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May 14, 1990: Business Notes:Takeovers
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
May 14, 1990 Sakharov Memoirs
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 75
Business Notes
TAKEOVERS
Raider, Raider, Go Away
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<p> The '90s have spawned their first backlash movement against
the merger mania of the '80s. Advocates of tough new
antitakeover laws that are sprouting from Massachusetts to
South Dakota claim that the legislation will prevent outsiders
from looting local firms and throwing residents out of work.
Critics are concerned that the rules will entrench inefficient
corporate managers and drive investors elsewhere.
</p>
<p> The antitakeover trend got a big boost last week when the
U.S. Supreme Court, in clearing the way for California to
challenge the merger of two major supermarket chains, ruled
unanimously that states can sue to prevent or undo
anticompetitive mergers. "The court decision is a blockbuster,"
says Robert Litan, a senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution. "There are 50 loose cannons out there, 50 attorneys
general who can now stop a merger."
</p>
<p> The most explosive example of how far states may go to repel
raiders came two weeks ago, when Pennsylvania Governor Robert
Casey signed into law the toughest antitakeover statute in the
U.S. The sweeping measure requires an investor who holds 20%
or more of a company's shares for less than two years to
forfeit any profit on shares sold within 18 months of a failed
takeover bid. The law would discourage takeover artists from
launching a raid to drive up the price of a target company's
stock and then selling out at a profit.
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