Sentence examples for major takeover from inspiring English sources

EBay's first major takeover was the company's 2002 acquisition of PayPal, a $1.5 billion transaction that eventually made eBay one of the world's biggest online payments processors.

The approach is the first major takeover move by Valeant, a Canadian drug maker, since its $5.7 billion hostile bid for Cephalon failed in May.

"Both have said they have an interest in expanding internationally, and both are seen as likely candidates for a major takeover here in Europe".

The New York license will be transferred to Lepage Bakeries Inc. Weston's acquisition, announced in February, is its fifth major takeover of a food business since 1998.

"Mr. Flom participated, on one side or the other, in virtually every major takeover battle of the last 20 years," the author John Taylor wrote in The New York Times in 1994.

Over and over again, he insisted that the e-mail exchanges, at least on the part of News Corporation, amounted to a normal part of "active public affairs engagement" by a company involved in a major takeover bid.

There are only two coherent positions to hold on major takeovers, especially takeovers from overseas.

[A16.] Citigroup Told to Delay Takeovers The Federal Reserve has told Citigroup to delay plans for major takeovers until it addresses regulatory problems and tightens internal controls.

The F.B.I.'s involvement adds to the scrutiny surrounding the deal and further highlights the temptation that major takeovers present to traders.

The firm, founded by the former UBS senior banker Aryeh Bourkoff four years ago, has played a role in major takeovers like Charter Communications's acquisition of Time Warner Cable, Starz's sale to Lionsgate and Outerwall's sale to Apollo Global Management.

China also invests abroad, with a total outward FDI of $62.4 billion in 2012, and a number of major takeovers of foreign firms by Chinese companies.