shark repellent


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Antitakeover Measure

Periodic or continual measures a firm's management takes to discourage unwanted or hostile takeovers. One example of an antitakeover measure is the macaroni defense, in which the company issues a large number of bonds with the proviso that they must be redeemed at a high price if the company is taken over. See also: Shark Watcher.

shark repellent

A strategy used by corporations to ward off unwanted takeovers. Examples of this antitakeover measure include making a major acquisition, issuing new shares of stock or securities convertible into stock, and staggering the election of directors. Shark repellents often benefit corporate officers more than the stockholders. Also called takeover defense. Compare show stopper. See also poison pill.
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Firms that had already adopted a shark repellent may be either less likely to adopt a poison pill, because the two are substitutes, or more likely, because the firm may simply adopt every takeover defense that becomes available (cf.
Brickley, Lease, and Smith, 1988, on voting patterns on shark repellent amendments).
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Castro (2013) provided details of Baldridge's work on shark repellents.
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Between the pill and other shark repellents (defence strategies) that have been developed, there is no need to do a Pac-Man.
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