Mergers And Acquisitions Gifts

'It'll never take place. Have you seen the egos involved?'

'Gentlemen, this deal offers some spectacular opportunities for us to miss, and miss them we shall.'

'Don't take this the wrong way but I'm thinking of calling someone in to manage our future corporate acquisitions.'

'Then, at 9:07, they'll take a shot at you from the roof across the street in a hostile takeover bid. Duck.'

"Do you, Scofield Industries, take Amalgamated Pipe?"

'Make them a four billion dollar takeover offer, but don't cause a fuss.'

'I hate these non-hostile takeovers...'

"Well, the merger is over, now the takeover starts."

I'm gonna buy your stinkin' company...

"We'll have to see how this plays out. We bought the Synergetics corp., Synergetics bought Biophase, and Biophase bought us."

"Wipe that silly grin off your face, Benson - this is a hostile takeover."

'There's enough of us...we can take them!'

'Our acquisitions department accidentally took over a third world country.'

Predator, Inc bought Prey, Ltd

"But what leverage can Viking Systems have to force this merger on us?"

'An amusing thing happened, we were about to take over the Regal Gimlet company, only to find it was already owned by our subsidiary, Bishoff Enterprises.'

'The question before us is: 'do we pounce on Acme industries and gobble them up and savage them, or do we roll over like a bunch of spineless pussycats and let Acme take us over?'

'I lost track of all my business mergers, and accidentally laid myself off.'

'The Dorvil people feel that the merger was a mistake. They want out, they want half the company's assets and they want child support.'

'It wasn't so much a hostile takeover as it was a best 2 out of 3 pillow fight.'

'This month we're going to make money yje old fashion way, by buying up other companies!'

"Could you please refer to this as a merger rather than being in cahoots?"

"It's Swamp & Swallow - they're making an offer we can't refuse!"

Takeovers.

'They sold the company in 2001? I was wondering why things were slow.'

'This time we're going to do things right. And if that doesn't work, we'll just go back to stealing.'

A fight in the Boardroom.

'And I'm happy to say, that since the merger...'

"Well, it looks like the merger is off."

Voice coming from wooden horse: 'Quiet Fanshaw! If this hostile take-over bid is going to work we've got to get right inside the boardroom.'

'We divested ourselves of a division here, a subsidiary there, a branch here, an affiliate there...there's nothing left!'

"I see we're going up against the Big Guys."

'We've just become the biggest corporation in America.. let's celebrate today and begin downsizing tomorrow.'

"What's wrong with swallowing up other companies?"

"We structured the deal so it won't make any sense to you."