Greenmail (so also mostly in German; more rarely takeover threat)

Someone acquires a significant share of a company’s stock. He informs the management and offers the shares for very expensive repurchase by the corporation. If this does not happen, he threatens to take over or sell his block of shares to a rival of the company (the practice of buying a large block of a company’s shares in order to offer it to the company for repurchase at an overstated price to prevent a takeover bid, or selling the block of shares to a rival of the company). – See defensive measure, bidder, blitzkrieg takeover bid, buy out, acquisition offer, suitor, mergers and acquisitions, monetary base, poison pill, concentration price, war chest, macaroni defense, material adversarial change clause, persons, acting in concert, mandatory offer, radar surveillance, raider, knight, white, shark watcher, spin-off, squeeze-out, voting rights database, takeover, hostile, takeover announcement, takeover appeal, exchange offer.

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