Poison Put

  

Categories: Board of Directors

See: Poison Pill.

A poison pill is a strategy to protect a company from a takevoer. A poison put represents a particular tactical method to achieve the goal. Like picking cyanide vs. arsenic.

The put in question gets attached to the company's bonds. It's a provision that allows the bondholders to demand repayment if a takeover happens before the bonds are due. So the bonds can get repaid in full...but the option only exists in case of a takeover.

The situation makes a potential takeover much more expensive. Any incoming owners would be faced with a possible big debt repayment bill if bondholders exercise the put. It gives current stockholders leverage against a takeover.

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Finance: What is a poison pill?4 Views

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Finance allah shmoop what is a poison pill O romeo

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romeo Wherefore out the ac Well if you can't have

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me nobody can have me pill lug dead dead alright

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that's poison pill allah romeo and juliet and performed by

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your friends here and the corporate version Well it isn't

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all that different In fact there are really two flavors

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of poison pill flintstones chewable lt's called flip ins which

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allow current shareholders to buy a ton more shares at

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a big discount toe where their shares are currently trading

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flippen like if the shares are at forty bucks each

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current shareholder than gets allowed to buy five shares for

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ten bucks each for each share that they currently own

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and have owned for the last in a year About

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that would be a flipping well this flip in process

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dilutes the company dramatically making it harder for an outside

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takeover soldier to come in and you know just buy

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the company that's a flip in the non chewable flintstone

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flavor that you have to actually swallow is called ah

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flip over which comes is a mandate from the board

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allowing current shareholders to buy the shares of the acquirer

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After the merger at a big discount it basically destroys

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enormous value in the combined company making It tastes like

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a bitter moth to ah hungry bat so you know

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he spits it out The basic idea in these poison

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pill defense strategies is to deal with hostile takeovers And

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a lot of those came during the junk bond era

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in the nineteen eighties when cheap high risk capital was

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liquid Lee easily available almost anywhere and companies felt vulnerable

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to short term quick buck wall street sharpies who looked

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great in a dark suit and usually had awesome hair

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So yeah people for details carefully watch wall street the

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first one the good one the one with michael douglas

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