Interestingly, while these professionals were selling their shares, takeover rumors regularly buoyed the stock.
My wife, Rupali, and I, meanwhile, have had a daughter, Eva! HOSTILE TAKEOVER hints at my professional shadow.
The amateur gentlemen of old London may have been swept aside by the professionals of Wall Street, but the takeover merely created another elite, another set of winners ready to make the system work for them.
Black's appointment as Chancellor of Education was widely criticized as "corporate takeover," as many felt Black lacked professional experience in the city's school systems.
Money & Business asked four prominent professionals who make at least part of their living from takeover deals to give their prognosis for 2002.
Johnson and his backers have agreed to pay a record $2.3 billion for the Dodgers, the highest price paid for a professional sports club and beating the record set by the Glazer family's $1.4 billion takeover of Manchester United.
News Corp is not holding takeover discussions with LinkedIn, a fast-growing social network for professionals, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Other areas of growth, he added, include education, professional publishing and the Fremantle content production business, prompting considerable speculation among analysts about possible takeover targets.
Playtech, big in online gambling software, has pulled its planned £460m takeover of Plus500, a firm that enables private punters to pretend they're City professionals by trading contracts for difference and other fancy financial instruments.
In Boston, black professionals have started staging "friendly takeovers" in the city.
