Protection against Hostile Takeovers and Raider Attacks

According to the existing practice and legal literature raider attack is a hostile takeover of the company and its assets against the will of its owner and manager by using pseudo-legal mechanisms.

Regardless of the motives of the raider attack, it may lead to the loss of business or its most valuable assets.

Our company offers following services for reducing the risks of raider attacks:

• developing an anti-raid corporate and managerial structure, which would as well include restricting the powers of company’s executives and senior managers;

• developing a complex of measures, that would prevent manipulations with stocks and equity shares, including actions against purchasing stocks and shares in the equity capital;

• protection of shareholders' register, organisation of cooperation with the registrar in order to immediately detect the start of hostile buying up of shares;

• organising cooperation with the law enforcement authorities and public authorities.

In case the hostile takeover of your company has already started we offer the following services:

• developing a complex of actions against hostile takeover including cooperation with the law enforcement and public authorities;

• developing and implementing measures of the court protection against raider attacks;

• blocking stocks and shares belonging to the raiders;

• other actions depending on the actual circumstances.