Still, laws in the Netherlands, allow such a tactic, known as a creeping takeover.

There is in no case a creeping takeover taking place by Blue Capital.

He has a reputation for using creeping takeover tactics to expand his heavily indebted company.

It's the final phase of a long creeping takeover tolerated by a board behaving cowardly.

Ivanhoe has implemented a shareholder rights plan aimed at preventing a creeping takeover.

Each time, he was rebuffed by fellow shareholders, irked at what they perceived as a creeping takeover.

Porsche’s creeping takeover of Volkswagen, through cash-settled call options, has so far proved fruitful.

This innocuous-sounding event was actually part of a creeping takeover of the sort that businesses in Russia always fear and often face.

United States courts have rejected this strategy, known as a creeping takeover, because of its drawbacks for remaining stockholders.

In German business circles, Porsche's creeping takeover has been seen as a riveting drama.

The move has parallels to the creeping takeover by the luxury carmaker Porsche of its larger rival Volkswagen.

They kept the fetus here, the one that was supposed to provide the stem cells to innoculate the world against the virus, the black oil, creeping takeover.

VW became the biggest company in the world on Tuesday – all because of a creeping takeover by rival carmaker Porsche.

The Banco di San Giorgio gradually ended this state of affairs, through a creeping takeover of the republic.

Falconbridge became available when it began to fear that a rival, Noranda Inc., was attempting a "creeping takeover" by gradually accumulating shares.

Non-Islamists accuse the Brothers of attempting a creeping takeover of state institutions, as well as of rank incompetence.

Mr. Arnault amassed his stake in Gucci in 1999 in what was widely viewed as a creeping takeover attempt.

These surreal distortions have little to do with VW's fundamentals - and plenty to do with a creeping takeover by smaller rival Porsche.

Measures focus on the fight against creeping takeovers, the development of long-term shareholder equity and the softening of the conditions governing the issuance of so-called "poison pills."

Shiites present their creeping takeover of Baghdad as part of a narrative of liberation—American officers have dubbed it Shiite "Manifest Destiny."

The Rights Plan was adopted on August 4, 2009 to prevent a creeping takeover of the Company and preserve its ability to seek to obtain the best value for all shareholders.

Unlike the previous deals involving the Scottish life industry, this one will not involve a straightforward demutualisation and takeover - although in practice it may well amount to a 'creeping takeover'.

Mr Deripaska’s stake was seen as the first step in a creeping takeover until mounting financial pressure forced him to sell the investment in September 2008 to the bank that financed the deal.

I read all the drafts of that document, spoke to lawyers and became convinced that its calculated opacity was a charter for the creeping takeover of national policy by bureaucrats and judges.

Ms. Reif said she did not believe the cable industry giants planned to use QVC's link with CBS as a means to stage a creeping takeover of the network.