negotiated share repurchase


Greenmail

A practice in which a corporate raider buys a large amount of stock from another publicly-traded company and forces the latter to buy back the stock at a substantial premium in order to avoid a takeover. The corporate raider has no intention of actually buying the target company; it merely seeks to profit from the buyback. One refers to this buyback as a bon voyage bonus, as this enables the company to be left alone by the greenmailer. Some companies formulate anti-greenmail provisions in their charters or bylaws to prevent the situation from occurring in the first place.

negotiated share repurchase

See greenmail.