Sentences with phrase «bidding battle»
A "bidding battle" refers to a situation where multiple people or parties are competing against each other by placing increasing offers or bids in order to obtain something they desire, such as an item or a contract. Full definition
The deal suggests there is value locked up within Shire's portfolio - despite a dismal share price performance in the past two years - as its management braces for a possible $ 50 - billion bid battle with Japan's biggest drugmaker.
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The world auction record for Claude Monet was eclipsed after an epic 14 - minute bidding battle in the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York.
The once - in - a-lifetime auction of Salvator Mundi, which followed a global exhibition that had seen thousands of people come to view the painting, produced an extraordinary 19 - minute bidding battle before it was finally bought for $ 450,312,500.
The deal's still being finalized, but this brings to a close one of the most freewheeling all - night bidding battles ever seen here in Park City.
Was it because David Dein came back too late to bring his boss Usmanov or Usmanov himself lost in the head to head bid battle?
Accepting the offer would mean a loss of # 8 million on the player but if we accept it would send out a clear signal for clubs interested in other fringe Arsenal stars and that might even lead to a few bidding battles.
Is there another Big Sick, the comedy whose whopping first - weekend bidding battle whetted the appetite for a multitude of other deals last Sundance?
EXCLUSIVE: In the biggest deal by far so far here at the Sundance Film Festival, Open Road Films and Sony Pictures have won a pitched bidding battle for the Rick Famuyiwa - directed Dope.
Netflix spent more than $ 90 million on Bright in a two - week bidding battle that the streaming network eventually won.
Well tough noogies, because it looks like that ain't happening any time soon, with The Bookseller bringing news of the latest DIY bidding battle.
There was a pretty measly premium on offer, anyway — so I suspect even a protracted bid battle wouldn't have produced an acceptable take - out price for shareholders.
Early this year, China's Anbang Insurance made a $ 6.5 billion deal to acquire Strategic Hotels & Resorts, then followed up with a failed attempt to take over Starwood Hotels in a see - saw $ 14 billion bidding battle against Marriott.
An adaptation of the forthcoming action game Dante's Inferno is on its way following a four - studio bidding battle, as well as versions of The Sims, Mass Effect and Army of Two, all of which are in various stages of pre-production.
I stood and watched as the Prada - clad staff taking telephone bids battled over the painting, which sold way over the # 58,000 estimate.
These records were obliterated when Jussi Pylkkänen, Christie's Global President, brought the hammer down on Lot 9 after an extraordinary bidding battle that lasted just short of 20 minutes.
Slaughter and May, Linklaters and Simmons & Simmons have become the latest firms to win roles on the billion - pound bidding battle for Cove Energy.
It won an all - night bidding battle that reached nearly $ 3 million for Roxanne Roxanne, the Michael Larnell - directed that stars Chanté Adams, who just won the Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Performance.
Jean - Michel Basquiat's Air Power became the most valuable work sold at the auction tonight when it was pursued by six bidders who pushed the final sale price to # 7,093,000 ($ 8,817,308) after a 5 - minute bidding battle, double the pre-sale high estimate (est. # 2.5 - 3.5 m).
As Kate King reports, Botox - maker Allergan has also pulled out of the bidding battle.
Zenit St Petersburg and Fulham have also been linked with the midfielder but it appears Reading will win the bidding battle when the transfer window opens on January 1.
March 16 — The United 2026 World Cup bid have unveiled their 23 - city hosting list and while there are a few notable omissions — Vancouver, Chicago, Salt Lake and Minneapolis being the highest profile — it is still an impressive and broad - based power play in the bid battle.
Up at the Toronto International Film Festival, Universal and Focus Features picked up the worldwide rights to the project (beating out Fox Searchlight in a bidding battle) for the still untitled film that will be released sometime late in 2017.
The sale was led by Henry Moore's groundbreaking 1951 modernist sculpture Reclining Figure: Festival, which sold after a bidding battle for # 24,722,500 / $ 33,103,428 / $ 29,790,613, the highest price ever achieved for a work by the artist.
Mark Rothko's Saffron (1957), a work that belongs to a select group of brightly coloured canvases Rothko produced in the mid-1950s, just a few months before his oeuvre shifted to a more sombre palette, was the subject of another bidding battle before selling for $ 32,375,000.
Leading the auction was a rare work by Yayoi Kusama, Red Nets, No. 19, 1960 which doubled its pre-sale estimate after a bidding battle between multiple clients in the room and on the phone.
The Wool ignited a fierce and drawn - out bidding battle in the salesroom before finally selling to New York's Andrew Fabricant of Richard Gray Gallery for a sizzling # 9.1 million (# 10.4 million with fees), well above the high estimate of # 6.2 million.
Clifford Chance (CC), White & Case and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have won roles on the bidding battle for hedge fund administrator GlobeOp, after US software company SS&C Technologies last week trumped an earlier offer from buyout house TPG Capital.
I have won many a bidding battle with a huge deposit.