Sentence examples for overseas takeover from inspiring English sources

Following the sale, Royal Mail could fall into foreign hands because the government is unable to hold a "golden share" preventing an overseas takeover.

It means Royal Mail could fall into foreign hands because the government is now prevented, by the European Union, from holding a "golden share" preventing an overseas takeover.

Millea Holdings, Japan's biggest insurer, will pay about 50 billion yen ($426 million) for Singapore-based Asia General Holdings in its biggest overseas takeover, expanding into faster-growing markets.

It would probably not acquiesce to a big overseas takeover by the firm, preferring it to spend on creating jobs at home.Investors, most notably BHP's, have called for share buybacks or special dividends to hand the spare cash over to shareholders.

One issue seems to be high prices paid for overseas takeovers.

Their lightning-fast growth may usher in a new round of foreign partnerships, overseas takeovers and competition for resources and talent.

Iain Banks, the best-selling novelist, and a group of MPs, church leaders, academics and environmentalists have this weekend written to Alistair Darling to protest at the involvement of Royal Bank of Scotland in financing hostile overseas takeovers and for lending to "destructive fossil fuel companies".

Jones said he also believed that serious questions were being raised by the spate of companies being bought by foreign predators: "I am not saying I would put a stop to them but I do think we need politicians, regulators and consumers to engage in a public debate about overseas takeovers.

And we already have more foreign troops -- and I'll give you the numbers -- in this land -- in the forty-eight states -- than we have our own military left here that's not been shipped somewhere overseas, so the takeover could happen at any given hour -- not a month away or anything".

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

The measures bar companies from using cash held overseas to fund such takeovers.