what is a hostile takeover of a company

- Spain Court Drops Russia Tycoon Probe Over Supermarket Buy
  International Business Times· 6 days ago
  The court did not say why it dismissed the investigation into the Kremlin-friendly oligarch, one of...
- Suez gets $13.66 billion approach from Ardian
  Market Watch· 6 days ago
  French waste and water management company Suez said late Sunday that its board of directors unanimously backed a proposal from Ardian and Global Infrastructure ...
- Mediaset Quietly Raises Stake in Germany’s ProSieben to 24%, Just Below Anti-Trust Threshold
  Variety via Yahoo Finance· 2 days ago
  Mediaset’s Mediaset Espana subsidiary on Thursday evening said it had acquired a 3.43% share in...
- AMC Entertainment Adopts Staggered Board Structure At Request Of Owner Wanda; Would Make Hostile ...
  Deadline via Yahoo News· 1 month ago
  Monday unveiled plans to change its board structure in an agreement with majority shareholder Wanda...
- HP rejects Xerox's $33.5B hostile takeover attempt
  Fox Business via Yahoo Finance· 1 year ago
  HP has rejected Xerox's $33.5 billion takeover attempt – again. The personal computer maker's board of directors sent a letter to Xerox CEO John Visentin...
- HP Rejects Xerox’s Hostile Takeover Offer, Calling Bid Too Low
  Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance· 11 months ago
  The offer “meaningfully undervalues HP and disproportionately benefits Xerox shareholders,” the Palo...
- Is That You, Bobby Axelrod? Pop Culture Proxy Fights
  CorpGov.com via Yahoo Finance· 1 year ago
  In the 1987 film “Wall Street”, Michael Douglas’ character Gordon Gekko gave the famous “Greed is Good” speech during a hostile takeover
- HP offers its investors billions in shareholder returns to avoid a Xerox tie-up
  TechCrunch· 11 months ago
  To ward off a hostile takeover bid by Xerox, which is a much smaller company, HP (not to be confused...
- Xerox threatens HP with hostile takeover
  The Telegraph via Yahoo Finance· 1 year ago
  Xerox is preparing to take its $33.5 billion (26bn) offer to buy HP hostile after the printing giant's board rejected a second bid and accused the...
- Bloomberg's hostile takeover of democracy
  The Week via Yahoo News· 11 months ago
  His overall political orientation is a version of the kind of elite centrism well-represented in the donor class of the Democratic Party, and abroad by...