Business, Legal & Accounting Glossary
A situation in which a person or entity buys enough stock in a company to threaten a hostile takeover. The person or entity can greenmail the victim company into buying back its stock at a higher price in order to avoid the takeover.
Profiting from an attempted hostile takeover by forcing the target company to buy back the hostile bidder’s shares at an inflated price.
A premium paid to a raider to get him/her to terminate a takeover attempt.
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