The Resource Securities regulation : hostile corporate takeovers, synopses of thirty-two attempts : fact sheet for the Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, United States General Accounting Office
Securities regulation : hostile corporate takeovers, synopses of thirty-two attempts : fact sheet for the Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, United States General Accounting Office
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- Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on 32 hostile corporate takeover attempts initiated in 1985, focusing on the: (1) terms, conditions, and stated purposes of the tender offers; (2) amount of target company stock held by bidders and target company management; (3) bidding companies' financing sources and terms; (4) bidding and target companies' financial advisers and their fees; (5) bidding and target companies' actions before and after the initial tender offers; and (6) outcomes of takeover attempts
- GAO found that: (1) 12 hostile takeovers were successful; (2) 10 target companies remained independent; and (3) friendly, third-party businesses acquired 10 businesses targeted for attempted hostile takeovers. GAO also found that: (1) stated purposes for takeover attempts included acquiring equity interest, merging or combining businesses, acquiring company control, and liquidating businesses; (2) most target companies were aware of the bidding company's interest prior to the takeover attempt; (3) bidding companies' financing sources included credit agreements, capital contribution, securities borrowing or sales, and personal funds; (4) target companies' defensive actions included litigation, stock buy-back, business mergers, reorganization, assets sales, recapitalization, and shareholder buy-outs; (5) bidding companies typically, but not always, held a larger percentage of the target companies' stock than the target companies; and (6) both bidding and target companies typically had agreements with financial advisers to pay them according to the success of the venture
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 105 pages
- Note
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- Cover title
- Distributed to depository libraries in microfiche
- "March 1988."
- "GAO/GGD-88-48FS."
- "B-230413"--P. [1]
- Label
- Securities regulation : hostile corporate takeovers, synopses of thirty-two attempts : fact sheet for the Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives
- Title
- Securities regulation
- Title remainder
- hostile corporate takeovers, synopses of thirty-two attempts : fact sheet for the Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives
- Statement of responsibility
- United States General Accounting Office
- Title variation
- Hostile corporate takeovers, synopses of thirty-two attempts
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on 32 hostile corporate takeover attempts initiated in 1985, focusing on the: (1) terms, conditions, and stated purposes of the tender offers; (2) amount of target company stock held by bidders and target company management; (3) bidding companies' financing sources and terms; (4) bidding and target companies' financial advisers and their fees; (5) bidding and target companies' actions before and after the initial tender offers; and (6) outcomes of takeover attempts
- GAO found that: (1) 12 hostile takeovers were successful; (2) 10 target companies remained independent; and (3) friendly, third-party businesses acquired 10 businesses targeted for attempted hostile takeovers. GAO also found that: (1) stated purposes for takeover attempts included acquiring equity interest, merging or combining businesses, acquiring company control, and liquidating businesses; (2) most target companies were aware of the bidding company's interest prior to the takeover attempt; (3) bidding companies' financing sources included credit agreements, capital contribution, securities borrowing or sales, and personal funds; (4) target companies' defensive actions included litigation, stock buy-back, business mergers, reorganization, assets sales, recapitalization, and shareholder buy-outs; (5) bidding companies typically, but not always, held a larger percentage of the target companies' stock than the target companies; and (6) both bidding and target companies typically had agreements with financial advisers to pay them according to the success of the venture
- Dewey number
- 338.8/3/0973
- Government publication
- federal national government publication
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HD2746.5
- LC item number
- .S43 1988
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Consolidation and merger of corporations
- Corporate reorganizations
- Label
- Securities regulation : hostile corporate takeovers, synopses of thirty-two attempts : fact sheet for the Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, United States General Accounting Office
- Note
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- Cover title
- Distributed to depository libraries in microfiche
- "March 1988."
- "GAO/GGD-88-48FS."
- "B-230413"--P. [1]
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- 21230570
- Dimensions
- 28 cm
- Extent
- 105 pages
- Lccn
- 89601345
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- unmediated
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- UMKC: Microfiche.
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- (DGPO)91062396
- Label
- Securities regulation : hostile corporate takeovers, synopses of thirty-two attempts : fact sheet for the Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, United States General Accounting Office
- Note
-
- Cover title
- Distributed to depository libraries in microfiche
- "March 1988."
- "GAO/GGD-88-48FS."
- "B-230413"--P. [1]
- Carrier category
- volume
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- 21230570
- Dimensions
- 28 cm
- Extent
- 105 pages
- Lccn
- 89601345
- Media category
- unmediated
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