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Proxy fight

Often used in risk arbitrage. Technique used by an acquiring company to attempt to gain control of a takeover target. The acquirer tries to persuade the shareholders of the target company that the present management of the firm should be ousted n favor of a slate of directors favorable to the acquirer, thus enabling the acquiring company to gain control of the company without paying a premium price.

Proxy Fight

Competition of outside group with management for stockholders' proxies in order to accumulate votes to elect a new board of directors.

Proxy Fight

A situation in which two investors (usually two companies) compete with one another in the attempt to gain the proxy votes of shareholders in a third company. The two investors engage in the proxy fight because both wish to have enough proxy to elect a new board of directors that will effectively do whatever the investor wants. The winner of a proxy fight, if any, is able to control the third company through the board of directors and does not need to directly acquire it, though many often do anyway.

proxy fight

A contest among two or more opposing forces to solicit stockholders' proxies and, in effect, to gain control of the firm through the election of directors. It is usually quite difficult to wrest control from the existing management through a proxy fight, but the tactic has been used, for example, by some suitors in takeover attempts.

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Some 100 documents are presented in thematic, roughly chronological, sections covering the end of World War II and the emergence of the "Iron Curtain," the Marshall Plan and the Berlin Airlift, the Korean War, McCarthyism, events "behind the Curtain," the hot Cold War of the late 1950s and early 1960s, Soviet-Western military rivalries and nuclear politics, the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, Detente and Sino-Soviet- American relations, proxy wars in Latin America and Asia, the Reagan era, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Russia in the post-Cold War era.

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