The medical equipment lost 14p to 707.5p after Exane BNP Paribas removed it from its takeover target list.
The total cost for this grocery list, takeover premiums and additional investments included, is about $97 billion, give or take a couple billion.
The government's case rests on a set of documents (mostly Word files) that describe in gory detail preparations for the coup (codenamed Sledgehammer), including false-flag operations to set the stage for the takeover and a list of cabinet members to be appointed.
Peter Scott, QC, the chair of the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers, which oversees and regulates the takeover of all listed companies, is also appointed CBE.
The plan called for KKR to complete a reverse takeover of its listed affiliate KKR Private Equity Investors in exchange for a 21% interest in the firm.
And that was only reinforced earlier this year when James B. Lee Jr., the 18-year veteran head of investment banking at Chase, was championed on the cover of Forbes magazine, complete with a list of takeover targets and this message to Chase clients: "We'll write you a check".
I have my own little list of takeover proposals.
In your book, you list 48 takeover bids in 55 months between February 1996 and September 2000, all of which were on your recommended list.
Prior to the Thaksin takeover, the club was listed on the specialist independent equity market PLUS (formerly OFEX), where it had been listed since 1995.
Founded in Yorkshire in 1832, Friends Provident has been a perennial takeover target since it listed on the stockmarket eight years ago.
