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This 5 page paper provides a look at Dresdner Bank amid acquisition worries. The hostile takeover phenomenon is discussed as well as a plan for a bank to thwart such an attempt. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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showed just how many careers can be crushed by such occurrences. The film depicted the Kohlberg Kravis Roberts buyout that many consider to be a hostile takeover. A hostile takeover
is not like a coup de etat in that no blood is shed, at least not blood directly caused by participants. Yet, corporate downsizing, mergers and acquisitions and all the
goings on in corporate America has lost good workers to strokes, heart attacks and suicide. The stress can get to be too much. One way a hostile takeover can be
initiated is if one company effectively takes control of another by manipulating more share of stock of the target company to constitute a majority. One source described the unfriendly,
or hostile takeover, as follows: "Acquisition of a firm in spite of resistance by the target firms management and board of directors" (Scott, 1988). No matter how one looks at
it, there is ill will in such an arrangement. One company that presently faces the possibility of a hostile takeover is the Dresdner Bank (Geitner, 2000). Dresdner Banks head
resigned after talks with Deutsche Bank failed to produce a viable merger deal (2000). Yet, Deutsche Banks head stayed and claimed that such a deal would have been profitable
(2000). It is not too late even though talks have disbanded. But it has been said that a hostile takeover cannot be ruled out and that rumors have been flying
suggesting that the U.S.-based Citigroup could launch a takeover offer for Dresdner soon (2000). How would Deutsche, the bank willing to continue talks, fit into such an equation? Bridget
Gandy, senior director of financial institutions at Fitch IBCA in London, provides some insight as she remarked: "Deutsche is more likely to be predator than prey" (2000, p.PG). However, at
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