Sentences with phrase «hostile bid for»

That's why No. 1 mall owner Simon Property Group has launched the industry's first - ever hostile bid for No. 7 Taubman Centers Inc..

Last week President Donald Trump blocked Singapore - based Broadcom's $ 117 billion hostile bid for Qualcomm.

As part of its deal with Barrick Gold, Equinox also announced that it canceled a $ 4.9 billion hostile bid for Toronto - based Lundin Mining.

Being on the winning side when Granada finally won its # 3.8 bn hostile bid for Forte after months of hostilities.

Industry Minister Tony Clement's decision to reject BHP's $ 38.9 billion hostile bid for Saskatoon - based Potash Corp. is reverberating through the business world, with some calling it a wise political move and others dismissing it as idiotic.

Trian has been whittling down its stake in Kraft since last year, when Kraft made a hostile bid for Cadbury.

Kraft, the American food manufacturer whose hostile bid for Cadbury upset many consumers in Britain, has been accused of treating parliament with «contempt».

The Pantry deal was reached about four years after the failure of Couche - Tard's US$ 1.9 - billion hostile bid for Casey's General Stores.

In fact, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts made an unsuccessful hostile bid for Disney in 2004.

But a funny thing happens if you climb to the top of Canada's corporate ladder, where BHP Billiton's $ 40 - billion hostile bid for Saskatoon - based Potash Corp. has many senior executives and company directors ranting like coffee - shop Marxists.

Not exact matches

Woodside Petroleum Ltd subsidiary ATS Inc has made good on a promise not to extend its $ 1.16 billion hostile takeover bid for US - based oil producer Energy Partners Ltd, after failing to reach the minimum acquisition level of 50 per cent.

Broadcom said its $ 121 billion acquisition proposal for Qualcomm is the «best and final» offer after the target's board unanimously rejected the sweetened bid, likely leaving the future of the hostile takeover bid to be decided by shareholders next month.

Though Barrick outbid Minmetals for copper producer Equinox last spring, Minmetals» bid was hostile — a first for a Chinese state agency.

A fourth hostile offer — Broadcom's $ 103 billion bid for Qualcomm — was rejected late in the year.

Just how Tribune (TPUB) would mount a hostile takeover bid for Gannett (GCI), a company that is more than four times its size in terms of stock - market value, is unclear.

-- Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. (TSX: VRX) is extending the deadline for its more than US$ 50 - billion hostile takeover bid for Botox - maker Allergan (NYSE: AGN).

In a record year for U.S. M&A, with $ 2.18 trillion in deals, according to Dealogic, hostile takeover bids have also surged, worth more than 14 % of the total value of transactions.

The stop imposed by President Trump to Singapore - based Broadcom's $ 117 billion dollar hostile takeover bid for US chip maker Qualcomm may not stop cross-border acquisitions but sets a precedent for foreign deals.

Building - supplies maker Knauf is getting more hostile in its $ 5.9 bln bid for USG, whose biggest shareholder Berkshire Hathaway seems ready to sell.

David Pyott had been the CEO of Allergan for nearly 17 years in April 2014, when Valeant Pharmaceuticals and Pershing Square Capital Management initiated the hostile takeover bid described in the accompanying article «The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership.»

by Anita Anand This week, the Ontario Securities Commission and British Columbia Securities Commission simultaneously heard a case relating to the hostile takeover bid that Idaho's Hecla Mining Co. has launched for Dolly Varden Silver Corp., a junior issuer based in British Columbia.

Gannett missed the deadline for proposing board members, a deadline that preceded its mid-April friendly letter to the Tribune and its late April public hostile bid.

Soon - Shiong's Nant Capital, a California - based technology firm, became Tronc's second - largest shareholder in June 2016 and that investment helped Tronc fend off a hostile takeover bid from Gannett, whose last offer was $ 864 million for the company.

Soon - Shiong's Nant Capital, a Culver City technology firm, became Tronc's second - largest shareholder in June 2016, and that investment helped Tronc fend off a hostile takeover bid from Gannett, whose last offer was $ 864 million for the company.

Gannett is ramping up its efforts to acquire Tribune Publishing by going directly to shareholders, but not going so far as to initiate a hostile takeover bid for the Chicago - based publisher of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times.

Qualcomm has established a new severance program for non-executive employees that's triggered by a change of control as it faces a hostile takeover bid from rival Broadcom.

It's much more appealing to make a hostile bid if you know you'll get something for your efforts even if you lose, which is another benefit of the toehold strategy.

The battle lines in Broadcom's hostile takeover bid of Qualcomm are still being drawn, but analysts see a handful of pivotal issues that could tip the scales for each side.

Interesting transfer news are out claiming that Barcelona fear a hostile bid from Manchester City for young winger Gerard Deulofeu.

Both Democrats and Republicans had spent millions of dollars on the Westchester contest, airing hostile television ads, in an effort to win the seat, which was vacated in January by George Latimer, who won his bid for county executive.

Cuomo, a Democrat positioning himself for a possible presidential bid in 2020, did not mention President Donald Trump until 90 minutes into his 92 - minute speech, but said that the current Republican Congress and administration is «the most hostile and aggressive toward New York in history.»

When Tunstall is killed by Murphy's (Jack Palance) men in a kind of frontier - style hostile takeover (Fusco, recognizing the difficulty of condensing the politics of the Santa Fe Ring for Young Guns» demographic, counts on Palance's black hat and beady stare to do his adversarial bidding), Billy becomes the de facto leader of the now - deputized Regulators (best shot, loudest mouth), leaving Sheen to pretend that his and Estevez's characters are not obviously from the same gene pool, Sutherland to romantic pursuits, Phillips to blur ethnic lines per usual as a Mexican Navajo, Mulroney to twitch, and Siemaszko to also twitch.

Beginning in 2009, financier Ron Burkle began mounting a hostile takeover bid for the bookseller; Barnes & Noble instituted a poison pill defense, which was upheld in 2011 by a Delaware court on appeal.

And don't even get me started on the potential friendly / hostile public takeover bids that were being considered by One51 at the time... most famously, the active role it played (via Moonduster, a JV with the Doyle Group) in the long - drawn out (& ultimately unsuccessful) bidding war for Irish Continental Group (IR5B: ID).

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CanniMed's Shareholder Rights Plan: In order to defend against Aurora's hostile take - over bid and protect the Newstrike transaction, CanniMed's Board adopted a shareholder rights plan for CanniMed that prevented Aurora from:

On March 15, 2018, the Ontario Securities Commission released the rationale behind its decisions on various applications submitted to it as a result of the hostile bid by Aurora Cannabis Inc. for CanniMed Therapeutics Inc..

He was part of the magic circle firm's team that acted for Barclays on ABN Amro's # 80bn merger bid for the bank in 2007, while he also advised Kraft Foods on its # 11.5 bn hostile takeover of Cadbury in 2011.

The (previously untested) widespread expectation was that regulators would have less tolerance for poison pills adopted in the face of hostile bids with the mandated longer bid period.

Legal Post «Say slow» the new «say no» for Canadian companies fending off hostile takeovers The boards of Canadian public companies have long wished for the right to «just say no» to hostile takeover bids.

«A subsequent bid round may be in a more hostile environment where there is less legal aid work available, and the fact firms aren't in a contract may make it easier for [the LSC] to make cuts.

Rights plans (i.e. poison pills) usually provide that in the event of a hostile bid all security holders (except for the bidder) are entitled to purchase additional shares at a deep discount.

The bid by Laval, Que. - based Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. for California - based Allergan Inc. offers Canadian observers a chance to see what hostile takeovers might look like when the target is located in the U.S....

In the Faskens analysis of all 143 hostile takeover bids for control of Canadian - listed issuers during 2005 - 2014, the hostile bidder won 55 per cent of the time.

Key findings in the the Faskens report include: When initiating a public contest for control, a hostile bidder was successful more than half the time; however, in those circumstances, the sale of the company was by no means inevitable, with targets of these bids remaining independent almost 30 per cent of the time.

Both sides are saying they won, but Wall Street analysts argue that Indianapolis - based Simon now has the upper hand in its hostile takeover bid for Bloomfield Hills, Mich. - based Taubman.

Both sides are saying they won, but Wall Street analysts are still unsure whether Indianapolis - based Simon now has the upper hand in its hostile takeover bid for Bloomfield Hills, Mich. - based Taubman.

After almost a year of battling, it only took a day for Simon Property Group and Westfield America to decide to terminate their hostile takeover bid for rival REIT Taubman Centers.