Sentence examples for made takeover from inspiring English sources

Indian companies, fueled by domestic growth, have made takeover targets of their British counterparts in recent years in a buying spree that the news media here sometimes calls "The Empire Strikes Back".

Marvin Davis, a wealthy oilman and former owner of the 20th Century Fox film company, and Ivan F. Boesky, the stock speculator who later was convicted on insider-trading charges, also made takeover bids for the broadcast network.

Beyond Validus, which had sought to replace Transatlantic's board as part of its hostile bid, others that had made takeover offers included a unit of Berkshire Hathaway and a consortium of the insurer Enstar and the private equity firms J.C. Flowers & Company and Stone Point Capital.

Northern Rock did not say which companies had made takeover proposals, but it said it had received two types of offers: those that would include an investment in the company by injection of assets and new capital and those that would include acquisitions of part of the business.

(Reuters) - A wave of tax-driven overseas deal-making by U.S. companies gained momentum with drugmaker Pfizer Inc's announcement on Monday that it had made takeover bids for UK rival AstraZeneca Plc, fueling political concerns about tax "reflagging" strategies.

The conglomerate structure also dissuaded specialist rivals from making takeover bids.

Such measures include "poison pills", designed to make takeover targets unpalatable in the way, for example, that Gucci issued new shares in 1999 to escape from the clutches of LVMH.

Mr. Harteveldt said that the value of these travel search engines was such that portal companies, like Google, MSN or AOL, are likely to make takeover offers for them.

Low interest rates make takeover deals look easy.

Best Buy extends deadline for founder to make takeover offer.

Bond yields have been rising, making takeovers (which replace equity with debt) more expensive.