🔤 Greenmailing ✨

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greenmailing, corporate blackmail, shares wapsi khareed, hissas wapsi, mafaad parasti

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📚noun and verb

greenmailing

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DEFINITION

the practice of buying enough shares in a company to threaten a takeover, forcing the firm to buy them back at a premium

EXAMPLE SENTENCES

Financial regulators introduced strict rules to discourage speculative corporate greenmailing in stock markets today. The company board was forced to pay a high premium to halt aggressive greenmailing by the investor. Corporate greenmailing allows hostiles investors to profit by forcing target firms into expensive share buybacks. Business analysts debated the moral and legal implications of greenmailing in modern corporate governance. The firm implemented defensive strategies to protect itself against sudden hostile greenmailing attempts.

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