The buyout, secretly negotiated by Charles M. Schwab ( no relation to Charles R. Schwab ), was the largest such industrial takeover in United States history to date.

The takeover bid was successively rejected by the Sensi family, who instead preferred to maintain the club's ownership.

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.

Following reform in 2005, which was prompted by takeover scandals, the bank has lost exclusive antitrust authority in the credit sector, which is now shared with Italy's Antitrust Authority.

If so, the mere fact that an incidental result ( even if it was a desired consequence ) was that a shareholder lost his majority, or a takeover bid was defeated, this would not itself make the share issue improper.

But if the sole purpose was to destroy a voting majority, or block a takeover bid, that would be an improper purpose.

Early in the following season the Addicks were linked with a foreign takeover, but this was swiftly denied by the club.

With Stalin's takeover, the role of the Central Committee was eclipsed by the Politburo, which consisted of a small clique of loyal Stalinists.

The intention was that these facilities would provide extra revenue to support the football side of the business, but they were less successful than hoped and before the Abramovich takeover in 2003 the debt taken on to finance them was a major burden on the club.

Soon after the takeover a decision was taken to drop the " Chelsea Village " brand and refocus on Chelsea as a football club.

Prior to its takeover the company was headquartered in a facility in Northwest unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States that now serves as HP's United States headquarters.

Henry's succession was strongly contested by the Catholic League and by Philip II, and Elizabeth feared a Spanish takeover of the channel ports.

1939 was a busy year, as he opened the 1939 New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, opened New York Municipal Airport No. 2 in Queens ( later renamed Fiorello H. LaGuardia Field ), and had the city buy out the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, thus completing the public takeover of the subway system.

There was also a merger of the Gaelic and Pictish crowns, although historians debate whether it was a Pictish takeover of Dál Riata, or the other way around.

At 8. 00am on 2 January 2008 completion of the takeover of ICI plc by Akzo Nobel NV was announced.

By the time the railway was built, military resistance by the African population to the original British takeover had petered out.

Following the takeover of the club by George Gillett and Tom Hicks in February 2007, the proposed stadium was redesigned.

Although the brand originates from the original 1947 model, Land Rover as a company has only existed since 1978, prior to this it was a product line of the Rover Company which was subsequently absorbed into the Rover-Triumph division of the British Leyland Motor Corporation ( BL ) following Leyland Motor Corporation ’ s takeover of Rover in 1967.

An example of this would be the takeover of Chrysler by Daimler-Benz in 1999 which was widely referred to as a merger at the time.

* 1808 – Rum Rebellion, the only successful ( albeit short-lived ) armed takeover of the government in Australia.

The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of government in Australia's history.

Tibetan Buddhism has been significantly active and successful in the West since the Chinese takeover of Tibet in 1959.

This allowed the Hainan takeover to be successful where the Jinmen and Dengbu assaults had failed in the previous fall.

The passenger trains were very successful, and after the 1995 takeover of the CNW by the Union Pacific, UP in 1998 announced intentions to abandon the line from Hayward Junction where it connected to the Wisconsin Central to the north through Spooner all of the way down to Chippewa Falls.

The Saskatchewan Party government also was successful in lobbying the federal government to block the takeover bid of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan from Australian mining giant BHP Billiton.

The Listener compared Brash's successful bid for the leadership of the ACT Party to a hostile takeover.

During 2001, SingTel launched a takeover bid for Cable and Wireless Optus which was ultimately successful and the company became known as SingTel Optus Pty Limited.

In the Rum Rebellion of 1808, the Corps, working closely with the newly established wool trader John Macarthur, staged the only successful armed takeover of government in Australian history, deposing Governor William Bligh and instigating a brief period of military rule in the colony prior to the arrival from Britain of Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1810.

In South Africa, following the successful GEC / Siemens takeover, after protracted negotiations, in 1991 Plessey South Africa became a wholly owned subsidiary of Sankorp under the new name of Plessey Tellumat South Africa Limited ( PTSA ).

The negotiations were largely motivated by the juggernaut takeover of the Liberal Party by the extremely popular and successful former Liberal finance minister Paul Martin, and the marked reduction in membership and political donations for both parties due to voter frustration with the status quo Liberal hegemony.

In the mid 1990s, Norweigan millionaires Kjell Inge Rokke and Bjorn Rune Gjelsten were reportedly interested in bringing Hareide back to Manchester City as manager if their bid to take over the club was successful, but the takeover bid failed and Hareide never returned to the club.

In Adelaide, in 1925, the company Myer SA Stores Ltd acquired a controlling interest in Marshall's department store and its shares continued to be listed on the Adelaide Stock Exchange until Myer Emporium Ltd made a successful takeover bid in 1966.

The following year, before the ink had dried on the Elders IXL agreement and in one of the most breathtaking swoops in the market, the new-look Elders launched a successful takeover bid for Carlton and United Breweries.

The group have been opposed to foreign ownership of the club, opposing both the unnsucessful takeover attempt by Rupert Murdoch, and the later successful takeover by the current owners, the Glazer family.

In 1970 Wellington Publishing Company made a successful takeover bid for Truth ( NZ ) Ltd and the following year acquired Independent Publishers Ltd, owner of the Waikato Times.

* Episode " Gigantic ": Their hostile ( and quite successful ) takeover of the luxury space liner Gigantic, an evident parody of the real-life ship, the Titanic, but the takeover resulted in the two leaving before the ship would sink into a water planet, leaving the dynamic duo driving off quickly, Zösky claiming that it reminded him of " a really bad movie " that he saw.

The Rum Rebellion, also known as the Rum Puncheon Rebellion, of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of government in Australia's recorded history.

RW worked closely with Native American women leaders Janet McCloud and Ramona Bennett, and participated in the Puyallup Tribe ’ s successful takeover of Cascadia Juvenile Center, a former Indian hospital.

In 1970, Vesco began a successful takeover bid for Investors Overseas Service, Ltd., a mutual fund investment firm with holdings of $ 1. 5 billion run by financier Bernard Cornfeld, who had run into trouble with the SEC.

Toll Holdings of Australia made a successful takeover bid for Tranz Rail, subject to an agreement to sell back the infrastructure to the government for $ 1.

BA's takeover of Dan-Air also left the Gatwick to Newcastle route vacant for the airline to assume, offerig a three-times daily service and requiring a third ATR 42.