The stock price surged after two major shareholders launched a takeover battle for the company.
He has a personal interest in a takeover battle for Generali, Italy's biggest insurance company.
He endured much government meddling in a takeover battle that raged for most of the past four years.
Today's ruling also raises questions about EMI and Warner, which are locked in a takeover battle, with each trying to acquire the other.
And the chances of a takeover battle are slim when rivals are also nursing wounds, leaving Mr Oudea free to plot a course back to health.
This morning, Dish Network started a takeover battle for Sprint.
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Uzbek-born Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov is the second biggest shareholder with 25.4 per cent in the north-London club, who have made a fine start to the season under manager Arsene Wenger, but may now be the subject of a takeover battle.
Mr Berlusconi is alleged to have bribed Mr Metta, an appeal-court judge, to rule in his favour in a bitter takeover battle for Mondadori, a publishing group, in 1991.
Barclays has taken over Woolwich, NatWest was the subject of a hostile takeover battle, while Abbey National took over Scottish Provident, a mutual insurance company, and Lloyds TSB bought Scottish Widows.
Instead, Brumley stayed at Southland, became chief executive in 1974 and ran it until 1985, when he lost a final takeover battle to Burlington Northern Railroad.
Germany's resistance to foreign takeovers was weakened by Vodafone's gigantic acquisition of Mannesmann in 2000 following a bitter takeover battle, but the country is still reluctant to roll out the red carpet.
Gold and long-time business partner David Sullivan took over the club they supported in January after selling Birmingham City and winning a protracted takeover battle with Air Asia and Lotus F1 boss Tony Fernandes.
Oracle ( ORCL - news - people ) after a long, nasty takeover battle.
If Mr Bush wins, his position will be akin to that of many a struggling chairman who has just survived a takeover bid: once the battle is over, he will have to start doing all the things he denounced during the bid.
Either way, the prolonged takeover battle has been a successful investment for Mr Hohn.
Just a few days after launching a bid, Macquarie Bank withdrew from the hotly contested takeover battle for Patrick , Australia's biggest cargo handler.
Bids are being solicited and the possibility of a Riggio family-led takeover may lead to yet another battle between the company and outside activist shareholders.
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And if he were to lose this battle, he might well be better off launching a takeover bid to acquire all of RBS - to nationalise it fully - than recapitalising the bank through an exercise of the existing rescue mechanism.
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