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Corporate Voting And The Takeover Debate, Randall Thomas, Paul H. Edelman
Corporate Voting And The Takeover Debate, Randall Thomas, Paul H. Edelman
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
For many years academics have debated whether it is better to permit hostile acquirers to use tender offers to gain control over unwilling target companies, or to force them to use corporate elections of boards of directors in these efforts. The Delaware courts have expressed a strong preference for shareholder voting as a change of control device in hostile acquisitions. To force acquirers to accept their preferences, the Delaware courts have developed a jurisprudence permitting the effective classified board (ECB), a poison pill combined with a classified board, to protect target company management from removal by a hostile tender offer …