A reverse takeover (RTO), reverse merger, or reverse IPO is the acquisition of a public company by a private company so that the private company can bypass...

proposed takeover, and this has resulted in the following takeover classifications: friendly, hostile, reverse or back-flip. Financing a takeover often involves...

Optare initially remained an independent company but by 17 July 2008, a reverse takeover by Darwen Group had been completed. Darwen was the much smaller company...

Haughey Airports Ltd was then renamed Stobart Air Ltd. After the reverse takeover in 2007, the Stobart Air operation remained outside the enlarged Stobart...

Since the order for the Darwen Visionaires, Darwen Group performed a reverse takeover with Optare. Ten Optare Visionaires entered service on Big Bus Tours...

by East Lancs before they went into administration. Following the reverse takeover of Optare by Darwen Group in June 2008, the Olympus was again renamed...

staff members. By November 2013 a reverse takeover bid was announced by oil company Primary Petroleum. The reverse takeover would see Primary Petroleum sell...

in Africa in the first half of 2017. Transsion's 2018 attempt at a reverse takeover failed. In October 2018, Transsion Holdings started producing smartphones...

Marland. In 2004 People Telecom achieved stock market listing by doing a reverse takeover of Swiftel Ltd. People Telecom was listed in the 2005 Australian Deloitte...

share capital of SPG Media Group PLC. In 2009, TMN was acquired via a reverse takeover by Progressive Digital Media Ltd, and changed its name to Progressive...

difficulties, but changed name to Berkeley Berry Birch plc following a reverse takeover in 2002 by Clifford Lockyer's Berkeley Group, a privately held firm...

passenger traffic, so the merged company adopted the AirTran name in a reverse takeover. After the merger, AirTran made little mention of its past as ValuJet...

survival. In the late 1980s, Belize-based Hawley Goodall undertook a reverse takeover of ADT Security Services, and renamed itself ADT. Focusing on security...

includes other companies purchased by CSS Total Security Ltd prior the reverse takeover of Croma Group PLC, including Alarm Bell Ltd and Arlo Parking Ltd....

two main brands: T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile (acquired in a 2013 reverse takeover of MetroPCS that also led to T-Mobile's listing on the NASDAQ). In...

of Ping An Group: insurance, banking and asset management. The bank reverse takeover publicly traded company Shenzhen Development Bank and retained the...

Zentralbank (RZB), and absorbed the latter in March 2017 through a reverse takeover. Since then, it has been designated as a Significant Institution under...

is a glossary which defines terms used in mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers of companies, whether private or public. Acquisition When one company...

until November 2, 2010, when Swisher became publicly traded through a reverse takeover of CoolBrands International Inc. CoolBrands was once a major frozen...

tiny nuclear services company called Nuclear Consultants, Inc. in a reverse takeover. The company was renamed "Nuclear Corporation of America Inc." and...

high dispensary densities as well as newly legal states. Through a reverse takeover of an existing Canadian company, it became listed on the Canadian stock...

in Hanover in 1838 before it went bankrupt and restarted. Through a reverse takeover on 8 April 2005, Pelikan Holding AG is now an Aktiengesellschaft company...

a cash shell, Conrad successfully acquired Sheffield United via a reverse takeover, and as a result a new route for companies to obtain a listing on a...

where he served as chairman and CEO. In 2016, Canaan attempted a reverse takeover for $466 Millions USD by Shandong Luyitong, a public company listed...

year later in June 2008, the assets of Optare were acquired in a ‘reverse takeover’, once again the former East Lancs product range was rebadged, this...

as of 2011. He delisted the company from Nasdaq in 2013, and used a reverse takeover to list the company in China in 2016. In 2018, Forbes estimated his...

Hemmings gained a 40% stake in Richmond. In 1997, Richmond completed a reverse takeover of the publicly listed ice lolly manufacturer Treats Group, based in...

public offering Direct public offering Public offering without listing Reverse takeover Smaller reporting company Special-purpose acquisition company Venture...

treatment Retransmission timeout, in the Transmission Control Protocol Reverse takeover, a merger between a public company and a private company Rent-to-own...

Business, known as Vialtus. Freedom4 also purchased Daisy Group through a reverse takeover, and the three companies were brought together as Daisy. The company...