Sentence examples for proxy takeover from inspiring English sources

Remember this: a proxy takeover of the board of directors by an activist investor is how Mayer became CEO in the first place.

Sure, he sat through the meetings on proxy fights and takeovers.

In 2009, the judge held up the S.E.C.'s settlement with Bank of America over misleading disclosures by the bank in soliciting proxies for its takeover of Merrill Lynch, rejecting a civil penalty that effectively penalized the very shareholders who were misled.

"You used to hear from all kinds of investors that hostile takeovers — proxy battles — just weren't done in this business," Chicago investor Stephen Taylor said.

CHICAGO, April 25 (AP) — A proxy fight between the takeover investor Carl C. Icahn and the cellphone maker Motorola heated up Wednesday when two proxy advisory firms lined up in opposing camps — one recommending that shareholders vote for Mr. Icahn and the other siding with the company.

He built a specialty in M.&.A. at a time when loosened antitrust laws and deregulation hastened a boom in corporate deal-making, especially on more controversial deals involving hostile takeovers and proxy fights.

It also protects the company from proxy fights or hostile takeovers by a competitor. .

CVR acknowledged in a statement that it had received notice of Mr. Icahn's takeover bid and proxy challenge.

Whether through a takeover or a proxy fight, in either event we have a plan for three different public companies".

According to TechCrunch, the purpose of last week's meeting was to negotiate a settlement that would avoid the proxy fight and potential hostile takeover attempt.

Wrong, says Guy Wyser-Prante, activistinvestorston on Wall Street for more than 40 years who uses his hedge fund's war chest of roughly $500 million to wage takeover fights and proxy battles in the United States and Europe.