FREE online courses on Mergers & Acquisitions - Chapter 7 - Anti-Takeover Defenses 

 

Throughout this entire short course, we have focused our attention on making the merger and acquisition process work. In this final chapter, we will do just the opposite; we will look at ways of discouraging the merger and acquisition process. If a company is concerned about being acquired by another company, several anti-takeover defenses can be implemented. As a minimum, most companies concerned about takeovers will closely monitor the trading of their stock for large volume changes.