The 46-year-old one-time takeover king built up Finance One into Thailand's largest finance company through a series of acquisitions since 1980.
In the end, that is what will make MMR and EXXI attractive takeover candidates as time goes by and more wells are drilled.
Mr Bolkestein might remind him of that next time he presents the takeover directive, if there is a next time.
This is not the first time that takeover chatter has hit the stock.
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Merely confirmation, but from rather a significant source, that insolvency must have been in Craig Whyte's mind at the time of his takeover.
StarHub Internet, previously known as Cyberway, was easily the smallest of Singapore's three ISPs at the time of its takeover by the consortium, with around a 10 percent share of subscribers.
At AboveNet, Meister propped up the stock some 41% in a very short time by orchestrating a takeover.
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But believe me, now is not the right time to attempt a takeover.
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But any time you have the takeover we did, with the influence of money and absolute power, you have to worry.
So, ministers may be able to delay the final decision on whether to approve the takeover - by allowing lots of time for officials at the culture department and Ofcom to go through public submissions - but, in the end, they are still likely to have to face it.
With Fairfax's share price almost at an all-time low, a full takeover would cost her relatively little.
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The Nomura team will be led by two bankers who advised the club at the time of the Glazers' takeover.
Senate President Stephen Sweeney, a Democrat, said Monday that the "time has come" for the takeover.
Although such a move would automatically mean a deduction of 10 points, it would buy the club time to try and finalise a takeover.
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Ellis had on Tuesday expressed his unhappiness at criticism of his consortium from Rangers chairman Alastair Johnston and defended the time being taken to complete a takeover bid.
Sauber, who sold his team to BMW in 2005, failed with a takeover bid in early August and at the time was critical of the German manufacturing giant.
For tech giants that have found hard luck and falling shares, it may be time to question whether lower prospective takeover prices justify a recent flurry of deal rumors.
Harris is unsure how much a takeover will cost, but is certain that the time has come for change at Old Trafford.
Founder Richard Schulze was forced out at the same time, but is now back with a takeover attempt.
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Plus we now have some takeover action with Google, and smaller deals involving Transocean and Time Warner.
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By getting the takeover referred to the Competition Committee, Murdoch is pushing back the time horizon in a calculated bet that, six months or a year from now, the political environment may have grown somewhat less radioactive.
Companies that have an axe to grind with the European Competition Commission will be more compelled to take legal action against it now that the regulator has been told for the first time to pay damages for misjudging the legality of a takeover.
His allies say his departure was always just a matter of time: once a firm buys another, it completes the takeover by putting its own people in charge.
We know only too well that we need to add to the first-team squad but at this moment in time there is a limited amount we can do until the takeover is completed.
The Chelsea takeover by Roman Abramovich was a game-changer and for the first time English and European clubs faced the prospect of competing with a club owner whose wealth made the signing of multiple world-class players possible.
Takeover offers do wonders for share prices, even for companies that spent significant time as penny stocks.
Hong Kong-based businessman Yeung, who is poised to press ahead with a full takeover of the club in the near future, met Bruce for the first time this week.
And a number of other things went wrong with the bank, including its ill-conceived takeover of ABN Amro, the world's largest banking merger at the time, and its expansion into American mortgage markets.
Its shareholders endured six years of disinterest and disdain in the markets, which disliked the industry for myriad maladies--overcapacity, crashing prices, onerous regulation, takeover turmoil, imperiled monopolies and a decline in local phone lines for the first time since phone service began a century ago.
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