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Hostile Tender Offer |
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Hostile Tender Offer In a hostile takeover, an offer to buy the target company's stock from shareholders. A hostile tender offer occurs when the target company's board of directors has recommended that shareholders not sell, and it will usually try to make a better offer than the hostile tender offer to buy out shareholders and avoid being taken over. The success of a hostile tender offer depends on how high it is compared to what the board of directors is willing to offer. See also: Antitakeover measure. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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667 shares of First Interstate stock, launch a hostile tender offer for First Interstate's stock, solicit proxies and consents from First Interstate shareholders to vote against the First Bank merger and attempt to replace First Interstate's board of directors with its own nominees. No hostile tender offer was received by National Starch and the transaction was completed as a friendly takeover. There are those who say that the problems of our big American companies have been brought on or compounded by our tax policies, our national deficit, our inept global commerce program, our hostile tender offer and junk bond binge, our lack of competitiveness vs. |
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