Sentence examples for Acquire control of from inspiring English sources

But most of the opposition to antitakeover amendments has come from dissidents seeking to acquire control of the company.

In 1988, he set up Menatep, a commercial bank he later used to acquire control of the Yukos oil company.

And he paved the way for a politically connected Hong Kong company to acquire control of Philippine Long Distance Telephone.

In January, Mr. Fourtou paid 4 billion euros to acquire control of Cegetel, beating out an offer from the Vodafone Group of Britain.

C1 Viacom Seeks Second Network The owner of CBS made a deal to acquire control of UPN, raising the prospect of one company owning two broadcast television networks.

The case involves a venture, managed by Mr. Kozeny, to acquire control of the lucrative state-run petroleum company in Azerbaijan.

Then last week they paid $87 million to acquire control of a small investment firm called Deerfield & Company, which manages $8.1 billion for pension funds and other institutions.

Minority shareholders like Mr. Murdoch and Mr. Berlusconi would contribute to the rescue, and the combined group would acquire control of KirchMedia.

Vattenfall is also bidding for a stake in Poland's nationwide electricity distributor, a link that could prove valuable if it were also to acquire control of VEAG.

The deal to acquire control of RTL is the first time that Bertelsmann has used its shares to finance a major acquisition.

He was chief executive of the Franklin American Corporation, a public company in Tennessee that Mr. Frankel used secretly to acquire control of insurance companies.