Mere survival, however, is not the point of takeovers.
Cameron also announced in the Commons that he would like to see politicians taken out of all future decisions on media takeovers, and the media regulator, currently Ofcom, given powers to intervene not just at the point of a takeover but also when a paper or media group developed a more dominant position.
United fans already well versed in the finer points of UK takeover law, media ownership rules, leveraged buyouts and the junk bond market, must now bone up on the regulations of a fast-growing Singaporean stock exchange desperate to attract globally recognised brands.
The military issued a bulletin in the afternoon, spelling out the key points of the takeover: Curfew nationwide from 22 00 to 05:05.
To get to the point of executing a takeover, a Chinese company must build up a huge head of steam.
The point of the Daytime Takeover, he says, is to affirm Radio 1's commitment to new music.
I thought that the whole point of the federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the lending agencies, was to remove fears about their solvency and thereby lower mortgage rates.
The Exiles, badly strapped for cash in recent seasons, are on the point of confirming a takeover by a consortium headed by an Irish businessman, Mick Crossan, who made his pile in recycling and waste management.
The subject matter of my interview was another potential sore point: the takeover of United by a reclusive family of Florida billionaires, the Glazers, which had saddled the club with hundreds of millions of pounds of debt.
REUTERS Goldman Energy Banker Leaves the Firm | One of the top energy bankers at Goldman Sachs, Stephen Daniel, has retired "a year after his personal stock holdings in a pipeline company proved a point of controversy in a takeover deal," The Wall Street Journal writes.
IT was one of the year's big political flash points: the takeover of Britain's P&O, an international ports operator, by DP World of Dubai caused a rumpus from Westminster to Washington, DC.
