The phrase "acquire control" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an individual or a group gaining control over something. For example: After months of negotiations, the small company was finally able to acquire control of the larger, more successful business.
"In a case in which ENI allies itself with a smaller group, it does not necessarily have to acquire control".
Well-connected types, Mr Fox finds, can acquire control over swathes of land thanks to their political connections.
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.
The zest to acquire control through data is to Whitehall what a bonus is to a banker, the reason for living.
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.
