Xerox has gone hostile in its $35bn takeover bid for the computer-and-printer maker.

电脑和打印机制造商惠普已拒绝施乐公司350亿美元的收购邀约。

The Anglo-Dutch company, Unilever, has rejected a 140-billion-dollar takeover bid from the American food giant, Krat Heinz.

英荷公司联合利华拒绝了美国食卡夫亨氏公司1400亿美元的收购提议。

The first, as mentioned, is the occasional stampede to make takeover bids.

首先，如前所述，是偶尔出现的竞购狂潮。

In other words, most takeover bids prove to be a disappointment.

换言之，多数收购要约最终令人失望。

A takeover bid for the airline was launched today.

【bid】今天有人出价收购这航空公司。

Thornbury has announced a takeover bid of a regional TV company.

【takeover】索恩伯里已经宣布将出价收购一区域性电视公司。

All this meant that the company's financial performance was strong enough for it to fight off a takeover bid from Kraft Heinz in 2017.

所有这些都意味着该公司的财务表现足够强劲，足以击退卡夫亨氏2017年的收购要约。

The banks may decide no, they will not support this takeover bid.

银行可能会决定不支持这项收购要约。

The reason I'm calling is to find out if there is any news about your company's takeover bid for Shamrock Corp.

我打电话的原因是想了解你们公司对Shamrock公司的收购要约是否有展。

I thought that their support of the takeover bid was contingent on getting more information about the state of Shamrock's finances.

我以为他们支持收购要约是基于获得关于Shamrock公司财务状况更多信息的条件。

The company said the decision was made for personal reasons and was not linked to a recent takeover bid launched by cvc, a European private-equity firm.

该公司表示，这一决定是出于个人原因，与欧洲私募股权公司cvc最近发起的收购要约无关。

A " takeover bid" is when one person or one company tries to take control of another company, usually by buying its stocks.

“收购要约” 是指一个人或一公司试图通过购买另一公司的股票来取得对其控制权的行为。

Bruce says that the takeover bid, he thought, was contingent upon the banks getting more information about the state of Shamrock's finances.

布鲁斯说，他认为收购要约是基于银行获得更多关于Shamrock公司财务状况的信息。

But really, there doesn't seem to be an awful lot that the German government can do to block this, if UniCredit were to go hostile and launch a takeover bid here.

但实际上，如果联合信贷银行怀着恶意发起收购要约的话，德国政府似乎也没有什么办法可以阻止。

But Michael Milken and his team at Drexel Burnham Lambert, an investment bank, discovered there was a market for high-yield debt from new issuers, often in connection with companies making takeover bids.

但是米歇尔米尔肯同其在德崇公司(一投行)的团队发现，新证券发放者那里存在着一个高收益债务市场，这些发放者通常都与行收购行为的公司有联系.

They can pass resolutions telling boards to take certain actions, they are entitled to vote on dividends and CEO pay, and they can force a board to accept a hostile takeover bid the board would prefer to reject.

他们可以通过决议，告诉董事会采取某些行动，他们有权对股息和首席执行官薪酬行投票，他们可以迫使董事会接受董事会宁愿拒绝的敌意收购要约。

He says, " I thought that their support of the takeover bid was contingent on getting more information." " To be contingent" means to be dependent; something that will happen only if something else does or does not happen.

他说：“我以为他们支持收购要约是基于获得更多信息的条件。 ” “有条件的” 意思是依赖于某个条件；某件事只有在另一个条件达成或不达成的情况下才会发生。

It is easy to imagine a pharma giant launching a takeover bid for the firm, and if successful simply jacking up prices to what the market will bear—which in America is a lot more than what eqrx wants to charge.

很容易想象一大型药企会对该公司发起收购要约，如果成功的话，它们就会把价格提高到市场能承受的水平——在美国，这个价格要比eqrx公司想要收取的高出很多。