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Legal Aspects Of Foreign Investments And Financing Of Energy Products In Nigeria, Niki Tobi
Legal Aspects Of Foreign Investments And Financing Of Energy Products In Nigeria, Niki Tobi
Dalhousie Law Journal
Nigeria is a Federation consisting of twenty-one States, and a Federal Capital Territory. It is the largest African Country with probably the largest concentration of foreign investment potentialities with a viable and adequate financing. In the true tenet of Federalism, the 1979 Constitution provided for a distinction in the legislative powers between the central Government and the State Governments. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1989 has also maintained this federal arrangement. Although that is the constitutional position, the Military Government has, as a matter of policy, built into the system some element of unitarism in a federal …
Poison Pills: Developing A Canadian Regulatory And Judicial Response, Jody W. Forsyth
Poison Pills: Developing A Canadian Regulatory And Judicial Response, Jody W. Forsyth
Dalhousie Law Journal
It is trite to say that the United States has witnessed an explosion of hostile take-over activity in recent years. Potential acquirers have employed both non-coercive techniques such as conditional bids and proxy solicitations, and coercive techniques such as "street sweeps' 4 and two-tier, front-end loaded bids.5 In response, target corporations have fought back with a wide variety of" defences designed to defeat any undesired take-over attempt. One of the most widely contested of these defences is the shareholder rights plan, or "poison pill" as it is better known.