They staged a management buyout to pre- empt a takeover bid.
Soon afterwards Switzerland’s Roche decided to abandon its previously friendly overtures toward Genentech, a Californian biotechnology pioneer, in favour of a hostile takeover bid.
The two have a history: in 2006 Deutsche borse launched a takeover bid for Euronext, which operates the Paris and Amsterdam exchanges among others, but lost out to the New York Stock exchange.
Granada mounted a hostile takeover bid for Forte.
I've heard rumours about a takeover bid; do you know what's cooking?
Sky News reported that the world's biggest printer of banknotes received and rejected a takeover bid from France's Oberthur Technologies sa, without saying where it got the information.
The disclosure of the takeover bid raised share price.
What's more, if Microsoft is involved in a takeover bid, it may have access to this same data.
Several large takeover bids failed, such as Microsoft's offer for Yahoo!
Share price soar on the news of the takeover bid or the news of the takeover bid send share price soaring.
The company is resisting the takeover bid.
Coles Group Ltd. accepted a21.9 billion Australian dollar( US$18.6 billion) takeover bid from local conglomerate Wesfarmers Ltd., paving the way to create Australia's largest retailer.
The American billionaire owns 12% of the club and reports suggested he was considering a full takeover bid.
He stopped short of launching a full-scale takeover bid but the agreement reached with Birmingham's hierarchy will make him the single biggest shareholder and pave the way for greater control in the future.
They made a takeover bid for the company.
To make a takeover bid for a company
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