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wolf packing

wolf packing noun: the practice of collaboratively taking over significant portions of a stock, either to influence company board decisions or to clandestinely operate as a single entity on the stock market without the knowledge of other shareholders.

Noun

wolf packing (uncountable)

  1. The practice of collaboratively taking over significant portions of a stock, either to influence company board decisions or to clandestinely operate as a single entity on the stock market without the knowledge of other shareholders.
    • Such analysis introduces significant legal uncertainty and may lead to excessive deterrence against wolf packing. In an increasingly crowded activist market, there is a real risk of overpunishing wolf-pack activism: stock prices may suffer due to increased market uncertainty over the legality and...2016, Robert Cyran, Richard Beales, NY TIMES, “Unpacking Wolf Packs”, in the yale law journal, volume 125, number 773
    • With the proliferation of the new practice of wolf packing, the incidence of Toehold ("TH" collaborations as part of a takeover campaign is likely to increase as well.2017, Mira Ganor, “Toehold Collaborations Beyond Insider Trading”, in NYUJL & Bus., volume 14, HeinOnline, →DOI

Questions about wolf packing

What does wolf packing mean?
Wolf packing means the practice of collaboratively taking over significant portions of a stock, either to influence company board decisions or to clandestinely operate as a single entity on the stock market without the knowledge of other shareholders.
What part of speech is wolf packing?
Wolf packing is a noun.

Words near wolf packing in the dictionary

  1. wolf notes
  2. Wolf number
  3. Wolf numbers
  4. wolf of Wall Street
  5. wolf pack
  6. wolf packing
  7. wolf packs
  8. Wolf Point
  9. wolf pup
  10. wolf pups
  11. wolf snake

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