HOSTILE TAKEOVER - DEFENSE

• DDPP provides professional services and broad experience for hostile takeover defense (key aspects)
• Exceptionally sophisticated nature of defensive operations
• Identifying hostile takeover threats
• Sources of threats/motives hostile actions - direct competitors, entities with a similar business profile, complementary entities
• Their goals vs. our goals
• Situational assessment
• Cooperation with professional advisors (including legal advisor)
• Analysis of the business environment and external conditions
• Internal and external analysis (their position vs. ours)
• Defense strategy formulation (development and implementation) and ongoing monitoring and verification of undertaken actions (including in terms of their activities and changing external conditions/environment)
• Analysis of the effectiveness and optimization of specific activities/solutions while securing safety for Companies and their Owners
• Flexible approach – adapting strategy in response to the other party’s actions, changing conditions and emerging new circumstances and threats
• Anticipation of hostile moves (next steps/"ploys") and our safeguards
• Safeguards, particularly legal (contractual, corporate documents, etc.) and business nature
• Key Business Partners
• Information strategy
• Cooperation with third parties