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1. A few takeovers stuck out in her mind, nasty things where people died
2. It was to get the thing passed before anyone knew about the takeovers of companies, the favors to unions, and the special interest pork hidden in it
3. The word came into common usage to mean the forceful overthrow of government when the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia, and is now used when talking about such political takeovers elsewhere in the world
4. Functional outlawing of hostile takeovers through political action and ‘creative’ lawyers has reduced entrepreneurial risk-taking and dynamic management to the point of reducing
5. The history of early hostile takeovers shows that most of them were profitable in the sense that they resulted in increased share values for the two companies combined
6. Still, boards of directors, executives, unions, and many others in the companies taken over through hostile bids, do not like what happens to them in the aftermath of those takeovers
7. Acquisitions and takeovers have been the subject of criticisms of big business recently, with Enron as the first and probably the largest of bankrupt entities that showed “greed,”
8. Congress passed the Williams Act of 1968 that required the notification of the Securities and Exchange Commission of the intent of hostile takeovers and made it more difficult to carry them out successfully
9. On top of that, many State regulators have allowed managers of targeted firms to delay or prevent takeovers, and the regulators made the takeovers more difficult in spite of the natural market forces fully capable of handling the transactions without disinterested and politically motivated interference
10. ’ This discussion of government regulation of hostile takeovers is based on the Op-Ed opinion of Herbert Grubel
11. "account takeovers," passing bad checks, and "busting out" a checking or credit account with bad check, counterfeit money order, or empty ATM
12. Companies that have been through hostile takeovers understand the levels of
13. “Yea, sorry, I just don't think I'm that interesting, not compared to big corporate takeovers and super star studded premiers
14. The addiction to corporation mergers, monopolizing industries and businesses, the addiction to stock swindles, the addiction to instant profit, to lotteries, gambling, corporate takeovers, the insider trading of embezzled stock tips… the addiction to worshipping the greediest and most powerful as heroes… the addiction to belief systems, religions, dogmas, cults, cultures
15. In the legacy portfolio we have two takeovers in two days – yikes: 600 Group and Noble’s
16. The financial pages also carry stories about takeovers and other dramatic events, and have interviews with the top managers
17. FIRST COMMENT: Among all the takeovers effected in the year 1969 this was no doubt the most extreme in its financial disproportions
18. As it happens our cause has not been lost; it has been rescued by an extraneous development—known as takeovers, or take-over bids
19. * In June 1972 (just after Graham finished this chapter), a Federal judge found that NVF’s chairman, Victor Posner, had improperly diverted the pension assets of Sharon Steel “to assist affiliated companies in their takeovers of other corporations
20. ” Posner was later a central force in the wave of leveraged buyouts and hostile takeovers that swept the United States in the 1980s, as he became a major customer for the junk bonds underwritten by Drexel Burnham Lambert
21. * Ironically, takeovers began drying up shortly after Graham’s last revised edition appeared, and the 1970s and early 1980s marked the absolute low point of modern American industrial efficiency
22. While many of the companies involved in buy-outs and takeovers were ravaged, the rest of American business emerged both leaner (which was good) and meaner (which sometimes was not)
23. Takeovers are another investment type that depends on the timing of the deal, not the mood of the market
24. The arbitrage positions were all in publicly announced deals, largely takeovers for which financing was available
25. The arbitrage positions are generally takeovers; they offer useful information about how much acquirers are paying for what kinds of businesses
26. Then, there is a tendency for cheap shares to be acquired for cash and debt, in M&A transactions, in hostile takeovers, and in the particular form of M&A called leveraged buyouts (LBOs), management buyouts (MBOs), or going-privates
27. This approach is more commonly used in the context of corporate takeovers (such as mergers and acquisitions) than it is in the context of passive investing by OPMIs
28. This was, for example, the basis of the takeovers in 1968 and 1969 of strongly capitalized insurers, such as Reliance Insurance and Great American Holding Company
29. Should OPMIs acquire the common stocks of companies with conservative capitalizations? Presumably, such common stocks will sell at lower prices, have greater potential for appreciation if they are to become leveraged in the future, and are more likely targets for takeovers
30. These companies also are the most attractive candidates for resource conversion activities such as mergers and acquisitions, liquidations, share repurchases, takeovers, and other changes in control
31. For value investing, an OPMI market price, especially for a common stock, does not necessarily have any relationship to the price that ought to prevail were the security to be analyzed as issued by a company that is to be involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&As), hostile takeovers, going-private transactions, or liquidations
32. This demonstrates a tendency toward efficiency in the hostile takeover market because if shares were available at much greater discounts, hostile takeovers might make sense, even granting that it appears that every closed-end fund currently in existence has adopted significant shark repellents (management entrenchment devices that insulate incumbent control people)
33. In hostile takeovers, state court litigation, especially in Delaware, may take center stage
34. In part because of time-consuming delays, it tends to be more difficult to use the cash-merger technique in hostile takeovers than to use a cash-tender offer to be followed by a mop-up merger
35. Doability issues: Voluntary exchanges are okay for friendly takeovers, but they usually are harder than buying for cash
36. Corporations that were candidates for contested takeovers were those with the following conditions:
37. There were scores of contested cash takeovers in the period between 1975 and 1978, including those for the common stocks of Allied Thermal, Husky Oil, Apco, Otis Elevator, ESB, Aztec Oil and Gas, Sea World, Babcock and Wilcox, Marcor, Royal Industries, and Carrier Corporation
38. 1 In 2012, it seemed most hostile takeovers were initiated by distressed investors who acquired credits in troubled companies and then in a Chapter 11 reorganization received common stock for their credits as part of a plan of reorganization
39. There are always lots of uncertainties in engaging in hostile takeovers, and Promoter Group would be estopped from doing due-diligence research away from public records
40. and fair prices in takeovers
41. His corporate takeovers of the 1980s were the stuff of legend, with Gulf Oil, Phillips Petroleum, and Unocal being some of his most famous takeover targets
42. During the 1980s, he led a string of takeovers and attempted buy-outs of undervalued oil and gas companies including Cities Service, Phillips Petroleum, Gulf Oil, and Unocal
43. Although there are certain common causes (earnings announcements, takeovers, issuance of securities, and so on) each case is unique
