Poison Pill Financial Glossary

What is it? An anti-takeover plan devised to automatically be activated when the company gets bought over in an unfriendly takeover. A Golden Parachute is one such device. Another might be a plan whereby all the firms debt becomes due if the current management is removed.

Finance Term Definition Added By: Miles

Send To Friends!

If you'd like to send the Poison Pill definition to yourself or to your friends/colleagues, just enter the e-mail addresses in the boxes below -

We hope you now understand the meaning of Poison Pill. If you need any more information on this term, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Other Similar Finance Terms:

Financial Term Level Term Insurance is A type of insurance policy where the amount of insurance cover provided by the policy remains the same from start to end

Financial Term Dividends is Payments made by companies to their stockholders, usually paid from profits.

Financial Term Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is A government-owned corporation that insures deposits up to $100,000 at all federal and some state-chartered banks, savings associations, and industrial loan companies. Deposit insurance is financed by a fee paid by the insured institutions (see Bank Insurance Fund). The FDIC promotes the safety and soundness of insured depository institutions and the U.S. financial system by identifying, monitoring and addressing risks to the deposit insurance funds. The FDIC also is the primary federal regulator of about 6,000 state-chartered nonmember banks (commercial and savings banks that are not members of the Federal Reserve System).

Financial Term Time value of money is Concept that addresses the way the value of money changes over a period of time.

Financial Term Security Interest is An interest that a lender takes in the borrowers property to assure repayment of a debt.