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Two-Tier Tender Offer

An offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of a firm by purchasing a controlling interest in the firm...

Reciprocal Holdings

Mutual stockholdings that are meant to foil any takeover bids by a third party. In other words, it is a...

Asset Stripping

The segregation and sale of selected assets of an acquired company in an attempt to realize money in order to...

Asset Redeployment

The reallocation of a firm's idle or underused assets to more productive/ profitable uses. The redeployment process involves the sale...

Toehold Purchase

The acquisition of less than 5% of the outstanding common shares of a takeover-target company before turning to purchase a...

RTO

Abbreviation for reverse takeover; the acquisition of a public company by a private company so that the latter can become...

Junk Financing

The process of raising funds by issuing unsecured low-grade, high-yield securities (junk notes, junk bonds, etc.). This is usual at...

Voluntary Liquidation Value

A type of liquidation value which pertains to corporate takeover and restructuring activities. The voluntary liquidation value (also, breakup value)...

Super Poison Put

A covenant in a bond issue that allows a bondholder to sell, or put, a bond back to the issuer...

Breakup Value

A type of liquidation value which pertains to corporate takeover and restructuring activities. It reflects the projected price of a...