The stockholder rights plan is intended to reduce the likelihood of an unintended ownership change occurring through the buying of Schmitt common stock and is not meant to be an
anti-takeover measure. As part of the plan, on July 1, 2019, Schmitt's Board declared a dividend of one preferred-share-purchase-right for each share of Schmitt common stock outstanding as of July 19, 2019.
The concept of the staggered board was implemented as an
anti-takeover measure, Mr.
"The priority shares may be considered to constitute a form of
anti-takeover measure," AkzoNobel explained in its latest annual report.
The Rights Plan is not meant to be an
anti-takeover measure, and the Windstream Board of Directors has established a procedure to consider requests to exempt acquisition of Windstream common stock from the Rights Plan if it determines that doing so would not limit or impair the availability of the NOLS.
The degree to which any
anti-takeover measure may promote or diminish shareholder value depends on circumstances specific to the individual company.
Another obstacle lies in an
anti-takeover measure - or "poison pill" - that allows TNT to issue preference shares to a friendly foundation in case of a hostile bid.
After Tyson Foods made an unsolicited offer for the poultry processor early in the year, WLR officials dug in, swallowing a poison pill and enacting the state's stringent
anti-takeover measure. In the end, Tyson Foods lost to the scrappy firm after a majority of WLR shareholders voted against selling and the courts refused to overturn the anti-takeover law.
Another called for shareholder voting by secret ballot, and the third would have put to a shareholder vote the so-called "poison pill"
anti-takeover measure that the Tribune Co.
As seen in the figure on pages 50 and 51, credit statistics and the stub performance of previous recaps help illustrate the potential rewards and risks inherent in the
anti-takeover measure.
The NOL Rights Plan has not been adopted as an
anti-takeover measure. Under the NOL Rights Plan, one right will be distributed for each share of CenturyLink's common stock outstanding as of the close of business on Feb.
The number of companies adopting
anti-takeover measures has rapidly increased since the late 2000s in a reflection of the changing market environment such as the lifting of the embargo on forward triangular mergers and the rise of foreign institutional investors.
Conversely, "[t]oday the landscape is vastly changed and certain types of proposals, mostly those related to
anti-takeover measures, such as ...
