greenmail的意思|greenmail的解释-里氏词典

greenmail ['gri:nmeil]

n. <美俚>绿票讹诈

greenmail

[ noun ]
(corporation) the practice of purchasing enough shares in a firm to threaten a takeover and thereby forcing the owners to buy those shares back at a premium in order to stay in business
<noun.act>

greenmail \green"mail\ n. (Finance)
The act, performed by a publicly traded corporation, of
paying a corporate raider to give up a takeover attempt, by
buying the shares of stock he owns; also, the threat posed by
corporate raiders to take over a company unless their stocks
are purchased by the company at a price giving them a large
profit. [Informal]
[WordNet 1.5]

The Viacom lawsuit claimed that the agreement, which the suit called "a form of extortion known as greenmail," constituted one the illegal acts needed for establishing a pattern of racketeering under that law.
In the Phillips case, a federal appeals court found evidence last year that Mr. Pickens "had no intention from the outset" to honor his repeated statement that he was not interested in and would not accept greenmail.
Company officials also contend Pickens is acting on behalf of Japanese investor Kitaro Watanabe, who they say has twice tried to greenmail them.
That translates into an effective tax rate on greenmail approaching 90%, said Mr. Willens, who suggested that now "no one will enter a takeover situation with a view of taking greenmail."
That translates into an effective tax rate on greenmail approaching 90%, said Mr. Willens, who suggested that now "no one will enter a takeover situation with a view of taking greenmail."
Koito has said Pickens is interested only in "greenmail" and points to his reputation as a corporate raider.
The proposals would require an 80% majority for some bids and discourage greenmail buybacks of shares held by hostile suitors.
Moreover, shareholders at a special meeting approved several anti-takeover measures, including one designed to discourage so-called greenmail buybacks of shares held by hostile suitors.
"There's no way the company can pay greenmail," said Gregory Drahuschak, an analyst with Butcher & Singer Inc. "There'd be lawsuits all over the place."
He said he turned the offer down because "it was greenmail."
Dart Group has repeatedly denied that it has any greenmail intensions.
If Gillette in fact has lost the proxy battle, its payment of so-called greenmail to Revlon may have decided the outcome.
"I take a Shermanesque view: If greenmail is offered, I would not tolerate it, and if it were offered, I would not take it."
Pickens has denied any greenmail effort in the Koito share purchase.
Day said the vote reflects "stockholder confidence in management's ability," adding that USG would not pay out any "greenmail" to the Midland, Texas-based investment group.
But in August 1985, it withdrew the ruling for reconsideration along with the issue of greenmail paid to buy out the stock of a hostile bidder for control; it said that greenmail, a capital cost, can't be deducted.
But in August 1985, it withdrew the ruling for reconsideration along with the issue of greenmail paid to buy out the stock of a hostile bidder for control; it said that greenmail, a capital cost, can't be deducted.
Mr. Sugarman, however, said he stated earlier in the acrimonious battle that he wouldn't take greenmail, "and we will not."
Clearly, the most ethically questionable behavior in the takeover wars is the payment of greenmail by an incumbent management faced with a raid.
The Ways and Means measure contains some needed takeover reforms, such as a prohibitive tax on "greenmail" payments to raiders.
Profits from the takeover and greenmail game have masked lackluster insurance results and enriched Mr. Steinberg.
He told how one EDS employee jokingly asked him whether the money was "greenmail," and then "another EDSer walked up and said it's really hushmail," referring to the provision barring criticism of GM.
I don't believe this deal was greenmail."
This is an innovative claim, but will not be an easy one to win since it will be hard to show any contractual agreement forswearing greenmail.
Settlements totaling $89.5 million have been reached in "greenmail" lawsuits by Walt Disney Co. shareholders against the Disney board of directors and Wall Street financier Saul Steinberg, the parties announced Wednesday.
There were greenmail whispers when Saul Steinberg in 1986 sold a stake in Britain's Mercury International Group to Canadian National Railway's pension fund.
The company has rebuffed him for more than a year, claiming he is after greenmail, in which a company pays a shareholder a premium price to fend off a hostile takeover.
The shareholders claimed the defendants disguised an indirect greenmail payment to Sir Ronald, in which the investor sold his stake in Calmat to Onoda at a premium to the market price, and Onoda promised to sell the stake to CalMat at a profit.
Such a tactic is known as "greenmail." During the takeover attempt, Pickens repeatedly said Mesa would not consider selling back its shares unless the same deal was offered to all stockholders.
Many critics labeled the agreement greenmail.

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