Greenmail | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-06-04

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenmail


00:01:05 1 Tactic
00:04:08 2 Examples
00:06:49 3 Evolution of Greenmail
00:08:33 4 Prevention Tactics



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SUMMARY
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Greenmail or greenmailing is the action of purchasing enough shares in a firm to challenge a firm's leadership with the threat of a hostile takeover to force the target company to buy the purchased shares back at a premium in order to prevent the potential takeover. The greenmail strategy has evolved since its first practices with ways to counter greenmail, other variations of greenmail, as well as ways to reinforce a greenmail tactic. 
In the area of mergers and acquisitions, the greenmail payment is made in an attempt to stop the hostile takeover.The term was a financial neologism in the 1980s derived from blackmail and greenback as commentators and journalists saw the practice of said corporate raiders as attempts by well-financed individuals or their operating companies to blackmail a company into handing over money by using the threat of a takeover.