Takeover Tactics and Public Policy: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 2371, H.R. 5250, H.R. 5693, H.R. 5694, H.R. 5696, and H.R. 5696 ... March 28 and May 23, 1984U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984 - Investments, Foreign |
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... decision ( Recommendation 17 ) ? What should be the threshold percentage of ownership permitted by an acquiror before he is required to make a tender offer for additional shares ( Recommendation 14 ) ? At what point in the acquisition ...
... decision ( Recommendation 17 ) ? What should be the threshold percentage of ownership permitted by an acquiror before he is required to make a tender offer for additional shares ( Recommendation 14 ) ? At what point in the acquisition ...
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... decisions made by corporate manage ment including decisions that may alter the likelihood of a takeover . 34 . State laws and regulations , regardless of their form , that restrict the ability of a company to make a tender offer should ...
... decisions made by corporate manage ment including decisions that may alter the likelihood of a takeover . 34 . State laws and regulations , regardless of their form , that restrict the ability of a company to make a tender offer should ...
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... decision on whether to tender their shares . A takeover bid should remain open for a sufficient time to enable target shareholders to make such an informed decision . The threshold applicable to an offeror should be approximately ten ...
... decision on whether to tender their shares . A takeover bid should remain open for a sufficient time to enable target shareholders to make such an informed decision . The threshold applicable to an offeror should be approximately ten ...
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... decision in Edgar v . Mite Corp. , the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled in October , 1982 , that Kentucky's Take - Over Bid law violates the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution ( Esmark v . Strode , 639 SW 2d 768 ) . The ...
... decision in Edgar v . Mite Corp. , the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled in October , 1982 , that Kentucky's Take - Over Bid law violates the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution ( Esmark v . Strode , 639 SW 2d 768 ) . The ...
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... time we suspect that our takeover law has frailties as a result of the Mite decision . Generally , our responses to a Panel's recommendations are not 31 Maine, State of, Department of Business, Occupational and Profes- sional Regulation.
... time we suspect that our takeover law has frailties as a result of the Mite decision . Generally , our responses to a Panel's recommendations are not 31 Maine, State of, Department of Business, Occupational and Profes- sional Regulation.
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Page 282 - ... under common control with, the person specified. (b) Control. The term "control" (including the terms "controlling", "controlled by" and "under common control with") means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract...
Page 280 - associate" used to indicate a relationship with any person, means (1) any corporation or organization (other than the registrant or a majority-owned subsidiary of the registrant) of which such person is an officer or partner or is, directly or indirectly, the beneficial owner of 10 percent or more of any class of equity securities, (2) any trust or other estate in which such person has a substantial beneficial interest or as to which such person serves as trustee or in a similar fiduciary capacity...
Page 155 - No Act of Congress shall be construed to invalidate, impair, or supersede any law enacted by any State for the purpose of regulating the business of insurance...
Page 155 - The business of insurance, and every person engaged therein, shall be subject to the laws of the several States which relate to the regulation or taxation of such business.
Page 280 - affiliate' of, or a person 'affiliated' with, a specified person, is a person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, the person specified. "(f) Control. The term 'control' (including the terms 'controlling,
Page 157 - ... has to liquidate the insurer, sell its assets or consolidate or merge it with any person, or to make any other material change in its business or corporate structure or management, are unfair and unreasonable to policyholders of the insurer and not in the public interest...
Page 431 - Suit to recover such profit may be instituted at law or in equity in any court of competent jurisdiction by the issuer, or by the owner of any security of the issuer in the name and in behalf of the issuer if the issuer shall fail or refuse to bring such suit within sixty days after request or shall fail diligently to prosecute the same thereafter; but no such suit shall be brought more than two years after the date such profit was realized.
Page 278 - ... shall have the right to examine, in person, or by agent or attorney, at any reasonable time or times, for any proper purpose, its books and records of account, minutes and record of shareholders and to make extracts therefrom.
Page 280 - ... or more of any class of equity securities, (2) any trust or other estate in which such person has a substantial beneficial interest or as to which such person serves as trustee or in a similar fiduciary capacity, and (3) any relative or spouse of such person, or any relative of such spouse. who has the same home as such person or who Is a director or officer of the bank or any of its parents or subsidiaries. (e) The term "charter...
Page 173 - Any plans or proposals which each acquiring party may have to liquidate such insurer, to sell its assets or merge or consolidate it with any person, or to make any other material change in its business or corporate structure or management. (5) The number of shares of any security referred to in subsection a.