A Black or White what? refers to a company mounting respectively a hostile or a helpful takeover bid?
A. Alfred Taubman real estate firm Taubman Centers survived a hostile takeover bid by the Simon Property Group and Westfield America. Taubman bought the ailing British auction house, Sotheby's, in 1983, acting as a white knight when the company was threatened by a hostile and unwanted takeover by Marshall Cogan and Stephen Swid of General Felt. He revived the fortunes of Sotheby's, which had been slumping in the eighties; he took the company public in 1988. His family divested controlling interest in Sotheby's by September 2005. In the early 2000s, an investigation into alleged price-fixing between Sotheby's and rival auction house Christie's led
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