists who "question the existing optimistic consensus incur constant harassment from the target company.
The layering effect showed that the client really needed 20% of the target company.
It is commonplace in Silicon Valley that hostile takeovers backfire, because the target company's brainpower exits.
He suspects that the target company's management felt the Japanese bidder would go easier on them than U.S. bosses would.
The case involved the acquisition of the target company TSC Industries by National Industries through the purchase of a controlling interest.
After a takeover bid is made, the shares of the acquiring company routinely fall while the shares of the target company rise.
The target company must prove the deal is fair to all shareholders.
Bids of these kinds are usually made by other businesses who have new ideas for how to unlock value in the target company.
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The target company (or the company whose shares are being disposed of) must be a trading company or the holding company of a trading group.
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But that usually means firing the management of the target company.
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If these synergies are not achieved, the acquisition premium is merely a gift from the shareholders of the acquirer to the shareholders of the target company.
The proxy itself is generally made available as an exhibit to a Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by the target company.
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It calculates an intrinsic value by discounting a stream of future earnings back to the present, using a discount rate that is a function of both Aaa bond yields and the creditworthiness of the target company.
In countries like the United States and Britain, there are well-defined paths that the prospective buyer of a company can follow to have a case heard and voted on by the target company's board and shareholders.
With Clear Channel's stock trading well below its buyout value, lenders to the private equity consortium now face the prospect of lending far more than the current market value of the target company, and at a time when banks are already nervous about making loans.
By then the firm was increasingly moving from friendly buyouts, undertaken with the cooperation of management, to hostile ones, where new management would often strip the target company like a stolen car, sell off choice bits to the highest bidders and fire thousands of employees along the way.
Unfortunatey, the proposed regulations require a taxpayer who sells his interest in an S corporation or partnership to obtain an appraisal of each asset including intangibles of the target company in order to support removing any resulting gain from the computation of his net investment income.
Gerhard Schrder, the German chancellor, recently intervened in the takeover battle between the U.K.'s Vodafone Air-Touch and Mannesmann, declaring that hostile bids would destroy "the culture" of the German target company.
While the mass layoffs may help the company improve profitability and help Nortel better target sales, the company may see even more benefit from the firing of just seven executives.
Then last week, the firm trimmed its estimates and price target on the company.
Technicians labeled the incident as a network router failure but are still checking into the possibility that the company was the target of an attack.
As the contract deadline nears, a target company will be picked, and then the serious bargaining starts with that company.
Also, the government could fall short of achieving its subsidy-reduction target, the ratings company said.
Even though BP is in trouble, most sell-side analysts know the first rule of job preservation is to throw their support behind a beleaguered company in the faint hope that their firm may get a banking mandate if the company is the target of a takeover or is forced to sell itself.
Learning from its earlier experience with the Missoni limited line, demand for which caused the Target site to crash, the company says the website is prepared for the onslaught.
Pharmacia also still thinks VEGF makes a promising target, the company said in a press release.
As I noted earlier, UBS analyst Steve Milunovich today trimmed his estimates and price target for the company.
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The company can target specific demographics through brands like Pogo.com, which reaches 10 million unique visitors per month, 60 percent of whom are women.
But a report ( pdf) by biofuels expert John Sheehan suggests that techniques developed by the company to target tumors in humans could change that process and in the process could increase algae oil output during the production of biofuels.
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Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham demanded a "categorical assurance" from the minister that data could not be used "for purposes other than research - passed on to third parties or used by the same company to target people for other products and services".
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