So why would somebody go buy the stock and try to make the take-over fail ?
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Put differently, despite their popularity, the average take-over destroys value for the acquiring firm.
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The move is a major defensive play against take-over to deter an aggressive buyer.
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State department spokesman Phillip Crowley tried to appease the crowd and tone down the forced take-over.
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But analysts are sceptical about the plan, with most believing MMO2 will become an instant take-over target.
His take-over of the Evening Standard s expected to take place in February following consultation with employees.
At present, we see no software companies that have sufficient cash or expertise to attempt such a take-over.
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Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, former editor of the Sunday Telegraph, said the take-over was a sign of "national decline".
France has already evacuated 80 people, including 60 of its nationals, following the rebel take-over of the capital, Bangui.
This is why the current take-over buzz around RIM is hard to believe.
Computing giant Microsoft has completed the take-over of Perceptive Pixel, a firm that specialises in making large multi-touch wall-mountable screens.
But investors may want to stay with the stock, as it could be an attractive take-over candidate at these valuations.
It can be useful in business, eg. when plotting a take-over, or politics, eg. figuring out which party wields the most power.
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To ensure its leadership, Pfizer grabbed all of Lipitor first with its hostile take-over of Warner-Lambert, followed by the purchase of Pharmacia.
Much of that was inherited with the calamitous take-over of ABN Amro.
After creating these types of lists for years and years, you discover that what you come up with are many potential take-over candidates.
The suspicion was that Rosneft and the prosecutors are strong-arming Yukos's Moscow staff, as a prelude to Rosneft's expected take-over of its remaining assets.
Banco Votorantim, which has lent heavily against cars in recent years, has posted three quarterly losses and is rumoured to be a take-over target.
Former Rangers' chairman Alastair Johnston also asked the Crown Office to investigate the take-over shortly after the club were placed in administration in February 2012.
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France is resisting efforts to liberalise energy markets, while Germany has failed to endorse new company take-over rules which would apply across the European Union.
On the Nasdaq, take-over discussions have boosted Vivus shares by 2%.
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It almost always lowers cost (including taxes), makes analysis easier, simplifies rebalancing, simplifies tax-preparation, reduces paper-work and record-keeping, and enables caregivers and heirs to easily take-over the portfolio when necessary.
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The suit by DOL against Mr. Bierwirth and other trustees of the Grumman Corporation Pension Plan was collateral damage from the fight to fend off a take-over attempt by conglomerate LTV.
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Politicians and union leaders proclaim that the foreign owners may not be dedicated to keep up investment in the subsidiary, and that the take-over threatens national jobs and other economic interests.
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Two airlines regularly pop up as speculative take-over targets.
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This is not an argument for a government take-over.
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Many Americans think it is a "government take-over" of healthcare, (which it is not) and many more still do not know what it means for them, partly because it is not yet knowable.
Because, by definition, information about private firms is usually not publicly available, there would also be much fewer buyers aware of the juicy take-over target, and that it was possibly available at a bargain.
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Where the stock market usually responds negatively to an acquisition, they found that if the take-over was preceded by an alliance between the firms, the share price of the acquiring firm increased after the take-over announcement.
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Kirchnerb s bullying of the private sector, his increasing executive decisionism, his take-over of the judiciary, his arbitrariness, his alliance with the highly tumultuous Piqueteros, and his pro-Chavez foreign policy, have frightened the Buenos Aires urban educated population.
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