His resignation from the board in 1984, which occurred in the midst of a corporate takeover battle, was the beginning of a series of developments that led to the replacement of company president and CEO Ronald William Miller ( married to Walt's daughter Diane Marie Disney ) by Michael Eisner and Frank Wells.

" Though appalled by the massacre, Moran continued a turf war with Capone ( but to a lesser extent ) and also managed to thwart a territory takeover by Frank McErlane, wounding him in a gun battle.

In 1986 Edward Finkelstein, Chairman & CEO of R. H. Macy & Co., Inc., led a leveraged buy-out of the company and subsequently engaged in a takeover battle for Federated Department Stores, Inc., in 1988 that he lost to Canada's Campeau Corporation.

During the takeover battle in 1998 between BMW and Volkswagen Group for ownership of Rolls Royce and Bentley Motors, BMW had threatened to stop supply of their engines if Volkswagen Group won.

along with its ally Reynolds Metals of the US, won the takeover battle, and in the process, rewrote the way the City of London conducted its business in relation to shareholders and investors.

A close-season boardroom takeover battle disrupted preparations for their first season back in the Conference ; consequently the club struggled to maintain efforts towards a quick return to the Football League, ending up with a 15th place finish in the Conference National.

Continental's chairman, Alvin L. Feldman, objected to the purchase, telling Lorenzo that he thought the combined company would be " very weak "; as the takeover battle continued, Feldman was described as being " bitterly opposed " to the plan.

On 28 May 2011, An Italian court sentenced him four years in jail for market-rigging related to a 2005 takeover battle over Italian bank Banca Antonveneta.

Chrysler's management treated the takeover as hostile, and after a lengthy battle, Kerkorian canceled his plans and sold his Chrysler stake in 1996.

The three-month takeover battle concluded when Sanofi-Synthélabo launched a friendly bid of € 54. 5 billion in place of the previously rejected hostile bid.

In 1981 Letraset was taken over by Esselte after Esselte fought a takeover battle with Mills & Allen International for the company.

In 1970 – 71 Mercer had a dispute with his assistant Malcolm Allison, after the two men became embroiled in Manchester City's takeover battle.

After a failed £ 20m bid to take over Spurs with Larry Gillick, Venables was appointed chief executive by Alan Sugar, who had won the takeover battle against Robert Maxwell in June 1991.

Midwest, already in a financially-weakened condition following the September 11, 2001 attacks and the aforementioned takeover battle, suffered another severe financial blow as a result of the 2008 fuel price spike.

During 2004 a takeover battle began for the Canary Wharf Group in which Reichmann eventually sided with Canadian developer Brascan to attempt a purchase of the company.

In 2006 he was appointed to the supervisory board of media conglomerate VNU, after KKR and Blackstone Group won a difficult takeover battle.

As a result of a takeover battle leading up to the acquisition, Shaw Communications assumed WIC's interest in Cancom, while a separate company owned by the same Shaw family, Corus Entertainment, acquired various radio stations and specialty services.

With Conrail's increasing success, two eastern rail competitors of Conrail engaged in a takeover battle to control the railroad and expand their systems.

* 2006 Acquired Patrick Corporation after a long and acrimonious takeover battle.

In 2004 it was taken over by Anheuser-Busch after a bitter takeover battle with SABMiller.

The B & O had lost an attempt to acquire the PW & B in a stock takeover battle with the Pennsylvania Railroad ( PRR ).

On October 7, 1988 the Irving Trust board signed an agreement to merge with Bank of New York ending a yearlong battle as Bank of New York engineered a hostile takeover.

SunTrust continued its hostile takeover attempt, leading to a bitter battle over the summer between SunTrust and First Union.

The Company became a part of Burmah Oil in 1969, following a takeover battle between Burmah Oil and Smiths Industries.

Regulatory Arbitrage was used for the first time in 2005 when it was applied by Scott V. Simpson, a partner at law firm Skadden, Arps, to refer to a new defence tactic in hostile mergers and acquisitions where differing takeover regimes in deals involving multi-jurisdictions are exploited to the advantage of a target company under threat.

In 2006 the Herald won two SABEW awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for its breaking news coverage of the takeover of local company Gillette Co. and for overall excellence.

* In April 2012 Conservative Party MP and culture secretary came under pressure to resign as a result of his closeness to Rupert Murdoch's media empire and alleged corruption in dealing with Murdoch's bid for News Corporation's takeover of BSkyB.

Over succeeding decades the number of societies has decreased, as various societies merged to form larger ones, often renaming in the process, and other societies opted for demutualisation followed by-in the great majority of cases-eventual takeover by a listed bank.

Zog refused to accept money in exchange for countenancing a full Italian takeover and colonization of Albania.

Given the elder Pei's history with the bank before the Communist takeover, government officials visited the 89-year-old man in New York to gain approval for his son's involvement.

For example, if a journalist who worked for Company B learned about the takeover of Company A while performing his work duties, and bought stock in Company A, illegal insider trading might still have occurred.

The foreign relations of Laos, after the takeover by the Pathet Lao in December 1975, were characterized by a hostile posture toward the West, with the government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic aligning itself with the Soviet bloc, maintaining close ties with the Soviet Union and depending heavily on the Soviets for most of its foreign assistance.

Bill Mensch left MOS even before the Commodore takeover, and moved home to Mesa, AZ from MOS's Norristown, PA. After a short stint consulting for a local company called ICE, he set up the Western Design Center ( WDC ) in 1978.

) However, the European Court of Justice ruled against the law, potentially paving the way for a takeover.

There has been some tension and anxiety amongst the Volkswagen Group workers, who fear that a Porsche takeover might signify a hardened production efficiency control, rejection of demands for payment rises or even personnel cuts.

Fred Foster later argued that Rose's takeover was responsible for the commercial failure of Orbison's work at MGM ; engineer Bill Porter agreed that Orbison's best work could only be achieved with RCA Nashville's A Team.

After Hitler's takeover of the German government in 1933, political enemies of the Nazis were persecuted, and their institutions closed or destroyed ; the Gestapo began actions against Polish and Jewish students ( see: Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau ), Communists, Social Democrats, and trade unionists, arrests were even made for speaking Polish in public, in 1938 the Nazi-controlled police destroyed the Polish cultural centre.

The Time Warner merger was almost derailed when Paramount Communications ( Formerly Gulf + Western, later sold to Viacom ), launched a $ 12. 2 billion dollar hostile takeover bid for Time Inc., forcing Time to acquire Warner for $ 14. 9 billion dollar cash / stock offer.

** U. S. troops are sent to the Dominican Republic by President Lyndon B. Johnson, " for the stated purpose of protecting U. S. citizens and preventing an alleged Communist takeover of the country ", thus thwarting the possibility of " another Cuba ".

This takeover was considered far more important than was the choice of presidential candidate, and the committee decided to take no position on who should win the race for the nomination, reasoning that the victor, no matter who he was, would be a silver man.

In July 2007, BSkyB announced a takeover of Amstrad for £ 125m, a 23. 7 % premium on its market capitalisation.

The supposed cause for murdering Jews was that in 1940 some Jews welcomed the Soviet takeover as liberation.

Bugs Moran's muscling in on a Capone-run dog track in the Chicago suburbs, his takeover of several Capone-owned saloons that he insisted were in his territory, and the general rivalry between Moran and Capone for complete control of the lucrative Chicago bootlegging business were probable contributing factors to this incident.

* 1987: Staff of the Akron Beacon Journal, " for its coverage, under deadline pressure, of the attempted takeover of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. by a European financier.

This included nationalization of large-scale industries ( notably copper mining and banking ), and government administration of the health care system, educational system ( with the help of an U. S. educator, Jane A. Hobson-Gonzalez from Kokomo, Indiana ), a programme of free milk for children in the schools and shanty towns of Chile, and an expansion of the land seizure and redistribution already begun under his predecessor Eduardo Frei Montalva, who had nationalized between one-fifth and one-quarter of all the properties listed for takeover.

A short time later, in May 1952, Nasser received word that Farouk knew the names of the Free Officers and intended to arrest them ; thus, he immediately entrusted Zakaria Mohieddine with the task of drawing up plans for a takeover of the government by army units loyal to the association.