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Takeover
(redirected from Hostile bid)

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To assume control or management of a corporation without necessarily obtaining actual title to it.

A takeover bid or tender offer is a proposal made by one company to purchase shares of stock of another company, in order to acquire control thereof.

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Mergers and Acquisitions.



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