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acquire

(Receive), verb accept, achieve, adipisci, adopt, be given, come into possession of, derive, gain, glean, obtain, reap, take in, win

acquire

(Secure), verb adquirere, annex, appropriate, assume, assume ownership, attain, exact, extort, extract, force from, gain, get, make one's own, obtain by any means, purchase, realize, steal, take, take possession, wrest from
Associated concepts: acquire a business, acquire by fraud, acquire by gift, acquire by inheritance, acquire by will, accuire for resale, acquire ownership
Foreign phrases: Incorporalia bello non adquiruntur.Things incorporeal are not acquired in war.

TO ACQUIRE, descents, contracts. To make property one's own.
2. Title to property is acquired in two ways, by descent, (q.v.) and by purchase (q.v.). Acquisition by purchase, is either by, 1. Escheat. 2. Occupancy. 3. Prescription. 4. Forfeiture. 5. Alienation, which is either by deed or by matter of record. Things which cannot be sold, cannot be acquired.

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Furthermore, we hypothesise that a target company manager will be more likely to leave their job if their existing employer were to be acquired by a Chinese- or Indian-owned company as opposed to a locally owned company or a company from another Western developed economy (i.e., a European acquirer for Americans or a US-owned acquirer for Europeans).

The Decision to Stay or Resign Following an Acquisition by a Chinese or Indian Company

However, if the target firm is more pessimistic, it will potentially receive a lower price premium when the acquirer is risk-averse.

Pricing mergers & acquisitions using agent-based modeling

* Bullish sentiment from bankers and acquirers could propel M&A to meet or exceed records

451 Research reports

The acquirer should review the target's books and records focusing on areas that are common trouble spots in FCPA cases.

Necessary FCPA due diligence for M&A transactions in emerging markets

Another finding showed that shared branching issuer-only credit unions generally have higher expenses and lower returns than issuer/acquirers because acquirers have the ability to offset issuer costs and generate revenue by completing transactions for guest members.

Branching ROI in a convenience culture

* For each stage of this game, the acquirer will offer the high and low price provided by the binomial tree and this offer will be accepted or rejected depending on how close it is to the strike price.

Psychological pricing in mergers & acquisitions using real options signalling games

(57) Thus, an acquirer can capture control of the board by winning a single proxy fight on a prescribed date, known in advance, that is always less than a year away.

Pills and partisans: understanding takeover defenses

To determine if the target is the right candidate, the acquirer undertakes due diligence prior to acquisition on the following: (a) is the price right?

Linturi-Kitany: Love and conspiracy brewed at Sopa Lodge

The BSP's rationale for adopting an acquirer-based charging method was that these acquirers have a significant role in the setting of fees, which is "justifiable considering that off-us transaction costs are substantially incurred by them, such as deployment and maintenance of terminals, cash servicing, ATM monitoring, among others.

Banks will not raise ATM fees automatically

Visas merchant and acquirer clients will be able to use Payworks automated solutions to run and configure their point-of-sale offerings and terminals, making it easy for merchants to set-up and start accepting any form of electronic payment, both face-to-face and online, through a single integration to CyberSource.

Germany,United States : Visa Acquires Payworks

LIC said, "The acquirer (LIC) shall complete all procedures relating to the offer within 10 working days from the date of closure of the tendering period, including payment of consideration to those equity shareholders whose share certificates and/or other documents are found valid and in order and are accepted for acquisition by the acquirer."

IDBI Bank receives letter from Life Insurance Corporation

Much of the early academic literature about mergers and acquisitions (M&A) paints a relatively bleak picture for acquirer shareholders.