Sentence examples for takeover over from inspiring English sources

"In any merger, Gazprom would dominate — it would be seen as a complete Russian takeover over of the Ukrainian gas system," Mr. Weafer said.

Ryanair, the discount airline, withdrew its $1.95 billion hostile bid for Aer Lingus after the European Union said it would start an inquiry into the proposed takeover over concerns that it would restrict competition for flights from Dublin to London.

Analyst Roger Phillips at Merchant Securities said the deal could re-awaken speculation of a takeover over Sage by the US giant: These [bid rumours] were last heard in 2003 with Microsoft on an acquisition trail in SME software (Navision and Great Plains).

We're already familiar with what the detractors have to say: this is a government takeover, and we're all one step closer to a Hugo Chavez-style takeover over the media.

Since then, Yang has helped nix a takeover over from Microsoft, overseen the launch of a pair of efforts that have yet to counter Google's edge in search advertising and caved to Carl Icahn's threat of a proxy fight by giving up three seats on Yahoo's board to the corporate raider.

Mergers advisers in the health care sector have been among the most active among their deal-making brethren, in what has been a slow year for takeovers over all, with three transactions in the space announced on Monday alone.

That is why investors everywhere should read the wonderfully clear report* for the British government by John Kay, an economist and Financial Times columnist.As the report notes, companies have tended to reduce their equity capital (via share buy-backs and takeovers) over the past ten years, rather than increase it.

Private equity firms have been involved in the biggest takeovers over the last 12 months as low interest rates made it cheap for them to borrow money for acquisitions, while rising returns on their investments gave them the ability to raise record amounts from their investors.

BSkyB is expected to have an involvement in Channel 5 if Viacom pulls off a takeover, by taking over the broadcaster's advertising sales and giving it greater competitive clout against bigger rivals ITV and Channel 4. Viacom declined to comment.

In a preliminary finding in May, Britain's Competition Commission said Ryanair's stake — a legacy of three failed takeover attempts over the last six years — gave Ryanair too much influence over the strategy of Aer Lingus and threatened competition on routes between Ireland and Britain, particularly at Heathrow Airport near London.

"After the takeover just over a year ago you need a bit of time," he told liverpoolfc.tv.