> Most views I've heard are that it is quite impossible to force someone to buy a company
Those views are simply ignorant; there are plenty of cases of the Delaware Court of Chancery ordering specific performance on merger deals. It is nothing even loosely similar to “quite impossible”.
Those views are simply ignorant; there are plenty of cases of the Delaware Court of Chancery ordering specific performance on merger deals. It is nothing even loosely similar to “quite impossible”.