Competing Acquisition definition

Competing Acquisition means acquisition of a Third Party or a portion of the business of a Third Party (whether by merger, stock purchase or purchase of assets) that is, prior to such acquisition, conducting one or more Competing Programs involving one or more Candidate Targets.
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Competing Acquisition is defined in Section 15.8.3.
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Competing Acquisition means a transaction with respect to a sale, lease, transfer, merger, reorganisation, share exchange, consolidation, business combination or similar disposition or transaction involving any person who is a competitor with Sincere in Singapore in the business of the distribution and retail of luxury watch brands (including, without limitation, The Hour Glass Ltd and Cortina Watch Ltd), its assets or its shares, its controlling shareholders (as defined in the Listing Manual (the “Listing Manual”) of the SGX-ST) and its subsidiaries; and
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Examples of Competing Acquisition in a sentence

  • The Company shall continue to keep Parent fully informed of the status and details of any such Competing Acquisition Proposal or inquiry.

  • The Hanson Directors have provided Lehigh with irrevocable undertakings to this effect.Yours sincerely,Mike Welton ChairmanBack to ContentsPART II SOME SHAREHOLDER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSThis Part II is designed to assist your understanding of the Proposals.

  • By setting the Tender Offer Period to a relatively long period, the Tender Offeror intends to ensure the opportunities for the Target Company’s shareholders to appropriately determine whether or not to tender in the Tender Offer, and to ensure the appropriateness of the Tender Offer Price by ensuring an opportunity for any Competing Acquisition Offeror to make offers.

  • On the date of this Agreement, the Vendors and the Company shall, and shall cause each of their respective representatives to, cease immediately any existing activities, discussions or negotiations with any third party with respect to a Competing Acquisition Proposal or any other transaction which could reasonably be expected to lead to a Competing Acquisition Proposal.

  • The Fee shall be paid within three business days after termination in the case of termination pursuant to clause (b)(i) above, or one business day after the consummation of the Competing Acquisition Proposal which gives rise to the obligation to make such payment in the case of clause (b)(ii) above.

  • The Company has not agreed to any transaction protection clause with the Tender Offerors, KDDI, or KDDI Evolva that prohibits the Company from contacting Competing Acquisition Offerors or made any other agreement on any matter that would restrict Competing Acquisition Offerors from contacting the Company.

  • The Stockholders shall promptly communicate to Phoenix Footwear, to the same extent as is required by H.S. Trask pursuant to, and subject to the same conditions contained in, the Merger Agreement, the terms, and other information concerning, any proposal, discussion, negotiation or inquiry and the identity of the party making such proposal or inquiry which the Stockholder may receive in respect of any such Competing Acquisition Proposal.

  • By setting the Tender Offer Period to a relatively long period, the Tender Offeror intends to ensure the opportunities for the Company’s shareholders to appropriately determine whether or not to tender in the Tender Offer, and to ensure the reasonableness of the Tender Offer Price by ensuring an opportunity for any Competing Acquisition Offeror to make offers.

  • If Krang receives a Competing Acquisition Proposal, it shall provide written notice thereof to VHI (the "CAP Notice") as soon as possible, but in any event prior to 10:00 a.m. (Calgary time) on the day following receipt thereof.

  • Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Purchaser may engage in a Competing Acquisition Transaction with the prior written consent of DES and FMS, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld.


More Definitions of Competing Acquisition

Competing Acquisition means the Purchaser or any of its Affiliates entering into a Contract to acquire, directly or indirectly, of any title, interest or right to use, market, distribute, license or sublicense a trading system that competes with the System; provided that, list trading systems will not be considered to compete with the System.
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Competing Acquisition means any direct or indirect acquisition or purchase of all or a material portion of the Transferred Assets, the Systems or the securities of the Seller, or a financing transaction involving the payment of a dividend or other distribution to the Seller or its securityholders, in each case other than as contemplated hereunder.
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Competing Acquisition has the meaning set forth in Section 6.6(a)(i).
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Competing Acquisition means the purchase of (i) all or a majority of the shares of any Target Group Company, (ii) all or a majority of the shares of the Seller, or (iii) the whole or substantially the whole of the business or assets of any Target Group Company or the Seller, but excluding any proposal or offer from any Person relating to a North American Sale;
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Related to Competing Acquisition

  • Hostile Acquisition means (a) the acquisition of the Equity Interests of a Person through a tender offer or similar solicitation of the owners of such Equity Interests which has not been approved (prior to such acquisition) by the board of directors (or any other applicable governing body) of such Person or by similar action if such Person is not a corporation and (b) any such acquisition as to which such approval has been withdrawn.

  • Unfriendly Acquisition any acquisition that has not, at the time of the first public announcement of an offer relating thereto, been approved by the board of directors (or other legally recognized governing body) of the Person to be acquired; except that with respect to any acquisition of a non-U.S. Person, an otherwise friendly acquisition shall not be deemed to be unfriendly if it is not customary in such jurisdiction to obtain such approval prior to the first public announcement of an offer relating to a friendly acquisition.

  • Target Acquisition means the acquisition of Target Shares by Purchaser pursuant to a Scheme or an Offer.

  • Parent Acquisition Proposal means any offer or proposal for a merger, reorganization, recapitalization, consolidation, share exchange, business combination or other similar transaction involving Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or any proposal or offer to acquire, directly or indirectly, securities representing more than 20% of the voting power of Parent or more than 20% of the assets of Parent and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, other than the Combination contemplated by this Agreement.

  • Target Business Acquisition Period means the period commencing from the effectiveness of the registration statement filed with the SEC in connection with the Company's IPO up to and including the first to occur of (i) a Business Combination; or (ii) the Termination Date.

  • Qualifying Acquisition has the meaning specified in Section 5.03.

  • Company Acquisition Proposal means any proposal for a merger or other business combination involving the Company or the acquisition of any equity interest in, or a substantial portion of the assets of, the Company, other than the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

  • Company Acquisition Transaction means any transaction or series of transactions involving:

  • Permitted Bid Acquisition means an acquisition of Voting Shares made pursuant to a Permitted Bid or a Competing Permitted Bid;

  • Business Acquisition means the acquisition of a company or any shares or securities or a business or undertaking (or, in each case, any interest in any of them) or the incorporation of a company.

  • Permitted Business Acquisition means any acquisition of all or substantially all the assets of, or all or substantially all the Equity Interests (other than directors’ qualifying shares) not previously held by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in, or merger, consolidation or amalgamation with, a person or division or line of business of a person (or any subsequent investment made in a person or division or line of business previously acquired in a Permitted Business Acquisition), if immediately after giving effect thereto: (i) no Event of Default under clause (b), (c), (h) or (i) of Section 7.01 shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, provided, however, that with respect to a proposed acquisition pursuant to an executed acquisition agreement, at the option of the Borrower, the determination of whether such an Event of Default shall exist shall be made solely at the time of the execution of the acquisition agreement related to such Permitted Business Acquisition; (ii) all transactions related thereto shall be consummated in accordance with applicable laws; (iii) with respect to any such acquisition or investment with cash consideration in excess of $50,000,000, the Borrower shall be in Pro Forma Compliance immediately after giving effect to such acquisition or investment and any related transaction; (iv) any acquired or newly formed Subsidiary shall not be liable for any Indebtedness except for Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.01; (v) to the extent required by Section 5.10, any person acquired in such acquisition, if acquired by the Borrower or a Domestic Subsidiary, shall be merged into the Borrower or a Subsidiary Loan Party or become upon consummation of such acquisition a Subsidiary Loan Party; and (vi) the aggregate cash consideration in respect of such acquisitions and investments in assets that are not owned by the Borrower or Subsidiary Loan Parties or in Equity Interests of persons that are not Subsidiary Loan Parties or do not become Subsidiary Loan Parties, in each case upon consummation of such acquisition, shall not exceed the greater of (x) $150,000,000 and (y) 0.05 times the EBITDA calculated on a Pro Forma Basis for the then most recently ended Test Period (excluding for purposes of the calculation in this clause (vi), (A) any such assets or Equity Interests that are no longer owned by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and (B) acquisitions and investments made at a time when, immediately after giving effect thereto, the Net Total Leverage Ratio on a Pro Forma Basis would not exceed 3.15 to 1.00, which acquisitions and investments shall be permitted under this clause (vi) without regard to such calculation).

  • Permitted Acquisition means any acquisition by Borrower or any of its wholly-owned Subsidiaries, whether by purchase, merger or otherwise, of all or substantially all of the assets of, all of the Equity Interests of, or a business line or unit or a division of, any Person; provided that:

  • Proposed Acquisition Transaction means, with respect to a SpinCo, a transaction or series of transactions (or any agreement, understanding or arrangement, within the meaning of Section 355(e) of the Code and Treasury Regulations Section 1.355-7, or any other Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder, to enter into a transaction or series of transactions), whether such transaction is supported by the management or shareholders of such SpinCo, is a hostile acquisition, or otherwise, as a result of which such SpinCo would merge or consolidate with any other Person or as a result of which any Person or Persons would (directly or indirectly) acquire, or have the right to acquire, from such SpinCo and/or one or more holders of outstanding shares of Capital Stock of such SpinCo, a number of shares of Capital Stock of such SpinCo that would, when combined with any other changes in ownership of Capital Stock of such SpinCo pertinent for purposes of Section 355(e) of the Code, comprise 45% or more of (a) the value of all outstanding shares of stock of such SpinCo as of the date of such transaction, or in the case of a series of transactions, the date of the last transaction of such series, or (b) the total combined voting power of all outstanding shares of voting stock of such SpinCo as of the date of such transaction, or in the case of a series of transactions, the date of the last transaction of such series. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Proposed Acquisition Transaction shall not include (i) the adoption by such SpinCo of a shareholder rights plan or (ii) issuances by such SpinCo that satisfy Safe Harbor VIII (relating to acquisitions in connection with a person’s performance of services) or Safe Harbor IX (relating to acquisitions by a retirement plan of an employer) of Treasury Regulations Section 1.355-7(d). For purposes of determining whether a transaction constitutes an indirect acquisition, any recapitalization resulting in a shift of voting power or any redemption of shares of stock shall be treated as an indirect acquisition of shares of stock by the non-exchanging shareholders. This definition and the application thereof is intended to monitor compliance with Section 355(e) of the Code and shall be interpreted accordingly. Any clarification of, or change in, the statute or Treasury Regulations promulgated under Section 355(e) of the Code shall be incorporated into this definition and its interpretation.

  • Exempt Acquisition means a share acquisition in respect of which the Board of Directors has waived the application of Section 3.1 pursuant to the provisions of Subsection 5.1(a) or (h);

  • Transformative Acquisition means any acquisition or Investment by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary that is either (a) not permitted by the terms of this Agreement immediately prior to the consummation of such acquisition or Investment or (b) if permitted by the terms of this Agreement immediately prior to the consummation of such acquisition or Investment, would not provide the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries with adequate flexibility under this Agreement for the continuation and/or expansion of their combined operations following such consummation, as determined by the Borrower acting in good faith.

  • Company Acquisition means (i) a merger, consolidation, business combination, recapitalization, liquidation, dissolution or similar transaction involving the Company pursuant to which the stockholders of the Company immediately preceding such transaction hold less than fifty percent (50%) of the aggregate equity interests in the surviving or resulting entity of such transaction, (ii) a sale or other disposition by the Company of assets representing in excess of fifty percent (50%) of the aggregate fair market value of the Company's business immediately prior to such sale, or (iii) the acquisition by any person or group (including by way of a tender offer or an exchange offer or issuance by the Company), directly or indirectly, of beneficial ownership or a right to acquire beneficial ownership of shares representing in excess of fifty percent (50%) of the voting power of the then outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company.

  • Acquisition Transaction means any transaction or series of transactions involving:

  • Superior Acquisition Proposal means a bona fide Acquisition Proposal made by a third party for one or more of the McNeil Partnerships which the general partner of each such McNeil Partnership determines in good faith to be more favorable to the limited partners of such McNeil Partnership from a financial point of view than the Mergers and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement with respect to such McNeil Partnership, and which such general partner determines in good faith is reasonably likely to be consummated.

  • Proposed Acquisition means the proposed acquisition by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of all or substantially all of the assets or Stock of any Proposed Acquisition Target, or the merger of any Proposed Acquisition Target with or into the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower (and, in the case of a merger with the Borrower, with the Borrower being the surviving corporation).

  • Competing Transaction has the meaning set forth in Section 6.1(n).

  • Permitted Bid Acquisitions means share acquisitions made pursuant to a Permitted Bid or a Competing Bid.

  • Acquisition Transactions means the transactions contemplated by the Acquisition Agreement.

  • Significant Acquisition means the acquisition (in one or a series of related transactions) of all or substantially all of the assets or Equity Interests of a Person or any division, line of business or business unit of a Person for an aggregate consideration in excess of $450,000,000.

  • Acquisition means (a) the purchase or other acquisition by a Person or its Subsidiaries of all or substantially all of the assets of (or any division or business line of) any other Person, or (b) the purchase or other acquisition (whether by means of a merger, consolidation, or otherwise) by a Person or its Subsidiaries of all or substantially all of the Equity Interests of any other Person.

  • Specified Acquisition means one or more acquisitions of assets or entities or operating lines or divisions in any rolling 12-month period for an aggregate purchase price of not less than $50,000,000.

  • REO Acquisition The acquisition by the Master Servicer on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders of any REO Property pursuant to Section 3.14.