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Macaroni defence

A strategy intended to make a hostile takeover of a company more difficult, by granting special rights to existing shareholders upon the occurrence of the purchase of a significant amount of shares by an intended purchaser, or the issuing of bonds that can only be redeemed at a very high price.
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