Sentence examples for straightforward takeover from inspiring English sources

Quite right, too, since a Frankfurt domicile would be a straightforward takeover by Deutsche Börse, for which the LSE's shareholders would expect to receive a premium.

Standard Life was understood yesterday to be considering an option to change its bid structure from a scheme of arrangement, requiring 75% shareholder support, to a straightforward takeover, which cuts the threshold for success to 50%.

Under a straightforward takeover bid for Sky, Fox could be left with an activist minority shareholder base in the pay-TV broadcaster if less than 90% of Sky's investors accepted its bid.

Not everyone saw the deal as so straightforward: analysts say the takeover could trigger concerns for some of Postini's current partner companies, like McAffee, who are likely to feel very uncomfortable about sharing their technology with Google.

The rules of the takeover game are straightforward.

Though the newspapers were in a different market to his popular titles, the takeover was anything but a straightforward matter.

On February 12th the finance minister said the government wanted to amend its takeover laws to go beyond straightforward acquisitions and encompass complex investments—a fair description of the Rio-Chinalco deal and others percolating under the surface.

And those were takeovers, in which control was relatively straightforward.

Rather than a straightforward investigation of the conspiracy behind his social media takeover, we are left only with questions -- about Paul, about the sect that disrupts his cozily sad existence, and about the very underpinnings of the communities that lend meaning to our lives.

Rather than telling the saga in a straightforward, linear fashion, it jumps back and forth between developments in the InBev takeover and accounts of family history, making both story lines hard to follow.

But due to a more controlled takeover strategy approved by Nuon shareholders, analysts said any deal for that utility would not be as straightforward as Essent's.