The phrase "alternative takeover" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing different methods or strategies for acquiring a company or organization.
Example: "The board is considering an alternative takeover approach that would involve a merger rather than a direct acquisition."
Alternatives: "different acquisition" or "substitute takeover".
Starboard Value, the activist hedge fund that was seeking to block Smithfield Foods' $4.7 billion sale to a Chinese meat processor, dropped its fight on Friday, saying that it could not formalize an alternative takeover bid.
HP's big push into computer servers has so far failed to offset the decline of its PC business.A judge refused Carl Icahn's request to speed up his lawsuit to stop the proposed buy-out of Dell, the latest setback to the activist investor's alternative takeover proposal for the computer-maker.
The unhappy alternative to takeover may be closure.
Ms. Kenny, whose agency enforces the state's municipal management laws, said today's proposal was an alternative to a takeover.
He challenged attempts by Russia to promote a settlement in Syria with a political deal that would allow its leader, Bashar al-Assad, to remain in power – an idea that is gaining currency among some European governments as a preferable alternative to a takeover by the Islamic State.
While aiming for sustainable growth, most new biotechnology firms in Belgium have not yet reached an independent stage of maturity and are predominantly driven by the takeover alternative, as was the case in recent years for Movetis (takeover by Shire) and Devgen (takeover by Syngenta).
Southern California supermarket magnate Ron Burkle and Internet entrepreneur Brad Greenspan met late Tuesday afternoon in New York with a group of Dow Jones board members to present their ideas on a possible alternative to Rupert Murdochs takeover bid for the parent of The Wall Street Journal, according to a source close to the situation.
Indeed, its management, which has spurned previous overtures from Microsoft, is said to have been looking into alternatives to the takeover, including selling off some units and even considering an alliance with Google.
But Geralyn Lasher, the governor's spokeswoman, said Mr. Snyder had always preferred some alternative to a full takeover.
But the alternative is a Taliban takeover in the south, the fall of Karzai and full-blown civil war.
They have little alternative.Mr Musharraf's takeover of Pakistan re-established its default form of government: a powerful army chief, supported by mostly unscrupulous civilians.
