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Acquirer

A firm or individual that is purchasing another firm or asset.
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Acquirer

A person or company that buys an asset or a company. An acquirer who purchases a publicly-traded company is almost always another company. That is, individual investors, even wealthy ones, rarely buy publicly-traded companies. See also: Mergers & Acquisitions.
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Unfavourable perceptions of the country of origin of an emerging-economy acquirer can be expected to be deep seated and pessimistic and contribute to a higher LOF.
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The company also needs to inform whether the acquirer belongs to a promoter entity.
The acquirer should also determine whether the target has an existing compliance policy and more importantly, whether that policy has been effectively enforced.
* Developing a two-person incomplete information game that M&A model to analyze how the value is distributed between the acquirer and target based on the behavioral types of each player.
Accordingly, when a target corporation has adopted a poison pill, the acquirer will generally try to persuade the target's board of directors to redeem the pill.
This occurs when the acquirer wants to terminate the target's projects or products to eliminate competition.
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