Takeover - Tactics Against Hostile Takeover

Tactics Against Hostile Takeover

There are several tactics, or techniques, which can be used to deter a hostile takeover.

  • Bankmail
  • Crown Jewel Defense
  • Flip-in
  • Flip-over
  • Golden Parachute
  • Gray Knight
  • Greenmail
  • Jonestown Defense
  • Killer bees
  • Leveraged recapitalization
  • Lobster trap
  • Lock-up provision
  • Nancy Reagan Defense
  • Non-voting stock
  • Pac-Man Defense
  • Pension parachute
  • People Pill
  • Poison pill
  • Safe Harbor
  • Scorched-earth defense
  • Shark Repellent
  • Staggered board of directors
  • Standstill agreement
  • Targeted repurchase
  • Top-ups
  • Treasury stock
  • Voting plans
  • White knight
  • White squire
  • Whitemail

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Famous quotes containing the words hostile and/or takeover:

    “We fear our neighbor’s hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.”
    —Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)